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Re: Winter battery maintenance
I have the extension cord plugged into a Kill-A-Watt and will see how much it actually draws over the next month or so. Maybe not the best approach but it works for me. Since I plugged it in the Kill-A-Watt has registered less than 1 KWH usage for both battery minders.423Views0likes0CommentsRe: Winnebago Vista LX 27N
Haven't been here in a while but thought I'd throw up an update. When we did a walk through the day we bought this, the dealer service tech said he'd make sure the unit was winterized before we picked it up. Cool, one less thing to worry about. That was in late September. When I finally got the repaired unit home in early November I didn't really think that much about it. A few days after I got it home we had a pretty good cold snap. Guess what? When it finally occurred to me to check, I found a 1/3 full water tank frozen solid. I opened the drain and faucets and turned the furnace on and set it to 82 and let it sit for a few days, then was able to blow out all the lines with the exception of the kitchen sink. I was never able to get air out of those lines, but hopefully they'll be ok come spring.738Views0likes0CommentsRe: A thought that goes against the norm!
DSDP Don wrote: Heck, I live in California and change my oil usually in early May. Everything is already 80 degrees when I start my coach service. Doesn't really matter if it's 20º or 120º outside when you start, if it sat over night then the engine and engine oil are still cold.462Views0likes0CommentsRe: Winter battery maintenance
The manual for my Winnebago says the converter is a 3-stage charger, but I don't have a 30A outlet to plug into. I think it would be fine plugged into a 15A extension cord, with nothing connected but the batteries I don't think it would draw much to keep them charged. But then I'd need a second cord to run a maintainer on the chassis battery. So I ran one cord into the battery compartment and connected one tender to the house batteries and one to the chassis battery. Now I can leave both shut off and not worry about it. On my 5er I pulled the batteries and connected them to the tender in the garage, but that's not practical with the MH. I have the extension cord plugged into a Kill-A-Watt and will see how much it actually draws over the next month or so. Maybe not the best approach but it works for me.423Views0likes0CommentsRe: I want one!
There will always be naysayers around to argue against advancement. The arguments against the possibility of manned flight in 1903 were the same arguments against manned space flight in the 1960's, and that sending moving pictures through the air was a joke by some lunatic with more money than brains. And that supersonic flight would never happen. And computers would never be in every person's pocket. Those same doubters said that Elon Musk would never succeed in launching a satellite into orbit and then having the launch rocket return and land on a barge in the ocean. And they doubt there will ever be electric powered semi trucks. Keep doubting if that's what makes you happy, but denying the inevitability of progress has been and always will be a fool's errand. My 2¢, and nothing more.189Views0likes0CommentsRe: Winnebago Vista LX 27N entertainment system
No, mine's a 2015, which from the brochures on winnebagoind looks like it was a Vista and not a Vista LX. https://winnebagoind.com/binaries/content/assets/brochures/2015/2015-vista-digital.x.pdf%5B2%5D In 2016 the 27N became a Vista LX, something I wasn't aware of until now. https://winnebagoind.com/binaries/content/assets/brochures/2016/2016-vix-digital-bro.x.pdf So my subject is incorrect, I have a 2015 Vista 27N. But I do have the correct owner manual, and mine is apparently not "If Equipped". So if someone here has one so equipped, where is the dvd located?320Views0likes0CommentsRe: Winnebago Vista LX 27N entertainment system
Yes, I get that. My owner manual says it came with one, and my question is where is it located in the units that have it installed? I can't find where cables might have been run for it, and there's no sign of a shelf or anything near the TV where it would be mounted. Does it just sit on the dining table with a cable run to the TV? So if you actually have one with a dvd player for the front TV, where is it located? Here's what the manual says: DVD PLAYER –If Equipped The DVD player video output is connected to the lounge TV and plays through the TV stereo speakers or the deluxe sound rear radio speakers in the lounge area of the coach.318Views0likes0CommentsWinnebago Vista LX 27N entertainment system
Sorry if this is a dumb question, but as a newbie MH owner I plan on having many more of them. I have a largish tv in the living room, a small one in the bedroom and another outside. The bedroom TV has a Sony blu-ray attached as well as cable from the antenna. The outside TV has the stock Jensen dvd player. I can't find anything for the main TV besides the antenna cable, and there's nothing plugged in to the HDMI port. I'm going to buy a blu-ray for it, but my question for fellow Vista 27N owners is: where does the stock dvd/br player sit in the coach? And do you have any idea how the cable is routed? Thanks2.4KViews0likes6CommentsRe: Have a question for the electrical gurus.
Maybe I'm missing something, but the OP didn't say "champion" he said "COMPANION". I had the same Honda EU2000i as the OP, and if you buy a second one just like it you can use a Honda COMPANION cable to connect them. I don't know the answer as to whether connecting the ground on the 20A outlets would serve as companion ground, but I don't know why it wouldn't either. Ground is ground the world around, unless Honda for some reason isolated the Companion ground from the rest of the generator. I was going to do the same with mine so I could run the 30A AC on my 5er, but I traded it to a buddy for an EU3000 instead. He bought a new toy hauler with a gen, and wanted the parallel EU2000's for his house.463Views0likes0Comments
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