Doug S

Hi, The SOC is calculated, but the voltage should be measured. At no load there shouldn't be any measurable difference between the batteries that are all wired in parallel. I think something is likely wrong with the electronics in the battery with the 12.9 V. The other 2 are pretty close together (.02V). That's quite a bit different than .7 volts. Odd too that this is the battery with much lower charge. Just a guess, but .7V is close to one diode drop, which could mean that this battery has a blown protection diode in it and is therefore the primary soldier and the others are along for the ride until he is discharged.....

NIce photo!

Welcome from #1491 - probably made the same week - in the nursery together! We are in Wyoming an Colorado. I hear the Black Hills are great - Doug

Just a quick comment on this proceeded by "it would need to be measured.", and I believe it's likely that a white Oliver would be cooler than one that was painted or had a darker color...but... The term used to describe the absorbtion or radiation of energy is emissivity. The highest (perfect) absorber or radiator has an emissivity of 1.000.. A perfect reflector has an emissivity of 0.... Close to 40% of the sun's radiated energy is in the visible area of the spectrum, but nearly 50% of the energy is in the infrared. So, while the white is reflective to our eyes, most plastics and normal paints are very dark in the infrared. You'd like a lower emissivity number to both keep heating from the sun to be low and to lose less heat at night. The ideal direction would be something like highly polished aluminum (but not anodized). Shiny white and clean fiberglass is much easier to maintain, and probably much lower cost. And white of the same material would likely have a lower emissivity compared to a color - particularly a darker one.

both Hi all, Interesting discussion that comes right at the tail of my yesterday mod. Frankly I didn't even know that there were courtesy and porch lights on the street side - but I'm just a newbie here. What I did know was that the porch and courtesy lights were really a problem for both me and Jill because of brightness. So - I decided to put dimmers on them. They work great! And I did just go check and I DO have street side as well and they both dim full range. I have to say that the wiring I came up against in the Ollie is what I would expect to see in a 60's piece of equipment. It also explains why I have had intermittent main cabin lights. (I have hull #1491). Someone in the factory must have pulled out the spade lugs from the switches several times and the retention weakened. I also found only one wire for both sides. I think I will do the Lamin-x on the street side. With the lower intensity and amber light it shouldn't bother anyone and could help if I want to walk around Carlotta.

Hmmm - mine didn't - Hull #1491.

Ours was one of the tight ones! Good site though. So far it is always easier to drive out than back in!

We share some of the same surprises of perception

It was a huge sand deposit from the glaciation process in the surrounding mountains. Winds eventually pushed a fraction of the sand into the mountains you see behind. They are always changing on a small scale, but one photo taken in the 1850s (?) looks nearly identical to today.

Here is a photo:

It is really beautiful- the ranger said that it’s the nicest day of the year. The water is starting to run. A small patch right off the campground just appeared. We went into Alamosa a little after going out into the dunes and the truck thermometer said 61F at 1:30. The air is fresh and clear. All of the surrounding mountains have a respectable amount of snow. Clouds in the southwest style started appearing around noon.

Haven’t been to the dunes yet. Am up in Pinion camp. Maybe 40% full. Completely blue skies, 35 degrees now, 25 last night. Just learned that it is a dog friendly park - I think everywhere.

Jill took this as we arrived - Great Sand Dunes - sorry for the length - sort of IMG_2936.mov

Made it to Stillwell Store at Big Bend. Headed into the Park on 385 and an Ollie going the other way at around 10:45. Hello out there!

Spent the last two nights in South Llano River State Park. Found an Oliver there! I think Denise and Dennis. At about 3:00 in the afternoon 3 buses showed up with 104 middle schoolers! Yes, they spent the night- right next to us. Climbing trees, hollering, meeting our puppies. So many spoke French! Turns out they were from an International school in H town (Houston). Very fun and gone at 6:00 am.

No, but I’m really interested.

Sounds great, but we realized that we could run out of time. Started south to Orange Beach, then a night in Crosby Texas, tonight and tomorrow night we are in South Llano River State park. Need to be in Ft Collin’s CO on the 4th. I backed into the site in good fashion for the first time!

Headed further south! Now in High Falls GA. A lot warmer here, and the traffic in/out of Atlanta was horrible! Headed down to Mobile tomorrow.

Did our first night at #1 25F!!! Nice and warm inside.

Need to find a way to connect!

Hi Toni! We picked up Carlotta today! Spending our first night at campsite #1! First Gin and Tonic - which works as planned. Head to Asheville tomorrow via Uncle Nearest Distillery. Both puppies love their new twin beds.

Great advice!

Thanks Bill! Downhill can be thrilling!

Leaving Jackson Hole to pick up hull 1491 “Carlotta” on Monday the 18th. Furthest east we’ve ever driven! Never had a truck - never had a trailer (actually had a Coleman pop-up many years ago, but was too busy to use it). Doug & Jill

I m guessing that this used to be a reasonable recommendation before there were regulated loads and we still had incandescent lights. If the internal voltage was raised into what were closer to resistive loads, both the current and the power would go up. Not the usual case anymore, where we have mostly constant power loads.