Have you missed me.......
Posted: November 30th, 2014, 8:28 pm
Hi all
Well 1st 2 weeks in the demountable completed in sunny cornwall (well sunny / windy / rainy and stormforce at times)
The camper and truck perfomed well, FinAde is right the old L200 is a little underpowered to haul these demountables around as we found on cornish hills (including Porlock Hill, which I would not have attempted without the availability of low box)
The heater in the truck is great - the little trumatic had temps up to 29 in the truck and higher in the luton bed area.
We had 2 part used cyls, a 3.9 calor and a camping gaz but we found a very helpfull little camping shop that took the camping gaz in for another calor so I didn't keep having to change the regulator.
The water system we had problems with, its a container on the left of the door. It filled fine, but when on the road, with all those steep hills it lost its contents, we eventually worked out that the breather pipe was the problem, being at the back whenever we went uphill the back of the tank filled and then exited via the breather/overflow so another little job to valve that properly.
We need shelves and proper stowage for some stuff but it did work well
And how did the solar panel work out I here you say.........
Well it was charging the battery great for the 1st few days, then it stopped. I hecked everything and came to the conclusion that a connection had come loose, it would have to wait till i could borrow a ladder
We finally stopped at this quirky campsite that used to be a cycle museum and I borrowed a ladder and found the problem. Neither connection to the van was connected...... because the solar panel wasn't on the roof anymore ! . Thinking back, we had one very stormy night in a pub carpark at gullards head - it must have left us then, we did actually check the car park that day just to see if had lost anything
So when I replace the panel, it will be with 2 smaller ones to reduce windage methinks
Rich
Well 1st 2 weeks in the demountable completed in sunny cornwall (well sunny / windy / rainy and stormforce at times)
The camper and truck perfomed well, FinAde is right the old L200 is a little underpowered to haul these demountables around as we found on cornish hills (including Porlock Hill, which I would not have attempted without the availability of low box)
The heater in the truck is great - the little trumatic had temps up to 29 in the truck and higher in the luton bed area.
We had 2 part used cyls, a 3.9 calor and a camping gaz but we found a very helpfull little camping shop that took the camping gaz in for another calor so I didn't keep having to change the regulator.
The water system we had problems with, its a container on the left of the door. It filled fine, but when on the road, with all those steep hills it lost its contents, we eventually worked out that the breather pipe was the problem, being at the back whenever we went uphill the back of the tank filled and then exited via the breather/overflow so another little job to valve that properly.
We need shelves and proper stowage for some stuff but it did work well
And how did the solar panel work out I here you say.........
Well it was charging the battery great for the 1st few days, then it stopped. I hecked everything and came to the conclusion that a connection had come loose, it would have to wait till i could borrow a ladder
We finally stopped at this quirky campsite that used to be a cycle museum and I borrowed a ladder and found the problem. Neither connection to the van was connected...... because the solar panel wasn't on the roof anymore ! . Thinking back, we had one very stormy night in a pub carpark at gullards head - it must have left us then, we did actually check the car park that day just to see if had lost anything
So when I replace the panel, it will be with 2 smaller ones to reduce windage methinks
Rich