There is no need to apologize or to cease bringing up your pets when discussing B+ motorhomes. Bursts of pet talk come up here all the time. Lots of forums on RV.net get into pet discussions from time to time.
To say we cannot talk about our pets in our RVs (which many of us bought only so that we could bring our pets along) would be like saying you cannot bring up religion at a Bible study.
I thing TMBLSN was kindly noting that there is a designated RV Pets forum available and more appropriate for extended-length pet talk.
I also agree that Christine described this B+ thread quite well.
2005 Trail Lite 213 B-Plus w/ 6.0 Chevy
Re: Security for portable surge protector -This universal lock hasp is made by SurgeGuard, but supposedly fits other devices. You have to supply your own padlock. Camping World has it on sale for $19.95.
Fully agree with addressing the unique needs of B+ owners who take pets along, because of our limited storage capacity. We travel with our diabetic cat. His hard-shell carrier fits under the dinette, and when it's turned sideways, the two of us can still sit comfortably. The dinette leg is our only "security". When we're travelling, litter box goes under the sofa (the single slide) on a non-slip mat. When we're stopped, it sits in the cab hump area. The cat prefers to be outside the carrier, so he most often lies under the sofa during transit and is caged only at border stops. Our dear departed dog would lie quietly in the aisle, even though she wasn't thrilled with rides, just with the new smells at the destination.
Best regards, Kelly
Chas Morristown, NJ
Trail Lite
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Also, these forums are A LOT easier to read if you go into your preferences and increase the number of posts per page to 20; I only show 112 pages to this thread. (I noticed that someone indicated that the thread was 223 pages)
Lee
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This forum has been a help too me especially when we were having problems with the TV antenna which seems too be working after all the suggestions that were given. Parking under trees is when the reception is really bad.
Anyway we didnt get our motorhome for our Pet (which turned into 2 pets lol) but it sure is easier too take them places. There are only a few motels that let us bring them. We have done that twice with our Ellie.
We have met a different class of people by having a motorhome. We 'mingle' with people more with a motorhome. (MY HUSBAND NEVER meets a stranger!) Perhaps because he is a nurse. I dont know... We always have someone coming by and asking how we like our B+ . Once when we were looking an the different types of camping things we found a neat slide in truck camper with a slide out for more room. The man we spoke to actually invited us in too see the difference in room space.... lol STILL WE LOVE our B+ the best. The reason my husband likes the size of our motorhome is because he can drive it in and out of most places. That is not too say I WISH we had a HUGE motorhome. However we would probably never come back home... lol
cheeze1 wrote:
Burl, your breaker/fuse panel should be under your rear dinette seat right next to the sink cabinet. You need a torx bit (#10?) to remove the front panel. There is another panel held with 2 normal screws that surrounds the breakers. Remove that and you will find the buss bars. In addition, under the rear dinette seat (if the cover doesn't lift remove the screws) you will find another buss bar screwed to the floor. That's where I found one loose wire. The ones on the melted bar were too far gone for me to determine if any of those were loose/causing the problem.
Burl, your breaker/fuse panel should be under your rear dinette seat right next to the sink cabinet. You need a torx bit (#10?) to remove the front panel. There is another panel held with 2 normal screws that surrounds the breakers. Remove that and you will find the buss bars. In addition, under the rear dinette seat (if the cover doesn't lift remove the screws) you will find another buss bar screwed to the floor. That's where I found one loose wire. The ones on the melted bar were too far gone for me to determine if any of those were loose/causing the problem.
Finally got to tightening all loose screws:
These two busbars were where you had a meltdown
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* on the two bus bars you pictured in a link showing your problem meltdown - I had little looseness on maybe two screws,
* and one needing a 1/4 turn on the other bus bar under the seat where all wires were white.
* Note. though you did not mention this, I found several wires were 1/8 turn loose at the terminals of the 6 or so pull-out fuses next door to the two busbars that melted on you (to the right of what you see in the pic above)
Also, we had discussed my power cord head-to-wire separation. I bought a replacement 30A plug (for the cg power pole) at Home Depot (Leviton No. 830 T) for $10. It is 2 piece hinged plastic w/ good instructions of how to strip the wires and which go where. I will keep it in the RV, but for now as a backup.
I bridged the 1/4" gap from the plug head and the cord outer black sheathing by forming a 1" long barrel around the cord (using a 1" wide by 2" long piece of thin plastic cut from a old soft butter container) working one end of the barrel up into the plug head and wrapping it all over w/ elec tape. Plugged the cord into adapter and house outlet and ran the AC - there seems to be no noticeable heat issue.
I will monitor the plug heat at a cg.
If I do determine a 'cool' plug at cg power stations, I will be inclined to guess that the cord pulls away from the plug due to all the uneven 'bunching' that might occur when winding and unwinding all or partial lengths of the 25 ft. powewr cord. Maybe not related to heat at all. Will let you know.
* This post was last edited 08/31/09 09:46am by burlmart *
Sounds like a reasonable repair. I tighted every screw in sight, including the ones loose in my head when I buttoned down the renovation of a near debacle. I wonder if there is a product like a heat wrap that you could wrap around a cord split and then heat with a hair dryer to make a nice seal? I've only seen tubular electrical heat wraps so if there's a big plug in the way, one must find alternatives.
Likely the company, RayChem makes smaller sizes for smaller cables.
Mike
2012 Winnebago Impulse Silver 26QP
2005 16.6 Double Eagle
2018 Jeep Wrangler JK
previously Snowbird Campers,
Triple E Motorhome and Fifth Wheel
Artum Snowbird wrote:
There is such a heat shrink wrap. I don't know about smaller sizes, but when I worked as an industrial electrician we would sometimes have to splice cables that were connected at both ends hundreds of feet away...Likely the company, RayChem makes smaller sizes for smaller cables.
Do you mean like shown here - www.HeatShrinkSleeves.com?There is such a heat shrink wrap. I don't know about smaller sizes, but when I worked as an industrial electrician we would sometimes have to splice cables that were connected at both ends hundreds of feet away...Likely the company, RayChem makes smaller sizes for smaller cables.
Picture -
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2002 Trail-Lite Model 211-S w/5.7 Chevy (click View Profile)
Gene
After a large cable tray fire we had to isolate lines and be sure their insulation from each other wasn't endangered. Once the burnt section was pulled out of the plastic mess, we would cut off back to the unburnt section, discard the burnt pieces, and splice in new lengths between the good ends.
It might be just as easy to put a stretchy rubber layer of tape (again, industrial electrical product) and then a layer of Scotch 88 lapped over the rubber. The rubber layer provides a waterproof and rub resistant layer, and the Scotch 88 is the finish layer.
In any case, please do consider if the metal wiring inside the cover has been overheated, it must be replaced completely. Overheated copper does not have similiar properties of conduction and resistance as good copper.
Mike
* This post was edited 08/31/09 02:48pm by Artum Snowbird *