thanks for all the input , i understand how loud the water heaters are , i have a 36' class A with a 10g heater , its not tooo bad , inside you cant hear it , so i will try and seperate the heater from the inside the best i could with some fiberglass sound deadner or something . i have alot of thinking to do on this , so i might do it or i might hold off till after the 2 week trip out west and see how it really is . we stayed in north west wyoming alot and it can get cold at night , and thats where we will be staying a few nights so i might just suck it up and deal with it
That said, if you are doing a water heater anyhow, the mojave would be a reasonable way to add some heating, but I would use it sparingly. Like only when on shore power, or just to heat up the TD in the am before you climbed out of bed, or warming up the bedding before going to sleep.
thats what i was thinking , maybe just run the heater at night and then in the morning , me personally i like it cold to sleep , but that transition from nice cuddly blankets to cold is a shocker so the heater would work well for this .
My one experience with snow camping as a boy scout, we were in backpacking tents, camping on top of about 2 feet of snow and it was in the 20's overnight.
i remember those nights to , how can you ever forget them ? our troop was very active , camping atleast 1-2 times a month all over the north east , i am an eagle scout so i went through it all ... never got to do the OA becuase i had other ventures going on that didnt allow me .
You did not say if you are boondocking or will be using campgrounds. I am assuming campgrounds as you did not mention large storage tanks and pumps to supply water
there will be boondocking , the whole reason for this tear is becuase me and the wife want to do a trip west which would include 2 weeks of travel to hit rapid city area , onto cody /redlodge , through yellowstone , into jackson , over the pass into salt lake city , then south to the desert and back home . we did it 3 yrs ago in our motohome , but i had help driving so the 5k mile trip wasnt bad , but this time its just me and the wife and she cant drive the 36' mh with dingy. but anyways when we travel like this we dont make plains anywhere , we just go and where we end up for the night thats it . sometimes we get lucky and have a camp site , sometimes a hotel room , sometimes a parking lot . but having the tear with some ammenitys will help us stay in more remote locations instead of needing to drive out of the way to get somewhere bette
.but anyways , i was just thinking of this as a heating idea . there will be a water tank and a pump to feed the water heater .
we plain on doing this trip sometime in aug so i might hold off on this idea till after this trip , but it easier to plain for it than not plain for it and have to hack stuff apart .