djousma
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Re: Residential fridge
Don't let the nay sayers discourage. Residential fridge is the bomb, unless you camp off the grid a lot. You do need to turn the inverter on however, and is probably what you didn't do. I leave ours on all the time, it will switch to shore power automatically.378Views0likes0CommentsRe: House battery not charging
time2roll wrote: Do you have a battery switch inside? Need to select ON or IN USE. 100% this is the problem. If it's the "Red Key" battery disconnect, a lot of times found in the front pass through compartment, if the key can be removed, your battery is disconnected. Turn the key. The wording on the switch is confusing.252Views0likes0CommentsRe: Winterizing RV
To answer your question, winterizing the dishwasher, refrigerator, and washer is pretty easy. When you put the waterbay knobs in winterize mode, and suck the a/f in, run washer on cold until you see pink, then cancel, and let washer drain, then repeat on hot. Dishwasher, same, start a cycle until you see pink, cancel and drain. Ice maker takes longer, have to let the machine run a few ice cycles until you see pink. Don't forget to bypass the waterheater, and drain that too. Personally, I'd bring the rig home, plug it in, run heat at 50 for the couple days.369Views0likes0CommentsRe: X-chocks and 6 point levelers
I use regular heavy rubber chocks from tractor supply as the main source of protection to keep the rig from moving when unhooking. I used to use x-chocks on my bumper pull, and used them when I first got my 5th. Quit using them when I found that the 5th was just too heavy that the x-chocks really werent strong enough to use as chocks. trailer lurched a bit, and the x-chocks just folded up like tin-foil. Once the rig is up on the 6-point levelers, its not going anywhere.670Views0likes0CommentsRe: Ditching Dometic Thermostat?
Super_Dave wrote: djousma wrote: Its only the touch pad face plate that are defective. Call dometic they will send new faceplate no charge. I had 3 that were that way. How long did you have to wait on hold to speak to someone? My calls to Dometic have been met with hour+ wait times and I end up giving up. It was two years ago. You might hit their website. Might be able to do it all via email. you can check with your RV dealer too. they may just swap the face plates out for you. I found my old posts in another thread with part numbers, and it looks like I contacted them via their webpage and never had to talk to anyone. Here is link to that thread if you are interested. https://www.mygrandrv.com/forum/showthread.php/15174-dometic-thermostat623Views0likes0CommentsRe: Ditching Dometic Thermostat?
Super_Dave wrote: Can I swap out my POS Dometic Thermostat with a simple household thermostat? These thermostats are fine. I have the same ones, and had the same problems and frustrations as you. The problem I suspect with yours is that they had a bad batch of the touch screens causing the erratic behavior. Call Dometic customer service, describe the problem, and they will send you replacement face plates for free. Since I have done that, the problem has completely gone away.622Views0likes0CommentsRe: Frozen Dump Valves
Its most likely the cables are frozen. Had you previously lubed them with something like WD40? The problem (happened to me) is that petroleum based lube in those plastic cable sheaths, causes the plastic to soften and glue itself to the cables. I had dealer fix twice. After the third time, i ripped the cable pulls out, and installed electric dump valve actuators. Problem free ever since. I highly recommend that modification.356Views0likes0CommentsRe: Flag pole buddy
I would never go down the road with it, but you could engineer something to still use that method. just put it up, take it down as needed. I use the flagpole buddy mounts for my cellphone booster donor antenna mounted to a few sections of old flagpole I no longer use. Works great. As a side note, i no longer use flagpolebuddy flagpoles. The fiberglass sections are too weak, as in the pinholes enlarge, etc. I now use flagpole from uncommonflagpoles. Much beefier, mounts with a trailerhitch adapter, or under-the-tire mount, etc.724Views0likes0CommentsRe: cold temps/water lines
rtreptow7 wrote: So having all this free time in the days of social isolation, last Friday I drained all the rv antifreeze out of my lines and flushed them good and got the camper ready for the summer...if we get a camping season. Put water in the fresh tank and ran it into the lines and we even had a meal in the camper last weekend. Anyway, now I see a few days coming up with overnight temps in the 20's and daytime temps in the 30's. Thinking of just draining all the lines and blowing them out with air and emptying the fresh water tank. Or, would just leaving the lines pressurized with the pump on be safe? Suggestions? It's no different than camping late in the fall. I'd drain the fresh water tank, or turn tank heaters on if you have them. Then turn the furnace on about 50 for the overnight.457Views0likes0Comments
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