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rpodmybe
Newbie Joined: 17 Nov 2017 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5 |
Topic: Newby or dumb stuff. Posted: 04 Dec 2017 at 1:05pm |
I'd definitely be cautious at 20 overnight on the r-pod plumbing.
A while back I saw an blog type post where someone was using an r-pod in the Ykon in the winter and he didn't hit 50% cycle time until approximately -25 degrees. He had installed skirting (which could help with freezing pipe in normal temperature), and done some other tweaks. There was also recently a post on the Facebook owners group of a Northwesterner camping at a ski resort. Everything I've seen suggests the heating system has pretty good output, if you seal up the basic leaky spots and a insulate the windows(reflectix cut to shape) the rpod will stay warm enough. The biggest thing is if you have enough heat to have running water, and that requires a lot of power(and insulation). |
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WillThrill
Senior Member Joined: 04 Jul 2014 Online Status: Offline Posts: 298 |
Posted: 01 Dec 2017 at 12:18am |
1. You can get water hoses that are heated with electrical power so that they won't freeze. However, with freezing temperatures, you also need to be concerned about the plumbing under your Pod. This requires heat stripping and insulation be placed on all water lines and your holding tanks. 4. The Pod's furnace will burn 1 gallon of propane every 6 hours that it is actually running. In cold weather, your furnace can easily run half the time, so that means you could completely exhaust a 20 lb. propane tank in just two days if you weren't burning propane for anything else. Running the furnace also consumes quite a lot of battery power (unless you're connected to shore power of course, but if you were, you should be using an electric heater instead of the furnace). For many, a Mr. Buddy heater is more efficient in terms of propane, and it doesn't consume any electricity either. If you aren't using the furnace, the Pod won't burn much propane. We camped for a month in ours last year and didn't even go through 20 lb. of propane, despite running the refrigerator on propane at least 2/3 of the time.
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rawest50
Senior Member Joined: 07 Mar 2017 Location: Arkansas Online Status: Offline Posts: 440 |
Posted: 30 Nov 2017 at 8:08pm |
Just finished our first freezing weather event camping. Just cold no snow.
1-water hookup. How do you keep your water hose from freezing? Froze the night temps got to 20 degrees. Did not bust. Thank goodness. 2-learned where the ground fault was located. We tripped it. Darn hair rollers. Lol. Did not realize it was on one of the outlets. 3-I could not figure out why the fan ran all the time when heating. Idiot time. I did not realize the thermostat had auto on it. What a difference. 4-propane usuage is really low. Heater performs great. It got down to 20 one night the other 4 nights 30-34. Used maybe 5” of our 20 pound tank. That was great to figure out. Now I have a feel for propane usage. 5 nights camping. One cooking meal. |
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