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I washed my camper yesterday. Wished I had done this when it was cooler. Anyway my panels will shock me if I touch them. Now they were wet. Is this normal? If I put a ground wire on will it stop it? 

home depot has a Media mini split window unit. $500.00. pulls 12 amps max. 

Be aware daycabs are short haul tractors. 500k miles is probably life of one

I have 2 all in one units. So two different mppt controllers feeding same battery pk. Works fine. Also both units have dual mppt controllers so I could have 4 feeding same pk if more solar added.

My 2003 residential unit ran fine with our 1100 watt Victron. Our new one pulls less. 

Only thing on mine is refrigerator and it doesn't task it at all. Now mine is residential. Gas units pull right much power.. 

I put a victron phoenix 1100 watt in mine. Runs a 22 cubic ft residential. Dead quiet and very little idle draw. I did this for traveling so I don't have to run the large system. I just it running all the time.

On 6/29/2023 at 10:29 AM, justRich said:

Last month while in Gig Harbor, WA I saw the new Costco cell phone kiosk was open.
They were selling AT&T service plans.  They're best plan for me with 50 GB hotspot data was $56. per month - with a veterans discount.
I wasn't carrying my DD214 (a military service discharge form) or I probably would have signed up.

This month, in Cave Creek, AZ I visited the new Costco cell phone kiosk which is selling Verizon service plans!
"Okay, so what's the deal?" I asked the Verizon service rep manning the kiosk.
According to him, Costco is no longer using a "middle-man" service and the kiosk people are employees of the cell carrier, not independent contractors.
Apparently, different area Costco's are using whichever service provider that Costco deems appropriate to that area.

I explained my contact with the Costco AT&T people in Washington and my T-Mobile and Visible plans, etc.
Verizon has a competitive plan for nearly the same price as AT&T (also with a DD214 veterans discount) for me.

At the moment I am undecided.  The Verizon guy said that Visible doesn't have the same priority as Verizon when it comes to service speed.
And that Verizon regulates bandwidth priority to government, commercial and retail users.  I don't know what or how that affects me but I will be revisiting the Costco Verizon booth again soon.  I need more information.

 

Wife has Verizon and I have Visible. Mine is faster than hers. 

I have never read anything about this. DW brought this up yesterday when I decided to wash it. I said what about a thunderstorm? Well it is cloudy them. So I'm asking 

When I wash roof panels will get wet. Is their any chance of them cracking from being hot and water hitting them?

I am 66. 

Inspections in Texas may be out of here soon.

I watched a YouTube of a roof where membrane pulled up and made a bubble at front edge. He fixed it himself but there was zero glue where it bubbled up. 

1 minute ago, Danfreda1 said:

Triple digest outside means it’s time to move

We done with traveling. Only other move will be to our property. 

I read some complaints about mini splits and humidity issues. Now that we are in triple digits it is now cold at 75 degrees. And surprisingly it is colder in living room area that bedroom. I have 12k unit in both. So even mini splits can be oversized. Our bedroom would be colder with a 9k from these observations. We are actually wrapped up in here at 75 degrees. It is very dry also. 

That back section would be an easy fix. Remove rear trim at roof edge, roll back and reglue. I would at least make them fix that. It will give you trouble.

Actually I forget my Teton is behind me. And it is 21k. But I do have a nice air ride hitch also.

36 minutes ago, Randyretired said:

Another thing you might look at is to see if the load on L1 and L2 is reasonably balanced.  If most of the 120v appliances are on just one side that can cause the 50amp park breaker to trip.  As John noted the load on L1 or L2 should not exceed 80% or 40amps.

Mine are fairly balanced. My dishwasher will throw it off but just change legs will be the same just on different leg. We rarely pull more than 30 amps. Think it was the inverters called for more charging power than was available.

My units pull from solar and batteries for coach power. If solar enough no battery used. Only use utility in bypass mode. Set to go in bypass at 51v. I have seen 80 amps going into batteries with utility power. Seen 55 amps with mini splits running with solar. Think we were just using much more due to the triple digits heat and overloaded the park when it switched over. With full sun we are pulling 4000 watts from our panels. I changed my charging to 30 amps for each inverter. Will see if that corrects this. 

I have 2 6500 watt 48v inverters. I set charging at 50 amps on each. This has been working fine. Yesterday was hot triple digits. Acs pulling more than normal. Keeping us very pleasant though. DW washing clothes. Our batteries never got full charged yesterday since we were using solar for power and little to none left over for charging. About 10:00 pm everything shut down. Dishwasher running, dryer running and both acs. Batteries got low enough that inverters shut down. Found 50 amp main at park thrown. We did notice a small lasp of power earlier and shruded it off. Think that when it switched over to utility power and breaker tripped. Do you think I need to back off the charger setting? 

I don't even know what it is for

I wasn't getting any decent mileage out of the original tires. At 25k rear wore out. Replaced with same. 50k now and worn out again. So asked about better mileage tire that would work on car. So installed a 195/50. stock was 185/60 r15. Tires are 1.06 diameter smaller. My speedometer is now 10 mph off. 

First three is motorhomes. 

I have a heated hose and it is blue. 

Our Teton came with a residential fridge from factory. We had a gas/electric unit in our DRV and hated it. Always something wrong with it and never cooled well in the summer. We love the residential unit in our Teton. It recently failed and our unit is a 2003. I replaced with another residential unit. Mine also runs on an inverter so it is always on as long as I have battery. And solar charging battery also