Recent content by richardhufford

Well, my parts arrived and it turns out I didn't need them. There was one broken trace, and when I soldered a wire in its place, the board started working. Thank you for your help!

I think he's talking to me. My parts are arriving today or tomorrow, so I'll see if I can repair the board. If that doesn't work, I'll try making my own because it looks like fun. The place I send my design to makes 3 copies of the circuit board, so I'd have another 2 to pass along to someone...

I went ahead and ordered a new capacitor and voltage regulator from Digi-Key. (Actually, I ordered two of each, because I can break anything!) I'll spend a day or two and see if I can make the old board work. If I have my act together, I'll post whether it works.

The circuit board that shows tank levels went dead on my 1991 Thor Establishment. It's located behind a panel in my range hood, and it looks to me like the board is burned or corroded near an 8 v. voltage regulator. I'm trying to figure out the best way to deal with the problem. I could try...

Our 1991 motorhome has a switch on the gas detector panel, which remotely turns the propane on or off.  It operates a valve near the propane tank which is in addition to the hand-operated valve.  My understanding is that RVs haven't been built with the electric valve for decades.

This isn't an answer to your question, but I hope it's helpful.  When I bought my RV, I discovered that the adapters you buy at Walmart to inflate duallys don't fit my duallys.  Here's the post I made on the subject awhile back...

Another thing to try is benchmarking.  Instead of geocaches, you're looking for survey markers, which are kind of like geocaches, except they were hidden years ago and the roads have all changed.  www.geocaching.com/mark .  You can even go to the US Geodetic Survey website and enter new...

Our propane detector is a CCI, and it looks to me like the wire going to the propane shutoff is yellow, like the OP's extra wire.  I think it's kind of nice to be able to shut off the propane from inside the coach, so I wonder if installing a toggle switch that will send 12 v. to the shutoff...

I think I remember a propane shutoff valve being attached to the propane alarm on our 1991 motorhome.  Perhaps the difference between a 2-wire and a 3-wire propane alarm would be that one has a wire to the shutoff valve and the other doesn't.  (Sorry, I don't feel like going outside tonight and...

This may be silly, but if it acts like you're turning the ignition switch off and on, maybe it's the ignition switch.  I had a car that was cutting off and on, and replacing all of the electronic ignition parts I could think didn't make a difference.  One day I noticed that the dashboard idiot...

I think Facebook can build a pretty good picture of a person out of the little things they share.  I post pictures of family, pictures of places I've been, comments about how life is going.  Most of these things seem like no big deal, but I've been doing this for about 10 years, I guess, and...

My best argument for getting a motorhome is that we need to go to doctor's appointments in Tucson, about 100 miles away.  Our motorhome has a bed and a bathroom, and those features will make the trip a lot less stressful for me.  If my wife, Linda, needs rest or to use the facilities, all we...

Thanks!

That's how it appears to work.  I wonder if I could've gotten $149 for the first year if I'd called them on  the phone.

From time to time, the question comes up of how much Coach-Net costs.  I joined a year ago, and it's time for my first renewal, so I thought I'd share the information.  I find their website confusing (www.coach-net.com -- note the hyphen in the name).  It looks like there are five different...