Frozen anaconda

[indy roadrunner]

As I am preparing for my trip south to Gulf Shores I dragged out the anaconda cord and hooked up to run some heat in camper and keep battery charged. Well good ole Indiana weather has blanket us with some nice 20 degree weather and cover the ground with snow. We plan on departing this coming Wednesday so I went to pick up the cord out of the snow and it was like a piece of 30 feet plastic pipe. Any recommendations on how to warm that thing up so I can coil it in the back of the pickup when we are ready to leave? I hate to buy that much heat tape.

[Mrs. CountryGuy]

Drag it, somehow, into a garage, place electric heater nearby??? Or drag to the kitchen of the stickbuilt, inform the Mrs. to not trip on that monster. ??

[H. John Kohl]

If you have a toneau cover on your truck put it in the bed, place an electric heater in the truck bed and cover both. it will get it up to 50 to 60 degrees to warm up the rubber.

Other option is to spray hot water on it but that will freeze at first if not careful so it would take a lot of hot water.

[simonsrf]

Take it inside...shouldn't take more than a hour at house temp to soften it up.

[Illini Trekker]

I feel sorry for the cars behind you as those ice icicles start to thaw out and hit the road,LOL 72 degrees here today GSP.

[indy roadrunner]

I think Tuesday night I will put the slides in and disconnect the cable and bring in the house. Sounds simple enough.

[DQDick]

That's what I had to do when we left Kansas last week. Took it in the garage. Put out an electric heater. Only took about an hour before I could get it in it's spot in the basement.

[Weldon]

You could head South in September.

[steelpony5555]

I think I will just stay here in Texas 80 today lol lol

[CBTraveler]

I finally replaced mine with a very flexible cable. It works fine in cold weather compared to the oem version. I always described bending the oem cable was like bending conduit. While searching for flexible cables I decided to go whole hog and add a powered rewind system. A bit much, but we've been on a quest to simplify setup and takedown.

The major difference in the flexibility is that the wires have very fine strands which makes it much easier to bend.

[Bill-N-Donna]

quote:Originally posted by CBTraveler

I finally replaced mine with a very flexible cable. It works fine in cold weather compared to the oem version. I always described bending the oem cable was like bending conduit. While searching for flexible cables I decided to go whole hog and add a powered rewind system. A bit much, but we've been on a quest to simplify setup and takedown.

The major difference in the flexibility is that the wires have very fine strands which makes it much easier to bend.

I would be interested in knowing more about the type of cord & retracting system you’re talking about.
Thanks!

[Karl]

To solve the same problem, I coil the 50A cord and stow it on a warm day in Oct/Nov, then use my 30A cord till I'm ready to head south.

[snfexpress]

We did the same as CBTraveler. We made an SO cord which is very flexible, but is not as good at UV rays as the OEM anaconda. So, in Florida, we use the anaconda (for six months), and most every where else we use the SO cord.

[CBTraveler]

The product I chose was a model CRR-50 from glendinningprods.com. There are other manufacturers with equally good products. I liked the CRR-50 size and installation orientation. I mounted it in the storage bay under the bedroom on the drivers side of the Monty. The cable exits downward with an access hole identical to the one in the utilities bay. When we bought the trailer we had it wired for a generator, so I connected the CRR-50 through the transfer switch by removing the existing 50 amp connections from the receptacle on the rear of the trailer. I'm not sure how easy it is to intercept the 50 amp wiring if there is not a generator prep package.

If anyone is seriously interested I can take some pix and post them as well as a more lengthy discussion of how I did it. Glendinning also sells a Superflex 50 A cable without the retracting mechanism. If I remember correctly that cable is only terminated on the plug (campground panel)end and would need an RV termination on the trailer end.