- Guys, if you wanna join two Oztent RV tents together
with a weatherproof seal in the middle,
you need the OzTent RV Awning Connector.
I'm gonna tell you all about it.
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Hey guys, we're down here today at the BIG4 Caravan Park
at West Beach in Adelaide.
The city is about 20 minutes that way,
the beach is right over my shoulder
alongside the caravan park here.
The park's full of facilities.
There's a fully-kitted camp kitchen,
a pool, a bouncing pillow, there's a cafe nearby,
a fire pit and sports facilities.
You can entertain the kids
and the whole family here for ages.
Now, the folks a BIG4 have kindly given us some space today
to set up a couple of OzTent RV tents behind me here.
I've got 'em set up front to front,
'cause what I wanna show you
is the OzTent RV Awning Connector.
Let's get started.
Now, what the OzTent RV Awning Connector does
is allow you to set up two tents
up against each other like this
with the ends of the awnings close by,
and it actually fills in this space along the top here
with a gutter in a downpipe, and even a bit of gutter guard.
And there's also panels to enclose these sides here,
so you can cry and enclosed space
in the middle or between your two tents here.
I've got the optional Peaked side panel set up here as well.
If I grab two more Peaked side panels
and put 'em on this side, I could completely enclose
this space between my two OzTent RV tents here.
Now, there's an RV Awning Connector
specific to each RV tent,
with the exception of the RV3 and 4,
which are actually the same width of tent,
so the zips match up.
You can join a narrower tent to a wider tent,
so an RV2 to an RV5, it just means on one side
the zip won't go all the way along.
But I've got an RV3 and an RV4
that I'm gonna connect you today,
I'm gonna start by showing you what comes in the kit.
So looking at what comes in the bag here,
this is the carry bag I've got here.
You get a peg.
This is the gutter section that actually connects
along the top between the two awnings.
And this loose bit of fabric here is a little downpipe.
And then there's two synthetic thinner fabric panels,
they're the side panels that attach down each side.
So I've put them aside 'cause we need
to attach the top section first.
I'll show you how that works.
Now if we grab the more robust part
of our awning connector here,
there's a thicker PVC and mesh section
and a little thin section or thinner fabric.
This thinner fabric is our downpipe,
this runs down the side of the tent
and allows the water to run down
and away from our living space.
And then this mesh section here, this faces upwards,
this is like a gutter guard
that stops all the leaves from getting into my gutter,
and that protects a PVC catchment underneath
where the water will catch in
and then run down our downpipe.
Now on the side here, we got two zippers.
The second zipper's actually for connecting
the front wall on while we've got
the awning connector in place, that's on both sides,
so we could if we wanted put two front walls on.
I'm not sure why you'd do that, but you could.
So we need to orient it so this mesh side is facing up.
And then, the zippers start at opposite ends,
so I can see this zipper starts with the zipper pull
up on the awning up here.
And then this side here,
the zipper's actually gonna start at the other end.
So we just need to have a think about
where the zippers start and finish.
First thing I'm gonna do
is connect this side to the far tent.
Now if you do find yourself getting a bit confused
about what zip lines up where or it doesn't seem to work,
just stop and have a think about it.
Because they do all work,
you just need to make sure you're using the right zipper.
Now, I've got that connected on one side there.
We do just need to make sure we grab the storm flap here,
and that matches up to the Velcro patch
on the awning connector here.
We can just push that in place, all the way along.
And from there we do up the second side,
starting at this end.
Gonna do up the second side,
and the zipper pull is on the awning on this side here.
Now, I've set the tent up so I've got
roughly the right gap here.
You might find you need to shuffle the tents a little bit
to make sure the gap's close enough.
So I just pull this across, put the zipper in place
and I can do this up.
Now, it's hard to do the Velcro up on top as I'm going here,
but it is weighted and it does sort of
fall into place as you go.
So, I'll do all that up,
all the way along to the other side.
And that's our gutter in place,
ready to start catching water.
Now, that's the top section
of the awning connector all connected.
We can see we've got the mesh gutter guard on top here
and the gutter underneath.
Now, that's channelling water into our downpipe here.
Now, we've got one peg that comes with the kit
so we can peg this out
just away from the tent a little bit here,
and then make sure we don't get water
all through our living area.
So we got the top section set up here.
We can see our gutter guard on the top here
that's keeping leaves out, it's got a catchment here
and that runs into our gutter on this side.
Now, the gutter is actually designed
to be lower on this side than it is
at the far end of the tent there,
so the water will run this way and down the downpipe.
Now, obviously if your tent's set up on a slope
the water's gonna get in the other way.
So, just something you need to think about.
Now, all that we need to do now
is put the panel on the other side.
There's two panels, one can go here.
I'm not gonna do that today
'cause I don't have the side walls here,
but I can show you how it fits on the other side.
To do that, we need to grab the panel
and go around to the outside of the tent.
Now, attaching the little side panels is pretty easy.
It's all Velcro, apart from a couple
of brass eyelets in the top here.
There's a curved panel at one end,
now that fits underneath the gutter.
So, this end of the gutter is open,
so if water does come out this way,
it runs on the outside of our panel
into the outside of the tent.
And then these little brass eyelets,
they go over our spigots here.
Now, I think the best way to set it up
is to actually put the side panel right underneath
the awning and everything here.
So it sits right underneath,
and all these storm flaps go over the top.
So I need to loosen the guy rope, take the guy rope off,
take the awning out and take the pole out from the awning
and then put the side panel awning
and then guy rope back in place.
So that's our eyelets in place.
From here, it's all just putting Velcro in place.
So, from the top here, there's a Velcro tab on the gutter,
we just make sure that attaches to the side panel here
so the water runs to the outside of the tent
and then down the side of the side panels here.
We line up all these Velcro strips, right to the bottom,
and that seals up the gap in between.
Now that's the side panel for the awning connector attached.
And I haven't talked much about fabrics yet.
These side panels are actually a ripstop polyester.
The downpipe on the other side is also a ripstop polyester,
and the gutter that runs along the middle is actually a PVC.
So they're all made pretty heavy duty.
Now we could put one of these on the other side as well.
And if we had a second deluxe side panel kit
over there like I mentioned,
you can completely enclose that centre space.
So, a couple of other questions
people have had about the awning connector,
I just wanna come back inside and talk to you about 'em.
Now, I've had plenty of people ask
if they can use the awning connector
with two different sized RV tents.
As I mentioned before, you can.
But what it means is that your narrower tent
is gonna start level with the wider tent on one side,
and it's gonna finish just short at the other side.
So, you can use 'em,
they're just not gonna line up completely.
And that means you're only going to be able
to put one of these side panels on,
you're always gonna have a gap on that side.
But it's still perfectly doable.
I just wanna show you the zipper that's inside here as well.
That's still exposed here, so we can attach the front panel
to our the front of our awning here if we like
to create a divider between these two spaces.
The zipper on the side panel here is still exposed
so we can completely zip the front panel in there.
Now, people also wanna know how to get the right spacing
when they're setting it up, for this to fit easily.
Well, I did it by laying out the two mesh floor savers here.
Now, I've not done a very good job of it today,
'cause I've got a bit of a gap here.
But I laid them out, pegged them in the same pegs here.
I had to shuffle the chance a little bit,
so maybe don't put your pegs all the way in
until you know your awning connector fits nicely.
One thing I haven't mentioned is the pack size.
This was the bag it comes in, as I was holding at the start.
It's only 30 to 40 centimetres in length,
they weigh about half a kilo.
So, very portable, don't take up much room in your car.
You can grab these online at snowys.com.au
at the lowest prices everyday.
I hope that was useful, we'll see you next time.
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