New trailer heating options
I picked up a 2020 Rockwood Mini Lite 2205s the other weekend and finally took it out last weekend to Princess Creek Campground at Odell lake, Oregon. I cant say enough good stuff about this place. ...
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brainfarth wrote:
This is kinda funny. While talking to the GF and looking at the 360 view if the interior, I see the heater control. I have no idea why it didnt dawn on us to mess with that control.
But on the flip side, it would not have worked because that little battery gave up so easily. When it was going down, the fridge started beeping at us in the middle of the night. So I turned it off. Then the carbon monoxide detector went off. Thats when I turned the battery off at the front switch.
Back to the batteries: My old trailer has a new type 27 and my thought was to drop the 24 off in it before biding farewell. Then I could double up the 27's since I already have one. I picked it up for about $120. I dont think the 6v option would be cheaper at this point.
Is the fridge running off propane or does it have a 12v option?
That can kill the battery pretty quick. If it's on propane, it uses a little 12v to run the control but it shouldn't kill the battery quickly. Odds are something else is drawing the battery down.
Even the furnace should be able to get thru the night.
If you are going to do a lot of boondocking, an extra battery or two wouldn't be a bad thing. I would give serious consideration to a pair of 6v golf cart batteries wired for 12v. It's very hard to find actual 12v deep cycle batteries (dual purpose batteries are mostly marketing). 6v golf cart batteries are legitimate deep cycle batteries that will hold up to deeper discharges (still try to limit it to 50% discharge).
