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Yes, Google Chrome is the answer. I had the issue with IE 11 on both Win 7 Home and Win 7 Pro machines. Install Google Chrome. It’s easy. You can still use IE for other browsing if you want, but use Chrome to access PrevComm.

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Thanks G-Man. I’ll have to Google all the stuff you put in your coach to figure out what it all does. I read posts like this and learn about stuff I didn’t know I needed to have.

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I would carefully check bettery voltage as Bob says.

Even new batteries can have internal failures. The fact you tried to jump start and got a grunt out of the starter points to the batteries.

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It is highly probable the coax from the dish ends up in the cabinet over the driver’s seat at the receiver. I would suspect the receiver output splits and goes to thre TV up front and the TV in the entertainment center.

But don’t trust anything I tell you. Check with Troy, or maybe Jeff might jump in.

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Thanks all. It is not perfect but it is perfect for us.

Do you do anything special to prevent water lines from freezing? We survived -10F last month, but not by much. We have Grand-kids in the frozen north that we need to see before warmer weather.

=10F is bad. Most of the times we have been in weather that cold and colder we have also had LOTS of snow like in the pictures above. With snow piled up very deep all the way around we actually had absolutley NO trouble with anything freezing.

If it is single digits or below with no snow and wind against my passenger side there is nothing I can do to keep my water on that side from freezing. Vantare run the water lines for two sinks and the shower in the outside wall when it could have easily been ran though the floor. Thankfully they have never busted.

The only hope I have in that situation is to run the Aquahot on diesel and keep the thermostats turned up 24/7. As I have mentioned in other threads, that is not an option for me right now. I spent last December in Ohio and Oklahoma and most of January and February in Oklahoma, Kansas and Missouri. That winter nearly did me in!

I can not wait to be parked out of the wind while I am home. The barn is only partially insulated and is not heated yet but it is bound to be better than parking in the wind.

If all goes as planned, I should pull in the barn for the first time next Thursday.

Davy

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It never comes up with a Prevo….that’s used for plastic.

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Yep !!

We’re out on that too !!

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I’d be happy with a large spatula that extends forward from under my coach, which reaches up under an offending car, and on my command flips the car up and over my coach.

I get excited just thinking about doing that.

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I’m not sure a device on inverters such as refrigerator, outlets, and other circuits are always using inverter power.

My interpretation of “inverter power” is that the batteries are supplying the power for those devices at all times. But that is not true. When inverters have shore power to them in some cases that shore power is only passing through an internal relay back out to the coach load center. That means as long as some inverters are turned on the incoming shore power is supplying the inverter’s internal battery charger with power, while at the same time is routing that incoming power back to the load center to supply the inverter circuits with power.

Some coaches however invert all loads. I’m thinking Vantare for example.

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What was Jeff doing while you were changing out the pump? Oh wait, I know, he was at his desk pretending to be busy.

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It will be in the air drawing at Prevost web site but it does not say sensor but it will be marked witha funny line

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I have four spare ones if you need one let me know you can get new ones from power tech or Jeff Rowe!!!!

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Jon makes good points.

As it was explained to me, the CNG/diesel combo engine don’t have spark plugs, start out with a heavy percentage of diesel (maybe 100%) and as they warm up CNG is introduced. Then depending on the load and speed of the engine the diesel/CNG split is varied. The CNG uses the explosion of the diesel to ignite as I recall. I can’t rmember how the CNG is introduced into the combustion chamber.

The straight CNG engine works just like a gasoline engine with spark plugs, ignition packs, and throttle body injection of the CNG. From what the Cummins rep told me, the engines used for both CNG and CNG/diesel combo were basically the traditional diesel blocks, rotating assemblies, valve train, and accessories.

Jon is right about BTUs. That is what gets the job done for the engine. One of the things I’ve learned about all of this is that the current definition for “gas gallon equivlaent” (GGE/gge) of CNG (which is how its sold) is that in practice its a little “light” compared to gasoline and diesel. I believe there is a “diesel gallon equivalent” (DGE/dge) defnition to, which is probably off a touch in definition of BTUs too. Maybe CNG and LNG will eventually be sold by DGE rather than GGE.

I can’t emphasis enough Jon’s final point about diesel (and gasoline for that matter) being hard to beat as a fuel source. Can be easily stored at atmospheric pressure, available and operates over a wide range of temperature, lots of BTUs per gallon at atmospheric pressure, easy to transport and transfer, etc.

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Double K, Congrats and give me a call…got pearls for you. 941 779 5018

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Woo Hoo, congratulations Steve & Shari, the adventure now begins..