Hey guys, set up behind me here
is the Coleman Instant Northstar 10 Dark Room Lighted Tent.
I'm going to show you how to set it up
and how to pack it away today.
Let's check it out.
Ben from Snowy's here guys,
down in Adelaide's western suburbs
at the BIG4 West Beach Holiday Park.
This is just a stone's throw from the beach,
just over the other side of the park here,
20 minutes from the city.
There's tonnes of space, lots of facilities
for mum, dad, and the kids.
They've given us some space to set up
some products for you here today.
I'm gonna show you how to set up and pack away
the Coleman Instant Northstar 10 Dark Room Lighted Tent.
Now the tent weighs about 30 kilos.
Packed up it measures about 120 long by 32 high and 32 deep.
I'll get started setting it up shortly,
but I'll show you first what comes in the bag.
Now inside the bag for your Instant Northstar Tent here,
it's all secured with a couple of tie straps here.
You get the main portion of the tent.
This has got the tent and the frame
all tied in as one, it pinches together.
This is the flysheet over to the side here.
You get all the guy ropes and there's six,
I think six, awning poles,
and they're steel awning poles, and a big bag of pegs.
Now to get started setting it up
we can put the fly and the poles aside.
We gotta spread the inner out and peg all the corners down.
Now this one sets up a little bit differently
than the other Instant Up tents in the range.
It's a hoop-style tent, so it's actually got
four hoops that do up this way, so,
we gotta unroll it and set them up separately.
It's more of a tunnel-style tent.
So if we unroll this, find all the corners,
and then peg them all out.
Now the pegs that come with your Northstar 10 tent
are pretty light when it comes to thickness.
You'd benefit from upgrading the pegs.
At least upgrade a handful of them
so that you've got heavier pegs for the guy ropes.
I'm gonna use these today, though.
I'll also mention I've got a
six metre by three metre groundsheet
that I'm setting the tent up on here today.
I am gonna have to fold this front bit
under a little bit to get some pegs in place.
Alternatively, if I didn't wanna fold it under,
I could put eyelets in the groundsheet
where I want the pegs to go.
But right now, I'm gonna put all these pegs
in all the corners of the base.
Now I put the pegs in the base.
There's three in each end at the moment.
Now it is picking up a little bit windy here.
Certainly benefit from a second set of hands,
but I'll see how I go by myself.
What we need to do next is start to invert these poles.
So, there's two lots of knuckles, one on each side.
This steel section goes to a fibreglass section here.
They invert, and then the middle section here
we can push down a little bit and it sorta locks into place.
We'll go inside and double check that shortly.
But we need to do, orient each pole section
so that it looks roughly like this.
First do these two knuckles,
and then push this one down to lock it in place.
The next step is to extend the steel section of these poles
out as such, so that it brings the tent up to full height.
So that's the inner pretty much set up.
We'll just double check a few things
before we put the fly on.
First of all, make sure all these clips
are attached to the pole.
So I'll just go around the tent
and make sure they're all in place.
Some of them can come off.
And secondly we need to step inside the tent here
and make sure that these mechanisms
at the top are locked into place.
Up under here, there is a little handle to pull.
We just pull down on that and just make sure
that that little red button at the top is locked in tightly.
Next step for us now is to get the flysheet on
and it might take a little bit of wrangling
to try and work out the right orientation for the flysheet
but we just need to make sure the doors line up
on the right side, so I'll unfold this
and try to work it all out.
So I've laid the flysheet out here
to try and get the orientation right.
It's not the easiest, but to give you a guide,
there's four doorways to this tent.
And they're golden in colour.
So this one here is gonna be my back door.
The two golden panels at each end are my end doors.
Now the reason I know that it's that way around,
because on this side here
I'm going to have my awning set up.
Now the awning has got these extra panels
of fabric kind of zipped up underneath.
They're what forms the walls on the side
of the awning when I set it up.
So I've got a panel here and a panel up underneath here.
They're just extra flaps of fabric in underneath.
Where is it?
Over here.
So this is the extra fabric
that'll create the wall for my awning.
So I know that this side here
is gonna be this side of the tent.
Now this would be a whole lot easier
with a second set of hands to pull it up over the top.
Might be a bit of a wrestle by myself,
but I'll see how I go.
So I've gotten the flysheet over the top.
Now we do need to attach the flysheet to the inner,
so if we just fold this back at the end here,
at the top here there's a couple of Velcro tabs.
They line up with the Velcro on the inner here.
So we just wrap that over the top.
And then on each side, there are some
other Velcro tabs, or just a loop.
Just this one here, which goes around
the fibreglass pole at the top here.
Now these loops
feature on the inner two hoops.
And then there is another one of these on the far end
that we gotta put in place.
So, there is a couple more loops here on the centre one
So theses ones actually go around the steel pole
on the side here.
That's on the front and the back of the tent.
So that's the flysheet attached to the inner.
Now I just gotta go around and put all the pegs
around the base.
So, I got most of the pegs in around the base now.
What we are going to next is put the guy ropes in.
And I can also peg these windows out if I wanted.
Their shutters still covers it at the moment
If I was to unzip this, there is a guy rope at each corner
that allows me to peg these out as a
little sheltered shade awnings over the window if I like.
I'm not going to do that now.
And I haven't put any pegs up on the front here
'cause we got multiple awning options with this tent.
We are going to get guy ropes in first.
And then I'll talk to you about the awnings.
So, I put six guy ropes in, two on each end
and two on each side.
There is an extra one on the centre at the end here
and I haven't set the guy ropes up on the front here
'cause I'm going to set up that awning shortly.
This is where the magic happens in the front seat.
But, before I get to that,
you get six awning poles for this tent.
You need four to set up a large awning in the front
and the other two, you got the option of setting up this end
has got brass eyelets in the corners
so we can set this up as an awning.
The same can be said for the door at the rear here.
This can also be set up as an awning.
The same door that features on this end
same as that door can also be set up as an awning.
So we got multiple awning options.
I'll it up first and then
we'll talk about the awning options at the front.
I got my four awning poles here.
There are two shorter ones and two longer ones.
The shorter ones are for each end of the front here
along with the ones in the middle.
There are a multitude of set up options for this awning
at the front here and it's probably hard...
It's going to be hard to explain it without setting it up.
So I'm going to set it up first
and then I'll run through the options with you.
So before I set this up, I just unzipped this gusite here.
Which give it the awning a little bit of space
to kinda spread out when it's set up.
And I find the eyelets in the corner.
I put an awning pole through the eyelet.
And then I go right on top of it and peg it out!
So I got the awning set up in full in the front here now.
I just had to..
I'm going to make night.
I had to fold the groundsheet back here
to get the peg in the corner, but I still got
a nice amount of groundsheet sticking out the front here.
Now this is the awning set up in full.
So, I got the shorter poles on each end here
and the tall ones in the middle.
I've undone these gusites in the middle here
so, it allows the awning to expand to it's full extent.
I have also extended these walls on the end here.
Now there are eyelets obviously in the four spots,
that I've got poles in at the moment.
But, there are extra eyelets here
and another one here as well.
So, this awning can actually be divided into three sections.
So we can have a small awning on each side
with this one closed if we want.
Or we can just have this awning with both sides closed down.
There are zips down the middle here
that allows us to close this side down
and collapse all of this back down if we want.
With walls on the ends too, don't have to be set up.
We can unzip them as well.
I'd take the peg out the bottom,
roll this back and secure it against the tent.
So, there are multiple set up options
with the awning out at the front here.
So, it gives you a really unique living space in your tent.
That's how you set up the Coleman Instant Northstar
10 Dark Room Tent.
Much easier if you have a second set of hands,
but I managed by myself.
Pack up is just as easy.
First thing I'm going to do,
is pull the guy ropes out and put the awning poles away.
Now I can go and take the guy ropes out.
There is no wind here at the moment
so I'm not too concerned about anything blowing away.
I'll take the pegs out around the base of the fly,
remove the Velcro tabs around the poles
and I can fold the fly up.
So, if you just take a little bit of time to fold the fly
as flat as you can, It's gonna make fitting it back
into the bag a whole lot easier.
It's also a lot easier if you have a second set of hands
to help you, particularly if it's windy.
There is two stages to collapsing the inner down.
First one is to release the little buttons on the side here.
To collapse all four arms down.
You may have to unzip the door
to step in far enough to get to this button here.
But, there is a red button inside here.
You can just see it through the mesh here.
We need to push that down and
that's gonna release this mechanism to fold upwards,
So, the corner knuckles release.
You push it down with your hands on both sides.
Push down on the whole thing
and you'll just feel the mechanism release.
And eventually just lazily fold up like that.
The knuckles fold in on the sides.
We do that on each pole.
Then just fold to the side when you are folding it in half.
So now we can let the poles just sorta collapse down.
What you wanna do now is just pull the pegs
out from the ends.
And then we are going to fold the long half of the tent
on top of the other long half of the tent.
And then we can roll it up.
From this point I am just going to fold this end in
to where the first pole is.
So, I got something to start rolling with.
From here I can grab the pole
and start to roll the whole tent up.
From here we can grab the straps and tie this up.
Now I've rolled the fly and the inner up separately.
I'll see how we are gonna get that back in the bag.
Now that's...
Fit back in the bag pretty easily with the fly
and the inner rolled up separately.
And that's how you set up and put away
The Coleman Instant Northstar 10 Dark Room Lighted Tent.
I did that all by myself pretty easily.
Certainly be easier with a second pair of hands.
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