In the video, I demo a new wireless camera system offering from Haloview. The RD7 Range Dominator kit is designed for extra-long vehicles such as a large motorhome, fifth wheel, or travel trailer or a semi-truck.

It comes with 12 meters (39.37 feet) of cable and a transmitter to be installed between the camera and display to boost the signal range.

For this demo, I hook it up on the roof of my fifth wheel and give you a look at the picture quality and range. I also go through the contents of the kit and show the on-screen settings and recording capability.

Overall I give the RD7 kit a thumbs up. In my testing, It performs even better than the MC7108 model that I used for last year's 6-month trip. See my Haloview MC7108 system review - https://www.loveyourrv.com/haloview-wireless-rv-backup-camera-review/

*Special Giveaway* Anyone with an extra-long rig can send me an email at loveyourrvatgmaildotcom within the next 7 days, and I'll enter you in a free drawing. Once a winner is chosen at random, I'll ship it out. Hopefully, the recipient can install the system and report back how it performs.

Previous Haloview Rear View Camera Review/Demos Video Playlist - https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLp14lzXh07ulZJWpYajBv5hvizapE10fl

That was a major factor in the camper we chose. We like the Eagle Cap 3 slide campers but heard too many issues about the slides. The power gear slides on ours have been rock solid.

Will did my major surgery on it pulled it all apart on the one side and I think I might have found my problem the gear on the top had at least two maybe three teeth missing so we took the gears out and now we can slide it in and out on the one side by hand till we get down to Yuma and I'll find the parts and replace it

Here is a shot of where we have been spending October on Vancouver Island close to Victoria, BC
It's not cheap at near 900 bucks taxes in, about 680 USD for the month, even though we don't have a water view and its offseason. But it is a beautiful location in a rural setting which we like. Large sites with a wall of shrubs between each site and good quality hookups.
I'll put together a review video before we leave. https://pedderbay.com/rv-resort/

Wow... has an off road vehicle, why didn't he scout the road before driving down it?

My wife has problems with her legs (hip replacement coming next month). To make travel easier we made some mods to our trailer including a couple things in the bathroom. Just wondering if anyone else has made mods to help with accessibility.

Wow, this guy was stuck!
This is just one of many interesting tow recovery videos on the channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwdVOry0oNF9WIe_3uCfz9Q/videos

This seagull dude really wanted some of my lunch!

Here's a short video of my XP as well as showing some of the fall colours along a trail.

The main drawback is the weight can be a bit to manage when lifting. Although the seat that Lectric supply with the XP is OK, I upgraded it for a more comfortable ride. This is a fantastic ebike for the cost.

Lectric XP Trail ride starts at 2:04

Many years ago I came across this article. I used vinegar ever since and have never had a problem with bad water.

Vinegar Kills Bacteria, Mold and Germs
Vinegar is a mainstay of the old folk recipes for cleaning, and with good reason.
The vim of the vinegar is that it kills bacteria, mold and germs.
Heinz company spokesperson references numerous studies to show that a straight
5 percent solution of vinegar, the kind you can buy in the supermarket, kills 99
percent of bacteria, 82 percent of mold, and 80 percent of germs (viruses). He
noted that Heinz can’t claim on their packaging that vinegar is a disinfectant since
the company has not registered it as a pesticide with the Environmental Protection
Agency. However, it seems to be common knowledge in the industry that vinegar
is powerfully antibacterial. Even the CBS news show “48 Hours” had a special
years ago with Heloise reporting on tests from The Good Housekeeping Institute
that showed this.
Just like antibiotics, common disinfectants found in sponges and household sprays
may contribute to drug resistant bacteria, according to researchers of drug resistance
at Tufts New England Medical Center. Furthermore, research at the Government
Accounting Office shows that many commercial disinfectants are ineffective
to begin with, just like antibiotics.
Keep a clean spray bottle filled with straight 5 percent vinegar in your kitchen near your cutting board, and in your bathroom,
and use them for cleaning. I often spray the vinegar on our cutting board before going to bed at night, and don’t even rinse,
but let it set overnight. The smell of vinegar dissipates within a few hours. Straight vinegar is also great for cleaning the toilet
rim. Just spray it on and wipe off.
I used chlorine bleach many years ago to sanitize the water system in the first trailer we owned. For that entire summer, we had to put up with the taste and smell of bleach in our fresh water. I did some research and since then have used vinegar to disinfect my water system. I add 1 litre to my empty fresh water tank, then fill it and run the pump to fill all the lines including the hot water tank. Let it sit overnight then drain the tank flush it once and add fresh water. No more taste or smell of bleach.
One other concern with higher concentrations of chlorine bleach other than drinking water is the possible damage it can do to the PVC tanks and water lines. PVC is the type of plastic these components are made of, it stands for polyvinyl chloride. The information I have gained over the years is…the chlorine in the bleach over time causes the stable chlorine in the PVC to react and de-stabilize the PVC. Over time this degrades the plastic by leaching the plasticizers, which keeps the plastic flexible. Examples of chemicals that cause plastics to fail that we would all recognize. If you treat your car’s interior plastic surfaces and your tires, with products claiming to rejuvenate these surfaces and make them shine again, in a very short time you will see the treated areas begin to show cracks. This is the result of the plasticizers being released prematurely.
Ie. cracks in dashboards, vinyl seats and cracks on the side walls of tires that have been treated with certain products. Check out the products you use, short time gain can sometimes lead to longtime pain.

Nice view from the Malahat Drive this morning. Can see all the way to Mount Baker in Washington State

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In our travels over the years I managed to take a number of unique and wonderful pictures. I call them my KAMERA KAPTURES and hope you enjoy them.

You would be surprised at the amount of stuff you carry in the RV that you rarely use. It all takes up valuable space, and extra weight to pull down the road.

↪Joan

Howdy! Ray put this together back when we first met on his old site RV Happy Hour.
Some helpful tips for cold weather camping.......Happy Trails!!!
Tips and Tricks for Cold Weather RVing

↪Schoolhouse

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Do you dream of camping in locations remote & beautiful, but lack the confidence in your electrical
system to keep you powered up?
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Happy Trails!!!
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Happy Trails

↪Joan

Rigid pink on the floor and out side walls frame it up use duct tape to hold it in place bob your uncle ! Our pull-up the wheels head south 7days and 9hours it has been getting cold up here as well 28f with highs of 55f.

Here is a video that shows some Reflectix installations. There are many uses. We cover our windows and vents at night when it's cold out. Really cuts down on the amount of furnace use. It's also great in the summer to help keep the heat down inside.

Pippi on Reflectix.

We have a cabover camper with a closet on one side of the bed. It also gets cold. The closet is exposed on 3 sides to the exterior temperatures, top, side and bottom. Closing the closet doors somewhat insulates the closet from receiving warmth from the interior space making it noticeably colder. On your slide you have the same situation of added exterior wall exposure. Slides in general are not as well insulated as fixed walls in campers.

To help this we added 2 layers of Reflectix insulation on the wall and ceiling. This helped a lot. You can buy Reflectix at home improvement stores or on Amazon. It is easy to cut with scissors for a good fit.

Hope that helps. :)

↪Schoolhouse

Thanks! :)
Unfortunately, there is no one size fits all. What is a tremendous amount of boondocking power to some is barely enough to others. Then there is the lifestyle factor, some folks don't want to gas, run and listen to a generator, others its no big deal. And each RV is different based on its size to what it can carry onboard. Then there is how much a person boondocks versus camps hooked up.
A set it and forget it system is possible, just takes the money to have someone do a thorough energy audit for your needs then install all the equipment to allow the least monkeying around by the end-user.

Generally to get a reliable system with the least user required maintaining/monitoring the more pricey the build. That's why you see DIY guys like me getting manually involved in our systems to keep the costs down and prolong the life of our batteries.

It's like a car, some tinker with it and DIY their own maintenance and some just use it and drop it off at the garage. Unfortunately, there aren't that many decent "garages" for RV boondocking systems around as its a relatively new thing to have such complexity of RV power systems. For many years it was just a single lead-acid battery or a few more and a generator.

Ray,
First, LOVE your channel and I have learned so much! Thank you !!!
That said, is there a “Set it and Forget It” electrical system out there for both boondocking and electric hook-up parks? GeekyGuy’s question is a good one.
I am recently retired and not a very geeky guy. I don’t want to have to think about disconnecting batteries (even if it means just throwing a circuit breaker) for a while to let them drain to 85%, then hook them back up. Or add solar to run a certain type of charger just to have a better experience during the absorption phase. I just want to enjoy nature, explore and have an RV 12Volt power system I can rely on. Too much to ask for a non-geek excited about seeing North America in our 2014 Winnebago View 24V?

All the way from Holland in their custom RV

Trip to the farm

Hi I have 8 360w solar panels three solar charge controllers 2- Victrons (100v-50amp Bluetooth) and a midnight classic 150 I have addiction to solar.

Do you dream of camping in locations remote & beautiful, but lack the confidence in your electrical
system to keep you powered up?
We can help you move over to the "Fulltime Boondocking" lifestyle with alternative Solar Power Storage to fit your RVing needs.
Let us help you on your journey to living “BIG” in a small living space, because you don’t need a large home when you have all of nature at your back door!
Happy Trails!!!
Call us or e-mail at .... wygloneksealataoldotcom
our web site--- mobilehomesteading.com
Our YouTube channel... Mobile Homesteading
Happy Trails!!!
Eddie --- Mobile Homestead Solar Services (252) 475-8034

In this video, I give you views from aboard the Coastal Inspiration ferry as it sails from Duke Point Terminal south of Nanaimo BC on Vancouver Island over to Tsawwassen on the BC mainland.

You'll see footage of both terminals and the Nanaimo waterfront. Along the voyage, I also shoot video clips of Entrance Island Lighthouse, various boats/ships, and another Coastal Class BC ferry the Coastal Celebration as it leaves Tsawwassen bound for Swartz Bay north of Victoria, BC on Vancouver Island.

In this video, I give you a tour of Neck Point Park in Nanaimo, BC on a sunny fall day. Stay tuned for more videos to come from a recent getaway trip Anne and I took along the coast of British Columbia.

We have both old Chevy volt 12v @400amps for the 5wheel then 2-6volt@1253amps just for the wife 's oxygen centrator. I find the Chevy battery's do charge faster only have 2-@360w sailor panel going to them . But the big reds do a good job I have 6- panels @ 360w feeding those big boys. Everything is good if the sun is out LOL keep the sunny side up!

There’s a reason why our license plates say Beautiful British Columbia.

Had a rough middle with lots of rain but September on the coast is closing out nicely with lots of sun and mild days.
Anne and I are on a little tour of the Sunshine Coast from Vancouver to Powell River, headed back to Campbell River tomorrow to grab the fifth wheel then down near Victoria for a month at Pedder Bay RV Resort.

Beautiful work using first rate components and material. You're a real craftsman!

Wow very nice

↪Ray

Good one! :wink:
Granddad told me "Son, there's more than one way to skin a cat!'
Rush and I had been looking at carbon foam batteries at one time.
Happy Trails...Pal!!!

Carbon Foam!

I would actually love to have a conversation with John Goodenough the pioneer of Lithium batteries. There is quite a bit of research going into solid state batteries which could be a game changer in battery tech. Lighter, cheaper, more environment friendly and more powerful than current LFP technology.

Very good video. A lot of info to look at objectively. Not narrow minded.

The coast guard has some pretty cool toys. Buzzed by our ferry the other day. I'll have some footage for you in a future video.

Living in hurricane country we learn many moons ago to be prepared. Now in an RV I have a solar setup installed by Mobilehomestead solar services. Two Honda's for backup.
Power went off here last night and the campers come beating on our door, asking why you got power and we don't. He says I'm missing the evening news. They seen the TV playing when they walked by.

We get somewhat regular power outages at our sticks and bricks. Today power went out and PG&E forecast 3 pm for it to turn on. Being a warm day I drug out some extension cords to the RV so we could power the fridge, some fans and keep the internet working through the campers inverter. No sooner than is everything set up...yup...power comes back on.

All of which got me thinking about utilizing our campers solar to partially power the house. I discovered our large residential fridge only uses about 15 amps DC with the compressor running. (less than half of our Dometic 8cf propane fridge running on AC power) so our system could easily power it 24/7 while weather is good.

Does anyone utilize their RV solar power at home to cut back on their grid usage? Maybe just add a couple outlets in the house to use for fridge, TV, Internet.

Wow you put some nice setups that are some lucky folks.

Howdy Campers!
Here is a picture montage video of some of the solar power installs we have worked on this year. I even had some first class help on one of the jobs! :wink: :wink: It has been my pleasure to help these wonderful people set-up their RV's with Solar Power Storage Systems so thay can "Get Out There" and enjoy camping again!
There is nothing better than meeting up with good people and enjoying the wonderful outdoors!
Happy Trails!!!

We purchased our 6.7 Ford in 2015. 2017 we were in Colorado and bought some diesel and someone had put def in it by mistake. I questioned myself for weeks about it. Had it in shop 4 times till they fixed it to where it ran like it should. Ford said then pull everything and replace $10000 to do it too. This was April 27th. In August we finally needed to get oil changed again. Took it to the local Ford in Delta, Co. and after we left Ford I noticed the fuel pump starting to make the same noise it had in Denver back in April. We in a few seconds the eng. went into low fuel pressure and reduced eng.npower mode. It would run 5 mph up a hill. I could type another hr. but to make a story short heres the final outcome. $9700 later and mind yall August till Oct. we finally had the complete fuel system replaced. It looks funny and concerning when you walk in and see your cab 8 ft. in the air and your eng. laying everywhere. The complete fuel system was replaced and fuel lines. only thing not necessary to replace was the fuel tank. The service manager told me to call my ins. people and they paid it off my comprehensive. Boy was that a break.
Now back to def. Since this all took place I get a signal to add DEF I find the next Walmart and by the cheapest thing available. Since then we have been to Alaska and back and all on the cheaper brand. No problems. Now mind you we full time in our truck. Its our main source of power and rider. Our truck as its known Fatbaby has performed as we have wanted.

So I have a few of my exterior running LED lights that are need of replacing , ( so much for quality eh) . Struggled today trying to make a butt joints from the wires coming out the trailer and the wires from the LED light. The crippling tool is OK but I think the problem is the guy running the tool :nerd:
Bottom line I need to stuff those wires and all back into a small hole in the trailer.
Should I be considering solder with heat shrink ?

Very nice

Howdy Campers!
Here is a video I made for you to see how we power the "Mobile Homestead"!
Happy Trails!!!

An inexpensive way to wash the clothes when out in the RV.

There’s a new RV manufacturer coming soon...Alliance RV Group
Some former staff from Grand Design and Heartland.
First unit now in production. What has impressed me is they have asked for input from RVers on likes and dislikes on existing 5th wheels and what we RV’ers would like to see. (Example: better suspension, tires, glue if staples are used so trim doesn’t fall off, etc.) They are trying to keep their price point under 85K US. I’m sure there will be teething problems on first year production runs in the beginning but I look forward to see what suggestions they have incorporated and if they can actually make a quality product. Many of the suggestions put forward by RVers can be viewed on the Alliance RV Group Facebook page.

https://rvbusiness.com/brian-brady-sons-go-public-with-plans-for-alliance-rv/

Safe travels!

As I was completing my snowbird trip prep to our Keystone Cougar fifth wheel, I was under the rig tidying up the coroplast plastic underbelly cover.

Recently, I had repaired cracks in my waste tank and removed a clog in my black tank valve. So I was reattaching the underbelly section I had cut out for access and resealing seams with Gorilla tape.

At the other end of the rig, I noticed a bulge in the underbelly. It looked like a piece of coroplast was hanging down. I went to push it back in place, but something behind it felt solid. Part of my freshwater tank was loose and falling out!

I opened up the underbelly to inspect and figure out why. Right away I noticed that a support beam had come detached and had fallen down onto the mainframe I-beam. The two 3/8 TEK screws that held the tanks support beam had sheared off.

I was thankful to find the issue before things got worse, and the whole tank would have fallen out onto the highway. The repair was easy as reattaching the beam with fresh screws. I also added a third screw which the factory neglected to do even though there was a hole for it.

Related Videos:

Snowbird Trip Preparation - https://www.loveyourrv.com/preparing-our-rv-for-an-extended-road-trip/

Underbelly Installation - https://www.loveyourrv.com/reinstalling-the-cougar-fifth-wheel-underbelly/

Tank Monitor Install - https://www.loveyourrv.com/rv-tank-level-monitoring-system/

Unclogging Waste Valve - https://www.loveyourrv.com/black-waste-tank-valve-wont-close-properly/

Cracked Tank Repair - https://www.loveyourrv.com/cracked-rv-holding-tank-repair/

Vampliers Review - https://www.loveyourrv.com/vampliers-screw-extraction-pliers-review/

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