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RE: Wiring a bad RV Plug
This is a typical camp ground pedestal for 50A 30A and 20A connections.
http://rvdreams.smugmug.com/photos/191695676-S.jpg height=300
This is a typical wiring diagram of the 50A-30A-20A pedestal
https://encrypted-tbn2.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTYlD-i_9Yix4B1RYTK4TenmjDcPTPb07lF92vxRTvk1nw-AlHC height=400
This is test procedure to determine if the 30AMP PLUG is wired correctly..
http://www.noshockzone.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/08/20-30_Amp_120V-metered.jpg height=400
Hope this helps...
There are a couple of other issues that may come up.
Is this a PULL OUT CABLE with the 30AMP PLUG mounted on the end of the 25-foot cord. The problem here is you must make sure the MALE PLUG will fit inside the door of this setup when you push it back into the trailer body for storage.. Some MALE PLUG HEADS are too large to fit inside the lid shown here
http://i1306.photobucket.com/albums/s561/hankpage/07%20Cougar%20290RKS/2671526120047821328oexvdW_fs.jpg height=300
If this is an MALE/FEMALE 25-foot extension cord that connects to the side of the trailer with a FEMAL PLUG similar to this phot then you really won't have to worry about the size the MALE PLUG you are mounting to the end of the RV30AMP extension cord. Also be aware you can purase a RV30AMP MALE FEMAL extension cord already made up from most any RV PARTS STORE...
https://encrypted-tbn3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTcFCtcWXR9UR24xdw9mhmjCyabWoJ9XZg5MYH_OZuhGZ9hU8aL6g height=300
ALL PHOTOS FROM GOOGLE IMAGES
If you are unsure how to wire the plug back on the end of the 25-foot extension cord I would seek professional help. Wiring it wrong could damage internal electrical items inside the trailer.
Remember what you wire up you will be responsible for anything you burn up. The licensed electrical folks are all bonded to pay for things they burn up by not connecting up correctly..
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/07/14 03:31pm |
Do It Yourself Modifications and Upgrades (DIY)
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RE: Lost interest in RV Travel
I never did go for the real big RV's. That has got to be a hugh challange getting the big thing up to snuff, pay all the big maintenance fees, gasoline, and Insurance etc.. Then you have to fight the road driving the hugh thing.
My BIL has one and he is beat to death after 300-400 miles...
They used to go on several short trips and meet u with us at various places but now it looks like it is only for a couple of long stay trips for them. Then he parks it in the barn...
I always thought that something in the 24-26 foot range would be all we would ever mess with... This is more like camping in the outa way places from the days past I guess...
Roy ken
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RoyB
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03/07/14 10:19am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Sold TT Wife wants to get TC
I too have always wanted to have a TC but it just isn't possible for all the stuff I carry with me on my trips. I support to many other things to cut back on bringing everything. I would need to pull a utility trailer haha...
Also to get the TC I really like with the side door entrance and large floorplan I would need a rather big truck with dually s to carry it.
Then you also run into what to do when you are the camp ground. Do you set the camper on the ground and use your truck to run the roads for supplies or sight seeing. You certainly don't want to break camp everytime you need to go somewhere.
I really like the idea of everything on the same frame and can go almost anywhere your 4WD truck will go... That part is great. Having hardly any extra storage area would be my problem.
This would be my desired TC camper
Chalet TS116 Floorplan or similar
http://cdn-0.psndealer.com/e2/dealersite/images/NewVehicles/2012/NV298273_0.jpg height=400
My OFF-ROAD Starcraft 14RT POPUP trailer with the front deck and my F150 truck bed gives me all the extra room I need to haul my very needed extra supplies including my 2KW Honda portable generator.
All of this support my emergency two radio radio operations (another hobby) just fine for me...
just something to think about...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/07/14 08:58am |
Truck Campers
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RE: Battery or batteries
Keep in mind that the fuse or circuit breaker you are talking about is there to protect the battery cables from short circuit. Your batteries can probably produce a couple hundred AMPS for a short period of time and of course your 45 AMP Converter/charger can produce 45AMPS of DC current.
I have three batteries in my battery bank and when I am using my PD9260C 60AMP smart mode converter/charger in charge mode I will see around 52-53AMPS being drawn by the battery for the first 15-20 minutes of the initial charge cycle.
I would think you should have a fuse or circuit breaker rated at the highest output of your converter/charger unit. In your case higher than 45 AMPS.
We do alot of camping off the power grid and I would say a minimum battery capacity should be around 220AHs. This would require a couple of batteries at a minimum in my thinking.
You may want to add a 300-400WATT PURE SINE WAVE Inverter down the road to run your home entertainment items and cell phone and computer chargers etc. Once you start doing this you most likely will want to run some other low wattage items from the INVERTER. Inverters love large battery capacity...
We get by very successful using our 255AH battery capacity but do have to recharge every day at 8AM during breakfast when allowed to run my 2KW Honda generator at most campgrounds. Once the battery bank is back up to its 90% charge state than we can do this all over again for the next day/night run off the batteries.
Just my thoughts...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/07/14 08:12am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: HDMI Wiring for HiDef TV
I don't know about the bounder but running RG cables for my Ham radio in the fifth wheel was real easy to pull down each of the air conditioner duct covers in the ceiling and fish my RG cable from one duct to the next using the air conditioner duct. Only had to penetrate new holes to get from the end of the duct to inside a ceiling mounted cabinet etc... After I ran my RG cables I sealed all the holes I made back up using Insulating Expanding Foam spray...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/07/14 07:57am |
Technology Corner
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RE: It's a plot.
Every 3600 years we get visited by the gods from the Orion Area of space. The last time they were here was during the days of the pyramids... We will start seeing some of this activity again very soon... The comet ISOM that just recently went around our SUN comes from that same area in space...
We were all doomed to mine gold for them the last time they were here according to Ancient Aliens researchers at any rate. When you find human footprints along side of those of the dinosaurs - something is up...
do dah do dah
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/07/14 07:27am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Family Reunion - RV & Cabins - within 3 hours of Dallas, TX
Its been years for us but we always had lots of fun at Lake Texhoma area camp grounds.
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RoyB
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03/07/14 07:06am |
RV Parks, National Parks, State Campgrounds & More
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RE: RV garage pictures, lets see what ya got
I just typed 'RV GARAGE' into google search. After it loaded up I selected 'IMAGES' many pages of garage photos. Click on the one that catches your eye for more info...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/07/14 06:53am |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: Need mobile hot spot
I don't like the idea of using my cellphone for the hotspot as this will tie up your cellphone.
The Verizon MIFI Plan or the MILLENICOM PLAN uses the same MIFI unit which is a stand alone device which creates a secure WIFI HOT SPOT around your camp site. This will allow you to connect between five to ten WIFI devices and not interfere with your cell phone use.
This works out great for us when camping as I can use my big Dell M90 computer and the wife can use her HP LAPTOp at the same time. Then all of our tablets and other devices can also be used.
Works great carring the same MIFI unit in the shirt pocket and sitting down at the beach watching the surf there haha...
http://jkontherun.files.wordpress.com/2009/05/cimg1496.jpg height=300
Just my thoughts here...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/07/14 06:32am |
Technology Corner
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RE: Time to Replace the Battery - Recommendations?
It sounds like you like to do some camping off the power grid. Your 23B has its single battery box between the propane tanks and the trailer jack.
http://www.youngsrvcenters.com/console/watermark.php?src=14282&width=510&height=357 height=300
If it were me I would move the Propane Tanks as far to the front as I could get them and not interfere with the trailer jack. Then I would mount a couple of battery tray angles across the trailer frames to mount at least two batteries. These will mount on top of the frame and may extent out on both sides.
http://popupbackpacker.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/1093544142049309119.jpg height=300
Adding a metal lockable box is a great idea to keep your batteries safe from thief but not absolutely necessary. TorkLift has a great lockable battery box.
http://www.pplmotorhomes.com/parts/rv-converters/power-armor-mount.jpg height=300
http://i658.photobucket.com/albums/uu307/monkey39_bucket/024.jpg height=300
I still use the plastic battery boxes here. I will probably go with a lock box like this one when I upgrade my 2008 GP24 Interstate batteries soon.
http://i.imgur.com/GqK7d.jpg height=300
http://www.northerntool.com/images/product/images/3480049_lg.jpg height=200
http://i415.photobucket.com/albums/pp233/gilldawg79/149.jpg height=300
http://i415.photobucket.com/albums/pp233/gilldawg79/152.jpg height=300
We do alot of camping off the power grid off our batteries and I think a minimum battery capacity is around 220AHs. The more the better of course.
The best deals you find is using two golf cart 6VDC deep cycle batteries in series ($70-$80 each from COSTCO) to give you 12VDC. Two of these will give you 220AHs capacity and will allow you to pull 20AMPS of 12VDC CURRENT for around 440 minutes (7 hours time) to drop you down to 0% charge state (10.5VDC). Of course you never want to drop below 50% charge which is somewhere close to 12.0VDC before recharging again otherwise you may start doing damage to your batteries. 20AMPS is a lot of DC current to draw - you probably won't draw more than 200-300WATTS for more than a few hours... We do our highest battery drain between 8PM and 11PM and of course our trailer has a parasitic battery brain of around 1-2 amps all the time. We plan out of power use so that our 255AH capacity battery bank drops down to around 12.0VDC by 8AM the next morning and then recharge our battery bank during breakfast by connecting our trailer shore power cable directly to our 2KW Honda Generator which will use the on-board smart mode converter/charger unit to re-charge our batteries back up to their 90% charge state in a short three hour generator run time. This fits the generator run time restrictions usually found at the camp grounds here on the East side of the US.
Just food for thought...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/07/14 06:18am |
Hybrid Travel Trailers
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RE: Honda eu2000i fuel line
I'd have to go look but there was a whole series of UTUBE VIDEOs for maintenance on the 2KW Honda Generator...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/06/14 02:22pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Are there many like this?
Just remember there is no dumb questions - just dumb answers haha...
I try to answer the best I can. I'm probably alittle on the wind-ed side and maybe put out too much info...
Sometimes it is hard to find out what is being asked. I am guilty of being totally out in left field on some answers haha... The reason is generally because I didn't read into the question far enough...
Most of us perk right up when we see someone talking about our best loved expertise.
Most of us have our pet peeves as well. Mine is probably when folks are asking about running their air conditioners on the generator. Where we usually camp there are always generator run time restrictions which doesn't give enough time to make the trailer cool if you ran the generator. You can tell from the questions that these folks will run into the same problem. But they still want to spend alot of money on generators haha... I'd rather spend all my moneys (what little money I have) on beefing up the trailer systems to run off of multiple batteries and only use the generator to re-charge the batteries when allowed to run them... I imagine folks get tired of me always bringing this up...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/06/14 01:37pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Anyone in getting ready for an early trip?
My first trip is going to be my usual visit to CAMP BACKYARD. This is where I do my initial checkout from the long winter sleep and make sure all systems are GO. This is also when I move things back to the OFF-ROAD trailer that was moved to the house...
Batteries get the first complete checkouts...
I have a couple of mods I need to do as well...
Will spend at least a couple of nights in CAMP BACKYARD...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/06/14 11:45am |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Admission to CA after DUI 10 years ago
I think some on here myself included got mixed up on the term 'CA" being for CANADA not CALIF.
i.e. can the Brother enter CANADA on the trip to Alaska..
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/06/14 11:22am |
RVing in Canada and Alaska
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RE: WWAAHHOOO getting closer
What is a HHR ?
Oh never mind Google says it is a discontinued Chevrolet compact wagon called a "Heritage High Roof" referring to its tall retro-wagon styling,
Spring is a mixed bag here today. Gots lots of Robin Birds running all over the snow covered back yard today looking for something to eat...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/06/14 10:05am |
Class C Motorhomes
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RE: Hooking up a UK RV in USA
I probably would rent a Camper Van over here and not mess with all you will need to convert to use your 220V system.
AUTOCRUISE CAMPER VAN
http://i.autotrader.co.uk/merlin-image-server/view/0edbc369-67a5-4259-a306-de42ce501293/400 height=300
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/06/14 09:28am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Struggling with generator size
What are your generator run time restrictions going to be at the host camp site. You may have to beef-up your battery systems to run the things you want to run from an INVERTER and then re-charge your batteries using a smaller 2KW generator once a day running for about three hours using smart mode charging technology. Having SOLAR PANELS will help with this as well...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/06/14 08:24am |
Travel Trailers
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RE: Looking for mattress replacement for Flagstaff pop up
What I did with my POPUP was to add a three-inch MAGIC FOAM topper to both tent bed ends... Made all the comfort difference in the world.
Not sure what it would do for making your used mattress more hygienic safe for you to sleep on. If that is a real concern and you are having trouble replacing it with a new one try finding a plastic bag to slip the mattress in and use the three-inch memory foam topper on top of that ??? You could probably get a plastic bag at almost any mattress place.
On my trailer the three inch foam topper just meets up with the roof when lowered down into travel mode. Anything thicker would end up being depressed when the roof is lowered.
Keep in mind when you are searching for the right size that the trailers use what is called RV SIZES which are smaller than the residential mattress sizes. Make a measurement of your POPUP mattress size to get the correct size before buying one.
Also alot of POPUPs may have the built-in electric heater pads. One of my trailers has this...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/06/14 07:36am |
Folding Trailers
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RE: Verizon Unlimited Data
I think you find that 2GB of data will not go very far when downstreaming TV or VIDEO MOVIES...
We use the grandfathered VERIZON MIFI 3GB DATAPLAN and just barely get by with checing in with the kids, paying bills online, and some surfing of the internet. Just watching one hour of downstreaming TV stations eats up around 1GB for for us it seems...
I think your best bet would be to check into the MILLENICOM 20GB DATAPLAN that uses the VERIZON NETWORK. Be sure to check for the VERIZON PLAN aas MILLENICOM also uses one on SPRINT. VERIZON will have the best all around the USA coverage area.
The MILLENICOM 20GB plan and the high end VERIZON JET-PACK PLANs are two most talked about downstreaming plans you hear on here...
I will probably go to the MILLENICOM when we want to start downstreaming TV stations. Right now we get great HDTV coverage using the OTA BATWING antenna getting HDTV from the local towns broadcasting the NATION BROADCAST Digital TV programs. We sometimes would like to watch a few of the CABLE CHANNELS when camping off the power grids...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/06/14 06:16am |
Technology Corner
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RE: I'm Confused?
Ok, thank you for that info. It saves me from making some sparks. I'll try that.
Just getting one little SPARK will most likely blow your close to the battery IN-LINE fuse as well as two "REVERSE POLARITY" fuses back in your 12VDC Power Distribution Panel.
Try not to 'SPARK' your battery system even for a short second haha...
Its not fun tracking down why you are not getting 12VDC from your batteries when that happens...
In the RV world the BLACK CABLE is usually HOT +12VDC and the WHITE CABLE is GND -12VDC.
In the AUTOMOTIVE WORLD that most of us are used to the RED CABLE is HOT +12VDC and the BLACK CABLE in GND -12vdc.
Since the battery connections are used in both RV and AUTOMOTIVE WORLDS you sometimes find both wiring schemes being used. Just be aware.
When messing with battery cables I always take a picture with my cell phone or mark the HOT +12VDC cables with RED FINGERNAIL POLISH...
When you purchase AUTOMOTIVE items like maybe a JENKINS 12VDC Radio setup they usually come with RED and BLACK 12VDC cables. When you install these in the trailer you sometimes end up with a RED WIRE on TOP of BLACK Wire in the 12VDC Power Distribution Panel... This sometimes makes old timers like me turn over in the graves haha...
Roy Ken
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RoyB
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03/06/14 06:01am |
Tech Issues
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