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57becky

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  1. If there is not a check valve in the cold water entrance port of the water heater, the accumulator tank will keep internal water heater tank pressure from exceeding the setting of the T&P valve. PEX tubing, whether it is white, blue, or red is all the same and is rated well above the 140 degrees of most water heaters in these RV's. The color is just there to aid in the installation and future maintenance so it is easy to identify which is hot or cold. This is the specs for PEX from the Lowe's site, and this applies to all colors of PEX: Minimum working temperature 33 degrees F at 160 PSI Maximum working temperature 200 degrees F at 80 PSI
  2. The reason the T&P valve leaks while the water heater is heating water is water expands when heated. The reason the water escapes the T&P valve is because you have a closed water system on the RV, and regardless if you are connected to external water with a hose or just working with fresh water in your onboard tank, the water expands and has nowhere to go except out the T&P valve, which is what you want so your plumbing doesn't explode. The air pocket at the top of the water heater tank will allow for the expansion and should stop the water from seeping out the valve. There is another option, and that is to install an accumulator tank, such as one of these https://www.amazon.com/SHURFLO-182-200-Pre-Pressurized-Accumulator-Tank/dp/B000N9VF6Q/ref=sr_1_3?dchild=1&keywords=rv+water+accumulator+tank&qid=1619397854&sr=8-3 This would be installed in the cold water side of your water system, and then when the water heater is heating, this tank will absorb the expansion, so you wouldn't need to worry about the air pocket in the water heater tank. Your water heater and the T&P valve are working exactly as they are designed and you will not be able to keep replacing water heaters to find one that doesn't relieve water pressure like they are supposed to.
  3. We have a Netgear 815S Mobile Hotspot and use the 6000450 MIMO antenna with it. It seems to have improved the reception for the hotspot, and I don't think there is anything better.
  4. If you remove the filter panel on the ceiling, you will see a metal box. If you are lucky, you will be able to remove a screw that holds the cover on and then can see the circuit board inside. We had the Zone 2 box fail years ago due to corrosion on the board and the phone wire connection. I ended up buying a new box and replaced it. That was seven years ago and have had no issues since.
  5. The most practical thing, being off the road and the rain comes, would be just cab up, and when the rain stops, get the chairs out and wait till it dries up. Why risk tearing up the rig and who knows what else just to move the RV. I've had experience getting large trucks and equipment pulled out of mud and other places, once with the biggest caterpillar I've ever seen, and the trench that was created by the truck being dragged out was huge. Another time, the cable broke and drug a load of rocks toward the truck we were pulling out. Blew out the radiator, windshield, alternator along with body damage. Fortunately, the guy behind the wheel was able to dive for the floor before the rocks hit the truck. If the ground was hard enough to drive in, it will be hard enough to drive out once it dries up.
  6. We've had a Netgear 815S hotspot for AT&T and have had an unlimited plan for quite a few years now, and we have great service and can stream movies with no interruptions. We will probably upgrade the hotspot in the near future, and I'm sure there are other hotspot options including providers that work just as well. Considered and then decided against installing a more permanent device as technologies are quickly evolving making many of these things nothing more than boat anchors.
  7. I got logged on to the site at 9:00 am Tuesday here in AZ, and was finally able to snag an appointment for Feb 4 at the Cardinals Stadium. DW will be going with me, and even though she is just too young for the 65-75 group, she will probably be able to get her shot too. By evening on the news, they were already reporting that the earliest appointment times were the 19th and later in February, so we got real lucky.
  8. Run whatever size cable to a box where you will plug your rig into. At that box, terminate the cable into lugs that have two terminations so you can run the small cable from the termination to the breaker in your panel. Your larger cable will handle the voltage so you don't have the high voltage loss, and for the very short distance to the panel lugs, there will not be any voltage drop. I am a retired lineman, and worked with UG cable for over 35 years and aluminum is all we used, and you just need a compound to wire brush the bare aluminum with prior to inserting into the lugs to cut the oxide layer and prevent any future oxide layer from developing. Your cable should have a fairly hard insulation surface so it can be pulled through the conduit, as soft insulation, such as on welding cable, will have a lot of friction inside the conduit which will make it hard to pull. Also, use wide sweeping elbows when you make a 90 degree bend.
  9. If you go with something like this, you will be good. Rarely will you see full 50 amps for each leg so your voltage drop will not be that much. You can get by with 2" conduit, but maybe a little larger would make pulling in the cable easier along with some cable lube. I would recommend terminating the cable in a splice box at each end above ground so you won't have to worry about water getting to the splices or connector lugs. https://ewcswire.com/1-0-1-0-1-0-2-awg-aluminum-ud-quadraplex-600-volts-code-notre-dame/
  10. Maybe go to this link and enter all the info. https://forestriverpartsdirect.com/
  11. We have a heavy duty Watts regulator that keeps the pressure below 50psi, so for us it's not an issue. Also, with those kind of pressures, I wouldn't trust a cheap regulator. I connect with the regulator everywhere we hook up, regardless of what the normal pressure is in a park.
  12. The last park that we stayed at that had high pressure, they told you to not connect to their system without a good pressure regulator was Park Sierra south of Coarsegold, CA and the lower you are in the park, the higher the pressure because their water system water tanks are on a hill above the park. The pressure can exceed 100 psi. If you are somewhere that has high water pressure and you don't have a reliable regulator, I would recommend filling your fresh water tank and use your water pump while at the park.
  13. We were evacuated from the North Fork, CA area due to the Creek Fire on the 5th, moved the fifth wheel to the FIL's property near Coarsegold. Haven't seen the sun in a week due to the smoke, except as an orange ball. Heading out Friday, going east, and hopefully get far enough to get out of the smoke. I would not recommend anyone to come to California or even Oregon or Washington until these fires are out. The smoke is very bad, and getting worse.
  14. If you are planning to start boondocking, you might as well plan on at least two batteries and maybe even four. You might also consider 6 volt golf cart type batteries.
  15. In addition to the video, go to this link https://www.arprv.com/dometic-ez-install.php and select the model fridge you have for detailed installation. When I installed our ARP device, a fuse was recommended, which I used, and for the slight cost, I can't understand why one wouldn't install the protection. There is the boiler temperature sensor that is wired, plus another thing connected to the tubing which is a ring connector that is just clamped to the tubing. I also have the ARP device that controls additional fans because our fridge is in a slide and needs additional air flow. If you really get stuck, there is a contact page you can submit a question, and Paul will either respond that way or call you direct. https://www.arprv.com/contact-us.php
  16. Have you checked that the 12 volt grounding is good? Possibly you have a loose ground and that is why the batteries are not able to receive a charge.
  17. Why not just replace the backing plate assemblies with self adjusting assemblies? Then you will have new shoes and magnets and they will adjust themselves and you won't have to worry about adjusting while on long trips.
  18. You might be better off using a liquid or powder type treatment rather than one of the packs that look like a detergent pod. Unless there is sufficient agitation, the pack or pod may not break down to mix with any liquids in the tank. There are some of those enzyme treatments that say they work for long extended times compared to those treatments that are not much more than perfume, so for long storage times, maybe those enzymes would be a better choice.
  19. Just to make sure you understand, all pressures are COLD inflation pressures. Do not concern yourself with the pressures as the tires warm up and definitely DO NOT bleed air from the tires when they are warm to keep them below the 80 psi or 65 psi numbers. Put the pressure that your tow vehicle manufacturer says to inflate those tires for your maximum load capacity, and that may be something like 60 in the front and 70 in the rear, but do what the manual for the truck says. On the trailer, the ST trailer tires can run at the max pressure on the sidewalls, and you say that is 65 psi. If you inflate your tires to these numbers, you will have a good start. Just do not under inflate the tires, because that will cause the tires to run hotter, and heat is bad for tires, whether they are on the truck or trailer.
  20. We travel Hwy 93 several times a year towing our fifth wheel. It is good road, and yes there are some long grades to negotiate, but just take your time. Do not be intimidated by traffic following you, just pull off only when safe. Even if you were going 80 MPH, there would still be people wanting to go faster. Make sure you understand the signs when going around the traffic circles in Wickenburg, as they can be confusing if you are not familiar with which road you need to take, as hwy 93 ends and you will be on Hwy 60 east, even though you will think you are going south.
  21. We had just purchased our current rig and were in a trashy RV park for a very short time until our house sold, and a worker lady for the census came knocking. Since we still had our house, we were counted there, but she asked about our RV neighbors, who we didn't know any of, and she went on her way, and this was in late 2012, so they spend a lot of time after the official census year trying to count all that might have been missed.
  22. Most manufacturers do not supply the batteries. These are installed by the dealers, and there should be no reason, for an extra charge, that they couldn't install as many batteries and whatever type you want.
  23. If you change your mind and just have a new or rebuilt cooling unit installed, be sure to install the ARP device. After we had two cooling unit failures less than six months apart over four years ago, I installed an ARP at the second replacement. That unit is still working, even better than when the fridge was new when we bought the rig. We fulltime, so the fridge is never turned off.
  24. We've been registering our vehicles through Americas Mailbox since we went full time and established our domicile in SD. They send us an email verifying what vehicles we have, and after I email back what we have, they email the amount of a check to be made out to Pennington County Treasurer, and they request it as cashiers check, which costs us nothing extra at Wells Fargo. Have never had a problem doing this.
  25. We've had a Magellan Roadmate RV9145T since 2013, and it has lifetime map updates, and just like many of these, they are only as good as the databases for roads. Sometimes it takes several years to get new or relocated roads into a new database for these things. Also, any phone based mapping program is not a GPS (these use a real satellite), lose your phone service and you also lose the directions. We upgraded to this unit when our non RV GPS led us to a narrow winding road through a little town in Oregon, because it didn't know we were pulling a large 5er. We have had a number of times when this GPS routed us to a different road than where we would have thought we should go, only to find there was a low bridge or underpass where we thought we should go, and the GPS avoided the problem, which is why the RV/truck GPS is so much better for these large RV's.
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