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Inverter
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Hi all, i new new to this forum and have a question about inverters. My husband and I are about to go on the road full time and wish to do a fair bit of free camping. We have a 22 ft caravan with duel batteries and 2 x 120 watt solar panels. We are not sure if we need an inverter or not . Any help and information wil...
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Your thoughts on batteries please?
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I need to replace the batteries in the MH. I'm currently running 4x12v for a 24v system (truck is also 24v) for water, lights (including truck lights), various power points and fridge. Heater/AirCon, microwave and various other power points run on 240 via mains outlet. I also have a 3000w inv...
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Personnal Location Beacons
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Hi, Does any one have a gme mt 410g personnal location beacon this what i am thinking about for a emergency use only,also have uhf and blue tick telstra phone. Any information would be helpful. Thankyou. Mr Red.
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rear view camera
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I have a rear view camera on my van and use RCA plugs to connect between the van and the tow vehicle, now for the second time with replaced fittings I have had a wire break away on the tug end. the plug is held in a bracket and I have used a fairly heavy multi strand wire I am wondering if there is another plug tha...
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speedo v GPS
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Hi all As stated in other threads I am doing my fisrt interstate tow, can any one tell me is it normal tor the tug speedonread differant to the GPS speed there seems to be a variant of 7kph eg Navara speedo/ cruise control reads 99kph while GPS reads 82kph road side radar reads 82kph all equipment on Navara...
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Fire extinguishers
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Question.... how often, if ever, do you replace the fire extinguisher in your caravan? And do you have one in the tow vehicle? I need to stop thinking so much. I wasn't even a girl guide
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Triple333
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Water pump making weird pulsing noise....
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Staying in caravan park and hooked up to their water supply. A few days ago they had a problem with water and turned it off at mains. We did use the water until it fizzled out...not very long! anyway, since then when turning on the taps the water pump is making a pulsing noise...instead of continuous pump...
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Power needs
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Went to the Caravan Sale in Bris yesterday. We are looking at buying a 32-40 ltr Engel Fridge. 200 watt folding Solar panels. When free camping we would run the caravan fridge on gas. Maybe watch an occasional dvd and maybe a 12 volt fan if too hot. My question is Would we need to get another battery crank...
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Kaid
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Fuel Tank Spits
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I had a long-range fuel tank built and installed under the Sprinter. The inlet is a bit tricky and despite venting, the fuel spits out and stops the hand piece. It cost me $3 the other day to come to that conclusion. It was built and installed by Aussie By Design at Pt. Wakefield, and the problem has them p...
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Fridges!
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We're VERY new to being Grey Nomads (3 days and counting!), have never had a motorhome before and have already had problems with the fridge! It's a 12/240v Fisher and Paykel fridge freezer living in a Mitsubishi Canter motorhome (1992) and it works VERY occasionally. The freezer works long after the...
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Fridges again
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Hi everyone, this is our first time as members but have looked at a lot of comments recently. Our concern is that we are buying another van and are trying to decide what type of fridge to install; either 3 way or compressor. It used to be that the 3 way style hated being on a site that was not level and that t...
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Exhaust Jacks
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Hi guys, Am looking at an exhaust jack to alleviate the hard work of digging out from under 4WD or caravan. (I have an allergy to anything with a handle except coffee pots). Is there any brand ahead of the rest or are they much of a muchness??? Prices range from around $80 to $240 without any technical rea...
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Aldi Mob
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I have to get a new Mob plan when I get back to Aus, ( three has finished). I'm considering Aldi I see they use the Telstra network too. Any other GNs on this network John
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External Van Power Point
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This is a bit trickey to describe, but here goes............in the last couple of years we have had 2 incidents where one of the power lead pins has become welded to the Clipsal Power socket pin and no amount of wriggling would prize them apart. So it was either cut the power cord off, once turned off or pl...
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solar panels on roof
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Looking at a second hand rig and it has 3 solar panels side by side across the width of the motorhome roof with no gap underneath for air flow . Is this alright , they have been on the rig for sometime now so the owner says. They seem to be working ok will I have to lift them up. Don't know what wattage they a...
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Towing questions.
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Hi all. We are newbies at this lifestyle so have A few questions. We are currently in Brisbane awaiting the arrival of A new grandson so our adventure is on hold till after the new year. We have A Nissan Patrol manual 3litre turbo intercooled tug, and will be towing our Millard Endeavour (series 2) van...
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Portable solar panels, again.
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Hi all, We picked up our Sunliner Twist last Saturday, and spent the last 2 days at Henry Angel Reserve near Tumbarumba. Great weather, but got me thinking about battery charging alternatives. The fixed solar panel on the roof seemed to work ok, but, being fixed, doesn't operate at it's peak for mos...
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TV reception
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what is the cheapest portable satellite dish set up cheers snap
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Campervans
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On Sunday drove to Albion Park Rail NSW to Discovery Campers. Very pleasant non pushy guy. I enquired about VW T5 diesel...his reply, diesel is very noisy, drive you mad, VW is expensive to service, hard to get parts out of the city. Is diesel very noisy in a VW or a Toyota...campervans. He said/su...
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vw 2006 lt 35
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Hi there. Couple of questions please? my very best friend has just bought a 2006 vw van. They have overhead cupboards on one side but would like overhead cupboards on the other side too. Would anyone know where they could get new cupboards made in the Melbourne, or outer melbourne area? Also, they woul...
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