Infrastructure

At Harmony Ridge RV Park, we installed frost-free water hydrants, which works great when the water hydrants are turned off. When they are turned off, the water in the hydrant drains out the seep hole at the bottom of the hydrant underground.

However, if the water hydrant is in use during freezing temperatures, heat tape can be used to prevent the exposed part above ground from freezing. We bought 10 feet so it could be spiraled down the pipe to the ground. In fact, we dug down 12" below the ground and wrapped it as well so the pipe near the surface, but below the grade would be protected as well.

This heat tape comes in 17 different length options from 2 feet up to 150 feet. We found 10 feet to be perfect for a water hydrant with about 3' exposed above ground.

We intend to unplug this after the threat of freezing is behind us.

We installed one of these at each RV site to provide 50/30/20A power for our guests. We love these panels because they have 4 unused breaker spaces for future expansion at each RV side for future RV Site dedicated equipment, such as a Hot Tub right at the RV site, a RV Shelter, Casida, Level 2 EV Charging or what ever you can dream up! If you want flexibility in the future, this is an excellent product to include in your RV Electrical infrastructure.

We installed 5 of these inside of our electric distribution panels. We put one clamp on each wire that runs to our RV sites. The two big clamps go on the main wires to meter the overall power. All of the data is uploaded to the Emporia cloud and can be viewed remotely from a web browser or the mobile app. When a monthly begins their stay, we record the starting kilowatts. Then again after their month stay to calculate the amount of power utilized so they can be billed for their actual usage.

Note: If your RV sites are daisy-chained on the same breaker/wire from one RV pedestal to the next, then you'll have to install one of these in each RV pedestal. If so, there is a less expensive version with 8 clamps (listed below).

Same as the 16 Monitor above, just less CT monitoring clamps are included. It's the same controller with 16 ports so more CT monitoring clamps can be added later.

We haven't deployed these yet, but are looking for a business use case. We like them because they are integrated into the Emporia Energy monitoing app and also integrated to Amazon, Alexa and Google Home Assistant.

These also have the extra benefit of being able to turn devices on/off remotely.

We were going for an old fashioned barn light look and found these. They have a dusk to dawn sensor built-in so we just leave the light switch in the on position and let the dusk to dawn sensor do it's job. Very pleased with these sconces and look great on our Utility sheds.