To all you naysayers to the rdome. |
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marwayne
Senior Member Joined: 25 Oct 2011 Location: Edmonton AB Can Online Status: Offline Posts: 1002 |
Topic: To all you naysayers to the rdome. Posted: 22 Oct 2012 at 8:36pm |
We were out camping for 4 days, middle of october, night temp around 0* Celcius, daytime temp single digits, so you want a place to warm up. No chance with an awning, but the r-dome is enclosed, so I put in my little LP heater with my Eco Fan on top, opened the trailer door and within 5 min the r-dome and the trailer are warm (about 20* C). I would not trade my dome for any kind of awning. After all we live north of the 49th.
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If you want something done right, do it yourself.
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Racer|X|
Senior Member Joined: 21 Mar 2012 Online Status: Offline Posts: 237 |
Posted: 22 Oct 2012 at 8:43pm |
I dig my r-dome...nice idea wi the heater.
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Podsible Dream
podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 03 Dec 2010 Location: Hightstown, NJ Online Status: Offline Posts: 571 |
Posted: 22 Oct 2012 at 8:44pm |
+1 , marwayne! We love our dome! Easy to keep warm at below freezing temps!
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Chris and Walt
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mountain mist
Senior Member Joined: 25 May 2010 Location: Gatlinburg Tenn Online Status: Offline Posts: 426 |
Posted: 24 Oct 2012 at 5:45pm |
love the sounds of the r-dome, have thought and thought on it, but I am older and one person putting it up and thru the groove means up on a ladder. But I really like the idea for those who can handle it, just makes an extra room rain or shine!
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'11 Forest River r.pod 171
'10 Ford Edge ESCAPE POD Trudi and Austin mini-schnauzers change here, Trudi has gone, Austin now has a small black schnauzer buddy, Bentley |
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dsmiths
Senior Member Joined: 10 Oct 2011 Location: Southern Ind Online Status: Offline Posts: 866 |
Posted: 24 Oct 2012 at 8:03pm |
We got the dome with our 12 model 172 and have not had the chance to put it up yet, but by golly next summer its going up one way or the other.
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Dane and Donna Smith
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Goose
Senior Member Joined: 24 Sep 2010 Location: Arizona Online Status: Offline Posts: 672 |
Posted: 24 Oct 2012 at 8:49pm |
We love the Dome too. I have to say that the heater and the fan look like something out of a Sci-Fi movie. Glade that it works well. Goose
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Mother Goose's Caboose..2011 RP171..07 Grand Cherokee
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marwayne
Senior Member Joined: 25 Oct 2011 Location: Edmonton AB Can Online Status: Offline Posts: 1002 |
Posted: 24 Oct 2012 at 9:41pm |
The nice part about the fan is, when it sits on the heater it produces it's own electricity.
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If you want something done right, do it yourself.
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TerryM
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 16 Nov 2009 Location: Saint Augustine Online Status: Offline Posts: 1950 |
Posted: 25 Oct 2012 at 7:20am |
I'm only 5'8" tall so I have to use a stool to get the dome on. But it is worth the effort. Please explain about that fan. It converts heat to electricity to power itself? Great idea!
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techntrek
Admin Group - pHp Joined: 29 Jul 2009 Location: MD Online Status: Offline Posts: 9059 |
Posted: 25 Oct 2012 at 1:51pm |
The cool thing about thermoelectric pumps (Peltier junctions - same thing used in the Coleman thermoelectric coolers to heat/cool) is if you drive them backwards they will produce some electricity. Supply electric and you get heat on one side and cold on the other, as long as you heat sink one side. Put heat on one side and the same heat sink on the other (the big black fins on top in that picture) and you get the energy to run that fan. Recently I saw a woodburning camp stove which does the same thing to drive a fan which blows fresh air into the burning chamber. As an added bonus it has a plug where you can charge your cell phone in the middle of nowhere. As long as the fire is going. |
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Doug ~ '10 171 (2009-2015) ~ 2008 Salem ~ Pod instruction manual
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bhamster
Senior Member Joined: 19 May 2011 Location: Washington Online Status: Offline Posts: 165 |
Posted: 25 Oct 2012 at 5:45pm |
I use one for backpacking. It's called a "BioLite": The charging part isn't so great (too slow), but the TEG runs the fan just fine and keeps the internal battery topped off. It's a fantastic stove and will provide an intense smokeless spiral of flames as long as you have a supply of sticks.
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