Tweak of the Week: Upgrade Your RV to LED Lights

 

When you roll your RV or trailer out to a music festival or campground, the rig’s lighting can be an overlooked source of functionality and aesthetic. But do you have the right light for the job? An easy hack which gets a lot of attention is upgrading your RV’s lights to LED.

Easy to replace but just as easily overlooked, LEDs have many advantages over conventional (incandescent) bulbs. Only if you see the light. LED lights last much, much longer than conventional bulbs, and they have dropped in price over the last few years. So it’s a no brainer to upgrade your bulbs.

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Tweak of the Week: Retool RV Dinette to Host Music Festival, Camping Friends

A functional disconnect often arises when you take delivery of a RV or travel trailer you intend to take to music festivals or large campground gatherings. As the name suggests, the dinette was designed for dining. Yet, when we’re hosting friends at a music festival or campsite, we spend more time hanging out than dining in. So, how can you maximize “dinette” functionality?

We’ve seen a bunch of Facebook posts and pix on great ideas. They’ve included everything from one on Fun RV Stuff on pulling the seating and installing a couch or recliners, or cutting a new wood plank to serve as a narrow platform between the benches.

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Tweak of the Week: Festival Tapestry Brings Privacy for RV Guests

RV owners like to invite family and friends to join them on their journeys. Then they plop their guests in a converted dinette or the sofabed and say, “G’night.” Come morning, their slumber is invaded with light and the patter of passersby. Privacy? What a quaint notion.

What if the lodging could regain that privacy?

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Tweak of the Week:  Tap the Sun to Keep the RV Battery Charged

Nothing changes my mood more than heading to my trailer Bertha’s storage yard to fetch her for a trip to a music festival, and find the battery’s dead. For many travel trailer owners, it’s not so rare. All the lights, the slide outs, and water pump run on the battery. So much in our rigs runs on the 12v battery system that we may not think about it much if we predominantly use the camper when hooked up to shore power.

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