part three of the broken frame saga.

Bedlam wrote:

StirCrazy wrote:
thats twice I have seen air compressor what are you using that for? I have a little tiny one that weighs about 5 lbs to top up tires if I have to.

how many AH does that 600lbs of AGM give you. I imagin you could save a ton of weight just switching to LFP batteries. water weight is a little over estimated but only by about 60 lbs

so canopy chairs and tables, I am getting the impression you set up in a place and stay there for a while to make the hassel of seting all that up worth it. I only have a old hand crank awning on the once side of my camper so thats what I work with.. I have no storage for anything else haha my two lawn chairs go on the floor under the table and my paddel boards go on the dinet seat when I am traveling.

My tires require over 100 psi, so better quality compressor is required. I use it to seat tires and run air tools for my off-road toys and blow up inflatable rafts. Even the 100% duty cycle 12vdc cannot perform these tasks well due to lack of volume.

The AGM's come used from a server room after 5 years of use, I get another 5 out of them but start seeing degradation and failures after 8 years of service. If they were not free, I would consider alternate batteries but these sit in lower boxes under the flatbed of the truck and connect to the truck, camper and enclosed trailer with heavy gauge wire.

We carry sufficient seating and tables for guests. Rarely do we use park picnic benches. There is some redundancy to what I carry because trips are squeezed in between full time work and wasting time looking for replacements during a trip or canceling a trip is what I try to avoid.

ya free batteries are hard to beat.

Ya I guess because I camped with tents and a tent trailer for so many years and even as a kid when camping we always used the picnic tables so I'm used to it. I wash it off as soon as I get the rv set up whether it is the 5th wheel or the camper. I have tablecloths for the top and usually I will spin it so we can use the one bench facing the fire for overflow seating. If we know we are going to have guests when we are out in the camper, I will throw a couple more chairs in the back seat of the truck.

I guess it's just a difference in how we use the camper verses how other people use it. it isn't my only unit as I have the big 5th wheel also, so if I am planning something where generally there is going to be lots of friends I take that, if we have company in the camper its usually people in other units that are on a trip with us so they have their own chairs and we camp in a group, or I also use the camper for solo traveling now where I am planing on visiting a lot of different people on my trip as I don't want to impose, so I can park my camper in a driveway here for a couple days then move to see another friend for a couple days and so on..

There is the issue of us starting to like the camper increasingly. it over the last two seasons has become our primary unit, and the 5th has only been used for a couple trips since then. I don't think we can get rid of the 5th as when I retire it will be for the longer trips to the US and such, but when we do upgrade the camper, I am going to be looking for one that has actual storage outside that you can fit chairs in and such. My camper has nothing useful for outside storage. I have a small compartment that used to be for a single battery, that I can fit a hose and my leveling blocks in. and there is a space under the wet bath that I had two 6V batteries in before I went LFP so that is open again but not much for storage, more of a maintenance access that you can put some stuff in but nothing like an axe or a chair.