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Re: RV Roof Replacement
I know a reputable RV repair guy that will do it for $3500 and do a pretty good job. Only problem is that he is about one hour north of Denver, CO. This individual has rebuilt my rear wall and repaired structural damage and installed a new roof after a tree branch strike in the past couple of years.1.2KViews0likes0CommentsRe: Freezer Cold/Fridge Not
No recharge. Off level operation can damage a propane fridge in short time. Some people have burped their absorption refrigerators and I did that once and it seemed to help. (google it). What brought my dometic fridge form the dead was: four CPU cooling vans in the roof vent for the fridge. I have two switches that power 2 fans and only turn on all 4 fans when the temps are above 90 deg F. When temps are 70 to 90 deg, I use only 2 fans. I turn all fans off at nighttime. I also installed 2 micro fans inside my fridge on the cooling fins to blow air around. With vent fans, internal fans, and a SNIP THE TIP adjustable thermistor, my biggest problem is prevent my food from freezing. WHen my fridge is fully packed, it stays at a 35-37 deg F all day long. When items get consumed, I have to adjust the thermister so it doesn't get below 32 deg F. Best mods I've ever done.345Views0likes0CommentsRe: Boondocking and Phantom loads.
600 watts of solar, 696 amp hours of battery capacity and I'm golden as long as the sun shines once every 3 days. Going to go up to 800 watts of solar power panels next Spring so that solar performs a little better on cloudy days. Right now I'm getting 7 amps/hour when it is cloudy outside and would like 10 amps minimum. When it is sunnny, I'm hitting 45 amps/hour easily.403Views0likes0CommentsRe: Boliy generator
My Boliy died after 7 years of use. Over the past year or so it became more difficult to put a heavy load on it. Recently it wouldn't even power my camper's converter with discharged batteries. Engine ran fine and engine compression was like new but everytime I put a load greater than 400 watts on the engine, it died. A new carburetor and engine speed control did not fix the problem. I got little support from bottomlinetrading.com and was disappointed that BLT stopped responding to my emails for support. Based on this, I can no longer recommend Boliy or bottomlinetrading.com I bought a new 3400 Champion inverter generator from another vendor and am amazed by how much better it is than my Boliy when new. It NEVER hiccups or stumbles even when I put a max load on it while in eco-mode.408Views0likes0CommentsRe: Replacing inside lighting with LEDs
Kayteg1 wrote: I bought initially few direct bulb replacement, but later bought on ebay a sack of those and at $1 a piece had lot of fun with them. For old fluorescent fixtures I could fit 6 of them, for bed lights and closet lights - single panel does fine. I like pure white at 6000k . Reading is much easier. They come from China faster than some shipements from East Coast... less than 10 days. I use the exact same lights for my hallways and bathroom areas in my RV. I use smaller and less bright lights from Ebay above my seating and dining areas.448Views0likes0CommentsRe: Help me purchase a solar system for my class c.
AC and solar not really practical and I suggest you accept this reality. I would not run fridge either because the load is quite a bit but if you insist here is what I'd get: 600 watt Renogy system. A 400 watt system with an MPPT controller is $1000 on amazon.com Another 2 panels is about an additional $250 or so. 3 battery banks consisting of 2 232 amp-hour golf cart batteries (Premium Golf cart battery is $112 apiece at Sams Club and is same as $155 Interstate battery at batteries plus. AUTO TRANSFER SWITCH for inverter. Make life easy to switch back/forth automatically between inverter A/C and generator A/C Inverter: Samlex PST. I have a 1500 watt one and love it. Again, you will need a 3000 or higher one for a/c but battery powered a/c is not practical. Trimetric 2030 battery monitor: A must to see state of usage and battery charge. My system is over 600 amp hours of battery power with 3 battery banks Renogy 400 watt solar, 40 amp MPPT controller, 3 battery selector switches Auto transfer switch/relay 1500 Watt Samlex PST Inverter with remote switch/monitor for inverter Trimetric 2030 battery monitor with 500 amp shunt 6 gauge cable from combination box on roof to charge controller via disconect switch 70 amp hour Progressive Dyanamics 3 stage charger with remote "pendant/monitor" moved within 3 feet of battery packs. 2 gauge wire for all battery and inverter wiring! Perko battery selector switches. Each bank is switchable on/off 30-40 hours of labor (hardest part is all of the cable and then removing panel under camper to run Romex back/forth) My setup is almost identical to this one in how it looks: http://www.loveyourrv.com/my-friends-awesome-580-watt-rv-solar-power-system/ Good luck and ditch the a/c on batteries unless you don't mind having 1000 lbs of batteries that will only last 2 hours or so running the a/c.305Views0likes0Comments
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