Chris

This special spot is where we are camped right now. It is on a volcanic crater, now used as a local camping, swimming, fishing and water sports area. What a view! And although it is a bit isolated, we have a flushing toilet nearby, a tap, telephone and Internet, and terrestrial TV! it is in the Mount Gambier region.

Wayne, the more appropriate section of the forum is here: http://www.kedronownersgroup.com/forum/index.php?/forum/3-items-for-sale/ Have a look at the type of detail others have provided as a guide to what information is likely to be useful, and of course, put some photos in too. If you have any problems, send me a private message (or just reply here) and I will help with putting the details up on the forum. Good luck! Chris

It does look great, doesn’t it. Karen is doing a great job.

Oh that does sound nice. Fairly similar to our weather over the last week, on the Fleurieu Peninsular, SA. However, now on the Coorong, and it is wet and cool. Talk about a difference in 24 hours.

Just about every Kedron from RVHB is in Tasmania, as well as others we know. We might have to come over!

And that will be....?

Hi everyone. i wonder where everyone is right now? The festive season is almost on us and many will be either out and about or at least organising a trip. It would be great to hear where you all are. We are on a four week trip away from our home in SA, and currently enjoying cooler than usual weather at Deep Creek Conservation Park near Victor Harbor. Tomorrow we head South East, calling in to a couple of possible spots on our way to Mount Gambier and then on to Port MacDonnell. I think we will stay a day or two at the Coorong 42 mile camp and a night or two at Kingston SE. So where is everyone else?

You are wonderful to provide this to everyone.

All good at this end, Webmaster. Well done once again.

Hi Pete. It is certainly great trip and one that we enjoyed. I note it has only just reopened as we write this, due to rain. So check conditions well before you set out. it could pay you to do a search of the forum using the term Great Central Road...it will bring up a heap of information. That will include our trip reports from 2013. See here. http://www.kedronownersgroup.com/forum/index.php?/topic/1970-west-macs-mereenie-loop-and-great-central-road/

Lake Hart is good but can be busy. If you are happy to push on past Coober Pedy, our favourite spot in that area is 90 kms North of the town on the eastern side of the Highway and behind some piles of gravel. It is at S28 27.972. E131 11.927. Well off the road and peaceful.

Hi Kevin, Andrea and Bailey. welcome to the Kedron family. When you see a fellow Kedron owner always say hi, and join the camaraderie. Put some photos up of your rig and travel experiences as we all love photos. Chris

It is bound to go smoothly, with you at the helm.

Generally, three way fridges are not more efficient in the tropics and high heat. There will be differing opinions on this but over the years I have seen too many informed comments from people on the topic indicating there to be a problem with the three way fridges - even the tropical rated fridges. Kedron will have made the decision to stick with the 12volt fridges for a reason.

As John and Jo have commented, the price will depend on what you currently have in place. Terry was able to set the system up with our current charger and Inverter, as well as some other minor items. It took a few days but he would not have been working on it all the time....I think he rests a bit between bouts of work! This is not cheap, you understand. You will probably be looking at over $7000, depending on the size of system. BUT you save money by having this system installed. For example: We don’t elect to use powered sites at parks very often, choosing cheaper non-powered. We can freecamp indefinitely if we choose, topping up water in various ways away from caravan parks We use less gas as we are using the electric kettle, toaster and coffee machine rather than the gas cooktop. One 9kg gas bottle last about five months. We only stay at a caravan park if we are sightseeing for a few days or visiting nearby friends. I much prefer the freedom of a spot on a river or up a gorge somewhere than crammed into caravan parks.

Our experience is with Enerdrive batteries so I hope the following advice is relevant. We have a 520ah set up, installed here in SA by T1Lithium, a national 'guru' of Lithium. It is nothing short of a miracle. Previously we had an array of 4 x 120ah AGM batteries, and our solar is 4 x 120 watts on top of the van, a 100watt portable panel and two x 100 ahs on the roof of the car. The car panels run the Engel in the car through a dedicated AGM battery. You can opt for a 'drop in' system or a system such as ours which has the capability of being tweaked if a cell dies or any other problem occurs. The drop in system will not allow for any tweaking by a novice. Well, that is my limited understanding of the situation. The advantage of lithium is that it re-charges much more efficiently than AGMs and can be discharged toa much lower level. Ours is set to discharge to no more than 15% of the total capacity. If we took so much out of the batteries that only 15% remained, the system cuts itself off to prevent any damage to the batteries. The other advantage is the weight saving. We saved 70kgs of weight. Feel free to ask further questions. Chris

I would not be concerned about a warranty expiring as the Kedron factory is exceedingly helpful regardless of the age of a van. Someone recently reported of buying a second hand 10 year old Kedron and it needed a problem to be addressed. The factory said they were more than willing to fix the issue; unfortunately the owner lived 1000kms or so away from the factory and was not too happy to drive that far. But we once lived in Darwin when our van had an issue and Kedron had a local repairer who was able to do the work at Kedron's expense. You will find the Galls to be very helpful, but of course you need to approach them in a friendly and agreeable manner, as I have no doubt you will.

Tony, As said earlier, when we get home we will check if there is a filter on that particular tank. (Since we got van Kedron are using a different tank). At present the fuel is running freely through the line to the pump and in the two months since we made the change running well. The filter is clean which is good to hear.

Tony, all good advice. Val says he intends to empty the tank when we get home and remove that filter. In the meantime he has installed a new and additional fuel filter after the tap in the line. We're not sure if our model of tank has that filter in the tap but we will check. We do regularly put kero in the tank (I guess metho would have the additional merit of drying out the moisture). Diesel conditioner and injector cleaner are also used every six months or so. He cleaned out the filter and the pump as well which solved the problem at the time. It was dirty... In any event, the problem seems to have disappeared for the time being.

Update. The diesel heater again played up about a month after that first incident. So Val (on advice from another forum) installed an additional filter in the line. That seems to have solved the problem. No more hiccups.

Banner has got up and left!

Sandra, I look forward to hearing about your trip when the time comes.

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Thank you for this lovely detailed report Ted and Hermy. It sounds like you are enjoying beautiful scenery in your van. That is what it is all about, of course. Great photos too.

Those of you with eagle eyes will see I have changed the topic title of this thread to reflect how it has changed into a regular reporting of whereabouts of forumites. As the original poster I reckon this thread has good value as a place where we can hear of current travels and experiences. Right now I am in Alice Springs, at the Big 4 Macdonnell Ranges caravan park, and here until next Wednesday. Then we head South back home to SA. Anyone else around Alice?