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We are holed up at a beautiful ranch out from San Antonio. We have access to a guesthouse with full facilities. We are warm, safe and dry. Will leave here when the weather abates.

Socket is not provided, but they should have one you can borrow. You will need a short piece of hose.

Those will work well.

Glad you got your problem solved. Usually someone here on the forum has either experienced a given problem or knows the solution to said problem. As you have discovered, in cold weather when moving the jacks up or down, if they begin to slow or sound sluggish let off the switch to keep from blowing the fuses. Replacing these fuses with the Slow-Blow MDL type will lessen these headaches.

I've blown several jack fuses in cold weather by not being patient enough. I always place an eleven inch block under each rear jack. That serves three purposes: (1) if you drive off forgetting to raise the jacks, it will not bend the jack, (2) in an emergency or if the jack will not come up you can drive off the block without damaging the jack and (3) you don't need a lot of jack travel to stabilize/raise the trailer.

The RV Big Tent runs from January 20-28. The dome rock trailer rally runs from February 5-11.

In the newer trailers such as yours, I believe the jack fuses are mounted under the street side bed.

You will need 3000 watts without the EZ Start addition. With it, 2000 watts should work. We have a Yamaha 3000 that has always been able to meet our needs. It is left over from when we had our first Oliver that was not equipped with solar. Neither 3000 nor 2000 watts will run the air conditioner and any other accessory, such as the microwave, at one time. A 4000 watt generator might be able to do so. But this is definitely more generator than is needed, ie weight, cost. To prevent any nearby camping neighbors from hating you, make sure you buy a brand that is quiet. Below 60 dB is great.

Ditto ditto ditto. Please permanently do away with it or put it at the bottom of the screen. It takes up TOO MUCH SPACE on the side of a phone screen.

Just drill the 1/2” hole out to 5/8” and put a regular hitch pin lock in it.

For Christmas, we got a small Instant Pot from one of our daughters to take with us in the trailer. We will be trying it out on the upcoming Quartzsite trip.

And that was a very cool thing! Tali and I hope you and Betty had a very Merry Christmas.

Without the IPN-Pro (monitor) and the shunt you can’t set up the controller.

While in B.B. a couple of years ago, we took a day and drove the Old Ore Road (26 miles). It was used in the early 1900s to transport ore from Mexican mines to the railroad station at Marathon, the Old Ore Road generally follows the route used by mule and pack trains a century ago. The road has excellent views of the Chisos Mountains across the Tornillo Creek drainage to the west. Ernst Tinaja, five miles from the southern end of the road, is a popular destination.

At only 5000 lbs that sure doesn’t seem like much stuff. With an advertised dry weight for the Elite II of 4600 lbs, a full tank of water and propane will get you most of the way to that. I’d expect 6000 lbs to be more likely. Ours is north of 7000.

I don't know, I really love the beefy look of the current GMC and Chevrolet pickups. It seems they're just becoming like everybody else. If you wanted that look you could just buy this.

Reed, this is not completely accurate. You can easily install 3 x 160 watt panels on the roof. Back in 2013 when I designed the solar setup for our Hull #050, I used the Blue Sky equipment but the largest affordable panels available were 100 watt. We went with two because that's what "everybody else" was doing and all the early builds had this 200 watt configuration. Soon, the 160 watt panels became cheap enough that Oliver switched to them giving their trailers a total of 320 watts. I then added another 100 watt panel to my array to give me 300 watts. I like all my panels on the roof. I don't have to store, transport, deploy and worry about the theft of an "extra" panel. Best of all, it simply works. In full sun, 300 watts has proven to be more than enough to fully charge our batteries every day by 1400. Parking in the shade expectedly decreases our ability to charge, but the areas we typically travel to (Western USA) usually don't have shade anyway. An added benefit of the three panels is that now I have a large enough area to land our helicopter on the roof!

Still the same guy in Fulton Mississippi.

As John said, it is a bolt on model. I will have to drill the holes to install it. Oliver tells me that they have theirs delivered with the holes already drilled.

I was going to comment that there are times when an interior display is useful but I see that the “birdman” beat me to it. Do consider having both the displays. I really like your idea of of having a second one located on the exterior of the trailer inside a transparent case, very cool. Would simply using a modular phone cord splitter allow you to install a second display? Easy enough to test, I suppose. Although you would have to purchase the second display panel just to see.

Although I installed our EMS before it was an option from Oliver, it is the same unit that they ultimately choose. I too found the location and the mounting of the remote to be a dilemma. Personally, I found the remote to be butt ugly, it had to be surface mounted with no way to make it into a panel mount, there is no way to blank out the continuously rotating display and there was no good way to hide the wiring. I finally decided to mount ours inside the cupboard. This seemed to be the lesser of all the evils and it was easy to do. It is mounted up high, right under the top shelf. I only have to open the door to view it.

Since we don't actually ride in the trailer under tow, what should I look for to determine if the OOII has been having a "rougher ride than is necessary."

These are the springs for the 5200 pound axles. These are the springs for the 3500 pound axles. The GVWR of the trailer is apparently derived from the spring ratings. I agree about the higher rated coupler. I have moved up to the 2-5/16" size due to the higher weight of our trailer.

These water containers will likely outlast me. We always carry two along with up to four of the matching fuel containers.

Anybody is welcome to tag along or join in along the way. We plan to leave Mississippi in early January and meander around getting there. This trip will be primarily boondocking.