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Congrats on your new to you Ollie #49! Merry Christmas!!!!!

Auto Owners Purchased our LE2 used during 2016. Increased the insured value two times so far, looks like we will need to increase it a third time to keep up with increasing replacement value. 🙂

When it's time to rebuild our 5200lb axle brake assemblies including installation of new bearings/races, will probably install disc brakes instead. The 5200lb axles have larger drum brakes compared to the 3500lb axles and do a good job stopping our LE2 Ollie, too.

Pete, Absolutely beautiful! Been thinking about eventually replacing the drums & brakes on our 2015 LE2's 5200lb axles. There are very few 5200lb axles on LE2's in case some are wondering, Oliver installed a few on LE2's when they ran out of 3500lb axles. Will give Ron a call when ready to pull the trigger on that project. Thanks for posting!

Agree, we see very dangerous practices at gas stations. When I top off the fuel tank of my airplane at an airport without fuel services provided, safety precautions must be taken to prevent fires & explosions. It will be interesting to see the development of hydrogen powered vehicles.

SeaDawg, Beautiful photos of a great year!!!! Thanks for posting!!!!! Some of our Ollie TN & NC adventures during 2022:

Steve and Mike, Thanks!

Seeing diesel locally $4.65 to $4.70 in our area of NC What’s gas prices in your area of Texas?

Denver, NC today, prices dropped a little for regular 87:

Good interview! Our single 100AH BB battery is working great for us with two 100W suitcase solar panels.

We replaced two group 27 AGM 12V batteries with a single 100AH Battle Born lithium and it works great for our needs.

Fuel prices Denver NC today:

John, Congrats on your new Ollie and Thanks for the furnace report!

Mike, Welcome! We purchased our 2015 LE2 Ollie used during 2016, really like camping with Ollie. Don't have factory solar on our Ollie, use two 100W Renogy suitcase solar panels with a single Battleborn 100W lithium battery. Tow Ollie with a 2022 Toyota Tundra, nice combination for us. Plenty of very knowledgeable folks here for input on camping & towing an Ollie.

Wanted to replace our existing heater this winter. Ordered a Caframo heater today, Thanks for the info!

We use a single induction cooktop. Works nicely and store it in a drawer, too. Use Ollie's propane cooktop when shore power is not available.

Mike, Nice job!

Never researched if they can be mounted in an Oliver, Yep, we liked being able to open windows while it was raining. Also liked having the ability to adjust shade and screen height together.

Our previous camper had Dometic Seitz style windows you could open while raining. They had built in shades, screen, and hinged window. Miss having that style of window.

We store our 2015 LE2 in an airplane hangar without electricity and heat since 2018, when not camping. We use a master disconnect switch to disconnect the Battleborn battery while in storage. Battleborn storage instructions:

We were camping in VA a few years ago and attended this fine event. Saw many different campers, camping gear, and many great ideas!

SeaDawg, We reduced our batteries from 2 AGMs weighing 134 pounds to 1 lithium weighing 31 pounds. We just returned from a three night camping trip at a COE campground with electric and water at the site. Turned the onboard 12V battery charger off when we arrived and did not turn it back on until the morning we headed home. We operated lights, TV, everything that runs off of 12V and the lithium battery was down to 50% on the morning of departure. Normally it takes about an hour to charge the lithium battery from 70% to 100% with the onboard PD 4045 charger powered by shore power or a Honda 2000 gen-set. We have the Dometic three way refrigerator. Only operate it on gas or 120V. If we had a compressor refrigerator, would probably want at least two 100AH lithium batteries, for poor solar days. That modification might gain weight, something I don’t want to do, keeping Ollie’s weight low. Guessing the compressor refrigerator is lighter than the Dometic 3 way refrigerator. Experimenting right now with charging the 100AH lithium with two 100W suitcase solar panels. May buy a MPPT charge controller next. Will see! Thanks!

Marty, In addition to what was said above, we had two 100AH AGM batteries weighing in at 67 pounds each replacing them with one 100AH Battleborn lithium weighing in at 31 pounds to do the same job as the previous batteries. This change reduced battery weight with improved battery performance with faster charging and can discharge the Battleborn well below 50% as discussed above. https://www.batteriesplus.com/product-details/marine_rv/battery/duracell-ultra/sli27magmdc https://battlebornbatteries.com/product/12v-lifepo4-deep-cycle-battery/ Very pleased with the Battleborn 100AH battery performance.

Beautiful! We hope to camp in Michigan next year!