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Thank you! I had already heard that topgun2 had received it and handed it off to Boudicca908. She and I will meet near Tampa as she heads south. Mossey

I will add my own ORF musings! I think we all embrace any technology that is capable of making our lives easier, as long as we can figure it out. My first bite of the Victron apple was adding a BMV 712 battery monitor and I continue to add Victron equipment as I find it beneficial to maximize my battery usage. And Victron’s technical support is truly world class. And if you have any doubts about smartphones making you stupid, just leave it at home when you head out camping! After all, the only phone number I remember off the top of my head is 911! Mossey

@Olive2Roam and @topgun2 Krunch and I made it as far north as Murfreesboro on our 2026 OTTO Rally trip and while camping at Monte Sano SP in Huntsville, I had a recurrence of pseudogout effecting my hands, hips and shoulders. As a result of this, we headed back home and will miss the rally. Would you please find topgun2 at campsite E36 and handoff the Truma winterizing accessory and he will send it to me. Thank you for generous gift, Mossey

@Olive2Roam I am interested, we can touch base at the rally somehow. Mossey

I have been following along without anything to add, but I now have a few thoughts. The fresh water overflow discharge port is, in the words of Google: So it looks like a 2 piece fitting that requires access to the inside and outside of the hull to install, service or remove. So the next step requires a modification to the floor below the bottom drawer below the sink. This picture of the area below the sink without the drawers in place. The blue square surrounds a cutout in the rear wall that OTT provided for access to the refrigerator 120V outlet. The red square surrounds a cutout in the floor that I made with a router, using the walls as a guide. This access was needed for a prior plumbing modification. It may also provide access to the freshwater overflow port that would be needed for the installation, removal or repair. Both of the access ports are normally covered with a thin piece of plywood. My MOP for sanitizing the freshwater tank in hull 193, begins by mixing several ounce of chorine or a quart of hydrogen peroxide in a 5 gallon water jug and using the boondocking port to pump it into the freshwater tank. I then fill the tank using a hose at the freshwater fill bib. I am generally in the area of the Ollie while doing the sanitation job, but I do not monitor the amount of water going in, I just wait for it to overflow. And I do use a pressure regulator set to 40 lbs. whenever connecting a hose to the freshwater tank or city water bibs. Mossey

Which year and model of Oliver are you asking about? Mossey

I hope that’s not just a threat! It would be great to see a ghost from the past during the Halloween season! Mossey

Question two: now that you know that you can overflow the freshwater tank, I also use that bonus feature to refill the freshwater tank if needed. Mossey

Well you could pull the toilet and the base gasket off and use a flexible inspection camera and see if the tank does in fact curve with the hull. Or perhaps fabricate a feeler gauge out of a clothes hanger and follow the front corner of the of the tank top and determine if it is a sharp or round corner. Even if I really had to know, I’d probably wait until I needed repair the toilet flange! Mossey

Right you are! Mossey

@dewdev and @jd1923 littlehousecustoms.com sells the button guard below, which we found totally eliminated the accidental RM2454 button push. Mossey FRIDGE BUTTON GUARD Who hasn’t bumped the fridge control, switched to DC and run their battery down? This new version is made for us by Charlie Young. It's clear, fits the fridge well and doesn't require removal to operate the buttons. It attaches with clear VHB tape to the control panel. The red color in the photo is the release film on the guard and peels off prior to installation revealing the clear VHB tape. Button Guard $14.95 Add to Cart

I think you forgot the golden rule of design," we gotta make money" which follows all of your design examples. Mossey

I am looking forward to meeting you as well and 'the dog house' graphic may be gone by then. I need to get a replacement. Mossey

@dewdev Krunch says that I am deaf, so I’m not a good judge of noise. The Dometic Penguin AC does not bother my sleeping either! I don’t know which inverter you have, but I never ran our OEM Dometic refrigerator on our OEM Xantrex inverter and I have never run the Nova Kool on inverted 12v DC. I always thought it was a waste of battery power to invert the 12v DC to AC, to power anything that was capable running on 12v DC. The microwave was one of the few appliances that we run with the inverter. jd1923 brought up an very good point, verify that you are actually powering the refrigerator from you 12v batteries without running the inverter. I am currently working on a Victron MultiPlus II installation and so I can’t test your scenario in 'the dog house'. Mossey

I purchased and picked up my Nova Kool 5810 from a dealer in Miami, FL. It was a day of travel, but what's a retired guy going to do on a Tuesday? Mossey