McDave wrote:Mounted mine to the inside of the door. I hear a lot of stories of people who have an extinguisher but can't get to it. If you are outside of the trailer when the fire starts, if you can open the door the extinguisher will be right there. If you are inside, you're probably heading for that door anyway so it will be there waiting for you. Chances are the fire will happen where the combustibles and electrics are housed, so for me that means up front. Forward of the door. I don't have trailer brakes yet so I'm not too worried about fire in that area but I do have another extinguisher in the truck, right between the front seats.
Had a scare a few years ago on the way to Sturgis at about 3:00 am in the exact middle of nowhere. It was very Hot and there had been wild fires everywhere for months. Suddenly the cabin of the truck filled with white smoke so heavy I had zero visibility in about 5 seconds, it was just pouring out of the vents in the dash and the floorboards. I managed to get the rig stopped, driving by braille. Pulled the hood latch and grabbed the extinguisher and bailed out onto the highway. When I lifted the hood.... nothing. At all. Not even the smell of smoke. Opened the door and white smoke rolled out. It didn't smell like electrical or oil/fuel or rubber. It smelled just like wildfire. Checked everywhere and could'nt find a source, so aired it out and took off again. Everything seemed fine until I turned on the A/C. Nothing, no air, no fan but I did hear the compressor engage. Strange. When we got to Sturgis the sun was up so I got to diagnosing the fan and when I removed the resistor board for the fan speed control I found the fire. Wasps had built a big ol nest in the duct where the resistor board is mounted. Its OK when you are running on high but when you select a lower speed the resistors get hot burning off voltage. So the nest caught fire and the blower stoked it like crazy and forced it right into the cab. What is really scary is the whole time I was on the side of the road and for another forty or fifty miles, not one vehicle came past me and there was no cell service till I got close to a small town fifty miles away.
Ate breakfast at a bar that day.
McDave
Holy smokes mcdave....pun intended. That sounds intense.
I was thinking of mounting mine on the wall next to my bed. My thinking was that if anything blocked my exit, I could eliminate it and get people out the door.
Havent purchased the jacks yet, but it's on the list.
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So in the mean time, I decided to finish up a small project. The last two years it has rained like crazy on every trip. We decided that we needed to install a "rain out" alternative. I was originally going to mount the dvd player on the side wall, but the dvd's didn't stay in their tray. So I ended up just making a basic bracket across the top of the tv, as pictured. Now I am wondering about some surround sound. 