Al F

Also in the same thread I mentioned above: https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-100Pcs-Nitrile-Sealing-Grommets/dp/B01MTNZLGL a couple people wrote that they did {edit) NOT put o-rings back on when they just replaced the battery. They put a dab of silicone plumbers grease on the threads and that worked fine. I meant to write that some people did NOT put o-rings back on.

Thanks for the quick response and excellent info. I also finally found a thread in this forum where others discussed this topic: There is a link in the above thread for pretty much the same o-rings. https://www.amazon.com/uxcell-100Pcs-Nitrile-Sealing-Grommets/dp/B01MTNZLGL

Does anyone have a source for the o-rings needed when you replace the battery in the TST 507 Cap-Style sensors? I need to replace the batteries in my TST 507 Cap-Style TPMS sensors, but I need a source for the o-rings. When I unscrew the cap to access the battery the o-ring tears apart. I have looked on Vulcantire.com where I bought the sensors, but they want an arm and a leg for the o-rings and batteries as a package. $24 for a set of 10. The o-rings should be just nominal cost and the batteries are not expensive at the store or Amazon. I did try to do a search on this forum, but don't get any hits for "TPMS AND ring" or "TPMS AND rings"

How do these units hold up to the dust, dirt, mud and water you get on them when you travel down a dirt or gravel road?

In addition there is no limit to the number of pairs of 6V batteries, that are wired in series, so each pair makes up a 12V battery, that can be wired in parallel. There is a practical limit in dealing with the wire size or bus bars to carry the huge numbers of amps a large number of batteries can supply to the inverter or the amount of amps coming from the charger to get all those batteries charged. It is one thing to build a battery bank that can, for example, run two air conditioners in an RV for 10-12 hours. It very much a different situation when you try to have enough solar panels or other charging source to put all those amps back into the batteries.

Here is a link to an excellent article about Escapees mail service: https://www.escapees.com/a-look-inside-escapees-mail-forwarding-service-for-rvers/

Thanks, that was what I was looking for.

1) Is the Truma gas operated? 2) If it is gas operated, does the heater go through a cool down cycle when the water flow stops? Then will it immediately relight when the water flow starts even during a cool down cycle? I ask question #2 because, when we wash dishes we will run the hot water until warm water starts to flow out the faucet and then generally let the water run for several seconds and then off for 5-10 seconds and then back on, and so forth. The Giarad we had would turn off the flame once the water stopped flowing (as I would expect) and then go through a 20-30 second cool down cycle and would not relight until after the cool down cycle is over. Then when we ran the water again for several seconds and turn the water off again, the heater would only be heating for the few seconds and then off again. Bottom line was we mostly had cool to cold water because the heater stay off for so long. Have either of you used your hot water in this manner to know if this is a issue with the Truma?

Welcome to the wonderful world of tankless water heaters! Maybe just the Girard. Ideas & thoughts. Pull the piece of junk out and put in the old fashioned water heater with a tank water heater. Our experience was that you MUST have enough water flow to keep the water heater, heating. If not the flame turns off and it goes into a cool down cycle for some 20-30 seconds. If during that time you turn the water on all you get is cold water until the cool down cycle ends. Since, for a variety of reasons, when we are in our RV a most of the time we are not connected to sewer. When we do dishes or shower we limit the amount we turn the faucets on. Because of this the Girard we had would not stay on heating the water. I replaced it with a tank water heater.

For those that have replied in this thread about EV vehicles, both positive and negative, here are two videos giving some perspective on the drivability and charging of the Mustang Mach-E car. I found the videos very informative and interesting. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IMPpumtCbZQ Mustang Mach-E - Denver Road Trip (and Charging Problems) - YouTube

Thanks, I'll take a look.

Is there any info available about: -- What affect does running the air conditioner in 95-100 degree weather have on the distance you can drive on a full charge? -- What affect does running the heater in 0-15 degree weather have on the distance you can drive on a full charge? -- What affect does leaving the car outside in the sun in 95-100 degree afternoons have on the battery? Any affect on distance you can drive on a charge? -- What affect does leaving the car outside and charging in 0-10 degree temps have on the battery? Any affect on distance you can drive on a charge?

What insurance company do you use? Is there something in your insurance policy that would keep you from seeing a doctor in Bexar County, or requires you to only see a Dr in Livingston.

We are not as dedicated as Nwcid, but we very, very seldom stay at an RV Park. Going cross country we utilize Walmarts, rest areas, open parking areas that allow o/n parking. For more than just an o/n stop we seek out National Forests, State Parks, City Parks, BLM land, pretty much anywhere that we can find where are not jammed in like sardines side by side with other RVs. Most of these places are listed on DaysEnd, Campendium, Freecampsites, etc.

Thank you.

I have a Trav'ler I bought in 2011, how do I check to see if I have a Dish Pro Plus LNBF? I was looking at the links above and saw the LNB requirement. We have always used a VIP-722 DVR.

There are a few free RV spots around with at least elect. Might be only 20amp or 30amp. Mostly in small towns. Not being willing to learn how to park overnight w/o hookups does limit the places you can stop for a quick overnight stay if RV Parks are full. Everyone has their preferred way of traveling in an RV.

Not sure what a "water treatment panel" is. Good starting places for prices of used RV's is NADA.com and go to some of the online forsale websites like https://www.rvtrader.com/ to see what some people are ASKING for their RV's.

I agree totally. If it ever becomes important enough, politicians (and the public) will use eminent domain to take over land in the west for a repository. They do it all the time in cities to build things enough people feel is important. Don't get me wrong, I am not dismissing the importance of being able to visit certain places in the west, we love the wide open spaces much more than the forest. If we can boot a few hundred people out of a city location we can do the same in 50-100 square miles (maybe much more) in the desert. While I don't know the details, I believe France recycles their spent fuel so is there a reason we can't do that here?

So what if EV trucks that can tow our trailers and power our motorhomes are 50 years away. I believe that since the demand will be there for 3/4 and 1 ton trucks and engines for motorhomes they will still keep building them. It is not, just the small number of RV'ing folks who want the trucks, there are lots of construction companies and farmers that need them. Over the road 18 wheelers need the engines to go cross country. Local deliveries probably will work fine with EV's. Maybe the large warehouse buildings they deliver to will be installing charging ports so the tractors can be charged while the trailers are unloaded. While it has not been broadcast about GM going to EV's by 2035, I have seen mention that GM is not going to stop building large gas and diesel trucks for those who need them. The news and hype that GM is going to EV's overrides the detail that if GM can make money by still building gas/diesel trucks they will build them. Besides if GM doesn't then Ford or Dodge will. Or they will sell the gas/diesel business off and some other named company will still build them. None of this is happening in just one year. It will evolve over quite a few years.

Very good points by Drangodon & Docj. I believe when the EV's are built, at a price that is around the same as todays autos AND the cost of operation, including the installation of charging port, is less than the cost of the operation of todays autos, we are going to see a lot more EV's on the road. I think charging ports will be like gas stations, when there is a demand the charging ports will arrive. When and how the power plants will be built, that probably will be a major limiting factor. There are periodic reports of a number of new energy sources that could become practical in 25-50 years, but that is a looooong way out. If this country and the world would get over their fear of nuclear power there are small nuclear power plants that can service something like 10,000-20,000 houses. As I understand it these are at the point the first ones could be installed in a year or two (not counting regulations). Install them now, in more remote locations have them proven reliable and safe then they could be installed near population centers. This would eliminate the need for the long distance power transmission lines. This could happen in the next 10 years, just when the EV's may really start to explode in number. I think it is good to mention that the world has been operating small nuclear power plants for some 60 years in naval ships and submarines, with minimal problems. Probably fewer problems and accidents than fossil fuel engines when you include the accidents and problems with transporting the fuel for those engines.

Many times the naysayers lack just as much common sense as the EV cheerleaders. Most of the time both sides are as strident as the other. Everyone just trying to make a point and saying "I am right and you are wrong!" Neither side seems to believe there is a middle ground. This business of the EV will only go X number of miles, so it is a fact that it is difficult to travel cross country in an EV. While that is very true, if that is what you need a vehicle for then an EV is not for you. But that doesn't mean EV's are not practical for millions of people who only drive 10 to 200 miles in a day. Millions of families have 2 vehicles. No reason why one of them can't be an EV for the short trips and a larger fossil fuel vehicle for the long trips. Also this country and the world needs to wake up and realize we are going to need to increase our electric generation many times over what it is right now. Just like most things. -- There is so much money time and people invested in fossil fuels that it makes it easy to pay lobbyists and influencers to emphasize all the reasons why alternate energy and EV's won't work. Also just like some are saying in this thread "It will destroy our economy". -- On the other side alternate energy & EV cheerleaders, very much the same. Money, fame and fortune is to be made by promoting doomsday forecasts if we don't change today. If people would put there time, money and energy into finding middle ground solutions instead of screaming "I am right and you are wrong." we would be so much better off.

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Bruce t, thank you for stating your position in a well written statement. I don't know why you would think just because people are in favor of continuing to build renewables and other energy sources, that don't pump CO2 into the atmosphere, that they are against taking on China and/or thinking China is not the biggest threat this world facing. Perhaps far more dangerous than climate change. It is fantastic to see that the USA is in international talks with like the Quad Group. We need more talks and cooperation from the European community as well to combat China. It is great that we, again, are starting to talk about international cooperation, instead of screw the world, we will go-it-alone. That is why we should never have pull out of the treaty with the Far East block of nations (I'm sorry don't remember the proper name for the treaty) in 2017 or 2018 to go into a go-it-alone policy. As I understand it China was not part of that group. Since we pulled out of that treaty, China has greatly increased their influence in that area. You also don't fight a nation like China by a go-it-alone policy. It takes international cooperation to stand up to a big bully. This is a bit of an aside: -- I don't find much difference in the Far Right Conservatives and the Far Left Liberals. All either one wants to do is state that their way is the only way and everyone else is flat out wrong. There are ideas and solutions from both sides that are very useful and could be implemented is some fashion. -- This business of just because one party is in control all the other party can and will say is NO, NO, NO you are wrong. -- I have a huge gripe about folks who, in discussions like these, throw out one or two line statements and follow up with I am not going to give links or provide details on what they believe about the statement or back it up with details about what in the statement they feel is good or bad -- or correct or incorrect -- or why something is happening. An example is "Japan building coal fired energy plants" that came up earlier in this thread. Absolutely, Japan building coal fired plants is bad for the world, but there are reasons why they are doing this. I don't really agree with their reasons, but there are reasons. Those reasons were detailed in the link provided by Nammedevac.

Because we like to travel. Oh, and we, just the two of us, live in an 1800 sqft house heated with gas and run the air conditioner when needed. We are horrible folks. I am waiting to hear the reasons why others on this discussion feel why it is a good thing to NOT do anything to add renewables or or other clean energy and to put more CO2 into the atmosphere. But on the other hand we leave Texas in the summer so our AC doesn't run and in the winter we sometimes leave the house for a couple of months for the desert SW so we don't use gas to heat the house. 🙂 Oh, well, I guess that pollutes the planet more than if we stayed home. We are bad people again. 😬