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thank you all for your help! Some more details: the 300W inverter we use while highway driving is connected to the main coach battery and ground, probably about 6 feet of 4ga wiring. Our driving habits are: we tend to drive either long days (15-17hrs) and "wall mart camp" or drive short days...

Hi All,   Thanks again for being my favorite RV site on the web! More trouble with my Generac/ Guardian RV generator, and I'm getting sick of it.  The voltage regulator went out on day 1 of a 31-day TX-Alaska-Tx trip this year. The only thing we use our generator for, is microwaving meals...

thank you all for your wonderful suggestions!  Any trouble with smugglers/ violence/ crime in the park? I hear there's a horse ride you can take inside the park that takes you into Mexico with passport, but I have no idea if it's safe for wife + bunch of kids...

Anyone camp at Big Bend in the winter?  I'm planning a trip around Christmas/ New Years, and was wondering what the weather is like.  Weather.com shows Dec average low of 37F and avg high of 62F, but that can mean a lot of things.  Any idea what the chances of ti being <40s during the day, or...

All brass fittings either say "not intended for use with water for human consumption" or "lead free brass...conforms to  code XXX".  I can find all other brass fitting in the latter, except for house bibs/valves.

I am building an RV garage that will enclose my RV, sometimes while guests stay in it.  All the garden hose valves (house bibs or water heater drain valves) I find are labeled "not for human consumption".  Any ideas where I can get a connection/ valve that will fit a standard garden hose thread...

I would advise you buy the newest unit you can afford, but beyond that, I would recommend a Class C for 2 reasons: Construction and  operating costs. Construction: If you buy a large Class A on a greyhound bus frame, you are getting a very solid, very tested, very well-thought out frame (that...

Thanks Dakota!  I used to store it offsite, but now it's at my home and in an indoor garage, with hookups.  I just replaced my house battery, after running with it for 3-4 yrs near-death.  Overnights w/ no hookups got pretty cold when the furnace blower quits halfway through the night :)  The...

Thanks again, Gary!  Without swapping out my unit (P7300) I guess I'll just plug it in maybe 2 weeks/ month.  I know you're not supposed to keep them at lower than 50% charge, but I don't have a way to easily measure that (RV status panel is no help here).

Thanks, Gary!  I'll have to do some crawling around.  Any hints where I'll find it?  (does the pick-up tube usually go into the tank near the fill-hose (hose you pump gas into at the station) or could it be sticking into the tank from *any* direction? thanks again!

My Class C has a 1/4 tank shut off, and it works VERY accurately.  I *really* want to let the generator run no matter what (even if our tank is nearly dry).  What's the easiest way to do this?  Do I need to pull the generator's fuel line from the gas tank, and extend it?  Or just push it in...

Holy cow, that's crazy-complicated!  I just read my house-power unit is a Paralax 7300, and it shrinks down the charge to "only a few hundred milliamps" after a while.

I have a gas-engine Class C, 22ft, which is much smaller and lighter obviously.  Just to speak to the "slow down" idea: My gas mileage just tanks if I go too much faster than 55MPH.  I can manage >10MPG at 63MPH on the highway.  I'm not retired, so stealing away from work days on my trips, and...

Yes I can!  thank you very much! Does everyone with a Four Winds factory stove vent have this problem? thank you, Chris

My buddy's 14k lb Diesel 1-ton pickup threw some codes at him and refused to start, so I lent him my ODBII reader to clear them.  After he did, his engine worked fine, and he got another 2MPG out of it.  Sometimes the trade-off for fuel efficiency and emissions your engine's computer made...