[Alvie]

Wow, it is different. I’m sure it’s in the ‘teething’ phase.

The letters and boxes show up so small.

And the letters show up in light grey, harder to see.

Mark

[Alvie]

I concur with what everyone else says. Our coach is parked outside in the Wisconsin winters, except when we go to Tennesse to visit Jeff, Buddy, and the crew and take an extra month or so to go to Florida. It does sit on the east side of the 24′ deep shop and I pull it ahead so the engine, rear axles, and water bay is somewhat protected.

Don’t leave the water and sewer hooked up. If it freezes, you have a HUGE problem. Refill and dump on warm days. Keep the water full. LOTS and LOTS of stored heat.

I have a heater in the water bay. Its simply a 120volt heat gun on (I think) a dedicated circuit, with a thermostat in the bay tied to an outlet for the heat gun, and Liberty had the visionary forethought to put a twist-plug on the cord and use a twist-plug outlet. I leave the thermostat at about 40 or 45. Do you have a simiilar heat gun set-up? If you don’t, I’m sure Jeff at ETLC could set one up for you.

I leave electric water heater on and have a remote termometer in the water bay. I’ve checked it at 10 degrees OAT, and the bay was 61 degrees.

Based on the advice and counsel of members like Jon and others, I have three 1000/1200 watt cube heaters placed throughout the coach (I wish the outlets were on five separate circuits rather than I think think two or three, but I’m working on that.

I did try to “winterize” the coach the first December we had it. Fortunately we were headed to Jeff’s just after Christmas. We got to ETLC, filled it with water, and I had water all over in the water bay. I didn’t winterize the Mach 5 Headhunter pump completely and busted it wide open. I also didn’t get water out of the line for the ice cube maker and that leaked all over when Jeff’s guys installed a new pump and turned it on. Used only compressed air to wintertize, no RV anti-freeze which was a mistake. Glad we only had the problems we actually had. If I had to leave the coach in sub-freezing weather for more than a few days and I couldn’t be there to monitor it, I would probably winterize it now that I know how to winterize, why to winterize, and what I’m doing.

Doing the above, the coach is fine. If we get really cold (below zero) for days on end, then I’ll fire up the Webasto and re-read what others have done when its really, really cold.

You ask, what do I wish I had?

(1) Infloor heat. The floor over the axles and tramsmission is really, really cold with bare feet or after a shower. So if you upgrade, make sure you consider infloor heat.

(2) Heat probes directly in the fresh water tank. While the water heater and the Liberty installed heat gun work, they are not as effective has having one or two 1000/1200 watt 120v probes in the tank itself immersed in the water. If I replace the water tank I’ll probably put heat probe bungs low in the tank along with a temp probe bung to control the hot probes. Have a digital readout in the coach and maybe in the water bay to monitor temp in the tank and I should be good to go, unless others on the Forum give me reasons why I shouldn’t do that.

I think you’ll do just fine in Angola.

[Alvie]

Actually, Jon, my 50DN found another place to leak. It is on the lower right side through an allen screw. Not sure what it does other than possibly work as a drain plug, but it leaks pretty good. Will get it fixed next week.

[Alvie]

Dan: So you left the same wires for the remotes in and just repurposed them.

Can you send me a picture or two of how you mounted the new remotes in the electrical cabinet?

Thanks!

[Alvie]

I’ve not experienced Cruiseair shut downs while parked, but for sure have had them shut down on the road and at that point without OTR you’re screwed. I think the vintage makes a difference, when I have used the Cruiseairs with my H on hot days to cool down the bedroom before stopping, I have not had a shut down. On previous Cruiseair XL’s they did shut down.

[Alvie]

It took 46 hours to drop voltage, as measured at the batteries, to 12.2 volts. I did have one compartment light on in addition to the other items stated.

[Alvie]

You mentioned “new market lights LED”. I presume those are the high ones. Were you able to find plug and play replacements for the high marker lights?

[Alvie]

Progress update.

Apparently i had some small cracks around the marker lights. This allowed a little moisture to be in each light .

more photos of the progress.

[Alvie]

Ron, When you buy a coach, and when you put out the $$$$$$$ to convert over to LI lets reopen this conversation.

All I know for sure is my 4 8D AGM are adequate for how I have used my coaches and having more battery powe does nothing for me. Further, I am a generator guy so if I am not connected to shore power I am exrecising my generator because it allows me to be an absolute energy hog for about .4 to .5 GPH.

I am not calulating watts, amp hours, or battery capacity because as long as my batteries make it through the night without needing to recharge because my refrigerator is pulling too much power I am good to go. I have zero expectations I am going to run A/Cs or Webasto solely on batteries as long as I have my Kohler 20KW generator.

[Alvie]

I’m a little suprised at the dialog. I thought the TV at ETLC was permantently red Lock-Tited to Fox News … but all I see here is regurgitation of MSNBC vitriol.

Buddy is a rare breed amongst us. Buddy doesn’t need anything but himself to be a good guy in my book. It doesn’t matter what he drives, how long it is, how big his tool box is or isn’t, or whether he has slides or not.

[Alvie]

Jeff and the gang did an excellent job replacing my insulation recently. My insulation was doing as yours and it got into the genset ruined the brushes and it would start but not run.

I encourage you to replace this ASAP or it will be expensive in the long run

[Alvie]

Hi Andy..!!..:)

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[Alvie]

We will be there Monday through Thursday morning. I believe in section L.

You can’t miss our 2018 Black and Red Liberty. I hope you come up and say hi.

Chuck & Lisa

[Alvie]

My relative on the bus said that no one in traffic seemed bothered at all by a bus stopped in the middle of the road. She said the kids thought it was a hoot!

Davy

[Alvie]

Bought my Marathon coach from Steve four years ago have never met a man that was so honest and forthcoming And that’s all I got say about that