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After reading through this thread, it seems that either the shore power GFCI breaker or the inverter GFCI breaker trips after running the microwave in the convection mode for a few minutes. That sure sounds like the convection oven is failing! A crack in the heating element could cause a low current leakage path to ground when it gets hot enough. It only takes several milliamps to trip the GFCI and it will reset after the oven cools down and the leakage path goes away. A standard thermo/magnetic breaker may not detect this condition and the element would probably just burn out after a while. A winding in the oven fan has the same possible failure mode, but it could take longer to completely fail. I'd try plugging the microwave directly into an extension cord that is plugged into a GFCI. This will confirm if the oven works, or needs to be replaced. Good luck and let us know what you find. Geoff

Don't know of anything to do this job. This said, very few trucks can handle 500lbs of trailer tongue weight + 500lbs motorcycle over the tongue. You might consider a front receiver if you are driving a 3/4 ton or bigger truck and have enough payload after all gear is on board. The EcoHitch Hidden Front Mount Trailer Hitch Receiver - sold at ETrailer has a 1000lbs vertical load on Ford super duty trucks. I drive an F250 and carry a lot of gear on the truck plus the 500lbs of tongue weight, this maxes out my payload. I would need to Jettison 500lbs from the truck's bed to carry 500lbs on a front receiver. If I wanted to carry our normal load on the truck with a trailer in tow and 500lbs on the front receiver, I would need a 1 ton to have enough payload.

I read in one of the other links that you had posted earlier and found that one person at least has had problems with the GFCI breaker in the Xantrex. I’m out on the road right now. When I get back, I will test the microwave with an 20amp extension cord directly from my garage.. At least if that works then most likely the cause is the breaker in the Xantrex and I can replace the switch. I agree with you. It’s weird passing through the 120v through the Xantrex. I guess with the Xantrex passing though 120v at least you wouldn’t have the inverter running 120 at the same time you were hooked up to short power. if the Xantrex would fail, does that mean that the 120v pass-through would also fail?

So your GFCI breaker on the Xantrex is protecting shore power also in any 120VAC circuit wired through the inverter. It runs your microwave which runs on lower wattage, likely rated at 1100W and using closer to 900W. Why can’t a 2KW Xantrex inverter produce or even allow pass through shore power to the rated 2KW? It would be nice to know how many amps the oven was pulling after 5 minutes, but I’m pretty sure it was nowhere near 2KW. If you can somehow reconfigure it to produce spec, or replace the inverter with a more capable unit, or rewire the oven to be used on shore power only. I replaced mine since we require to run our oven and our A/C unplugged.

Has olliver ever added a platform to the hitch side that can support a 500lb motorcycle?

Depending on your perspective, you will not escape the heat in the driftless area right now. This past week i went into the Superior National Forest in northern MN to " escape the heat" in southern Wisconsin. I only escaped the heat there for 48 hours and then the heat moved in and it was almost as hot there as in southern wisconsin. I own property in the driftless area and have only seen a couple of days in july where i would oliver camp there. If you want to give it a shot i would recommend an electric site at Wyalusing or Perrot or Interstate State Park. All are gorgeous and most have showers/flush bathrooms. But this time of year you are going to want the option to run your ac and generator use is not allowed in the state parks. Good luck!

Did this get resolved? On my last trip my ac disappeared from the cp plus panel for a couple of days and then eventually reappeared with no apparent action on my part. I am suspecting I have a flaky RJ45 coupler somewhere? Inverter was on both times and i was in some desparate heat and humidity where i had to run off battery power for an hour or so. Fortunately the remote controlled the aventa just fine. Running the aventa off battery power at the beginning of the trip is not a real winner. JD has me thinking about the Furrion Chill.

Straight-forward test! We travel with this 30 ft 12 AWG extension cord. With our batteries, I can even plug in a friend who isn’t off-grid capable! 🤣 https://a.co/d/01Nv8L4h

Ok, so those settings may have been incorrect, but that's not causing a breaker trip. There's still something else going on. Can you run a heavy extension cord (12 gauge) from an outlet in your garage directly to the plug/cord on your microwave? (Don't use a cheap cord, it could melt.) If the microwave works that way, there's a problem in your trailer, either a wiring fault or a bad breaker in the Xantrex. If the microwave trips your garage breaker, there's a problem with the microwave and it should be replaced.

I moved the Oli out of the RV port and next to the house. Used a non-GFCI breaker in the garage that only feeds the air compressor. I ran the test again. This time I went about 5min 30 seconds when the power went off. I check the non-GFCI in the Garage and it did NOT trip, I checked the built in GFCI breaker in the Xantrex and it did trip. Still took about 5 minutes to be able reset the GFCI. Every time I press the button in it would click and pop the button back out. The EMS still reading 12A. I check the Xantrex setup, the LBCO was 10.5, and LBCO Shutdown delay timer.was 300. I missed these values when updated from AGM to (2) Epoch 300AH batteries (totaling 600AH). I used the custom [USE] setting for the Epoch and set Absorption and Float to Epoch specs. So I will need to update the LBCO and LBCO shutdown delay to suggested setting. (LBCO 12.0 or 12.1, then delay of 10.

It is the Circuit breaker builtin to the Xantrex accessing it through the 6" inspection port below the pantry.

According to their web site, they do still make a “Traveller” model. Funny thing - if you enter “Happier Camper” into the Google search page - first hit that comes up is “www.OliverTravelTrailers.com”. Apparently, someone at OTT marketing has some web savvy! 😂

I know this will be hard for many to understand and/or believe. But if you are camping in our northern Wisconsin State Forest/State Parks you will note that most of the campsite leave a fair amount of gear outside at the campsite at night and when elsewhere without fear of someone taking something. It is just that way in this part of the world; really it is the rural upper Midwest. I have been camping for over six decades and have never lost an item.

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We looked at these for a while as well. I like them, but for us, they were too utilitarian.

They used to make a larger model called the traveler. I came real close to buying one seven yrs ago from a dealer in Denver (same dealer that used to sell Olivers). Price on this particular new HC traveler was less than $30k but there were several issues with fit and finish that I was not comfortable with (e.g. big gaps around door when closed, modular cubes were warped). Nice little trailer and I hope the quality issues have been resolved.

We really like state parks. I guess we have been lucky, nothing has been pilfered. We leave the cap wide open and setup when we leave it to look around. We do lock the trailer. I have found most parks have city water at the site. We did a 4,000 mile trip up to NY and back down the coast to VA and back to Arkansas in 2024 and I think a SP in Indiana is the only one with no site water. We did 7,000 last year out west to Montana and down the coast to CA. Every SP had water. Maybe it is a northern thing.

While in Seligman Arizona for a Rt 66 event we saw one of these (blue & white) in the parade of vehicles headed to Kingman.

I just saw one for the first time yesterday at Glacial Lake SP - had to look it up. Apparently, they don’t get much bigger than this one. Web site says they ARE double-wall fiberglass - but weigh way less. I haven’t talked to the owners yet, but curious how they like it.

As a friend of mine would say “camping is a 4-star hotel without room service”.

Some of us still backpack.

We stayed at a couple of private campgrounds and “RV Parks” in WI. Some were actually pretty nice and not terribly crowded - like the parking lots with hookups - that many RV Parks are. Yes, they cost more - but you typically have more amenities - nicer showers, laundry, maybe even cable. Though we like and gravitate towards State Parks - we’re finding that security is frequently lacking. Very truncated staff hours - especially mid-week. Often no access control at all. We’ve seen some pretty shady characters come and go as we’ve traveled across the country. Just a casual reminder to keep anything loose and remotely valuable locked up.

The one we’re at in Minnesota (Glacial Lakes SP) doesn’t have water at sites either. The downside of the Northern states I guess. We’ve been to a couple of Western and Northwestern states that have water, but either don’t turn them on until (what I would call) pretty late in the season - or - use the “freeze proof” hydrants. ‘Course, they’re only freeze proof if they’re turned off and allowed to drain. I froze my hose a couple of times. (I mean that literally by the way…) and ruined my good regulator and pressure gauge by leaving them hooked up when the temps dropped to 18F one night.

I thought “camping” was that thing people did with tents, sleeping bags, and cooking over an open fire? I guess to some, even that would be a bit wussy.

I would not jump to that conclusion. Think of this as a next step in testing. If it doesn't work, meaning your oven blows a 20A non-GFCI circuit breaker, then your oven is drawing too much power and should be replaced. If it works and your readout still shows it's using about 11A +/- then it's the GCFI. Once it has been determined that it's working in the above test, then look into the Xantrex. It's likely the low-power cutoff, but check out these posts. Too bad in the first one the OP never wrote back to communicate cause (this happens too often). In Bill's post a hard reboot solved his issue, or it could be something else. My fix for a 2KW Xantrex was to replace it with a 3KVA Victron MP2! 🤣 https://olivertraveltrailers.com/forums/topic/11320-xantrex-inverter/ https://olivertraveltrailers.com/forums/topic/9255-xantrex-inverter-issues-try-a-hard-reboot/