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When you slow down and smell the roses it is amazing what you see hiding just beyond the roses. Also having your morning coffee while backed up to a river or mountain vista, saying " I wonder what day it is?", and don't really care...

Hi everyone, Judy and I enjoyed meeting many of you at the rally. Thanks for all the tips. We really enjoyed the decorating competition. We finally got our act together and placed our order the 15th of May for a September 20 delivery and we can't wait. Our plan is to enjoy the fall weather on the east coast and then head to Arizona for the winter. See you on the road, Ken

Thank you Kathy, I will look into your link. Perfect example of needing a monitor is during my last camping trip my A/C went down. Luckily it happened after we got back from a bike ride. Indoor temp was 97 and having a piece of mind that all is well for my dog is worth the price I pay for a good monitoring system.

Trainman I fell your pain. We just upgraded a 2016 Tundra with 20K miles for a GMC 2500HD diesel. Our payload was maxed out and I wanted to add a camper shell. Also on a recent trip out west, the downhills with the Tundra in some really steep areas was not what I hoped it would do. 2nd gear and 4000 RPM just so I did not have to ride the brakes all the way down. Power on uphills was not a problem. The 2500 is a beast of a truck and does not have the car like ride a 1500 does. When hooked to the trailer it is such a relaxing tow that it makes our trips much easier and I arrive more relaxed. The exhaust brake makes downhills effortless. A 2500 brings other issues to get used to like parking and turning radius. It does get better gas mileage then the Tundra and has a longer fuel range. We travel light compared to most people we know and our 2018 E2 with most of our stuff except clothes weighs 5300 lbs without any water onboard, 20 lb propane tanks, 4 AGM, and no solar just to give you a idea. Fully loaded on long trips it's around 5400 lbs.

We have not had any problems using the MW when the AC was on. The AC is on its own breaker and the MW simply plugs into a 110 outlet on a separate circuit. So, we are careful when using the MW and another appliance plugged into a 110 outlet. I’m not an electrical expert, but that is my understanding of how things are configured. Having said that..... We had all of our 110 outlets go dead last winter. I checked and rechecked and couldn’t figure it out. So I went to my local RV repair guy and had him check. He found a lose cable in the junction box next to the inverter (under the dinette seat) and also a burned wire in the back of the circuit breaker box. He tightened the cable and replaced the wire in the box and also made sure everything else was tight. Problem solved. I supppose connections can loosen as the miles increase (we had about 30K miles on our trailer when this happened). Mike

Greetings from Fairbanks, AK! I've been out wandering from Texas since April and have cleaned out the water exit pathways twice to prevent leaks. I use four items: A small brush; tweezers; pipe cleaners; and a compressed air can with one of those small red straw nozzles. I remove the screen and slide the window all the way left and right to access the channel. The compressed gets into all of the holes in the channel on the inside and sprayed in both directions from the outside slots. No leaks so far and I've been in a few frog chokers. I had no idea regular cleaning was required ten years ago (in my early Ollie days) and found out the hard way.

I prefer to have a little weight cushion when towing, but it's not really necessary, when the manufacturers publish weight limits, it's okay to go right up to it. The newer vehicles are much more capable than past offerings, a previous set up was a 2003 Silverado with the small v/8 pulling a sob 27 ft travel trl, everything was within specs but that truck was over matched, fast forward to 2014 (current truck) and there's no comparison, with close to the same displacement motor, it has 100 additional hp,(can't remember the torque stats) and a six speed transmission. The transmission made the biggest difference, with additional speeds it lets the motor perform at the peak torque and unlike the older automatics the torque converter "locks" up in every gear and so far it's never heated up even on some pretty good hills. I'll see how it does in a couple weeks, I haven't been over 10,000 feet with it yet, but that will be tested shortly. Steve

When we first picked our used Ollie in January, we had a leak in the dinette window. While searching the forum, I found a post by DavePhelps discussing the porch light leaking issue. I pretty much followed his procedure and did not have any problems until this month. My first thought was that I didn’t do a very good job on the light over the curbside bed. While testing with a hose, I started at the bottom of the sliding window and immediately had a leak. We have had so much rain that I haven’t gotten the window tracks clean and there is nothing on the bench except towels to catch any leakage. It leaked again on Thursday after a very hard rain, so it’s a work in progress. We’ll be in Hohenwald the end of August if I haven’t figured it out by then. Thank you for the suggestions???

In the back attic Under the dinette Jack fuses under street side bunk. Also one more of these below the front jack. Also under street side bunk, CO /LP detector 1 amp fuse

I've found this product and just beginning to research it. https://rvpetsafety.com

Thanks Steve, not overly concerned but more curious. Received this back from Ryan at Blue Sky, reply to e-mail Hi Grayson, It sounds like your controller is accounting for the "monthly self discharge" which is normally set to 3% for AGM batteries. The controller is able to see the input from the "shore power", so no excessive draw is reflected, but since it never completes a charge cycle, it does not consider the batteries completely full, so it applies the monthly self discharge as if the were never able to be fully charged. The controller will automatically readjust it's estimation on the batteries state of charge (Reflecting 100%) once PV input becomes available to the controller and it completes a charge cycle (transitions from absorption to float mode). Please let me know if I can be of further assistance either by replying to this email or contacting me directly at 760-208-2149. Regards Ryan