From: wolverine01@charter.net   
      
   On 12/5/2025 9:38 AM, Ralph E Lindberg wrote:   
   > On 2025-12-03 22:57:06 +0000, sticks said:   
   >   
   >> My monthly exercise of the Onan generator was due, and I figured I   
   >> better get it done before the deep freeze sets in.  I was kind of   
   >> surprised when I went out there, the LED panel showed the house   
   >> batteries very low.  It snowed heavily a while back, and though I did   
   >> uncover the solar panel going to the engine battery, not much I can do   
   >> about the roof panels.  Not enough juice to even try and start the   
   >> Onan.   So I had to put it on shore power for about two hours.   
   >>   
   >> I've always had a hard time getting that generator to fire up, but   
   >> I'll be darned if it didn't just pop right off today at about 27F!   
   >> Surprised the hell out of me.  Turned on everything I could to get a   
   >> load on it and let it run for about 25 minutes.   
   >>   
   >> I guess I'll have to hook it up to the house every couple weeks if the   
   >> roof solar panels don't get the snow melted off.  Also, jotting it   
   >> down on my list of reasons I need to build a garage for it.  ;-)   
   >   
   > I put up an RV port over 20 years ago and have never regretted it. Best   
   > RV thing I've done. RVs are not designed to be in the weather,   
   > unocuppied or unheated 24/7/365   
      
   I just hate the thought of it sitting out there in the cold, waiting for   
   part of an oak tree to fall on it, or get damaged in another hail storm.   
     I have always kept my vehicles in a garage and heated it about 15   
   years ago.  It certainly keeps our vehicles looking better than the   
   neighbors who keep them outside, and sure makes it easier to start them   
   up on the cold winter days.   
      
   20 years ago I would have just build a place for it myself, but I'm   
   afraid those days are over.  Of course I can afford to pay someone to do   
   it now, so it doesn't hurt as bad.  My biggest problem is the location   
   of my well.  I had tried to get the county to let me place a manhole   
   with a sealed access to it and then an elbow to move it about 8 feet for   
   the above ground portion of the pipe, but they wouldn't budge and said   
   no.  If you look at the picture, you can see the well just behind the RV   
   and it makes it a little tricky getting in and out.  I can't pull   
   straight in.  If they would have let me move it up the hill, I could   
   have built a garage right where it is easily.  Sure, I could do a new   
   well, but that's over $10K now.  I'm hoping to find a solution, and will   
   have to do the math on just keeping it in storage somewhere.   
      
      
      
      
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