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Last item habitat related kink worth talking about was with the Artic tern window blinds. When the blind, not the screen, is pulled down if there is even a moderate breeze the material will puff up like a parachute and pull the material out of its track. This happened even when the window was...

I want to make the switch to a DC unit but I need to finish round one stuff like a shower and cabinet doors instead of tupperware. After our under chassis storage boxes are figured out we will be able to remove our 14" tall roof mounted cargo box. Then I can loose the roof top unit and we will...

Second issue with room for improvement is the AC unit. It's a standard Coleman 15kBTU. Short story is it's ok for the keeping the whole box cool when day times highs are 98F and I need to lock the dogs in there or humans are tired of desert. It pulls 1,470W full tilt and needs to run about an...

As far as habitat 'performance' goes the items that made the 'that could have been better' are The gray tank, at about 45g, is probably 2 times bigger than necessary. Spending so much time in BLM or USFS provided lots of easy and respectable places to empty the gray. That said our bathing...

We wrapped up our shakedown trip about a week ago and are starting to break ourselves into the setup. Upon return we settled on name for the rig which is now "Wandering Wanda". After getting the hydronic going we had very few surprises with the habitat and it's systems. I'll get into those. We...

I've been running the rears at 72psi and the fronts at 60. Before she was all loaded up every thing was at 50 and a tad softer. I never got around to running them lower and getting into super soft stuff when she was light. Now that she's heavy its going to be a lot of tiny little baby steps to...

S-RV. Everything looks golden and then some. The example picture of the pre-modified rack looked chassis mounted. I missed that your rack was going to straight to the subframe. That makes everything I was talking about a moot point. BTW, what traction boards are you using and any idea if they've...

Hola StenchRV. I had a question about your tire rack. Forgive me for not going back in your build to look at the subframe construction as that would answer this but is your habitat rigidly mounted to your chassis? I'm thinking about shear load the wheel would put on your wall mounted...

When the night time lows were only in the upper teens we would shut the Elwell system off and run a 120v Dyson space heater in the loft. The VRM custom widgets are so awesome and easy.....The graph above came from one of those. The blue line is exterior temp, red is interior and orange is AC...

Back in the planning stages I wasn't able to get a comfort level on how many kBTU we would need to heat the habitat. One factor I wouldnt have even thought about was how much heat we would be venting out of the roof for condensation prevention. We are still a little scarred from our...

We had previously been having problems with our hydonic furnace/burner but the replacement has been perfect over the last 10 days. Testing the furnace at elevation was something I was looking forward to getting into. I didnt know how much of a problem fuel gelling would be either but we were...

We've been able to spend the last week around Loveland Pass (Summit county CO) and now we are finally starting to test the "fourth season" capability of the habitat and the chassis. Sleeping elevations have been between 9,150 and 10,300' and night time lows have been at zero the last two nights. .

The other optimistic side of things is that we are heading to where +30° above outside temperatures is still frickin cold so, unless the system turns itself off again ;) , we should be real toasty.

I guess the glass half full side of things is that I'm not wasting any fuel when I keep the windows open to lit condensation;)

As far as the heater goes I'm going to eventually build an insulated box around the exterior heater unit. In spending so much time looking at the service screen it became apparent that even when the air temperature in the habitat was satisfied the system would still fire up the burner if the...

One of our projects so far was to swap out the furnace on our Elwell hydronic system. We had some glycol leaking out of the furnace body. I sent some pictures and a new one was shipped the next day. I can't say enough good things about their customer service. The leak came to light as the...

The bars at the top of the rack open up to form a hoist. Once I get the winch and a few other items back there finished (like buying a cordless impact wrench to replace my broken cheater bar) I should be able to show some pictures of the hoist in action.

The tire is strapped into the basket with a tire bonnet. Want the easiest to find something for a 43" but this fits:) https://speedstrap.com/product/heavy-duty-tire-bonnet/

Now on to some fun stuff, like the tire rack!

We left some steel posts exposed or unencapsulated by the closed cell untill we figured out what we were going to do for our interior wall panels. Those exposed members were the culprits We bought a DIY closed cell kit called a Froth Pak 200. It's a 2 part canister system that works real well...