Awnings in the wind . . .

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I LOVE those kind of places! hhahaha

The website looks nice,

Any trails for you to hike?

I see that it is CHILLY down there.

Did you find a propane place to fill up?
I have not yet looked, but lots of trees around, so I assume I can find a place for hikes.

I do not need propane for the furnace when I have shore power. I can select 120 VAC, gas or both to heat up this RV. When plugged in, I only use 120 VAC. The propane is used for the tankless water heater and for some cooking when I don't use the MW oven, but that is all. I expect to leave here with close to as much propane as I got here with. But after I leave here, I want to be near full because there will then be a lot of boondocking. More than likely, I will boondock only all the way to AZ. When I get to AZ, I will probably stay a week in Tucson and another week in Organ Pipe Cactus Nat'l Monument. My favorite desert area. I am slowly heading back to Auburn, CA.

BTW, Tom & I were in Maryland in year 2013 in the Y2K RV. In September.

-Don- DeRidder, LA
 
Is your air conditioner and heater all one unit on top of the unit? Is that how that is?
There are three heaters in this RV. Two electrics on the roof and one gas furnace. The two electrics are air conditioners but with a heat pump.

My Y2K Class C also must use propane to heat the thing, regardless of having shore power.

But I need no propane at all to heat up this 30' Class A RV and I can have it as warm as I want, as long as I have a 50 amp (can really be as much as 50 amps on EACH 120 VAC line side as the "50 amp" is a 240 V spec) service.

IOW, 100 amp total, 50 amps plus 50 amps in the so called 50 amp service at RV Parks.

12KW should be available either way, at 240 AC or 120 VAC, if the RV park and pedestal can really handle it, is a different question. But I assume so, since I usually see two ganged 50 amp breakers, one for each side for the so-called 50-amp service. So that is 50 amps to neutral on each side, or 100 amps total.

A 30-amp RV compared to a 50-amp RV, is a difference of 70 amps!

Another example of why I wish they would only use wattage instead of amps.

a 30 amp RV is 3,600 watts max (120 VAC times 30 amps) for its load.

A 50 amp RV is 12,000 watts max. (120 VAC time 50 amps per line) for its load. That's 3.3 as much stuff we can run with the so-called "50 amp service".

-Don- DeRidder, LA
 
BTW, can other motor-driven awnings be "over-extended" or is that only an issue with mine?

The question I am curious about is would it have held up if it were not "over-extended". I always had it all the way out.

But IMAO, if that is an issue, they need better engineers at "Carefree" or at least change their name to something more honest.

-Don- Sweet Alabama Welcome Center (I-10)
Sweet Alabama Welcome Center (I-10)?

We might have been driven by each other not knowing.
We were eastbound on I-10 on Wednesday. Going back home coming from New Orleans.
 
We might have been driven by each other not knowing.
If I could have seen the word "Vision" on an RV, I would have noticed for sure. I have yet to see another anywhere.

But I did see a very small Class A with the word "Jaco" on it, also west bound. I don't know what year it was or anything, but it was perhaps the smallest Class A I ever saw.

-Don- DeRidder, LA
 
If you were on I-10 on Wednesday, we passed each other.
We stopped at that rest stop last Friday going to New Orleans. Our dog left his mark there. lol
 
If you were on I-10 on Wednesday, we passed each other.
Yep, as long as it wasn't too early. Or then I was headed up to I-10 from Mayo, FL.

Any trails for you to hike?
Kinda. There is a trail right across the street from here for the telephone pole access. Very wooded and seems to go for miles. I just hiked a quarter mile or so up it to check it out.

-Don- DeRidder, LA
 
There is also a walking trail at the city park (West Park) on the north side of town, though it is looking rather bare there these days, over 200 trees were downed / uprooted in the park by hurricane Laura about 18 months ago, many of them were over 100 years old.
 
FYI: Those A/C heat pumps are not very efficient. They struggle to make heat when ambient gets down to 40F. The two thermostats I have experience with would kick on gas heat if selected temp was more than 4 degrees under room temp. We don’t bother selecting the heat pumps if the temp is going to be 45F and under for any sustained time.
There are three heaters in this RV. Two electrics on the roof and one gas furnace. The two electrics are air conditioners but with a heat pump.

My Y2K Class C also must use propane to heat the thing, regardless of having shore power.

But I need no propane at all to heat up this 30' Class A RV and I can have it as warm as I want, as long as I have a 50 amp (can really be as much as 50 amps on EACH 120 VAC line side as the "50 amp" is a 240 V spec) service.

IOW, 100 amp total, 50 amps plus 50 amps in the so called 50 amp service at RV Parks.

12KW should be available either way, at 240 AC or 120 VAC, if the RV park and pedestal can really handle it, is a different question. But I assume so, since I usually see two ganged 50 amp breakers, one for each side for the so-called 50-amp service. So that is 50 amps to neutral on each side, or 100 amps total.

A 30-amp RV compared to a 50-amp RV, is a difference of 70 amps!

Another example of why I wish they would only use wattage instead of amps.

a 30 amp RV is 3,600 watts max (120 VAC times 30 amps) for its load.

A 50 amp RV is 12,000 watts max. (120 VAC time 50 amps per line) for its load. That's 3.3 as much stuff we can run with the so-called "50 amp service".

-Don- DeRidder, LA
FYI: Those A/C heat pumps are not very efficient. They struggle to make heat when ambient gets down to 40F. The two thermostats I have experience with would kick on gas heat if selected temp was more than 4 degrees under room temp. We don’t bother selecting the heat pumps if the temp is going to be 45F and under for any sustained time.
 
Same experience, here, with the heat pumps. 45-50 deg. F and they struggle. Read somewhere that type of operation is not good for the AC units. And,mif it's going to be below freezing, I need the gas furnace to keep things in the basement (water lines/ water bay) from freezing. A good ~1500W electric space heater does well for us to keep propane use a little lower.
 
But how many RV awnings? :)

What do you guys do out here when those hurricanes hit? I know nothing about them since I have always lived on the west coast.

-Don- DeRidder, LA
We had one last year that hit land near the corner of the panhandle from the gulf. Cedar Keys are got smacked pretty good. Prediction was to pass right over Live Oak and Mayo which it did.

I took the cue from everyone else and stayed. By the time it got to us we got winds in the 40-50mph range for about 3 hours and then it blew by. Lot's of rain and basically 24 hours indoors. I got rocked a little even standing on the landing gear but no big deal.

I wouldn't like to be in a full force hurricane and I was prepared to pull sumps and head northwest...
 
The two thermostats I have experience with would kick on gas heat if selected temp was more than 4 degrees under room temp. We don’t bother selecting the heat pumps if the temp is going to be 45F and under for any sustained time.
That happened here. I was wondering why the gas heater came on for a while when only electric was selected.

I read this message late and I had mine on electric all night, but I heard the gas come on at least once and now I understand why.

BTW, I woke up with no water. I forgot that the unprotected water hose would freeze. It got below 20F last night here. I have only had that happen once before and that was in Las Vegas in my Y2K RV. Also was in January.

I have to move a switch outside to select the tank, which then should work with the water pump.

What happens to heat pumps when it's extra cold? At least mine is still working okay, it's running right now.

-Don- in sunny 26F DeRidder, LA
 
Don- in sunny 26F DeRidder, LA
Sounds like you are in learning mode this morning!

Don'tcha love it?

It should warm up down there with the sun soon to above freezing and then your stuff should thaw out.

Might want to wrap up your hose tonight and put it back out tomorrow.
 
Sounds like you are in learning mode this morning!

Don'tcha love it?

It should warm up down there with the sun soon to above freezing and then your stuff should thaw out.

Might want to wrap up your hose tonight and put it back out tomorrow.
I just went outside to select the in-house water from the pump. So now I have water. It's very sunny here and doesn't seem all that cold when I was just outside.

I am probably going to ride into town for breakfast. At least it's not far.

-Don- DeRidder, LA
 
What happens to heat pumps when it's extra cold? At least mine is still working okay, it's running right now.

-Don- in sunny 26F DeRidder, LA
A heat pump is just an air conditioner operating in reverse, the same thing happens to an a/c when the temperature gets too hot. In both cases the compressor shuts down and the unit blows cold or hot air unless there's enough logic to also shut down the fan.
 
Some heat pump systems also have electric heat strips built into them that will turn on to provide heat if the compressor can not. That is often true in both RVs and houses.
 
Some heat pump systems also have electric heat strips built into them that will turn on to provide heat if the compressor can not. That is often true in both RVs and houses.
Mine seemed to work perfectly; it ran most of the night on 120 VAC. I don't know how often it turned on the gas furnace, but at least once. But no noticeable difference in my propane level this morning and it got below 20F here.

I wish my tankless water heater would work as well!

-Don- DeRidder, LA
 
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