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I'm not sure what do you think about the bedroom slide though like with that bush
and then where you're at with the box I think
we might be good you want to go back there and see if we have uh clearance
yeah I think we'll be okay the other thing is is too once that the jacks are
down we'll probably lift it up a little bit so it should be good all right
let's do this all right so we just arrived at our campsite after a uh
feels like a long travel day we just might be out of the habit a little bit but anyway
so about four and a half hour drive into the Miami area today so we're getting set up so first things
first whenever you arrive to a campsite is you always want to make sure your RV is level before
you start putting out your slides so we're going to put the levelers down and then once we put the
levelers down then we'll walk around the RV one more time make sure that we're good on our slide
clearances and then we'll start putting those out next so the first thing that we need to do
is drop the jacks and before you drop the jack you want to make sure the
the motor is running because it does really take a lot of juice out of the batteries when
pulling out the slides so I'm going to go ahead and start it and then go drop the jacks
so I had a bunch of these wood blocks cut
so basically what these do is you put those under the jacks
so if the ground is soft it will give you more room to to level the jacks so we're just gonna put
three of these blocks under each one of the jacks and basically what that does is it gives the jacks
a little more flexibility to level out definitely would recommend picking up some of those
all right so we have the levelers down and then there are three main hookups that you have at
an RV campground so you have your electric hookup you have your water hookup and then
you have your sewer hookup when you have what are considered full hookups so those are your three
utilities that you have so we're going to show you how to hook up all three of those utilities
okay so the first thing that I do when we get to a campsite is that I hook up the electric so
charity can turn on the air conditioners run out the slides and take care of everything
inside so as soon as we're the electric's hooked up I just tap on the knock on the
side of the RV and to let her know that she can go ahead and do her inside duties all right so
let's go ahead and get the electrical hooked up we're in a little bit of a tight spot here
okay so here is our electrical cord I do have a progressive industries surge protector
on it this is a 50 amp portable surge protector this protects the RV from any brown out any uh
issues with the pedestal it'll let you know by the indicator lights if there's an issue
and uh yeah this thing's awesome you definitely want to get one of these if you don't have one
we'll put a link in the description below let's go ahead and open this up we're gonna
go plug this in now sometimes you may have 50 amp service sometimes you'll have 30 amp so here's the
difference between the two so if you do have a 30 amp service what you'll need is to get one of
these dog bones so what these dog bones do is plug in to the 50 amp outlet to convert it to 30 amp
but we have a full 50 amp hookup so we want to utilize the full 50 amps of service first thing
you want to do is make sure the breaker is off before you plug it in and then we'll plug it in
and then flip the breaker on and as you can see here we have green and blue on the progressive
industries so that is good so we're gonna wrestle with this tree and then close this up
and so this one there is a little slot down here as you can see where the cord
goes so this is a little bit of a gap so I want to make sure that's in there
and then I can just close close it up and we're good to go okay so next I hook up the water
go ahead and cook that up first and then we'll do sewer after so in this facebook compartment
I do have this white hose that I use and then I have this water filter from amco that will
filter the water that goes into the rig and then as you can see on the filter there is a an arrow
that points the direction that the water should flow so we're gonna go and screw this guy on
and I've already got one of these little uh elbows on here and what this does is it creates some flex
so it can just hang down we'll go ahead and put a link in the description for that
it actually comes with some of these Camco water filters
and so what this does it's nice to have this because trying to screw this in and out on this
city water spigot it can wear out this connection so having this in place you're only wearing out
this elbow and you can just replace the elbow if it ever wears out on the other end here is where I
have this pressure regulator this is an adjustable pressure regulator which I prefer versus like the
50 psi regulators that you can't adjust those are fixed so usually I'll go from like 60 psi
65 for our rig you can handle a little bit more but just to be on the safe side I keep it at 60.
so the last thing that I hook up is the sewer hose now some campgrounds have a certain rules like
this one that we're staying at this is a thousand trails park and the rule at this campground is
that you do need to have the hose off the ground on one of these ladders so I'm going to just put
one of these ladders down and then we want it to find out where the sewer is and that's right over
there and we want it to flow downhill right we want it to flow downhill I always put a pair of
gloves on first thing we want to do is put this up through the hole and connect it up to the to this
we don't want to open these up yet of course then grab this so we just want to make sure
we've got the right length first right so if we don't have the right length
i recommend having two different hoses that way you can hook them up to each other and extend it
out further if you need more hose but in this case we're good to go so what I'm going to do
is I take this off first then I screw it on to the sewer so we're going to open the cap up
what I'm going to do is screw this on make sure it's nice and tight
okay then what I do is turn this as far right as possible and then turn it tight so that way it's
nice and snug then we're gonna go ahead and put it on the ladder so come on over and let's uh put
this up on the ladder so you just want to get it extended out as far as possible so we leave
the black tank closed at all times and the thing you want to do is when you do pull the black tank
pull it first then let it drain completely after you're done with that you want to go ahead and
close the black tank and then open the gray tank to wash out anything from the hose so it's
completely clean and you can leave the gray tank open at all times so we're going to open the gray
I don't have anything in the black right now so we're going to leave that closed
and we're going to leave the gray open and we are good to go out here all right so ben has got the
outside stuff done and I'm going to run out the slides a couple things that we like to do when
we're running out the slides is to just make sure it's a two-person job especially if you're
at a place like a state park where there's trees or bushes something where there is a potential
for the slide to hit something so when I run the slides out I usually have been outside just kind
of watching just to make sure that there's not anything in the way the other thing is is when
running the slides both in and out it's always a good idea to just do a quick visual double check
on the inside and make sure that you don't have anything in the way we've ruined more than one
thing by not realizing it was in the way of the slide path and then crushing it is the slide was
going out so I'm gonna do a quick double check on all of those things and then get the slides out
so we are all set up and ready to camp for the week and we hope that you found this video
helpful in some way especially if you're new to RVing or setting up a RV or camper
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