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Re: Looking for CB Hookup
want-a-be wrote: We have a 2013 Phaeton model 36GH. In the manual the CB antenna wire is suppose to be under the dash on the drivers left hand side. I am having trouble finding it. HELP Thanks for any and all comments on my 08 bus its under the right hand side of the drivers dash? right above the throttle peddle area?133Views0likes0CommentsRe: Converting 12 volt coach batteries to 6 volt
philandmargo wrote: I have a 2000 Tiffin Zephyr. It has 4 deep cycle 12 volt batteries that power the coach. The batteries need to be replaced. I have heard that using 6 volt batteries is a more efficient and economic system. Can my system be converted? If so, how would I proceed? Thanks, Phil Purchase four of these; Chrome Battery 12 Volt 110AH Deep Cycle same size as a 27 series but they are AGM,these will last longer than the MH and u never fill them etc cost about $900.you will Need 8 6 volts to do same job and even the cheap acid filled ones will cost you at least $800 plus all the work to convert552Views0likes0CommentsRe: Converting 12 volt coach batteries to 6 volt
OnaQuest wrote: tiredkid wrote: OnaQuest wrote: BSDP Don wrote: "philandmargo...."wildtoad" and "tiredkid" have the best answer. Even though four 6 volt batteries are typically what are now used by most, the 12 volts are fine if they served you well. Since you have to buy batteries anyhow, the cost of batteries will be a wash, but with the price of copper cable, you could spend quite a bit of money on new cables. I understand that we are all just voicing our opinion, but that opinion should have some basis of fact. Seems to me that one could re-use the interconnecting cables from the four parallel 12V batteries to interconnect the four series/parallel 6V batteries AND HAVE TWO CABLES LEFT OVER... Where's the big investment in new copper cables? Because he needs 8 six volt batterys to make the same power as 4 12 volts(approx.) Sorry, Not true. ok explain your opinion. mine is I see 4 12V batterys at 215amp X4 = 860 and 8 6 volts at 225 per pair = 900 so pretty close? I do know for sure your theory of Four 6 volts will = four 12 volts is wrong552Views0likes0CommentsRe: Converting 12 volt coach batteries to 6 volt
OnaQuest wrote: BSDP Don wrote: "philandmargo...."wildtoad" and "tiredkid" have the best answer. Even though four 6 volt batteries are typically what are now used by most, the 12 volts are fine if they served you well. Since you have to buy batteries anyhow, the cost of batteries will be a wash, but with the price of copper cable, you could spend quite a bit of money on new cables. I understand that we are all just voicing our opinion, but that opinion should have some basis of fact. Seems to me that one could re-use the interconnecting cables from the four parallel 12V batteries to interconnect the four series/parallel 6V batteries AND HAVE TWO CABLES LEFT OVER... Where's the big investment in new copper cables? Because he needs 8 six volt batterys to make the same power as 4 12 volts(approx.)344Views0likes0CommentsRe: new rv
Jack L wrote: thanks, would you recommend dealership or private sale if I go used. and how old would you go if you bought used? buy from whomever has the best deal for the money for the unit that suits u best. buy around 2 years old and look for hardly used low milers.479Views0likes0CommentsRe: Converting 12 volt coach batteries to 6 volt
wildtoad wrote: Have you ever run out of battery power? Have the batteries you have provided you with good service and lasted a good while? If the answers are (No, Yes) then leave well enough alone and replace them with like batteries. yes agreed just as I posted earlier there is not one reason to change his existing set up. none310Views0likes0CommentsRe: 2004 coachmen liberty, dumping tanks. help
btilfan wrote: Will check to see if the tube swivels. As it stands if I remove the cap it exits two inches from the tail pipe I would not be able to attach anything to it and no room for the slinky to exit from it. Ok so u don't have a wet bay like most larger diesel pushers class A have then? If it don't swivel I would cut it off and use a inline connector and reglue it together correcting the angle needed to clear this lip and if need be add a 90 to it or is it the exhaust pipe excites right under the wet bay?271Views0likes0CommentsRe: 2004 coachmen liberty, dumping tanks. help
btilfan wrote: first shakedown of the new to us Moho and I can't figure out how to dump the tanks without spilling it into the basement bay. the dump valve attachment sets below the lip of the door so that the slinky hose has to bent up and over the lip. wlhen you detach the hose the waste water left in the low part of the hose spills into the bay. Is this a design flaw or am I doing something wrong? 99% of the time there is either a screw lid u remove in the bottom of the wet bay or the discharge head is on a swivel or as in my unit it has both the drain screw outlet and a swivel base head272Views0likes0CommentsRe: Converting 12 volt coach batteries to 6 volt
philandmargo wrote: I have a 2000 Tiffin Zephyr. It has 4 deep cycle 12 volt batteries that power the coach. The batteries need to be replaced. I have heard that using 6 volt batteries is a more efficient and economic system. Can my system be converted? If so, how would I proceed? Thanks, Phil Don't bother, reuse 4 new 12V deep cycle batterys.The cost and room and work involved does not outweigh any advantage to using Eight 6 volt batterys especially if your using 4DM size 12 volt310Views0likes0Comments
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