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My wife and I are spending the winter in central Minnesota (call us nuts!). We have a 2955 with Artic package and it has been a challenge to keep the water flowing. I've gotten a lot of good ideas from others here and have some additional information to add. I'm staying at Grand Casino RV park in Hinckley MN. The electricity is included with the spot so I've taken advantage of that to add a lot of electric heat to the trailer. I have (3) 700 watt space heaters inside the trailer and placed (2) 700 watt space heaters inside the belly of the trailer along with (2) 300 watt (60 ft) roof deicing cables. I pushed the deicing cables through small openings under the holding tanks. I still had freeze up problems until I wrapped insulation around the three drain hoses sticking out the bottom of the trailer. I run on the internal fresh water tank and so far this arrangement has kept water flowing down to -5 degrees. The coldest we've seen so far this winter is -21 degrees and the inside of the trailer was comfortable and the furnace was only running about 50% of the time. With all the auxillary electric heat the furnace usually doesn't run at all until the temp drops below 20 degrees. I get about 3 days on a 30 pound tank of propane with the temp around zero. I get 6-7 days if the temp stays above 15 degrees. I hope this information is of use to you.
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