[Art]

For all of us that have owned fiberglass coaches you know what flex is, alot of windshield problems cracks pop outs slide problems, one of my old RV customers had a new Winnebago Tour with full wall slide and he wanted me to adjust the slide because it was rubbing on the short wallbehinddrivers seat and it had a big scrape in glass from rubbing, I had him lower jacks and where it was hitting the gap was almost a inch wide, It moved that much, Jack instructions said put jacks down before slides are opened, so I told him leave it on it’s feet and bring slides out,then level coach problem was gone. Prevosti’m sure flex a little but not enough to even see problems even with slides I bet you can’t see gap problems. My Foretravel the door was sticky when it was twisted even a little.

[Jon]

just think what flex would do to the riveted or glued on skin of our bus

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

The link above provided by Clint is the one I referred to.

The Prevost reports show considerable structural integrity. A chassis that flexes tends to have poor handling. Not all cases is flex bad however. A plane wing is designed to flex so structural integrity is based on function and need.

[DON]

Don, how long does your bus sit between runs, and how do you drain your batteries down to 50% SOC?

[Art]

These days our long trips occur in the spring and fall.

I take it for 40ish mile exercise runs once every month between trips.

When we get home from a trip the house batts aren’t at 100% since the house alternator operates at about 13.6v. So I just leave the 12v house master switch on for as long as it takes to lower the voltage to around 13.1 volts which is about 50%.

[Billy]

Got it, running it once a month is hardly in storage though is it? I think they recommend if you let the batteries sit for a year or 2 they should sit at 50%. I would say sitting at 50% for that short time is not as important as keeping them overcharged while on a trip.

[George]

I received some parts today, 1: 60amp DC to DC charger and 2: inline fuses 90amp for input side and 75amp for output side both are (optional) to and from DC to DC charger I bought 1: 2 ft 2/0 cable with 1: red stud type junction block and 10 foot each Black and Red 4awg cables to and from Charger. $210 bucks and my labor. I will do a by pass from house battery switch to generator battery

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

this lithium change has some strange events