Something remarkable happened today

[LarsMac]

We've been hanging out at our kid's house near Waterboro for the last few weeks.
They are having their house painted.
We had to move the Dancer away from to accommodate the painters' spraying the garage. We didn't think speckled Blue would really be a look we want for the Dancer. 
So we backed out to the end of the driveway, and I set up for the day.
After the painters finished, I moved back down close to the garage, in the shade.

All the time we have had them, the HWH levelers have failed, every time, to actually auto-level. They usually leave use some sort of cattiwhumpus, and I have to store them and then start over to manually set them to get the thing level.

After two nearly three years, this time, today, I hit the button, and voil?! The Dancer, it is PERFECTLY LEVEL.

I am amazed and delighted.
May I assume that they have now been properly trained and that perhaps, I may expect a similar performance next time?

 

[Back2PA]

May I assume that they have now been properly trained and that perhaps, I may expect a similar performance next time?

No 

 

[SpencerPJ]

Fluke... especially since you just bragged it worked.  ;D ;D ;D

 

[SusanV]

LOL! ^ Best two answers ever.  ;D

 

[malexander]

I call my power gear levelers "the wonder jacks". I push the button, and wonder if the damn things are going to qwork.

 

[KandT]

Even a broken clock is right twice a day.  I am diagnosing that you were at exactly the angles the jacks usually are off by! ;D

My solution?  Just camp the rest of your RV's life in that exact spot. ???

 

[Ernie n Tara]

Better yet, just don't use th he damn things. I haven't used mine in four years.


Ernie

 

[Gary RV_Wizard]

Have you ever calibrated the "level" to teach it what you are expecting it to do?  I'm not familiar with HWH systems, but most auto-levels have a fairly simple way to teach the controller.

I guess I was spoiled - my Equalizer system near always got the job done right.

 

[SeilerBird]

I only used power levelers once and manual leveling only once. No need to level the RV if you know how to park in a campsite.

 

[Back2PA]

No need to level the RV if you know how to park in a campsite.

With only about 40 years off and on perhaps I don't have quite the experience you do. How does one park without leveling on a site that is sloped?

 

[mel s]

Better yet, just don't use th he damn things. I haven't used mine in four years.
Ernie

Ernie n Tara
How is your absorption refrigerator holding up?

 

[grashley]

If the Good Lord made them work, don't ask how or why.  Say THANK YOU, LORD and keep on moving.

 

[UTTransplant]

With only about 40 years off and on perhaps I don't have quite the experience you do. How does one park without leveling on a site that is sloped?

I was wondering the same thing!

 

[KandT]

I was wondering the same thing!

Well it is easy.  You take the tires off the uphill side and see if you are level.  If not take the rims off.  If you are too low just add some shims to the drums.  if you have to go lower just run the drums on the ground back and forth until they dig into the ground.

Voila!  You are level.  Now you may have to use the back bumper as a "dozer" to get the rear low enough.

With enough practice you too can park with no levelers at a camp site.

Now if this wasn't Seilerbird, I wouldn't have teased him like this ;D. But since I love Seiler's sarcasm I can't help but tease him a little.  All in good fun Seiler! ;D ;D

 

[Ernie n Tara]

I was never more than 1-1/2 degrees off level. Just ask for a level spot and, in good parks, you'll get one.

Ernie

 

[SeilerBird]

I do not park of sloped sites (except one time at the Monterey County Fairgrounds). I make it a point to arrive as early in the day as possible to the campground when there are usually lots of sites available. I pick one that is fairly level. Every site in every campground has a bit of a tilt to make sure that the rain does not puddle. I see which way the site is sloped and then park the front of the RV on the uphill side. All RVs and cars are slanted forward. So the front is closer to the ground than the back. Parking with the front end on the uphill side usually results in a completely level RV.

 

[LarsMac]

So, ever since starting this thread, I have had excellent luck with the levelers.
The leveler control seems to have learned what "level" is, and every time, all the way back to Colorado, it has hit the mark.
Going up into the Mountains next week. We will see how it does there.