Raymond
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Chuck, welcome to the Vantare’ world. You will love it and your wife will grow to like it as well.
If you have questions, ask away. There are some secrets about the Vantare’, but you have George and Diane who can answer most, and I have a few bits of insight as well, just not as much as George and Diane. What we cannot answer Jeff can, so you are in good hands.
Welcome aboard, and hope to see you out and about soon. Oh, you will love the OTR.
Fred
P.S. Go into your Profile and turn on your email and I can send you some tidbits on your coach.
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Tom: Do you even have a city horn on your present coach?
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Walt, you may be correct, however as the resident cynic I see two flaws with widespread use of electric as opposed to gas or diesel or propane or whatever.
As the demand for electric ramps up it will not be long before the taxes we pay per gallon are applied to electric for cars. As the demand increases so will prices based on supply and demand ramp up. At some point the cost to drive per mile for fuel will be a wash. If you think I am overly pessimistic look at what you now pay for your phone(s), internet connection, television, and even radio if you use XM. Not a soul would have predicted how we now pay through the snoot for stuff that had almost no cost. There is no way in Hell the people whose hands are collecting money associated with fuel for vehicles are going to allow their share to be diminished, especially the governmental agencies that reap huge rewards from our purchases of fuel.
But if saving money is not the motivating factor for folks who are embracing electric cars then it is likely environmental and I seriously doubt the air gets cleaner or the nuclear waste gets to be less. The electric energy still has to be generated and no matter the source for generation unless we are using solar, hydro or wind power we still have pollution issues.
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Thanks, Jon. I did a quick check on every post. I took her out for a 45 minute spin. I sure do love this big ole girl.
It got too dark to try to get her into her new home for today so she is back in her normal enclosed bay. I am off this week and will plan to bring the girl home tomorrow.
Two if the boy’s are in from school to help me tomorrow. Third is in from school on Tuesday.
I will post another update if she does the same thing tomorrow.
Ron
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Thank you, I’ll look in there.
Are you referring to the compartment forward of the engine bay, at the tag on the drivers side?
Thanks again
Ray
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On mine there is a breaker that powers up the clutch on the compressor in the electrical compartment in the engine bay. If this breaker is tripped it is possible it could shut down the whole system,on mine it was in the row of breakers on the right .
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You have one of those too? You Liberty folks have all the cool stuff!
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I was thinking about this a bit more. If the 120V into the invertor is not hot, then the invertor should start inverting, using DC battery power to power those 4 circuits.
The input was wire nutted and electrical taped on our ’98 conversion.
Sorry about the pictures. Photobucket has taken everyone’s media hostage. I’ll try to re-link them.
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You two guys must be doing something wrong if you need body armor.
On occasion I work on my bus and I not only never get cut or bleed, I never even get dirt under my manicured fingernails. I did find the other day when I was dusting my polished slack adjusters that I had to wash my hands when I got done.
Good advice BTW.
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Mike, welcome aboard the Best Prevost owners community forum on the net!Thanks again for helping that night, I was after 12 hrs drive, and parking was very tight with all the vehicles / toads parked by their camping units. Regards to your wife from us, we enjoyed meeting you guys!
As we discussed, here you have wealth of coach information from all aspects and help when you are in doubt or trouble on the road.
I know you take a joke or two, don’t get “pushed away” by some comments made here…Aldo I agree with 3F, you should keep Tom and Jon on your Christmas list, or at least think about it….Now for the coaches you are looking at, I am sure you did your homework, but this group might have info that will help you on your decision making.
Just ask, there are not stupid questions, we are all in this together learning everyday something new about these Ultimate machines…I am sure with your electric/electronics knowledge you can assist lots of folks here.
If you prefer, you should open your email in your profile so members can contact you directly with answers or questions.
Hope to see you guys soon!
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Dick,
Jon just added the automation to the Rose Petal dispenser on the
macerator as Liberty took a coffee break when building his coach and only installed the Rose Petal automation on the driver side. Since he got all the air leaks fixed and does
not have slack adjusters to polish, he got bored and installed the automation. -
I tend to be hard nosed when it comes to licensing for RV’s. If a person is going to drive an RV over a certain size, ot tow a camper trailer over a certain weight I want to know they are qualified to share the road with me. If that sounds snobbish or egotistical, so be it.
Our coaches in particular require certain knowledge and skills, and without them the driver should stay off the highway. If you pull one of these 3 axle fifth wheel campers that are a gazillion feet long you should demonstrate an ability to drive it, and that includes parallel parking it and backing in a straight line. If you have a coach and pull a trailer you should have the same class a truck driver has for that rig.
I am not hung up on a driver of a personal vehicle having a medical, or a commercial class A or B. What I am hung up on is that drivers need to pass the written test and demonstrate their driving skill in a road test. If it means the industry gets to sell fewer coaches, so be it.
I am sure others see the same lack of skills. I have emailed, spoke on the phone, met and answered posts on this forum from people that have never done a brake check, and in fact never even knew there was a way to check them. I have seen people who had the campground golf cart driver back the coach into the space. I have had motorhomes with a toad pull into my lane before the toad even cleared my front bumper. I have watched RV drivers with big heavy rigs tailgate cars and speeding, ignoring their tires are speed rated and not caring if the car being tailgated tries to stop. Our insurance is affected and if those folks are 3 feet awy in the next lane we have some risk.
Even if the state of domicile does not require or offer a non-commercial class B or even an A try to get some training, even if it only the written test.
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Jon,
You are probably right about loading up the generator. But if you add in some altitude, say 4,000 feet msl and some heat, say 100 degrees, it is easy to over tax and over heat the generator if you are not careful.
My generator does not smoke. I use RV-1 as well and have over 4,000 hours on it.
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Anyone have pictures of this limited edition Pressure Pro display holder?
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Al, we have harped on changing batteries out after five years (sooner if they have been abused) just because a bad battery or bad set will drive a person crazy.
If every owner considers that chasing what appears to be an inverter gets very expensive very fast it becomes clear that removing good batteries at the end of 5 years is ultimately pretty cheap preventive maintenance. When you consider your time, miles and out of pocket expense would you agree?
Tom doesn’t push this as much as i have over the years because I think he doesn’t want people to think he is trying to sell batteries. I know he shares the same opinion I do. I know he also (like me) is not in favor of deep discharges which shorten a battery life and may change the replacement interval to a shorter time than the five years we usually discuss.