Kevin
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Boys and girls, pay attention to voltages. Some LEDs are OK from 8 to 30 volts, some are strictly for 12 volts, others for 24.
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I have another question….. somewhat related.
How many of you have the heated floors? If so, do you like them and would you order them again?
Mark
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People also flash lights at someone they know going the other way. We do that all the time. I would be really pissed if a cop tried to give me a ticket for flashing lights. Not a showing of respectable law enforcement.
I guess the motorcycles with the oscillating headlights look defective also.
And don’t get me started, when you watch a cop flying past us with blinding E-lights, only to shut them off and pull into the local doughnut shop. I know, they had a call and it cancelled.
Sorry, I will get back down off the box now.
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Word of caution to all that visit Peter.
Do NOT turn your back on these two, they will bite your ass!
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The Saga continues! No corrosion, tight connections. After hours of charging batteries seperately they will only charge up to 10.5 volts. Conclusion, got to replace batteries! Had them replaced 3 years ago at a high dollar western star dealership. Premium price, cheap batteries! Lesson1 – only buy good grade batteries in the future!
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Verify the equalizer is bad first before ordering one.
Some equalizers have a fuse or rest button so that is one thing to check. The Vanner web site has PDF files you can download or their owner’s manuals which are excellent at explaining how to verify the equalizer operation.
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The company name is Red Dot ????. Still in business, I have to call them about one of the fan motors in my CC bedroom heat exchanger. Starting to make noise. Search the internet for Red Dot something. I have been to their web site but the address is in the bus. Will get it tomorrow and post.
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My trailer is 30′. Sometimes I can get a space long enough (75′), sometimes I unhook and leave the trailer in ‘overflow area’. Can’t get into some campgrounds, but I always plan ahead.
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Charles,
I would appreciate any contact info that you have for the shop in Texas and Oregon. Anything we buy will be headed for Alaska next year so if I were to need any help along the way, that information may be just what I need.
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When you get finished polishig, be carefull where and how you park.
I have burned/melted, ground cloths, automotive paint, automotive plastic trim and entry door floor mats.
Just sayin, JIM
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Tom,
I did not think your vintage coach had disc brakes. The grease fitting that can cause the disc brake calipers to remain applied is on early disc brake coaches that have slack adjusters. Later models have internal adustment mechanisms and no slack adjusters.
The disc brakes with slack adjusters have two grease fittings on the slack adjuster shaft, one near the adjuster and one about halfway to the disc. If those are overgreased the potential to inhibit the relase of the brakes is high. My rule of thumb on any fittings associated with brakes is about half a shot of grease. Doing that I have not had any issues.
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Bob
You’re not alone though I understand how it must seem like it when we builders, don’t post. I have never posted much here, BCM or BNO and still don’t but I do read the site a least weekly. I agree, you can learn an awful lot from others posts. I just keep ploding along on my build. I travel for work at least 2-3 weeks per month so I don’t get much time to work on my conversion which explains why I have already spent 7 years working on it. I have spent the last 3 mos installing my aqua hot. I put the last thermostat wires in today and it feels great getting that thing done. It wasn’t hard work just time consuming pulling wires, making connections, etc. I am very particular about how my work looks and is constructed, so I spend alot of time thinking about it before doing it. When it isn’t to my satisfaction, I tear it out and do it again. Just my quirk, but I will only do this one time so I want it to be right.
I have the coach painted, the roof is raised/resided, heated marble flooring in, cabinets all built/stained/lacqured, SS is polished (not as good as I would like but to hot to work on it now-winter project) and most of the interior in. I once was told by an experienced builder from BCM that it takes about 15-20K man hours to put one of these things together. My experience is that would only be the amount of time actually doing the work. It takes me roughly an equal amount of time to figure out how to do something before I ever start it.
So, my friend, don’t fret, you’re not alone, some of us are just quietly trying to figure out how to eat the next bite of elephant and not choke on it!! I have been researching water and waste tanks for the past several weeks. I think I have it narrowed down to two tanks but for them and shipping it is almost $1600, which is way more than I want to spend on them. I could use some suggestions for a supplier locally as shipping for the two tanks is $450 of the $1600. The other thing I am stressing abut is the ceiling work. I am not an upholsteler and have never done anything like that so I went to a limosine company here locally today and the manager said I could hire two of his men to work after hours to put my ceiling treatment in for me. At that, he estimated it would be about $2000 labor over a week and about $2000 materials. Still thinking about that.
Rob
91 Prevost
Missouri
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We are very familiar with coach. We first saw it and sat in it the day it came out of Country Coach with Brian Thompson who used to be part of the Country Coach family in more ways than just an employee. The one Brandon had at Legacy was 60460, the only one with a slide. Your coach was at POG11, Las Vegas 2012, where we had lunch with the former owners of yours. The other you saw private party Indiana was 60475, and priced too high on EBay. It was a beautiful paintjob too like yours Yes, we will be at the Branson Rally. Country Coach also built 7 H3-45’s. There’s one listed on rvtraderonline with 2 slides
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Living in the Southeast with a 45 foot, 4 slide SOB, we find that 3 roof air conditioners (15,000 BTU) do fine when the front windshield blind is deployed. We have dual pane windows, except for the windshield. The heat gain from the front windshield is huge. We also use an external sun screen on the front windshield and driver’s and passenger’s window. Parking facing North is also significant.
Over the road, even at 100°F outside temperatures, we need all three roof airs running along with a good functioning dash air. We will get to 75-78°F at the worst, so that would certainly not be to Jon’s liking.
Having 4 roof airs would be very attractive for us on a Prevo conversion.
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Tom, I have zero Royale experience. I have zero roof air experience. But we have dealt with temperature extremes from one end of the country to the other and I can offer an opinion which is worth what you pay for it.
First of all understand comfortable temps mean different things to different people. I like cold. I want the windows sweating on the outside when I am in a CG in 80 or 90 degree weather with high humidity. My aunt and uncle would be sitting in snowmobile suits in my coach because they want it much warmer than I do. So you have to gauge my comments based on my definition of comfortable.
On a 2 slide coach if I do not allow the inside of the coach to get warm two AC units are capable of maintaining the temperatures I consider comfortable until it gets about 90 out. After that I need at the very least a 3rd AC unit working. The sum plays a big role in maintaining comfortable temps so rather than let it heat up the black windows or the interior we will often pull down the shades on the sunny side.
But the key is to never allow the coach to get too warm. We have come back to a coach in the mid nineties outside temps and only 2 AC units have been running all day and the inside temps are about 80 or 85. At that point we turn off stuff that will trip the shore power breaker like the HW heater or the aux air compressor and we put on the remaining two AC units. It takes forever to cool the coach down even with 4 units. That experience was with a non-slide 45 footer.
Keep in mind my target temp is 70 degrees.
Will three work? As I said if you never let the temps get ahead of you 2 will work in almost any situation, but occasionally you might need the 3rd. But you have no margins on hot sunny days unless you are OK with 80 degree temps in the house. If one quits until you can get it repaired you could be in trouble.
If you notice entertainer coaches you will rarely see less than 5 AC units.
Personally I think 3 units are OK on a 40 foot non slide coach, but I think 4 AC units on a 45 foot coach without slides is required if for no other reason than as backup. and a 45 foot slide coach really needs at least 4 units.
Just so we can quantify that I am talking about 13,000 BTU units. 15,000 would be better, but I will still feel safer with 4 units.