Steph and Dud B

Good luck. Let us know how you make out.

He won't be able to link the app to the batteries via Bluetooth until he's brought the charge up enough to bring the batteries out of low voltage shutdown. That's why I told him to check the blue indicators to verify charging. But, yes, they should have the app handy so they can use it once the batteries power up.

@TxMN2020: IMPORTANT: Do not try to charge your lithium batteries if their internal temperature is below freezing (32 degrees F). Lithium batteries cannot be charged below freezing. It can damage them.

@TxMN2020: "Low Voltage Cutoff (LVC) – During discharge, the BMS will disable discharge current when any cell reaches the 2.6V (approximately 10.4V total voltage). Charging current is allowed, so that the battery can still be charged by a charging source. Some charging sources require to “see” the battery voltage before allowing charging, in which case LVC lockout can be temporarily overridden by short-pressing the Power button. This will allow the charger to sense the battery voltage, so charging can begin." - from my Lithionics manual. Based on this, start and connect the generator first. The blue battery button lights should start blinking slowly, indicating they are charging. If the batteries are not taking a charge, short-press the battery power buttons once to trigger a charge. The only real ways to know the batteries are actually taking a charge are the blue button lights on the batteries and the Lithionics app. Once the batteries are powered up I strongly advise you install the app on your phone and connect it to your batteries. It gives you very good information on each individual battery's status. You also should get the manual for your specific batteries. This is what I have: https://search.app/Sri9bZ77WSrryceG9 Yours may be different. P.S. If your batteries are that low, it will take a while to get them charged back up, even with the dual generators. If you see that they're charging, sit back and give them time.

Depends on the batteries. In the 2022 model year the smaller Lithionics package had heating pads under the batteries with a separate switch, but the larger batteries had built-in heaters without an external switch.

A third, and probably best, option for charging would be to bring your trailer somewhere where you can plug it into an outlet. Ideally, a campground with 30 amp receptacle but you can use a household outlet, too, if you set the Xantrex breaker rating to about 15 amps.

I agree with @Rolind. Sounds like your batteries are in low voltage shutdown. You should not do anything to drain them any further. Leave them off until you can get a charge into them, as soon as possible, following @Rolind's procedure. Once you've got them recharged, my next question would be, what caused them to discharge? I suspect something got left on in the trailer after you left it for the month. My first suspect would be the Xantrex inverter. It's easy to leave that on by accident. The little silver button should be in the "out" position whenever you don't need to convert 12v battery power to 120v household power for boondocking. It should be off/"out" every time you park your trailer between trips. Another possibility, considering the dealer winterized your trailer before this happened, is that the water pump was left on and has been cycling while in storage. On our 2022 there's a green LED above the water pump switch on the kitchen wall. (You can't go by switch position alone because it's a 3-way switch.) Make sure the pump's off during storage, too. Good luck. Let us know how you make out with the recharging.

Ok. Lithium batteries. Do you have Lithionics batteries? If so, do you have the Lithionics app installed on your phone and linked to the batteries? If you do, what does the app say about your batteries' state of charge? No app? Our Lithionics batteries have power switches on them which glow steady blue when the batteries are on, turn off when the batteries are off, and can blink error codes. What do you see on your battery power buttons?

So, you have interior lights when the generator is connected, but no lights without the generator? If that's the case, I agree with @jd1923 that it sounds like your batteries are disconnected somehow. Could be a cable, cutoff switch, or 12v circuit breaker. More details needed.

This is how the cables are connected to the Vizio TV in our 2022. TV audio through the Furrion stereo is by selecting the ARC input on the Furrion. We have to turn the Furrion volume up quite a bit to hear the TV audio.

We have a Weigh Safe hitch which usually registers between 500 and 600#, similar to what you're seeing, when we're loaded and wet. And, yes, that puts us at 10% or less hitch weight. We do have a small cargo basket on the back. Nothing heavy in it, maybe 35-40# total. My tools are on the floor of the closet, as a counterbalance. No sway control, but we haven't had any sensation at all of the tail wagging the dog when towing. Maybe it's because our TV is a long wheelbase dually with the bed fully loaded with camping gear. I would be more concerned if our TV was a lighter vehicle with a short wheelbase, even though I've never heard anyone speak/post of their Oliver swaying.

105 degrees actually sounds pretty good right now... 🥶

20 years ago we could travel at will, making reservations as we went, usually the night before. We hit a lot of the big national parks, no problem getting sites. Times have changed. Last winter I planned our trip to the Oliver spring rally and beyond in great detail, making all the reservations well in advance to be sure we had places to stay. Then, life happened and we had to cancel it all, with a lot of deposit money lost. Won't do that again. This year, with any luck, we hope to go back to our old ways and wing it for a trip to TN, AR, KS, and MO. We'll look for state/local parks and have Harvest Hosts as a backup. Commercial campgrounds will be the last choice. As for KOAs, we have used the KOA Rewards program before and it has worked OK. Don't forget, there are 3 levels of KOA parks: Journey, Holiday, and Resort. We've found some (not all) of the Journeys to be kind of rough around the edges, while the Resorts can be too crowded and expensive for our tastes. I do miss the old days.

My wife won't let me get a hoe.

Things have a bad habit of sliding to the front of our truck bed, under the hard tonneau cover and out of reach. This hook works great. scottchen PRO RV Awning Rod Opener Easy Reach Telescopic Puller 13-3/4" to 44-3/4" Stainless Steel Silver & Black - 1pack https://a.co/d/aQmHp1H

For reference: Our 2022 has 340W of solar and 630Ah of lithium (I mixed that up in the earlier post). We have the 3-way fridge instead of the compressor electric and we have the Dometic A/C with soft start. We run the fridge on 12v while driving. We camp on the east coast, usually without hookups, 3 seasons, up to 3 weeks at a time. We've never come close to depleting our batteries. I don't think we've even gotten down to 50%. The lowest I recall was 63% after a week in full shade with mostly rainy weather. With normal use - coffee maker, toaster oven, lights, fan, water pump, TV, furnace, charging devices, etc. - the solar usually gets us back to 100% SOC every day. The only caveat is air conditioner use. If we wanted to run the A/C for multiple hours we'd need to use our generator. In practice, in the summer we might run it for an hour or so before bed while watching TV. That might consume 10% SOC. If it's sunny the next day the solar tops us off. We carry a 2kW Honda generator but never use it. Probably should stop lugging it around...

Units with the factory installed composting toilet come with the black tank installed but not connected to anything but I wouldn't use it for fresh water, even if it was never used. The black tank material is not potable water rated like the fresh tank. OTOH, others with composting toilets have converted the black tank for either additional gray water capacity or even urine disposal. If you get the Platinum Lithium package with 640Ah of batteries I think you'll find you have plenty of power. It's actually been overkill for us.

Just in case, before you install an electric valve: If you disconnect the cable from the existing valve does the cable pull out of its sheath easily? If so, the resistance might be in the valve itself. That happened to us. Valve lubricant worked for a while but the valve eventually leaked and had to be replaced. Still cheaper than an electric valve and less to go wrong in the future. (Electric gate valves add a motor and wiring to a previously simple system.)

Has anyone installed an automatic fire extinguisher in their fridge compartment? I've seen a few types advertised.

OK, so knives... I have a few rescue knives and a couple of pocket knives but my EDC knife is very different. I've been carrying one of these little Victorinox pocket knives in my pocket for probably 20 years and I use it virtually every day. (This is my second one, after the pen holder in my first one finally broke.) It has: blade, file/screwdriver, scissors, pen, toothpick (was tweezers, but I replaced), and a 16G USB A/C flash drive. Love this thing.

Ooooh, flashlights! Steph will tell you this is my impulse buy weak spot. Everything from no-name Amazon lights to some nice Streamlight and Olight units with my fire/SAR gear. When I was working, this little Streamlight Microstream was my EDC. The blue one was special because the default power-on setting was Low, while the other colors defaulted to High. Not sure if that's still true, but it was important because I used it to check pupils and didn't want to blind my patients. Don't have an EDC now but I added a Wuben H1 headlamp and a second Infinity X1 (Costco) to my assortment of lights over the holidays. And I still have my very first Maglite from the 1980s, with the LED upgrade kit from the original incandescent.

We just replaced our black valve due to leaking. Had a repair shop do the work.

Our Norcold fan is temperature driven so you can't necessarily rely on it as an indicator that the fridge is operating. It only runs when the fridge compartment reaches a set temperature.

Smart. Nothing heavy in our back seats except the impact wrench and torque limiting extensions, which are under the front seats to contain them in an impact. I once saw a guy killed by the small red steel toolbox in the bed of his pickup. He went head on with a tri-axle dump truck at about 50 MPH and his toolbox flew through the truck cap window and rear truck window, hit him in the head, then kept going through his windshield and dented the hood of the dump truck just below its windshield. The pickup driver was killed instantly. The truck driver was lucky it didn't get him, too. (The cause of the accident was an impatient small car that passed the dump truck in the fog, then cut in front of him and braked hard when she saw the oncoming pickup. This caused the rear tires of the empty dump truck to skid out and the dump truck crossed the center line into the pickup. The car driver kept going but called 911 to say she had witnessed an accident. She was charged with vehicular homicide.)

I understand the idea of prioritizing your parks for your residents, especially when campgrounds were all filling up in the COVID boom. And I don't. Out-of-staters will probably spend more at restaurants, tourist destinations, etc., than locals and I think the COVID bubble is bursting, so this might end up hurting states overall. I don't agree with fire departments charging out-of-towners for car crashes, either (same concept). Just like out-of-state campers, those people pay taxes to support a fire department (and parks) somewhere. I think it should just all be reciprocal: same price for everyone. It all equals out eventually. (The only exception that makes sense to me would be visitors from other countries who don't pay taxes to support anything in the U.S. I can see charging them extra.)