How-To Videos

When you purchase a Northern Lite, you want to ensure that your investment will last generations. We have put together a series of How-To Videos to help you properly maintain and operate your Northern Lite 4-season truck camper.

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Why Lithium Batteries for your RV?

Matt Hill provides an overview of the benefits of lithium batteries vs. AGM and lead acid batteries for use in your RV.

How to Troubleshoot Your 600AH Lithium Power System

Need help re-starting your 600AH Lithium Power System after having a depleted battery? Lost connection between the unit and your monitoring system? This video will help you get back up and running!

How to Winterize Your Northern Lite 610

Matt Hill walks you through the process to winterize the Truma Combi based hot water system in your Northern Lite 610.

How to Winterize a Northern Lite 9-6 Equipped with a Truma System and a 600 AH Lithium Power System

A 9-6 Equipped with a Truma System and a 600 AH Lithium Power System has a couple of subtle differences when it comes to winterizing compared to a standard 9-6 equipped with just a Truma system.

Tech Talk: Winterize Your Suburban/Dometic Equipped 8-11

Learn how to winterize your Northern Lite 8-11 equipped with a Suburban or Dometic hot water system.

Tech Talk: Winterize Your Truma Equipped 8-11

Learn how to winterize your Northern Lite 8-11 equipped with an optional Truma hot water and furnace system.

Tech Talk: Winterize Your 9-6

Learn how to winterize your Northern Lite 9-6 equipped with an optional Truma hot water and furnace system.

Tech Talk: Winterize Your 10-2

Learn how to winterize your Northern Lite 10-2 equipped with an optional Truma hot water and furnace system.

Tech Talk: Lithium Power System

Northern Lite is now offering a 600AH Lithium Power System as an option for our 2026 full size truck campers. This video provides an overview of the various components.
 
 
 

Tech Talk: Truma Combi Control Panel

The Truma Combi heat and hot water system has a user friendly control system to help keep your Northern Lite at the the perfect temperature. This video walks you through the basic controls of this system.

Tech Talk: GoPower PowerTrak Display

Join Matt Hill as he explains the GoPower PowerTrak display for use with the Northern Lite lithium power package.

How to Dump Your Black Tank

What’s the best process to dump the black tank on your Northern Lite truck camper? This video will show you our recommended steps.

How to Use Your 3rd Step

The third step makes it much easier to get into your camper. Here’s a quick tutorial on how to install it.

How to Convert Your U-Shaped Table into a bed

Here is a short video on how to easily convert your u-shaped table into a comfortable bed.

How to Use Your Water Heater

A quick overview on how to use the water heater in a Northern Lite truck camper. What does the red light really mean???

How to Unload Your Northern Lite Truck Camper

Unloading your Northern Lite Truck Camper from your truck is a fairly simple process but there’s a couple of little things you need to watch for to ensure a quick and successful unloading. This video goes through the whole process of unloading you truck camper.

How to Tie Down Your Northern Lite Truck Camper

It’s critical that when you load your Northern Lite truck camper, you need to tie it down properly. If the tie downs are too tight or too loose, you may damage your camper. We recommend using Torklift FastGuns to properly secure your camper.

How to Manually Raise and Lower Your Jacks

If you ever have an electrical failure with your camper jacks, don’t worry! You can still manually jack your camper up to get it on to, or off of, your truck.

How to Load Your Northern Lite Truck Camper

Loading a truck camper may seem daunting to a new truck camper owner. We have put together this short video to show you just how easy it is to load your Northern Lite truck camper! After a few times you will have no problem loading your camper in under 10 minutes.

How to Setup Your Truck Bed to Haul Your Camper

What do you need to do to setup your truck bed in order for it to hold your Northern Lite truck camper? This video looks at what is needed in the back of your truck to safely haul your truck camper.

How to Dewinterize Your Northern Lite Truck Camper

With winter ending it’s time dewinterize your Northern Lite truck camper to get it ready for your next spring adventure! This video features a Northern Lite 10-2, but the same process can be used for our 8-11 and 9-6 models.

How to Winterize Your Northern Lite 10-2 Truck Camper

This video provides step-by-step instructions on how to winterize your Northern Lite 10-2 truck camper.

How to Carry Your Bikes on a Northern Lite Truck Camper

We are asked all the time on the best way to carry bikes when traveling with a Northern Lite truck camper. This video will show you our preferred solution to this question!