New AF - a few winter questions.
Hello all, I am rather new to RVing but long time backpacker and outdoorsman. I chose to go with an Arctic Fox 990 after much research and scouring these boards for a long time. I camp year round...
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One vote for parking into the wind. Even with cold blowing snow, the drift will form to leeward. In the special circumstance that the guy in ND had it is easily solved by a winter front on the truck. Eight winters in the Sierra, parking into the wind, without a winter front and no issues.
The main advantage of the winter front is that it keeps your engine running warmer and more heat out of the cab heater, when the engine isn't under a load. Most of the winter up here I run with only one triangle open.
Having a backup source of heat is important if you are camping in negative temperatures and things happen. I'm testing out a replacement automatic changeover regulator Monday night as it will be -22F. The the old, normally dependable to at least -20 failed earlier this December at -10F, so no heat in the middle of the night.
The backup was to get up, take the warm generator outside, fire it up and turn on the fan driven electric heaters in the basement and living area.
Propane heating becomes more problematic as it get colder, so I'm looking into a parallel diesel heating system (Webasto AirTop) and trying to figure out how to fit it and the ducting into my TC, since I run full utilities all winter.
The Dickinson heater in my sailboat would work well, but it is a propane version and there is no good location to mount it in my TC. Their diesel and pellet stove versions don't have an isolated external air intake to fuel the combustion, which the propane model has. They need a permanent fresh air vent near the unit and their exhaust stacks are larger. Vents farther away will work, but then you end up with cold drafts.
The main advantage of the winter front is that it keeps your engine running warmer and more heat out of the cab heater, when the engine isn't under a load. Most of the winter up here I run with only one triangle open.
Having a backup source of heat is important if you are camping in negative temperatures and things happen. I'm testing out a replacement automatic changeover regulator Monday night as it will be -22F. The the old, normally dependable to at least -20 failed earlier this December at -10F, so no heat in the middle of the night.
The backup was to get up, take the warm generator outside, fire it up and turn on the fan driven electric heaters in the basement and living area.
Propane heating becomes more problematic as it get colder, so I'm looking into a parallel diesel heating system (Webasto AirTop) and trying to figure out how to fit it and the ducting into my TC, since I run full utilities all winter.
The Dickinson heater in my sailboat would work well, but it is a propane version and there is no good location to mount it in my TC. Their diesel and pellet stove versions don't have an isolated external air intake to fuel the combustion, which the propane model has. They need a permanent fresh air vent near the unit and their exhaust stacks are larger. Vents farther away will work, but then you end up with cold drafts.
