Cold outside - Warm in the Trailer

[KM Rolling]

We're camped at Sardis Lake for the weekend.

It's 31* outside right now and all we're running is our oil filled radiator(at about 50% setting on the thermostat) with a fan. It's 72.5* inside at 28% humidity.

Roof vent is open about an inch.

Going to get down to about 27 tonight, but will be 50 during the day tomorrow!

Gonna be a nice weekend!

[tuffr2]

Wow, you are able to keep the inside the trailer just over 40 degrees warmer than outside.

I monitored my trailer and I was able keep it 30 degrees warmer. So 30 degrees outside meant I was 60 degrees inside. I would have liked 72 degrees inside.

Good luck keeping warm...seems you got it under control.

[Bob_C]

Come to Yuma!

[tuffr2]

I will add Yuma to my weather app to follow the temps there.

[ricndot]

Originally Posted by bob caldwell

Come to Yuma!

had to use the air con today for comfort in the truck. nice breeze outside though

[mtofell]

Those oil-filled radiators are great. They take a while to get going but I find them by far the best at maintaining a temperature. The other electric heaters and the RV furnace are just so hot-off-hot-off, etc. (and noisy too). Once you get the right balance on the oil-filled unit, it's great. Happy Camping!

[tuffr2]

How are you doing in this bitter cold spell? Hope you are warm and cozy as a polar vortex has arrived...brrr

[KM Rolling]

Originally Posted by tuffr2

How are you doing in this bitter cold spell? Hope you are warm and cozy as a polar vortex has arrived...brrr

This morning it was 19* outside and inside was 67*, and that was 15 feet away from the oil filled radiator. It was probably closer to 74* right near the heater.

We did have it turned up to about 75% on the thermostat. Did not use any propane.

We're plugged into shore power, and the electric heater is more comfortable heat and quiet.

If we were running the genny, or the house batteries, we'd be using the propane heater.

I'm not sure how cold it got last night, probably into the mid-teens. Keeping warm inside is a non-issue...what I don't know is how low we can go in temps and still have my tank and plumbing heaters do their job.

Coldest we've ever seen was 12* and they did their job down that low. Dunno what the low end is for them.

[Oregon RR]

Do you have to worry about getting warm air to your water, gray and brown water tanks?

I'd love to use my little propane heater all day and evening, but if below zero, I need to be getting warm air to the tanks via the furnace to avoid freeze up.

Stay warm!

[KM Rolling]

Originally Posted by Oregon RR

Do you have to worry about getting warm air to your water, gray and brown water tanks?

I'd love to use my little propane heater all day and evening, but if below zero, I need to be getting warm air to the tanks via the furnace to avoid freeze up.

Stay warm!

My fresh water tank has a tank heater.

All pipes outside the living area have pipe heaters on them (there's not much), including all low point drains.

The black and gray tank drains have pipe heaters on them, right near the blade valves.

During cold months the first liquid going into the black and gray tanks is anti-freeze. Those tanks are not heated, but a combination of the anti-freeze and that, if it does freeze, it has room to expand without breaking anything has been working for us.

BUT, we have not been to zero or below, and I don't intend on it either. IF we were in a situation where we were likely to see temps that low, I would put tank heaters on the black and the gray tanks also.

Tank heaters and pipe heaters are 12v dc, and draw very little amperage.

[Go West]

It's currently 16 degrees in Caroline County in rural northern Virginia. I'm camping in a winterized stick & tin Grey Wolf 25RL. I have a couple of ceramic heaters at each end of the camper, and the furnace (set at 67 degrees) hasn't come on in the last hour. My trailer's no-slide floorplan may be helping with heat retention in severe cold such as this. Or, maybe it's so cold the propane is no longer vaporizing Morning will tell. (The stove burners are working fine, so I think I'm OK.)