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The basics! It's all about safety And let me be clear about any information I provide below. I have not looked at any battery installations on Ollie's newer than 2017, so if any knowledgeable OTTO's with 2021 or 2022 model Ollie’s that see anything I have wrong, please chime in with any current information. The first thing I would like to say is that you should never ever enlarge the hole in a cable lug/connector. And you should never ever use a cable lug/connector with a hole that is larger than the stud you are connecting to. And make sure that any equipment you install is capable of the battery load you have. The battery disconnects in your pictures are probably designed for single car or truck batteries. Disconnecting either the 4/0 positive or negative cables that pass through the battery box wall into the inside of the lower hull should break the battery connection. That would still leave solar positive and negative cable connected to the batteries and the same may apply to the battery charger section of the Xantrex equipment. Mossey

Can you elaborate on your attempt to install a cutoff switch. Maybe some pictures as well. Mossey

No! The TST support team is who I was referring to. Sorry about the confusion. Mossey

Born and raised in Florida! Never would have thought about a heater. Mossey

Make note of the support phone number just in case you have any questions. They are excellent! Mossey

Very good eye! I am looking forward to the answer. Mossey

JD suggested JB Weld to me about 2 years ago. And I have had very good success with it since then and as he mentioned, the self life is excellent even in Florida, where the 3M product's last a month if I’m lucky. I order the large size tubes from Home Depot. So I’m nominating him for president of the JB Weld fan club of which I am a member. Mossey

We purchased a used 2017 LE2 with the standard bed and used that bed for one trip. We left the table at home on the second trip. We experimented with different sleeping arrangements and as a 6' side sleeper, the rear bench worked best for me. Krunch claims to be 5' but I don't believe it, so she could sleep on either side or the dinette. And the dogs are just happy to be touching one of us while they sleep, so they had multiple choices. After the third trip, we made an appointment to take it back to Hohenwald for a twin bed conversion and we have never looked back. I believe that the standard bed takes up about 40% of the square footage and made the three rear cabinets very difficult to access for both of us and we didn’t enjoy the twice a day bed to table change over. And if you upgraded the standard mattress, you are pretty much locked into leaving to bed up 100% of the time. There are multiple OTTO's that have made the twin bed into a standard bed for temporary usage, such as camping with grandkids. Check out the option Mike and Carol created, allowing the very clever use of modified dinette cushions to fill in the gap. Mossey

How’s the new 2022 Tundra working out? Which model did you get? Please share any details about the truck you care to. Mossey

The Many Glacier area of the park is our favorite and it is close to Waterton Townsite. It has excellent hiking like the Ptarmigan Trail/Ptarmigan Tunnel trail which we picked up behind the Swiftcurrent Motor Lodge. If you make it to the tunnel, the view on the other side is pretty special. The Red Buses are a great way to see the park if you are a designated driver, you can actual see what everyone else in your vehicle gets to see. And don’t miss the pie’s at the Park Cafe in St. Mary’s. Mossey

The Crypt Lake Trail is an excellent hike and don’t let Bill discourage you from trying it. And an alternative hike that is a little less strenuous, but about 4 miles longer and much less crowded, involves taking the boat ride to Goat Haunt Ranger Station, which is actually back in the US and Glacier NP. Disembark at the ranger station and hike back to Waterton Townsite following the west side of Waterton Lake. If you are lucky enough to be camping in town, you’ll end up back at the campground. And if hiking isn’t your thing, just take the boat ride, you won’t be disappointed. Mossey

Bill, I edited the pictures to clear things up. It is actually a closet flange with a short 3" pipe glued on and the bottom is filed down to ease insertion. Mossey

Broken Closet/Toilet Flange Replacement So as is usually the case with whatever I touch, I break something else! Or maybe it’s just an opportunity to learn something new. While camping over the Thanksgiving holidays, we suffered a water pump switch problem in the bath vanity. I had to remove the vanity caddy while troubleshooting and there were 2 wires off of the switch mounted at the top of the caddy when I pulled it out. I doubt 2 wires fell off at the same time, so I think maybe 1 was off and caused the problem and the other fell off during caddy removal. This gave me the opportunity to start a plumbing project and install a hatch in place of the caddy as NCeagle did here. So I was sitting on the throne cleaning up the hatch caulking job and broke the closet/toilet flange while rocking around. After removing the toilet, I removed the 4 screws holding the flange in place and remembering someone else’s flange replacement, I just pulled up on it and one side moved a half inch or so. I then moved a piece of wood under that side and worked the other side and the flange pulled out. The 4" tail of the flange fits into a rubber gasket in top of the black tank. I have ordered some parts from HD that may or may not be correct one’s, but I’ll know in a week or so and post the conclusion to the story. Until then, enjoy the pictures Mossey Break flange description tank and gasket

78.5" and 171" on mine, just eyeballing in the dark. Mossey

I think Overland mentioned an obstruction in that area in one of his postings. He cut a hole below his sink or maybe the refrigerator, I dont remember exactly. I think he may have been reworking his ductwork. Thank you for the pictures, they will be helpful. Mossey

Overland and I had a discussion about using the SHOWERMI$ER that Steph and Dud B posted a link to on January 1st, to create a Truma AquaGo Comfort Plus. I reached out to him because he is the only person I now of the has the Comfort Plus. He then posted about adding the tee inside of the Truma to recirculate the cold water back to the water heater, where the SHOWERMI$ER routed it back to the tank. Either method required a return pipe to work and I was still leaning towards Overland’s idea of just using a manual shower diverter which would definitely be better looking than the SHOWERMI$ER. And "BOOM", you jumped in with a different and excellent twist. One thought that I had was to connect the return to the fresh water fill line near the check valve on the street side if I couldn’t route it back on the curb side to the fill line. Did you give any consideration to connecting to the fill line on the street side instead of the curb side? And could you share a picture of your connection to the fill line? Mossey

topgun2 and I had this discussion in the past and he remembers correctly. There is a combination Smoke/CO detector above the street side bed, below the attic. So, I think an additional CO monitor should be located near the thermostat. Mossey

I prefer my trips to Silverton via the D&SNG Railroad. The views are nearing as good as The Million Dollar Highway and as the designated driver, I actually get to see them and leave that driving to the engineer in the striped cap! Mossey

My TST'S are mounted on rubber and I love ‘em. Keep looking, there’s something or somebody for everyone.

Since I do not know the model number of your tv or remote, I’ll throw this out there. Mossey How do I get my Vizio TV to scan for channels? How to rescan for antenna channels on your Vizio TV Press the INPUT button on your remote to view your current input source. ... If the TV input is not selected, press INPUT until the TV input mode is selected. Open the on-screen menu and select TV or Tuner option. ... Highlight Tuner Mode and select the correct option:

Just to clarify this response, I am trying to address your statement “quirky readings of the monitor”. I have looked at your pictures and of course they created more questions. So I am going to try a different approach and show you some of my installation. This is a view of the battery box after I removed all other wiring so you can compare yours to mine and move any negative wires to the load side of the shunt. This picture is of the Victron shunt and the negative bus bar I installed. I am not sure what “quirky readings” really means in your case. This YouTube video will explain the BMV-712 installation better than I can. PM me if you what to talk about this. Mossey

I replaced all 4 of my outside light fixtures with fixtures that have 2 sets of LED bulbs, one set is white like the stock lights and the other is amber which is what I really wanted. The 2 different light sets required an extra power wire and a 3 way switch. The front curbside light was a the easiest of the 4 lights to fish a new power wire from the access port above the microwave location as Steve mentioned above. It was a challenge to work through a 1/4''' hole that I eventually enlarged to 3/8'' which was okay because the new light fixture would cover the hole. If I remember correctly, I used a of solid copper wire. It was a piece of either #12 or #14 gauge wire I had in my wire box. Mossey

I will study these pictures and get back to you. Mossey

Is your shunt installed as I described other than the portable solar. The BMV is not going to consider the input from your portable panel because the negative connection is on the wrong side of the shunt if the shunt is installed correctly. Can you provide pictures of the battery cabling as well as the shunt. As far as I know, nearly all Victron support is online, try this link. https://community.victronenergy.com/index.html Mossey

This guide may help. You also said: Install Zamp solar port in battery compartment door and to battery bank (some say to the busses, whatever they are) Below is a picture of a busbar. It is used to allow multiple connections on either the positive or negative side of the battery bank, just like your fuse box at home. The difference is that in the fuse box each wire or circuit is attached to a breaker and the breaker connects to the busbar. When your rv tech installed the BMV-712, it included a shunt that is connected to the negative side of the battery bank. The shunt has 2 posts with one post connected to the battery negative post and that should be the only wire or cable connected to the negative side of the battery bank. All other negative wires should connect to the other post on the shunt. There usually isn’t enough room on that post for all of the wires to connect to, so a busbar is added to increase the connection points. The BMV display is connected between the 2 shunt posts and measures the amount of energy going into or out of the battery bank. Mossey