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RE: What new gear or gadgets are you RVing with this summer?
Vizio Sound Bar with wireless sub-woofer. Fits perfectly under the 32", and the sound is soooo much better than the tiny, tinny, speakers in the flat screen!
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Fredzo
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03/30/13 02:16pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Roomba Vacuum Cleaners for Stick Home
We have two Roombas and a Scooba that mops the kitchen and breakfast room tile. They're great, but the high-capacity aftermarket battery makes them even better. There are a couple of places that they get stuck, but we've learned to block them witha trash can or something.
When we get home from the beach (or anywhere, for that matter), I just turn one loose in the moho and let 'er rip for a couple of hours. It hets places you never would with a regular vac.
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Fredzo
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03/15/13 02:48pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Onan 5.5 HJAB-901A starting problem
Oops! Didn't see your post!;)
The regulator arm moves freely. As it moves downwards, the engine quits running.
If shore power isn't connected, why would there be a delay in the transfer switch? There's no power on the shore side. I would expect the transfer switch to be over to the generator as power source if there's no shore power hooked up. We were doing our checks over the weekend with the shore unmbilical unplugged.The transfer switch always faults to shore power. How else would you get a 30 second delay on gen start up. The delay is to give the gen a chance to stabilize before powering the RV.
Sam
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Fredzo
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03/14/13 11:57am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Onan 5.5 HJAB-901A starting problem
The gen needs a few seconds to stabalize. It outputs power immediately, but the transfer switch delays switching over.
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Fredzo
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03/14/13 11:54am |
Tech Issues
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RE: Onan 5.5 HJAB-901A starting problem
Take your mutimeter and set for ac plug your leads into electrical outlet in the trailer while cranking to verify 120 or a lamp or anything just make sure your on gen power not shore power just unscrew that solenoid to check it but this sounds like the board you may have to take it out and send it to flight systems to verify its good another thing you may try is using this contact cleaner on every plug in that goes to the board and start switch Theres a http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=2104746 lot of little prongs in all the plugs mex posted this cleaner the other day said its really good I'm going to get some myself
The time delay in the transfer switch will not let power into the MoHo for up to a minute after the gen has started, so that will do no good.
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Fredzo
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03/13/13 12:47pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Onan 5.5 HJAB-901A starting problem
That's why I think it's the mechanical regulator arm. See if it moves freely with the gen off. Should be just a bit of spring tension holding it in the up position.
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Fredzo
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03/13/13 12:43pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Onan 5.5 HJAB-901A starting problem
To reset these, you just touch the prime switch again for a second.
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Fredzo
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03/12/13 02:25pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Onan 5.5 HJAB-901A starting problem
When I had that code, it was a slightly low house battery.
Another friend had that code when his mechanical regulator was sticking in the cold weather. A shot of silicone lube on the regulator pivot fixed it.
The codes mean something. Don't shotgun for off-the-wall things when you get an engine speed code.
JMHO.
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Fredzo
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03/12/13 02:06pm |
Tech Issues
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RE: Cruise ship nightmare
We were on the first cruise that the Carnival Splendour made after the fire, and everything was as smooth as silk! I'm working with my agent now to get a Panama Canal cruise this year.
We always try for fantail balcony staterooms, and if something like the engine room fire occurs, we have our own little outside space.
We've been on three Carnival cruises, and all have been excellent. We took a Royal Carribean Alaska cruise, and everything was fine except for the awful food. It was mostly Mediterranean, and I swear I saw some of it looking back at me!
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Fredzo
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02/18/13 11:59am |
Around the Campfire
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RE: CB antenna as an alternate to TV antenna?
Hi,
I think you mean a 1/4 wave whip. That's 102 inches. A full wave would be over 35 feet.
Actually 1/4 wave on 11 meters is 108".
Antenna is 102" and the spring is 6". The spring is part of the antenna.
And that would be 102.5".
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Fredzo
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09/15/12 03:32pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Flagstaff to Albuquerque RV Parks on I 40
Meteor Crater campground in Arizona, which is the only RV park at that exit. Nice park and a short drive to see the Crater.
And the bathrooms are AMAZING for an overnighter! Regular 5x7' "American Bathrooms"! They even have tissue boxes on the back of the toilets
When we were leaving, I asked the gal at the desk if people were responsible with the cleanliess of the bathrooms, and she told me that they've never had a problem.
I've stayed there twice, coming home from the East Coast, and have been pleased with the place both times.
*WARNING*!!!: If you have another guy travelling with you, don't let them buy the bean and green chile burrito in the convenience store!
'Nuff said.
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Fredzo
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09/15/12 03:20pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Hooking into private underground septic system
I put a mobile home on the back of my property for my sister to live in, and had the contractor install a dump station about 30' from the mobile home.
We dump in there at least once a month and it's usually around 70-80 gallons between the two tanks. No problems in eight years.
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Fredzo
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08/09/12 03:55pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Yet another help needed Onan problem
A wiring harness in my 5500 sagged and kept the regulator arm from having full movement.
Don't remember if there was a harness there in the old 4000 I had, but make sure nothing impedes the arm's movement.
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Fredzo
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08/07/12 12:03pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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RE: Tank dumping quiz, who does this?
The condescending germaphobe posts do get old.
X2, at least! I don't even own a pair of rubber gloves, and never will. I do use Clorox wipes, when I think of them, but I'm the guy that all the 'phobes see eating the sammich and drinking the beer while I dump.
I was in the Navy, and had head-cleaning detail more than once, and lived to tell about it. I was on an understaffed Destroyer during 'Nam, and even after reaching E-5, had to do my duty (or would that be "Dooty?").
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Fredzo
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07/09/12 06:17pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Glad I got to the dump station first
potable. just like it says: able to be put in a pot. simple! ;)
No, it's Southern for easy to move. :B
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Fredzo
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06/03/12 03:10pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: cordless vacs
I don't think any of those little vacuums work well, Get a roomba robot vacuum cleaner, let it do its thing while you can sit and relax and sip on a beverage.
X2, and it goes places you'd never get to!
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Fredzo
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06/03/12 01:12pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: teenage neices plugged toilet!!
I can't believe that I read this entire thread with interest. Must be a slow day. It's just something that has probably happened to a lot of people...including me.
When I've had this happen to us in the past(2 teenagers), I found yet another use for the awning hook. I just gently guided the awning hook down into the hole and massaged the stubborn clog to work it's way downstream. A couple of big 5 gallon pail flushes after that and we were back in business.
Of course I then did a full sanitize job on the awning hook.
LOL! Same experience years ago. Brought back fond(?) memories of camping with two daughters and a younger wife.
I thought I was helping save Black Tank room by using the bushes or CG Potty, but the liquid was needed to help break up the "Bandini Mountain", as we called it.
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Fredzo
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05/29/12 05:32pm |
General RVing Issues
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RE: Making the move to a Class A
Having had everything from tents, to tent trailers, to Vanagons, to TT's and Fivers, we feel like we're on vacation as soon as we pull out of the driveway with the MoHo.
Don't know why, but maybe it's the simple set up, or the fact that the DW can take a "real" nap on the road when she doesn't feel well.
My wife has a neuro-muscular disease (myasthaenia Gravis), and we never know what shape she'll be in from day to day, so the MoHo is our only answer.
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Fredzo
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05/29/12 05:08pm |
Class A Motorhomes
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