Need some help or opinions !!!

winterize it and use containers of water would be the safest way.

I added a hot water circulating system.

http://www.rv.net/forum/index.cfm/fuseaction/thread/tid/24843579

Fairly simple done in a few hours once you have the supplies.

I went with a different idea where all of my cabinet space is connected together for the most oart and all I did was create a positive warm air flow through the inside of the cabinets.

I installed those small black plastic round vents from LOWES between all of the connected cabinets and this allows warm air to flow from one point through all of the cabinets.


I did add a thermostat controlled 12VDC axial fan that will come on when needed to pull the warm air from the inside of the trailer thru all of the interior of the cabinets.

I really haven't to run this out in the cold woods areas yet but it does circulate the warm interior air thru-out all of the cabinet spaces just fine. I think it will work great for me. Got this idea from Painotuna on here I think it was... I am hoping this will be more automated than just keeping some of the cabinet doors open when needed.

This also helps circulate the warm air that was being developed around my on-boar converter/charger unit.

Roy Ken

If you are hooked up to power there are for sure more options, but if off grid next to hunting grounds keeping the batteries charged up with a generator could be a problem if you will be running the furnace very high or often.

OP-

Here is what you can do in the short time before hunting:

1. Survey all the door/windows/openings for possible cold air leaks. Look at the path of the shore power cord to the controller, does the cord storage box have a big hole in it? Patch/renew/upgrade the insolation.

2. If boondocking, run the genset during every meal you eat at the TT even if you have solar. Keep those batts well above 12.0v.

3. Pour ½ gal winterizing fluid into both the black and gray tanks during setup. This will keep the dump pipes/valves from freezing.

4. Take an extra/spare propane tank. You will be burning a lot of it for heat.

I had a full vinyl skirt made that snapped to the bottom edge of the TT. It helped a lot. If you had the time.

We winterize and use containers of water. We do use the toilet and added a cointainer of Anti-Freeze to it.
We are looking at -7 so our winters are not much like yours.