What clever modifications or upgrades have you made to your caravan?

[Beachball]

Did you manage to get Flogas to exchange your cylinders or just get new contracts, What sort of initial cost were involved?

No our AWS caravan engineer brought the new ones and took the old ones and he knew someone wanted them .

 

[SeaDog]

Was that a magor change or just a we bit cosmetic?

The problem started when the pull out slide separating the top and bottom compartments needed lubricating nearly every three to four days, then the flush push button packed up, replacement unit housing the button was £126.00. Our son found a replacement button on eBay , a 5pack for £2.95. And soldered it in.
All worked well, then a dry joint in the pcb couldn’t be located. Then the ring that dispenses water to the bowl cracked. We had by now had enough, I had heard of other caravanners that had replaced their Dometic for a Thetford, we have been trouble free since.

 

[Dustydog]

No our AWS caravan engineer brought the new ones and took the old ones and he knew someone wanted them .

Do you take them home each time? Does the site have refills?

 

[otherclive]

Do you take them home each time? Does the site have refills?

You can get gaslights delivered.

 

[Coachman Dave]

Foam pipe insulation is useful for a few applications. Our previous van had the central washroom with the quadrant shower. The sliding doors were forever jumping off track while travelling, inserting short pieces of insulation between the doors and shower tray stopped this happening

 

[otherclive]

Foam pipe insulation is useful for a few applications. Our previous van had the central washroom with the quadrant shower. The sliding doors were forever jumping off track while travelling, inserting short pieces of insulation between the doors and shower tray stopped this happening

Really does make me wonder just what development testing is carried out on caravans. A neat and cheap solution by you though.

 

[Sam Vimes]

The trend these days with all manner of things is to let the customer try things out first and see if they complain.

 

[GaryB]

What did you use for the wireless router and removable ariel?

I used a TP Link router with a 4G data SIM. The aerial is a 4G mounted on top of a piece of plastic conduit that attached to the caravan with a clamp-on bracket (the base stays attached to the caravan with an adhesive pad). The router cables terminate in the battery box and the aerial cables plug into them via a socket.



I added a 230V socket in the wardrobe and mounted the router in there

 

[GUMPY]

If I was doing mine again I would go for a Poynting or Panorama shark fin antenna on the roof with short cables, giving an extra 3db gain.

 

[GaryB]

If I was doing mine again I would go for a Poynting or Panorama shark fin antenna on the roof with short cables, giving an extra 3db gain.

My problem was that I am CLUELESS with all things digital/data related so just had to follow what someone did on YouTube and hope for the best! Some of it just sounds like a foreign language to me.

 

[GUMPY]

My problem was that I am CLUELESS with all things digital/data related so just had to follow what someone did on YouTube and hope for the best! Some of it just sounds like a foreign language to me.

A good rule of thumb with Radio Data or indeed any radio system is:
The shorter the cables and the lower the number of connections the better the signal will be.