I now have Lily back and am going through setting her back up.
I have a baseline tongue weight now of 375#'s with a stripped down Pod. No propane tank, no batteries, no water or waste water, no cushions... I do mean stripped.
I've mounted my batteries (dual 6v's) and placed the tank back on. I just added 156#'s to the tongue. So by using the formula Force x Length = Weight x length (X) I built a spreadsheet using F=(W x X)L to determine how much gear to offset the added weight.
On my 182g, distance from axle to center between batteries/propane tank is 132". My garage/rear through storage is 66" from the axle center. Result becomes 312#'s in the rear storage to balance out the added weight.
Next, since I travel with about 5-6 gallons of water on board, I'll measure up to the holding tank and work out the numbers.
I'll be doing this with each item I put back in. I want to know what is where and how much should be.
I should have hit the scales on my way home for a baseline trailer weight. Yet, tracking everything going back in, I will be able to deduct and get that number.
Hope this exercise will help others see just what is happening and how the trailer weight adds up so quickly and how to possibly reduce that tongue weight. I see far too many adding so many things up front: second tanks, storage boxes for tools, bike racks, generators, and on the list goes.