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RE: NorCal Mini Truck Camper Rally - April 2023
We sure did enjoy the get together! The group of folks was wonderful and delightful to visit with.
The setting there left nothing to be any better and the weather was beyond great!
Thanks Rob for taking time to make this event simple and great!
Here is a link to some of our Rally Pictures.
Adamis Redding 2023 Rally.
Jim&Sheila
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bigfootford
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04/26/23 01:54pm |
Truck Campers
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RE: How do you sanitize your fresh-water tank and lines?
Pour tap water into a gallon jug. Put it anywhere you want. Leave it for 5 years and see if there is anything bad in it. You know the answer.
Now if you were to put some dirt in there with it what do you think would happen?
A bud of mine and some of you know him, Reddog1, got an old 60's trailer to tear down because he wanted the frame. We took the freshwater tank out of there and was curious what it looked like on the inside. There was no slime, mold or dead living matter in there. It was clean. It did smell a bit of plastic.
Jim.
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bigfootford
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04/21/23 09:58am |
Tech Issues
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RE: How do you sanitize your fresh-water tank and lines?
Ok, so what do you do with well water? Buy bottled water to drink?
Our wells in our Oregon property was less than 20'... Wonderful water!
As a kid all the farms I visited and lived atl were on wells...That was down in the Fresno area, some of the water tasted like sulphur but we all drank it. Cows lived right over some of the wells....
For me, that hose and the place I get water from is critical and has been for over 50 years of RV and trailers. I always make darn sure that hose is MINE and I make sure it does not touch any ****...
Jim.
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bigfootford
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04/20/23 08:08pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: NorCal Mini Truck Camper Rally - April 2023
Thanks Mike, I will unpack our whacker!
Sounds like it will be a great weekend!
Looking fwd to the visit!
Leave here around 11 tomorrow.
Jim n Sheila
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bigfootford
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04/20/23 02:42pm |
Truck Campers
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RE: NorCal Mini Truck Camper Rally - April 2023
Weed wacker might be helpful but I honestly don't know what the current state is. Looking forward to seeing you guys! ".
The current state is California...heeeyaaa! Jim.
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bigfootford
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04/16/23 10:36pm |
Truck Campers
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RE: NorCal Mini Truck Camper Rally - April 2023
Robert, we would like to take advantage of your offer of an early check-in. We have a friend within walking distance of your property and finalizing the timing of things for Wednesday or Thursday.
Can I bring up a string weed Wacker and do any site prep for you knowing how we were arranged last year?
Coming up fri... Will bring our whacker too...
Jim.
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bigfootford
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04/16/23 05:20pm |
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RE: Need Solar Guru Help!
Following the thread and would like to know what the resolution was.
I too am getting ready to do the FWC/AGM conversion to Lith batt's.
Glad you got it resolved.
Jim.
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bigfootford
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04/13/23 06:30pm |
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RE: Need Solar Guru Help!
https://www.victronenergy.com/media/pg/Manual_SmartSolar_MPPT_100-30__100-50/en/configuration-and-settings.html
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bigfootford
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04/13/23 09:38am |
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RE: NorCal Mini Truck Camper Rally - April 2023
Hi all, hard to believe we are getting to be so close to the rally. Excited to see you all again soon! Creek has been flowing well. This is a pic a neighbor shared, she took it at a bit of a weird angle but still quite a nice sight!
https://i.imgur.com/076oqI7l.jpg
Up the creek with no paddle needed!!!! Great!
Jim.
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bigfootford
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04/09/23 07:01pm |
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RE: NorCal Mini Truck Camper Rally - April 2023
Anybody have any info on road conditions up there in NorCal?
I know you guys were hit pretty hard with the rain and snow.
I heard Tahoe is a mess how about the area where the rally is taking place.
This will be the first stop on our way up into Oregon and Washington to see friends and relatives.
Since were down here in SD our weather doesn't really affect much as far as road closures and such.
Any info would be great.
Thanks.
Road conditions after the Grapevine I 5 will be good all the way to Redding....
Think the Grapevine should be good!
Are you thinking of coming up 15- 395-58 to 99-5, thus bypassing LA.
That is the way we travel from Sacramento down to SD or other places down there, except we just travel 99-58-15.
15-58-5 is 721 miles 11 hrs
5 all the way is 664 10.5 hrs
Hope to see you folks there!
Jim.
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bigfootford
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04/06/23 12:20pm |
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RE: CO/LP Detector
Used these for years...
I like the read out and they are battery operated. There are other Kiddie designs with the read out or not. I have 1 non readouts in my camper along with the read out one.
https://i.imgur.com/WwTClKDl.jpg
https://www.amazon.com/Kidde-Battery-Operated-Monoxide-KN-Copp-B-LPM/dp/B004Y6V5CI
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bigfootford
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02/24/23 10:26am |
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RE: Finally Common Sense in California (No Shows at Campgrounds)
Somewhat related, we were leaving the TCA rally in Quartzsite ( nice seeing 3tons and BFFord again!) to occupy a site in Joshua Tree reserved online (the good part) however the lone individual who runs the point of sales at Cottonwood Campground called in sick. Fortunately we have the lifetime senior pass for NPs and we coasted in. Others who needed to pay for an open spot or any merch within the visitors center was out of luck. Other employees were not trained or allowed access to the register. A lot of apologies were given put that day-
Haw, thanks for finding us at the Q Rally. We had a great time.
Jim n Sheila
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bigfootford
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02/20/23 03:34pm |
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RE: Finally Common Sense in California (No Shows at Campgrounds)
What we are discovering is that many Campgrounds from various states use a reservation website either their own or other, to offload the needs for the CG admin. No answering phones etc.
In turn the states and local county campgrounds have to reserve XX number of sites for that website reservation website.... So even if there are no one reserving from those websites reserved sites they will remain empty!
You can not just arrive at them and get an empty site.. SUCKS!
Jim
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bigfootford
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02/19/23 11:20am |
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My 23 year old Dometic fridge pukes yellow stuff...
Well this fridge has really been a great soldier. 23 years of keeping things cold it finally gave up. Our Bigfoot has traveled over 200,000 miles on two different f250's over those 23 years.
Over the years I have replaced the circuit board because the flame out retry on the OEM board sucks.
I got the Dinosaur Board... EXCELLENT. I replaced the igniter and thermocouple. I have cleaned the burner many times. That is it!
So I ended up getting what I presume is an OEM or aftermarket cooling unit for this fridge an RM2652. I really thought I was getting an Amish one... Long story...
I am extremely pleased with the performance of the new cooling unit so far. I have been tracking the cooling temps of both the fridge and freezer compartment and it is doing very good.
I have watched CITAP1's/Camper_Jeff_&_Kelli's fridge cooling unit replacement and I was expecting to deal with the same fit issues with my new cooling unit. HAW, I did not have to cut or modify anything. The cooling unit fit exactly.
The only cutting we, my son Seth and I had to do was the Bigfoot's dinette fwd bench seat. You will see in the pictures what we had to do. It was not too bad and went back together perfectly. With the fridge sitting there it was hard to get around..hahhaaa.
I am not going to post all the pictures here but if you want to see some of the pictures here is a link to my Album of the project.
You can click on each picture and see my comments.
Bigfootford's RM2652 cooling unit replacement.
https://i.imgur.com/hSbNh4bl.jpg
Jim.
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bigfootford
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01/27/23 02:13pm |
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RE: Useful LFP Info
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=IDwiV7HBPsU&embeds_euri=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.truckcamperadventure.com%2F&feature=emb_rel_end
Link.
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bigfootford
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01/26/23 10:12am |
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RE: Help - jacks are draining my batteries
There are a lot of folks that have no understanding of the systems of an RV, nor electrical/electroinics. Some learn some do not and give up sadly.
Jim.
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bigfootford
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01/25/23 01:50pm |
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RE: Help - jacks are draining my batteries
Just get a DVM and have someone measure the voltage on the battery while raising the camper.
Disconnect the shore power.
Voltage should remain above 12vdc unless the battery (s) are not fully charged or gone.
Think the HJ controller has a cut off at 11.5....
Jim
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bigfootford
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01/21/23 11:28am |
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RE: Help - jacks are draining my batteries
Depending on the weight of your camper the amps needed for a 4500lb camera will be between 35-40 amps to raise the camper.. That requires a GOOD battery that has over 80% charge.
Easy way to check your battery while under load is with a DVM.
Read the voltage while raising the camper with no shore power.
If you see the voltage drop below 12.1 then your batter needs to be fully charged and try it again while measuring the voltage!
Another way is to measure the specific gravity of the battery cells if you can get to them.
https://modernsurvivalblog.com/alternative-energy/battery-state-of-charge-chart/
Jim
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bigfootford
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01/20/23 01:13pm |
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RE: Help - jacks are draining my batteries
like enblethe said..... Check and make sure your converter is charging your batteries.
My HJ's and 2 group 24 FWC batteries would raise and lower my camper many times before the batteries would not work the HJ's.
My camper weights 4300lbs...
I now only have one AGM battery 100 ah and it will raise and lower a bunch of times before going below the 11 or so volts under load that will shut off the HJ controller.
It takes well over a day for your batteries to fully charge when they are low on charge.
If left low on charge more than a week your NEW batteries will loose capacity. And each time you let them sit for all length of time they will be dead or useless in less than XX months.
Jim.
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bigfootford
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01/20/23 10:56am |
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RE: NorCal Mini Truck Camper Rally - April 2023
We are in! Jim.
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bigfootford
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12/03/22 10:50pm |
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