Improvements Made to Our RV We purchased a brand spanking new Keystone Cougar Fifth Wheel Trailer Model 276RLSWE just about 4 years ago and headed out on a one year RVing journey of exploration. We absolutely loved our time on the road. So much so it has since become into our day to day existence, … Read more
RV Attic Vent Tip We get lots of terrific tips, mods and upgrades shared over in the Love Your RV Forum community. I particularly liked this quick and fairly easy upgrade to the RV ventilation recently posted by RVHH member Eddie. Eddie and his family live full time in their fifth wheel and have spent … Read more
Big Buddy Indoor Safe Propane Radiant Heater While snowbirding in the US South West last winter we got the chance to do a substantial amount of dry camping out in the desert. I quickly discovered how much juice it took to run the big onboard RV furnace. My wife gets quite cold at night and … Read more
RV Waste Tank Valve Replacement A little while ago when running some wiring to install a headphone jack in the Cougar I decided to have a peek inside all areas of the underbelly. As I inspected the area where the gray and black tank valves are located I noticed the black tank valve was developing … Read more
Our Keystone Cougar 276RLSWE Fifth Wheel came equipped with a Coleman-Mach Analog Thermostat to control temperature when using either the Airxcel Air Conditioning or the Suburban LP Gas Furnace. I noticed a problem right away with trying to maintain a comfortable temperature in the rig. It seemed like there were large swings in temperature between … Read more
I have a couple updates to my original review post for the hard wired Progressive Industries EMS-HW30C RV surge protector. 1) I was able to break it! I was messing around with one of my Champion 2000 watt generators during a recent boondocking adventure and decided to try and see if I could fire up … Read more
One thing that was lacking in our 2011 Keystone Cougar Fifth Wheel was a place to put our shoes. Generally they get placed by the entrance door in a heap. The other day I was exploring the space under the kitchen counters and noticed a large void filled with nothing right next to the door. … Read more
Why do I want a Hard Start Capacitor? When dry camping there are times I would like to run the roof-top air conditioner to cool the camper down. I have a pair of Champion 2000w inverter type generators that I can parallel together for 4000 peak watts and 3200 continuous watts of power. They normally can … Read more
Living full time in the trailer in such close quarters using the headphones becomes essential. Like if I want to watch some annoying guy stuff and my wife is busy writing on her computer. So we have been using the existing headphone jack but I wanted a better location. Our 2011 Keystone Cougar 276RLSWE came … Read more