[Art]

We would need a Prevost Engineer to chime in on that question. Think of this, They were designing busses way before we had computers to aid in chassis analysis.

[Art]

My only worry after conversion was the bus would lean to the driver side as there was no more ballast to counter the weight of the generator and driver (not saying which weighs more). ??

In the Class-B+ community, big trend to go 100% electric, delete the generator, and put the money into a big lithium bank. Liesure Travel Van now wires everything (including roof air) into a 3,000 watt inverter.

[Art]

Do you have a link to the items you used?

[Art]

Liam, CC usually wired the house La bank as two banks wired in parallel, each service by an inverter/charger and via one of the 00 wires running from the alternator. Both 00 lines normally terminated behind the black panel between the inverter/chargers on the same fused post. The gen “boost” wires picked up there, went to a “boost solenoid” and then on to the generator La start battery.

To replace the La house banks with Li you need to add one or more BtoB chargers and disconnect that “boost” wiring so the Li batteries never come together with the La batteries except vis the BtoB charger. Easy to do on most CC setups.

Jerry

[Art]

Different converters used different schemes to keep the gen battery charged and deployed the big oil cooled alternator in different ways. If you have two alternators, one 12vdc and one 24vdc be sure you know where any line from your 12vdc alternator goes and be sure the Li batteries are isolated from the La batteries via a BtoB charger. Check carefully any “boost” wires/switches. Some converters used the big oil cooled alt as a 12vdc house charger and the separate 24vdc air cooled alternator as the charger for the chassis batteries. Others apparently reversed those so check carefully. A 12vdc BtoB charger needs 12vdc on the input side to turn on and a rise in voltage from the alternator running to pass charge current on to the Li batteries. If you are trying to charge a 12vdc Li bank from a 24vdc alternator you need more engineering than can be done in a few sentences.

Jerry

[Art]

My 50DN is 12V for house. Lithionics cautioned me that because of the low internal resistance of Li, they can draw an enormous amount of current and overheat cables and alternators. New RVs use temperature-sensing regulation to mitigate this. Also didn’t want to feed the bank with a raw charge and no Li-compatible regulation.

As a result, my 50DN is not attached. I can only charge my house bank with Shore/Gen through my inverter. It’s a PITA, but I assumed Victron would eventually catch up.

[Art]

Mike, relative to the DN50 and Li battery bank, I had a big issue with installing a DC-DC charger. The DN50 regulator would not output power as it did not see a 12v “sink”. The charger essentially hides the Li bank from the regulator. I was told I would need some sort of battery connected to the alternator side of the charger (like chassis batteries in a 12v motorhome)

I called Victron in Germany and Lithionics and both confirmed the issue. Apparently the devices that would work were not yet updated to handle Li batteries. That was 2 years ago.

Would love to hear if a product now exists.

[Art]

Hi Jon,

Do you know what the current cost might be to replace air bags , valves and fittings etc.?

We had Hoffman Coach do ours +-10 years ago.

Thank you,

Chris

[Art]

What model Webasto do you have? 12V or 24V?

[Art]

I not only polish my slack adjusters, every year I use Armor All on the inside of my tires to keep them looking new. To be conservative however I save the air I removed from the tires and reuse it.

[Art]

Chuck, Jeff answered your question.

This will be no help, but might be of interest. An air bag leak at the bottom of the air bag behind the “piston” is undetectable. You cannot soap it because you cannot see it or get at it and because of the rubber an ultrasonic leak detector cannot “hear” it.

[Art]

Hi Chuck, I would love to speak with you about Cruisair replacement. 901-336-1234

[Art]

Thanks, that’s what it looked like but there is some kind of a stop when i slide it side to side. We just had a Uhaul truck hit us in our parking lot

The lady acted surprised when I said she just hit a motorhome. 26 foot UHaul and she had never driven anything that big!

Crap!

Merry Christmas everyone!

[Art]

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[Art]

He’s trying to convince himself it is OK to have a plastic palace after years of bad mouthing them.

At his age it could be the early signs of senility.