Had a great weekend in it this weekend. Not really a "camping" trip but we still got out to one of our local parks. Since it's new the wife wanted to camp in it with the kids (we only get them every other weekend and Monday/Wednesday. I wanted another shake down trip. We are leaving friday to go 4 hours north to the inlaws and it's in the boonies. Basically an hour to get anything other than food and gas. I had a list of things to get accomplished
First up was mounting the TV. Got that done Thursday night after I got setup. Second was test out the RVQ. Check pork chops were good.
Fridge had been on for a day but was only at 65 degree when I picked it up. It's had the rear fan installed but it has a thermostat. I removed that and made it on/off only. This seemed to help. Also running on propane made a good difference too. I checked the flame and it was burning well and I think I may have been close to being out of propane AND that side of the camper in the storage lot gets pounded by sun and it was 97 Thursday. All not good factors. After making the fan on/off it worked fine all weekend even in the heat.
Both outside storage door hold opens were busted so I replaced those.
The awning needed to be hand rolled up. Luckily my best friend and I had just done a total rebuilt on his so I knew what I was doing. Unwinding the left side I found it was short 3 twists. The ratchet side only had 3 of the 15! Well there's the problem! Now it works great.
The AC was too loud and the TV not loud enough. I pulled the radio out to find an aux input so off to walmart and I bought a cable and ran it from the TV through the cabinets over to the radio. Now I have good sound. We don't watch a ton of TV but is nice when it's raining or when we are hotelling in it.
Had some time to re-arrange things. How in the world do people fill up the storage and these? I mean I would like more outside storage. I think the drawer will disappear in the realtively near future but man half of our inside storage is not even used. I'm sure we'll fill it up at some point.
I know it's only been 2 weeks but we are still loving it. Setup/tear down was so smooth.
I'm looking for outdoor speakers now. I really like this
https://kingconnect.com/rv-bluetooth-outdoor-light/ but not the price tag or the fact that it doesn't have an aux in. I would like my radio to play over it so I can play the general radio. I will probably breakdown and get one at some point just because it's exactly what I want otherwise.
I'm also looking at doing something like this:
https://www.amazon.com/xtf2015-Chang...%2Bcamper&th=1
for under the awning. I haven't decided yet. The price is good enough I can't get hurt on it.
So far I'm enjoying git. I hope that trend continues because it's SOOOO nice!
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