RV Setup Guides and How-To Videos
Step-by-step guides for the jobs that come up at camp, each built around one of Freedom Rentals’ own short videos. The videos play right here, and nothing loads from YouTube until you press play.
Four setup guides
Water in, waste out, gas for the stove and power for everything else. Start with the one you are about to do.
- Water HookupConnecting to the campsite spigot, the pressure regulator and the pump switch.1 video and a step-by-step guide
- Sewer and Black TankThe sewer hose, the black tank first, then the grey, and the habits that keep it clean.1 video and a step-by-step guide
- Propane and StoveTurning on the propane, lighting the stove and the safety habits that go with it.1 video and a step-by-step guide
- Electrical and BatteriesShore power, the control panel switches and the auxiliary start button.2 videos and a step-by-step guide
All five videos, filmed on the RV
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Play the video: RV water hookup setup
RV water hookup setup
Connecting the RV to the campsite water supply.
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Play the video: RV black tank setup
RV black tank setup
Hooking up the sewer hose to empty the black tank.
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Play the video: RV Stove directions
RV Stove directions
Lighting and using the stove in the RV.
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Play the video: RV dashboard run through
RV dashboard run through
The switches on the control panel: water pump, tank heaters and LP gas.
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Play the video: Auxiliary button if RV battery is dead
Auxiliary button if RV battery is dead
Where the auxiliary start button is, for when the battery is dead.
Videos by Freedom Rentals. They play from YouTube (privacy-enhanced mode) only when you press play.
- Hookups
- The connections at a campsite: electric, fresh water and often sewer. A site with all three is called full hookups.
- Shore power
- Electric from the campsite post, through the RV’s power cord. It runs the air conditioning and the outlets.
- Fresh water tank
- The RV’s own drinking and washing water, for when there is no water hookup.
- Grey tank
- Holds the water from the sinks and the shower.
- Black tank
- Holds the toilet waste. It is emptied through the sewer hose at a sewer hookup or a dump station.
- Dump station
- A place at many campgrounds and travel stops to empty the holding tanks.
- LP gas (propane)
- Fuel for the stove and, in many RVs, the water heater, furnace and fridge.
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