http://rvexperience.info Ideas and articles about Rving Mon, 11 May 2009 14:55:35 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en You don't need bubble levels when parking. Our coach needs to be level or slightly tipped to the left for the shower to drain. We also prefer to have our heads elevated rather than our feet. We do not have jacks and don't try to be perfect. A shower that ... http://rvexperience.info/2009/05/06/a-good-level/ With the coming elimination of analog TV come February of next year I knew we would hve to do something eventually. In the RV, hqlf the problem was eliminated when i broke our existing front Tv last fall. We enjoyed seeral months without the TV and barely missed it. Ieventually ... http://rvexperience.info/2008/06/30/digital-tv-change/ Our electrical system is described in another article. Here are a couple of additional thoughts. If you are going to add panels to your system they should be compatible with yourexisting panels. The wattage of the new panels doesn't matter. All that does is change the amount of charge current provided. ... http://rvexperience.info/2008/03/24/solar-charging-thoughts/ In November of 2007, I bought a new laptop, the Asus eeePC. It is a small, very small, cheap laptop with all the features an RVer needs. As delivered, it uses Linux rather than Windows but you can load windows if you like. There’s really no need to do that ... http://rvexperience.info/2007/12/07/a-good-rver%e2%80%99s-laptop/ There are lots of methods to try to remind RVers to lower the antenna. Here is ours. Get some bright Velcro cable ties. I have several, each marked with a special reminder. TV antenna Datastorm satellite dish Wheel Chocks Parking Brake Just strap them around the steering wheel. You can't miss seeing them. The only problem ... http://rvexperience.info/2007/09/13/antenna-up-flag/ I wanted to have the ability to easily share my Internet connection with fellow campers when we’re on the road. When I share, I want some access and bandwidth limitation controls though. I hadn’t found a good system that provided a good signal let alone some control, until now.The Meraki ... http://rvexperience.info/2007/07/29/a-better-wifi/ Here are some things we do to make life on the road more simple. Shop Towels: We hate to do laundry. We also hate moldy towels. We solved this by using blue shop towels. There is no comparison with a paper towel and a blue shop towel. Blue shop towels are ... http://rvexperience.info/2005/08/09/making-life-on-the-road-simple/ I went to Best Buy and bought a Slingbox. The SlingBox is a device that connects to your home network and a TV antenna or cable box or other video source. You run a player on your computer and video and audio are streamed from you home to your computer, ... http://rvexperience.info/2005/08/09/slingbox-for-tv-from-home/ I had a potentially disastrous event happen on a visit to Las Vegas. It had been freezing and I was concerned that the water hose would freeze up. I had heard that if you leave a trickle running through the hose, it wouldn't freeze. I had hooked up the drain ... http://rvexperience.info/2005/08/08/what-drains-where/ We have a macerator that provides a means of draining our RV's holding tanks when we're at home and wherever the drain inlet is difficult to access. Our RV drain outlet is very low so we often can't drain into the park drain inlet. We also have run across some ... http://rvexperience.info/2005/08/08/macerator-use/