[Bill]

Georges,

Your inverter/chargers look to be Freedom units. You can control the charger and inverter indepently. I’ll skip discussing the charger as that wasn’t your question and the charger has little if anything to do with inverter.

Each inverter supplies 120VAC to specific and seperate loads. You should have a power panel for each that contains the circuit breakers for the 120V circuits supported by each inverter.

When the inverter is on it will supply 120V from commercial or generator power first. If commercial or generator power is present the inverter is sitting idle while the commercial or generator power is supplied directly to whatever is powered through that inverter.

When commercial or generator power is not present and the inverter is on, the inverter supplies 120V it creates from the house batteries. If commercial or generator power is restored the inverter will automatically return to idle and supply the commercial or generator power to the coach systems.

If you have or commercial power leave the inverter on if you want to make sure the house batteries supply power in the event of a power failure. This would be typical. If you are on house battery for a long time then you need to manage battery drain. This could include turning one or both inverters off. As an example, I only the inverter supplying power to my refrigerator on and the other inverter offf when our coach was on a 3 1/2 day ferry trip and I wanted to keep the fish frozen.

When your coach is stored the inverters should probably be off, especially if you don’t have generator autostart. I always store mine with the inverters off even if I have commercial power. If I have commercial power in storage I have the chargers on and inverters off.

I hope this answers your question,

[Bill]

Rick,

There is very little draw from DDEC at your chassis batteries, so someone along the way may have used the chassis batteries as a power source. If you have a clamp on amp meter, you can identify the source.

[Bill]

ok, just back from a weigh-in. Before I fueled-up and filled my fresh water tank to the top. I had to get out of the bus to push the intrrcom buttons, so no people in the weight. I was slightly heavier on the driver side but within the margin of error using the tables.

Steer = 13940

Drive = 18300

Tag= 9020

So if I add 800 pounds for 6 people assuming people weight distributed fore and aft that bumps the steer up 2 columns in the table to 14740. The other 2 axles are way under minimum so ignore. If i then add the 5 you all add then my pressures would be 105, 90, 90

Did I do that right?

[Bill]

Do you want to beat someone with that rubber hose?

[Bill]

Megan and I just signed up, will be the first time I have met most of you I have met Jon and what’s his name? Tommy? oh yea Tom and Nancy, will bring a wee dram of dew! Gary

[Bill]

Hope we can get there as we are only 2.5 hours from there and we would enjoy meeting this group face to face. The company I worked for had a plant in Sevierville that I visited several times a year for 21 years so we have spent a lot of time there. The area sure has changed since the mid 70s though.

[Bill]

Thinking down the road. Would it be finished for the PC Branson Rally ?

AL

[Bill]

Hi Jon, since Olivia is a 2005 chassis and technology, I have started to go away from the Crestron route because it would require some reprogramming for the new 2011/2012 components I have added to the systems, replacing old TV’s etc.

With 2012 technology, you can have a TV and / or DVD or Blue-Ray player with built-in “Apps”. Depending upon the brand, you can have apps like Google TV, Amazon Video, Hulu video, Netflix video etc., all of which provide the opportunity to “stream” a movie direct from the Internet. Needless to say, this requires an active Internet connection but those can be had for short money these days. Certainly, less than a DirecTV sat dish etc.

An Internet enabled TV or player will give you many more options. You can watch or read-up on the news. You can view your digital photos and you can shop on eBay or Amazon. Just to mention a few.

As for watching TV channels, also that is possible.

An Internet enabled LCD or LED TV of around 40 inches can be purchased for about $500-$750

A DVD player can be purchased for about $1250

In my opinion, the better deal is buying the DVD player because, with the constantly evolving technology, it is a lot cheaper to buy the latest DVD player, than replacing the TV.

This is my philosophy. Thus, I bought the DVD players to enhance my 37 inch LCD TV in the bedroom and the 46 inch TV upfront.

I did remove the outside “entertainment center” aka the TV and stereo because we strongly believe that people who keep their TV’s running outside in the campground should be tarred and feathered and then keel-hauled.

:-). :-). 🙂

For all of this, you do not really need Crestron because each Internet enabled TV or DVD player can be operated independently via the remote control. In my opinion, that is faster and easier than using the Crestron.

As mentioned above, for all of the above, you do need the Internet. This can be accomplished in a few different ways. The more basic solutions would be using a wireless router and or a so called hotspot. The cost of those is in the $50 to $250 range.

You will also have to subscribe to our friends at AT&T, Verizon etc.- the typical monthly cost is about $50-$75 for typically 5GB of data. That is quite a lot. Unless, you download and watch movies every day, 5 gig is a lot of data.

Of course, most of the above deals with the Internet and not just watching TV. If watching TV is all you want, then you have the option of a dish. Either mounted and hard-wired on the roof or a portable dish? These will provide lots of channels and entertainment and, what some people will find very important, a Sat dish will also work, whe Internet is not available.

Personally, I much rather have the Internet or app enabled option since it gives me much more than just watching TV.

Well, this is a starter and, I am sure, that other people will weigh-in with their opinions.

Cheers,

Ronald

PS: JON, HOW MUCH DO YOU WANT FOR YOUR ROTARY DIAL FLIP-PHONE????!!??

[Bill]

It would be nice to hear from folks that have actually been through this inspection process and would be willing to share the outcome.

[Bill]

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I keep one of the inverters set at 5 amps and the other at 20. If i need to have the power for the AC units I turn off the inverter set for 20 amps at the remote panel and only run the one set for 5 amps. Once the day has cooled down I turn the second inverter back on. The newer coaches probably have the inverters talking to each other and it may not be possible to do.

[Bill]

Those are Titanium, but designed to look just like plain ole Home Depot wire ties.

PS Anal 1, did you ever try breaking one of those?

[Bill]

That would peg it as a 45 foot built around 1994. The Series 60 was introduced into the Prevost then, but only on 45 footers because the length of the 5 speed transmission was longer than the 6 speed so that power train would not fit the 40 footers. If it sat for 14 years it is possible that repairs could be very expensive, possibly equalling its market value for a coach that age. I would be worried about rust and corrosion in the engine, generator, damage from battery acid, delamination of interior finishes, etc.

But it would be interesting to throw in new chassis batteries and crank it up.