New Member from Pensacola, FL
Hello everyone. My wife and I are new to this forum. In the past we have always tent camped but at our ages we decided to buy a travel trailer so we bought a 2013 Kodiak Express 283BHSL. Does anyon...
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Welcome aboard and let the adventures begin!
We have the little Kodiak, 200QB and been enjoying the heck out of it.
We have dry camped (boondocked), a weekend. Tricks, depend on the weather, and your actiivities. Meaning, you learn to conserve water, and units already set to run off battery & gas with the basics, lights, refridge, water pump, heat......what you don't have is Microwave, TV, and AC (which may or may not be issue). We purchased, battery powered fans to keep air circulating, worked off the battery & gas (propane).
Believe many upgrade to a dual battery setup with solar recharging systems, if long period time spent without hook-ups. Don't believe and really don't know, if there are reasonable solor power systems, to power the higher power things in a RV (A/C, Microwave, TV's). Do some searching, there have been posts on Solor options.
I had the opportunity to go the dual Honda generators route (at a discount) and now use them when at locations without hook-ups (when appropriate). Hard to beat that setup to run a unit!
Make sure to use the trailer as much as possible in the first year, to identify and work out any issues, while you have a Mfg Warranty! Learn as much as possile about your unit, and get out there have fun!
Wealth of knowledge here on this site!
Later,
Markiemark
We have the little Kodiak, 200QB and been enjoying the heck out of it.
We have dry camped (boondocked), a weekend. Tricks, depend on the weather, and your actiivities. Meaning, you learn to conserve water, and units already set to run off battery & gas with the basics, lights, refridge, water pump, heat......what you don't have is Microwave, TV, and AC (which may or may not be issue). We purchased, battery powered fans to keep air circulating, worked off the battery & gas (propane).
Believe many upgrade to a dual battery setup with solar recharging systems, if long period time spent without hook-ups. Don't believe and really don't know, if there are reasonable solor power systems, to power the higher power things in a RV (A/C, Microwave, TV's). Do some searching, there have been posts on Solor options.
I had the opportunity to go the dual Honda generators route (at a discount) and now use them when at locations without hook-ups (when appropriate). Hard to beat that setup to run a unit!
Make sure to use the trailer as much as possible in the first year, to identify and work out any issues, while you have a Mfg Warranty! Learn as much as possile about your unit, and get out there have fun!
Wealth of knowledge here on this site!
Later,
Markiemark
