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Expecting delivery day after tomorrow 🙂

Probably a hard question to answer, but if the storage facility is supplying 111 to 112 VAC in the middle of the day, which is low in my opinion, what is the supplied power when everyone else is charging? I guess you would have to be there at dusk to find out. The EMS shuts down below 104V or above 132V per the manual, so it’s possible that the supplied power may be too low due to demand. If the facility consist of mini warehouses and other tenets are there is the evening working on the cars, trucks, boats or whatever there may be a higher demand for power at night than in the day. I would mention the low power readings to facility management and maybe talk with other RV owners about their experiences. My Ollie is plugged into a 20 amp circuit at my house via a 50' 12/3 extension cord and I consistently get 119 to 120 volts at the trailer. And if you can verify power at the source that you plug into that may be useful. If the facility power is not a problem then take the batteries to a battery supplier and have them load tested. After confirming good power supplied to the trailer and the batteries fail a load test, be all means jump into that rabbit hole. Mossey

Yep - I cut an old drinking water hose to about three feet. The relatively large opening at the top is great for those Forest Service camp grounds that have the hand pumps with a spigot that tends to spray water. Mine are about 9 years old and still have a bunch of life in them. As you might remember, I primarily use them while fly fishing out West for two months each summer. As with most of my things I do not abuse them and they ride in the bed of my F-150 most of the time - note that they do fit beneath my tonneau cover (barely). The small plastic wheels can be "interesting" when pulling a full container over road rocks (1/2 to 3/4 inch trap rock for instance). But, this still beats the heck out of trying to carry that much weight. If the road/path is too bad, I simply leave them in the back of the truck and drive to the water source. While the handles are made of plastic they have never been an issue. The large "caps" at the tops of the containers can leak when the containers are stored on their sides if not tightened down properly or if the washers inside have worn. Bill

A couple more youtubes on the subject. I could see this being used in an off grid cabin, powered by a dedicated solar setup. There are lots of relatively inexpensive used panels on the market today, with a lot of life left, but too big to carry around. Like John, I don't see us carrying something like this around. At least not anytime soon.

Johnwen - Good luck with your delivery. Keep a close watch on the weather since a storm is forecast to move through the eastern US on Sunday possibly dumping a fair amount of snow in some areas. Areas as far as south of Atlanta are in the "possible" snow area. Bill

@Liana, as @mossemi said, if you were getting 112 mi-day, and a bunch of other people are charging or using power otherwise, at dusk, your ems, and/or your pd charge wizard will shut down if voltage received is too low, as i mentioned earlier. Do talk to the management. You may not have been charging much, if at all. Have you visited the storage site again, to see what your readings are, after sunset? Frankly, I'd cut off the solar, remove the batteries, take them in to an auto parts shop, and get them load tested. See if it's worth trying to bring them back. If autozone or Napa says it's worth a try, take them home, put them on slow chargers, and see what you get after a few days. Even really dead batteries will display over 13, when charging. But, they'll very quickly drop down to 12.0 or 12.2 when the charger is disconnected, and any small load is applied. I'm sorry this has happened. It may be possible to revive flattened batteries, or it may not. Depends on how long they've been flat, and how many times they've cycled. At least you got 3 or 4 years. Whether you jump down the lithium rabbit hole, or replace with agms, is really up to you. But, I'd really want to find out why the batteries weren't charging, in the first place before I replaced them, and fix that situation first. No point in throwing good money after bad, as my mom would say .

No reason given. Seems consistent with previous posters saying December-January-February dates had shifted about a week. We'll be OK as long as the delivery stays outside of the school year. Once school hits we'd have an issue. 😬

I saw a small segment on YouTube tech inventions on a portable unit that makes water from the air the price wasn’t portable $3,500. I haven’t been able to find out more about this unit. Seems like a logical concept. Take a dehumidifier and pump the water through a filter system to get clean drinkable water. Any one else heard of this? Sounds like it could be an interesting concept for boondocking.💨💧☃️

Pete’s Tacoma was the same model that I had and it had a towing capacity of 6,500 and a 650 lb tongue weight.

I saw a post on this, probably Facebook, where they said the materials and production cost precluding them going forward at this time.

We use about 3 ft of hose. The shorter the better.

While there are/is circumstances in which an external water pump could come in handy - pumping water from a bladder in the back of the tow vehicle for instance - for the most part you can simply use the Oliver on-board water pump via the "winterization port" to pump water into the Oliver. As far as bladders or other water containers are concerned - I carry two 8 gallon containers like THIS for extra water. The wheels on these containers are VERY handy in that if you have to carry the water very far it becomes heavy (just over 8 pounds per gallon). Bill

We carry a 5 gallon portable plastic 5 gallon tank. It is not collapsible. I had this tank long before we got the Ollie. I would look at collapsible tanks. There is a boondocking port on the back of the trailer and it uses the pump already in the trailer to suck water in from the container. You just have to position the water flow knobs in the boondocking configuration described in the manual or under the curbside bunk. It works well.

Interesting concept. It likely would require high ambient humidity and a significant amount of time and electrical energy to power it. Not practical features for boondocking. i would be interested in reading the details. A reverse osmosis water maker might be an option if you have a source of non-potable water and enough energy to power it.

What size wheels and tires? What fits an LE2 3500 pound axle with the (non-standard) 6 on 5 1/2 bolt pattern to give the needed drop and clear the brake drums? Even a dinky 155/60R15 tire is still about 22.5”, compared to 28.5” for an Ollie tire, or 6” smaller overall. That would lower the trailer 3”, not enough. Thanks. John Davies Spokane WA

Hey! Don't forget the metal for the emergency release that typically hangs lower than the door when opened.

I've seen people use that solution, not here, but on other forums, @jim sroka. If it's only for off season storage, it's a lot cheaper than rebuilding a garage. More work, each season, but, well... I haven't seen the height spec change since 2015, on the Oliver specs, so I'm actually wondering how accurate they may be. We lost at least 4" when we removed the useless kingdome and the superhigh old Dometic. Changing out the fan is pretty easy. I'd recommend the FanTastic vent, that closes in rain, with a humidity sensor. Also wondering if the original (2009) Elite II units ran on 15" rims, with st tires. We still run st 15s on our elite. That could offer a few inches, all the time. @ScubaRx might know. I don't.

@Liana, a few more questions. Who sets up the two hour charging time? You, or the storage facility. Does everyone in the facility charge at the same time? Were you at the facility during that time, or outside of the charging period, when the monitor showed full power? Have you checked to make sure battery connections are tight and clean? As in, no corrosion? As @Steph and Dud B said, you will always have a ghost draw,, if batteries aren't disconnected. Ours is small, at roughly 3.5, but many people report .7 or higher. Any chance you have something running on dc or 110? Lights in storage areas, water heater, fridge, etc. Every control board sucks a little power. And, if you have something, even small, running on 110, it will suck some of the charging power away. I'm guessing you have a progressive dynamics converter charger, from your trailer age. That can cut out at 105 volts, due to low power protection (though a tech I spoke to said probably not til it drops to 100, but I wouldn't count on it). If everyone in the facility is charging on a timer, at the same time, you may not be getting much of a charge, if any. The charge wizard will kick in when it gets good/full power, (as you showed, with e0, 60h, 112) but will kick out when it's too low. I wouldn't count on getting much (if any) solar if you're in a covered spot, in winter. Your batteries are 3 to 4 years old. Agm, or flooded? Have you checked the water levels recently, if flooded? How long has your trailer been in storage? How long has it been since you were at the storage unit? 12.0 is pretty much a flat battery bank. So a complete cycle. Agm and fla like to be fully charged, daily. You don't get a lot of cycles on marine batteries. You may, or may not, be approaching end of life on your batteries, and may or may not be able to bring them back. A cheap portable solar, sitting on the carport, or even on the trailer tongue,, in the right orientation, facing the winter sun at 90 degrees would help more than your fixed panels, imo. Which monitor do you have? Blue sky, or Zamp? I know it's a lot of questions, but you'll get better answers with more info.

We don't have an Ollie yet but 2 hours of charging from the landline (120v outlet) at our house wouldn't be enough to keep up with the parasitic draws in our fifth wheel. It's connected to power overnight for 5 hours every day in the winter. Probably overkill, but I prefer that to dead or frozen batteries.

The required protection systems (alarms) are always on - propane detectors, etc.

What kind of batteries do you have and how old are they?

Another place you could check for a phantom draw is the light in your rear storage garage. I am kind of embarrassed to admit this but recently while camping I opened the streetside rear storage hatch at night and it was lit up inside! I had never really thought about there being a light in there. It could have been on for over a year since I picked up our Oliver for all I know.

It was nice to meet you. Glad you made it and all is well!

Fill the toilet with peat moss and you’re there I think.

Welcome and congratulations, Safe travels from Hull #901

So, his gray water suddenly becomes black water, hmmm... The other idea sounds ok though.

Congratulations and welcome to the Elite.

Congratulations. Enjoy!

Congratulations --- I see that your shirt matches the Oliver graphics! I'm roughly 3 months and 100 hulls behind you. Enjoy!

Congratulations 🙂

Congrats! Let us know how it goes. Mike

We were notified about a month ago that our delivery would slip from Feb 22 to Feb 28, and they are still showing Feb 28 as we are about to finalize and make the first payment. A slip toward warmer weather is not necessarily a bad thing for us.

King Moon posted that he took delivery of hull #948 on November 11. He said his was the last 2021 to be delivered. Has anyone taken delivery of a 2022 Ollie? Two weeks ago our planned November 29 delivery was moved out five weeks later to January 3, the same relative delay as Coach and Jojo's but offset by one week. If early January deliveries like Jstones's have only been moved a couple of weeks instead of five, then there might be more deliveries at the end of December and early January than normal. While many seasoned owners are currently winterizing and storing their Oliver, us newbies may get to test its four season capability. Another positive with this delay is that the campgrounds may be filled with new owners while the factory catches up with deliveries, a kind of mini-rally. I hope the weather is nice enough to get out and mingle. January is the coldest month in Tennessee. My biggest concern about the change of delivery date is the increased chance of icy roads.

Our delivery was originally December 5, It was then moved up to November 22. 2 weeks ago it was moved to December 27. I hope that is solid!

Two weeks is not that bad, hope delays will not affect our travel plans 😄

Follow-up on delivery: In case any are wondering the cost of lodging, RV sites, and fuel associated with delivery, here are expenses of our 5,000 mile (plus a little bit) trip from the Southern Oregon coast to Howenwald and home again (rounded to the nearest dollar): Fuel - $927 (diesel) Average mpg 14.30; mpg affected by driving conditions - windy and cold conditions on I-80 all the way from Utah through Nebraska on the trip to Tennessee. Average mpg towing on the trip home was 12-15. Speed also played a part in mpg since it seems to make a big difference in the 1-ton diesel fuel usage when driving at freeway speeds. Diesel prices High 3.56 (CA) Low 2.08 (NM) Lodging and RV sites - $986 Hotels on the trip to Hohenwald - $734 (8 nights) RV parks on trip home - $252 (6 nights) We took our own food; only ate out three times. Didn't count this as delivery cost since we have to eat anyway. Picked up some supplies - hitch, small tools, etc but all were non-consumable and not included in cost. Total cost of delivery $1,913 Value of adventure, priceless

I have a refrigerator smoker painted duck colors with a magnetic Duck emblem on the front. I live in beaver territory, and a few of my friends gave me a hard time about it. So, I put a beaver emblem on the back end of the smoker. I told my friends, if the ducks ever lost I would put the beaver emblem on the front. Well, The front now has the beaver emblem on the front until our next matchup. Hope your trip is going well, Bob

Good to be back home . . . . 2+ weeks on the road, half of it in hotels and eating out of a cooler was exhausting.

We chose to cross over to the coast through Needles/Barstow; weather north from Las Vegas and across the mountains looked a little iffy.

Get home safely. I'm sure your pictures will be great and we can wait until you're home and recovered from your trip to see them. 🙂

Good luck when you hit the mountains. Have fun.

Congratulations on your new Ollie & Safe Travels!

Thanks for the photo but I want more! I just might be slightly biased in that I also have no graphic on the front and I have the silver pinstripes, but, that is one nice looking Ollie. Just take it easy on that drive and enjoy all of the sites that you can see driving across this wonderful country of ours. Bill

Have Fun!

Trailer looks great Susan. Hope you continue to have good weather for traveling and light traffic too.

Safe travels.

That indeed is a long trip, Congrats on the delivery! Be safe in your travels!

Looking forward to photos as well. Hope the travel was smooth. That's a lot of driving for sure!

Looking forward to photos and hearing about Ollie!!!!!!!!!!

Rather than expecting the buyer to understand the rating system, and to assure that everyone is on the same page, while avoiding predicting a variable number, Oliver's wording might be a simple as: Roof solar system with a 340 watt rated output. An available automatic tracking system will increase the overall performance, and show you what it is doing, on your smart phone. This method seems like it is what they are doing with the Anderson Hitch. Oliver supplies it as an option and installs it. The decision is made by the buyer about whether they want it or not. Literature can be handed out that graphs the difference in performance between flat and tracking. And a picture of someone smiling, as we look over their shoulder, at the smart phone in their hand, with a nice display of the performance. Then there would be a page that had a generator, gas can and cord with a big red X over them. With the caption "No more noisy, loud and polluting generators!" The picture includes a beautiful woman, very frustrated looking, with her hands over her ears, as the grimacing husband struggles to get the generator out of the truck.