Rolind

There are several parts to answer of your question. The simple answer is yes you can drive in eco or comfort mode. However, many, including myself, would consider this unsafe. Your propane tank would have to be open, and there would obviously be an open flame in your trailer. I would only consider it under extenuating circumstances. I would also be concerned that the flame in the Truma would blow out from the air passing by it under highway speeds and not relight. Thus allowing the unit to freeze anyway. If remember correctly, it is pretty easy to winterize the Truma, just turn the bypass under the street side bed and drain the unit and leave the filter out. But that still leave the rest of the plumbing at risk for freezing if the trailer is not fully wnterized.

Not sure of your return route, but we like Land Between the Lakes in Kentucky for camping. There is always water and a dump station at the north and south welcome stations. Taylor bay has no water or power but is very pretty. Energy lake campground has power and water and a dump station and is our favorite spot. Hillman ferry is well maintained, but huge with a lot of people, but shouldn’t be crowded in March. There are good hiking trails and Grand Rivers is a nice lunch spot, we like Green Turtle Bay best for a bear and a burger. LBL is a great place for several days.

I am a huge fan of AirTags and have them on many of my high value items. Please correct me if I am wrong, but I think that they can be disabled if they follow an iPhone that they are not registered to. I’m not sure how long it takes to notify the user of the non registered iPhone, but based on experience with AirTags registered to me, my wife’s phone notifies her within ten minutes if we take my truck with an AirTag in it and leave my phone at home. Btw, a recent iOS update allows you to register AirTags to multiple users.

You might be able to run the AC. You should expect decreased charge rate of the batteries and may need to decrease the breaker rating on your xantrex. I would expect everything else to run as normal.

I had the same thing happen to me at a nearby campground. We pulled in with the lithiums about 50% discharged and plugged into the 30 amp pedestal. Initially everything was fine but then I could hear the xantrex cooling fan turning on and off every 30 secs. I also got a communication error with my xantrex remote panel. I later did a software update on my xantrex and the problem never occurred again. I later learned from the campgrounds website that the 30 amp hookup was rated at 20 amps. I didn’t think it was my ems because it was cycling too quickly. My advice would be to try to reproduce the issue with another power source. Another possible solution would be to decrease the breaker rating on your xantrex phone app to 15 amps from 25 amps.

There are a lot of ways to skin this cat. I carry our bikes on a bed rack above the tonneau cover. Lifting my wife’s e-bike, even with the battery removed is a heavy lift. The rack locks on the front thru axles. Every option has its pros and cons. The rack on a front of the truck receiver hitch means every rock, bug and road hazard will be in your bike. The rear of the Oliver is not really rated for heavy bikes and boy would they flop around on a rough road, ie I70 through Kansas and eastern Colorado. Racks in the bed consume valuable bed space. There maybe some racks that mount above the propane doghouse. Good luck on your search!

We had the same issue when we first had our trailer. We use barkeepers friend for this issue at the suggestion of Jason at Oliver and others on this forum and the issue has resolved. We still use bar keepers friend if the issue returns.

I was happy to see Ray and Nancy Eklund on airforums got a brief shoutout at 1:18 with a screen shot a post of his. His posts were instrumental in our initial interest in an Oliver and boy was he right on regarding Oliver’s quality and functionality. He is certainly an informal brand ambassador!

At Anastasia state park and the campground is fully reserved but has been 1/2-2/3 empty for the last week. Frustrating. My sense is the demand for reservations is the same, but fewer folks are actually showing up.

I explored a victron multi plus as a means to run our Truma ac with a single Honda EU2200. I had some concern that the multi plus would not accommodate the in rush of current needed for compressor startup. Does anyone have any experience with this or a similar setup?

We had a brief false alarm while in Fruita, CO last week.also in the middle of the night. We have the RV Safe model and the fault cleared quickly. Maybe the air there is different! lol

It’s been a while since I was on 89, but if the weather is clear I would definitely consider a stop at Bryce Canyon. Bryce is at about 9000 feet so if the weather isn’t clear it will be clouded in. The road into moab is easy but moab may be busy. Lots to do in Moab. Arches, delicate arch is my favorite and fiery furnace is also great but requires reservations. If arches is too busy, consider Corona arch, the numerous dinosaur raceways, the birthing petroglyph up kane creek road. Cable arch is also up Kane creek road but requires a very steep scramble up a dry waterfall/wash that is a little technical. I’m not much off a four wheeler, but we had a blast renting a UTV and doing Hells Revenge. It looks intimidating, but the UTV climbed and descended like a goat and made it easy. I would strongly recommend the Desert Bistro for dinner!

This is the one we use and have been very happy with it. It is the same rug Oliver has in their showroom. Lightweight, dries quickly, doesn’t hold dirt or sand. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B007G2KJLA/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_image_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Thanks John, I will attend to this when I am next at the trailer.

That’s great advice. My concern is that I can’t find a way to change add a password to my lithionics batteries, or xantrex apps to protect them as well. Both are easily accessed from their respective phone apps. Does anyone have any insight as to how to protect these devices as well?

I have found our Truma to be better at lowering the temperature than the humidity unless it is is the dehumidify mode. The dehumidify mode makes it painfully cold in the trailer but also does a great job lowering the humidity. I have also found that the Truma condensate drainage is very sensitive to trailer leveling. If the trailer is just slightly off level, the condensate drips on to the roof and then accumulates above the awning seal. The space above the awning seal can hold a lot of water. Last week, while camping, I would sometimes look at the Truma and adjust the level to make sure it wasn’t dripping from the condensate pan onto the roof. Oliver says the Truma has a very shallow condensate pan. Hope this info helps

Do you think airstream is going to take another run at fiberglass? The airstream nest was a great fiberglass trailer but was abandoned by airstream pretty quickly.

No worries, our Basecamp saved us during Covid, but we like the Ollie better. Both great trailers. I like your idea of the same material they treat auto rocker panels with.

As a prior owner of an airstream Basecamp X, I wasn’t particularly impressed with my segment protectors. They resonated/vibrated at highway speeds, and there are multiple reports of attachment fatigue on the shell. I think rock tamers or mud flaps on the tv and some sort of protective film on the front of the trailer might be a better solution.

How about heading north to the bluegrass for Bourbon distillery tours or Louisville. Louisville has great restaurants, Slugger museum, Churchill Downs museum, great breweries and numerous urban distillery tours, Angels Envy, Rabbit Hole, Old Forrester, Peerless, Evan Williams are all within walking distance of each other downtown.

Welcome Eric! We moved from a 16’ Basecamp X to our LE2. We also loved our Basecamp but…. First, we needed a little more room and although it seems silly, we were tired of setting up and tearing down the bed. We developed early filiform corrosion on our airstream about 2-3 years after new. I arrested it with corrosion X and T9 but it always worried us. It is nice to not be quite so paranoid about hail damaging the exterior skin. The airstream was not spec’ed out like I would expect. No battery monitoring system (BMV-712) and a poor solar charge controller. Lastly, I would search Airforums for posts from Ray Eklund. He owns an LE 2 and a heavily modified Airstream and his insight was instrumental in us exploring and eventually purchasing an Oliver. We have found our Oliver to be what we hoped our Airstream would have been

Saw this Ollie yesterday afternoon I-64 East in Louisville.

Hello Ollie. Saw you at Grand Rivers, KY. We were camping not too far away at LBL. Stopped for a burger at Green Turtle Bay, but kinda wish we were having Conch fritters at Green Turtle Cay. Safe travels.

I think if you turn the xantrex inverter/converter to a lower max amp setting, such as 15a, to accommodate a low amp rated input and forget to turn it back up when you plug into 30a shore power, your batteries will still charge but at a slower rate, Provided the max draw from all the loads doesn’t exceed 15a.

That is great news. It makes me wonder if my EU2200 would also run the air? I know Truma says at least 3000w generator is required. But maybe if I was not at altitude and maybe if the batteries were already fully charged do the converter wasn’t pulling any current? We are headed out next week maybe I’ll give it a try.