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Taylor, I'll go out and look at mine... In the meantime the real expert here, he who turned his water pump 3-way switches into 4-ways to add another switch for the outdoor shower is our friend Geoff! Maybe @Snackchaser is online?!

You're welcome, @taylor.coyote. Everybody should have 1-2 of these in the Oliver toolbox. Once in a Class C, I could not get it to go into Drive from Park after starting the engine! I soon realized the brake light switch was not working. I made this jumper wire then to bypass the switch. It kept me until the next day, when I replaced the brake light switch in the Napa parking lot in Cortez Colorado! 😎

The toggles have changed. Ours and likely yours do not have the little blue LED lights showing the ON state like the newer ones. I don't know where to buy them but first jump the two wires connecting to the switch and see if that powers the lights, to be sure the switch is bad. If it turns out the switch is good, look at the connections to the courtesy lights in the streetside basement.

This looks like the same Lippert lock I have where somebody added a residential deadbolt for extra security.

Depending on the wiring of your Oliver (there are many variants), shore power may not connect with a blown inverter or blown main 300A fuse. But given the main fuse blew your inverter is likely OK. You can try to connect to shore power, but without replacing the 300A fuse to reconnect your batteries, it likely will not work anyway and either way you would NOT have lighting or 12VDC accessories. You need to disconnect your batteries anyway after this accident. Test voltage on each one separately. Given they are LiFePO4 batteries, if they read much less than 10V they are in trouble but perhaps can be revived. Slow charge each one separately. Some of the small chargers, like this one have repair functions that pulse a small charge on and off to help. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07W3QT226/ Let us know of your progress and there are many of us who can help.

@2008RN Check this out if you want to stop worrying about the Xantrex GFCI!

This is the exact model # I installed 2 years, bought from the same company, paid $997 new. I wouldn't travel a day without it and I've had ours powered up for two years 24x7! https://invertersrus.com/product/used-victron-multiplus-ii-12v-3000va-120v-only/ They are company inspected and may have warranty from the build date. Is it time to replace your Xantrex or upgrade to 3KW? I've had mine push 3600W, for a couple minutes, without cutting out (turned the Dometic P2 on while not knowing the HWH was heating on electric)! The Multiplus II also has the unique PowerAssist feature, to assist in running A/C on 15A shore power connections or small generators. I used it last summer, when at an ancient campground we could not trust the 15A connection. I set input to the charger at 12A so the post breaker would not blow, just to be safe running the Penguin A/C half on shore power and half on battery. It was the only way to safely leave our dog in the trailer for the afternoon. After the sun set, we turned off the A/C and recharged the batteries overnight. Sure glad the Penguin is gone! Too bad they're presently out of stock of Orion 50A DC-DC chargers (maybe worth a call). But WOW, it might be time to get your MP2 today! 😎

I would go the other direction, first or second strike, if I had to pay for parts and shipping (or not). And yes, there are much better door locks, in RVs that come with thicker doors. Gray would be cool, but the lock cost me $50 and I'd hate to spend 2-3x total cost just to make it gray. I'll remove the ugly door bumper and latch holder this week (unnecessary with Lippert friction hinges) and remove the RVIA and Oliver stickers before our next ceramic coating maintenance. She will keep looking better! No powder-coating service up here, and with a forecasted high of 116F in The Valley today, our next planned trip down the mountain is in October! 🤣

Would love indoor storage but only if it could be on our property. Not happening for reasons or cost and building codes! I'm not a cover guy, too much hassle and cover inside a building, really? Any dust will blow right off next time out or with a good rainfall! But to each their own... With our Oliver outdoors, the rooftop solar will return the batteries to full charge when not in use. When it's this hot, high 90s this week, we run the Chill Cube A/C 24x7 so I'll change the inverter setting to recharge once a week. Hull #113 has not been "in storage" the 3 years we've had her. Put a cover on the TV two summers ago, to keep the sun off, and the pack rats read it as an open invitation. I caught it just in time but could have lost the entire truck interior vs. just some HVAC vacuum lines and part of the dash cover. I'm never using a car cover again. I'll take a little sun fade over this and rub marks from wind. We had a Class-C before where the pack rats one winter built a nest in the intake trough of the Ford V-10. Chewed all the Bilstein shock boots too! So grateful they're too big to get into any of the small openings bottom of the Oliver. I'm looking at ours now and do so everyday! I'm always doing something. This week she's in the driveway behind the TV since we just got back home. Working on replacing the outdoor shower assembly and will add a drip edge on the streetside of the roof (and rear) to match the one on the curbside (we get drip marks everywhere else but soon will not! 😎 First pic is a rare cloudy day early June on our 3-year anniversary! Then after a light snow last winter. If she was back there today, the whole yard is foot high green grass form monsoon rains and not a drop inside the Oliver! She's had all the elements and always comes out just fine. All pics taken from a living room window. I did a bit of weed-whacking yesterday and more today!

Of course, OTT hasn't but I've also thought about this. I would love to take my Honda dirt bike (250 LBS) when we boondock BLM and FS lands, but hasn't been a priority. Taylor has the right idea; mount it front of the tow vehicle. You can keep an eye on it and adding front weight to a TV helps with overall balance. Front of Oliver, you'd have to remove the doghouse and LP tanks to put the weight further back allow for turning radius.

On your way, stop by a Maverick or other service station! We fill the FWT and another 35 gal in the TV! BTW, in northern MN and Wisconsin, they need to bury these 5 ft underground to keep from freezing! Can’t blame them for not having one at each campsite!

I believe your inverter has a built-in ATS, so when it senses shore power it will prefer/switch to that power source. I replaced an older 2KW Xantrex inverter (only, no charger). It also did not have a built-in ATS so an external ATS was wired in line. I do not know Xantrex internals since I went with Victron. One thing that surprised me with the Victron is that it must be powered ON to allow pass-through 120VAC shore power (the one and only feature I do not love). That could mean if the Victron was to fail, shore power could not connect. I'm not certain of this and prefer not to learn this while camping, but I have the tools, wire nuts, etc. to bypass. I can also reconnect the OEM PD charger if this was to occur. I would certainly try the test Geoff suggested, which was what Dudley first suggested, but on your garage GFCI outlet. If it trips, you could try on your non-GCFI outlet, but if Geoff's hunch is correct, keep a careful eye, fire extinguisher in hand. We had a microwave-only model and knowing it's not healthy for anything but perhaps reheating coffee, I replaced it with an Emeril Air Fryer. 😎 This model fit well: Amazon.com: Emeril Lagasse Everyday 360 Air Fryer Oven, 9-in-1 Countertop Oven : Home & Kitchen I added vents and insulation, but I would think since your hull came with a convention oven the cavity should be prepped for oven heat. Camping last week, the first night monsoon rains were pouring heavy! We cooked indoors, ran the Emeril 30+ minutes while the Chill Cube A/C kept the cabin at 74F all day and night. Both were powered simultaneously on our 3KW inverter! You have the Epoch batteries which is a great start, and I hope very soon you can run your oven on inverter whenever you please!

So your GFCI breaker on the Xantrex is protecting shore power also in any 120VAC circuit wired through the inverter. It runs your microwave which runs on lower wattage, likely rated at 1100W and using closer to 900W. Why can’t a 2KW Xantrex inverter produce or even allow pass through shore power to the rated 2KW? It would be nice to know how many amps the oven was pulling after 5 minutes, but I’m pretty sure it was nowhere near 2KW. If you can somehow reconfigure it to produce spec, or replace the inverter with a more capable unit, or rewire the oven to be used on shore power only. I replaced mine since we require to run our oven and our A/C unplugged.

Straight-forward test! We travel with this 30 ft 12 AWG extension cord. With our batteries, I can even plug in a friend who isn’t off-grid capable! 🤣 https://a.co/d/01Nv8L4h

I would not jump to that conclusion. Think of this as a next step in testing. If it doesn't work, meaning your oven blows a 20A non-GFCI circuit breaker, then your oven is drawing too much power and should be replaced. If it works and your readout still shows it's using about 11A +/- then it's the GCFI. Once it has been determined that it's working in the above test, then look into the Xantrex. It's likely the low-power cutoff, but check out these posts. Too bad in the first one the OP never wrote back to communicate cause (this happens too often). In Bill's post a hard reboot solved his issue, or it could be something else. My fix for a 2KW Xantrex was to replace it with a 3KVA Victron MP2! 🤣 https://olivertraveltrailers.com/forums/topic/11320-xantrex-inverter/ https://olivertraveltrailers.com/forums/topic/9255-xantrex-inverter-issues-try-a-hard-reboot/

I'm thinking you mean the GCFI 20A outlet you are plugged into had tripped. Your EMS readout displayed 12A which is the total input amperage from shore power, which would include the Xantrex charger if it was in fact charging at the time. Sounds like a temperamental GFCI to me and it's not the first time I've read this story on our Forum! Glad our home was built in 1980 when only bathrooms had GFCI outIets. If it was my garage or exterior outlet that I used for shore power, I would replace it with a standard 20A outlet, regardless of code. Or add a new 30A breaker to your service panel, run wire and a 30A dedicated outlet for shore power. This is what I did where we park our Oliver. Not running on the 2KW Xantrex? Check and lower your shut-off voltage setting which is often the case with Xantrex inverters (not Victron). Your oven pulling only 11A (12A - 1A) should run on any 15A household circuit, let alone 20A. And 11A on 120VAC is equivalent to 110A on 12VDC which translates to 1320W, which again should run on a 2000W inverter with a lot or room to spare! Could the oven be defective? Not likely, since it started up and pulled a measurement read by the EMS. You could think it's the oven since it blew on two power sources. But the microwave works. The oven must create a power spike the GCFI protection doesn't like. The only way to be sure is to connect to a shore power source that is not GFCI! The 30A shore power outlet at any campground are not GFCI outlets. Next time I need a GCFI outlet is the next time I take a shower with a live blow dryer in hand! 🤣

We have pics from our first visit too, 21 years ago.

You must not recognize the icon Flintstone metal statue built in 1972 near Valle AZ, road to the south rim of the Grand Canyon! It must have been pretty cool back in the day! We didn’t go in but backed in for this special shot. I’ll bet Fred would have loved an Oliver! 🤣

On the left are the standard D35 axles, 10" brakes. The hub is extended further out with the old standard bearings. On the right, we have Nev-R Lube axles with the flatter hub, protruding about as far as your lug nuts. Parts pic shoes the embossed Nev-R Lub dust cap and then before and after pics. With the Nev-R Lub bearings it makes sense to loose the big center caps which are no longer necessary, designed to fit over the original standard bearings. It would be nice if they made a flatter center caps, but emblems over the dust caps work fine.

They also write Nev-R Adjust on the D52 axles with Nev-R Lube bearings. My label is similar except mine are SC = 50.00. The only hint of Nev-R Lube are on the bearing dust caps.

@taylor.coyote, please post a picture when you have yours installed! Road tested, heavy monsoon rains on the highway, and puddles on the FS red dirt roads. Mud only in the wheel wells. Behind the flaps, no mud build-up. I've got some pressure washing to do next week!

Thank you, Garry. Decent price on this part! Not to worry, I had enough water leak down in the basement already. A lot comes out the hull weep holes and out here it all dries in minutes. BTW, re long "nasty looking" links. I delete all the extra characters after the ?-mark and replace the ?-mark with a slash (/). Then you can copy/paste a shorter version like this: https://itcshopnow.com/products/exterior-shower-service-parts/

@Boudicca908, the above is quoted from an earlier post of mine, page 1 of this thread. This was measured with Alcan Springs and the older 16" wheels which are 1/2" taller than the newer 15" wheels. I would say measure the height of your hull, to the top of your Dometic P2 A/C and add 3", or 4" to be safe.

Me too. Dad was sent off to be European Sales Manager by his employer, a machine tool company. We lived in Wiesbaden Germany during the late 60s. Went back once in the 70s, did the backpack Europe thing all summer with my cousin. My siblings will only take trips to the UK and Europe, reliving their past maybe, as fly-over country is just not good enough. 🙃 Me, I like my fond memories as they were. I'll bet ya sleeping on the black sands of Santorini are not the same today as it was 50 years ago (on the back side of the island where the tourists don't go)! There was only one market/restaurant on the beach back then. We would eat pasta dinner with Greek salad for $.30 each. When they closed and turned off the lights it was pure dark, stars and shooting stars all over the sky! See the USA in the Oliver is our plan! 😎