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The power and ground connections are made to the truck with wire only. The bottom of most campers are plywood.

You can find cans of liquid 3M Adhesive Remover at places like West Marine. An alternative to the spray. I use it all the time for boat work. Works well, it can even remove the silicone remnants from old hatches on resealing jobs. I use it on fiberglass and plastic parts no problem.

Ran across the Balmar SmartGauge Battery Monitoring System today. It does not require a shunt. They make some good stuff for boats, Been looking at the Trimetric for a while now, but might have to pull the trigger on this for my Hawk at this price though. It is on deep discount this week at...

That battery is very large compared to your charging sources and it will pull the amps to charge up, thus pulling down the voltage with it unitil it charges up. If you measure the terminals at the charge source and the battery when charging, you should a difference between them change over...

You can cut a hole anywhere in the box, just seal it up, pretty easy. The picture earlier showed large washers likely used as a clamped flange, likely with sealant inside. If there was a leak, with a proper bottom vent (sufficient size) any pressure in the box would be low. Poly boxes are...

Welcome to the club Tim from your truck/camper's cousin. RE: suspension Q: Stock truck here except for Timbrens to level the truck, and LT275/75/R18E tires. 2,000lb payload version. Curious what route Tim has or will take.

Propane is heavier than air and so the box is sealed to the interior, including any piping pass thru points. Vents must be located at the bottom. For marine they must be minimum of 1/2" dia - usually a tube that goes overboard. My 2013 Hawk has relatively large screened vents in the propane...

Looks like you have the normal side exit gray water drain fitting so you could remove the lower one, likely installed for a bed mounted gray water tank and I think you mentioned. Likely a T fitting that can be removed or capped inside. Should be easy to remove. If that camper was on an old...

I would just cut off the camper plug and put a 7 pin on it to match your truck. It is easy to change camper wire connectors over time.

The input current is detailed in the SSR datasheet graphs. It is linear relationship to the input voltage since the input impedance (resistance if you like) is constant. So looking at the chart, 13V is about 7-8ma. 32V would draw about 25ma. Your control circuit is more than capable of...

One's weight, bony-ness and natural padding makes a big difference thus making matress density and thickness very personal. Comfort descriptions for a particular foam could be more helpfull to readers if more information was included. I had a 2010 Grandby with 4" foam and it was too soft for...

You should have AC breakers in the AC section of a distribution panel. If the breakers are all on, then you will need to trace from the camper outside AC connection into the AC distribution panel. The interior outlets, as is the converter, are on the load side of the AC breaker panel so you...

Known as spline. Just replaced some screens.

I do not know specifics for your particular equipement, and I assume you are looking at equipment all located outside the camper?. If the wiring to the controller is inside the camper, there may be an inline fuse under the cabinetry. There are many different solar installations and brands in...

I now have 9700 miles on my 2016 F150 with 3.5L EB (gas) (specs in sig) in my first 3 months. I have 12.8mpg lifetime so far. Every tank fill was recorded and corrected for tire size/speedo error with basic notes on load conditions. 8700 miles of that 9700 was carrying the Hawk and most of it...

It is useful to leave it in there in case the next owner (think reseale) needs the isolator. You did not say if you have an isolator of some variety in the truck or not. Using a switch will not prevent you from running down your starter battery when you eventually forget to turn it off (having...

+1. Many people use an external charging relay/isolator. I did on my previous Grandby.

Most likely you have a 30A DC charger built in to your camper that runs off of shore power (120VAC). Since you were able to run the heater off the battery, then after it died just plugin shore power with no other changes and continue running your heater, then that would confirm you have the 30A...

I think you have it right. Both have their place. I would opt to believe you will at some time soon enough exceed your solar controller of choice's capacity and thus use it as only a charger, so you would connect the fuse panel off the battery. I think the idea of running the load through the...

I just washed off the bug collection from my 5800 mile inagural journey (so far) in my new-to-me Hawk. Seems I should have taken a photo :-). Too late now. Starting the next leg from Florida back to Seattle. New camper is always fun. This is my 3rd so far. Like a new boat (too many to count...)

Need to know more details, your description of what your needs are a bit confusing. Where and what type of heater, electrical ratings for it, same for the inverter, and are you trying to run it from the camper or the truck, and do you have an existing connection between the truck and camper...

You can mount a replacement camera under or on the camper that plugs into the stock camera harness. I happen to use a Garmin wireless camera into my Garmin GPS display. Then use a hitch step/platform and you can remove the tailgate. That approach opens up more camper shell fit options for...

Simple is good. It mostly depends on how you run the power to the load. If the wiring to a group of lights are at opposite ends of the camper, you could choose to run them on separate fuses. Generally you can group similar items onto a fuse, and ensure the smallest wire size used will be...

I prefer to run a gnd wire but the camper frame can and does work. Where voltage drop under heavier loads is a concern, running heavy direct gnd and hot wires will be best. For some loads like lighting mounted on cabinetry or the roof, there is no good nearby frame connection. If is easier...

When mounting the connector to the bed wall, I use bolt and nuts, not screws. Too often the screws pull out of the thin bed wall due to the friction of some connectors and the resulting tugging and pulling at angles and straight out.