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Cold weather parking
Well for the past three days it’s being very cold here in Wyoming , bus in barn no heat in barn just 50 amp power , two radiant oil heaters inside two cube heaters in water bay coach stayed at 50 degrees inside and in water bays , -15 this morning I used the big heat cube heaters they are not made any more model 6200 new ones are 6201 a little different than the old ones the reason I like the oil radiant heaters and big heat cube heaters is if power goes out at night when power goes back on they just come on without u turning them back on or reseting them , that is a big thing some of the others when power goes out they shut off and you have to turn them on again these u do not have to , something to think about when parking coach in winter, coach still full of water everything good, if the heaters u use do not do this if the power goes out at night for awhile then back on the heaters may not come back on and coach could freeze , the inside heaters will because of inverters but the ones in water bay are not pluged into coach they are pluged into outlets in barn so there would be no power to them if there was a problem with power at night, maybe this will help somebody !!!!!!!!!
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Peter, no offense buddy, but that is just too cold for November. In fact, that is too cold for any time. Stay warm.
Davy
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Seems that PC has quite a few members that haven’t gotten the memo that says buses are supposed to be driven south as soon as the temps get below 55.
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Peter, do you all have a gen set for house and barn in case electricity goes out on the prairie? I know you have one in the bus but run that dude with the door down and kill all the mice with exhaust. It was 40 degrees here a while ago and I’m freezing. Don’t think I could handle that bitter cold.
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Yes Glen we have big gen for the buildings up at house and bunkhouse and shop up here but where the bus is down below no gen it’s on a different transformer than the house
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I just wanted all you 55º folks to remember us snow folks up here. I obviously didn’t get the memo. We had just a little lake effect last night here in NE Ohio (nothing like MN or the UP of Mich) and it’s still pretty- isn’t it? I took this going out the my drive early this AM. Temps are nothing like Peter’s out there in WY.
It seems that everyone is recommending little cube heaters to keep the the inside of the bus & the plumbing bay warm. Won’t the toe kick heaters work? I have three new (post recall) cadet heaters inside the coach (thanks to Peter for the heads up on the old ones that were recalled a long time ago) and one in the bay. I can’t get into my heated storage until Dec and it’s going down to the teens (so they say) next week. It’s been in the low 20’s at night and so far the inside temp has yet to drop below 40º. The plumbing bay is even warmer.
I know the best answer is to get in the darn thing and head south.
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I recommend the electric heater with an oscilating fan because on my coach we had in western NY the toe space heaters were effective for their limited area but to maintain a relatively even temp throughout the area of the coach that had to stay above freezing I would have had to run several of them.
One with 500, 1000, and 1500 watt settings was perfect because I could select one of the settings based on outside temp and the oscillating head with the fan moved much more air than the toe space heaters and in particular kept the kitchen and bath areas well above freezing.
But if a coach has toe space heaters that can keep the areas needed above freezing that is definitely a good way to go.
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