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The ice cubes in the black tank sounds like a good idea, but I think I would be careful about doing that. I’m sitting here looking at a cold bottle of beer right now and there are water droplets on it. Now if you put ice in your black tank and the humidity is moderately high you will have water droplets form on the outside of your black tank and the water will end up in your bilge (you sailors may correct me on the use of the term, if incorrect). I have a thing I wash my tractor radiator out with. I stuck that thing down through the open valve in my toilet and blew the, well, you get the idea. Just be sure to stick it all the way in. Don’t ask me how I know. Edited to add: Submitted by Bill. Not Martha. (She wanted me to be clear on that point).

The sensors are on the rear end of the tanks. If hooked to sewer at a campsite I like to be level side to side and tilted slightly back.

How do you use the search function on this forum? I can type in something to search for but I get a lot of unrelated stuff to go through and I may or may not find anything that I searched for. Are you supposed to use certain words or characters to do a search?

Steve, the door is plenty tight. The water is entering where there is no seal. Don’t know why the factory would leave a gap like that.

What have you all done to keep road spray out of the basement?

Topgun2, I think Mainiac was letting me know that he couldn’t respond to a PM that I had sent him. (Another) Bill.

Yes, I have noticed that also. So, those folks are sort of “tailgating” while looking at an Oliver, so they are “Olliegating”. And when they pass you and give you a thumbs up (salutation) that is an “Ollietation”.?

Sitting in bumper to bumper traffic with my wife’s Oliver behind my truck today, moving at a snail’s pace on I75 in Lexington KY when I hear a “toot-toot” beside me. I look over, then up at a truck driver motioning for me to roll my window down (like when windows had a crank). I’m thinking Oh Crap! Has my battery tray latch broken or is my window shade about to fall off or is he going to remind me to grease my EZ Flex suspension? So I roll my window down and the fellow yells out “Has that thing got a bathroom in it?” I hollar back “Yes Sir” and he gives me a thumbs up and says “I like it!” Now how often does that happen to somebody pulling an Airstream or SOB (Some Other Brand)? Made my wife’s day. Well, mine too.

Did you reverse your bolts so that the grease fittings would be on the inside to keep from having to remove the tires or use a 90 degree head on your grease gun when greasing?

One more thing then I’ve got to mow the yard. Take your shade off and lay it on a flat surface and see if it lays flat. I just noticed one of mine has a slight warp to it. This might contribute to it popping loose. This is what I have learned about mechanical problems: Think about coming up to a four way stop and meeting 3 other cars. If everyone does what they are supposed to then all is well. But if you and the car on your left or the one on your right pull out at the same time all is not well. Everything is fine unless two things that aren’t supposed to happen at once happen at once. Well this sounded better in my head than it does in writing. Anyway, maybe two small things are happening at the same time to cause the shade to pop loose. Am I making sense?

Ok, my wife said it was too pretty outside for me to be inside and that I should go outside and play. Well I went outside and went in the shop to get the mower out. Only the Oliver propane cover was in the way of getting the mower out. I hate putting the propane cover back on because it doesn’t want to fit right over the aluminum plate on the front of the hull. Only this time the port was open on the front of the cover so I reached in and pushed on the part of the cover right above where the aluminum plate is and the darn cover fell right into place without having to fiddle with it. Why haven’t one of you old timers passed this trick on???

There are spacers, maybe 1/8 to 3/16 inch thick under my clips. I have hull 313 built February 2018. Do you have these spacers under your clips?

John, this sounds crazy, but what if you pulled the power center out and put it back in upside down. The door will open the opposite way. It is so close to the floor I have to lay on the floor to see it and even then it is difficult to see with the readers in the bottom of my lenses. Mounted upside down you could lean over the dinette seat with your chest resting on the edge of the seat and look down at it.

KountryKamper told me to unplug from shore power and turn the refrigerator on DC on the highest setting and pull the batteries down to 12v resting voltage. Took several hours but I got the batteries down. Then he had me plug back in to AC and leave the refrigerator on DC on highest setting. Well that did the trick. With the charger trying to recharge the batteries and the refrigerator on DC the EMS display showed 27 amps and that little fan was blowing like crazy. So this test ruled out the fan. The fan is actually a variable speed fan and will change speed based on (I think) the temperature.

Last night I laid a 4 foot straight edge on top of the 3 clips over one of my windows. This picture shows that the 3 clips are not in a line. I think the misalignment of the clips and the vibration of the window shade tends to make that shade want jump off even if the clips are securely fastened.

Bill, it wasn’t the fan running or trying to run. It wasn’t a hum either, more like contacts chattering. I will try to post a video. I can’t post a video. It is too long and I don’t know how to edit it. If someone wants to hear the sound let me know and I will email it to you.

Gregg, The Progressive Dynamics power center is the device located under the dinette. And yes, I have to stop and think about Progressive Dynamics and Progressive Industries. Edit: Well I had to think a minute. My Progressive Industries EMS-HW30C is also located under the dinette seat in the same compartment as the Progressive Dynamics PD 4060K power center.

No specifics. The fellow I spoke to asked for my serial number, said that they were aware of the problem and that they “had made a change to the board” and would send me a new one. You can see from the first picture that they didn’t just “make a change to the board”. It was completely different. Changing them out was not a problem. Instructions are in the owner’s manual and were also provided with the new module. KountryKamper had changed them out before and gave me some pointers. Unplugged from shore power and tripped the DC disconnect under the street side bunk before the change.

Spike, when your shades fall off, what condition are the clips in? Are they so loose that they can spin on the screws? Are they still firmly secured? Before I started this thread I did a search but didn’t come up with anything but I may not have used the right words for the search. If there is another thread on this I would like to read it also.

Over fed fellows on rolling ladders are easy to find. And work cheap. ?

Mark, so the plunger would go into a hole in the side plate where the other folks are adding the bolts?

Before I put the same latch back on I think I would order one of these and see if it would work. https://www.mcmaster.com/#2206a25/=1d0bia0

It is more stable sideways than I thought it would be. Of course it is very stable if placed perpendicular to the side of the trailer. I didn’t want to lean a ladder against the side of the trailer and I didn’t want to climb on top. I could wash the upper part of the side as I went up to wash the top. Had a place to set my bucket also. Will probably put some foam pipe insulation on the places that might touch the camper. Actually got the thing to use to reach shelves high in my shop. I wouldn’t want to go out and buy a new one. I have seen used ones for sale.

A buddy of mine came across a gaggle of rolling ladders that had been scrapped by a “warehouse store”. They had been cut in such a way as to render them unusable but all the pieces were there and with a little welding and straightening I wound up with a good rolling ladder that makes it easy to access the top of my wife’s trailer without having to climb on top. That fellow on the rolling ladder is just some over fed fellow that my wife got to wash her camper.

I had a noise coming from my PD4060K Power Control Center only when plugged in to shore power, with the charger in storage mode at 13.2 volts and with nothing on in the camper. The charger will normally make a faint hum, but this was a loud noise. The instant anything was switched on the noise would either change pitch or completely quit. KountryKamper listened to it at the rally and told me some things to try but I couldn’t get the noise to stop. I called Progressive Dynamics and told them what was happening and they immediately said that they were aware of the problem and would send me a new converter module. The following picture shows the old and new modules side by side on my work bench. The new larger module fit in the space where the smaller old module had been. This photo shows the edge of the old module that can be seen with the front panel removed from the power center. This photo shows the edge of the new module that can be seen with the front panel removed from the power center. Again, the charger will normally make a faint hum but if you have a loud noise coming from your converter there is a fix available.