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Reactivating the Generator and Refueling the RV

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Surviving Texas Winter Storm 2021 in an RV: No Power..No Fuel..What Happened? (90s Newell Coach)

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What happens here

The RV owner expresses his frustration with the cold and lack of power, noting the temperature has dropped to single digits. He explains that he previously ran the generator inside the building to charge the RV's house batteries (not engine batteries), which had died when the power was cut. Once charged, he successfully started the generator, which he previously thought was unusable due to likely gelled fuel. He then filled the RV's main diesel tank with the 20 gallons of diesel he acquired, hoping it will run for days.

Goal: Restore generator operation and refuel the RV's diesel tank.

Tools and materials

  • Generator — Providing power for RV systems
  • Hand Pump — Transferring diesel from fuel cans to the RV tank
  • RV House Batteries — Powering internal RV systems and starting the generator
  • Diesel Fuel — Fueling the RV's main diesel tank

What they say

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we're down into the single digits now i had the generator inside running to charge my house batteries not the engine batteries the house ones because they went dead when the power got cut last night while we were sleeping because the inverter just ran stuff until they died i didn't know power was out so they were dead generator wouldn't crank i figured the fuel was gelled up anyway worst case i charge the batteries up just to have um to keep my temperature sensor uh indicator alive inside so i knew what the bay temperature was to heat that from freezing i charged it up a couple hours ago i'm like screw it i'm gonna try to start generator it started so uh we went and got some uh took logan's road to get some more diesel and i'm going to pump some diesel in there use about half a gallon an hour i got 20 gallons the main tank is low but theoretically put 20 gallons in it should work for 20 gallons worth of hours so i'm gonna get to that this is not fun but we're just out here doing it i just figured i just moved elvis inside because you know it was kind of starting a little hard it's going to be like four degrees overnight and i didn't want to be a problem too i do put additive in there but still why not move it inside it's like i don't know probably 50 degrees in here i want to move it in cleared the code and it stayed on i don't know so elvis you're not going to freeze to death with the generator hopefully you uh keep our water bay not frozen it is time to

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