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Can you supply some pictures of the equipment you are referring to? Are you referring to breakers as I don’t think I have ever seen black fuses. Mossey

@NomadLife Your Oliver forum personality shows that you do not own an Oliver Travel Trailer or any RV, so what is the nature or reason for your moisture question? Mossey

@johnwen I’m glad your tire failure only resulted in a dented wallet and y'all are safe! Hope your remaining vacation and return trip home is safe and uneventful. Mossey

Excellent idea and execution. Well done! Mossey

Very nice job! What brand of safety shoes are you sporting? Don’t think I’ve seen ‘em before! 😂🤣😂 Mossey

If the fuse is inconvenient to get to, just move it to someplace that is convenient. Or install a switch someplace handy. I also have smoke/CO detector under attic in the rear of my Ollie, so I would still have some protection if I powered down the CO/Propane detector under the dinette. I and many others have solved what could be considered a false alarm by replacing our CO/Propane detectors. I don’t know how to properly test the detector, but if replacing it fixes the problem for me, that’s a win for the good guy! Mossey

Maybe I should have called a technical foul.🤣 Mossey

Great! Thanks for correcting my misinformation! Mossey

I agree, but only if your flashing lights are amber. I simple will not follow a driver with flashing red lights because every flash makes me think that they are applying their brakes and I automatically put on my brakes. Mossey

I This job is a lot easier with 2 people as Mike mentions, but if I am by myself I use a hose flow meter which are readily available at Amazon and hardware stores. This allows me to monitor the amount of water that is flowing into the black tank. I usually limit the rinsing fill to 12 gallons. And as ScubaRx stated above, always ignore any interruptions from anyone! Sometimes it’s OK to be rude. Mossey

If you can locate the rear of the CO/Propane detector under the rear dinette seat, there should be 2 small wires coming out of the detector. Following those wires, one should lead to the negative buss bar, it’s the one with a lot of yellow wires connected to it and should be visible near the floor. The other wire should be the power/positive wire and should connect to a fuse somewhere along that wire. You will probably have to open the wire loom which covers and protects the wire bundles. Mossey

Thanks Mike! I'm probably the only one to read it wrong, but it’s easy to confuse me.🫤 Mossey

That statement made me do a double take because it sounds like you are running 18's on you Ollie. Can you clarify? Mossey

My best guess is that those wires would power/operate the optional Barker electric dump valves. Mossey

Congratulations on your troubleshooting success! Now a word of caution concerning the solar system. If the solar panels have light shining on them at all, they a capable of producing both voltage and amperage. So it was fortunate that the solar cutoff switch was in the off position when you disconnected the power cables from the panels to the charge controller or you would have been handling live cables. It is a good practice to cover the solar panels with anything that would block light from producing power when working on the solar system in the area between the panels and the cutoff switch. I use moving blankets, but cardboard or wood panels would also work. The solar system manufacturers usually have a sequence of steps to follow when connecting the components of the system, so the Zamp manual would be an excellent reference source and you can find it online at the Oliver University. Click here! Mossey

This product is typically used to protect wood and other wall materials while soldering copper plumbing fittings, but I have used it in the Ollie to protect other wires. Mossey

Another thought is to remove the MaxxFan for access to the space between the upper hulls. It’s a much larger hole to work in. Mossey

Have you thought about using a butt connector with heat shrink and solder using a heat gun instead of a soldering iron? I also use the method below for connections where a stronger connection is needed such as pulling a wire that I have lengthened. Mossey

John, glad to hear that you are back in the saddle and have a new toy to play with. It looks like a great camper and certainly equipped for you style of camping, off the beaten path! Mossey

I’m glad I already have most of the stuff listed, it gives me a chance to avoid the crowds! And hopefully we only get some rain.🙏 Mossey

I think the wiring from the solar panels to the battery is an opportunity. Getting familiar with the cutoff points and the associated breakers and the wiring path is good information. It’s not necessary to remember all of it, just get familiar with it. Mossey

I'm from Florida and have well water at home. I also believe that we have worst water available anywhere excluding industrial, manufacturing or agricultural locations that have been polluting groundwater for decades. I can dig a 36" deep hole in my yard and hit water most of the year. So I often refer to my well water as coming from a mud puddle. The point of this is to say that I use swimming pool bleach or sometimes hydrogen peroxide to sanitize my water system. We do not drink or cook or ingest our home water, ever. And I don’t know anything about the water I put into the fresh water tank from any other source after we leave home, so the water use statement above also holds true of the fresh water in our Ollie. And more to the point, if you sanitize you fresh water tank and shortly there after you still have bad water coming out, I would suspect the water source. To my comment above about ground water pollution, my parents were from Ottawa, IL. and Ottawa was the location of one of three factories in the United States that was operated by the United States Radium Corporation . If you don’t know the story of the "Radium Girls" and are curious about why I bring it up, click the link above. It is a story about industrial pollution that had a terrible effect on the people of these three community’s. Mossey

Thank you to all veterans for your service to America! Y'all earned this camping privilege, enjoy it! Mossey

I forgot to mention that we often times walk the campground at odd times of day and night, trying to minimize the chances of meeting other dogs. And a final note, we camp in the neighborhood of 20% of the year so that leaves us with about 80% of the time when behavior problems don’t affect other campers. I also think the payoff we get every time we come home to Nick is priceless! Mossey

Thank you for the Govee suggestion. Our big problem there is inconsistent wireless service. Maybe I’ll fix that with a proper wireless network one day. I do have the ability to monitor the temperatures with 4 Ruuvi sensors remotely when we have wireless coverage, but it’s those other times that worry us. Mossey