My blog is dedicated to folding trailers (AKA PopUps or PUP’s). Hopefully non-PUP owners will find some of the posts of interest/value.
I’ll cover equipment, modifications, maintenance, camping stories, and of course SPUT’s (Stupid Pop Up Tricks). Please forgive my rants & raves and posts on my camping buddy – my granddaughter.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So I try and keep the post short but augment them with pictures from my SmugMug gallery.
Enjoy.
He Ruide
I’ll cover equipment, modifications, maintenance, camping stories, and of course SPUT’s (Stupid Pop Up Tricks). Please forgive my rants & raves and posts on my camping buddy – my granddaughter.
They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So I try and keep the post short but augment them with pictures from my SmugMug gallery.
Enjoy.
He Ruide
Filling up the camping trailer tank with a utility pump
First, let me explain why I wanted to do this mod. Right below the number one thing I hated doing while camping – setting up the door – was toting water and filling up my PUP water tank. I solved the toting issue by getting a heavy duty carrier. Transferring the water to the tank meant lifting and holding almost 50 pounds at chest height – not something I enjoyed doing. I tried a drill pump but it was too slow. I tried various bilge pumps (both manual as well as 12 volts) but I ran into a problem with diameter of the pumps and the small neck of my favorite water container.
Back in July, 2007 I stumbled unto a little 12 volt utility pump at Northern Tool. PERFECT. A stop by Home Depot and I had all the connections and got a project box from Radio Shack and I was in business. I even laid out all the parts and took photographs including how I was going to tap into the 12 volt circuit by the fridge.
Then everything came to a halt for two years until this spring when I got back home and started camping again. Pulled out the pump and other parts from my mod box…. Yes I have a box where I keep all the parts for future modifications and I hope I never empty it because then I would get bored…. But I digress. So I took the pump and mounted it under the PUP floor. However by this time I wanted to add two PC fans to improver the efficiency of my three way fridge. So taping into the 12 volts lines was a little more complicated than first planned. Not to be hindered I simply used my auxiliary battery that I have for my air pump to power the water pump.
Well finally this last weekend while camping I sat in front of the fridge and added all the wires, switches fuses, etc. and presto I no longer have the opportunity to impress all the other campers with my weight lifting ability.
The interesting part of this story is that I now have converted to a large mouth water container and so the beige pumps would work. However, we’ll save the rational for the new water container for a future post.
Ruide
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