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Yes you can, but it will not charge correctly and fully unless it has a LiFePO4 setting. Yes, for now do it, being careful to connect positive to +tive cables, negative to… The other concern is how many amps is your charger rated. Many are only 10A. To fully charge 640 AH Lithionics that are at 50% SOC with a 10A charger will take 32 hours. Leave it connected overnight. An OK short-term fix until you get your Xantrex 3000 working!

Think it was February of about the same year. By myself in ONLY a ‘76 Malibu, left Chicago late morning and got to a friend's house in Portland the next afternoon. Just looked it up on my phone map and that was over 2100 miles non-stop. Oh, the adrenaline of youth! About 10 years ago, drove my truck 1100 miles, Prescott to Austin nonstop. That was the last time for me! We left Prescott a full week ago and so far we’ve just entered west Texas, left Ruidoso this morning and spending tonight, free camping at Yoakum County Park. Our longest day driving on this trip will be 4.5 hours, average 3 hours a day. The beauty of a relaxing Oliver trip!

just noticed this wording in the other thread cited here, "the router is built into the dish." Are all the Starlink Minis built this way? When I installed our Pepwave system, January of this year, they were asking $2,500 for Starlink HW and to my knowledge no mini was available. I want to add Starlink soon, but I do not want another router. The Pepwave has a WAN RJ45 input port, and it has the smarts to choose between the WAN source and cellular. I also want to install ours on our tow vehicle like I did the cellular antenna. Maybe I need another Starlink product vs. the Mini?

After our Oliver has been parked for a long, hotter than average, summer, we are finally on a trip. Of course there has been a lot of worry re this subject. I noticed while driving a simple way to know whether your leaf springs are OK. Check your rear view mirror and note the horizontal line of the tailgate is parallel to the line on the Oliver where the hulls are attached. When a leaf breaks you will see one side lower, an angle instead of parallel lines! If a street side leaf had broken, you could not easily tell from the entry steps.

Perhaps start your own post, to get more Oliver member feedback! To me Yavapai County to Coconino County to the north are the best of Arizona, and our family has ridden 100s of roads and dirt trails up here. We found this part of the world in the early 90s and bought our home in 2005. (Yeah, the White Mountains, central eastern AZ may even be better for camping!) The saguaro cactus is the iconic cactus of the Sonoran Desert. That would be the total 1/3 of SW AZ. Every time we leave the Phoenix Valley to drive home to Prescott, at 2-3K elevation, we drive past thousands! They flourish at this elevation! Picture is near Black Canyon City, an hour north of Phoenix off I-17 at near 3,000 FT elevation. Start by looking here, Tucson parks have 1000s of them: https://www.nps.gov/sagu/planyourvisit/maps.htm From what I’ve read @Mike and Carol has a lot of experience from Tucson to Bisbee and on this forum there is a wealth of postings on camping trips in the SW. South of Tucson to Nogales, and literally 200 miles east or west along the border, has not been safe over last 3 years. DON’T go there until .gov fixes this, be safe. Quartzite to Yuma and the AZ/CA border there is all good.

Yeah, and you’re close to the annual OTT National Rally! Pulling the Oliver, heavy decline grade on winding roads, a rest stop, it will be 3 1/2 hours. When I was young driving a sports car, I would always beat these estimated times. Not these days. This year, let’s communicate on your Quartzsite thread when Oliver Owners will be there and we will drive down to meet you!

I suggest the direct route in dark blue except when getting near Prescott take the west loop. A couple of hairpin turns before Yarnell but NP with our short trailers. US Hwy 60, then US Hwy 89 are the main roads. The Q is at 900 FT, Wickenburg at 2000 and Prescott at 5400 FT. The final stretch is a climb up the Prescott NF. Love to see you! Excellent Boondocking at Wickenburg along the way and another great AZ town to visit with history, good shops and restaurants. Vulture Mountain, Vulture Mine Rd west of town is the camping spot. The mountain really looks the shape of a vulture, neck down feeding.

Yes, do this. The shackles (correct term?) can flip over on the Oliver leaf springs and when that occurs you’ll have to run over another curb to straighten them out! Happened to me once when testing an EZ-Jack and there is a thread here about reversing it. Just measured ours at just over 12”. Be careful to stop the electric lift prior to topping out so not to damage the jack gears.

Not good advice, especially for a new Oliver. You will be supplied with brand new tanks with warranty, date coded for 10 years of use. The swap tanks are often abused/damaged. I got one once where the O-ring was missing and the LP would leak. Also, it’s expensive. I just got one 30# and one 20# we use at home filled from empty for $29.80 which is the price of a swap tank at our local big box stores! Our local Ford dealer charges $2.50 per gallon Keep your original tanks for cost savings and your safety. We’re on a 3 1/2 week trip and will likely only use one 30# for furnace, cooking and we love our LP fire ring. Years ago we ran out on a trip in a Class-C and best price nearby in the Phoenix valley was $5/gal. We have enough batteries/inverter/solar to keep us fine and can run A/C for 3-4 hours when needed. If I was going to run a generator for A/C, I’d have more than enough LP, would look to fill one 30 when starting the second. If the E1 can only hold 20s, I’d buy a 3rd tank at a local HW store and have it filled up ready in the truck bed.

Same here, that’s the model to get. Glad the closet location worked out for you and the rooftop junction box is a good size considering the antenna. It all looks great. I get black-n-blue all over my arms, old man’s skin, every time I work an install, just where long sleeves for a few days. 🤣 And if your Arizona trip brings you by Prescott, we have a spot for you with electric and water and can show you amazing dispersed camping locations all over the county!

Do you have other grounds connected to your batteries? If so disconnect them from your batteries and connect them to source side of the SmartShunt. Between the shunt and batteries should only be the single 4/0 battery cable. In fact, I see a 6 AWG Yellow wire, from the ground/neutral bus heading to the rear of your trailer. This is likely connected to the batteries ground. ALL trailer grounds must go through the SmartShunt. The way it looks as wired, your SmartShunt will only monitor DC current used by the inverter, only when the inverter is running.

Overkill and as stated already, would be too many LBS for LE1 (or LE2).The 20A+ models mentioned are enough and I would only carry gasoline from the station to home for yard tools. Get the 30 gallon LP tank upgrade and mod a connection LP line. Our old Dometic Penguin II runs on 15A. The new Atmos A/C runs on 10. If Truma requires more than 15, I would look at other choices. Get SoftStart on your A/C regardless of model choice as start-up amps can kick over 30.

@Gliddenwoods I agree with Skipster. The inverter should understand that 12.7V is nowhere near 100% SOC. It’s logic is off and needs to reboot, power down for some period of time.

The photo shows, by the old stain on the leaf, that it has always bled this way. The grease will come out the path of less resistance. Just as long as you know a few pumps of grease were pumped, you should be good. This pic looks like as soon as grease is pumped, the same amount comes out immediately.

I meant the interior fridge fan, no sensor on that one. The exterior one comes on when needed. I set at 90F, the highest setting. Sensor tape to foil very top of the outside opening. inside fan had it off at first, the run it a few hours, fridge ad freezer temps by Ruuvi sensors do not change.

@FloraFauna I’ve been doing this for years, though Wisconsin is not Arizona. However, I learned this procedure from an engineer who winterized his Bigfoot Class-C using only compressed air at his home in Calgary. We travel Oct through May, not summers. I do this when we get home between winter trips, Not using the pink stuff 2-3 times per winter, or ever. Some say “I would never use compressed air.” I say, I’d never use pink chemical antifreeze. OTT does not recommend using compressed air. https://olivertraveltrailers.com/forums/topic/9849-winterizing-without-rv-antifreeze/?_rid=8971/

Rob, you are correct. I guess it’s just a difference in language. Technically these are called struts, when height adjustable not mere shocks. You have purchased a high-end shock component to a adjustable coil-over strut. See: http://www.monroe.com/technical-resources/shocks-101/shocks-vs-struts.html

Just east of Springerville AZ, on US Hwy 60 E, on the AZ-NM state line.

Let’s meet there next spring!

Five miles east. Every FS campsite or dispersed camping from Payson to Show Low is abundant and beautiful!

There are the White Mountains of New Hampshire! Know them well! I’ve skied Cannon Mountain, Canmore Mtn in North Conway and the top of the White Mountains is Mount Washington, the highest peak in NE. And then there are the Green Mountains of Vermont, smaller yet absolutely gorgeous this time of year, on my favorite State Hwy 9 heading west! The White Mountains of Arizona include all the high county in east central Arizona. Payson AZ is the western point at the edge of the Mogollon Rim. The NE point would be at Springerille AZ, with Show Low AZ in between. Then all the way to the NM state line, and south to the mountains north of Safford AZ. 🤣 Everywhere it’s high elevation, grasslands at 9000+ FT and peaks at 10-12K FT. Those who know, of the several million Phoenix Valley residents, drive up on summer weekends to climb, up, up, up, and in doing so, the temps drop 30F! The AZ White Mountains are the SW corner of the Colorado Plateau, it’s God’s Country. Camp almost anywhere you want between FS and BLM lands. My thinking is it extends into New Mexico though the range may have a different name east of the state line. @MAX Burner would be the expert on the NM side. Thank for asking, posts in Ruidoso NM coming soon. Loving our trip after working 5 months on this old hull (she is doing well, all systems working to near perfection)…

Ron can chime in. The exterior fan works wonders in cooling the external coils. Jury is out on the interior fan. Temp numbers have not changed for me with it ON or OFF. https://a.co/d/5epsJqH https://a.co/d/bfzfJBO

Went into Greer yesterday. Reason we chose this campsite is it’s on the same road only 3 miles to this small town, pop 52! Had a beer and wurst at the Edelweiss Resort for lunch. Was thinking to have dinner at the locally famous Molly Butler lodge but as we walked in to check it out we overheard the hostess say they only had reservations available after 8PM. Decided on steaks at the campsite with Cobbler for desert, nice! We’ll be back again, since this slice of heaven is only 4 hours from home. Need to checkout Hannigan Meadows that @MAX Burner has mentioned, also the next time! After lunch I took a hike along a cattle path down Benny creek, up the dam and to the lake and back. Leaving the White Mountains today, and on to central New Mexico.

I had Ranchos on the ‘03 Ram we owned for years, were adjustable. A basic set of Bilsteins on our ‘01 Ram, not adjustable, 4600 series if I remember correctly. Could not get the higher end Bilsteins for this 2WD truck (2WD too small a market). F150 larger sales and huge aftermarket.

Totally behind this guy, and all the way along Hwy 260 east of Payson! I’d sure wear the hat cruisin’ around town but will wear a helmet on the highway. 🤣 Was a nice day for a cruise!