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Go back to page 1-2 and look at the picture of the failed steel, poorly hardened. Buying heavier but same level of quality IMHO is asking for the same failure. i was first of the belief these would be too heavy. When I can, I’ll go with the new product @Mountainman198 brought to our attention and @MAX Burner, @ScubaRx and several others have proven to improve ride and dependability! it’s similar to replacing a Dometic A/C with another. 🤣

A “growing number” or just you John? We’ve heard you a good 3-4 times. I’m against the Tesla Cybertruck, so after a comment or two, I stopped and haven’t kept up on that thread in months. It’s just not for me and this is not for you, no value-add in repeated comments. Buy the leaf springs you want and start a new thread!

Correct, I had the same question. A member of the Victron Community Forum posted, 110 is manufactured in Malaysia, the 120 from India, otherwise the same model. I purchased the 120 and it does state made in India.

Though it appears the F150 EV weighs as much as a F250. I’d rather have the extra weight in HD suspension components.

Welcome to the New Green **** (scam). Weight is only one of many factors. The manufacturing pollution created in China is X times the life of the carbon emissions of average ownership duration. I’ve kept MANY combustion-engine vehicles over 10-20 years. There is considerable savings in that, to the environment and pocketbook! Always love when I see a used hybrid at a dealer or on Craig’s! Excellent condition, but 6-8 years old. Get ready for the cost of new batteries! Very soon the marketplace will have thousands of EVs, not worth 20% of new. Cars, trucks, yard and power tools… I’ll keep my 20+ combustion engines on our property. And I can rebuild them with my own two hands! I say this as I install 600AH LiFePO4 in our Oliver. This is where it belongs; RV, boat and home. BTW, our electric bill is up at least 30% this summer. Natural gas in AZ, still reasonable (likely not in NE for either). Sorry for the diatribe! Hoping for new policies in the new year… Pray, hope.

Thanks Mike! Not using the OEM fuse holder, given it’s ANL and mounted in a ridiculous location! Just checked the MP2 manual and it states using a 400A fuse. Just purchase this fuse: https://a.co/d/4D4H2ok and this holder: https://a.co/d/0015iEi I went with the “ignition protected” unit, not that an Oliver has an ignition but for $20 more you get a snap-closing case and heavy weight terminals. @rideadeuce given my research, you should get a 400A Class T fuse as a backup if your 300A ever blows. The 500s in the Epoch batteries will never blow given a lower rated fuse closer to the load. Thx

We moved from Austin to S FL, packed Nov 2014, all household belongings in a large cargo trailer. Stored the trailer and Chris’ car in Sherman TX where Adam went to college. Then drove our truck to our Prescott home for Thanksgiving ’til after New Years. Headed back to Sherman to drop Adam at school. Hooked up and I towed while Chris tagged behind all the way to WPB. It made everything easier! Find a secure gated storage and next thing you know you’ll be back there. We’re thinking after I get all my Oliver mods done and enough SW travel, we may head up to Idaho and find a good NW home base for new travels. Love the camp and seeing new things, not fond of long highway travel!

Another suggestion for your trip... Some like Las Vegas, not me nor Chris. I work there 1-3 times a year teaching my class and spend 4 nights at the conference hotel, not interested the casino and tourist chaos. When heading to Utah from Arizona, after the south entrance of the Grand Canyon, you'll likely go that route. Unless you go east towards Page AZ and Monument Valley (only two routes around the GC). A great way to detour the busy interstates of Vegas is to exit and visit Hoover Dam, then stay on the backroads through Boulder City NV, enter Lake Meade Rec Area (free with your Senior Pass) and exit out Northshore Rd towards St. George. Bypass 100 miles of Interstates on scenic 45-65 MPH roads all the way without city traffic! It's a great route and Valley of Fire SP Nevada is a worthwhile visit and campsite, on your left as soon as you exit Lake Meade. 😂

Maybe you should store your Oliver somewhere west in between your two grand trips, like say SLC and fly home (I would and have done that before with other rigs). This would save you 4800 miles and $$$$ in fuel costs, time and maintenance concerns. This makes it one roundtrip from Florida instead of two in 6 months. And your Ollie could sit in cool covered storage vs. a hot Florida summer. 😂

I wanted a breaker at the batteries so I could have the dual-purpose of an ON/OFF switch but believe I will source a Class T fuse instead. It is the safest for our new expensive HW. I'll go back to disconnecting ground when I need the batteries disconnected, like I have all my life! (only when servicing) We don't store ours and I'm working to minimize connections/buses on my design. I found a Blue Seas holder. Not seeing a waterproof model though, which is hard to understand from Blue Seas, and I want mine right on top of the batteries. They all have a plastic snap-fit case with open ends for the cables. They sell Class-T fuses made in Mexico. I found this company South Bend Components. You should be able to buy any Class T fuse though before your pic, I have not seen a 500A fuse. Amazon.com: South Bend Components 300A Class T Fast Blow Fuse (2-pack) : Automotive OTT installed a 250A Blue Seas ANL fuse in our hull for the 2KW Xantrex inverter. You would need a 500A fuse for the rate 5500W peak power of the MP2 but who would ever hit that number inn normal use. Good to have a backup for sure. I'll buy a 2-pack. The 300A handles 3000W with 20% margin and for the same money they have 350A and a 400A for $5 less. Maybe I should get the 400A since it can hold up to 4800W. Not positive on all the logic here. You should have a backup for the OTT installed 300A Class T fuse as this will blow first and likely the built-in 500A fuses would never, unless the 300A fuse fails closed which it should not at the 20,000 amp AIC rating.

@rideadeuce Hey Mike, what did you use as a fuse or circuit breaker for connecting the positive battery cable to your MP2? I believe a 300A DC fuse is required. I bought a breaker, but it looks like junk and so do all the ones I see online. Thank you.

Often toggle switches terminate the ground and will NOT show 12VDC. I never tested mine, since when it was ON there was no power to the fan even when bypassing the thermal switch. I ran new wires. I used the main switch to connect ground to the new Beech Lane fan circuit. i suggest new wires everywhere. I cut off all the old blue and red 20 AWG wires and replaced with automotive grade 14 AWG wiring. Pics above and I’ll keep an eye here for any questions as you progress with your mod.

Ron, you were the first to bring this model to our attention and thank you for that. @rideadeuce aka Mike, thank you for the excellent detail in this post and recent update. This sure beats what some have done in considerable works to reconfigure a Houghton and others that have replaced a Dometic with another! Maybe OTT should consider this vs. the custom fiberglass work required for the Truma model. It is certainly a lower cost alternative. Mike another way of stating, "efficiency, it is at least 30-40% sometimes 50% better than the Dometic PII 13.5k. 75 vs 150 amps" is the PII requires 2x (200%) greater amperage than the Atmos! Now your microwave takes more amperage than your A/C and given your Victron 3KVA inverter and 920AH Epoch batteries you should be able to run both simultaneously and run the A/C for many hours of the day. Kevin at SDG thought he lost me as a customer because in another post, I commented that one (just one) of his answers was "sales-speak." He was overall great on the phone, and it appears Mike thought so in person, he and his team. With other upgrades, like LiFePO4 and Victron inverter and so much more, our A/C upgrade must wait for more budget money. We don't camp in the summer anyway, though our camping season starts soon enough. We're heading to the Texas Rally in just 10 weeks from today and there is a lot to do 'til then! Kevin, if you're reading, please look forward to hearing from me in the new year. When we're done with winter camping, I should install one of these prior to our annual April-May excursion! WE got stuck running the buzzsaw Dometic two nights on our last spring trip! I got the 100 dB PII running this summer as I work on the Oliver. Good thing I don't have to sleep in there now! @Ronbrink, I'm really looking forward to your post, since you like I will be working a home installation. Thanks again. 😂

Dennis and Melissa, if you can reserve any of the remote campsites at Snow Canyon, they are amazing. We could only get one of the smaller sites in the center where they had 12 sites closely together. It turned out to be great though, since we met so many great people in the neighborhood! Here's the camp map and below is our trip report: Campground Details - Snow Canyon State Park, UT - Utah State Parks (reserveamerica.com)

What @rideadeuce added is new content. Was the springs Mike received, or is hull #308 different from 6 others here that have thousands of road- tested miles? I too would like to know that answer! What I was referring to was some against the product, for weight capacity, ride height or cost, writing such complaints more than once and several others asking what had had been answered in so many previous pages of this post.

BTW, extra ride height is a good thing! Right? This is why many will lift their trucks. Last thing anybody wants is to spend big $$$ for lesser springs. We have shown in detail the Alcan product is superior to OEM. That was the reason @Mountainman198 brought this to our attention months and 19 pages ago… On about page 14, I wrote something about this topic being cooked, well done! Maybe it should be closed (Mods)? Questions answered are being asked again… Yes, it’s a long read, but all here in vast detail. Pretty soon this thread will be longer than “Where’s Ollie?!” I’m going to read some old pages there. 🤣

Yep, that was written but not…

Being an engineer and mathematician, this does not add up! 🤣

https://stateparks.utah.gov/parks/snow-canyon/discover/

We will likely not camp again in VT. Only because with stops it’s 3K miles away. Been to VT a dozen times in the 70s and 80s. My sister lived in Brattleboro for a few years and I’ve skied in almost every VT and NH resort. We don’t care about hookups, sometimes don’t connect even though we paid for them. I trust my water and power more so. One of my favorite roads is Vermont Hwy 9! Take it west to Bennington, what a great road. And keep driving west staying off Interstates as long as you can!

That would be quite a pain! Mine is like yours. I leave my hose attached. Not interested in a fancy hose. I cut the round elbow end, that goes into the dump, flat so that it fits behind the bumper. Quick and easy at the dump station. When we get home from a trip, I rinse with the garden hose and put it back in place.

Don't leave home without it! 🤣 Our first night out is never at a campsite and we like to boondock half the time. Fresh tank always full and our aux 35-gal tank in the truck bed is always full!

And what we do not know yet is if @R-Villa has changed between these input sources. Is the correct source selected? In choosing an alternate source does the TV work?

We have 10" mattresses from Brooklyn Bedding: Dreamfoam Essential - RV (rvmattress.com) Ours are very comfortable and heavy too. Soon, we will cut a radius in one corner, so they will fit better, not being jammed in one corner. Because they are tall mattresses, the standard twin fitted sheet works well due to the extra height. Chris is very much about a neat made bed. She uses Bed Sheet Straps the mattress protector and fitted sheets, something like these: Amazon.com: Gorilla Grip Bed Sheet Straps, Adjustable Elastic Fasteners with Metal Clips, Keep in Place Fitted Bedding Holder, Easy Install Suspenders Mattresses, Firm Tight Accessories, 4 Pack White : Home & Kitchen

This is the basic symptom of a plumbing leak. The leak causes a loss of pressure in the lines. Pressure drops below the set pressure and the pump kicks in to recover, just like when water is being used. The "weird water problem" cited above was the opposite issue, where the pump would not turn on with loss of line pressure.