Failures on Camping Coder

Atwood Air Command

Tue, 09 Jan 2018 05:00:00 +0000

Ratings
Link to product
Would we buy it again?	Yes
Value	High
Ease of use	Easy

If you read our silence is not golden post then you’ll already know that we replaced our Coleman Mach 8 with an Atwood Air Command in the Fall of 2017. This post is to review the major standing out points of the swap and to review the Atwood Air Command after four months of usage. We won’t do a step by step on the installation, as that would be even drier than talking about different coding frameworks.

Silence is not golden

Tue, 02 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0500

One our last trip to Blue Springs State Park we came back to our camper from tubing in the spring to silence. Normally this is a welcome sound, with two kids under four it’s not even something that we are accustomed to. In this case it was not golden - our air conditioner had died.

Typically, we can recover from minor failures like our experience at Oscar Scherer where the electrical input to the camper had issues. With air conditioning however, it is almost never a minor failure, especially since they are typically a ‘closed’ system. Nevertheless, we went through the typical recovery steps. Cycle the breaker, wait a few minutes, listen and then an amazing loud thud thud thud screech - at that moment we knew that this trip was over.

Shocking experience at Oscar Scherer

Thu, 02 Nov 2017 12:00:00 -0500

Back in July of 2017, we packed up the camper and headed to Oscar Scherer State park for a long weekend. We had the intent to visit friends on the west coast - to Floridians west coast means the Tampa side - and to lounge at the Gulf beaches. Little did we know that we’d find ourselves having a shockingly different experience.

As a side note, you can find our full review of Oscar Scherer State Park here if you’d like.