The cold weather camping experiement.

[jjswan33]

Have the ladder extended out and let the dog practice at an increasingly vertical angle. Dogs are capable of climbing ladders but they'd never know it.

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[COdogman]

To follow up. On my last night on my way back to Oregon I stopped to camp east of Eureka. So as promised I used my space heater instead of the electric blanket. It wasn’t quite as cold, low around 32F.

Bottom line is I used about 5% SOC in 12 hours. Probably could be less if my tent was better insulated.

What space heater do you use in your tent? Or was that code for your dog? Sorry, I spend too much time around dogs

 

[jjswan33]

What space heater do you use in your tent? Or was that code for your dog? Sorry, I spend too much time around dogs

No code just a standard small space heater that runs on AC power. On low I think it pulls around 400W while running.

 

[jclicky]

Thank you for the thorough review & analysis @jjswan33. As a bay-area native & Sierra addict these are the precise scenarios I’m planning to take mine out for. At this point I’m trying to decide between an R1S (better parking in smaller form-factor + backseat sleeping in-car, but no max pack) & an R1T (more versatile, max pack, but less agile), so my question to you: how was your experience with battery capacity, recharging, hunting for & finding recharge stations (glad to hear the adventure network station worked out)? did you find yourself wishing for 400+ mi. of range in the long journey across the whole trip? I may go for the max pack + dual motor, but also hesitate since I’d prefer a max pack & quad. However, if your experience was “large pack was more than adequate, max pack is for paranoids or anyone towing,” then I might opt to try a large pack build.

 

[jjswan33]

Thank you for the thorough review & analysis @jjswan33. As a bay-area native & Sierra addict these are the precise scenarios I’m planning to take mine out for. At this point I’m trying to decide between an R1S (better parking in smaller form-factor + backseat sleeping in-car, but no max pack) & an R1T (more versatile, max pack, but less agile), so my question to you: how was your experience with battery capacity, recharging, hunting for & finding recharge stations (glad to hear the adventure network station worked out)? did you find yourself wishing for 400+ mi. of range in the long journey across the whole trip? I may go for the max pack + dual motor, but also hesitate since I’d prefer a max pack & quad. However, if your experience was “large pack was more than adequate, max pack is for paranoids or anyone towing,” then I might opt to try a large pack build.

A max pack certainly has it’s appeal but that said my large pack hasn’t limited me much. There has been once or twice where I had to take a non-ideal route when I didn’t have enough charge but it has been rare and I was pushing some boundaries.

So my suggestion. If you need to pull a large trailer, want to go to very remote places or live in an area without a lot of charging infrastructure then the max pack may be needed but for most I don’t think so, and in a couple of years it will be even less necessary.

The other thing to consider with the max pack is to fully use it you’d have some pretty long charging sessions, I often spend 30-40 min in the large pack so you can figure how long you’d need to charge the larger battery.

 

[HighVoltOverland]

Coming from a suv with RTT, a broken back from the Army, and a 75lb+ dog,
I can highly recommend the Doggo RTT Ramp from Desert Armor.

 

[EVTrucking]

The setup. I was in the Sierra Nevada mountains. I was in San Diego earlier and went through Barstow and Inyokern to charge at the RAN stations. Went up into the mountains to camp.

Arrived around 7:00pm temp was around 32F at this time. I had 49% SOC or 135 miles
Dipped down to the low 20s overnight. Outlets on, camp mode ’always on’ on, running my Icego cooler/fridge and a standard electric blanket to keep warm in the tent.
After 12 hours I used about 1.5% SOC down to 47% or 131 miles.

Quite happy with those results, next to try using my 400W space heater and colder temps.

Hi.

Do you still have your iKamper? I am thinking of getting the mini 3.0 for my R1T.

How do you store your iKamper?

Thank you.

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