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Picked up a 24 foot v nose car hauler.
Towed it twice last year.
Will use for sxs day trips, has the raised roof that is nice.

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Whats the door height on that baby? I just ordered a defender xmr that’s pretty tall. Might want to get an enclosed like that.

It will fit,,78 inch if I remember. I know a sxs 77 inches tall fits easy with a roof on it.
 

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It will fit,,78 inch if I remember. I know a sxs 77 inches tall fits easy with a roof on it.

Thanks for the info. The defender I ordered is spec’d at 82 without a roof but from what I measured in the showroom it’s about 83 with a roof. Might be hard to find a trailer that tall.....
 

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Thanks for the info. The defender I ordered is spec’d at 82 without a roof but from what I measured in the showroom it’s about 83 with a roof. Might be hard to find a trailer that tall.....

I could go measure for sure next week.
 

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Well crap,,,,tried to fix
 

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can you share more photo's of your wood stove install?

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This is really the only other photo I have,

36” round wood stove inside put on top of a concrete landscaping block on floor of trailer to protect floor from heat and ashes,

Then we just leaned 2 pieces of tin behind the stove against the wall to protect from heat against interior wall.

Insulated pipe out through the gas door

Aluminum sign with 8” hole over the insulated pipe to cover the gap around the pipe

Truck camper jack on outside to hold and adjust stove pipe height and stabilize.

Worked like a dam
 
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For about 5 seconds I looked at your first picture and thought you had a mobile trailer-based RV car wash behind your truck.
 

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I am trying to figure out how to set up/what I need to buy to have shore power override a battery & inverter combo for inside of my trailer. I’m sure lots of you have done this. Any pictures or suggestions? I’m thinking like an RV. Everything runs on battery until its plugged in & then it charges the batter + runs the power on the unit... appreciate the help.

I use this. But in 60amp version.

4stage Smart charger for battery. With 120v plugin in back for shore power thru. But as for inverter I use 3000w stand alone unit. When unit is charging battery I still have no issues using my inverter during.

There are charger/inverter single units. But I couldn’t find any that were 4 stage and less than $1000...


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I am trying to figure out how to set up/what I need to buy to have shore power override a battery & inverter combo for inside of my trailer. I’m sure lots of you have done this. Any pictures or suggestions? I’m thinking like an RV. Everything runs on battery until its plugged in & then it charges the batter + runs the power on the unit... appreciate the help.

There are complete charger/inverter combo units that do everything but price is typically steep.

Typically an RV’s 120 volt receptacles are not powered until you are plugged in to shore power.
The RV lighting, furnace etc all run on 12 volt battery power.

The simplest way to keep it affordable to switch over from shore power to a stand alone inverter would be to have a plug that feeds the trailer loads and physically move it to the inverter when you need 120 volt loads from the battery. Typically you need to turn the inverter on anyway.).

If you want it to automatically switch over you can use a relay to alternated the connection between the shore power and inverter. But as mentioned, you likely would need to still turn on the inverter or send it a remote turn on signal if it accepts one.
 

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Just picked up new trailer and wondering where you guys pick up your front lower cabinets or upper cabinets. Was thinking at looking at princess auto but maybe there’s somewhere better? Thanks for any input
 

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I am trying to figure out how to set up/what I need to buy to have shore power override a battery & inverter combo for inside of my trailer. I’m sure lots of you have done this. Any pictures or suggestions? I’m thinking like an RV. Everything runs on battery until its plugged in & then it charges the batter + runs the power on the unit... appreciate the help.

Ive been looking into the equipment as well for a build I'm contemplating. Victron is a company that has everything you need if you want something permanent mounted. Depending on how big of an inverter you are thinking a larger goal zero self contained system with a solar panel mounted on the roof might be good (and portable).
 

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Thata my next purchase. The proper charger/inverter/converter for shore power to charge 12v and have 120 and 12 on boar and deal with the solar. I’ve got 2 good 6v Batteries now, just gathering parts
 

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Ron from Paradis is going too install the heater as well as external plug and a couple other things in the new year.
 
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