[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

Sounds like Liam tried this, Liam how is the DM50 with stock regulator working with the LifePO4? And what voltage are you set at?

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

Art, if this is related to your new Li Time batteries, my suggestion is to install a DC to DC charger in between the alternator and Battery Bank. they are relatively cheap, configurable, and will give you isolation so your alternator won’t try and over produce.

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

I am all for conservation of natural resources but do you test the air to determine it’s quality.

Oh i forgot you don’t live in California and have to comply with CARB

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

Clint:

Looking at your drawing and the factory drawing I attached to the first post shows the top Norgren passing through the lower one with the key off. Hence I am ASSUMING (and we all know what that means-lol) the top Norgren is leaking past the seal. Read in another post that most of the time an air leak in cold weather is a seal and a leak in hot weather is a connection. That reads true in this scenario, it leaks more on cold days.
I am not using the bus for awhile so I will leave the balloon on a see if it grows.

Chuck

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

Don Beard just had a post on his leaky ride valve and put a balloon on the exhaust port to see leak

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

Here’s a post I did when I added a 2nd fan to the converter electrical bay:

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[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

Heat is the enemy of electrical devices. My fans on my three buses run continuously. Also I clean the dust from my inverters because that accumulation of dust and lint makes cooling more difficult.

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

One thing we should do every once in a while is suck out all the calcium and white crud build up in the water heater. I pulled the heating element out and put a shop vac in the hole. must have take out about a pound of silt.

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

Art, just use it like you did with your AGM’s. The BMS will take care of everything for you. You like to Tinker so i guess you are just going to do what you got to do.

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

Tom:

Do not have the same problem on shore power or on bypass. Or on gen. Toyed with the idea of taking all the house batteries out and load testing each one but in discussion with Marathon tech decided not to since the 24VDC feed stays good with load application. Inverter Services certainly has a good reputation so I did call them. Didn’t seem anxious to discuss anything over the phone. Said come on in and we will look at it. Close to doing that even though they are nearly 1000 miles away. Thx. Mike

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

Right out of the book It says store at 50 percent charge. Refrigerator has been running all day and every light and ran Aqua Hot again Victron says 86 percent 13.2v not bad

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

Bill, I have the same setup as you. it could be the element, it also could be the 2 snap switches. All 3 on both heaters were bad on mine when i bought it.

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

I told you Art. LiTime Lithium is the way to go.

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

So far I’m impressed with the Lithium LifePO4 batteries, I took out 4 Lifeline 8D batteries total of 1050 amp hr batteries, I installed 1120 amp hr of LifePO4 8D size batteries, After charging and installing I’ve had chargers off and lights on and twice I’ve run the Aqua Hot and all heaters for 2 plus hours each time and tested bay heater on Aqua Hot and it’s been 4 days since charged and batteries started out 99 percent and 14.3 and today after running Aqua Hot for second time total of at least 4 plus hours and lights batteries are on Victron 93 percent at 13.4v wow amazing No charger at all yet.

[Mike, 92 Country Coach]

Go Jessica!!!