parking the PUP

[Jestercat]

For winter storage or extended storage, is there any harm in not parking the PUP level??

I'm not talking 45 degrees off, but on a gentle slope, taking into consideration not too much that would damage the propane fridge...

Thanks in advance

[flyfisherman]

For winter storage or extended storage, is there any harm in not parking the PUP level??

I'm not talking 45 degrees off, but on a gentle slope, taking into consideration not too much that would damage the propane fridge...

Thanks in advance

Never stored mine level. Always dropped the front via the tounge jack in order to let the water run off. Suppose you could go the other way and raise in up in order for the water to run off the rear. Took the old garden hose and made sure the water was running off.



Fly

[ScouterMom]

I've always had older PUPs, and park them with one end down to avoid pooling water on the roofs.

But I never had a propane fridge in one before - I knew they had to be level to run, but didn't think they had to be level to store - do they have to be level in storage also?

Laura

[flyfisherman]

It is while the unit is on that being level is critcal. The absorption cooling process relies on heat and gravity to move the coolant around. When off level one direction of the coil will be flowing up-hill and closes off the flow. When this happens there is no flow to the boiler section and it overheats. It is this overheating of the coolant that contribtes to the cooling unit device failure.

[Gwenzilla]

....do they have to be level in storage also?
Laura

When turned off the fridge does not need to be stored in a level position...

[mettam]

When we picked up the new PU this summer, I asked the technician going over the camper about leveling. I remember my Dad in the 70's spending what seemed to me at the time an excruitiatingly long time (course, when you are 7 and this is keeping you from the pool, one's sense of time is somewhat altered)  leveling the class A RV we were in, so I asked about it. He said that the fridges these days are not as sensitive as they used to be and that the camper would have to be so far off level that we would be 'uncomfortable' in the trailer before it would cause any damage.

So, was the guy feeding me a line or is this the case?  I'd hate to find out later that just eye-balling it as we've been doing is causing damage to our fridge...

Thanks!

[Eric Sass]

I do the same as ScouterMom. I keep the front end lower so the water will run off. Not that we get too much rain in the San Diego area.

[AustinBoston]

When we picked up the new PU this summer, I asked the technician going over the camper about leveling. I remember my Dad in the 70's spending what seemed to me at the time an excruitiatingly long time (course, when you are 7 and this is keeping you from the pool, one's sense of time is somewhat altered)  leveling the class A RV we were in, so I asked about it. He said that the fridges these days are not as sensitive as they used to be and that the camper would have to be so far off level that we would be 'uncomfortable' in the trailer before it would cause any damage.

So, was the guy feeding me a line or is this the case?  I'd hate to find out later that just eye-balling it as we've been doing is causing damage to our fridge...

He is correct.  Our fridge needs to be within 2.5

[vjm1639]

always parked with one end up higher to let the water run off if it wasn't plugged in.  :>