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Thirteen times I should have been outright killed or at least very seriously hurt. Additionally I survived a broken back, and once I was dead. I am greatful that God did not want me yet, and he gave me an opportunity to be a better man. GJ

I’ve literally returns several hundred items… They still love me though since we’ve purchased several thousands of items! 🤣

I'm in that club. 😅

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Never posted in this section of our Forum before, yet after reading the topic it seemed appropriate for this post! After what you will soon learn we enjoyed a breathless day today. In a way it's about our story, how we found Prescott AZ some 30 years ago on weekend side trip, off my regular Motorola business trip to Phoenix, and we had a great weekend! Fast forward 10 years later and our family did a 3-week car trip west to find a new place to live somewhere west, leaving comfortable surroundings of Northern Virginia. We left VA heading to Houston and had Christmas with Chris' daughter. The rest of the family left to San Antonio, the Alamo of course, Sante Fe and Taos NM, other stops and had a New Years HomeAway rental for a week in Flagstaff. Flagstaff was cold, sitting on I-40, a transient town for those to-n-from California and visitors to the Grand Canyon. We did day trips to Sedona of course, Cottonwood and the Verde Valley and it only took one more day in Prescott to know it is the place. Closed on our N VA home in Hamilton VA, June 2005, and moved to Prescott. I thought of living west most of my life. Attending High School in DuPage Co IL and all there was to do was drive west through miles of flat cornfields, with nothing to do, nothing to see. Our friends here and elsewhere come back from trips to Italy or South America and say, you got to go! Others ask, why are you not out on the road more in your RV (or now the Oliver)? When we lived in Chicago, everybody had to leave the city as often as possible. "Escape to Wisconsin" and "Say Yes, Michigan" were the local sayings, meaning "get outta Dodge!" We moved from the city to North Barrington, IL. 50 miles out! I started liking staying home on weekends. Actually LOVED doing yardwork, of all things (though I'm a weedwhacker and not a planter). I felt bad for the people who needed the escape to Wisconsin, as where we then lived, we were halfway there. Hmmm. Why do I want to leave a place as great as Prescott AZ? It is the greatest small city in Arizona, carefully selected over time. It is the ONLY city of any size in Arizona not on an Interstate. Think about that fact!? Literally 50 miles SE to I-17 or 50 miles north to I-40 and I-10 is a whole 110 miles away. You got to want to go to Prescott to drive by here. It's not Phoenix or Tucson, thank goodness and it's not the desert valley, nor the snowy higher elevations. We had an amazing day today. Played pickleball and won 5 out of 6 games. Adam joined the club today and he met many good people. Always do a spa after sports. For 6 years, I've been trying to figure out how to mod a camper with a hot tub. 🤣 Drinks on the deck and we cooked dinner together (I'm in charge of drinks, Adam and Chris are very good cooks). We have GREAT weather up here. I'm going to end with pictures from our night, all from tonight. It was spectacular, most are from our deck, and a few are front of house. Monsoon season started early this year, and we will have another dozen crazy evenings over the next few months! Many of you would pull your Olivers for days, to experience such a camp as we have right here at home. PLEASE COME VISIT as all of you that I know here are certainly always welcome. We have partial hookups too! I promise to pry my older fingers off the weedwhacker and the other tools I love, just long enough to get 45 days away in the Oliver during our upcoming 2024-2025 season. Hope to meet many of you during the October Texas Meet. God Bless y'all on this Sunday.

Stay warm, y’all

Yes John, just call me Prescott's ambassador to the Oliver Community! I also know the best camping sites in the Prescott National Forest. Pictures to follow of Town Square on Christmas Eve. =>

After a hard nights work, Santa's Reindeer came to visit us in our backyard this morning! One Buck and near a dozen Doe!

Merry Christmas, everyone!

Maybe not, maybe yes. But sadly, you'll not likely to ever know. But far more likely it WAS damaged and returned by a pevious customer. And they reboxed it and sold it again. The odds of them actually testing a return is IMO near the low side of zero. Now that's a percentage I would love to see from Amazon Returns.... 🙂 GJ

Roger, I did as you suggested and got a new one when the price dropped to $98. I have had it plugged in and running 24/7 for a week now after letting it sit upright for over 24 hours. I am getting about a cup of water daily in the tank, so am pleased with how it's working. I do have a Vornado heater running at low fan speed and the Truma set at 50°. I have all the cabinet doors open. I am happy with it. John

Thanks again Roger for the heads up on this product! I received ours Amazon Like New a couple weeks ago and got a chance to test it yesterday (Like New is now only $76 and they dropped the new price down to $99). Our Like New model was NIB perfect, only the packaging was scared a bit. Still had labels and shipping tape on the sides of the unit. Mine is more of a "lab test" since humidity is not a thing out here most of the year (RH 29%). I boiled water for 15-20 minutes and got our Oliver interior humidity up to 75%. I do not believe this is equal since in this amount of time moisture would not penetrate clothes and bedding, etc. I home-test products so I can count on them later on the road. I set RH to 30%, the lowest setting with fan on high. It's not the quickest tool as it took 2 1/2 hours to reduce humidity from 75% to 40%. I emptied only a couple ounces of water out of the bin. On low fan it's just a whisper! Roger and @rideandfly have real and positive experiences. In conversation with @mountainoliver, Ken reported he had his running the last month+ on the Gulf Shores, also with positive experience, "very good when it's too cold to run the A/C." I plan to store ours on the closet floor until we need it and would run it under the dinette as Ken has and where there is a convenient power outlet. I tested power consumption. At first it used only 0.2A! but then as I was sitting next to it, I heard the compressor kick in! On the Victron app it used <6A. High/Low fan is negligible. I measure amps based on 12VDC from our batteries (on inverter, rarely plugged in). If you think in terms of amperage on 120VAC, you divide these numbers by 10 for only 0.6A on 120VAC. @John and Debbie experienced the circuit breaker popping which must have been from a dead short in a bad unit! I have found about 1 out of 10 Amazon used to be bad, though I always buy used when available since 9 of 10 times they're new at lower cost. John wrote me, reporting the manufacturer suggested a dedicated circuit which is crazy (me and manufacturer recommendations often do not live in the same world)! Why dedicated for an appliance requiring less than 1 amp on a 15A 120VAC circuit. You could run 20 of these on a single 15A circuit! 🤣 I have what I believe is an accurate hygrometer that I use in my guitar cabinet (you must water your acoustic guitars when living in Arizona)! It appears you can count on the numbers on the KNKA display, very nice! Geoff @Snackchaser wrote, he wanted a unit under $200. I believe this is the unit to get for under $100! 😂 Anybody know what KNKA stands for?

The 24 hours is sort of a standard. But the temperatue of the unit when it was not upright is a significant factor. The units typically sit in a warehouse. It may have "tempered air" not for the stored stuff, but for the workers. Then off into truck, train, and aircraft... all with potentially extremely low temp's. The warmer unit flows oil and refergerant down to the bottom of the coils. You get it, set upright and it may or may not come up to full room temperature before it is turned on. The oil/refergerant is viscus. The pump often does not have the power to move that incompressable fluid, rotor locks, amps surge, and blows the fuse. It would be wise to recommend 24 hours in a warm area to avoid this scenario. Then store it upright at all times. GJ

I started the return process and have a shipping label. Mine was the same $79 which was a good deal, but only if it works! I like your thinking that most of the time the used items are like new and work. Thanks for your comment. John

For certain, it’s nothing you did! 9 times out of 10, Amazon used is like new with damaged packaging. 1 of 10 times you get an item used and damaged by the previous Amazon customer! Just exchange it. I’ve purchased well over 50 Amazon used items through the years and 90% of the time they’re a great bargain. Like my Engage pickleball paddle, $220 new, $160 Like New from the ‘Engage’ store on Amazon. It came new but not in retail packaging, OMG, I can’t have that! I ordered this same humidifier Amazon used Like New at $79 (vs $136, for a $57 or 42% off savings!) and it arrived today. It looks perfect, except a prior owner wrote something in pencil on the instruction booklet. I’ll let you know when I get a chance to test it. To test it, I’ll have to hang a couple wet towels in the Oliver to create some humidity! RH today in Prescott was 20%! 😎 We will use this tool rarely but should keep it on the closet floor for when traveling east!

It was June 26, 2021 when we pulled into a rest stop and sighted our very first Oliver. As fate would have it, we had just been talking about selling our 5th wheel and down sizing to a smaller trailer. We hung around for awhile, but the owners didn’t show up. So we took a photo to remember the Oliver name, and we looked it up as soon as we got home. I came across that photo recently and thought it would be fun to post it and see if anyone recognizes their trailer. It was taken at the tunnel rest stop on Hwy 199 between Crescent City and Grants Pass. When zoomed in, you can just make out a Florida License plate beginning with Z57. The second photo was taken September 9. 2021, just over two months later when we toured the factory and placed an order. Happy days... except for those ridiculous covid masks! Do you have a first sighting story? Love to hear it. Cheers, Geoff and Tanya

The Furrion S cameras may be a bit of a challenge, but I may try a molded plastic cover with 3M adhesive tape, or, I have some friends into 3D printing. If that did not void any warranty, a 3D printed white cover could be added to every Ollie with that Camera. I'm thinking the 3D printed cover could potentially look quite nice, if done well. It could also have screw holes used by the camera's provided screws.

Try either of these search methods. Mossey

We have the factory camera. I use it primarily as a rear view mirror during daylight hours. It is too bright at night for me. The resolution is not the best. I have it placed in the lower left hand corner of the windshield. I use it to also see my wife's hand instructions while backing up.

I agree - within reason. For most purposes you are not trying to read a license plate or bumper sticker. However, you are trying to see that person tailgating you or the little kid behind you or that rock or tree as you back into a space. Both of the rearview cameras I have on the back of my Ollie do not have the best resolution. One is a Garmin that works with my Garmin 890 GPS mounted on the top of the Ollie and the other is a no-name brand that sends its signal via WiFi to my tablet, computer and/or cell phone. The biggest difference (other than resolution) between the Oliver camera and mine is the price. Bill

I'm thankful that I woke up this morning. Thankful that the dentist didn't find anything wrong with the teeth this morning. Thankful that I have a nice warm house and plenty of food to eat. I could go on and on but at the moment what I'm most thankful for is Sherry reminding me to think about all of these things to be thankful for. Bill