Frank C

Merry Christmas to all!

It was pretty ridiculous early this morning. There were so many spam posts coming in continuously that it was hard to find any of the real user posts! The moderators did a great job of putting an end to it and removing those posts.

It’s not related to your computer. It’s the moderators on the forum that quickly remove spam posts. But this morning it was a very different type of spam/fake user/bot posts. This forum was getting bombarded this morning by HUNDREDS of spam posts about bogus airline ticket reservations from fake user accounts. The moderators quickly removed all those posts and have temporarily blocked any new users from joining until a better security solution is found to prevent fake bot user accounts.

You can try to ban him, but….

This site is getting overrun by bots/SPAM! Is it time to block any more new user ID creation & sign ups until a better new member verification system can be put in place?

Doesn’t your Oliver have a Hull # plaque inside the entry door?

The Host is not limited to one RV. HH usually limits a member to a stay of one night at a location (sometimes longer with host permission), but the host is not limited to one RV per night. HH locations list the number of sites & size of sites in their details on the HH website and app, usually more than one site available. We’ve been at many HH overnight stays with multiple RVs at the same location for the night. HH is so popular now that it’s actually been very rare that we are ever the only RV at a location when we stay. Here’s an example of one recent host we used. They list 15 spots available. And there were 8 other RVs there the night we stayed (the distillery had a Halloween costume party that night 🎃 ). We all had a very nice time gathered around the fire ring that the distillery provided. Fortunately they had a lot of nice level ground for so many RVs at once. So once you get to 10 or 15 spots, isn’t that a campground? 🙂

No surprise here. It’s the same as registering any other vehicle here in PA. Have to pay sales tax, title fee, plate fee, etc at time of title registration. And PA also requires annual safety inspection of the trailer.

Double check all the valves under the bed to make sure they are all in the winterizing position, and make sure at least one faucet is open.

And it happens to others too.

Yeah, the max spec for a gas RAM seems like it should be enough. The diesel loses quite a bit of max payload but should still be sufficient. Can’t tell from the photo if that’s a diesel RAM or not. Like you said, it would be interesting to see the specific ratings for their truck. It’s a fairly new truck (2020) so you would assume it’s not a frame corrosion issue. But wow that is still a really heavy camper! That’s like parking an Elite II in the pickup bed!

Wow! 😳. They said they weren’t overloaded because they have a RAM 3500 one-ton truck but that Eagle 1165 truck camper spec sheet lists a dry weight of 4,917 pounds!!! Add a full fresh tank (66 gallons!) and camping gear, food, etc and the total load would get close to 6,000 lbs.

Here’s a pic of the hypervent pieces around the outside of the mattress. I pulled them up for the photo. Normally they tuck fully behind the mattress and are not visible.

The rear window has a sliding pane that opens, same as the side windows. The entire rear window swings out for emergency exit.

You may not want to push your new custom mattress dimensions to the absolute maximum. If you’re ordering the optional hypervent mat from Oliver for ventilation under the mattresses to prevent condensation & mildew, there are also sections of the hypervent mat that go between the outer sides of the mattress and the fiberglass wall of the trailer. You have to leave some room for those sections of the hypervent mat, ~1”. That’s why the mattress dimensions Oliver shows are slightly smaller than the absolute max space available.

On our Ollie, that cable in the attic comes directly from the external “satellite” port on the outer hull. It is for connecting an external portable satellite antenna to a satellite receiver that you would locate in the attic. The external “cable” port on the outer hull goes directly to the TV. The switch you mentioned that other owners have is part of the optional TV antenna package that Oliver offers as an extra cost upgrade. If you didn’t get the optional TV antenna package you won’t have that switch.

Very nice upgrade!

From this photo you posted it looks like you connected the 2 batteries in series but with one battery with reversed (incorrect) polarity. So you have the Oliver connections going to the negative terminal of the battery on the left and also to the negative terminal of the battery on the right, and then the jumper between the positive battery terminals. So that’s a net zero voltage output, which would explain why you saw no power at all to the trailer. Not sure if connecting them that way may have damaged them.

We have always been surrounded by those types of risks. Texas City 1947 comes to mind. One of the largest non-nuclear man made explosions in history. And if you notice the location & date on my old hydrogen car newspaper article, that was just a few short months after the very close call at the Three Mile Island nuclear power plant just a few miles away from that Penn State campus. Even gasoline has risks (get well soon Jay Leno). Safety was one of the big arguments made for many years against moving to self service gas stations. Having the untrained general public handle flammable liquid transfer into a car!!!! I’m always surprised there aren’t a lot more incidents, fires, explosions at gas stations with people smoking, etc.

Thankfully, with the supervision of our engineering professors keeping an eye on our project from a safety standpoint, we avoided any “blasts”🙂.

We all managed to keep our hair (except for our engineering prof 🙂). And the engine (and hydrogen flow) was shut off at that moment for the newspaper photo. Too many hands and faces in the engine compartment to take that risk (moving fan blades, belts, etc.).

“Toyota is also exploring the simple burning of hydrogen in an internal combustion engine, which emits water vapor instead of carbon dioxide.” I always find the research into hydrogen powered vehicles to be interesting. I can speak from personal experience and background that getting an internal combustion engine to run on hydrogen does not take a huge amount of research (see attached photo from 1979 news article on my senior engineering project at Penn State, that’s a very young me second from right). Hydrogen is a great fuel for an internal combustion engine. That’s never been a problem. We converted a 1968 Dodge Dart with a slant 6 engine to run on hydrogen with some design and modifications to the existing carburetor on the car. And our research and work was based on previous efforts, so it wasn’t anything groundbreaking, even way back in 1979. The issue with hydrogen powered vehicles is that you can’t just go out and mine pure hydrogen anywhere here on earth. It always exists bound up with some other atom or molecule, with water (H2O) being the common example we all know of. It takes large amounts of energy to separate out the hydrogen, and it basically winds up being a break even equation. Because of that, it’s best to think of hydrogen as a way to change or transport energy from one form to another, not really a “free” energy source, but it is a very clean combustion process. The combustion byproduct on that old car was mostly just water vapor.

Probably correct. The Airstream website has the following. 3,500 lbs GVWR, and 500 lbs carrying capacity, but that’s probably bare bones standard equipped model, so any options (and 23 gallons of water) would use up most of that 500 lbs. pretty quickly. Not much left for food, clothes, camping gear, etc.

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