Recent content by John Stephens

Unfortunately, in order to have it fit on the breaker panel and be easily reset, it will have to be a button breaker similar to the one pictured in Charles post.

I replaced that 55a breaker about three or four years ago because it had gone bad. Now, I'm being told it's nearly impossible to find one. I doubt this one has gone bad, if for no other reason than its age. I'm convinced I have a short in my thermostat because after I slid that switch back to...

Woof-n: The heat pump is AC. The furnace uses DC to run the blower. The breaker tripped while I was on the road using the generator. It was impossible for me to tell what the battery voltage was when the trip occurred because I didn't know it occurred until the batteries were dead from not being...

I just got back from a two-week trip to Illinois to attend a funeral. The coach was taken out of storage here is SW Florida and readied for the trip, and everything appeared to be working. While in Illinois, we encountered cold weather, with the nights getting down to 36 degrees. I anticipated...

Everyone, thanks for all the replies. I replaced both start caps for the compressors and a third for the fan. The top of it was mushrooming, so I assumed it didn't have much longer. Upon putting it back together, I started the a/c, and it did what it was supposed to - jumped to 23A and then...

Kirk: I bought the coach in 2015 when it was 10 years old. The original owner never used the generator (69 hours after 10 years), never used the a/c, and only had 23,000 miles on the coach. When I had the a/c serviced the first time, it was because the ductwork inside the back cap of the coach...

My wife and I enjoy traveling cross-country nearly every year. When I plan out my itinerary for our next trip, I always plan on staying overnight in Cracker Barrels first, Walmarts second, and any other big box store parking lots such as Lowe's, Sam's, or Home Depot third while we are on the...

I misspoke when I gave the impression that this spike occurs every time I turn the a/c on. It did it once last year while we were on a trip in August. We put the coach in storage in September and I visit it frequently to do other work on it throughout the winter months. I run the generator every...

I have a 2005 Adventurer 38J with the original a/c and heat pump. Lately, whenever I turn on the a/c, it shoots the amp reading up to the 40-60 amp range for a second, and then drops back to the normal 13-15 amp range until the second compressor kicks on. Does this mean the start capacitor for...

Thanks for the responses, guys. I have set the gap at .025" and comparing them to the ones being taken out, they appear about right, given the wear on the old plugs.

I'm tuning up my generator in my 2005 Adventurer 38J and can't find what the spark plug gap should be set at. I've looked at the owner's manual, the generator cover, and all the decals around the generator, and I can't find the gap information anywhere. Can anyone who has tuned up one of these...

I just had my 2005 1201 Norcold cooling system replaced with the dual compressor 12v system from JC. They worked me into their full schedule when I told them I would be in their area on a particular day. They seem very concerned about provided excellent customer service, and are very proud of...

JC Refrigeration is an Amish company that believes in providing the best customer service possible. We got to the facility at 7:45, and were told we were going to be squeezed into their already full schedule. They took the coach into the air conditioned building at noon, allowed us to place all...

I haven't posted a followup since the 3rd because two days later on the 5th, we had to call our vacation to an end. We drove from Glacier NP to Post Falls, ID on the Washington border and stopped at a Cabela's for the night when we discovered not one, but two hydraulic leaks. Two more slide out...

We made two trips into Glacier NP on the Going to the Sun Road in the last two days and it took me over an hour to get all the dirt caked up in my wheel wells cleaned out. A solid cake of dirt ¼" thick was all over the car because the first nine miles of the west entrance of the road has been...