The Crusty's 20.63.1OB
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Obscured by the spare wheel, next to the brake light on the left ....... although Im running out of room, so it might have to go
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/331256912673?ssPageName=STRK:MEWNX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1497.l2649
The seller is away till Jan and has no active items. jp_lights is the sellers name if the link doesn't work
The seller is away till Jan and has no active items. jp_lights is the sellers name if the link doesn't work
Manage to get the BEF sorted just before we hit the road north. The bloody things dont fit properly, and when I rang to find out why, the response was '... what, you didnt get the extension straps ???'. It came in the sealed box, so the answer would be "no"
Anyways ..... I added some additional press studs to the seam of the BEF, but faced them outwards. Screwed and urethaned the male part to the fibreglass lip as per the pics, and the BEF fits very neatly.
Anyways ..... I added some additional press studs to the seam of the BEF, but faced them outwards. Screwed and urethaned the male part to the fibreglass lip as per the pics, and the BEF fits very neatly.
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Couple of issues thus far with the new van
The fridge wont light on gas ... nice to discover on night one away on the first trip that we free camp. Managed to get into the igniter at the back of the fridge and can light it by manually. Disaster averted, but suffice to say I was less than amused.
TV antenna from the outside feed-in point is not connected to the internal point ..... at least not to the internal point that it should be.
We've had two days of constant rain and aside from a couple of seeping points along the awning track, theres nothing leaking I can find. The hard lid and BEF have kept the tent section bone dry .... not a drop thru the hinge either. Shower, toilet and washing machine are all getting a serious workout.
The fridge wont light on gas ... nice to discover on night one away on the first trip that we free camp. Managed to get into the igniter at the back of the fridge and can light it by manually. Disaster averted, but suffice to say I was less than amused.
TV antenna from the outside feed-in point is not connected to the internal point ..... at least not to the internal point that it should be.
We've had two days of constant rain and aside from a couple of seeping points along the awning track, theres nothing leaking I can find. The hard lid and BEF have kept the tent section bone dry .... not a drop thru the hinge either. Shower, toilet and washing machine are all getting a serious workout.
@Crusty181 did you fix your TV they originally wired all ours backwards which was what I thought was wrong to start with with the TV.
No labels of course.
No labels of course.
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I havent had a chance to check all the coax, ive run the sat dish coax in thru the bed end which gets me up and running for now. How did they install your backwards .... explain that to me. It may help me when i get a chance to look at it
there are three connections external, roof aerial and extra out on the booster. They had them backwards, I ran a multimeter can cable and redid them. No labeling although we also had problems with coax from booster to roof.. Been back three times 
http://www.winegard.com/kbase/upload/2451486.pdf
http://www.winegard.com/kbase/upload/2451486.pdf
@davemc We gave them v.e.r.y specific (but very simple) wiring requirments for the coax including a wiring plan ..... but they balls'ed it up simply because they didnt care enough and played Jayco roulette with our money. Anyway thats a sperate issue
I ordered the generic (unpowered) plug to plug coax that the base van comes with be left untouched. Add a seperate (unpowered) plug to plug from the bunk/outdoor entertainment to a plug next to the generic plug. I use the external input to plug in the sat dish, and its internal plug for the Foxtel box. The bunk plug to plug is to feed Foxtel to the bunks via a modulator. (modulator a bit cumbersome if you have a better solution for that)
Completely seperate again, a Winegard independant of the other coax. We use satellite, so the Winegard was only added for resale .... never for us to actually use ... so i didnt want it connected or interferring with my 2 x unpowered plug to plug coax's
We therefor should have 3 plugs near the tv mount; ext, bunk and Winegard .... all independant ... we got 2, both connected to each other. It seemed workable with some disconnecting of f connectors inside the plates, until i pluged the sat dish into the ext input and got nothing. So i just poked the sat dish coax up through the bed end tent into the Foxtel box for now.
Im assuming Jayco wouldnt install an external plug without coax, so it may just require some juggling of connectors
This how it looks
I ordered the generic (unpowered) plug to plug coax that the base van comes with be left untouched. Add a seperate (unpowered) plug to plug from the bunk/outdoor entertainment to a plug next to the generic plug. I use the external input to plug in the sat dish, and its internal plug for the Foxtel box. The bunk plug to plug is to feed Foxtel to the bunks via a modulator. (modulator a bit cumbersome if you have a better solution for that)
Completely seperate again, a Winegard independant of the other coax. We use satellite, so the Winegard was only added for resale .... never for us to actually use ... so i didnt want it connected or interferring with my 2 x unpowered plug to plug coax's
We therefor should have 3 plugs near the tv mount; ext, bunk and Winegard .... all independant ... we got 2, both connected to each other. It seemed workable with some disconnecting of f connectors inside the plates, until i pluged the sat dish into the ext input and got nothing. So i just poked the sat dish coax up through the bed end tent into the Foxtel box for now.
Im assuming Jayco wouldnt install an external plug without coax, so it may just require some juggling of connectors
This how it looks
Do you have a multimeter? I traced all mine back to what they should of been. Then I did both shield and hot.. I found the roof to the box had shorted..
They said they fixed it.. Did not last the next trip..
So back again fixed?.. again gone while parked at Gold Coast.. I said can you replace the cable from roof down.. they said they did not need to again..Was working when we got home. I gather when we go back out again it will go.
They said they fixed it.. Did not last the next trip..
So back again fixed?.. again gone while parked at Gold Coast.. I said can you replace the cable from roof down.. they said they did not need to again..Was working when we got home. I gather when we go back out again it will go.
With non powered cables not to hard.. Use continuity setting and check the resistance..
Change Multimeter over check it works should read a "0" touching both prongs together
If you have some extra cable or a helper and cable..
I had a various TV leads which I plugged together.. Check the lead your using outside and inner pin are ok first. You should get a "0"
Then check one end outside shield to inner pin.. You should get "1" as they should not connect. (Unlike my Jayco does from the roof)
Now plug in TV lead or use a wire.. and unplug what the end should be in the connector box.
See if they are the correct ones..
Check any cable is shorted.
Funny typing what to do is not as easy as doing it for me..
Could not find a nice youtube.. this site looks ok
http://www.robotplatform.com/tools/multimeter/multimeter.html
Change Multimeter over check it works should read a "0" touching both prongs together
If you have some extra cable or a helper and cable..
I had a various TV leads which I plugged together.. Check the lead your using outside and inner pin are ok first. You should get a "0"
Then check one end outside shield to inner pin.. You should get "1" as they should not connect. (Unlike my Jayco does from the roof
)Now plug in TV lead or use a wire.. and unplug what the end should be in the connector box.
See if they are the correct ones..
Check any cable is shorted.
Funny typing what to do is not as easy as doing it for me..
Could not find a nice youtube.. this site looks ok
http://www.robotplatform.com/tools/multimeter/multimeter.html
I pulled all my plates off and found that the wiring was hopeless, loose strands everywhere shorting things out, redid all the connectors and actually tightened them up and all was good. All my 12v wiring was like that, bloody horrible.
@davemc Im getting continuity of connection from the ext input to the winegard plate and f connector, but the satellite doesnt like being connected via the winegard plate and its compounded array of connections. I can get to all the coax and wiring behind the plates and inside the overhead cabinet.
I disconnected the ext coax connection from the back of the winegard plate, pulled the coax out and screwed it directly to the STB .... and its good to go.
The anolog signal modulator i got from Jaycar is piggy backing the RCAs from the STB into the main inside tv. The signal the modulator is feeding to the annex tv point is producing about 85% picture ie a touch snowy. Its quiet tolerable in the absence of a better option, but have you any tips in that area.
I disconnected the ext coax connection from the back of the winegard plate, pulled the coax out and screwed it directly to the STB .... and its good to go.
The anolog signal modulator i got from Jaycar is piggy backing the RCAs from the STB into the main inside tv. The signal the modulator is feeding to the annex tv point is producing about 85% picture ie a touch snowy. Its quiet tolerable in the absence of a better option, but have you any tips in that area.
is the 12v on? maybe a problem sending it back down the coax?
yes direct connection will work I had the cable from the roof antenna straight to the TV at one stage ok more then once its busted three times now :hurt-41:
yes direct connection will work
I had the cable from the roof antenna straight to the TV at one stage ok more then once its busted three times now :hurt-41: