A New Vent Cover – The MaxxShade Plus: Watch the Install!
Dec 05, 2018JamesRV Tips
The powered vents that most of us have in our RVs are wonderful things. They create a breeze to keep us cool. They exhaust humidity and cooking odors. They’re the best tool you’ve...
Building the New Fit RV Shop – Part 3: Lighting
Nov 24, 2018JamesBlog
I’ve got a space and I’ve got a floor. Time to address the lighting. Truth be told, there wasn’t a whole lot I needed to do with the lighting. It wasn’t that bad to start...
Building the New Fit RV Shop – Part 2: Flooring
Nov 17, 2018JamesBlog
In my last shop, I had a concrete floor. I had dressed it up as much as practical by adding one of those epoxy and paint chip finishes to it. It looked great, but it was cold, hard, and...
At Last! A Bike Garage! Our Detailed Review of the Leisure Travel Vans Wonder RTB!
Nov 12, 2018JamesRV Reviews
True story: While the main reason we started The Fit RV was to encourage people to lead a more healthy and fit-focused RV lifestyle, one of the secondary reasons was to get RV manufacturers to build...
Building the New Fit RV Shop – Part 1: Cleaning Out
Nov 05, 2018JamesBlog
If you’ve been watching our videos for a while, you might have seen my old shop space: Unfortunately, it’s also located on a property that we don’t own anymore. You see, we moved...
An Even Better Way to Charge the RV’s Chassis Battery with Solar!
Oct 22, 2018JamesRV Tips
It seems like just a couple weeks ago I made a video about keeping your RV’s vehicle starting battery charged with solar… because it was! But on our current road trip, we found ourselves...
The Watt Fuel Cell: Coming to an RV Near You
Oct 13, 2018JamesRV Tips
One of the things we really like to see in the RV industry is innovation, and usually there’s not enough of it. So we like to call out and applaud innovation where we see it. In that...
Keeping the Chassis Battery Charged with Solar
Oct 08, 2018JamesRV Tips
We’ve done a lot of work on the electrical systems in our camper-van, Lance. Our house battery is a large lithium-ion battery, and we’ve got 300 watts of solar, an inverter/charger, and...
How To Fix A Failing Cabinet Latch
Oct 01, 2018JamesRV Tips
We’ve had our Winnebago Travato for about 3 years now. In that time, some things have started to show normal wear and tear. (This is in addition to the things I’ve torn up on...
Can Our RV’s Lithium Battery Get Too Hot?
Sep 03, 2018JamesRV Tips
People spend a LOT of time talking about how various RV lithium batteries work in the cold. “How cold can you charge it?” “How do you warm it up if it’s cold?”...
