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This person replaced his Monroe's with Bulldogs.

Thanks Galileo and everyone - I learned a lot :). The indicator switch turned out to be the clue - I just had to keep closing and opening the tank valve until it showed green - and now I know to open slowly and am prepared for the next time 🙂

Thanks for the tip! 🙂

Thanks! At first the range would not light but after a couple of trys it did. The furnace appeared to click on briefly (the fan came on - cold air) and then stopped.

Puppies somehow broke one of the side windows. I have the replacement - wondering how difficult it is to do - or if I need to go to a shop?

Congratulations. I looked for different shocks and couldn't find them. Next time I will try Bulldogs. :)_

One tank ran dry, so I moved to the other tank—the furnace did not turn on. Then I filled the empty tank—the furnace will still not turn on. The pointer is pointing to the full tanks (both are full now) and I've moved the thermostat from on to off several times. Any ideas? (By the way, I searched for "Furnace does not turn on", "Gas does not turn on and no heat and got posts on axles and other things).

Nice! It got jammed up pretty quickly! Thanks for the ideas and the pics 🙂

In case this happens to anyone else this is what Mike at Oliver reported: It sounds like the that boondocking port may me air locked. You could clear this with a hand pump or with pressurized water by hooking to the boon docking inlet and turning the valves to the boondocking configuration but do not run the pump.

I was bringing water in from a water canister outside the trailer using the boondocking mode - which has worked great for us thus far. This time I forgot that I'd left the water pump on as I changed the valves into boondocking mode. The sudden whoosh of water rattled me and I turned the rightmost valve to the normal position for a short period of time - and then turned it to the boondocking position again. The boondocking mode seemed to work for a while and then stopped. When I returned the valves to normal mode we couldn't get any water out of the faucets either. I saw another post by John Davies regarding an air lock. II closed the valve going to the faucets (the rightmost valve) and opened the valve going to the tank (next furthermost right valve) and ran it for a couple of minutes, then 5 minutes and then 10 minutes. Each time the faucet flows were restored but the boondocking is not working. ????

The first is on the list 🙂and I will look for the SL mods - Thanks!

Thanks! Going into the trailer body is what I need. 🙂

Thanks! Can you say where in the below picture I should connect if I ever try this?

Our 2019 Elite Legacy II trailer - which we bought used - is probably pretty unique - it has just about everything anyone could want - but no inverter. After hooking up Starlink the lithium batteries in the van died. I revived them with the car battery and ramped down the energy usage and the batteries appear to be restored. My question is would it have been or is it possible to attach the Bestek 400-watt inverter to one of the batteries in the battery pack of the Oliver and get some energy out of it while the lithium batteries in the van were being restored (by the solar panels) ?

Thanks!

Right - yep - a shunt is going to be part of the lithium upgrade. Thanks for the reminder.

Not using furnace or stove... We have 20 gal I think. Let's hope the sensor is wrong. It might be - I just added the Mopeka sensors which don't appear to work when we're on a slope - they've read 15-18% and 100% - quite a bit of variation there! I'm taking the tank in to get it filled and will see where it's at and will report back 🙂

Thanks for the reminder - there is the charge the batteries on the road option. I plan to do what when we switch to lithium. Unfortunately we had a battery disaster and got a new set of lead acid about six months but the time is coming 🙂

Good to hear - Driving down to Phoenix from Vegas tomorrow - will give it a shot on DC 🙂I'll report on that. I Hadn't thought about adding a solar panel to roof but it does look like there's room for at least one more in front....hmmm

Thanks! That is really something 🙂

I set it to propane.... This might help?

Nice idea to switch to DC when breaking camp and turning off the LP. I know you're not supposed to run the fridge on propane when travelling but having it on DC seems like an option -but wow - what a drawdown on the battery at night. Again, I wonder if upgrading to lithium might help? Also - I have Bluetti power station with portable panels. Is there a way to have the power from those panels flow directly to the house battery?

So that's how it works...AC then propane then DC - We have lead acid batteries in the trailer now. I wonder if upping them to lithium - which we plan to do at some point - would help maintain the batteries under load much better. Is there much to installing a supplemental fan to pull more air through the coils? The fridge was throwing an F error code I think it was - it turned out to be dust and stuff gathering in the fridge. Once it was blown out it did fine. It's 95 degrees here right now - so it is very hot. I'll be in cooler temperatures soon.

2019 Oliver Legacy II - with no inverter. I got the fridge going and am in hot temps (@90 degrees) and bright sunlight - and it is burning through the propane.The temp is set at 6 out of 9 with 9 the coldest - and is pretty filled up. A couple of days running and one tank is down to 15%. The fridge is set to auto - and can be set to AC, DC or LP-gas. The manual says the DC setting works off the car battery and the car must be running - but I imagine and hope that it's drawing off the trailer battery. I can't tell if it's doing that, though, and if it is it doesn't seem to be helping much with the fridge (?). The first person who bought the trailer put everything in it but the inverter - I don't know if that makes a difference. Anyway, I don't know if blowing through this much propane is normal or not in these circumstances or if there's a way to stop the propane drain other than reducing the cold level of the fridge. We just had the fridge in for maintenance, by the way, and it appears to be running perfectly.

Thanks! That's my experience as well - the two sides of the chain do not match up - thanks for the suggestion 🙂