mossemi
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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?
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@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.
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Excellent idea and execution. Well done!
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On 9/7/2023 at 12:14 PM, MAX Burner said:
Time for a cold one.
Very nice job! What brand of safety shoes are you sporting? Don’t think I’ve seen ‘em before! 😂🤣😂
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10 hours ago, Boudicca908 said:
My CO/LP alarm is mounted on the fore dinette seat, so this seems odd to me…
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!
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2 hours ago, topgun2 said:
What "misinformation"?
Perhaps his fuse wasn't located under the rear dinette seat (where mine is) but you did say to follow that positive wire until you find the fuse.
Maybe I should have called a technical foul.🤣
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23 minutes ago, dewdev said:
After I posted my above response, I checked what OTT had sent me.
Great! Thanks for correcting my misinformation!
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2 hours ago, ScubaRx said:
I think leaving the emergency flashers on is the best idea.
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.
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9 hours ago, Mike and Carol said:I’m usually outside and Carol is inside letting me know where we’re at. If I do it by myself, I’m inside watching the level before going out and opening the valve.
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.
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48 minutes ago, dewdev said:
I could not find which fuse under the dinnette was for the CO/Propnae detector so I contact OTT.
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.
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1 hour ago, Mike and Carol said:
Yes, I can clarify.
Thanks Mike! I'm probably the only one to read it wrong, but it’s easy to confuse me.🫤
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6 hours ago, Mike and Carol said:
At 30K miles I replaced them with 35/12.5-18 Cooper AT3 XLT’s. Same as on my trailer.
That statement made me do a double take because it sounds like you are running 18's on you Ollie. Can you clarify?
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On 9/6/2023 at 6:39 PM, SNY SD UP said:
The question I have is, Can anyone tell me what the 2 groups of wire connectors would be connected to, so I might label them.
My best guess is that those wires would power/operate the optional Barker electric dump valves.
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On 9/4/2023 at 5:04 PM, GeoffChapman said:
I read up a bit on the forums and then pulled the Zamp controller out and took my voltmeter and measured the two solar wires when I'd removed them from the controller. No voltage. The other two wires to the battery show 12.5+ volts.
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!
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On 9/1/2023 at 6:36 AM, GSMBear said:
I wish I had taken a picture of the area where this work needs to be performed but I didn't. It's really tight quarters. And for that reason, I think the soldering iron will be necessary because the heat gun will spread heat in areas that might damage something nearby. It's worth consideration, for sure, but I think it would be risky.
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.
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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.
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On 8/23/2023 at 7:03 AM, GSMBear said:
He has seen where the thermistor is and knows that soldering new extension wires would be an over-the-head task. But I think he's open to it. Whether we can get all of the necessary hands up into the area to manage the task is yet to be seen.
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.
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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!
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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.🙏
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6 minutes ago, HDRider said:
Let me know what I should study next based on your experience.
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.
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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.
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11 hours ago, Mike and Carol said:
We’ve stayed at a couple dozen military Famcamps around the country from California to New York. It’s a nice benefit for us tired old military retirees. Mike
Thank you to all veterans for your service to America! Y'all earned this camping privilege, enjoy it!
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On 8/17/2023 at 4:59 PM, Steph and Dud B said:
We fell in love with her and would consider adopting her but we're worried about her behavior in a campground, especially while being walked. She tends to bark and lunge at other dogs who come within 10-20 feet while she's leashed
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!
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22 hours ago, Steph and Dud B said:
We use one of these to monitor my wife's medications, which have to stay in a certain temperature range: Govee WiFi Thermometer Hygrometer H5179, Smart Humidity Temperature Sensor with App Notification Alert, https://a.co/d/65LlkWV Hook it up to campground wifi or your hotspot and it will send a notification to your phone if the temperature leaves your preset limits. Works very well.
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.
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Boon-docking at Last!
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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.
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