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Steve, while you are there, the air bags & shocks are right there if you don’t have any idea of their age. Half the problem is getting the bus all supported.
By the way, the lights are in, but Trucklite had to make the Amber lens and they are supposed to ship late this month.
Bill
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Air Compressor is in, hub seal and brake cans next…..
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Mark,
I realize some owners are very reluctant to run the generator while going down the road, but if you consider doing that at least some of the time you can see some benefits.
First, it takes the load off the alternators and inverters. If you are running AC units it is from power generated by the alternators, and then pulled from the batteries by the inverters. The engine is still consuming fuel consistent with the work asked of it by the alternators so running the generator has little difference on fuel consumption.
But when you do run the generator while driving to provide whole coach comfort, you can also run everything else in your coach with no restrictions because of the generator capacity. So you get to exercise the generator and at the same time power up the entire coach as if you were on shore power.
To put this in perspective it is widely understood our generators are good for at least 30,000 hours. If you only average 40 MPH in all your miles of driving you will have driven 1.2 million miles by the time the generator reaches those hours. Which is why if I did not have an OTR coach, I would start the generator when I started the coach, turn everything on and enjoy the ride.
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Got it, thanks TG!
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A battery isolator is a one way valve(diode) for electricity. It lets electicity go TO(charge) the genny battery, not away(discharge). Here’s what mine looks like.
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Buddy –
A special thank you for being the official photographer of the second Prevost Know your Coach seminar! These are great pictures 😉
June
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Can we get an end spot? Our generator is probably the noisiest on the coaches that are going to be there, and with a new residential refrigerator, I’m not sure how much we’ll need to run the generator. Hate noise pollution and imposing it on others–one of the reasons our next coach will be a Prevost.
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nice campground on east side if town of Burns. We travelled two round trips in August yo and Fromm denver. Only real grind is posted 55 mph. We bumped it up to 62-65. First round trip was sprinter van towing 26 ft airstream to look at bus. Second round trip to bring bus home
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Hi Dianne!!,
You said you use your grey water bypass often. How and where do you use it? Do some campgrounds allow dumping it ?
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True but the bypass only works as the gray water is produced. It does not allow for the gray water to held And later be eliminated. I have been told that some people release their gray tanks at night. Someone I know even has a button in the drivers area which opens a passenger side dump valve for the gray. He pulls off at a deserted exit, drops his gray in less than two minutes, and goes on down the highway allowing his wife to wash a load or two of clothes that she would not have been able to do with a gray water saturated single tank.
Glad to hear a single tank works for you but it would be a deal killer for me.
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Geo, we don’t have Natalie’s call schedule Yet, but are interested. Do they still make you stay a week minimum? That’s a deal killer for us .
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I hate to sound ambivalent, but we are looking at ’99 XLs thru ’02 H’s. We hope to have her purchased by end of Janurary or sooner, but certainly could pull the plug sooner if the right coach came along. I’m sure you have a great coach, but we’re probably looking for one a couple years newer.
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Explorer is on our site as an Advertiser, their located in Ohio and I have been with them many years. There will be a discound for being a PC member, so be sure to them them that.
Here’s our Ad page: Explorer Insurance
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2X what Jon said. Plus Chip just learned quite a bit about his roof air units which will help him down the road!
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Tim…
George is right… Mr Olivers has been in the RV business for years… he had our 2005 Navigator for a few months and wasn’t much of a go getter… takes lots of great pics and I think has a decent knowledge of Prevosts but I would do a PDI unless you buy really cheap…
The coach looks really nice… he will probably tell you anything you want to know.. I do believe he’s honest.
Good luck… Diane