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Hey everyone. Shane here with etrailer.com. Today, I have a product that I'm excited to talk to you about. It's the REDARC RedVision, and what it does, it allows you to take all of your 12 volt power in your camper RV and use it off of one panel or control it off of one panel. This is going to be designed for more of your boondockers. Maybe you have a van or something that you have converted into a camper, or maybe you have say a box trailer, which I see a lot of now.

You have an enclosed trailer that you're converting over to a camper. So, you're kind of designing your own camper. This gives you a 12 volt power source that gives you a single panel to be able to control it on.Now, another nice thing about the system is with having the single panel inside the camper, we don't have to go around searching for light switches or anything like that. If you have a cell phone, tablet, computer, you can control it all off of that, also. Maybe we pull in somewhere at night, we pull into a campsite.

We take cell phone or our tablet out, open the app up, and we can turn on our inside lights and any other power that we need to turn on so we can see what we're doing without ever having to go inside the camper.Let's go over some of the other things that the RedVision can do. As I mentioned, we can control all of our 12 volt power off of a single panel or single screen. But what about our water tanks Things like that. A black water tank, gray water tank, and our fresh water tank. We can actually set monitors up or gauges up.

We can control our water level. So, we can set an alarm on our screen. Then, when our water level gets so high, say our gray water tank. Our water level gets so high, it's going to tell us, or set that alarm off to tell us we need to empty it before we start seeing our gray water start coming up through the bottom of the shower. Or, it's not draining anymore.

We can set our water temperature. So, we can hook up a meter or hook up a gauge into our fresh water tank to tell us what our water temperature is.Now, you're probably asking yourself, how do you charge your batteries If we're out boondocking, we're using the power from our batteries. How do we charge it Well, that's where the Manager30 comes in. When we combine the Manager30 with the RedVision, now we not only have the control of our 12 volt power sources in our camper or RV, but we also have the ability to charge your batteries while we're using that power. Manager30 allows you to use solar panels, connect them through the Manager30. They run to your batteries to charge them again while we're using the power. On top of that, with having the Manager30 along with a RedVision, we can hook up to our vehicle and charge our battery from our vehicle. Maybe we we're out at a campsite somewhere. We have no shore power to hook up to. We back our truck up. Our kit for our Manager30 and RedVision has come with the Anderson plug that we hook into our vehicle and our trigger wire for our Manager30.Our power and ground, ground goes to the frame. Power is going to run into your Manager30. On the vehicle side, ground is going to ground to a good frame ground. Positive wire is going to be routed up to your engine compartment, close to your battery. On trucks, this usually is pretty easy. You can usually file the frame rails, some factory wiring to get it up there. You just want to make sure you're staying away from anything hot or moving. Once you get up to the battery, you're going to mount a fuse. You're going to connect the wire to the fuse, and then from the fuse, you're going to go to the positive side of the battery.Then, we have our trigger wire. What the trigger wire is for, it's to activate the Manager30 from your vehicle when you turn the ignition on. Now, you may or may not need this. This wire is designed for vehicles with variable voltage alternators. So, you need to make sure you check your owner's manual to determine what alternator you have, because you may or may not need this.This is what our control panel is going to look like inside our camper. You want to make sure that wherever you're going to mount this, your RedVision is mounted within a proximity. So, the R-Bus cable that comes off of this is about 13 foot long. You just want to make sure you kind of plan that out, where you're going to mount it. You can see, we kind of have ours mounted here next to our