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TV Pole
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Can any of you talented GN tell me how to or what to use as a pole to attach my TV antenna to. I was thinking of an extension pole like a pool cleaning extension thingy and some brackets on side of van.........??? Many heads are better than mine, Thanks in advance........Sarg.
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CPAC Machine 12/24 volt
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Hello All Can anyone inform me to what is the extent of wattage use for a CPAC machine operating via 12 volts. And how long would I expect to get running off 2x120 Ah batteries. Have one 130 watt solar panel on roof as a recharging medium, backed up by generator, if necessary. Happy Caravanning
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Two Strays
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Aerial access
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Is there a simple way of determining where to drill the hole in the van wall without hitting some vital part, especially the electric wiring. Thanks for any advice.
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Caister70
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Wheel carrier (home design) mounted on top of a Hayman hitch (at long last)
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Nothing worse than NOT having a spare wheel on the road. Although there is a lot of storage in the bins the wheel was too big to even mount underneath due to LPG tanks etc. no space left any where. I got some 8 mm steel plate and 80 x 80 mm angle iron, 50 x 50 mm RHS HD, and some flat 8 mm bar, and after some thinking...
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Vanderee
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Auxiliary Battery circuit in Patrol
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Hi all, With so many learned souls on this forum, any chance of some comments on the following circuit I have set up in my Nissan Patrol for charging auxiliary battery and caravan battery. I use the auxiliary battery as a backup in case of significant winch use. The van battery is charged using a batte...
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Feral Errol
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Amps and watts and stuff...
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Blowed if all that a/h watts stuff will stick in my brain. I have a stick blender I use for my toothless diet - smoothies and stuff like that. It's a 250 watter. My house battery is an AGM 105ah and the inverter is 300 watt (max 600). If I use the blender once or twice a day for two minutes each time, will the sky...
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GaryKelly
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Flexible Gas Hose
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Hi Everyone, Firstly one of the gas hose (armoured flexible line) failed on my camper the first night of a trip a few years ago. Looked like it had been crushed somehow. Blamed the cooks son as he was the last to use it. Great cooking for two weeks on one of those single burner gas stoves. Replaced it wit...
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freefish1
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Corner weighing
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Is there any where in Victoria that you can get corner weighing on a Coach, Thats weighing the four corners of the Coach Individually, The four wheels, I have taken out the 150 Gallon Propane Gas tank, and replaced it with a Carrrier Frame and five Swap and Go, Gas bottles, Sheeted the lot in 3 mm Steel P...
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Mr B2
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Fridges.......One more time!
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Folks, so....here we are, our Electrolux 4400 has all been fixed and has been running great to be honest. The techo put in an extra vent, fixed the flu, flushed everything out and put an outlet on the roof also for heat escape. I know it's not the best fridge (1999 vintage and not designed for the tropics a...
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AL-KO
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Hi all Thinking of up grading our caravan and I am interested to know if any one knows about AI-KO electronic stability control. Is it worth the extra cost or not regards Rastas
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rastas
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Weight Worries
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Hello everyone, I am having some issues with the weight of our caravan, the story goes like this; On the way home from our last winter trip I ran the rig over a weighbridge near home just to see what we were weighing in at and got the shock of my life. GCM behind the Navara was ok but the van was 600kg over the AT...
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KFT
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Endless hot water.
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My old water heater ,a Carver which Coromal from WA used to import from the UK a few years ago but no longer do. Well it's decided it's had it's day and is leaking badly. No hot water so have been looking at a replacement unit. I had been checking out this so called super-duper gas endless hot water system...
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Yuglamron
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Under Tray tool boxes
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G'day, g'day, g'day. Just had two under tray tool boxes delivered, awaiting fitting by a local engineering company (plus a few other jobs). I was surprised that no fitting instructions came with the boxes. Looks like I need to supply my own bolts, etc, and figure out where and how to attach them. I'll l...
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GaryKelly
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Dometic RM2350
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Hi every one; Well i have finaly cracked it !!!!! My jayco caravan is now one year old and has just been in for it's first service and a couple of things that needed to be attended to under warrentee, nothing major, but my main issue is with the three way fridge that is a standard fitment...
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valiant81
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What Brand of Battery..?
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Hi all.. Not sure if anyone has done this Before.. So I thought I would do so.. I'm hunting for Batteries for my future project.. So I thought I would ask what type of Battery people have in their setup's..? The information I'm after is.. - Brand / Model - Size [Ah] - Voltage Other comment's.. Any issues...
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SnowT
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batteries
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Hi all, Have a friend who is parking his caravan up & we aren't sure how to handle the deep cycle batteries. Should we disconnect everything or should we leave it all connected to the solar panels to keep full charge. There won't be any discharge from the batteries for many months. Cheers
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Grumpy Old Man
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Gas Tanks for my Rig,
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Well The Coach is up on the Ramps, Safely, I can work under it with ease, So I will install a new gas tank holder under there, The Gas Tank that was in it is Illegal here, so out it came, and I will replace it with Swap and Go Bottles, 5 of them in a row, The gas tank was 6 foot long and 18 inches in Diameter, 1800 X 4...
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Mr B2
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Digital TV Aerial
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We have a 2005 model Jayco Heritage with a winguard aerial to which I added the winguard extension a couple of years ago, as we are going digital within the next week and we will be relaxing in the van beside the beach on the Central Coast will our current aerial work or will we need to go digital. If we need t...
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Need a question answered..
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Looking at what I need for the Motorhome.. I want to make sure that the house batteries are at full charge at all time's possible.. - I want to be able to charge the Batteries when I drive and also when I'm parked somewhere that has sun or Electricity.. My question is... Is a REDARC BCDC1240 the best way t...
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SnowT
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Fiamma Awnings.....again!
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We have a roll out awning cassette attached to the side of the MH and the problem we have is this; when trying to extract or detract the awning, the right hand side 'drops' and wont go back in or come out. It is about 20mm under where it should be to go back in properly. As a result, when operating it, I have to p...
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Wirroff
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