- G'day folks, this is the Smarttek Tripod Stand.
It's a super convenient way to mount
your Smarttek Hot Water system in your camp site
no matter where you pull up.
Let's check it out.
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Hey folks Ben from Snowy's here today,
down in the Brown Hill Creek Caravan Park again
which is a really easy getaway for Adelaidians
or a great stop over if you're passing through Adelaide,
right down in Adelaide's Eastern suburbs,
only 15 minutes from the city,
right next to the Adelaide Hills
and just across town from the beach.
They've given us some space down at the caravan park
next to the creek that runs along
the back of the caravan park here today,
to show you some products.
And I am going through some Smarttek gear for you.
First of all we've got the Smarttek Tripod Stand,
which is a super convenient way and portable way
to mount your Smarttek hot water system
no matter where you are set up camp.
So this is the product packed up,
it measures about 72 in length
by about 12 or 13 centimetres in diameter.
I'll start by showing you what you get in the bag.
So this is what comes in the bag
with your Smarttek Tripod Stand.
This is the main portion or the tripod or the base,
this is the extension that goes on the top of that.
You get a couple of brackets and three pegs
to secure it to the ground.
Now these brackets line up with a mounting point
on the Smarttek Hot Water system.
Now this isn't included with the tripod,
this is the main unit that you buy separately,
but these brackets line up with the mounting points
on the back here and I will show you how
that works in a sec.
The first thing we are gonna do to set up
the tripod stand is work out where you want to set it up.
We need it to be near a water source
or near power source when you're setting up the shower,
so I'm gonna set it up just here.
Now to orient the tripod there's a flat section on one side.
You want that to be facing away from the side
that your shower's mounted on.
So my shower is gonna face this way,
so I will spread it out here.
Now as you pull this middle section up,
the legs will spread out,
I'm just gonna wiggle it around a bit
and they fall to the side
and there's a nut on the side here
that you can tighten up
to keep that in place.
There's also another nut on the bottom,
you can adjust it from the bottom up as well, if you like.
Not sure why you'd wanna do that
but you can leave it in place.
From there grab your pegs and they go in the eyelets
on each corner here to keep it steady
so it doesn't fall over while your shower is mounted on top.
Now we grab the two brackets and the extension sleeve
that goes top here.
Gotta put the brackets on first,
they won't fit over the plastic cap on top here.
And when we put these brackets on,
we gotta put them in opposite directions
so the one on the bottom has got this lip facing upwards
and then the one on the top has this lip facing downwards.
We then put the extension sleeve on top there,
same deal, flat side to flat side, so it fits neatly
over the top, slide that into place
and then we can slide these brackets right up the top.
Now I'm gonna mount mine as high as I can.
So I tighten this one at the top here,
I leave the bottom one loose because from here
we can put the shower on here and then tighten this up
against the bottom of it.
Now we grab our hot water unit,
now, if you've got a Smarttek branded hot water unit,
you'll have these tabs here which are used
to mount it onto this tripod.
I guess you could use the tripod
for other mounting options as well
but you might need to improvise depending
on what your hot water system has got here.
The Smarttek one though slides right into place,
so it we position the one at the top here,
we grab the bottom bracket and slide it up
so that it sits in the sleeve
and we tighten this nut in place.
That's now supporting the shower
but there's a couple more things to tighten up
just to stop it from sliding out sideways.
There's four nuts on each side here
and what they do is tighten up against the little bracket
up underneath here, to stop it from sliding out.
Now that's our tripod all set up with our shower attached.
Now that was pretty straight forward.
Now I haven't told you about materials yet
but this is an aluminium, it's really light weight,
it's only about 1.44 kilos
and these components are all plastic throughout,
they're a durable plastic and they feel pretty sturdy.
Now in terms of the height, I've got this set
at a height that makes it reasonably sturdy at the moment,
the legs are spread reasonably wide,
now you could sort of pull those legs in closer
and it's gonna push that up a little bit higher here,
but the whole unit is not gonna be quite as steady
when you're doing that.
Now pack up, this is just as easy as set up,
everything in reverse.
Now we've got everything packed down,
it can all go back in the bag and that is how
you set up and pack away the Smarttek Tripod Stand.
Now you could use this for other appliances,
obviously it is made specifically
for the Smarttek Portable Hot Water Unit.
If you're willing to improvise a little bit
with the brackets, you can make something
that will clip on to the unit that you've got
if you've got anything, I'm not sure what,
that you need to keep up a little bit higher off the ground
in the camp site.
You can grab these online at snowys.com.au
at our lowest prices everyday.
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let us know down in the comments below.
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