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Wow did you have to be so hateful about faintly remembering cloudy weather! Louisville isn’t as bad as Detroit where we hail from originally. I remember up in Detroit the radio shows used to have a contest for how many minutes the sun would shine in the month of December. Now that we are retired we just bug out to the Keys for 4-6 weeks in the winter, so not so bad. The worst part about 75% SOC is my neurotic checking of the SOC every several days. I do after all need something to worry about. LOL

I understand concerns about best way to overwinter Lithionics batteries. The owners manual states the first option is to leave the batteries on and the trailer plugged in. The question arises what to do if the trailer doesn’t have access to power over the winter. We store our under cover (no rooftop solar input) with a 100w portable solar panel and controller plugged in to the outside zamp plug. The location of the portable panel allows it to get sunlight about 4-5 hrs/day in January. During cold and cloudy spells, the battery heaters will draw down our batteries to about 75% SOC. I emailed Lithionics and asked, is it better to turn off the batteries or leave them on during cold weather knowing that the charge from the portable solar panel sometimes has a hard time keeping up with the draw from the battery heaters. Their only reply was to send me a link to the owners manual page with storage recommendations. I usually turn our batteries off with a full charge and make sure I follow the the recommendations for how long to leave them off based on ambient temperature in the owner manual.

Thanks to @Ollie-Haus and @Patriot for good advice on the dehumidifier. It arrived at the same time as the three days of tropical rain in Charleston. I was really a game changer, so much more comfortable inside the trailer.

1390 and Oliphino, inspired by one of our favorite beers Elephino from Red Rock Brewing in SLC.

We also run the TST and have been very happy with it. It occasionally alarms with the sensor saying one of the tires is at over 200F. A Quick Look in the side view mirrors confirms this is not correct. I think this occurs because of interference from our cell phones, chargers or other electronics in the cab. We plug our repeater into the 12 cigarette style outlet about the cooktop.

Ours has always made the same noise, I assume it is a cooling fan. It runs continuously when charging partial depleted batteries until full charge and occasionally for brief periods of time when fully charged. I also notice an occasional electrical hum when the cooling fan isn’t running. I have never explored trying to decrease the sound associated with the fan. You might try decreasing the breaker rating in the xantrex app and see if it makes a difference if the battery charges more slowly.

IMO it’s kinda like spending all day in the kitchen baking with out of date flour. You sure would hate to get all that work done only to discover it was bad!

That is a great way to do things, as an avid mountain biker I always cringe when I see bikes strapped to the front of some TV, ripping down the interstate at 75MPH behind a gravel truck. Lol. The only thing worse is seeing bikes flop around on the back of a 30’ trailer like a fish on the end of a line out of water.

I have always been afraid to mount my bikes on the front of the TV. Too many bugs and other road hazards. I have been very happy carrying my bikes on a low bed rack mounted above my Retrax bed cover. The front of the rack has two rocky mounts for the thru axles, the rear trays are from Voodoo. I made the bed rack with components from various venders. I have to remove the front wheels for travel, but have full bed capacity except for the bed consumed by the Retrax roll box.

Thanks @Galway Girl I am assembling the materials for a fix next week!

Thanks @Galway Girl I am assembling the materials for a fix next week!

Awesome and thanks. I’ll get busy?

Sorry to reanimate an old thread, but my large support block fell off the propane cover on our last trip and by some miracle was balanced on one of the cross members on the bottom of the propane enclosure. I’m planning steps to reattach it and had some questions for those who have done this before. It seems that everyone has used epoxy but has anyone used a methyl methacrylate adhesive instead? It seems as if surface prep doesn’t need to be as meticulous if MMA is used instead of epoxy. For those that used epoxy, how rigorous does the surface prep need to be? I plan on removing all the old adhesive, lightly sanding both surfaces and then washing with water and the isopropyl alcohol. Would this surface prep suffice for epoxy use? Thanks in advance for the help and safe travels.

I had the same issue occur but was luckily able to wiggle the switch out wo removing the panel. I also happened to the bathroom light switch. I was initially confused because the pump would only turn on with the switch outside the bathroom near the thermostat.

So I think the Aventa is designed to drain condensate onto the roof unless the option condensate drain kit is installed, which is on my trailer. I regret I didn’t take any pics when I had my cover off but the picture from the manual may help. You have been in your unit so hopefully you can decipher the image. The upper image is looking down on the unit and there are two small holes marked 1 and 2. The oval hole (1)is the overflow and the round hole (2) is the opening to the condensate drain tube if installed. The lower image is looking at the unit from below and cannot be seen with the Aventa installed as the lower surface is only an inch or so above trailer shell. The short quarter circle track leading from (1) on the lower image, is the track of the optional drain tubing. I agree that the condensate pan is very shallow and it is not how I would have designed the system. Because the pan is shallow and the ridge between the round condensate drain hole and the oblong overflow is only a few millimeters, the drainage is very sensitive to leveling of the trailer. I also think that level for my Aventa and level for my trailer are slightly different, just for added complexity. Despite my pledge not to, I suspect I will probably take another run at getting my port side drain unobstructed. On the other hand, I am delighted that this is my only complaint regarding my Oliver. What a fantastic trailer.