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At your local Walmart for $10, I've been using Super Clean for years. Use it full strength on greasy parts. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Super-Clean-Tough-Task-Cleaner-Degreaser-1-Gallon-128-Fluid-Ounces/23752162/ But if you really want to clean greasy/grimy parts, you would not believe how a Go-Jo style mechanics hand soap cleans parts! Rub on patiently with a soft brush (toothbrush and/or larger brushes), then hose off and blow with compressed air! I've used this in many restoration projects. Can't beat the price on this item too and check how clean these parts came out! 😎 https://www.walmart.com/ip/Purple-Power-Heavy-Duty-Creme-Hand-Cleaner-14-oz/345407987/

I have revised the original post to add a full brake inspection (see step #8 above).

That's for sure, Chris! All Dometic units (except a 230V/50 Hz Inverter model in non-US markets) and Truma, the Atmos/Tosot and all others made through the years, the compressor goes ON & Off and you hear it with a bang and a thump! Add a Soft-Start and then they take 3-5 minutes ferbling around to finally start cooling!

The NOCO went up quite a bit! Mine was $86 two years ago. The new GENPRO model is now $123. The link I posted above was not working. I edited the post above and copied it here again: https://www.amazon.com/NOCO-GENPRO10X1-Waterproof-Maintainer-Desulfator/dp/B08G3M697M/ I also got a couple of these for the tow vehicle (and my Goldwing) to connect the charger without "popping the hood" or on the motorcycle, without removing side covers. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B004LWWNLC?ref=fed_asin_title&th=1 On a budget, the one Bill showed should do the trick. On Bill's suggestion, I would go that way, $45 for a 20A charger is much more reasonable.

To keep it looking new I’d just add doing a deep clean to the wheel and suspension. Wash, use the Duragloss aluminum cleaner and I recommend Griots SiO2 tire sealer. Looking for a good cleaner for the grease and dirt. Just using elbow grease for now

When I purchased my two LiTime lithium batteries I also read about charging to 100% prior to installation. It just so happened that I "needed" an additional battery charger at the time, so, I purchased one of THESE from Amazon. As JD mentions above, I needed to charge the batteries overnight in order to get to the 100% and the charger worked perfectly. For general battery charging (i.e. regular battery maintenance on the vehicles that are not driven enough) I prefer NOCO battery chargers. But, they are generally more expensive and charge at lower amps. Bill

Here’s the recent settings chart. My low voltage cutoff was set incorrectly from the factory at 11.3. When I set it to 12.3 I got less simultaneous use but presumably it’s stressing the batteries less Inverter_Charger Settings.pdf

I don't see any reason as to why most companies continue to manufacture standard single speed compressor AC units when inverter tech is so freely available. The prices are comparable and the power requirements are 50% or less. Makes no sense to me...

Thank you, Bob! LOL, you and I both, have "done many vehicles over my years!" I've done 3 brake jobs this year alone and I want to quit having to do brake jobs around here, OMG! 🤣 Removing the drum is very easy on the Nev-R Lube axles, and no red grease mess! It's just not something to do when less than one year old with 3600 miles, as in my case. I will likely do so at 3rd inspection. Your question is a good one though, a GREAT addition to this post and soon I'll add this step to the above procedure. 😎 Remove the bearing cap, the small outer circlip and spindle nut is all it takes (more info in post linked below). One trick is retorquing the spindle nut afterwards. I got confirmation from Dexter (via Lew at Alcan), that these spindle nuts can be reused (should replace after 2-3 uses). To retorque, I would mount the wheel, lower the tire touching the ground and torque to 155 ft-lb (remove wheel again if you mount center caps). Then replace the circlip and dust cap and that's all there is to it.

Looks pretty good to me, Combines both the greasing wet bolts and physical inspection of operations and rough cleaning without remove the drums. I have never removed a drum with sealed bearings, I have done many vehicles over my years that have the old style tappered bearing. How easy is it to pull the drums of the Never-lube bearings (sealed bearings)? Even if everything looks good physically at some point the drum needs to be removed to check wear of drum and brake shoes. The nice thing with normal vehicles that have sealed bearing they have brake calipers, pads and rotors, being able to check everything with external inspections.

Bob, IMHO this is unnecessary. I assume your Oliver converter (charger) is setup or will be reprogrammed for LiFePO4 batteries with Epoch charging specs. Just install them (they come at 50% SOC), plug in and charge overnight to 100%. Want a portable charger for all battery types? I got this one 2 years ago and have used it on all our vehicles when needed. Keep in mind, this is only a 10A charger. But more amps means much more money! 🤣 https://www.amazon.com/NOCO-GENPRO10X1-Waterproof-Maintainer-Desulfator/dp/B08G3M697M/ Our Victron Inverter/Charger can charge up to 120A. It can add 20% SOC to a 600 Ah battery bank in one hour! The 10A portable charger will take 12 hours to add the same 20%.

I am getting close to upgrading to the epoch essentials 300AH. Planning on 2 batteries. Seems like they fit the batteries slide the best. I have a question. I was reading about when installing multiple lithium batteries they said all should be charged up up completely before the installing. Meaning each battery is completely full. I do not have a Lithium stand alone battery charger. So I got to thinking should I buy a separate battery charger for lithium batteries? Do I go with the Epoch that is only designed for epoch, or is their other good lithium charger that would work? I feel like an infant when dealing with all of the different manufacture specs for chargers. Epoch charger looks like it would only fit an epoch battery and nothing else. Thanks everyone, Bob

Thanks for the info. FWIW I’m only interested because I went through a battery recall on my Bolt EV. Very similar situation actually, like the water heater the affected cars was small, a few percent at best (same here according to the report), and fault too was with a supplier - LG in this case. They didn’t do quality control on the cell tab alignment. A couple cars caught on fire and rather than have a PR disaster GM took it on themselves to replace all the batteries. And there too there was a parts supply issue, not surprising when suddenly there’s an order for thousands of new batteries (or water heaters). GM took a write off of a few billion for that one. The best measurement of quiet is your ears in a side by side test. The RMS noise meters (I have one) are useless for this as they just measure overall averaged dB, not things like spikes or variation (very annoying) or frequency content (high frequencies are much more annoying compared to low). The ear knows what bothers it. Listening to my Truma now, the fan is just fine, wouldn’t mind a little slower blower to drop a few dB but it sounds like white noise you’d use to go to sleep to. The main thing is the roof compressor has a mid band edge to it (sounds like “urhhhhhhhh”, its around a G below middle C so not high around 200 Hz maybe). Not loud or super annoying but that’s the worst part, if that could be reduced it would be hard to argue with.

See page 2 of THIS thread (i.e. back 1 page) and it is the 12th post down from the top. While I'm confident that your research regarding who actually pays for recalls, it should be noted that the original design work relative to Oliver using the Truma water heater was studied and approved by Truma. As I understand it, Truma refused to order a recall when the problems with the water heater became apparent and claimed that there were no similar issues with this water heater being installed in other RV's. Therefore, Oliver took it upon themselves to take care of the problem without any monetary assistance from Truma. Then, after Oliver took this step, repair parts availability from Truma became another source of issue (i.e. repair parts were very difficult to come by even though in the interim Truma redesigned the water heater in order to "correct" the very issue that was causing the recall. Bill

What did you replace the blinds with? Very generous of you.

Scanned the recall posts, not sure of exactly the part your referring to but searching I did find that Oliver had their own NHTSA recall due to this, which means they have to pay the costs (see below) I was curious so I did a little digging. Apparently (this could be faulty information), in the event of a RV recall, the RV OEM is required to pay all costs. Looking at NHTSA rules it looks like it applies to RV’s equally with automobiles If true it’s the cost of doing business. 🤷‍♂️

I care less about the looks than the aero. Granted this truck doesn’t care so much about aerodynamics, it’s not the old days of EV’s anymore, but it’s part of the culture now. Just like the “0-60” is part of the ICE culture. Outside gubbins really kill aerodynamics. I’ve got some aero ideas for the Ollie I’d like to try someday. I like the metal plates (they are metal right?) of the water/air heaters on the side. Not fond of the plastic Truma plate. Anyhow back OT - do the new trailers still have the switch plate near the door? It would be a mistake to drop that. Jason showed in the video how you can monitor and toggle individual circuits “without having to flip a breaker”. That’s of limited use I think, who turns off circuits via breakers? But for them will probably eliminate a bunch of production steps. Now it’s just run the wires to the control box probably and no breaker panels. But it’s also single point of failure. I had both my composting fan and CO/LP detector go out. It was an easy fix dealing with the issues as it’s all physical. The Ecoflow ‘Smart Touchscreen’ was released in Summer of 2022, probably wasn’t really available until the next year. So it’s only been a couple years on the market, not a lot of track record yet.

Drying it out is a temporary solution, as it will get wet again no doubt! I would be replacing the 7-blade plug on the Oliver. These plugs are not real easy to wire, as you have to cut the wire short enough to fit inside the plug. Make sure to cut the cable back a couple inches to strip and bare all new copper ends. I replaced ours as soon we purchased our Oliver used. For a waterproof installation, install a new complete cable, like this one from eTrailer: https://www.etrailer.com/Trailer-Wiring/TowSmart/TS74RR.html This would certainly be more work (so many are afraid of work these days 🤣)! But it's something that will last. Not sure on your hull, but in our hull the trailer wire is split up under the front dinette seat (picture shows trailer cable and all 7 wires connected to various Oliver circuits).

I recommend reading this thread. While the hard reboot wasn't the ultimate solution, you should check the end of the thread for information about changing settings on the inverter. I agree that it's more of a temporary workaround than a true fix. I experienced a similar issue when running my microwave on battery power, and it seems to affect only certain recent model years. You didn't mention your OTT's year and model, so I'm not sure if you're included in that range.

My wife Chris said, "The sound on this A/C is soooo quiet! I can't see it any taller from inside, so who cares?" I think it looks just fine up top (function over form) and would not want any Dometic A/C product ever, or Truma for that matter, with no aftermarket support and warranty issues with something like owner installation of a Soft-Start. BTW, Soft-Start should be inherent to the design, like it is on variable-speed or inverter A/C units (not after-the-fact with Truma service costs). I've heard the quiet Atmos/Tosot and they are quiet. The Chill cube is quieter, while using half the power. It's the height of this unit with huge evaporator fan, that creates its efficiencies and allows for an air handler flush to the Oliver ceiling. She looks just fine! We love this product. 😎

That was big of Oliver. In my opinion Truma clearly had an engineering problem but didn't have the capacity to correct all the units in the field. Oliver really stepped up and backed their customers; awesome!

Read the post here on the Forum about how Oliver footed the entire bill for the repairs to the Truma water heaters. Bill

I’ll guess because it’s a high profile unit? They’re coming out with a lower rated low profile one but it’s not here yet. Seems like Oliver likes low profile

FWIW I’m a noise freak, super sensitive to noise. The Truma Aventa is supposed to be among or the quietest on the market according to AI. At first I was disappointed hearing how noisy it is but I forgot that ACs need to break in. Used it yesterday, it’s really good! I can sleep with this. Don’t know why they’re switching from Truma, it’s a good combination

Gravity or compressed air or time (in a dry place)