This weekend looking like it will be beautiful to dewinterize the trailer. High in the low 70’s will be great for cleaning the inside of the trailer, restocking all of the supplies, washing the trailer, flushing the water system, and sanitizing the freshwater system. Camping Season is here!
But wait! Colorado still has at least one more frigid winter blast left in the forecast. Bringing in snow and several days below freezing. Especially with Wednesday dropping to the low 20’s, it is not a good idea to flush the freshwater system quite yet. Unless I want to park the trailer in front of the house and run the heater for a couple of days to prevent the lines from freezing. I guess I will wait until Easter weekend to flush the freshwater system. I love the game of Spring Chicken of when to dewinterize for the season.
Even though the trailer is still winterized, the batteries are now installed so I could tow it to the mechanic for the bearings to be repacked. While the batteries were fully recharged when I installed them two weeks ago, they have only received a little charge while going to and from the mechanic last weekend. Since then, the passive equipment in the trailer has been draining the batteries.
With the batteries I started using last year, the charge holds up for almost three weeks while in storage. However, they were pretty low and the charge dropped off pretty quickly. With freezing weather coming, this concerns me than the usual degradation of over discharging due to the electrolyte being more susceptible to freezing when discharged.
Now I have to decide if I am going to work on the trailer this weekend just to charge the batteries, if I need to charge the batteries at the storage lot, remove the batteries, or just take my chances with the weather. So the question is: Do I feel lucky and hope the days will be warm enough to keep the batteries from freezing over the 16-hour period below freezing this week?
I really need to install a battery cut-off switch on this trailer. Especially for this season since we have several gaps in our travel trailer trips for American Heritage Girls® and Cub Scout® activities that will drain the batteries if I don’t intervene.
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