The "Pimp My Pop-Up" thread! Now with more welds! (Warning! Photo heavy!)

[Rednecktek]

Supposed to be pushing 70 this weekend. Getting a little tired of the cold and wet.

Of course it is, I went camping LAST weekend so my long tradition of being 1 week off from good weather stays unbroken!

 

[Rednecktek]

Hmmm.... shunt says fan draws just over 40w...
Motor says 6w on the data plate...
Bearings jiggle...
Housing all crimped together...

Yeah, new one arrives tomorrow.

 

[skyking1]

Hi Neighbor!! <waves>
I drive through Greenwater on the way to the east side campground where my picture is from in that other thread.
Nice little trailer you have going. Our first camper was a 1986 Coleman that we paid $900 for. It came with needle and thread and patching canvas.
It took us a few years to get everything functioning. We had several more years of enjoying being up off the ground, and having a turlet by the coffee pot. We never went back to sleeping on the ground again

 

[wme]

Hmmm.... shunt says fan draws just over 40w...
Motor says 6w on the data plate...
Bearings jiggle...
Housing all crimped together...

Yeah, new one arrives tomorrow.

And so...

 

[Rednecktek]

So I got the new fan motor in, got the heater back in the trailer, connected everything back up, and it just refused to light off. It wood Woof occasionally, and the fan was blowing nice and quiet, but it just would NOT light off...

So I walked away to take a few and looked at the work bench... at the impeller on the work bench... the impeller that feeds air to the burner... DOH!!!

So back out and installed the impeller, worked like a champ after that !

 

[skyking1]

you attempted to employ the weight reduction program. Sometimes it works!

 

[wme]

Reduced the load on the fan motor for longer battery life