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Re: Help, need info on awning top mount pivot
navegator wrote: Can you take some photos of the broken part from several angles and the new part, this gives us a heads up to be able to help you. navegator Looks to me that a rivet goes in the end of the pin, mine are either too big or too small. pardon the links, but photos must have been too big to load. the original end of pin https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=D1B15CAC9523DD53&id=d1b15cac9523dd53%21572&v=3 the new pin https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=D1B15CAC9523DD53&id=d1b15cac9523dd53%21574&v=3 the end of pin https://onedrive.live.com/?cid=D1B15CAC9523DD53&id=d1b15cac9523dd53%21573&v=3221Views0likes0CommentsHelp, need info on awning top mount pivot
Came home the other day and wife messed with awning and broke top rail mount on dometic ae awning. Got new mount today but dont know how to secure pivot bolt to awning rail. Seems like special rivet tool needed to spread flange on bolt to secure. I have a standard rivet gun but am stumped. Anyone know the trick? Thanks, Ted964Views0likes4CommentsRe: New dometic new gen is drawing more power than old fridge.
CA Traveler wrote: I will disconnect monoxide alarms, radio, tv antenna booster and turn on fridge and check draw. If more than 2A then something is definately screwy. I'd start with measuring the refer since it's been replaced. A $50 DC clampon ammeter would be a good investment for this and the future. It then becomes trival to measure amps. Do i Just attach to pos/neg lead behind service panel to get reading? Thx407Views0likes0CommentsRe: New dometic new gen is drawing more power than old fridge.
ewarnerusa wrote: solismaris wrote: ...You should be able to go literally weeks with the fridge set to gas. The power consumption of the electronics is very low. .... This is something I'm curious about. Intuitively I would agree with this statement. But readings these forums there are some claims that the 12V control panel on a modern RV absorption fridge (while on propane) is on all the time drawing 12V power. I've read in the neighborhood of 1 amp continuous load. This sounds like very little, but that is 1 amp for 24 hrs/day. That means 24 Ah/day just to run the fridge on propane. If you've got a single group 24 battery with a typical ~80 Ah rating (40 Ah available to stay above 50%), then in only two days you would use all of your recommended available battery just with the fridge alone. Now I don't know if these claims are true and I don't really ever get a chance to test it because I have solar installed and no amp meter on my batteries, but it is kind of eye opening. The following links are what I found in a quick search on Google. Seems like claims of 0.1 A to 2 A to run the 12V electronics on the fridge when running on propane. http://www.rvnetwork.com/index.php?showtopic=103161 http://rvservices.koa.com/rvinformation/rvmaintenance/rv-converters-and-amp-draw.asp http://www.keystonerv.org/forums/showthread.php?t=3853 The only actual datasheet I found while surfing was for a Norcold and it said 1.2A on 12V DC power. Thanks for the info! Most is common sense. I will disconnect monoxide alarms, radio, tv antenna booster and turn on fridge and check draw. If more than 2A then something is definately screwy.407Views0likes0CommentsRe: New dometic new gen is drawing more power than old fridge.
wa8yxm wrote: Well, those of us who subscribe to the theory of KISS (Keep it super simple is the polite translation). Have you tested the batteries to insure they are not on their last gasp? Battery tested great from autozone and batteries plus. Charged and took load fine. Never had this problem before new friidge was installed. Do not want to spend more bux on led lights just yet. Would like to take back to camping world for diag. But they have a lousy appt window and charge for any service. The fridge works fine and is still under warranty, but i am at a loss on what to do. Shall i start a post under camping world products thread? Thanks all, Ted407Views0likes0CommentsNew dometic new gen is drawing more power than old fridge.
Just had new fridge installed and now batterey will not last through the night. This has happened every time dry camping. Batterey checks out fine, fridge is on gas only, never had problem with old fridge, what gives? Fridge starts flashing error code when batterey low and does not have enough juice to ignite coupler. Only other things that are on are the carbon monoxide detectors. Maybe bad camping world install?, wires crossed? Parasite drain? This is the 7cuft model rm-3762 Anyone else with this prob?3.1KViews0likes19CommentsRe: What did you do to your Class C MH today???
Had a bad windstorm the other week. A tree limb fell down on my maxx air ac unit and broke the shroud. Called up camping world and they had one in stock. Picked it up, opened the box, wrong size, it was the 12". Called them back to order the right one (10"). When it arrived, of course it was not the right one either, it was for a penguin. Gave them the correct part number again and waited for it to show up at my front door. Finally the correct shroud arrived and I replaced it no prob. Even has the closed back. Anyone else have this problem with ordering from camping world??265Views0likes0Comments
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