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A little thread-lock on the bolts. I checked mine last year and they're not movin'.

You're the man Art, great pic! Hard to keep up with you, though we love every episode. 😂

God Bless America and the fact with our meager means we can have so much in life! Vote 2024. 😂

Or you could just fall in love with it! We found ours of all places, on a local Craigs ad after we had just sold a Bigfoot Class-C. I showed the ad to my wife and said, "Let's go look, just to see. There's no way we're going to pay that $$,$$$ for a TT, but let's go look to see." Turned out we put $10K down within 48 hours and had it delivered in a few days! I've purchased near 100 total in old cars, trucks, motorcycles, dirt vehicles, trailers, a half dozen homes and even 20+ fine acoustic guitars... We have LOVED all of them! 😂

You guys got me thinking about this. Nice little key rack but for me it was lacking some important criteria. I need a rack that I can reach while standing outside the door. We climb in and out too much already for older bodies! Also wanted a combo key & coat rack, with room for Charley's leash, my long shoehorn, a jacket or two and why not the flashlight! This product turned out great. Five hooks at 15" for just $17 and you can order them in various lengths. It has a flat back, so I ran 3M VHB 4950 the length of it. So strong. We had 3M Command hooks here and there, installed without much thinking to placement, so I just removed all of them. Amazon.com: Vanloory Coat Rack, Heavy Duty Stainless Steel 5 Tri Coat Hook Hanger, Wall Mounted Storage Wall Hook, Rustic Clothes Hook/Key Hook Rail for Bathroom Kitchen Entryway(5 Hook White) : Home & Kitchen

Thanks again Sherry. Just found the picture I was asking for in the link you supplied. (It appears @Rivernerd has been offline for a week.) The vent is behind the toilet where you could actually fit a standard drill vs. a 90-angle drill. It does look like a 3" vent in the pic vs. the 4" installed elsewhere. I would not add another vent from under the dinette to the hallway, since the idea is to create air return from the far bathroom vent through the basement and around the rear back to the furnace. This could actually assist in pulling more air out of the bathroom duct too. Now I merely have to get up the nerve to pick a spot and start drilling! Will start with an 1/8" hole so I can adjust location of the full vent hole as needed. Just noted in the other thread that OTT installed a 2" vent in this location.

Given an 8-week wait, I should decide soon!

Thanks Ron, great info here. Have you made your decision? Your timing? This will take some study, questions I have... Can the Atmos connect to the Oliver condensate drain. Does the fan turn off with the compressor? Does it truly dehumidify? (not a big concern for us living in AZ, but on some travels) Any of these would certainly be an improvement over the Houghton. It's almost as quiet (53 dB at which fan speed?) and not like we need 15K BTU. It's 25 LBS lighter, 2" shorter, 5" less width, though 3" taller. Also, 4 fan speeds vs. 2 and only 1160W cooling! Our electric tea kettle is 1100. The Houghton is 1550 to 1700W MAX (meaning 34% to 47% more current required for the Houghton). This will easily run off a 2KW inverter all afternoon with decent AH rating in LiFePO4 batteries. I will read more. Please, let us know of your progress.

Was planning ahead re Epoch LiFePO4 batteries. @rideadeuce installed the more expensive model B12460A since two of them fit in the battery bay. I'm interested in saving some $$$ and do not need "Victron Comms" so I've been studying the 12300A-H (300AH) and 12460ES (460AH) models to see what would be the highest AH that can fit in the bay (also don't care at all about the sliding tray). At first look, it appears the 460AH is too wide to fit two in the bay. Specs listed as such on their webpage: length 20.55" width: 9.45" height: 8.60". Then open the User's Manual and you will see the width and height numbers reversed (which makes more sense). I just emailed Epoch to please clarify. If the specs in the manual are correct, I see two 12460ES LiFePO4 batteries in our future sitting side-by-side in the battery bay, tray removed with 3/4" to spare!

Can't find much on Atmos or who sells them. Read they are designed in Germany but manufactured in China. I wrote RecPRO on the Houghton dB ratings. They replied today with this: "Hello, the compressor in the larger one is a little further back in the unit from the hole to the RV which makes it quieter. I have listed the Houghton Information we have: Phone +61 8 8448 2929 Email contact@houghtonleisure.com"

I want to thank everyone who wished us well. Also, congratulations to all Oliver owners with anniversaries from near 10 to almost 50 years! I had a great Father's Day too and wish the other fathers and grandfathers here the same. Adam and I played Crokinole late into the night. He had a high score of 110 in one game and during another game, I hit 4 20s (placing in the center hole) and he had 3. We ended Chris' "Birthday week" with a night at Essence Kitchen! Go figure, fine dining in of all places Chino Valley AZ!

Lot less value without a solar package, or at least pre-wired. I read at some point they stopped pre-wiring when solar was not purchased. On the other hand, if you are only going to hook-up then no solar could save you money. Batteries less important since LiFePO has gotten much cheaper. I would not have purchased ours last year without this upgrade and we got a very good used price from a prior owner who lives in our hometown and delivered it to our driveway with cash-in-hand!

Us too and after a short local September trip it will be 3 weeks in October for us in NM and TX with Inks Lake being the focal point for week two. High was in the 90s yesterday, low of 58 at dawn and the forecast is only up to 85 today. Maybe cool is on its way east. It was very hot here last week. Last year we purchased our Oliver on June 7. By early July a dozen friends had asked, "have you gone camping?" Decided to venture out in July just to get out in our new Oliver, and of course just when it was getting hotter. Decided on Kendricks Mountain Wilderness area northwest of Flagstaff, the peak is 10,427 FT and we camped at over 6800 FT. It was just cool enough at this altitude. A cooler June day in Phoenix today at 105 and any direction we drive from home gets hotter before we get high or north enough to be cooler. We get to camp all winter when many of you have your Olivers in winter storage. I'm good with being home summers at 5400 FT and we play pickleball indoors! I'm starting 3 weeks off today with more Oliver repairs and mods to come soon. See many of you at Inks Lake! Four months will be here in a heartbeat...

You’re welcome and hope all you need is a reset. Yeah, I remember the 1-2 days off thing. That’s got to be BS. Capacitors lose charge in minutes or an hour at most! When somebody gets on the phone with Xantrex we need to someday learn a realistic reset procedure. If I was stuck in the AZ backcountry and mine was not working, I’d find a faster reset! Something like disconnect the battery ground, wait 10 min, jump the inverter +/- DC cables, to drain all capacitance and reconnect. My bet is this works, not waiting a day. Best wishes. Enjoy your trip!

@Half Fast Hugo don't post coordinates or directions! You could show up after the rain ends to find dozens of "undocumented noncitizens!"

Where is Bear Trap Ridge?

@Derek B We have our original 2KW Xantrex and it works great, never a sound and as Mike wrote runs the MW, electric tea kettle, a blow-dryer, etc. Sorry, do not remember the reset procedure because I have never needed it, but just search for 'Xantrex' as I remember reading how to in the last 6 months or so. The great Johnny Carson had a saying, "Use it or lose it!" (Though he was referring to something quite different!) I run ours almost every day I'm in the Oliver, like just to have the TV on while I'm working on something. We only plug in during summer to run AC, and I just ordered a transfer switch so that with other upgrades we can run the AC on inverter too. I often stay at campsites, when it's only a night or two, and do not bother connecting to shore power and water since we have enough of both with us. I suggest when you get yours reset or fixed that you start using it, and be practiced with it, for the time you get stuck w/o shore power.

I've been running mine daily lately, since I'm inside the Oliver lately on hot afternoons working on a kitchen faucet leak (done), rerouting furnace ducts (almost done) and other installations. The only good feature of this model is that on AUTO it will quit when down to temp, and for us out here that means it stays off all night and only runs a lot in the afternoons, set at 84 when I'm not inside. Ours is getting to 9-years old now and we get the same "high pitched screams" on rare occasion. Is it really worth back-up capacitors and a new fan motor? Ours will be replaced before we travel this fall with a brand new non-Dometic product, most importantly something very QUIET!!! We have only spent one overnight with the AC on and that was enough. Noise-reduction headphones to watch TV and when the unit finally caught up and turned off for a while, I was able to fall asleep!

Finished up the bathroom vanity yesterday. I had a supply of 1/4" u-clips but the fiberglass is quite thick at the opening and decided that would be too much work, the placement must be extremely accurate. I merely used thin panhead wood screws with no taper. Measured with a digital caliper to drill just the right size holes. Added a SS washer so the screw head would not drag on the plastic. Thoroughly cleaned off all the old caulk and sealant. This product has just the right size opening and adequate length: uxcell U Channel Edge Trim, 6.5ft Length Rubber Guard Seal Strip Edge Protector Fit for 1.5-2.5mm Edge, (13/64" W x 5/16" H) White - Amazon.com To-dos left are the bathroom to under dinette vent and the return air filter housing. Waiting for parts...

Wrong time of year. We are under severe fire restrictions in the Prescott NF! 🤣 The ground here is also too rocky. We need the walk-behind trimmer where those who live east would have a lawn mower.

I had to read this a couple time to realize yours was OEM installed. I'm trying to figure best location to drill. @Rivernerd could you take a picture from the bath side? I agree this is a necessary addition. Thank you!

I just do it myself. Chris has enough indoor work and she's staining the deck now! (After I sprayed deck cleaner and pressure washed.) In 45 minutes with the Stihl, I can do all the edges on our 3/4 acre. I would hate to use a week battery-operated trimmer. We don't grow grass in Arizona, just weeds in the spring and fall (after monsoon season). The large areas I hit with something like this! YARDMAX 22 in. 170cc Gas-Powered 4-Stroke Push Lawn String Trimmer/Mower at Tractor Supply Co.

For those of us who use RUUVi, why not just mount one of these in the fridge? We put one in there when traveling, but when home it monitors my garage temp which is always too hot with southern exposure. Love the one placed above our Dometic thermostat since the dumb thing only shows set temp! (always set at 84 Auto when parked in the summer months.)

Decided to submit another thread on my complete mod!

LOL, you need one of these for real yard work, with a little gas and 2SO: FS 91 R Weed Trimmer for Professionals | STIHL USA