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Kitchen Pegboard

We're not normally Ikea shoppers, but our son asked us to pick something up. While there we spotted this slotted pegboard and thought it might work in our T@B on the wall next to the stove. Now we have to go back for more of the accessories.

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AnOldUR

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Re: Let’s love the Alde and ketchup on everything :-0

Camak said:

When eating Zweigles or snappy grillers NY state law says you must use Nancy’s spicy mustard or Nancy’s chili sauce, unless of course it is 2am and you are dining on a garbage plate at Nick Tahous, then you must use yellow mustard on the Greek meat sauce

@Camak

Obviously you are much more up to date on NY state law than I and will take your caution in mind during our next visit. I have a vague positive memory of Nancy's Chili and look forward to sampling her mustard. Perhaps Heid's in Syracuse offers it?

My gastrointestinal track had an immediate negative reaction when reminded of a Garbage Plate. I'm sure this reaction is age related as my prime for such gastronomic specialties at 2:00am was 30-40 years ago.

As I've mentioned before a good Rochester style meat sauce on a ground round is a treat I do miss and have yet to experience as an export. Schaller's remains a personal favorite. This might be slanted by the memory of taking my better half there on dates 40 plus years ago.

SweetlyHome

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Re: Another New T@B Owner

Well, it’s been a month since bringing home our TaB. Thought a quick update was in order. It’s still sitting in the same spot in our driveway, but we’ve been busy with personalizing and functional mods. In a couple of weeks we’ll be taking it out to Miller’s. Since we purchased from an Airstream dealer, we wanted a better orientation. They also agreed to walk us through the dewinterizing process. The weekend following that we’ll be doing a one night stay at a Harvest Host winery as a shakedown cruise. Very exciting stuff. Can’t wait.

edit to add:
We went to Miller’s to schedule the service. Great, friendly people to work with. Feel very lucky to have them as our local dealer. Also want to say thank to this forum for all the help it has given us.

AnOldUR

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Re: V6 GMC Canyon, NOT diesel

I have a 2018 GMC Canyon gas engine and 2018 Tab 400. I agree with what vhollow stated. We have traveled through the Smoky Mtns , the Black Hills but not the Rockies — yet. The vehicle has the power to pull but will rev high on the uphill. I use a Curt sway bar which helped and provided confidence in windy situations. You know you’re towing but confident with the truck. I stay at max of 65 mph and average 13 mpg. As to the transmission shutter, we never had issues towing but we have felt it on the truck on occasion when the engine is cold — we had it checked by the dealer and all is ok. We like the truck and appreciate the great mpg.

Explore

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Re: Changing out the Alde fluid.

Horigan said:

Agreed. It all depends on what you have on hand. I don't have a pump or any adapters, but I do have a shop vac and duct tape.

I had purchased an accessory kit for my shop vac a while ago. It came with an adapter and a reduced size hose and nozzles to clean in tight spots. I think one of the nozzles would fit over the Alde reservoir hose.

Tampakayaker

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Re: Alde Heating

Yep you are good to go without water in the system. But as Sharon said, make sure the dealer did not put antifreeze in the alde before you turn the system on. Just open the low point drains for the alde and see if anything comes out. The drains under the bed by the alde with yellow levers, not the ones in the nautilus box.

bergger

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Re: Alde Heating

You can heat the cabin without water in the Alde tank, but please confirm that there is no antifreeze in the Alde tank before turning it on.

Sharon_is_SAM

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Re: Mounting Spare on Back of T@B

@AnOldUR Excellent work.

DougH

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Re: Fuse keeps burning out

@Freespirit, re your statement:

"One last thing, I discovered the red blown fuse light does not work on the circuit board for F4, is this of any concern other than I do not have a visual for a blown fuse."

Back in 2019, I had a similar issue and was confused as to why that was happening. @BrianZ set me straight on it by providing the following explanation (I underlined and bolded the most important part of his information):

"Try turning on an appliance on that circuit before pulling the fuse & see if it comes on. My kill switch on the Alde causes the same behavior when I pull the fuse. The fuse panel red LED needs current flowing through the circuit to light up, so if everything on the circuit is turned off, it won't light."

I keep forgetting to go back and try that out, but it makes sense. However, to see what is happening, go to the below WFCO link and watch the short video for the question, “Why is there voltage on both sides of the 12V fuse board?”

https://wfcoelectronics.com/product-support-videos/

As best I can recall, it was also my F4 LED that was not lighting up. Therefore, since your F4 is for the refrigerator circuit (same as mine), turn the refrigerator "ON" (i.e., 12V/battery power) and then pull out the F4 fuse. The red LED should illuminate when you do that. I recommend that you turn the refrigerator "OFF" before replacing the fuse, just to avoid the possibility of that act alone blowing the 20A fuse. Better yet, follow @MuttonChops suggestion and cut the 12V power to the entire trailer by turning off the battery cut-off switch before replacing any fuse - - - better safe than sorry.

Simply stated, as long as the refrigerator is turned "off," there is no voltage available to light up the red LED, which makes it appear that the red LED is not functioning. By turning the refrigerator "ON", the circuit is completed, thus providing the power/voltage necessary to illuminate the LED when the fuse is either manually removed, or blows. Pretty simple, yet tricky at the same time.

Finally, for a basic understanding of why a fuse may blow, while you are on the WFCO site you should also take a look at the short video for the question, “Why do fuses keep blowing on my 12V fuse board?”

Hope this helps. Please let us know how the F4 "test" described above works out. Thanks for the post. It has been interesting reading and will be helpful for others in the future.

Bayliss

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Re: Mounting Spare on Back of T@B

Very nice job! A first on the forum!

Sharon_is_SAM

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