2021 IBEX 23RLDS Tech Tour

[Music] what's up y'all drew with princess craft rv and today we are going to be walking through the ibex 23 rlds if you enjoy the content that we produce please don't forget to like share and subscribe and we really hope you enjoy this walk through all right guys so starting right up front here as always the ibex here is going to ride on a 2 and 5 16 inch ball so the first step is going to be slide our slide latch into the unlocked position it will hold back into that position we will then center our ball underneath the coupler once centered we go ahead and lower our jack down on top once fully seated on that ball we can go ahead and take our slide latch sliding that forward paying special attention that both of these little teeth on either side of that latch are fully engaged in the frame of course not a bad idea to go back and pin this with a secondary pin not only for safety but security as well so from there we're going to go ahead and take our tow chains we will cross those underneath the coupler we will hook those to the receiver of the vehicle make sure you do have enough room to make your turns left or right but not so much room that they may make contact with the pavement also very important riding right next to those toe chains is going to be your emergency breakaway cable it is very important that you utilize a third or separate connection point on the receiver for this so whether that's a quick link a carabiner whatever you got to attach this separate on the receiver what this does is again it's your emergency breakaway cable if these other tow components were to become compromised and the vehicle started to separate this is going to act like a rip core to the electric brakes doing its best to kind of stop the unit in its tracks also right next to those other tow components is going to be your 7-way plug this will plug into the corresponding receptacle on your bumper and give you full function to your tow vehicles charging system marker lights tail lights as well as your braking system so coming up top here to our electric tongue jack you have a light that gives you a point of reference if you're backing up to the unit at dark time will also help light this space if you are doing any of that unhooking or hooking up after dark and then we have a clearly marked momentary switch up or down here for your direction of travel now if for whatever reason you were to have like maybe a power loss situation you ran out of battery something along those lines you can always operate this manually so if we pull this plug back you are going to see a drive nut we do have the corresponding handle for that drive nut and if we go ahead and seat everything properly that again will allow us to load and unload the camper in the event of a power loss situation so directly behind that we have two 20-pound propane cylinders these will be full for you at time of delivery uh when it does come to servicing these tanks it is very easy to do so you're going to first make sure that the valves are in the closed position here we're then going to rotate or loosen this oversized wing nut and there's no need to really remove anything if you loosen this up enough you can just lift up on that t-bar and actually slide that tank out of position to allow you to get it filled of course after you've disconnected your pigtails and it is free working now in between those two tanks you are going to find a automatic switchover propane regulator so the idea being is that you see there is a little indicator here and whichever tank that's pointing at would be considered our primary tank so the idea being is that if we had both of these service valves on the top of the tank open this being our primary tank we went ahead and used the entirety of that initial tank it will automatically switch over here to the secondary tank now if in the interim we would like to remove our primary tank to have it filled or serviced all we need to do is go ahead and rotate this to our secondary tank that's going to kind of close everything off and then we will then again be able to go ahead and remove this tank and once we return it back into service we essentially start that process over now if we look here at the the kind of eyeglass of the indicator of the the regulator here you're going to see a flow indicator uh now that will pin wheel over to green when you do have propane flowing through the lines if your tanks are completely empty that will pinwheel over to red of course letting you know that you are out of gas this is all covered during travel with your propane cover here this is not only going to just keep any rain or weather off of these tanks but it will also protect them from road debris things like that it does just go ahead and slip over one thing to take notice is this door is going to open uh away from the camper so reason being is that if you didn't if this were to come on loose or you didn't screw it down enough you don't want that door to potentially catch air going down the road so remember just the positioning of that i believe there is a bungee that will actually strap this down here kind of wraps in between the propane tanks for you and then hopping back here to our battery banks uh now generally this unit is going to come standard with a single group 24 lead acid battery this particular customer has upgraded to a second battery now these are again lead acid batteries or flooded batteries so what that means for you is they will carry a fair bit of maintenance two or three times a year call it every 90 days we're going to go ahead and pull these vent panels off of each battery you'll you'll see that there's a water inside and that a there is also a clear marked water level it's going to be our goal to maintain that water level using distilled water only and again it's going to keep our batteries in tip-top shape if we are expecting that water level every 90 days now when it does come to store in the unit if we want to keep these batteries in tip-top shape we're going to go ahead and utilize the battery disconnect switch here so for periods of long-term storage it's best with any 12-volt system you'll find that you have nominal or phantom draws best way or easiest way to go ahead and isolate those batteries is going to be with this battery disconnect switch and again we're going to do that when we are storing the unit for long periods of time so you may ask yourself what do you do with your 7-way plug while the unit is being stored generally this is susceptible to water damage potentially in oxidization things like that it's an easy problem to correct if it happens but easiest way is going to be prevention so what ibex has done is they went ahead and put a little keeper there to allow that to be kind of protected slightly from the elements when in storage it's a really great feature will keep you from having to clean those terminals in the future now moving on here we have our stabilizer jacks as always on all four corners of the unit now these are for stabilization they're not for leveling generally you will level the camper first and then go ahead and lower these down if we are leveling the camper front to back we're going to use that electric tongue jack and then leveling from left to right will be done with the tires in your choice of a leveling kit so once we are satisfied with our level we then go ahead and run these down you're going to use the included crank handle to do so you're going to insert that over top of that drive nut and again you're going to crank this down until you make contact with the pavement maybe just a quarter turn more to shore up that floor but again we're going to handle these with a light touch they're not load bearing jacks they are again just to stabilize the camper from bouncing on the suspension large pass-through storage compartment here you'll find that all the compartments on this camper are going to utilize that magnetic hold open which is again an excellent feature only thing to be aware of is you do have your inverter in this particular compartment so make sure that whatever you're storing in that compartment isn't going to do any damage to your inverter or mess with the wiring that they have ran through the compartment next up is going to be our water sources first up is going to be our non-pressurized water or potable water excuse me basically we are going to use this uh fitting here to go ahead and fill that onboard water tank what we're gonna do is we will go ahead and take our freshwater drinking hose we're going to go ahead and insert that into the orifice we are going to fill up until we are satisfied once we are we cap it off now again just a reminder this is non-pressurized water in nature what the manufacturer has done is included a 12-volt water pump to go ahead and pressurize that system draw that water up from the tank to the fixtures to make it usable now down below we have our city water connection now obviously city water is pressurized directly from the line more often than not it's actually over pressurized for what these units are rated for generally with any camper you'll find a working water pressure in between 50 and 75 psi or 40 and 75 psi out there in the wild you could run into anywhere from 80 to 100 psi so best case scenario is going to be using a water pressure regulator uh this is included with your purchase this will go ahead and regulate that water pressure down in between 40 and 50 psi which is of course within the recommendations of this particular unit so you're going to hook this directly onto the water source as close to the water source as you can get so hook this onto the spigot first then go ahead and hook your hose to that next up we're going to take our other side of the hose and we're going to rotate this hose connection here to go ahead and secure that to the unit if for whatever reason your water pressure regulator were to become unserviceable you know lost damaged whatever make sure that we are replacing this before we take the unit out that's going to of course be best for your freshwater plumbing now we've talked about how we fill our non-pressurized water here or our potable water next up is going to be how to drain it we can see it clearly marked here on the body that our freshwater drain is going to be down below and what they use is just a half inch cap to go ahead and cap off that water line it is a gravity feed system so basically when it does come to go ahead and drain it you just as easy as unscrewing that fitting there now when you do go ahead and and you know return the unit back to service or you want to fill that tank you may have to give it a couple wraps with some teflon tape to make that water tight so just a heads up there now the manufacturer is going to recommend that anytime the unit is going to be in storage for more than seven days that we do go ahead and drain all of the water from the system now you only have to drain that fresh water holding tank is if you have actively put water in it so it's not something that you're going to be doing every single time but just remember if you've put water in the system have not used the entirety of it you will have to drain the remaining water out before putting the unit into storage further down the body here we are going to find our grab handles to go ahead and dump our waste water you'll have a gray handle for gray water and a black handle for black water gray water is going to be anything that comes from the sink or the shower and black water is going to be anything that comes from the toilet so your solid body waste things like that now do keep in mind that further a little bit further down is going to be your sewer outlet connection so this is going to utilize a standard bayonet style fitting so kind of the chain of events is going to be removing this guy here and if you go ahead and take a look here at the cap you have two keyholes you have four prongs along the outside this is a standardized fitting in the rv industry if we go ahead and take a look at our sewage hose you may be able to go ahead and see those same keyholes so the idea being is that when it does come to dump your waste water we're gonna go ahead and put either our cap or our sewage hose in that halfway position we're gonna give it a curl a quarter turn until it stops and locks on that's gonna make sure it's nice and water tight now from there we're going to go ahead and generally the popular option is going to be opening up our black water first letting that drain completely closing that off we're then going to go ahead and open up our gray water allow that to rinse any shared plumbing between the two systems and rinse our sewage hose on the way out now a couple rules when you do go ahead and dump is those valves should never be open at the same time it's our goal to avoid any cross contamination or back feeding things like that also you're going to want to make sure you keep that black water valve especially in the closed position we're going to use the monitor panel on the inside and we are only going to dump as necessary so that's very important we want to keep that solid body waste that toilet paper things like that in his wet and flowing conditions so they can easily evacuate that tank when we do go ahead and dump now another really cool feature that they have here on the ibex is going to be the black tank flush what that's going to do is correspond with a jet inside the black water tank specifically designed to help blast off compounded toilet waste body waves things like that keep those sensors in as clean of condition as we can so uh once we've went ahead and dumped both of our systems we're then going to open up that black water valve we're going to keep that open we're going to go ahead and take any old garden hose and hook up to this fitting here once we've done so we're going to allow that we're going to pressurize that system allow those jets to go ahead and clean that tank very very important that we only do that with the black water valve in the open position because we don't want to overflow that black water holding tank so this is the sew joes that we include with your purchase your starter kit it's meant to get you started it's not going to last forever so when it does come time to upgrade your hose it's going to be my recommendation that you upgrade to one with a clear elbow at the end the reason being is it will be helpful when utilizing the black tank flush if you can watch until that water runs clear essentially once you've done so you know you've sufficiently went ahead and rinsed out that tank so no better time than the present to go ahead and talk about our slide out maintenance this unit is going to utilize the schwintek system so what that means for us is every 90 days we do need to go ahead and lubricate these tracks what we're going to use to do so is going to be a dry silicone or ptfe silicone spray we're just going to go ahead and spray these tracks now you have ones here at the bottom on each side and then some at the top on each side so go ahead spray all four tracks with some silicone go ahead and run that slide in and out a few times to distribute that lubricant and you're going to be good to go for the next 90 days now at that same time we do want to go ahead and condition these seals you have rubber seals that run the full 360 degrees around the slide we're going to use an rv grade seal conditioner to go ahead and spray those down we're going to wipe off any excess we don't want that dripping down here onto the fiberglass but once we've wiped that excess off we're going to go ahead and be good to go again for the 90 days now keep in mind that this slide does seal in both directions it seals when it's closed and seals when it's open so we do have a corresponding set of seals on the interior might as well just go ahead and treat those at the same time you're going to go ahead and treat these exterior seals now we're going to drop down here and talk about a very important thing with any trailer that's going to be tire pressure and lug nuts this particular unit is going to utilize a 65 psi tire pressure that is the max tire pressure rating you'll find that stamped here on the sidewall of the tire in that more traditional location if you have problems seeing that you can always use the data tag that you're going to find on the driver side front corner of the unit now again with any trailer tire we run them at the max that is going to give us the highest flexibility in terms of weight rating whether we completely full or completely empty that 65 psi is going to be a great number now lug nuts here have been torqued down to our shop our torques down in our shop to a 100 foot pounds the manufacturer is going to recommend a initial re-torque procedure you'll find that outlined here on this sticker and this particular manufacturer is going to recommend the initial 50 100 and 200 miles of travel that you go ahead and check those lug nuts make sure they are maintaining that hundred foot pounds of torque you will need a torque wrench to do so so make sure you uh invest in one of those generally these manufacturers will further recommend that at the start of each trip there on after you do go ahead and just inspect those lug nuts check that torque make sure they are again maintaining that level of torque next up is going to be our power supply here this is your cord comes with the unit generally these are these are about 25 30 feet in length if we go ahead and take a look here at the plug it will only plug in one way so we see we have two slotted receptacles and one l shape we have the corresponding prongs there and just like when you were a kid if you line up the shapes everything is going to go in nice and easy now this is a twist lock so we go ahead and give that an eighth inch turn to the right that locks it in then we do have a secondary collar here to screw down and secure that connection even further now it's going to be my recommendation with every unit that i deliver that you go ahead and add a 30 amp surge protector in line of course i don't need to tell you there's a ton of stuff going on within these using units electronically out there in the wild you may be opening yourself up to natural surges substandard wiring dirty power things like that so the only way to effectively protect yourself is going to be adding a 30 amp surge protector if you do have any questions on the products that we recommend or how to use them feel free to go ahead and give our parts department a call they would be more than happy to educate you further on just what we recommend and how to use it now also included is going to be a small 30 to 15 amp puck style reducer what this is going to be good for is you can go ahead and use this to pre-cool your refrigerator test the function of some lights things like that uh you know off of a standard household outlet if you're getting the ready the unit ready things like that now what this is not good for is going to be hydraulic appliances so running the air conditioner microwave things like that if you do wish to run those appliances on 15 amp service first off you're not going to be able to run them at the same time but you can squeak by running your air conditioner off of 15 amp service if you further invest into what we call a dog bone style reducer so it accomplishes the same thing it is just separated by about 12 inches worth of cord and what that 12 inches of cord is going to do is actually help dissipate heat a hot a whole lot better for those hydraulic appliances now riding right next to that we are going to find our cable satellite inlet what this is going to do is utilize a standard rg6 cable fitting to allow you to pass through those tv services through the interior of the unit to the designated tv areas so whether that's going to be an aftermarket satellite package or a park cable service this is going to be your inlet and again that will terminate at the designated tv area of the camper also we got our in-tube bumper storage here or two bumper storage uh idea being is you can go ahead and remove these caps from either side and store your sewage hose or really any long storage that you wish to do so there in the bumper also here at the rear of course first things first is going to be our roof access ladder now this opens us up to a great time to talk about structural maintenance throughout the unit what you're going to want to do is get on a 90-day maintenance schedule and we are going to inspect all of the seals throughout the unit so anywhere here on the body where two pieces come together they're going to utilize some sort of sealant more often than not you'll find a standard silicone 100 silicone product you can go ahead and source that from any rv parts department or any hardware store now on the roof they're going to utilize a slightly different product it's a self-leveling lap ceiling it's not as readily available so you'll probably will find yourself sourcing that from a our rv dealer now one thing to keep in mind is when we are inspecting these components and these seals is we're looking for any sign of deb any sign of degradation whether that's going to be cracking peeling separation anything like that we are going to do our best to touch up that area as necessary so remove the bead that is currently there replacing it with a new bead of silicone smooth it out all good stuff now also on the roof you kind of it's self-leveling sealant so it's not something that's like precise in nature if you do see any again of those any of that degradation you're just going to kind of just puddle it over top of it make sure that it is making a nice good seal that is how the product is designed to be used now moving on here further up top another cool thing that ibex does is they go ahead and pre-wire you or set you up to add a furon backup camera at your leisure they make it very easy to do so it's a four screw installation you remove the four screws you plug a 3.5 millimeter jack into the camera and screw it back down and you're good to go it is a wireless camera it does get its power from the marker lights so the light as long as these marker lights are on that is going to give you a full-time rear view also we have our spare tire back here it is a full-size matching wheel which is cool sometimes with these when they have these kind of off-road tires they won't give you the matching spare so that's nice that ibex has done that moving on here to the passenger side of the unit first things first is going to be our entry door assist handle uh what you see here is it in the stowed position if we do want to go ahead and open that up we just go ahead and lift and it will lock into that outward position now when we go ahead and take a look here at our entry door we have two types of locks here we have one for the latch lock and we have one for the deadbolt the latch lock here is generally you know not a super secure lock also it seems that more people than not have problems with that in utilizing both of these locks so feel free to go ahead and use that deadbolt that's the one that's going to be strictly keyed for you uh and go ahead and use that that's going to be the most secure and easiest way to do it next up once we go ahead and uh open up that door we're gonna go ahead and see our entry steps uh now these are very popular step option that you're see you're starting to see uh more often than not so when we do go ahead and lower these it's important to note that that door does actually have to be fully open or it's going to go ahead and catch here on the the side of that so next up we just go ahead and easily unlock them here with this blue uh pool latch so we pull that we lower them down here uh these are you know of course not only very easy to uh set up and and put away they are also very very stable that's why they're so popular another really cool function of these is going to be the adjustable legs here now that's going to make up for any variances in ground grade things like that they are super easy to adjust you'll see this little silver kind of trigger or button here on each leg it is just as easy as pushing that in going to the next available hole so on and so forth until you are level with your ground grade now moving on here we kind of have our outside kitchen area not only have a kind of a separate food prep surface but you also have your griddle here we're going to show you in just a minute how to go ahead and take that down and stow it away but before we do so we want to talk about how you actually use the equipment so what you're going to find included here is going to be a secondary propane line this is going to go ahead and utilize those quick connect features to make those gas connections so you will find underneath the camper here a quick connect propane connection so if the dust cap isn't already removed go ahead and remove that we're then going to slide that locking collar back we'll insert this male end fully once we've done so that will go ahead and snap back into place locking that in we do have a valve here we want to go ahead and open that valve up no need to fear you do have a secondary valve here so i guess make sure at least one of them is closed once we've done that we will come to the appliance itself and we will see again that that kind of redundant fitting there we slide that locking collar back while pushing forward once we're fully seated again that's going to go ahead and lock on and then we open up that valve now generally it's probably going to be most easy if you just kind of momentarily remove this griddle off of the top so you can go ahead and inspect the burner and then when we go ahead and light it's kind of like lighting a pilot light now it does have a piezo igniter in there so you don't have to use like a lighter or anything but you hold this in to actually activate that flow of propane and then as you rotate it it's going to go ahead and spark that igniter of course once you've let that propane flow through the lines it should light up for you no problems now when removing the the unit itself or all of this equipment to go ahead and stow you can see it's held on it's like two separate pieces so you have the bracket that kind of mounts to the camper and then the grille is going to be slid onto that so first thing up is going to be removing these cotter pins and you'll do that to both sides and then it's as easy as just sliding that grill off of the camper of course probably would be best to go ahead and disconnect it from the propane source first but once you've done so you can go ahead and fold these arms up and we're going to do that by pushing this spring release there on the underside and then just lift up and towards you that's going to come right off we can go ahead and replace the griddle top to our griddle and then this shelf again is just going to lift up and off of that rail and this does have that folding kick out so you can go ahead and store that flat now moving on here next up is going to be our furnace exhaust you're going to see that here now with any propane appliances on these campers it's going to be my ultimate recommend recommendation to go ahead and add some bug screens reason being is mud daubers flying insects are attracted to the smell of propane generally these are appliances are pretty much wide open to flying insect intrusion without the added bug screen so do yourself a favor go ahead and install those while taking delivery of the unit that way you can protect these appliances from the start now again this is an exhaust vent biggest thing with it is just to let it exhaust make sure that you're not blocking that airflow with maybe a lawn chair or something while out here enjoying this space it does blow very hot air when it is on it will generally cause damage to anything that's in front of it but you'll also be restricting the flow moving on here if we go ahead and take a look down on the underside of our camper we're going to see our low point drains those are going to be the lowest point in the unit's plumbing that's how we are going to drain everything in between water source and water source and fixture so everything in between now we will drain those every single time we are taking the unit into storage for more than seven days so keep in mind that we will drain the fresh water holding tank only if it's been in use we'll then come over here and we'll drain those low point drains lastly we're going to finish up with the water heater we're going to talk about that here in just a few minutes those do have valves on each one of those lines and they are gravity feed so it is just as simple as opening up that valve give it a few minutes to drain that water and you'll be good to go now up top here you have a slightly different still considered a quick connect sprayer but it's slightly different you can see that you have two teeth on that and then you have corresponding teeth on the actual fitting there and it's like a twist connection so you plug straight in and you rotate that clockwise like a half a turn that's going to go ahead and lock that on and self pressurize this at the same time next up is going to be our six gallon capacity dual source water heater what i mean when i say that it's dual source is it will not only run on full 110 volt electricity when you are in the capacity of an rv park but it will also run on propane gas with 12 volt direct spark ignition for when you are off grid or boondocking so the way that they kind of separate these switches is you are going to find your 110 volt heating element switch here on the exterior of the unit that is just an easy on off toggle switch one thing to mention with this that i have seen people forget in the past is when you do go ahead and drain this for uh excuse me for storage make sure that you turn that off first um seems to be like because of the location possibly that it's something that a lot of people forget so the manufacturer is very kind of specific on the way that you are going to maintain this unit and store it and things like that we're going to get ready to talk about that here in just a second so what they do or what they recommend is that any time just like with the rest of the unit anytime the unit's going to be in storage for more than seven days you need to go ahead and drain the water heater separate of the system uh you're going to do that number one first step in that is going to be letting the unit cool down give it a lot longer than you may think generally i recommend my customers to let it sit overnight so once you are confident of the temperature we do need to depressurize the the unit as a whole essentially uh to go ahead and safely drain this so what we're going to do is we're going to cut off the inflow of water to the to the unit overall so if we are using the city water connection that's as easy as turning that water off at the valve if we're using that potable or that excuse me that water pump and potable water tank you're just going to flip that water pump switch off now once we've done that we are going to go to the hot side of any fixture within the unit of course since we do not have hot water on the exterior that's going to limit us to of course the kitchen sink or the bathroom sink so once we've once we get there we're going to open up that hot line what that's going to do is allow any excess pressure that is built up within the unit to be relieved from there once we relieve that pressure we're going to come back out to the unit itself we're going to go ahead and grab an inch and a 16 socket in extension we're going to use that to drain here now you go ahead and remove that the remaining five and a half six gallons of water within the unit are going to you know purge from that location so before we return the unit back to service it's very important that we prime or pump six gallons of water into the water heater of course before we start trying to heat it so to do so first off we are going to replace your drain plug here once we've done so we're going to repressurize the unit overall so turn on that water pump or turn on that city water connection once you've done so we're again going to go to the hot side of the fixture within the unit we're going to turn that on now what you're going to see is a little bit different of a scenario at that fixture you're going to see a lot more water coming from it but also a lot more air as well what's happening is it's displacing the air that has since filled the tank and replacing it with water that whole process will generally take about five minutes but once that flow normalizes at the fixture that is your indicator that you are full and you can actually start heating your water with your desired source uh one other thing to mention is keep in mind that we do need to protect these from the intrusion of mud daubers and flying insects things like that so one thing to mention is you do have your hood vent here up top now that of course corresponds with the overhead vent fan and the light above your stove uh one thing to mention is you do need to open this before prepping a meal on the inside and you do need to close it when you're packing up shop before you're going down the road so it is just a friction fit you just go ahead and reach up and pull it out and that will be enough to open it up for you to go ahead and prep a meal and then when you go down the road just again reach up go ahead and push it shut until you feel that click and you're going to be good to go that just about covers it here on the exterior of the ibex let's go on the inside and check out those appliances and accessories here we are on the inside of the ibex uh first things first uh on the side of the cabinetry here you're going to find a on off toggle switch uh what that's going to control is just the back lighting here or under shelf lighting we then have a couple usbs as well some chargers allow you to go ahead and charge any devices while you're utilizing this area a couple hooks a really cool kind of bottle opener there as well and then we also have a very important piece of safety equipment now every single time we take the unit out it is very important that we test our safety equipment with this particular appliance we will go ahead and press the green tab down if it springs back that means we're good to go if not it's going to be time to replace the unit with a fire extinguisher of your choice and then coming up here we have kind of our main switch cluster what we're going to first have is going to be a on off switch for the back lighting here or inside lighting there of the cabinetry we have an interior light switch which is going to take care of most of the overhead uh ceiling lights now do keep in mind there is a push button on each one of those lights so you can really kind of control which lights come on and off with that switch we then have our porch light switch we saw that on the exterior of the unit just a bright white led porch light to light this space when you're enjoying that porch setup and then we have our awning lights which corresponds with an led light strip on that awning tube to again help further kind of light up that space and then we have our slide room in and out switch now as mentioned on the exterior of the unit this is this unit is equipped with the schwintec slide out system so what that means when for you uh when it does come to bring that slide in or out we are going to want to go the full direction of travel so avoid any short bursts or partial openings if we're bringing the slide in come fully in if we're running the slide out go fully out awning extend or retract now this is slightly different this is going to be a momentary switch now you can run that awning partially out or partially in essentially following that sun in the sky if you choose to do so it does not matter where you stop it essentially now one thing to remember is if i were to go ahead and fully extend this awning but i wasn't watching out the window and it reached that fully extended position it will actually continue to to roll out uh but essentially be rolling back in if that makes any sense so it will fully extend into the outward position and then start rolling back up inside out so just something to be aware of of course you will want to be watching and making sure you're not running it into your neighbor's camper anyway so that may go without saying there now moving on here we have our jackknife sofa down low this is going to make a secondary sleeping area for you first things first is going to be removing your side cushions here we can go ahead and get those out of the way and then you will go ahead and like a futon or anything else you just grab from the bottom kind of help at the top that's going to go ahead and lay that out flat now one thing to mention is that if we go ahead and lift this up what that's going to expose here is going to be your lock box it's another really cool feature that io x is doing uh whether you want to store some kind of valuables in that particular spot you can do so this is going to be keyed exactly the same as the entry door so a little bit of thought went into that and it's enjoyable to see now also here in the space we're going to have a 15 amp outlet on either side of that kind of couch area again to allow you to be able to power any devices from multiple locations so a couple different styles of windows in this particular location uh first one up is going to be what i call a school bus style window because it reminds me of the the bus windows when i was a kid they have these two tabs you slide those in that will allow you to go ahead and lift that up and then they snap back into that open position of course all of these windows no matter the opening style are going to utilize that same pull down friction style shade but then here on the back wall we have a lot a lot larger window so it opens quite a bit different this is also considered an emergency exit basically with this particular window it's just large enough for you to go ahead and remove the screen and crawl out because i think why they designate it as an emergency exit anywho uh this one's just going to have a spring-loaded clip here so you pull that towards you you're going to slide to the right that'll allow that window to open up easy and then again we have our pull down shade now these under cabinet lights those are not on that main light switch so you will have to turn these on and off uh separate of that main switch coming here into the dinette area we're going to talk about how we make the dinette into a bed so this is also going to be another sleeping area for you with a tabletop of this size it can be slightly cumbersome so do yourself a favor and go ahead and kind of get these cushions slightly out of the way at least lift it up so it's going to make it easy for you to lower that tabletop this is what we call in the biz a pedestal style table so what that means for you is you have two flanges uh on the table top and two flanges on the floor and then a friction fit pole that kind of holds everything together so starting out as best you can separate the pieces if you're lucky the table top will come off of the poles and the floor flange will hold those into place but oftentimes that doesn't happen that way and it looks like i got lucky so with that being said we're going to move that out of the way we're then going to separate these again from that floor flange we can go ahead and stash these over here on the couch for now and then it's very easy and kind of self-explanatory from there we take our tabletop we're going to set that on top of those black bumpers something like that we then lower our cushions back down and then this space in the middle is conveniently sized to be able to go ahead and utilize these fat cushions to fill out the space so and then the same thing in reverse to of course make it into a dinette table we're going to remove our cushions here once we've done so we're going to lift our tabletop out of the way and take our poles again insert them nice and snug into the floor flange and then it's as easy as just matching up the flanges to the poles here of the table top so it's very easy to do it shouldn't take you more than a couple minutes uh when you're doing it fresh but i think i got that tabletop backwards shouldn't take it more than a couple minutes uh either way especially once you kind of get used to what you're doing and there you go um under bench storage on each of these um you know which is nothing crazy just gives you uh some some added space to go ahead and put your stuff in we're then going to come over here uh to the air excel thermostat now uh this is not only going to control our air conditioning but it's also going to control our furnace as well a single mode button with up or down arrows for temperature so we go ahead and push that once that's going to take us into our fan options first now your options are low high and auto so we can see those there and that is just going to be the fan speed and then we go ahead and look and that takes us right into our air conditioner mode and again we see that high and low designation and fan speed so what that means when you are in the air conditioner mode is that is that that fan will continue essentially to run whether or not it is hit this thermostatic temperature or not so to kind of keep that actually you know right where you want it functioning more like it would in the residential sector you do need to go one step further and go into the auto side of things so you'll still have that low and high designation but you'll also have auto behind it that's going to automatically shut off that fan when it does reach that thermostatic temperature and then if i keep going through here next up is going to be the furnace now once this realizes what i'm trying to do it's going to go ahead and kick on that blower motor immediately 16 seconds after that it ignites by that 30 second mark it's producing noticeable heat now in the event that uh you know it were to set off your smoke alarm and that first 15 minutes of operation with your smoke alarm is actually located up here if that furnace were to set that off that's from the manufacturer of the furnace that's 100 acceptable uh every time you light a furnace in the rv it's almost like lighting it in your house the first time the first time of the year every single time when you're going down the road you're gonna be have dust being deposited on it things like that as it continues to run that efficiency rating goes way up so that may happen of course don't worry about it as long as it is within the first 15 minutes of operation but while we're here at the smoke alarm uh don't forget to go ahead and test your safety equipment every single time you take the unit out this is part of that this is a 9 volt 9 volt battery driven smoke alarm just like you'll find at home do yourself a favor and keep a spare nine volt battery with the unit in the event that this were to start chirping at you in the middle of the night or something of course we could never recommend removing that battery make sure you have a spare one to replace it um coming here into the television or the kitchen area excuse me uh you do have a television uh this is buckled in for transit so go ahead and remove the buckle what that will allow you to do is go ahead and swing this out into the common area of the camper whether you're sitting on the couch or at the dinette you can go ahead and angle that pretty much in any direction it is a 12 volt tv which is great that will allow you to go ahead and take advantage of that if you are fully off grid and then very importantly below that you are going to find your uh antenna booster plate now what that does is that one goes ahead and powers the on-board uh omnidirectional digital over-the-air television antenna you can notice the red light and there is a button right beside that red light that powers on that antenna so if we're looking to take advantage of that digital programming make sure that red light is on we're then going to do a channel search on the television it will automatically search out the best signal and bring in that programming of course dependent on that signal moving here into the kitchen further of course you have your jbl speaker that is included that's kind of a nice touch uh gives you a a just kind of an added bonus throughout the camper since you do not have a hard you know hard wired speakers hardwired head unit things like that other than that we're going to find a couple 15 amp outlets there a nice round kitchen sink here again this is kind of your usual suspects things that you're going to find in in every rv the styling is of course exceptional but functionality wise is very much as to what you're used to on the underside here we have quite a bit of cabinet space which again is is a nice touch the floor plan of this unit is really open it's really enjoyable but they did not skimp on the amount of cabinetry and storage space that you find throughout the unit and then down low as well we have our microwave oven here now this is not only a microwave but this is a what they consider a three-way grill or a three-way oven that means it is a convection oven it is a microwave oven and it also has a heating element on the top that kind of allows you to utilize it as a grill as well so in terms of function it is very going to be very indicative of a microwave you have your mode buttons up up top a couple presets below that time and temperature stop clear start things like that is again going to utilize that kind of turntable style you this grating here is going to be used for convection and then we can see that heating element there at the top above that we have your cooktop a suburban branded cooktop with a tempered glass countertop extender so we of course first off we'll flip that out of the way once we've done so when we're looking here at the controls you of course have your piezo igniter there you have the switch for these blue lights and then your burner controls here so very easy to go ahead and light these up it's displayed light on the dial there we turn to that and it's as easy as going ahead and rotating that sparker until we see a flame at the burner we're trying to light now you'll hold that in once you see that flame for about three seconds give that thermal coupler enough time to heat up and it will stay on uh by itself uh another thing to mention is if you have just prepped a meal on here uh give it enough time to cool down before we go ahead and trap that heat in with this tempered glass top uh you don't want anything to happen to that and then above that we have our standard hood vent and fan again this is very kind of traditional stuff that you're going to find in just about any rv on the market but it is there again some more storage up top here for dishes or whatever you feel inclined to fill the space with and then that takes us here to our norcold 12-volt compressor style fridge this is one of my favorite fridges that are is on the market right now you're kind of seeing a shift in the industry as a whole from those uh standard ammonia absorption three-way refrigerators to these 12-volt compressor style fridges and it's a welcome advance a welcome advancement if you ask me when we go ahead and take a look here at the display of course you have your on off button here and our temperature control here that's going to take us into the different modes now my favorite thing about this which you generally will not find on not only most compressor style fridges but most uh rv fridges in general is you can have a separate control for the uh freezer as to the refrigerator and that's just not something you're generally going to find you know the limitations of an ammonia absorption system really don't allow that to be possible so it's really cool you also have this night mode and what i believe that does and i'll have to kind of study up on this but i do believe that night mode is just going to give you kind of like a like a eco mode that is more efficient during the night and and things like that um but don't quote me on that and then below that we have our converter panel box here uh this is going to house not only our 12 volt appliances but our 110 volt appliances as well you'll see them listed in terms of function here on the door uh as mentioned everything here on the right side is an automotive blades type fuse available at any rv parts department or auto parts store uh do yourself a favor just like a spare nine volt battery keep a spare set of fuses within the unit uh as faye would have it if you are out there camping and you don't have a spare you'll probably inevitably need one so make sure you have some spares with that in the event you need to change and then on the left side there we have our standard resettable 110 volt light switch style breaker same variant you're going to find in your breaker box at home other than that this is a converter so what it's doing is it is switching a 110 volt electricity to 12 volt that's what's essentially powering all of these 12-volt appliances while you're plugged in to shore power as well as recharging your battery now at times of high power consumption where you have this thing like fully lit up like a christmas tree this does have a cooling fan for those components you may feel that fan kick on you may hear it kick on you may even kind of feel some heat coming from this that's totally normal of course that there is you know some heat some heat that is produced when that switch over from 110 volt to 12 volt happens and and that's what you're seeing there with that and then moving over here we have our again a very important piece of safety equipment is going to be our carbon monoxide lp leak detector of course to sound extremely redundant we do test our safety equipment every single time we take the unit out this is no exception this particular unit is wired into the 12 volt section of the camper so there is no battery to change or maintain or anything like that it is wired in uh all we need to do is press this test button it's going to let you know with an audible tone that it is in good working order and that's it uh now as to which gas it's sensing and how when it's working and things like that it is outlined here uh you know what the different tones mean what the different light flashes means and things like that so make sure you're taking a look at that before you know you possibly were to have any anything happen uh and then we have our roadback introvac here this is a really cool feature you're seeing these in different units across the board in its base capacity there's there's no hose attachment or anything like that you could contact road vac and and upgrade that and that would allow you to plug a hose here into the unit and then of course drapes around the unit and use it in that capacity it's also very much usable in this kind of base mode reason being is because you have this little door here so you would use a broom and you would sweep your dust panel to this location and when you are satisfied you go ahead and lift that up um what that will do is of course if we were plugged into 110 volt electricity that's going to automatically kick that on and you just go ahead and sweep your your mess up into there and it will um of course suck it into the equip bag throughout the you know within the unit now to change that bag it's very easy to do so you go ahead and stick your finger here in this hole and pull towards you that's going to allow that to go ahead and come out and we can see that bag in place so it actually hooks on in two places it hooks on to the rear of it which actually connects it to down here and then it hooks up to the front which connects it to if you wanted to add a hose so when you go ahead and use this make sure that you before throwing that bag away if it were to become full you take note of the vat the bag that is going to fit this and you know just so you're not searching around i don't know if that's in the manual or not but do yourself a favor and then when we go ahead and set this back in we seat the tabs here on my left side first and then we again pull that towards us to overcome that edge all right guys let's check out the restroom so um you know nothing too crazy in here nothing that's going to need a ton of education but let's go forward anyway so one cool feature that you have you find these on our pods you find these on ibex is is going to be the addition of the thermistor system here uh what this will allow you to do is actually the the kind of main uh reasoning for this is is so you're not like constantly waiting for hot water to actually make its way through the lines and things like that so what this does is this will actually circulate air or excuse me circulate water through the system like recycling it so it's going to pump it essentially from your freshwater tank back through your freshwater system and this is a a kind of piece of thermoplastic if that's even the right term but what that means is it changes colors uh once it gets hot so once the hot water has actually started to run to the fixture this will turn i believe gray and what that's going to allow you to do is just again conserve water consumption specifically when you're boondocking and things like that so you're not turning on the the the shower and then you know there's no hot water or whatever so other than that very kind of common shower head here which is going to have a on off switch there again that's just for for reasoning of water consumption so the idea being is that once you have hot water at the fixture you're good to go you set your cold water kind of mixed in for how you like it uh and then you're taking a shower and you don't want to change that make sure every single time you want to cut this water off and just to let you know you're going to be cutting the water off because six gallons of water does not translate six gallons of hot water i should say does not translate to an exceptionally long shower you'll probably find yourself doing military navy style showers which is going to call for you to shut this off multiple times during your shower so what that's going to allow you to do is again do that without having to fine tune your mixture every single time other than that you get the nice skylight here that's going to give you some natural light which everybody enjoys you have a magnetic hold open here on your claw or a magnetic close i should say on your claw uh shower curtain one cool feature is that this little bow here uh believe it or not that makes the gives you the illusion of a lot more space in there if you're in there you know washing your hair moving your arms around things like that it does give you kind of that extra wing room uh which of course is never a bad thing other than that uh of course standard hand washing sink here not going to spend too much time with that we have our medicine cabinet uh there and then above my head we have a exhaust fan now this does lock in the stowed position so we go ahead and pull that handle down and we will crank that open and then we have our fan on and speed settings on one single button and then you have uh you know forged fan speeds and it will really get up and start exhausting air main focus our main reason for that is of course a small bathroom like this you're taking a nice hot shower you're going to have a ton of moisture in the air this is going to help pull that moisture out and then we shut the fan off we go ahead and crank the fan down because very importantly we never want to go down the road with our hood vents in the open position we snug that down we go ahead and push that handle up to go ahead and lock that down as well also here kind of a quite a bit of stuff going on here in the restroom uh you have uh all the way here to the left is going to be your overhead lights and then you have some heated tank systems which i wasn't aware that the ibex had which is an excellent feature for cold weather camping that's going to keep your fresh water holding tank and wet as well as your waste water from freezing when you're in sub freezing environments and then we have our tank monitor system now we referenced this on the exterior of the unit what this will allow you to do is go ahead and monitor the level of your tanks we talked about how important it was to only dump that blackwater tank specifically when it is full or before changing locations but this is going to give you kind of a real-time readout of where your things sit so battery is about two-thirds to one-third full we're running off of battery power now so that's no surprise our fresh water tank is reading full black water is empty gray water is empty so basically when you're looking at this the more light you see the fuller that particular thing you are trying to evaluate is one thing to mention is when you are plugged into shore power because that converter is in play if we're trying to test the battery it's always going to indicate full so that's just the way the technology works to get a true readout of where your battery sits just momentarily unplug from shore power go ahead and test that is going to give you that real-time readout and then below that we saw on the exterior of the unit we saw our 110 volt water heater switch to go ahead and utilize that 110 volt heating element this particular switch is going to be our propane side so how this propane side works is when you go ahead and flip this switch it obviously turns it on and turns it into lighting mode it will try and light three times if for whatever reason it does not light by the end of that third try it's gonna stop trying what you'll see and how you'll know that it has not ultimately lit and it's not trying to light anymore is there's a little red fault light right above the button if you come back five minutes late and this this light will flicker on and off as it's going through its lighting cycles but ultimately if you come back five minutes later and it's just red solid like that then that means it hasn't lit so that could happen for a couple reasons uh maybe you have your service valve closed on the tank that's a realistic option maybe you're out of gas that happens to the best of us also you know with a unit of this size if the unit if the water heater on the propane side hasn't been ran in a while those propane lines have bled that gas out and have now filled with air just may take a few tries to actually get that gas from the cylinder to the appliance in the event that happens just go ahead check out make sure you have gas make sure the valves open if not or if so then just come in here flip the switch off flip it back on it will take it out of that standby mode and it will start to cycle another three times generally if the issue is just the lines being full of air uh it'll light on the first try of that second lighting cycle and then we have our water pump switch in here as well now that is going to again pressurize that fresh water holding tank draw that water up from the tank to the fixtures and make it usable so very easy that's going to be our boondock or off-grid option and then below that we have our solar charge controller what this does is this gives you kind of an information center to not only let you know where your battery voltage is but it'll also let you know how many amps you're taking in via solar and things like that so it is going to not only be an information center for things like that but it's also going to be the brains behind that solar setup it's going to intake energy as necessary topping off your batteries but once those batteries are in fact full it's going to stop taking in energy so to not over charge them next up is going to be our toilet here now this is a pedal flush style toilet what that means is you give it a light press here on the floor that's going to feed water to the bowl which is always a good idea that's going to help keep those bad smells down when you go ahead and flush the unit and then go ahead and push to the floor that that flushes it now keep in mind all of your products or black tape maintenance stuff is going to be introduced from this location so if that's going to be uh deodorizing product sensor cleaners tissue dissolvers generally you name it if it has to do with the black water tank it's going down that hole so also with that being said make sure we're using rv grade toilet paper things like that if we're using those specific products making sure we're following the manufacturers of those chemical treatments you know following their uh instructions on how to use them generally you will chase them with a amount of water uh depending on the product that you use so just making sure we're you know following what the manufacturer wants us to do other than that if you are on grid you have access to full-time running water take advantage of that of course i stress the importance of keeping that black water tank in his wet or flowing conditions if you can so if you can go ahead and take nice long flushes uh kind of the wetter the better when it does come to that black water tank anything to help dissolve that toilet paper and body waste anything to kind of keep things free flowing better coming here into the main bedroom uh of course you have a pocket door to give yourself some privacy these pocket doors are really nice actually have utilized magnets here to keep that shut when going down the road just just so it's not sliding back and forth make sure you strap that in now coming further here into the bedroom uh first things up you're gonna notice is going to be your emergency exit uh very important uh to know your emergency accidents and how to use them if your entry door were to become blocked for whatever reason uh you can go ahead and exit the unit from this location it will also perform as a window or you know like a normal window which you can have it uh in an open position that will allow you to feed air throughout the unit but in the event of emergency you would go ahead and yank that screen out of the way that window will full swing or swing full open like a doggy door uh potentially gonna allow you to exit if need be now also coming here into the unit we see this cool back lighting the switch is going to be on that side of the bed we can demo that when we get there but you have a couple usbs on each side of the bed as well and then if we look down low we have 110 or 15 amp outlets on each side of the bed as well not to mention the above head inside storage things like that obviously you can see but you also are going to have some under bed storage which is again a very efficient use of space so any big things you can go ahead and stuff under there any extra bedding things like that uh other than that um you know you have the overhead lights here i'm going to kind of quickly come over here to this side and we can see our switch there for the back lighting we talked about that and then although we did get a shot of this one thing to mention is this is going to be your inverter switch so we would just go ahead and push that and push that and hold until we see the green light that will be for our inverter now just to let you know that inverter is going to allow us to draw off the battery and power 110 volt appliances things like that and then beside that we have our main gfi outlet now all the receptacles throughout the unit are on a single circuit what that means is if one of them were to get overloaded they all kind of follow suit you would go ahead and reset this if that were to happen so just keep in mind that if your outlets or receptacles aren't working come back here into the bedroom more than likely it's just going to be resetting that plug only other thing i believe that is going to be worth mentioning here in the bedroom uh is going to be your overhead vent there now uh there's no fan or anything into that now it is pre-wired for one so if you yourself wanted to add one down the road or you'd like us to do so at time of delivery we certainly can functionality wise it's going to be the same as any of the other fans throughout the units you just crank it open making sure you're not forgetting to close it before going down the road all right guys that just about covers it with the walkthrough here on the ibex i thank you so much for your time we 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