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Breakaway switch and brake lights

Yesterday, I replaced the cable that connects the 5th wheel to the 7 pin connector on the truck. Luckily, the cable I ordered used the same color scheme as the existing cable (I tested old and new cable with a multimeter) and after connecting everyt...

marquis 5500 generator starting problems

I have a 2000 holiday rambler with the Onan 5500 generator with about 400 hours. When I first try to start it, it will start, surge for a while then quit. sometime I can keep it running a little longer by manually controlling the throttle, but it wil...

jluke by • Explorer
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Charging house batteries while in storage

The nice folks that bought my old Winnebago have it in storage a few blocks from their house. There is limited parking in front of their house, and they can't run a extension cord to it to charge the batteries. I was thinking the only option is so...

SFVdave by • Explorer
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Need some A/V advice

When we got the Chinook, I noticed it had an RCA home theater unit. It will play DVDs, tune FM stations, and has something like 50 watts per channel to four speakers. (RCA? Are they still around? I haven't associated them with quality in a long t...

Dometic Refrigerator Thermostat

Greetings, I am troubleshooting my old Dometic compact refrigerator and since it works well on AC but not LPG can I assume that the thermostat and thermister are OK? Thanks.

suburban water heater

I have a ten gallon water heater and the wire that controls the gas needs to be wiggled if I want the gas to come on. the wire connector is behind the black reset cover on the face of the heater.I am having one of those senior moments and am trying t...

old_guy by • Explorer
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Kudos to Rogue Power Technologies

MY 4+ year old MPT-3024 solar charge controller was having start up problems. I contacted Marc and returned it to him. It was repaired in short order, along with software up date, at no charge and he even paid the return freight. That's what I call t...

RLS7201 by • Explorer
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A/C Turns on when I turn on the heater

When I turn on my heater the A/C also turn on. Is a gas furnace. So I have to turn the A/C beaker down. If I only use the A/C it work fine. Any ideas. I think my digital thermostat is damaged ?

Tbucket by • Explorer
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Manual vs Electric slideout

Recently I bought my first RV for a steal, it has a manual bed in the back slide out. So far I haven't had too many issues, other than my strength is not what it's up to be to do this on my own. Last weekend, I think it wasn't on the level, the tra...

Looking for a better replacement 50A recep and plug.

Time to replace the plug and receptacle on my 50A ext cord.Looking for something better than the cheap Camco stuff. Is the Progressive Industries product any better?I have looked on Ebay and Amazon and nothing jumps ot at me as being better. I though...

starting a florida stored vehicle

stored my ford tarsus 01 in Florida for the summer, poured some stabilizer in it before leaving, will not fire unless i use starting fluid, then it will only run if I spray more into it, any ideas?

jlscjs by • Explorer
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Testing a converter?

How can I test a convert without pulling it?Thinking disconnect house battery while plugged into shore power and using a multimeter on the + & - but AC or DC what to set the meter on.

JAXFL by • Explorer
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Schauer 48v charger

Dang, nothing is going right with my 48v upgrade project. The Cotek inverter went back because I couldn't get the AC connection plate off to hard wire it. Now, my brand-new Schauer 48vdc charger shows 0 volts output on my perfectly good VOM -measur...

2oldman by • Explorer II
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Furnace blower running continuously

So... doing one last weekend outing before putting the trailer away for the winter. 2013 Salem TB23H, with a digital thermostat/controller for A/C, furnace and fan. Basically, with the thermostat in 'Furnace' mode and the temp set... the blower is ...

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