Winter Camping in Cold
New owner of a Nash 25C travel trailer. Planning trip to Lake Tahoe next week where we will see freezing temps. We will be at a park on shore power. Recently bought a space heater that i think will...
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canoe on top wrote:
I am currently fulltiming outside of Denver in an Arctic Fox 29V. 30' with two slides. Night time temps run teens to single digits. Daytime 20's to low 40's. I am heating only with the propane furnace. I go through one 30 lb tank every four to five days. I keep it at 70 degrees during the day and mid 60's at night. I do have factory storm windows. I think you have 30 lb tanks on your Nash. I would guess two tanks would be adequate for a week.
We have seen the same when we travel to Denver and Seattle in winter. We have even been in below zero many times, we have never see the issues with propane that I hear about so often. Yes hte fridge may not get as cool but it is still colder then if our stuff was in a ice chest.
One thing we did to our AF was change the thermostat from the mechanical one to a digital. The heater cycles more often but does not run as long on each cycle. In a Northwood you need to run the heater to keep the tanks cool unless you get the tank heater option. But like I said we have never had a problem just running the heater in comfortable setting (74). In the zero range we go through a tank in 4 days.
