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RocketCityRVer
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Добавлен 1 янв 2008
My Channel will cover a wide variety of things, RVing, travel, RV upgrade projects, drone flights, home projects... I'm an engineer, whenever I'm working on something interesting or traveling somewhere cool...I will post things.
Maggie's Song HUMOR
Our latest addition to the Goldendoodle family Magnolia Blossom Cooper aka "Maggie" has been a major challenge for us, she came to us sick from the breeder and it took us months to get her well, on top of that she's been extremely difficult to "Pottie Train". She's a totally different personality than her half brother Milton Bradley Cooper, aka Milton who caught on pretty quick. This song is a result of our awakening around midnight last night to exactly what this song says, while it's a funny song, it's also true.
Now to where this song came from and that's the COOLEST part, I told Grok.AI the whole story and ask him to write me lyrics to a song, then I asked Grok where I could turn his ...
Now to where this song came from and that's the COOLEST part, I told Grok.AI the whole story and ask him to write me lyrics to a song, then I asked Grok where I could turn his ...
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Wind Creek State Park Vacation
Просмотров 2302 месяца назад
This video is just a short account of some of the activities we did during our recent trip to Wind Creek State Park at Lake Martin, Northeast of Montgomery, Alabama. One thing I failed to make video of during this trip was our campsite which is a oversight on my part, but we had a full hookup site in the "Premium" area adjacent to the boat launch, I wouldn't necessarily book that site again jus...
New Golden Doodle "Maggie"
Просмотров 454 месяца назад
Rocket City RVer has a new member of the family Magnolia Blossom Cooper, aka "Maggie". Maggie is the half sister of Milton Bradley Cooper, aka Milton. Milton needed a sibling to play with, so after we returned from Cancun on the family vacation, we got Maggie from the same breeder as we got Milton. They seem to play together well, Milton can pretty much hang with anyone, he even slept with cats...
Bahia Principe Grand Tulum Vacation
Просмотров 8 тыс.4 месяца назад
This is a short video of my impressions of the Bahia Principe Grand Tulum All-Inclusive resort. I wish I had made a little more video of some of the other features, but I was busy hanging out by the pool and with friends we were travelling with. It's a great place and we are already talking about perhaps going there again next year if we can get another good deal. The resort was fantastic, the ...
Happy New Year 2024
Просмотров 539 месяцев назад
Pardon the dark video, this was done very hurriedly, thought I would make a video of the $~400 dollars being burned up, haha, in a matter of seconds with the 2024 fireworks show for New Years 2024.
GasStop Valves and Tank Pigtails
Просмотров 6410 месяцев назад
Today is a short video of my efforts to improve safety of my RV. While I removed 1 propane appliance and aspire to own an RV that is 100% electric, in the meantime, I plan to make this RV as safe as it can possibly be for me and my family. Today I install some GasStop propane safety valves and some 90 degree GasStop propane tank pigtails to improve the clearance for the tank cover. Hope you enj...
Furrion 12 Volt Refrigerator With Everchill Lock
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.10 месяцев назад
Today I'm making a video describing how I installed an Everchill refrigerator travel lock on my Furrion 12 Volt Compressor Refrigerator. Why would I want to do that you might ask...well, some owners of this refrigerator have reported that while driving down the road, rough roads, the doors on the refrigerator/freezer will come open and all their food ended up on the floor of their RV, not good....
Furrion 12 Volt Compressor Refrigerator Installation Complete
Просмотров 30111 месяцев назад
Today's video is a wrap-up of the short series where I was replacing my Norcold 2-way refrigerator with a Furrion 12 Volt Compressor Refrigerator. If you remember, my neighbors travel trailer burned as a result of his Norcold 2-way running off "shore power", no it was not even running off gas, most would think that. So, in this video, I'm talking about a few tips I learned while installing the ...
12V Compressor Refrigerator Testing Wrap Up
Просмотров 19Год назад
Today is just a little "Wrap-Up" video for the bench testing for the components for the 12V Furrion Compressor Refrigerator upgrade. Pretty impressive run time for the refrigerator alone...noting that if you run lights or fans in the camper this will certainly impact this time, as well as the ambient temperature outside. Still impressive.
Testing Continued, WFCO 9800 Series Converter Auto Lithium Detect
Просмотров 368Год назад
Today I had yet another success, I finally confirmed that the WFCO 9800 Series converter would go into Lithium Charging mode. I still DON'T like it, I would rather WFCO give me a switch, nevertheless, I confirmed that it did work.
Bench Testing My New Furrion 12V Compressor Fridge and Lithium Battery
Просмотров 409Год назад
Today is my initial bench testing of my new Furrion 12V compressor refrigerator, lithium battery and converter charger. "Lesson Learned" that I need to test things before they are installed in the RV. I was planning on testing the refrigerator, lithium battery and lithium converter charger, but I ran out of time. In this video I complete testing of the refrigerator and lithium battery, they wor...
Madalyn Breaking the Bank!!!...The Unicorn Bank
Просмотров 40Год назад
Today is just a fun video where we break Madalyn ceramic unicorn bank...we can't get the stuff out of it...so, it must go.
Punta Cana Vacation
Просмотров 2,3 тыс.Год назад
Today's video has NOTHING to do with RVs, but rather me and my wife's trip to an All Inclusive Resort in the Dominican Republic called the TRS Turquesa. We enjoyed ourselves, but honestly, the resort kind of vacation like this even though it was all-inclusive felt a bit constraining, we prefer to be able to roam around and explore more than we felt comfortable with at this location. While most ...
Refrigerator Fire!!!...An RVer's Worst Nightmare
Просмотров 106Год назад
Today's video is a short discussion of the scary and devasting thing that happened to a friend and neighbor of mine...a refrigerator fire. With his permission, I made a video of the results of the refrigerator fire that occurred last weekend. This refrigerator was a Norcold 2-way gas/electric very commonly used across the RV industry. Looking at the damage that this did, even though he was able...
Ox Block Improvement for Your Trailer Tongue Jack
Просмотров 578Год назад
Ox Block Improvement for Your Trailer Tongue Jack
Masterbuilt 1050 Power Cord Improvement
Просмотров 1,9 тыс.Год назад
Masterbuilt 1050 Power Cord Improvement
Eaglemoss Hero Collection - Star Trek Enterprise D (Bankruptcy)
Просмотров 1,2 тыс.2 года назад
Eaglemoss Hero Collection - Star Trek Enterprise D (Bankruptcy)
Oak Grove RV Park and Blue Angels Practice
Просмотров 5352 года назад
Oak Grove RV Park and Blue Angels Practice
Racoon Mountain Trip, 3 of 3, TVA Reservoir & Ruby Falls Tour
Просмотров 702 года назад
Racoon Mountain Trip, 3 of 3, TVA Reservoir & Ruby Falls Tour
Racoon Mountain Trip, 2 of 3, Chattanooga Incline Railway Ride
Просмотров 1042 года назад
Racoon Mountain Trip, 2 of 3, Chattanooga Incline Railway Ride
Racoon Mountain Campground Attractions, Part 1 of 3
Просмотров 4452 года назад
Racoon Mountain Campground Attractions, Part 1 of 3
Preparing for Matt's RV Reviews Rally
Просмотров 1,1 тыс.2 года назад
Preparing for Matt's RV Reviews Rally
Overview of My RV Rig and Upgrades Since New...
Просмотров 1442 года назад
Overview of My RV Rig and Upgrades Since New...
For real I think there’s still a combustion of the propane.
Great video I wish I would have seen it a few weeks ago because it happened to me. Masterbuilt sent a replacement controller and now I'm definitely doing this mod GREAT VIDEO
They suck. The "Vortex" ball cannot be fully drained of water and you can't verifiy if it has any anti freeze in it when you winterize. This causes the water in the ball to freeze which damages the mixing ball which leads to a BIG LEAK. You can't order a new mixing ball because their not made anymore and Furrion's only solution is to replace the water heater. YOU PAY for this because they claim it wasn't winterized when in fact they is NO way to make sure that the ball is drained of water!!!! We went through this this year and had to remove the mixing ball and bypass it. This works but you end up with hot and cold spurts during showering. I had the bowl repaired and modified with a lowpoint drain so you can get all of the water out of the bowl during winterizing and can then verify that the bowl has antifreeze in it. The ball freezing and breaking is not an "up north" problem, I live in northern AL. So upgrade to a furrion tankless at your own risk!! I have pics if anyone wants to see what it looks like after it get damaged from freezing.
Watch out for carbon monoxide
Love this and looks great. I'm looking to put a better lock on mine. However, it does have a lock that handle should have a spring-loaded plastic part that presses down and clips into the part next to your new lock. It's a pain in the but to undue though and is why I'm looking to do the same thing you have done.
Sounds loud, I can barely hear you.
Man if you still habe the truck and or supercharger , i have a few questions for you and or possibly intrested in the mp112 blower
We were there in March and we go Back this July!
Great place, we had an awesome time.
We just got back from Coba this week but got to walk around tulum while we were there. Definitely think we'll be booking tulum next year.
What a room!
Thanks so much for your video chronicles of this build. Am attempting something similar, but I'm building the entire kitchen out from scratch in a skoolie. I read your Amazon review and came here. Completely agree on why i need a dishwasher! Lucked into an older model Fisher Paykel DS603L dishwasher for $40. Similar dimensions. I think it'll look perfect once complete. Few questions: 1) Is the heat from cooking ever an issue for the drawer just underneath to cooktop? 2) Why did you choose to have the dishwasher on the bottom level (as opposed to having the drawer at the bottom)? 3) After you finished the microwave/oven install, do you think there were any other nooks/crannies you could have reclaimed for storage? 4) Would the microwave have fit where the drawer was? I think that'd be pretty neat. Thanks again for your effort with this, made my life (and headaches) much easier!
And please, it is a water heater. Not a hot water heater. If the water was hot then we would not need to heat it. 😂😂😅😅
🤔 That's a fair comment. Everyone picks up common vernacular statements from their environment. "Water Heater" is a more accurate description. 🙂
@RocketCityRobots It comes from my wife working at a hardware store, and she never missed a chance to correct people on that.
we go tomorrow
This looks great! I've never done any wiring, but did you just attach several of the 5.5" connectors together? OR did you do some kind of splicing to extend the cord to the back end of the grill?
Hi Joel, yes, this does require a bit of minor soldering skills, very basic stuff to make the pigtail which goes to the back of the unit. It's pretty easy stuff, but, would not recommend it unless you have basic wiring/soldering skills.
cant wait to visit Punta Cana.. that resort amazing.. thank you for sharing
Interesting results. I figure one 100A battery per day for the fridge so it looks like I'll be safe. BTW, that's a 20A plug.
Yep, it is a 20amp plug, it's difficult to say everything correctly when you are in the middle of a video. I thought about updating the video, but I can just update the description above instead. I'm very impressed by the length of time I will have operating off the 100Ah lithium battery. Honestly VERY happy to get rid of that Norcold 2-way fridge, it never really got cold enough regardless of the temperature outside, my nightly Blue Bell little icecream cups were always too soft, haha.
Nice mod!
Was that a « ewwwww » ? Loll when you got on the beach? Lol
Well, there was some seaweed that washed up on the beach. It wasn't too bad, I've seen much worse depending on where you are. I saw one day when they drove a big John Deere tractor with a drag on the back cleaning it off. Haha, I left the ewww...
If you go in the down season, you will see the seaweed. You have to go between Dec and april
I think eaglemoss has liquidised and Fandom has taken it over
We love ours. On a full hook up we can take normal showers. Wash hair, shave all of it just like at home.
I know others appear to be have a few issues, but, mine has been good after the first was DOA. All things have issues eventually. My wife takes 30 minute showers in the camper, have to leave the grey valve open till the day before leaving nowadays just so I'm not constantly dumping the grey tank. 🙃
Short and to the point. I like it.
So hows the Furrion working?
I've honestly only used it twice, but worked fine both times.
what type pump are you pushing the water through it?
We really don't dry camp, so I'm usually on city water using a custom high flow rate water filter and pressure regulator that I built for 40psi
When you hooked up the black + and the White - wire. What did they go to on the trailer side? Black + and orange? White with blue?
Well, I was merely looking for the 12V circuit for control power, there's not a lot of load on that circuit. I used a multi-meter to locate those wires. I would anticipate the colors on every RV are unique. I re-utilized the 120V power for another GFCI outlet in the bathroom, you don't need that. The original Atwood had 12V power for the control circuit only, to "enable" the water heater, essentially the gas side of your water heater. The electric side of the hot water heater is "enabled" by 12V too, the other switch. It merely turns on a relay to provide the 120 volts when you are running electric. This is the way mine was wired...hope that helps.
I will say that Furrion I've heard is doing some kind of redesign on that water heater...I don't have many details, but, it appears that when the unit is not fully flushed and or drained for winterizing the water mix tank can get damaged from freezing. I don't have to winterize mine, it's stored inside, but just FYSA.
Really good idea 👍🏻
Thanks, I've honestly never really seen a little travel trailer like mine with a Fisher Paykel dishwasher. My wife thought I was crazy, so did my brother, but he helped me anyway, haha. However, it works perfectly and my wife has decided that she LOVES it...haha.
Joe Crusco - 2 weeks ago. My Furrion event. First new one failed when it got cold. Grand Design claimed it was my fault for not winterizing it properly? 1st problem was there was a special twist on the nautilus’s settings that you had to know about only if you contacted GD. So I had to buy a new one, but got grand Design to pay for the labor. Got a new one, discussed with Furrion about camping in cold weather. They told me I needed to buy a new control board or it would fail below 39 degrees F. Instead of doing a ReCall Furrion wants the customer to pay for the board change and install it yourself or put out more money to have a Rv shop do it!
Interesting, I've not seen a recall either. That's good to know, I don't really camp in the cold, but this is good information to know.
My 2005 GMC with a 112 on the dyno run produced 380 hp and 417 horse at the wheels.
Huh? 😂
it requires power
It does require 12V power for the control circuits.
So glad you made this video! I was wanting to do this myself. You note a 2 db reduction. How noticeable is the difference to your ears?
I'm really sorry I didn't reply before now, RUclips never sent me any kind of notifications or anything. Yes, it is noticeable, you can still hear it of course, but the decibel scale is not linear, a few decibels does make a difference.
Nothing like the BLUES!! 💙💛💙 Nice campground video too 😊
I would like to switch our Suburban water heater for the Furrion but I’m concerned of how it will be when camping and the temps dip into the low 30s and high 20s at night.
your answers to your question will be all over the place, Furrion say be carful when you get near freezing although I know of someone who hasn't had any problems at 17 degrees F, not sure what the don't have an insulation winter kit to go behind the door for this kind of money. Very expensive for these to have all the problems they are known for. BTW I emailed Furrion/Lippert with some technical questions before I purchased this and not a word back from them which concerns me how well they take the potential customer seriously and, that means a lot. Girard is another one to keep an eye on as well
I wish this install was 1 video...
Sorry about that, 🤔, I wasn't really trying to draw it out to make more videos, I was just figuring it out as I went. There were a lot of little steps and I didn't want to miss anything to be honest. One big change that I'm really glad I did was the change from originally using flexible stainless steel supply lines back to pex lines like was used by the factory. That's a big deal in my opinion. It's really easy to convince yourself to use those flex lines, but, I don't think it would have worked well for the flowrate.
I will say this for sure, the on demand hot water is fantastic 👌 😀 Long showers, my wife loves it, for longer campground stays just have to leave the grey valve open till a day before we are leaving otherwise my wife will fill it on one/two showers, haha, changes camping from that perspective 😀
We have the Furrion installed in a tiny home (brand new unit) which is hooked up to a line from my home. It runs 65 ft. through a 1/2" line at standard 30-50 psi and I can tell you it will not keep up. Temp is set at 120 deg F and nice warm showers turn cold intermittently. Apparently the only fix is to dial down the flow rate with a valve that in my case does not want to turn without fear of breaking it. I've been talking with Furrion CS and that has been almost worthless. You talk to a guy who is not a technician, but only reads from a manual and asks elementary questions like.... "do you have propane in your tank?" I suppose turning down the flow rate, if I can do so without snapping the valve shaft, will fix the issue but I'm not looking for a trickle of a shower. I'm not too impressed just yet.
I've not really had a problem in my camper, we seem to have plenty of hot water and it sips propane. Every application is going to be different, I probably would have gone with a house type on demand unit for a tiny home, just my opinion. Sorry for the delay, RUclips is horrible with their notifications.
Welp. This just made up my mind whether I would do a turbo setup or a supercharger setup. I have a 2003 white Tahoe with the 5.3 litre and it's a Z vin. Yup, she's got that e85 motor that needs, and insisted to my wife, needs that supercharger stat! We've had it 10 years and she's our "MON5TER" (including said personalized plates of the same name) I promised my ol'lady that I would keep her running and shiny for ever because she insisted that it's going to be her forever truck. I definitely landed a good ol'lady. She's now a diehard bowtie girl and the only other vehicles we can own are Harley's! Finally I found a broad that doesn't mind if I order bike parts 😜
Thanks so much for this. I have changed my plans to use their product in my RV. Their products are manufactured in China, another reason to consider another manufacturer. Thanks again ❗ 👍
Firstly, thank you, thank you for your videos. Very helpful during my install of the Furrion. I also replaced a G6A-8E Atwood Gas only water heater. I've tried to follow your rewiring video for the switch. I opened up the control panel, and the switch for the water heater has only two connection points.. Out of each of those there are multiply connected wires going to small circuit boards, etc. I'm assuming these could be to monitoring systems. Is it possible the blue wire from the old water heater had been wired out of the switch already?????? I haven't tried the new Furrion tankless yet, and during testing of the line at the new water heater and turning on the RV Water Heater switch for power to the lines showed voltage and the little green light in the switch was on as it always was with the old water heater. What I read also about the Atwood is that the blue line was the light loop, and the water heater would work even if the light was out. So quite honestly, the wiring situation confuses me. But do you agree that the switch would have more connectors other than the two if I had this blue wire issue????????? This is a 2011 Coachmen Mirada motorhome. . ANOTHER INTERESTING FACT. I have an external propane tank hooked up to the propane line that fed the old gas water heater. When that would be empty, I got no visual indication at the control panel. The light on the switch was still green. The water was just cold. I'd go hook up another tank, sometimes turning the switch off then on again, but I'm not even sure I always did that, but 10 minutes later, the water was warming up already. Would this indicate there was no DSI associated with this switch????
Sir, I really do apologize that I never responded to you, RUclips is not my day job, I'm an engineer for DoD and family stuff, I missed it. It's difficult making a video like this because everyone's situation is going to be different. In my case, using the wiring diagram I got off the internet for the water heater I have which is also an Atwood, I tapped into power at the water heater WITH the water heater connected to power while troubleshooting...trying to find out why the water heater was receiving no power. If you measure the power directly from the switch at the water heater mounting location, it appeared to have power, 11-12 volts, but the moment I connected the water heater load, just for control circuitry which is all it is, voltage went to 0 volts. So, this told me that likely, the 11-12 volts I was reading with the multimeter was probably some bleedover voltage thru a LED or the like. Whether what I did was correct or not, all I can tell you is that it worked. Since I didn't design the circuit for Atwood, my theory on this is that the DSI circuit on the Atwood gas control valve provides the ground for this circuit, therefore, I grounded it at the control side on the switch panel to emulate that function. It turns out I was correct and this worked, voltage at the water heater now measured 13.6 volts and stayed that when the water heater was turned on. I'm sure you've figured this out by now, but I did want to respond.
Thank you for your reply. I do have the new, on-demand water heater working. So everything is fine. I appreciate your reply. @@RocketCityRVer
when you're running that microwave in convection mode, that's going to be some HOT air blowing across your refrigerator coils....
Agreed, that's why I turned the flexible silicone impregnated fiberglass hose to blow directly out the top vent of the refrigerator...let me say generally, it's directed out the top vent. I've really not seen any impact, I've used the convection oven multiple times. Lastly, even after running the convection oven at 350F for 30 minutes, the air coming out that hose has cooled down a bit and it's not 350F air coming out of it. Much cooler actually, I have not measure it, maybe I should. Hmmm. Nice comment, Thanks. Note: The hose is rated for 480F and the convection oven doesn't get that hot, 400F is max I think.
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I’m stuck with an incomplete Enterprise-D and the Ecto-1
I had no idea they went chapter 11. Wow. Really sucks.
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Hey, Rocket City RVer! New subscriber here. Thanks for checking out our channel, as well! I'm like you, brother, I've got to do it myself, if I can (and sometimes even if I can't!) You're talking like an engineer in this video....I got you, but my wife's eyes glazed over. Great video. Moving on to your schematic video! Peace!
Many of us in the same situation with kits. I am 16 kits away from finishing my Delorean build. I was going to start the Enterprise but told myself to wait till my car was done. With mods I am 1800.00 in on my car but glad I held off on the ship.
someone should get the plans and 3d print the pieces
Yes your not alone on this I have back to the future DeLorean just needed 4 more kits to complete they did change me for them and never received them this sucks badly
I’m just going to wait till there is something final from Eaglemoss before I decide what to do with my kit. I’ve got up to issue 20. If Eaglemoss vanishes of the earth and no one like Fantome takes over. I’ll either learn 3D modeling and printing in hope of fill in the blanks or make a “what if” mod where the enterprise gets assimilated by the borg.
It's not over folks. Best to be patient. The company is in Administration, so all the books are being looked at and no decision has yet been made was to what will be the next course of action. It's possible that a buyer will bring back Eaglemoss (depending on the debt the company holds). Or another company will take on the part works - it is worth noting that DeAgostini Japan distributes the Enterprise -D and the Delorean is distributed by DeAgostini Spain, but was Eaglemoss in UK. The parts are in China and they need to be shifted....but to who? Don't be surprised if you will be asked to make a full upfront payment for all the parts.
Hope is not a plan, haha, but I do hope you are correct sir. I have four build kits sitting on my workbench and I can't proceed until I receive replacement parts...IF I could purchase let's say, build "X" forward to completion all at once, would I do it? Yes, of course I would. I consider it this way, considering the limited production run of these models, it's only logical that completed models MIGHT one day be valuable, but that's not my reason, I just think it's geeky cool.
@@RocketCityRVer Yes...you got me. I'm just running on hope. :)
Already started the ship they have to forfill the order it’s gonna be included in the bankruptcy approval so there’s no worries
Thanks for Posting. I'm only through stage 37 with a few more boxes still to go through. Now I don't know that I'll ever open them.
I wish i knew what to do with my Enterprise. no news from England about eaglemoss makes me think no one will get a complete kit.
I'm seven issues away from a finished Ecto1. I'm really hoping they get this straightened out. I talked myself into this kit back in 2020 when I preordered.....never again.
While I understand companies struggling, to me, there seemed to be no indicators that Eaglemoss was hurting financially. IMO, the pandemic situation should have increased their business with those having to stay/work from home. Further, it seemed like a good business model, they charged me automatically for the build kits and other items...I was OK with that as long as they delivered...