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This is a common misconception, but water moving in a river with a frozen surface is sill above freezing. There are three circumstances where water can exist as a liquid below 0C/32F. Water with a lot impurities (eg salt water), water with no impurities that is not in contact with anything...

And just to clear up one other misconception - water freezes at the same temperature, moving or not. Aerating or agitating your water tank won't help the situation (except for the tiny amount of kinetic energy you are introducing into the system). The reason that famers use an aerator in a...

Agreed, I wouldn't try to use the water system in sub-zero (F) temperatures either.

This is another case of not trying to reinvent the wheel. There are plenty of folks on here who regularly use their FWCs and water system below freezing (myself included). The solution is the obvious one - you need to heat your water system to keep it above freezing. There are other folks...

I was in the no water heater camp, before I got a water heater. Now I am in the yes on the water heater camp and would recommend one with a tank, not tankless. In the summer we often don't turn the heater on unless we plan on showering, but it is 6 extra gallons of water storage. In the...

I don't think you want miss-matched struts on the same end of your camper. The force from the struts is in line with the struts, so when the roof is not fully up, most of the force is actually horizontal, not vertical. With miss-matched struts on diagonal corners they will try to rotate the...

I have been considering updating my home made thermal liner to an insulated version. I saw your post about this in another thread, and wondered if you had any more thoughts/advice about using warm window fabric, how is it holding up for you? You had the 'standard' thermal liner before...

These furnaces are so cheaply built that they use the same motor for the blower fan and the induction fan. If you choke the blower fan side with small vents, you slow the motor a little and that also slows the induction fan? Coupled with lower voltage and you may not activate the sail switch...

These threaded inserts are really designed for applications where you both want to be able to easily remove and reinstall the screws and also don't have access to the back of the wood or or the back side needs to be pretty. You don't want to use thread lock on the inserts, you will just...

I use dozens of these type of threaded inserts for work holding on my CNC Router, they work well even in MDF which is notoriously bad for holding threads. Not much of a trick to installation - drill the correct size hole (11mm diameter for the ones linked above), at least as deep as required...

I think the current Dometic furnace draws about 3-4A when running - so a pair of fully charged AGMs (~150Ah) should easily be able to run the furnace for 30hrs or so continuously With the thermostat cycling on and off, it should last for at least 3 nights without taxing the batteries. It...

Something doesn't sound quite right. 2 AGMs and 160W of solar should be plenty to run the furnace for a couple of days in the desert. If you battery is at 12.5V, that is around 80% - 90% charged and should be able to run the furnace just fine. I wonder if there is an issue with either the...

If you may need to remove the plate in the future, then a threaded insert like these maybe a good option. Lots of holding power, and you won't blow out the threads in the wood removing/reinstalling the mounting plate. Wood screws work well the first time they are installed, then...

Me too, but I want to be on the safe side, so I leave it unmade to air out for about 16 hours per day.

I have the froli spring setup as well, not so much for condensation management but for comfort. We regularly camp in cold, albeit dry, conditions and have condensation on the ceiling and behind the arctic pack, but not under the mattress. I wonder if this is due to the flatbed having...

I also have a Ute Bed with the same rails on the side, and a flatbed fleet. I don't think I would use those rails for turnbuckles. The primary point of the rails appears to be to cover the ends of the aluminium slats that form the bed. As you note they are only held on with fairly small...

The Cyrix will allow your battery to charge while driving your truck, just not particularly fast. On my 2016 Tacoma with a 150Ah lithium battery I typically see 5-7A into the battery when driving, which is about the same as what I was seeing with the stock AGM battery. That being said, at...

The installer may be exaggerating a little about the changes needed for lithium. You CAN just switch the AGM batteries to lithium without any changes. The minor draw back to this is that your battery isolator well tend to stay connected as the lithium resting voltage is high enough to trick...

The configuration is a little different on a flatbed - the sink, water pump, hot water heater and one end of the cold water tank are all in the same cabinet. Two of the walls are outside walls, it is in a corner, but they are the (somewhat) insulated walls, not the wooden floorpack. In this...

Just to add, there does appear to be 12V self regulating heating tape: https://www.oemheaters.com/product/6109/12v-dc-heat-cable-5-wattsfoot I have not tried it, and the specs are lacking but it appears to be 15W/m with a maximum length of 5m at 12V. This would be enough for the shower lines...

You can run the furnace and/or hot water heater while driving, we have done this on several occasions, sometimes even on purpose. With the fleet flatbed, all your water lines, with the exception of the out door shower (if you have that) are in the the front left cabinet. The outdoor shower...

The fact that the thermal fuses are popping would suggest the issue is too much current, not too little current. I would suspect it is damage to wiring under the truck, which will likely require replacing the whole wire. Having a 30A breaker pop is not something that should be ignored -...

If you have a FWC with an Isotherm Cruise fridge, it has a digital interface (LIN) that could be pretty useful for automation...

If automating your camper is fun, then go for it! Our campers are toys and are entirely about 'wants' as opposed to 'needs' and we should play with them however we want. I enjoy tinkering with mine between camping trips, and while I haven't automated mine, I have added a bunch of electrical...

I don't have any first hand knowledge of a propane alarm saving someone from imminent death, but I do think the risk of a propane leak is not zero. I have had one of those green 1lb bottles leak inside my previous camper, which I was notified of by the propane alarm. We did smell it as well...