Gerard
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As a reminder, we are using the generator only for several hot and humid days. Shore power is not an option for at least another week.
Once the sun was down this evening, we turned off the Air Conditioners and other electrical draws. I went to the inverter bay.
My wife used the #1 inverter to turn off the generator. (This is how we usually turn the generator on and off.) Once the generator shut down, I switched both Manual Bypass Switches to Generator and my wife turned on the generator inside with the Start button.
The AC2 light flashed on both inverters and then went solid like normal. Both inverters showed the amps used by each inverter as normal and the voltage was still too low.
As far as I could tell, the Manual Bypass changed nothing.
Any ideas?
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Thank you Les – great to know!
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Makes sense…Thank you Jon!
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With all these updates Tom is doing, I can only assume he’s getting it ready to sell so Nancy can finally have her 2 slide coach.
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Buddy likes to play by the rules. Interesting.
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The Series 60 uses gears for camshaft timing. If you take off the accessory drive cover on the passenger side, you can see a large gear. Check for bearing play when you hit 500,000 miles. Usually good until overhaul at around 800,000-1,000,000 miles and then the “bull gear” bearing should be replaced.
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Tim,
The way your transfer switch is intended to work is to sense the presence of power and switch to allow that power into the coach, with generator being a higher priority than shore power. There is a time delay between when power is applied to the transfer switch, before the actual switching occurs.
So if you are on shore power and want to use generator power you don’t have to do anything except start the generator. At least that is how things are supposed to work. But we all know that stuff breaks. In 27 years I have never had an issue with my manual switch or my automatic transfer switches so while I have a lot of confidence they will all do their job as intended, I want to do what is often called soft starts.
If I am on one power source (shore power for example) and want to switch to generator power I will shut down my loads. That includes the A/Cs, and anything else drawing a lot of power when I want to make the switch. Then I will shut off the shore power circuit breaker at the pole and start the generator. I have never done that except when shore power has failed or tripped the breaker so I can’t remember shutting it off because it has already been off. If I have to have 30 amp power, I just run my generator. We are past the point where we want to “rough” it.
A soft start where you are not switching under load is a good practice for everything. Using circuit breakers as switches to turn devices on and off is bad because circuit breakers are not designed to be switches and their life is shortened. So unloading the circuits before turning on breakers or changing sources is just a good practice although there are going to be instances where we cannot always do that.
The problem is if a coach should somehow get two sources of power into the coach at one time such as shore and generator power you can have phase issues. When coaches have a pair of inverters linked they automatically sync the phases so you get 60 HZ, but there is no means of doing that if you have other power sources supplying power.
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Thanks for the info because I have half of my family with me right now and my toad would only hold 5. I took the chance and tried it for the record I will not be taking the coach in another park like that. Park ranger said I would be fine buses come in all the time. We’ll take my advice and keep out its the most stress I have been in since buying the coach.
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If you end up with a seated coach you will prob want to cover some of the windows. I use 18 ga cold roll steel sheet.. Why cold roll? It seems to hold paint better and doesn’t deform as much as alum in sun/cold. You can tack weld it from inside also. Insulate insulate insulate. Side windows let heat and cold thru. So it’s a trade off as to how many or size. Front windshield is a big heat transferr point. One thing I do is place mirror tint above line of sight for driver about 3 inches. Same on both door and driver side windows. You can see thru it but it cuts down sun glare and heat transfer. Have checked on legality and comment was at 3 inches above normal driving view. I use inside side windows also but cover complete window. Try a experiment and see heat differance and visibility. Again these methods are my choices all I do is share. If you get a older xl with top windows. Cheap way use black spray paint on inside(will look like smooth tint outside) or make fiberglass insert to replace glass. Top glass is twice the cost of a windshield. Bob
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You would think the former owner would warranty those repairs, TXPrevost.
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Karl has a set of chambers that are the much more expensive variance. Even with checking on multiple options for getting the chambers they are still in the high price range. I charge 4.5 hours labor for doing the 6 chambers. Brake chambers are one of the things that there is no way to know when one will fail. Although we do not typically see a chamber rust out and blow apart in the motorhome side of things. They still fail in differant ways.
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We’ve been to the All Prevost show in Tampa twice. In 2016 its going to be held March. 42 Prevost coaches on one floor, inside for two days. New coaches, used coaches, some coaches that have been remodeled. Most of them are later models (which I’m a little critical of), which is probably good for someone trying to get ideas for changing out furniture and redecorating their coach.
Depending on what you want to change, buying “off the shelf” RV furniture might work. But be careful. Its my understanding the couch in our Liberty (and likely yours as well if original) was custom made by Liberty to fit perfectly in the space and with removal arm rests (have you discovered those yet?) to make the couch more comfortable for sleeping.
Jeff Rowe has done a number of remodels as have the advertisers that Jon mentioned. Probably Forum members who have had their coaches remodeled will chime in with ideas, experiences, and pictures.
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Reviving this thread since have had time to do testing and tried some repairs. I thought the problem was the mixing valve. On this older unit this is brass valve soldered in. I replaced all of the guts including thermostat and control valve since before change had great flow when set at the coldest setting but poor flow when set anywhere else on valve of the mixing valve. This did not change anything. Spoke to Rudy (our advertiser) at Aquahot and Hydronic RV services (great guy and very helpful) who feels with the trouble shooting I have done the problem is either sediment or other buildup in the coil. He instucted me in possible method of clearing. I will try that next week when have some more time. At present we have warm, not hot water in a low volume but enough to do what we need.
The bad news is if not able to clear coil may need a new aquahot (ouch).
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Good Job George!
The TV being in front of the Gen Set is one of my favorite options on my bus.
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Gerard,
Ben with Parliament just got here tonight and brought a 2004 Parliament H, double slide that you should look at.