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I always run multiple tanks of water through after draining the antifreeze. I use vodka with food coloring but there's still the problem of the lingering taste of whatever you use. Even after the multiple tank flushing you can still taste the stuff. I've pondered installing an inline water...

interesting that they offer the fantastic fan as an option but I see no mention of a charging/electrical system. What I'd really like to have is my 550 built with these materials ...

yep, I use the Ram EZ Roll'r Cradle to hold an ipad in my airborne RV. Holds securely, works great. rd

it is indeed relevant. The CTEK manual shows a connection to an "ignition signal, +15 clamp," whatever that is. Since Camp Inn is now installing these chargers maybe Cary will tell us what the mother ship does with this connection, or if they somehow disable or bypass it as you've done.

I discussed this location with Cary but decided to give the above-the-battery spot a try, mainly because I didn't want to splice more wire to the power wire coming from the seven way. While this is a good spot, I discovered while wiring the trimetric that it's not all that easy to get to, and...

the grounding posts in our 550 are aft of the battery, pretty much right in front of the tail light. Sorry for the repeat of this photo, but if you look in the lower right you can see the ground posts and their labels written on the wood. The battery sits just to the left of these ground posts.

nope, not yet, but it'll be easy to hook up. We've only got an 85 watt panel putting out less than 5 amps so the morningstar 10 amp that CampInn installed works just fine. I'm seriously considering creating my own suitcase-style panel with maybe two 70+ watt panels. At that point I'll likely...

Over our almost 5 years of owning our 550, including 195 nights and a bit more than 49k miles, we've done a lot of dry camping. We've frequently moved from dry camp to dry camp, 'cause, well, that's where the best camping is. I killed the original AGM battery in about a year and a half by not...

Al last August we spent two nights in the North Cascades, Colonial Creek Campground, and thought it was very nice. Old campground but completely cool for teardrop camping. Had a couple of very nice hikes. Just a spectacular place, particularly for us eastern folks. No hookups at all in the...

I got $594 in canadian dollars which right now equals $454 US dollars. It'll cost more for sure if you return from Argentia and book a cabin as we did.

that'll be fine. Ferry reservations are something you'll want to early. You can do it online. We went from North Sydney to Port aux Basques heading over (about 6 hours) and returned from Argentia, which is an overnight ferry. Basically worked our way from one side of the island to the other. I...

on our way to/from Newfoundland a few years ago we camped in several provincial parks in New Brunswick and NS: New River Beach PP, NB Caribou & Munroe's Island PP, NS Wolfe Pointe CG, Fundy National Park these were all nice places with nice walks to do when you arrive etc. We didn't have any...

the allstays app is awesome. Get it, you won't be disappointed. I'd happily pay an annual fee for this app but it's only a one shot payment. Most of our camping spots were found using allstays. r dickson 550 #645 4 years, 176 nights, 45k miles green = camped – blue = passed through

this is the really cheap version that's available everywhere and works great. Just cut off the narrow end so it'll fit into the trailer water filler. $1.39 at Advance ... r dickson 550 #645

I've camped in the Shenandoahs in June without a reservation. The campgrounds typically have some unreservable sites so if you get there before the weekend you should be good. Plenty of bears up there so be careful with your food. The CG hosts actually made me sign a form that I'd been warned...

when I suspected our original AGM (Dynasty) of being bad I took it to a Batteries Plus as well as an auto parts store. They both said the battery tested fine. The problem wasn't that it couldn't put out the voltage it was that the capacity was *way* down. Even in cool weather it wouldn't run the...

I'm curious about this device. Am I understanding it correctly that this could be wired between the TV charging circuit and the trailer battery to give the proper charging profile while charging from the TV? I suppose the size of the wire from the battery of the TV to this device would be important.

having just read Cary's list of appearance enhancements available for 2018, I'm curious if there's been any movement on offering struts as an option. Every car I've owned for the last 35 years has had them, and yep, a few of them have gotten weak and needed to be replaced. But I've never had to...

use a hammer. actually, I'm not kidding. We've had the wind blow our doors shut a number of times hard enough to apparently bend the strike plate in just enough to make the door not latch closed securely. We were in a traffic jam last July on I75 in WV and a lady in the other lane had to point...

I use an 85 watt panel and it did fine even in Death Valley. Lots of sun vs lots of dometic run time and the battery still fully charged each day (according to the trimetric).