Clifford
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Petar,
I believe most of our store bought conversions vent through the roof. All of mine have.
The exception is some fixtures due to placement may not vent through the roof and they generally use air admittance valves. The only downside to an air admittance valve is if it won’t close you will get tank odors in the coach, but that just is an easy fix.
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Doug, thank you for your very kind posting. Thanks also Jon, for acknowledgeing me.
Your refering to the yellow valve on the right bulk head under the drivers seat,….. pictured ?
This yellow plastic valve opens turning to 3 o’clock Tag on pipe “open only if compressor fails”. The correct normal position is pictured….. 6 o’clock.
This valve isolates Aux air supply from Prevost air supply. Opening this valve allows unfiltered moisture air into your Prevost system coming from the green Aux air tank.
In talks with Leon at tech service Marathon the two (2) systems should only be combined in emergency need.
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The Guest 24 volt charger usually allows a 24 volt bank of batteries to be charged at 24 volts or as two separate 12 volt batteries or banks of 12 volt batteries.
I have seen the charger connected to the batteries, not the equalizer, but that does not necessarily mean connecting to the equalized is not allowed. I would follow the installation instructions that come with the charger.
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Thanks Jon for the reply. Coach stayed at prevost almost 2 weeks this time with air issue. Checked (called) every morning and it was a different side each time after work on air system. Seems like they were chasing side to side then front. They ordered Front leveling valve they said was leaking and installed Friday. Picked it up and the tech said no leaks at new airbags. It had been in shop overnight there was no lean when I backed out of there shop. Shop is heated. Parked it outside overnight (as Folks are doing work on my Bus Barn) and temp got down to freezing. Have read that cold temps will accelerate the problem.
Ps.
When you go to Prevost admin site on this forum and read about there new Houston location that’s my camper in the left side next to that yellow banana.
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That’s great Jim, looking forward to meeting you and the XL3.
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Clifford,
We must have been looking at two different price list then. When I priced a shell for a new motorhome conversion with adaptive braking, fire suppression (both of which can be deleted if you sign a waiver) and OTR, 2 slides, the price was just north of $550,000.
The bus shown is an X3 entertainer shell with OTR, and since the entertainer shells can only have one slide I suspect the price will be less, but not $150,000 less.
The shell prices from Prevost do not vary from customer to customer.
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Check out the prevoman.com web site, Mango Mike has a section on dash lights and how to replace them. I got my replacements from Elgin.
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Some really helpful info on the Wanderlodge site that is worth checking out. http://www.wanderlodgeownersgroup.com/forums/showthread.php?t=15699&highlight=oil+analysis
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Jeff,
We are transplants from the snow belt of western NY state. Folks down here don’t call us “Vaahls” they call us damn Yankees.
Great place to live, even if you don’t have a big “T” on the door of your car during football season.
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Just read post Clifford; I have axles loose — will pull and ck for #’s . I’m learning under fire on this one. Have added one number to post on hogs head 3200-N-1704 The 4 wasn’t there before. The tag is gone off housing. Checked for stamped #’s also. -J- The J is just like it apears in post . Counted rotation and it is for sure 4:56. Bob
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not a hundred percent but I think 10,000 lbs max trailer weight 1000 lbs tongue weight
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Our converters have done a very good job of trying to meet the needs of just about any owner. But in doing so all of us will find we have some systems or components that are rarely or never used. I don’t think any of us are wiling to give up a generator so it would seem if we want to reduce exposure to replacement costs, reduce weight, increase storage space, reduce the maintenance associated with each battery, etc. we can get down to one or two batteries (if we have a 24 volt coach) as long as we accept the fact it is OK to run the generator a lot.
When were used our coach up to 16 weeks a year we used it for business purposes, often dry camping at distributor’s warehouses. We were putting up to 30,000 miles on the coach and if we drove an average of 50 MPH we spend about 2700 hours in the coach and of those 600 were driving. For discussion purposes let’s say we never were in a campground (not true) and that we ran the generator almost 100% of the time we were not moving or about 2000 hours. If we accept the fact a well maintained generator will last over 30,000 hours we can assume we will get 15 years of use out of the generator.
My point is very few of us motorhome owners are going to do that, but if we look at it from a cost perspective we would use 3 sets of batteries in the same 15 years and each set could cost $2000 or more or $6000 total. I would guess a generator could be rebuilt or replaced for that same cost. would the $4000 extra annually we spent on fuel for the generator be a deal breaker? Probably would be similar to what it would cost if we used campgrounds exclusively. 16 weeks, at $40 a night would run about the same or a little higher.
What it boils down to is we can remain equipped as we are to meet all circumstances, or lose a lot of extra weight and cost and only have enough equipment based on how we used our coach.
I have 4 8D batteries @165 pounds each and on nights when I don’t need heat or AC it is nice to shut off the generator when we go to bed and wake up with enough battery power left to shave, make coffee, see a little TV and use all the lights we need. If I had 8 batteries of the 8D size half of them would be gone for sure.
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When we broke the pot on our B&D, I checked and found a new replacement unavailable. Did a search on ebay and came up with about 6. All sorts of pack rats out there.
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Gidday Brett & Liz…
Greetings from Texas… I am from Hobart, Tasmania….I lived all over the world, for years before moving to Texas in 1969.
You are right this is an awesome sight and like Jon & Tom said its pretty darned safe and you can learn a lot.I haven’t seen ANY big (as in 40′ or over)RVs on the roads in Tassy other than commercial busses… I have often wondered about rv-ing in the land of OZ.
I bet you will be one of the biggest ones on the road?
Be sure to dig in here for info everyone is just waiting to help if they can.Please feel free to message me if you would like to.
Cheers,
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Hi Fred,
do you not see 3 photos in my post about the vents? I do see them. Anyway, here is a link to a Picasa web album, where I keep photos of this installation.
The photos still show white vent liners but they are being spray-painted to blend in with the decor.
I am also considering creating a cover for the vent opening, which could, sort of, be hung from the ceiling, creating a multiple inches wide gap to allow for air flow. This would, perhaps, make it visually more appealing. Although, I think the vents do not look bad, as is.
Here is a link to the vent itself. They go for about $250
http://www.maxxair.com/maxxfan-deluxe-remote-control.html
Cheers,
Ronald