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Gday... Cheers - John

Wiring a Solar panel array. The plan is to fit 3 or 4 80 watt panels to the roof of the van, each panel will be connected individually to bus bars 1 each for positive and negative, what size wire from each panel to the bus bar ? Depending on the location of each panel i would expect the longest cable run to be a...

Sorry didn't explain ourselves very well before, We often camp beside lakes/dams that has water suitable for washing clothes, dishes showers but not drinkable. Our idea is to secure hose in water off the bottom then pump it out to our van by 12v. we don't need heaps of volume or preasure as its just...

Hi all, I have a puzzling problem, when I fill my freshwater tank and it approaches full, water flows out of the overflow pipes on each side of the motor home. However when I turn off the tap the water continues to pour from the overflow pipes for several minutes before stopping, emptying at least 10 or mo...

A question Please We have dometic windows in our van and although they work well up and down etc we do get those pesky midges coming in by the bucket loads . We do not have the furry strips behind the frame which you can purchase apparently, but have heard that they are painful to install and are causing...

We have left Adelaide and been to Meredith Park...Lake Colac Reserve camping...Really nice place to stay... Full of Birds and a Beautiful lake yet the Flies own the area. It gets very full at Christmas time so be early...Limited parking...There are other parking spots that are not allowed to b...

One of our campspots at Sun up at Towns River on the Savannah Way

Stopped for a few days at the free camp (donation) in Jugiong. Wandered across the road to the wine cellar and had a taste of Cherry wine. This is a fortified wine in the port family. Raine who is not a wine drinker made me buy a few bottles. It comes from Wombat Heights in Young

Lara Station is 28 km south of Barcaldine, Q. Flush toilets, h&c showers, no power but generators allowed in designated area. Fireplaces on many sites and gather own fire wood. $10 pppn. Bird life is fantastic and some lovely sunsets. Hot artesian spa for those who like a dip. We extended our stay...

Because it is only recently that our caravan has become our home, I never really considered the implications of the current draw of our van at various times.It was only recently when packing up after a four week stay at a van park that I happen to notice what was obviously heat damage to the twenty metre...

Well i have just been sent an Email from a some bank in England, that some wealth relation died in 2009 and has left me his vast fortune , this is on top of me winning the Nigerian lottery 3 times , and a long lost uncle in the USA that made a fortune in oil and i am his only living relative, and just last week one o...

edited this but it sort of screwed up - bounced back to original although it said I'd edited it. I've now removed the original -- Edited by Spydermann on Thursday 12th of November 2015 09:18:44 PM -- Edited by Spydermann on Thursday 12th of November 2015 09:22:03 PM

Manufactured in 1914 "Big Lizzie" was intended to cart wool around Broken Hill. Sadly a flooded Murray River meant it could not get past Mildura. Weighing 45 tonnes, it measured 98 feet in length with its two carriages in tow. Powered by a 60HP Blackstone Crude Oil engine, "Big Lizzi...

Gday... A glorious sunny, clear and, with the exception of the lilting trills of the various birdlife, a silent Sunday morning at Wakool River Camp ... lazing in the sun, perhaps a little bored, so I thought I'd take a few snaps and share. Cheers - John

Balancing Rock at Chillagoe in Queensland. Power of wind & water erosion to create this speculator formation and of course the power of me holding it up...lol

Our travelling date is set now...November the 30/2015..Long Time Coming... We are wanting to know where is Adelaide is a good place to purchase a Yamaha 2000 Inverter Generator from...Have been waiting for over 3 weeks now for some one from Jayco to get back to us and last time we got a Satellite kit fro...

Gundagai: Prince Alfred Bridge & Timber Viaduct (background), and the Railway Bridge (foreground).The photo is representative of the destructive power of water and the manpower that built two massive bridges (in 1867 and 1903) to overcome it. It also represents the horse/steam/ automot...

Yep, Dave's Mobile Cafe is now set up at Greens. Zoom in on the Menu, niiiiice. Edit...Here's a close up of the Menu -- Edited by Dougwe on Saturday 21st of November 2015 01:39:46 PM

baby boomers are being encouraged to sell their home so a young family with kids can make better use of the larger home. The issue being discussed on media outlets. Just the latest barb aimed at those of us who have the audacity to have a home larger than we really need, we are coming further under attack f...