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FYI Deb, specs can be found here: Camp-Inn Specifications

Welcome to the forum! I’d be glad to show, but a bit of a drive to the Portland, Oregon area! Just a note on the models. We owned a 550 for several years, and now a 560. They are nearly identical, except: Two feet of space forward of the bed that can be couch, bench, bunkbeds for kids, or...

If properly installed it should monitor all charging sources and all discharging loads; that’s really the goal of monitoring for state of charge (SOC). You’re right that any direct connections to the battery of loads or charging that bypass the monitor (SmartShunt) would make accurate...

That’s the same charger I installed in our 560 with a new AGM battery, it’s working well! I’m a little confused by this concern; a shunt like the OP’s SmartShunt is supposed to have *all* load and *all* chargers on the “to system” side, not the “to battery” side. At 500amps it should have...

Yeah, it must be said that a factory-like install of a Trimetric or similar power/ah monitor requires passing a wire or wires through the countertop, preferably inside the corner of the right-hand upper cabinet in the galley. For anyone who has taken the cabinet off, looked at that...

The Victron Smart Shunt looks like a great product! I use the Victron Connect app with a couple of their chargers, and like it a lot. I think your concerns about the connection to the Negative Post would be reduced if you opened up the battery compartment, removed the battery, and had a good...

No real expertise but a little experience. We’d purchased a brand new Honda Odyssey as a family minivan when we had young kids, and thank goodness our first camping trip towing our then Coleman pop-up tent trailer was not freeway and wasn’t far, because the rig was so light in the TV front...

I recommend 2 ball bungies and 2 hook bungies for a fairly breezy setup. The ball bungies stay attached to the umbrella shaft, one for the bumper like Kevin wrote, one for the hatch handle. The hook bungies store wrapped around the collapsed umbrella/case, and in use hook from the umbrella...

A reminder that lead-acid / AGM batteries should (mostly) not be drawn down more than 50%, while a conservative rating for lithium is an 80% draw down. Doing that math, a 75ah Deep Cycle and/or AGM has a working draw of about 37.5ah. A 110ah lithium has a working draw of about 88ah. A little...

possibly the 10-plate version for $16 could be McGuyvered into an 8-plate. https://www.amazon.com/REDCAMP-Windscreen-Aluminum-Windshield-Lightweight/dp/B074556T6D

Great test procedure Sweeney, but I think that’s the wrong diagram in the attached image. The 6 pins are a dead giveaway! I think that on the TV side one finds +12v upper right on Pin 4, and ground lower left on Pin 1.

We’ve been using the same filler from the start of our CI adventure… but mostly in our driveway! With our camco hose on full blast it’s a matter of a few minutes. We’re fortunate with very good water in almost all of the USFS campgrounds we hit in the NW, which has been almost all of our...

We carry up to two 5-gallon jugs in the car, it offers a lot of flexibility. Gave away my 7-g jug, it was too heavy!

Looking good!

I haven’t done it yet, because even with the room hanging from our (8’) ARB 2500 awning my wife is still a fair weather camper. We have the matching room, but don’t hit the spring or fall much. I just know we’re going to need it one of these days! I found two challenges: 1) Get the wall...

I posted this somewhere on the forum; I think I was tipped off by my sister & brother-in-law who are sprinter campers. At some point they discovered Trader Joe’s frozen indian cuisine meals, and wanted to run a freezer, and one thing led to another. They didn’t stop there though… they have *so*...

Next up, I take you back to Spring 2020, the beginning of pandemic lockdown. How are we going to get out of this place for some summer camping? That’s what we were asking ourselves. Lots of people were having cabin fever. The popular camping spots were overwhelmed. How to find a place? We...