What is the coldest temps you have camped, What ORV TT and how was it?

[dexters]

I just got an oil filled heater $35 - works great.

It is better then the ceramic heater because it is quiet. It is about 4x the size of the ceramic however.

[jtbuilds]

Originally Posted by modestmonk

X2?

This is the water tank. All that there is between the PEX pickup line and the outside is 1/4" Chloroplast and a sheet of bubble wrap. I was going to install a tank heater but the amp draw was too much.



Here you can see the outline of the duct that is suppose to blow warm air into the basement.

[1bigmess]

More cold weather headed my way. I've learned from the previous stretch. I'll report how things go. Temps might drop into the negative single digits at night.

[Highway 4x4]

I would have to say that if Coops sleeps 1 night in his driveway he will win the great freeze contest.

[ModestMonk]

Originally Posted by jtbuilds

This is the water tank. All that there is between the PEX pickup line and the outside is 1/4" Chloroplast and a sheet of bubble wrap. I was going to install a tank heater but the amp draw was too much.
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Here you can see the outline of the duct that is suppose to blow warm air into the basement.
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Is this common?

[ModestMonk]

Originally Posted by 1bigmess

More cold weather headed my way. I've learned from the previous stretch. I'll report how things go. Temps might drop into the negative single digits at night.

good luck, hoping to your strategies are sound!

[jtbuilds]

Originally Posted by ModestMonk

Is this common?

Water tank is the standard install.

Hard to know if the duct is common because there are not too many people that would open the basement up to find out.

[brulaz]

Originally Posted by jtbuilds

Water tank is the standard install.

Hard to know if the duct is common because there are not too many people that would open the basement up to find out.

Wonder if the duct covering is deliberate. It's rather porous and you
don't want toooo much heat going to the basement. The Al ductwork itself will also radiate heat into the basement.

That water line is for sure a problem though. Wasn't aware of that. Hopefully the tank heater protects it.

[jtbuilds]

Originally Posted by brulaz

Wonder if the duct covering is deliberate. It's rather porous and you
don't want toooo much heat going to the basement. The Al ductwork itself will also radiate heat into the basement.

That water line is for sure a problem though. Wasn't aware of that. Hopefully the tank heater protects it.

The duct was a 100% ORV screw up......about this point I discover (I'd enough of ORV Better Built quality) they'd cut the only cross member (if people at ORV would do this an engineered frame what else will they do to make $$) at the front of the trailer and never re-welded it......picture below looks front to back. The rust at the top is where ORV cut it....red wire and green just visible behind it are the brakes wires. There is NO protection for the wires being chafed through by the steel edge....better built for off road use???!!!



This is how much the weight of the floor had (1/4") bent the cross member. We had the trailer 1 month.




Speaking with ORV they said it was a quick (slash and dash for them but a 3-4 day trip to ORV for me) fix which I wasn't interested in. I welded in a pcs of 3/16" x 3" x 3" (ORV cross member was only .100" x 1 1/2" x 3") angle. At the bottom edge you can see where the cross member was tacked it to the old ORV cross member. At every cross member I wrapped the brake wires with hose to protect the wires from chafing.



We are off on a 8F (-15C) trip with our 5th.

[ModestMonk]

Originally Posted by 1bigmess

More cold weather headed my way. I've learned from the previous stretch. I'll report how things go. Temps might drop into the negative single digits at night.

temps are headed down here, it made me wonder how you're doing?

[ModestMonk]

Originally Posted by jtbuilds

The duct was a 100% ORV screw up......about this point I discover (I'd enough of ORV Better Built quality) they'd cut the only cross member (if people at ORV would do this an engineered frame what else will they do to make $$) at the front of the trailer and never re-welded it......picture below looks front to back. The rust at the top is where ORV cut it....red wire and green just visible behind it are the brakes wires. There is NO protection for the wires being chafed through by the steel edge....better built for off road use???!!!
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This is how much the weight of the floor had (1/4") bent the cross member. We had the trailer 1 month.
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Speaking with ORV they said it was a quick (slash and dash for them but a 3-4 day trip to ORV for me) fix which I wasn't interested in. I welded in a pcs of 3/16" x 3" x 3" (ORV cross member was only .100" x 1 1/2" x 3") angle. At the bottom edge you can see where the cross member was tacked it to the old ORV cross member. At every cross member I wrapped the brake wires with hose to protect the wires from chafing.

Attachment 146750

We are off on a 8F (-15C) trip with our 5th.

Are all RV dealers cutting corners then?

[1bigmess]

Originally Posted by ModestMonk

temps are headed down here, it made me wonder how you're doing?

So far, so good. The cooler weather comes this weekend.

[ModestMonk]

Originally Posted by 1bigmess

So far, so good. The cooler weather comes this weekend.

Well it's cold and nasty here. We are in the sticks and bricks and it's so crazy windy it's not the pellet stove off-line we had to fire up the woodstove. Supposed to be down to -10 tonight. The county is just west of us are you getting hammered with a lake affect storm declared emergency's no one necessary traffic. Somebody always has it worse.

[1bigmess]

Woke up this morning to -10 degrees F. Water still running in trailer, both hot and cold, after leaving both dripping all night. Will have to try to dump gray tank this morning as the dripping faucets fill it a little more than halfway overnight, so I hope the valve isn't frozen.