Design decisions?

[Steph and Dud B]

2 OTT design decisions strike me as odd:

Why aren't there separate switches for left/right flood and outside courtesy lights? Sometimes I want to light my patio area without blinding my neighbors on the street side.

Why isn't there an indoor switch for the 120v water heater element? Sometimes the campground voltage goes low and I want to switch to gas hot water instead.

Both of these are pretty common in other brands, so I wonder why OTT opted against them.

[topgun2]

30 minutes ago, Steph and Dud B said:

Why aren't there separate switches for left/right flood and outside courtesy lights? Sometimes I want to light my patio area without blinding my neighbors on the street side.

Interesting - on my 2016 I have separate switches for the curbside and street side for the "patio/flood" lights.  However, I have only one switch for the "puddle/courtesy " lights.

32 minutes ago, Steph and Dud B said:

Why isn't there an indoor switch for the 120v water heater element?

I have heard of a couple of owners moving this switch to an inside location.  It shouldn't really be all that difficult.  However, I'm not sure why Oliver has never done this.

Bill

[Chukarhunter]

37 minutes ago, Steph and Dud B said:

Sometimes I want to light my patio area without blinding my neighbors on the street side.

For the first year of ownership, we never used the patio lights at all because we didn't want to blind ourselves on the curbside, much less the neighbors on the streetside.  Like other Oliver owners have, we ended up adding amber film over all the patio lights and the light is now warm and subdued.  I agree that Oliver should provide separate switches for street and curbside lights, but we found that adding the amber film to the lights is an easy, low cost way to mitigate those annoyingly bright lights for everyone affected.

[Mike and Carol]

1 hour ago, Steph and Dud B said:

Why aren't there separate switches for left/right flood and outside courtesy lights? Sometimes I want to light my patio area without blinding my neighbors on the street side.

Why isn't there an indoor switch for the 120v water heater element? Sometimes the campground voltage goes low and I want to switch to gas hot water instead.

Like BIll, we have separate switches for our outside porch lights.  Not sure why that was discontinued.  It would be nice to have an inside switch to control the electric element for the hot water heater, but you can turn on the propane without turning off the electric element.  Mike