Chas Morristown, NJ
Trail Lite
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Somewhat unrelated, I keep my engine battery charged using a charge jumper cable (cigarette lighter plugs on both ends) connected between the TV/Accy plug in the overhead and one of the dash accy plugs. Shore power cable attached to house and powered. Works great.
Q: has anyone had their coach battery relay stick ON? I can't seem to get the ON/Store light to go out. (Above mentioned cable disconnected.)
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2001 Trail Lite B+ 211
2002 Trail-Lite Model 211-S w/5.7 Chevy (click View Profile)
Gene
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Daniel C. wrote:
Labtek; I have already driven 1500 miles in two weeks!. I will average about 500 a week for the next couple of months,then about 1200 a month. I do not expect mileage to increase much, but I am having so much fun with that engine that I really don't care (a different tone will prevail when gas returns to $2 a gallon!). I had driven about four different brands from a couple of Rialta's, and three van conversion brands, one with fancy air bags, that could be adjusted from the cab and all at least 20K more new, and none with the same room. They all were rather vague on the highway. My Trail Lite is much more stable (due to the duals probably). I plan to use the slide a lot, and that may be achilles' heel in the construction. I suspect that the mechanism was not designed for repeated use, and may begin to separate over time. Added screws will help there. I plan to put a swivel under the passenger's seat at some time in the future. I also plan to get some pads for the couch and dinette (for better sleeping). Both are only about 40" wide, and though the unit is rated to sleep 4, I suspect that they grow pretty small people at the factory!
Since I do not plan to sleep in the unit much, I am not much concerned with that. In fact, I have been thinking about getting a sizeable trailer in the future to pull behind the B+ when I am retired and want to stay in one place for longer periods than a couple of days. Sorry for the long reply.... I have obviously been obsessing a lot over this vehicle over the past few months!
Labtek; I have already driven 1500 miles in two weeks!. I will average about 500 a week for the next couple of months,then about 1200 a month. I do not expect mileage to increase much, but I am having so much fun with that engine that I really don't care (a different tone will prevail when gas returns to $2 a gallon!). I had driven about four different brands from a couple of Rialta's, and three van conversion brands, one with fancy air bags, that could be adjusted from the cab and all at least 20K more new, and none with the same room. They all were rather vague on the highway. My Trail Lite is much more stable (due to the duals probably). I plan to use the slide a lot, and that may be achilles' heel in the construction. I suspect that the mechanism was not designed for repeated use, and may begin to separate over time. Added screws will help there. I plan to put a swivel under the passenger's seat at some time in the future. I also plan to get some pads for the couch and dinette (for better sleeping). Both are only about 40" wide, and though the unit is rated to sleep 4, I suspect that they grow pretty small people at the factory!
Since I do not plan to sleep in the unit much, I am not much concerned with that. In fact, I have been thinking about getting a sizeable trailer in the future to pull behind the B+ when I am retired and want to stay in one place for longer periods than a couple of days. Sorry for the long reply.... I have obviously been obsessing a lot over this vehicle over the past few months!
I'm still waiting for that $2 gas to return!
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This is quite a thread, hadn't been into it before.
Hoppe
2011 Dodge 1500 C'boy Caddy
2000 Jayco C 28' Ford chassis w V-10 E450
Doghouse 36' or so Trophy Classic TT
I could get religious about some of that.
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Orion_42 wrote:
Q: has anyone had their coach battery relay stick ON? I can't seem to get the ON/Store light to go out. (Above mentioned cable disconnected.)
Q: has anyone had their coach battery relay stick ON? I can't seem to get the ON/Store light to go out. (Above mentioned cable disconnected.)
I changed the Emer Start solenoid with no apparent effect on how the chassis and house batteries operate. As far as I can tell, if the engine is on, the USE/STORE disconnect red lite will be on regardless whether the toggle is set to STORE. Likewise when its plugged into shore power.
The only time the house batt disconnect red light is off is when nothing is charging anything in the rig. In this case, setting USE/Store to STORE will cause the red light to go out.
I've given up understanding what is supposed to be happening with all the possible elec redundancies.
2005 Trail Lite 213 B-Plus w/ 6.0 Chevy
