Buying Guides
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Catching a leak before it becomes a floor
Water damage is the most common way an RV is written off, and it almost never announces itself. Where leaks actually start, and three ways to hear about one.
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What monitoring can and cannot do about gas
We do not support a single CO or LP detector, and we are not going to. Here is the reasoning, and what to buy instead.
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Why you wake up foggy in a sealed camper
Carbon dioxide, not carbon monoxide. A small sealed rig with two people asleep in it is close to the worst indoor air case there is, and the same breath that makes you foggy is putting water into your walls.
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Why your battery says 12.6 volts and is nearly empty
Voltage is a bad way to measure a battery and a useless one for lithium. What a shunt does differently, and three ways to find out how much you actually have left.
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Portable or hardwired: protecting your RV from the pedestal
A surge protector and an EMS are not the same product, and the difference is the one that saves your air conditioner. Portable versus hardwired, and which failure each one actually prevents.
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Knowing how much propane you actually have left
Lifting the tank tells you almost nothing and the little colour gauges lie. Three ways to get a real number, including one that reports to your phone.
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Running the air conditioner on 30 amps
The compressor asks for five times its running current for about a second, and that second is what trips the breaker. Three ways to fix it, and what you give up on the cheap one.
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Tire pressure monitoring, and what the cheap caps do not tell you
A trailer blowout is the most expensive thing that routinely happens to RVs, and the warning is usually heat rather than pressure. Three options, and one buying trap that will cost you the Bluetooth entirely.
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Which temperature sensor should you actually buy?
Nearly everyone starts here, and the honest answer is that a five dollar sensor is fine for most of what you want. Where it stops being fine is specific and worth knowing before you buy twelve of them.
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Everything worth monitoring in an RV
Most people buy their second sensor for a reason and their first at random. What is actually worth watching in an RV, in the order it is worth spending money on, including what we cannot read.