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Earlier this yr, Kait and I took supply of our second flatbed truck camper construct, the Hawk+ by 4 Wheel Campers. On this publish I’ll share an in depth construct listing of our light-weight pop-up truck camper and the modifications we’ve made up to now.
Hawk+ Flatbed Truck Camper by 4 Wheel Campers
Let’s begin off with the fundamentals of our 4 Wheel Campers Hawk+ Flatbed by answering a number of the hottest questions we get.
How a lot does the weigh? Our Hawk+ flatbed was delivered with a dry weight of two,130 lbs from the manufacturing facility with the choices we chosen. For a full listing of choices and options, try the construct specs part beneath.
Is there a rest room in your 4 Wheel Camper? Sure, we constructed our Hawk+ flatbed to have an indoor cassette bathroom, indoor bathe and an out of doors bathe.
Does your 4 Wheel Camper have air-con? Sure, the 12v Nomadic AC unit is now an choice which we chosen for our camper.
Which truck do you’ve? We mounted our Hawk+ flatbed camper on a 2000 Ford F350 Tremendous Obligation. Try our 7.3 Powerstroke article for all of the specs and particulars of the truck.
Construct Specs: Hawk+ Flatbed Camper
After having owned and lived out of our first Hawk flatbed truck camper for 2 years, Kait and I knew precisely which choices we wished to pick for this construct. On this part I’ll listing all of the choices we picked for our Hawk+ flatbed truck camper.
Hawk+ Flatbed Camper Choices:
- Mannequin: Hawk+_FB
- Siding Colour: Silver Frost Clean
- Cloth: Heritage Leaf
- Counter tops: Bamboo
- Cupboards: Black Oxide
- Flooring: Gray Ash
- Tank Capacities: 40 gallon contemporary water / 5 gallon gray
- Kitchen: Flush mount sink and range
- Twin 2.5 gallon propane tanks
- Pre-wired for Starlink
- Choices
- Mechanical camper jacks
- 2-Approach 85L fridge/freezer
- Truma pressured air furnace & on the spot water heater w/inside and out of doors showers and built-in cassette bathroom
- Roof mounted Nomadic 12v AC
- 5 lithium batteries (810ah) with RedArc Supervisor Alpha75, Rogue with RedVision system and a pair of,000 watt inverter
- 500 watts of roof mounted photo voltaic
- 8′ Fiamma F45S handbook awning
- Electrical roof help
- Facet steps
- Facet and Rear Flood Lights
- LED exterior lighting package deal
- Detachable carpet equipment
- King mattress slide
- Thermal Pack
- Norweld Weekender Deluxe Tray aka flatbed (observe: this is identical flatbed we bought for our first flatbed camper construct so the manufacturing facility set up group solely needed to mount the Hawk+ to our current Norweld tray)
Energy System
Our first Hawk flatbed camper was one of many first 4 Wheel Campers constructed with 300ah of lithium batteries, which was a should have requirement for us on the time.
As soon as once more our Hawk+ flatbed camper not solely has lithium batteries however probably the most they’ve ever put in a camper at 810ah coupled with the RedArc Supervisor Alpha75 and Rogue system.
The RedArc system controls the entire lights within the camper, together with the outside lights, together with the water pump and fridge fan. It should additionally show contemporary and gray water tank ranges and could be accessed on our telephones utilizing bluetooth. The system additionally manages the entire energy coming in to cost the batteries in probably the most environment friendly means attainable. It should additionally trick cost the truck’s batteries when the camper batteries attain 100% state of cost. If the truck batteries die, the RedArc has the power to cost them from the camper’s lithium batteries.
This method is greater than sufficient to energy our 12v AC for a full day (from what we’ve seen in testing up to now), my espresso gear, Kait’s multi-cooker, our laptops, good telephones, a two-way fridge and extra by means of a 2000 watt inverter. The five hundred watts of photo voltaic on the roof assist hold the batteries charged together with the power to cost from the truck’s alternator when driving. There may be additionally an exterior port the place we are able to plug in our twin moveable photo voltaic panels.
Try our publish on moveable photo voltaic panels vs rooftop photo voltaic panels.
Order and Set up Course of
Melanie Garrido was our gross sales contact at 4 Wheel Campers. She managed the modifications to our order type and processed all of the paperwork. One factor we love about 4 Wheel Campers is the camper builder characteristic on their web site. So if you’re curious about pricing out considered one of their pop-up truck campers, simply go to fourwheelcampers.com and go to the construct and worth web page.
Since we already had the Norweld tray put in on our truck, it solely took the group just a few hours to put in the Hawk+ flatbed camper. After we obtained our first Hawk flatbed put in, it took the group 5 days to get the outdated mattress eliminated and the brand new one put in together with putting in the camper.
Beneath is a video of us taking our truck to 4 Wheel Campers and the set up of the camper together with first impressions.
Aftermarket Modifications
To date we’ve solely made two modification to our camper. The primary is a customized mattress. We ordered ours from Mattress Insider to switch the one which got here with our Hawk+ flatbed camper. Whereas the mattress from the manufacturing facility is snug, I’ve some shoulder issues so I wanted one thing totally different.
The second modification is a vent cowl for the fan. That is considered one of our important tenting equipment as a result of it permits us the run the vent fan whereas it’s raining exterior with out worrying in regards to the rain sensor closing the fan or water moving into the camper.
Try our listing of important gear for extra concepts.
Touring in a Hawk+ Flatbed Camper
Keep tuned for future movies the place we share what it’s wish to journey in a 4 Wheel Campers Hawk+ flatbed camper. Subscribe to our YouTube channel or join our e-newsletter for updates.
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