[Dorel]

Thank you everyone, due to coach complexity I wanted to confirm with the experts for best practice.

Appreciate your input!

[Dorel]

Jeff has provided a fair warning to those whose converter used a 12V 50DN for the house and added a smaller alternator to handle the 24 volt coach circuits.

If you have a coach with a 12 volt house system check to see what you have for an alternator. If it is a 12V 50DN now is the time to develop a plan on how you are going to deal with its demise. If you wait til it breaks it may affect your wallet to a greater extent or leave the coach out of service for longer than you would like.

Keep in mind however that 50DN alternators have been rebuilt and finding a rebuilder might be an option. If anyone knows of an alternator rebuilder post the information here. If anyone has a core you might want to see if among our members there is interest in having it rebuilt, and stored at a shop for when the need arises. Then every failure gets rebuilt and stored for the next time one is needed.

Even if you have a 12 volt house, if you have Prevost OTR you have a 24 volt alternator.

[Dorel]

Mine is tango uniform also. I ordered another blower fan unit, pt# 1TDR3 from ebay for $75 today. My difficulty getting the bad unit out was caused by the OTR evapartor fan/motor unit being 1/4″ too close. So I unbolted the fan/motor unit from the floor and moved it over a little and removed the bad blower fan unit. The insulation/sound proofing material in my genny bay is falling apart too. Its also dirty beyond belief.

I plan to kill 3 birds w/1 stone.

1) Remove the genny from its bay so as to re-insulate/soundproof it.

2) Install new gen blower fan unit

3) Flush genny cooling system and install long life Shell Rotella ELC concentrate coolant

[Dorel]

Dorel,

Your bus has (6) 4DL batteries and with the setup your talking about the auto-start will probably run about every 24 hrs and based on the parameters you have set up on the Trace 4000’s, probably will charge for about 3 hrs. Your batteries have a life cycle and you surely are using up those cycles. Think about it, you’re going through 7 full charge cycles every week along with the fuel consumption.

If there was another alternative, you may want to think about it.

[Dorel]

Thanks, Jon.

Current storage is 5 min away, usually I check every other day. For indoor storage without power…approx 40 miles away, inconvenient/out of the way and wait listed.

So what I outlined to power storage is OK, will work, but you recommend indoor storage with power, got it.

[Dorel]

Your coach does not have a primary and secondary set up unless the original configuration of the electrical system as it applies to the inverters was modified.

One of your inverters handles some of the inverter circuits, and the other handles the remaining inverter circuits. At one time I know which inverter handled what, but someone who knows or has a better memory can tell you which is which.

If you have one inverter the only way you will not lose some circuits is to ties the two inverter bus bars together in the electrical panel. That is a Mickey Mouse solution and limits your use of circuits. If you have two inverters you might want to consider using the newest (most reliable) on the circuits that include the refrigerator.

I think your inverter circuits are refrigerator, forward outlets, TVs, rear outlets, aux compressor, microwave, and maybe coffee maker. I just don’t know which are on inverter 1 or inverter 2.

[Dorel]

Brian,

As you’re probably aware, an “H” has a bunch of room above the engine and I would think a valve adjustment would not be a big deal since there is room to get the valve cover off. Have you done these before on an “H.”

I think the complexity and cost of doing a valve adjustment on the Prevost’s is one thing that holds people back from having that service done. The other question that comes up is the valve adjustment really that important on a coach that likely doesn’t have more than 100,000 miles on it and isn’t experiencing any issues.

[Dorel]

Thanks for that info…as long as we are on the subject I will be staying in the Gatlinburg and Seveirville area…anybody have any experience there ?

[Dorel]

Sorry, just got back home.

I’ll go out to our bus Tuesday and locate the fuse I replaced. I believe it was more to right of your picture in another fuse block.

AL

[Dorel]

Nothing there that I’m aware of that’s bus friendly, you could dry camp at the Casino in Cherokee.

[Dorel]

Diane,

I have to agree with you on them “being all over it” as that is exactly how they did mine. Jeff made suggestions and allowed me to make up my mind what I repaired with no pressure. I felt right at home there. All those doughnuts were a plus too!! If I can’t handle it at home, ETLC is my place of choice!!

[Dorel]

We have a nice KOA in Granger IN which is about 15 min drive from the Notre Dame stadium. They would love to see your Prevost there, nice clean park ran by a German family, Thomas and Patricia. They have anice pool, gelato bar, good pull through sites, firepit and picnic tables.

While here you can visit the Motorhome Hall of Fame in Elkhart and some of the surplus RV stores…lots of furniture, appliances, electrical and RV related stuff.

Lake Michigan like New Buffalo Beach or Indian Dunes State park are 45 min away.

Chicago downtown is 2 hrs awy by car or you can do the scenic route and take the Lake Shore Train from the South Bend Airport to the Navy Pier.

US 65 has been in construction for a long time. When I come up from Jeff place I take 75 through Cincinnati, cut acros to Indy and then straight north into South Bend/ Granger on 31.

Hope that helps.

[Dorel]

FYI…My coach has had the Detroit Diesel visible fuel filter (can’t remember the name) installed which replaced both primary and secondary filters.

[Dorel]

My first foray into the world of spam eating did not go well.

I have since learned there are numerous methods to make spam edible. I have been banking this advice in my memory for that time when I am willing to try again. Let it be understood by all that until I moved south I thought grits was what was spread on the highways in the winter for traction on snow covered roads. I find it must be like spam in that it cannot be ingested in its natrural state. It involves a degree of cooking prowess along with a detailed list of additives to supplement or hide the taste.

So knowing spam is related to grits in the sense that it is inedible unless modified I am girding my loins for a second attempt at eating it. I may in fact go so far as to have grits as one of my sides to go along with it.

[Dorel]

Thanks for all the input from everyone. It makes sense that it is there to disable the starter when the engine is running. Certainly, you can believe it shook me to see the fuel spraying on the muffler. Fastest 40-ft sprint in my life!