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Trailer Brake Wear

For those of you who do your own maintenance work, have you noticed if your brakes wear evenly (or unevenly) among the four wheels? This assumes tandem axle. It also assumes no failures in the brakes such as bad magnet(s), broken wires, lockups , etc...

Remote thermostat control?

I've searched, both on here and online , high and low trying to find an aftermarket replacement thermostat that I can control from the confines of my nice, warm bed rather than getting up in the cold morning and turning up the furnace. DW and I both...

AJBert by • Explorer
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Furnace problems

Went to turn on the furnace for the first time this year and the fan came on but just cold air, no heat, it seems like it couldn't ignite. The air coming out was cool and could get hot like it usually does. My first thought is it needs to be cleaned....

Generator exhaust rusted out

One of the joys of living in the Northeast--rust! I discovered that the exhaust pipe on my Onan 4000 generator has rusted through. Do you think that a good muffler shop will be able to fix this, or should I take it to Cummins/Onan? I would think...

jillhop by • Explorer
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Help replacing old Atwood Water Heater with New Atwood

Well I am trying to replace my old 10 gallon electric / gas Atwood water heater.Water inlet and out let appear to be in the same location.110 volt line hook up is in the same location.The old unit has three wires from the control unit (Blue, Green, B...

Black Water Tank

I have just finished reading several posts concerning various issues with black water tanks. I managed to find a lot of posts with questions, but not the answers, although I did read some. Some folks suggested using septic cleaner. We have used th...

Recommendations to replace BlueSky 2000 MPPT

Getting closer to end my charging problems; (long cable run)Easiest is to replace the controllerNeed one with:Remote battery voltage senseBattery temp senseuser defined and easily set charge parametersNot a lot of room near the batteries for the cont...

Honda EU200i issue

I've had an intermittent problem with my Honda EU200i. It's happened since new but couldn't reproduce the problem. Finally, this fall we were camping in the mountains of Idaho. When the temperature dropped below 45 degrees outside during the evening,...

jstaffon by • Explorer
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replacement oven hinges nonexistent

I just got a new (to me) 1998 Holiday Rambler travel trailer that looks brand new inside and out and everything works. Except the oven.It is a Wedgewood by Atwood LP Gas Range Model RW2130 and has TWO problems with it: It needs a safety valve in th...

lanahi by • Explorer
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Bad Battery?

Purchased two GC-2 Interstates back in Sept. of 2013. For a couple months now, my charger (not the onboard converter/charger) has been telling me "bad battery", cannot charge. Thinking the charger is going out, I put it on several other batteries and...

joeshmoe by • Explorer
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Converter Size Tactics Question

This will not be of concern to most, but may be of interest. I am not certain of my plan, so any comments welcomed.The problem arose when I stuffed my 100amp PowerMax adjustable voltage (called a PMBC-100) converter/power supply in the old truck- ca...

BFL13 by • Explorer II
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telecom batteries and boondocking

Hi all,First night boondocking on the new batteries.I ran a computer for 5 hours (100 watts) via my large inverter, and a 7 amp 12 volt heating blanket for 7 hours.Battery voltage started at 13.1 but quickly settled down to 12.8The usual parasitic lo...

Li-ion soon to be price competitive with FLA?

I was recently browsing around in an electronics store and saw one of those portable battery packs for charging iPhones/iPads that had a 10,000 mAh capacity for $20. If I'm doing my math correctly that's 10 Ah ($2 per Ah of capacity). A pair of T-105...

12 volt Battery wiring

Hello,I'm trying to figure out the best way to wire in a battery to the trailer.It has a 12v to 110v ac converter and it "looks" like that gets fed from the tow vehicle.. through the 4 pin connector,and I'm thinking that's not such a good idea.. I'd...

Keel by • Explorer
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Yamaha 2000i's in parallel

HI y'all, I'm new to this site and new to rving. I have a 2016 R Pod and would like to boondock. I bought two Yamaha 2000i's (after a lot of research) to run my TT. They will run my Dometic Penguin 2 13.5 btu a/c but when the a/c cuts off, they s...

BradTX by • Explorer
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