- Ben from Snowy's here folks,
down at the Brownhill Creek Tourist Park.
Beautiful sunny day, and I've got
the Oztent SV-5 Max set up behind me here.
I'm taking it for a walkthrough.
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The SV-5 has a slightly different
pole structure than traditional RV tents that we've known,
offers more internal space,
loads of external undercover space,
and everything that you see set up here
comes included in the kit.
Now, it's not the smallest tent by any means.
It measures about, little over two metres
or 210 centimetres,
which most RV tens measure about that anyway.
About 30 to 40 centimetres in diameter
and it weighs about 32 kilos,
that's with everything included inside.
So you are going to need a trailer,
or a roof-rack to be able to carry the SV-5 Max tent,
but you get so much livability
and it's really easy to set up,
Well getting to the tent,
we'll start with a bit of a walk around the back
before we jump into all the interesting bits
in the front here,
now just at the side here we'll start with looking here,
a window with an internally adjustable privacy screen
inside there, we'll show you how that's adjusted shortly.
Moving around, we can see this is one side of the fly,
now this is included with the tent.
You can remove the fly if you like,
it just zips across the top of the tent there,
and it comes straight off or leave it on
so it can all be packed up together.
Maybe further, really, it's a bit of a gap in the fly here,
We can just tuck up underneath here,
and have a look at this rear window here.
Now this is a big, long window,
we'll see it a bit better when we were inside the tent.
This is zipped or rolled open at the moment.
There's a tab up here, or three tabs across here.
(Velcro tearing)
We can actually roll this down if we like
(zipper squeaking) and do this zipper up.
There's a nice big overlap here
between the zipper and the mesh,
so it's nice and weatherproof.
And there'd be guy ropes on the corners here,
so we can actually peg this out
as a bit of weather-protected awning over the top of here,
So if we weren't using the fly sheet,
we can have protection over this window
while still allowing ventilation,
so it's not going to get wet,
you're gonna get airflow,
when this fly is not attached.
Come around to the back of the tent,
You can see the fly sheet covering this rear window.
There's four peg-points across the back here,
they just pull this fabric up, and away,
so it doesn't sag too much while you're inside the tent,
so you've got a bit more living space.
And then this side of the tent here,
exact mirror image of the other side,
fly over the top of a window, up underneath here,
which has got another
internally adjustable privacy screen on it.
Let's have a look at the awning on the SV-5 Max here,
now there's two parts to this.
Starting at about 3 metres at the front of the tent here,
this extends out to about 3 1/2 metres, to this point here,
which is where the actual awning
that's attached to the tent finishes.
From this point,
which is about 2 1/2 metres out from the tent,
we can attach the included tarp extension,
which extends the awning another 2 1/2 metres, out to here,
and this measures 5 metres from pole to pole
across the front here.
So you've got a total of 5 metres from this point here,
back to the tent tapering out to 5 metres
at the front of the awning here,
so you've got all this living space
included with the SV-5 Max,
but you don't have to set this bit up,
you can just set that bit up, if you like.
These poles are 2.3 metres at the front,
so you can get plenty of height.
1.9 metre poles that're 'cross here,
these ridge polls are included,
and then 2.3 metre height at this peak here.
So, plenty of head-space, lots of livability.
You could set up a camp kitchen,
you can have a party for a family of eight under here,
if you liked, heaps and heaps of room.
Looking at some of the other features
underneath the awning here,
we'll start on this side, here.
There are zippers that run right around the sides here.
The front section here,
where the actual awning for the tent finishes,
has got two zippers.
One for an extension, say a front wall down here,
the other one for the tarp extension out the front.
As we move across the back here there are tabs,
that feature all the way around the sides here,
and they're for attaching, LED lights,
or for cables, just to maintain a lighting system,
they run right across the front of the tent here,
back around the other side of the awning,
and across to the front,
but they don't extend out to the tarp extension out here.
But before we go any further,
I just want to touch on the fabrics
that is used in the tent now.
The accessories, which is the tarp extension here,
and the fly sheet at the rear is a 210T ripstop polyester,
so a lighter weight material, still strong,
but a lighter weight material for the accessories.
The tent is made of the same
8 oz ripstop cotton polyester
that RV tents've been made of for years.
It offers a really good balance of weight and durability.
Within the tent itself, (fabric rustling)
there are ultra fine mesh panels.
This is a vent at the top here
that's made with an ultra fine mesh.
Whether it's midge-proof, always a bit questionable,
but I'd say it's going to give you pretty good protection.
Also doors here, same ultra-fine ripstop,
ah not ripstop, sorry, ultra fine mesh.
That also features in the windows on each side
and the window at the rear.
Coming down to the base of the tent,
we've got a 510 gsm PVC.
Now this is a different colour
than what they previously used in the RV tents,
but it's the same sort of PVC,
so really tough floor.
Would benefit from a ground sheet underneath here.
At this stage of shooting the video,
Oztent don't have a mat or ground sheet for this tent,
but I think there is one coming out.
So watch out for that,
otherwise you could use any groundsheet underneath here.
And the frame,
all of the frame inside here that you can see,
as well as the frame, awning poles and things
that are featured out underneath the awning here,
are all in aluminium, strong, lightweight aluminium.
We'll step inside in a sec, but I want to show you
the features at the front here first.
So these doors are double doors.
You got mesh and solid panels. (canvas flapping)
There's a zip that runs straight down the middle here,
and then two zips that run across the middle here as well,
and they meet in the middle,
so all your zips terminate here.
So it's an inverted T door on the front here
that can be secured back. (fabric crumpling)
You can zip them up independently,
you can just have the mesh door open,
with a solar panel,
or seal them right back like this, if you like.
And as I mentioned before there are these vents up here.
Now that is mesh there,
but there is this internally adjustable panel.
There's a zipper there, (zipper squeals)
that you can do it up, (fabric hissing)
to keep it closed. (zipper squealing)
If you undo these panels, (fabric rustling)
there's a little tab that features,
bit hard to see but it's up underneath here.
There is a tab there so you can roll this closed,
(fabric crumpling)
and keep it open like that,
which is probably a good way
to have these vents most of the time,
'cause it's gonna allow ventilation
up and out at the top of the tent,
particularly if you're not using the fly,
because this is a single-skin tent,
and single-skin tents, if you're out in a cold night,
condensation is going to build up
between where the cold air and the warm air meets,
which if you're not using the fly,
is the inside of the tent here
and you're going to get water dripping in.
So having these open,
is a really good way to vent that air out,
and keep it dry space inside the tent.
We'll step inside and have a look in here now,
and we'll start with the windows on the sides of the tent.
Here now, (fabric hissing)
this is that internally adjustable panel
(zipper squealing)
that I, ah, privacy screen that I was talking about.
(zipper squealing)
We can unzip this from the inside,
roll it closed, (fabric crumpling)
there's a tab at the bottom to secure it if we like,
or what I like to do with my RV-5
(zipper squealing)
is just have it done up, most of the way,
and it just still has a little bit of ventilation
there while allowing privacy down-lane.
Now this is all seam-sealed inside here,
and it's really waterproof fabric,
so even though this panel is on the outside,
they're seam-sealed at the bottom,
you're not going to get water in
through this window here. (zipper squealing)
The tent itself is completely waterproof.
Moving around
(zipper squealing) to the side of the tent
here we can see the frame that I talked about before,
all aluminium.
Around the back here, we've got that a long window,
that I mentioned, at the rear,
mesh right across the back here,
so tonnes of ventilation with that open alone,
I'm still getting shade from the fly on the outside there.
If I didn't have the fly, I can use that panel
that's rolled up there,
to give me a bit of shade over the top.
Just above that, two storage pockets.
This one's a bit of a media pocket, so it's got PVC,
clear PVC on the front there, (plastic crumpling)
so you can put a tab or something
in there if you like, just to put it up there,
lie down, watch a show or whatever you like to do,
or just use it for storage.
Then on the other side (paper crackling)
here is just a, um,
(fabric rustling)
a polyester pocket, two, separated down the middle
by a bit of stitching. (fingers scrabbling)
So you've got two separate pockets there,
and these can be removed if you like,
(Velcro tearing)
you don't have to take them, it's just a Velcro tab there.
You can take them off
and you can use it somewhere else in the tent,
put 'em around on one of the awning poles if you like.
Moving a little further around,
we'll just have a look at the rear here,
'cause you can see the frame doesn't extend
right to the rear of the tent.
This section here kind of folds back in here
when the tent packs away.
So if you're using a really thin mat,
you're probably going to notice this pole here,
but being such a heavy duty tent,
usually people have got thicker mats,
air beds or stretchers, so this doesn't become an issue.
But in saying that,
it's only about a centimetre or so thick,
so it sits nice and flat to the ground anyway.
Moving further around here,
we've got the other window
on the other side here,
with another internally adjustable
(zipper squealing) privacy screen.
And that (zipper squealing)
can be easily opened and closed
from the inside while you're in the tent.
(fabric rustling)
So leave it open, if it rains, zip it closed.
So now we've now got ventilation across the tent,
ventilation at the back, doors at the front,
and the really cool feature in here,
if we jump up to the roof, it's the SkyMesh panel.
Now this is all closed here at the moment.
We can see there's a mesh panel here.
If I undo this, I just got to find the zippers,
(zipper squealing)
I undo this from the inside here,
(zipper squealing)
I then see, another canvas panel.
So this is the top of the inner tent.
If I reached down to the sides here and find the zippers,
(Velcro tearing)
it's sealed along the back here with Velcro,
(zipper squealing)
I unzip the sides here,
(Velcro tearing)
under the Velcro that runs right across the back here,
and undo the zipper on the other side,
I can open the roof of the tent right up.
I can now roll this up to the top here.
(fabric rustling)
There are tabs,
at the top here for me to secure this.
I'll just do that quickly, 'cause once I've done that,
I can actually secure or do the mesh up,
and if I didn't have the fly sheet on,
cause I'm looking at the fly sheet here now,
if I didn't have the fly sheet on a nice night,
I can do this up,
(zipper squealing)
I've got a mesh panel there,
no fly sheet, I'll be looking at the stars all night,
so you could lie down and do a bit of sky, stargazing.
So if you know it was going to be a nice dry night,
leave the fly off, under your skylight,
and you can check out the stars while you doze off to sleep.
Before I forget,
there is one other feature in here
and that're these little tabs that run up the corner here,
these are just for power access or power cord management,
that runs down and marries up
with the little zippy (zipper squealing)
here in the corner,
that we can use for power access.
So we can get a 12 or 240 volt cord in here,
and have power inside of our tent.
Now talking about space
inside the tent here, firstly height.
At the front of the tent there
it's about 1.8 metres to where the pole finishes,
a little bit less than that where the zipper is,
and that tapers to about 1.3 metres
where this rear pole is here, so.
Hasn't got a lot of standing space for tall people,
but still functional space.
But, what you really do get in this tent
is extra floor space.
Now the sides of the SV-5 angle out this way,
which traditional RV tents were straight.
And on top of that, it actually tapers
from the back of the tent to the front, out this way.
So you get tonnes more floor space in the SV-5 Max.
It's about 2.8 metres across the front,
once you take into account
a little bit of frame inside the tent,
and that tapers back to about 2.4 metres
where this frame is here,
and then a little further, about 2.1 metres
at the very rear of the tent here,
across there at 2.1 metres.
And depth wise,
from this point here to where the door is at the front
and at 2.6 metres in depth, so.
Where an RV-5 they used to sell as a five person tent,
probably a little bit tight for five,
this is moving more towards
being a reasonable amount of space for five people,
or four people plus a good amount of space.
What I do have though,
to try and show you
just how you might be able to use the space
or give a good representation
is some air beds and a stretcher,
which I'm going to put in here and see how they all fit.
Now, this is a pretty big stretcher,
it's about 50 centimetres in height,
bit over a metre in width,
and about 215 centimetres in length,
And it fits neatly against that edge,
it's just up against the back edge here.
What you do get in the SV-5
over the top of the traditional RV-5
is this storage space down the side here.
So you get a bit more space for bags and things.
You don't have to put it all underneath the stretcher.
(fabric hissing)
And this fits pretty much halfway across the tent here,
so this is the halfway point,
so you could fit two of these in here,
with storage space down each side.
You could probably sort of,
almost angle them just a little bit like that,
so you've got a little bit of a triangle here
to be able to step inside the tent,
and then onto a stretcher as well, so.
You don't get a lot of extra space
if you really want to put stretchers
inside the SV-5 over the top of the RV-5,
apart from getting a bit more storage space.
But given that most of the space is at ground level,
'cause the walls do slope out like this,
is probably gonna to find it is much more usable
if you've got air beds,
which I've got a few of and I'll put them in here,
(fabric rustling)
I'll put 'em in there now.
Now this is a double height queen air bed here.
So about 50, 55 centimetres in height,
about 150 centimetres in width,
and about two metres in length.
(fabric hissing)
And that fits pretty comfortably,
you can tuck it right back there,
You got space around the side and space each side.
If you kind of put this (fabric hissing)
in the middle of the tent here,
you've actually got room each side for two people.
So it makes it feel really comfortable,
two-person sleeping arrangement in here.
You wouldn't fit (fabric hissing)
two of these in here though now,
the RV-5 traditionally have just been a little bit tight
for two sort of double mats to fit in,
'cause the double mat is about 130, 140 centimetres.
So you need 260 to 280 centimetres in width,
which is fine at the front,
but it's gonna to get a little bit tight here.
You could probably squeeze 'em in,
but you're more likely to fit two double mats
in an SV-5 than an RV-5,
but you certainly wouldn't fit
two double high (hand thumping)
air beds in here.
I'll got two singles though that I'll put in here
and see how they fit. (fabric hissing)
Now these are two king single air beds.
So they're a single high one,
they measure about 180, 185 centimetres in length,
(hand thumping) and about a metre in width.
So you can see you've got plenty of space
in the middle here.
You see it tapers a bit.
If I push these (fabric hissing)
right to the back,
give you an idea (fabric hissing)
of sort of space you've got at each end,
all that storage there,
all this storage up the middle.
(fabric hissing) You put these here,
then you're probably better off
using this space up here for storage,
'cause then your head's a nice way away from the top here.
Probably important thing to know,
that while this does taper out to the front there,
the actual space here across the back
is about the same as the traditional RV-5.
So, while you get that extra room there,
you don't get a lot of extra length here,
so you still can't fit two big double air beds
or anything inside, but you do get that extra living space,
extra storage space that you don't have in an RV-5.
The real benefit of the Oztent SV-5 Max
is all the extra inclusions you get,
not just the fly, but this tarp extension out here
and the tapered shape that creates all of this living space
out the front of the tent here.
Even today, with the sun overhead,
I've got enough space here,
I could set up a table in here and sit down each side,
and no one would be in the sun, so.
You certainly get a lot of versatility
with the SV-5 Max tent.
Probably a really good balance for those who are looking
for say a touring tent that's got a quick-setup feature
that they also want to use for family camping.
That is all the features of the Oztent SB-5 Max,
the latest generation of RV tents from Oztent.
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