Does anyone not use any of their propane stuff in their pop-up?

[wavery]

To date, I've never camped anywhere there has been electrical hooks, where the camper's H.D. 30'/30amp  power cord could'nt reach the C/G electrical outlet. I'm like some others on the board that when paying for an electrical hook-up, I'll use whatever I can of it, saving the "other" fuels that I have to pay for on a regular basis. That goes, too, for outdoor lighting. Instead of using the Coleman lantern, I have a 25'/10amp extension cord (bought at Wally-Mart), that has a plastic case and you simply roll the cord up in the case, which makes it easy to store. Where I connect this extension cord is close to the camper patio light, in one of the exterior 110 camper outlets. Of course, this is for lighting, maybe a 60 or 75 watt bulb.  I see my Pelonis 1500watt ceramic heater requires 12.5amps and the "fine print" on the unit's box says if one has to use an extension cord, "it shall be a No.14 AWG minimun size and not rated less than 1875W".



Fly

Fly

You are right. The best thing to do is to use your campers 30A cord. If your heater blows the 15A circuit breaker for your outlets (which it shouldn't), it would certainly blow the CG 15A circuit breaker at the outlet while using any extension cord. I think that most camper power cords are made with 10g wire. You should have very little (if any) voltage loss through the campser's power supply.

The bottom line is, if either end of the power cord gets too hot to touch, it is best to unplug it. It doesn't matter what size it is.

Brantime

I respect your concern and I can see where you are coming from. I'd hate to see PUT become like Yahoo or some other sites where some discussions can resort to nothing short of "Dirty Fighting".

We often have lively discussions like this on PUT. Seldom does it degrade to bickering or heated exchange. In fact, I don't remember ever seeing that here.

There are a lot of newbies that come here to learn about camping. Most of these discussions have a lot of valuable info in them. IMHO, when it comes to camping safety, too much info is better than too little.

If any particular discussion becomes boring or uninteresting to anyone, they can simply move to a different post.

I'm sorry that this discussion caused you concern.

[skamper75]

Our camper came with 3 burner stove/oven, propane/12v/120 fridge and furnace. We didnt like the idea of cooking food inside and getting the food smell and grease on the canvas and other fabrics so we never used the stove/oven except to see that it worked when we got the camper. We always camp with hookups so the fridge runs on 120v.  Last year we removed the stove/oven and small camper fridge. Installed new counter top, built in a microwave and installed a 4cu.ft. 120v fridge.
   
We cook outside with electric skillet, small propane grill(6-8 burgers) and now adding a dutch oven.  I've got a colman white gas stove and several backpacking stoves but more work is involved with those.
     
If its cold and rainy all day we will run the propane furnace until bedtime, then its ceramic heaters. Ones a built in and the other is portable and we use those most of the time.

[hoppy]

I have to admit that I have never used the propane stove in the PU. I prefer to do all our cooking outside the PU using our dual fuel Coleman three burner camp stove or grill / Dutch oven over the campfire.

 But the fridge, water heater, and furnace are used when needed.

 We have been PU camping over 15 years, and I never had a fear using propane appliances inside the PU.

 It's probably as safe as the electrical circuits in there.

[Miller Tyme]

The only time we've used propane was to see if the the furnace worked when we bought it...:eyecrazy:...if we have W/E, we're set for the weekend.
 
 We always cook over the fire, and use an electric heater......we don't have a battery or connections for one.

[Wild Wild Qwest]

Everything on our pop up runs on propane! We even fill the air mattress with a little gas every once in a while!  :sombraro:

Gotta love that sound when the furnace fires up!

[shellcjt]

I never cook inside the camper either because of getting grease, food, smell on the canvas.  So how long does the propane in the tank last?  
I had another camper that I used the propane 2 times in the first two years I had it but never checked after that and I had that camper 8 years.
I just bought a Taos in Sept with a full tank and I wonder will the stuff eventually leak out?

[Wild Wild Qwest]

I just bought a Taos in Sept with a full tank and I wonder will the stuff eventually leak out?

You should be good until Y'3'K...  :p