Roger

That is what I was thinking. Thanks for the clarification. I live outside Atlanta and we occasionally get cold enough to need to winterize but I would prefer not to use antifreeze. I take trips during the winter months and it is a hassle to winterize and de-winterize each trip.

@jd1923 when you do step 10 do you have the air compressor attached to the Fresh Water inlet? Doesn't this go through the Fresh Water tank where it will need to build up pressure before it can blow out the lines. I don't see how it can build up pressure when the Fresh Water drain is still open? What am I missing?

Do you blow all yhe lines or just the freshwater tank?

Just flushing the city lines doesn't get rid of the anti-freeze pumped into the fresh water tank when the freshwater line was winterized. This is what I am interested in flushing, more so than the city lines.

Looks good. Thanks.

@Geronimo John you are correct. I meant to say the working load is 1/3 of the breaking strength. I can't edit my earlier post. @topgun2 can you correct my earlier post?

John, I am glad it is working for you! One thing I have also learned about the unit is you MUST lift up the baffle at the top or it just doesn't work very well. Don't ask how I learned this (more than once 😁). I am thinking about removing the baffle so that I don't forget to open it in the future.

John, Samsung has SmartTag which is an Android version of an Air Tag.. I'm not sure if they only work with a Samsung phone. I have 4, one of which I have hidden in my Oliver.

John, I have been keeping it on the counter next to the sink. Roger

John, Mine worked fine out of the box in my Oliver with no issues and has never tripped the breaker. I would suggest you return it and have Amazon send you a replacement - it sounds like there is something wrong with the unit itself. Roger

John, Letting it stand for 24 hours allows the compressor oil and refrigerant to settle back where they belong so that you don't damage the dehumidifier. Roger

Lithionics told me at the last rally that I should cycle the batteries. Discharge the batteries to their reserve voltage (i.e. until they quit working) and then recharge them. He suggested I run the a/c on battery until it quit as a quick way to run them down. This seems to have worked for me as my batteries now show similar life remaining. The rep said that the batteries don't really know their discharge state and use an algorithm based on recharge time, usage, etc. and sometimes get out of sync. There is another discussion about this here.

@jd1923 This is a compressor dehumidifier. If you go through the pictures on Amazon, one of them shows this.

@rideandfly I used the KNKA on a trip earlier this week in the Okefenokee Swamp where the temps were in the 50s and 60s and the humidity was in the 80% to 90% range and it did an excellent job keeping the humidity down.

I recently bought the KNKA 1600 sq. foot dehumidifier from on Amazon and used it for the first time last week on a trip (I have been running it in my camper when it's parked at home). It is a compressor dehumidifier and did an excellent job. We were in the Okefenokee Swamp and the temps were in the 50s and 60s with 80% to 90% humidity at times. The unit did an excellent job pulling the moisture out of the air. I ran it the whole time we were in the swamp and it maintained the indoor humidity in the 40s to 50s with no problem. It is small enough to pack on the floor of the closet. It measures about 7 1/2" deep, by 10" wide and 14" tall. I did cover the light in front and will probably cover the light on top on our next trip as it lights up the whole camper at night. It is very quiet.

Happy Thanksgiving

@rideandfly Amazon says this is frequently returned so we will see what kind of shape its in when it comes. I always assume stuff like this has to sit upright a day or so to let before running. Thanks for the headsup.

Amazon has it for $105 again. I'm going to hive it a try.

I second everything Tony says. I had an F150 with a 10,000 lb. towing capacity. I never had any issues with it. Early this year, I upgraded to an F350 and I must say pulling my Oliver is a much better experience with the F350, especially when going downhill.

@Ronbrink how did you reinforce the handle on the closet to take a person's weight?

@Ronbrink where did you get the bins you have in your fridge?

@Steve MorrisI have adopted this mod and really like it. When you store the filter do you do anything special so that it is ready to use for the next trip?

When I bought my F350 I got the trailer TPMS monitoring system. So far, I have been very happy with it. Unfortunately, the Ford TPMS cannot monitor the spares. The nice thing about the Ford TPMS is there is no sensor to have to fool with when I manually check tire pressures and I don't have another device cluttering my cab. My practice with spare tires is to keep them inflated to the maximum allowed for the tire and then lower the pressure to the correct pressure when I use the spare. I also carry an inflator so in the worst case I can add air to the spare. I think I will add checking the spare tire pressure to my travel checklist, although it is a hassle to check the pressure on the Oliver spare. When I got my new truck, I lowered the spare and flipped it around (Ford has the spare with the valve up from the factory) so that I could check the pressure with it mounted under the bed.

Is that The Trailer or the trailer. I have owned 4 Volvos over the years but my wife knows when I refer to The Volvo it is my 1975 244GL Volvo that I sold years ago.

We decided to call ours Kimba, as in "Kimba the White Lion" from the Japanese manga series. No reason other than the trailer was white and that is what we kept thinking of every time we talked about our Oliver.