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mcarter 
podders Helping podders - pHp 
Joined: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Greenbrier, TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 3419 |
 Topic: R-Pod survives 9 hours of subfreezing temperaturesPosted: 18 Oct 2020 at 3:58pm |
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Not humble at all for where you reside. For me when that Pod is not being used there is a risk, but I don't do it until I shut the Pod down for the season.
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Mike Carter
2015 178 " I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability." |
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offgrid
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Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 18 Oct 2020 at 3:13pm |
"Humble brag" is an oxymoron...... I never winterized any of my RV's when I lived in coastal Norcal either, never gets cold enough to worry about it. No real need for a/c in the summer either. OTOH, it doesn't rain to speak of for 6 plus months straight, you have to worry about giant wild fires and the occasional earthquake, and the cost of living is through the roof. No place is perfect I guess.
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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold |
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GlueGuy
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Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2702 |
Posted: 18 Oct 2020 at 1:39pm |
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Is it a humble brag that we haven't had to winterize in the time we've had our RP179?
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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
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mcarter
podders Helping podders - pHp
Joined: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Greenbrier, TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 3419 |
Posted: 17 Oct 2020 at 4:55pm |
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I don't winterize until the season is over for me. I lived in my 2015 178 as I was retiring in OCT, NOV and DEC in N. Alabama. While temps are not extreme, I experienced many days and extended days below or near freezing. I had one 2KW cube heater, a heated water hose and I insulated the rear window near bed. The heater kept the interior warm, and a constant usage of water which was heated. I had two freezes, the gray water tank dump valve and the campground water spicket. Both of which I corrected with the cube heater and an extension cord. After I winterize with compressed air, I put a cube heater in the Pod set at around 50 degrees and that keep the interior temp above freezing.
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Mike Carter
2015 178 " I had the right to remain silent, I just didn't have the ability." |
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Dirt Sifter
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Joined: 30 Dec 2018 Location: Right side OR Online Status: Offline Posts: 170 |
Posted: 17 Oct 2020 at 10:41am |
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While there is no humidity problem here, the wind or at least a breeze is often moving the air around. Appreciate your info, offgrid, while GlueGuy's instance is more like what we experience thru the winter here. Kinda reassuring to know I should be ok to use the Pod now without tank heaters or winterizing the water system for a few more weeks. |
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Greg n Deb 2020 195 HRE
'07 Tundra 5.7L., '17 Tacoma 3.5L. Both with tow packages 1 Puggle, 1 Chihuahua support staff |
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jato
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Joined: 23 Feb 2012 Location: Kewadin, MI Online Status: Offline Posts: 3324 |
Posted: 16 Oct 2020 at 4:55pm |
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+1 include any large body of water. I am located just over 2 miles from Lake Michigan to my west and across the street from Torch Lake - 19 miles long and averages 250 feet deep in the middle. This morning we had sleet at 37 degrees yet inland they had snow and they were only 5 miles away as the crow flies.
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God's pod
'11 model 177 '17 Ford F-150 4WD 3.5 Ecoboost Jim and Diane by beautiful Torch Lake "...and you will know the Truth and the Truth will set you free." |
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offgrid
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Joined: 23 Jul 2018 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5290 |
Posted: 16 Oct 2020 at 3:14pm |
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Even in the more humid East Its usually fairly dry in the fall. It’s common inland here to get highs in the 50s or low 60s combined with lows in the high 20s or low 30s this time of year. On the coast it’s a different story, it’s rare to get down to freezing at all till December. Lots of thermal mass in seawater.
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1994 Chinook Concourse
1995 RV6A Experimental Aircraft 2015 Rpod 179 - sold |
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Pod_Geek
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Joined: 04 Dec 2019 Location: Colorado Online Status: Offline Posts: 261 |
Posted: 16 Oct 2020 at 11:47am |
Great point. Given our usually low dew points here on the high plains we usually get into the high 50s to high 60s during the day this time of year, unless our friends to the N and W send us a cloud deck.
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2020.5 R-Pod 195 Hood River
2018 RAM 2500 6.4L |
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GlueGuy
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Joined: 15 May 2017 Location: N. California Online Status: Offline Posts: 2702 |
Posted: 16 Oct 2020 at 11:08am |
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It also depends on what temperature you started at before things got down around freezing. If OAT had been around 60 for a day or two before the temp drop would be very different than if the OAT had been hovering around 35. I make no claims about the Mpemba effect.
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bp
2017 R-Pod 179 Hood River 2015 Ford F150 SuperCrew 4WD 3.5L Ecoboost |
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Pod_Geek
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Joined: 04 Dec 2019 Location: Colorado Online Status: Offline Posts: 261 |
Posted: 16 Oct 2020 at 11:04am |
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Thanks, OG. I think this will keep a lot of folks from freaking out over a couple of nights where it may hit 25 (that's -4 for our friends north of the border lol) and then rise into the 60s or 70s the next day. Looks like we won't need to winterize until November
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2020.5 R-Pod 195 Hood River
2018 RAM 2500 6.4L |
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