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Outstanding! Two great ideas there!

We really like our Lightspeed popup shelter! https://www.amazon.com/Lightspeed-Outdoors-Privacy-Portable-Changing/dp/B00IBM7N40

Redwoods. Swimming. Hiking. Camping. Good company. The beautiful Northern California coast. :)

We have signed up - hope to see some of y’all there!

I don’t know what the possibilities are for the Road Toad, but that batt may well fit a 550/560. It’s about 5/8” taller than the original in my 2012 560, which may require moving or shaving down the cleat that holds down the battery. I was successful in adjusting up 1/2”. Note that the LiTime...

We are storing a yeti 35 in the galley for highly perishable stuff, and a larger cooler in the TV for veggies & beverages. The yeti easily runs 4+ days on a bag of ice, and doesn’t seem to mind traveling under the hatch. In the PNW. This has worked great. I’m very miserly with power, no...

I have a non-victron smart shunt attached to my batt with industrial velcro and reinforced by a new 2” battery cable on one end. It all seems very secure, but I’m not sure I can recommend it until the trailer leaves the garage and we put some miles on it. Somehow I’ve shoehorned in a 100ah...

A full week of weather crisis later, including no electrical power, no furnace, snowmaggeddon, icemageddon, etc. and I finally had some time to explore. Add an auto-parts store schrader valve core to a CI-accessory gas hose “whip” = success to the cylinder port on a Big Buddy. I had a 4’ and...

From everything written so far it seems like it ought to work! As it happens, I shopped for schrader valve cores earlier today. Unfortunately I’ll likely not get a chance to test until *next* weekend, as our predicted high tomorrow is 17-deg F, with a windchill to bring that down to -5! We are...

Not so fast mister! What does the inside of the heater end connector of your shiny new hose look like? Does it have a Schrader valve insert... what is making your new setup work? Link to the hose?

Thanks Sweeney. That’s one idea down in flames - we have Sweeney’s, Steve’s, and my Buddy heaters all of recent manufacture behaving differently on the pressure available at the CI gas outlet port… Och.

What could be different between our buddy heaters? It appears Mr. Heater changes the design details from time to time, which could account for different expected pressures at different input points. Maybe. Informal poll: What year was your Buddy heater new? Mine - late 2023, looked like fresh...

Once I got out of the armchair and into the garage some other ideas began percolating… perhaps it was the coffee kicking in at last. Pool noodles are just the ticket! These are the swim toys for kids that have many uses… so there were a couple pieces kicking around the garage. These are 2” OD...

Thanks for these detailed setup tips! I’m unlikely to have it up before our next trip, will add some s-hooks to our bits & bobs bag, along with the second awning pole that usually stays in the garage. Good catch on the sharp hatch corners! It looks like a single windy night could do some...

@MartinClark I have these questions: What brand of tent would work best inside a CampInn teardrop trailer in your experience? Which backpacks or other gear works best for trailer-based camping? Since the content you posted is AI-generated, are you a human being or a bot?

Thanks all for the well wishes and congrats on my retirement. Wow. Just wow! My thoughts and plans immediately went to extending the season, which was previously impossible for me on a teacher’s schedule. Depending on the particular term schedule I did get some limited mid-week opportunities...

Bookmarked a couple of these. It looks like the toaster could double as a flame reducer for simmering on the CI stove…