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Check Your Breakaway Brake Switches
As part of your pre-season maintenance routine, I suggest checking the operation of your breakaway brake switch. This is easy to do, but also easy to overlook.
With the battery connected, pull the pin from the switch box. There should be a notable voltage drop, and the wheels should lock up.
When I tested mine this year, I got nada. Sometimes I could get it to engage by banging on the switch housing with a wrench. I'm guessing the internal contacts are corroded.
Replacement switches are easy to come by for as low as $10. The biggest challenge to installation would be splicing in the new switch wires.
Re: Battleborn safety issue per Will Prowse?
A couple of interesting developments:
Battleborn did a written interview with Mike Sokol:
And they sued Will Prowse:
Re: External Solar Port on T@B 360
The SAE connector on our trailers (in 99 percent of the installs) are set up so that the "positive" output from your solar controller is carefully "inside the plastic" of the cable that connects to the port. It is not "reversed" or backwards in any way. This thought of "reverse polarity" is now so entrenched in every conversation of the port that I just beat my head against the wall trying to explain it. Here is a photo of an SAE port wired in a 320 with the "positive" wire from the battery on the top…in this port, the positive wire from the controller should be wired to the part of the cable that is "inside the plastic". If you check with a multimeter, and see exactly how the port is set up, you can wire the cable from the controller appropriately and skip the "adapters". I have SAE connectors on all of my solar setups, and since I've always made sure on the proper "polarity" of every cable, I do not have any "adapters".
So, don't listen to me, don't listen to anyone. Sort out how your SAE port is wired, and wire things accordingly. Get a multimeter, we can show you how to use it.
Your 80 amp hour panel with the 10 amp controller ( a PWM is simply a type of controller) will work just fine with your "port". The only downside is an 80 watt panel might only bring in 3 or 4 amps at the most, which is not really enough to charge your 200 amp hours of battery quickly. But, as an adjunct to your solar on the roof, it will help. The best part, though, is getting that panel and controller combo to work will give you some experience when you want to improve that setup.
Re: Axle camber seems excessive
Re: Confused with the position of the Alde bypass valve 2019 Tab 320 S
True, do expect some new tubing and maybe an elbow, connector, whatever will be needed to correctly route the lines. If a mobile tech is used . . . send them some pictures of what is needed so they bring the correct mix of fitting/pipe.
Re: Confused with the position of the Alde bypass valve 2019 Tab 320 S
Edit: Nevermind need to clean my glasses…..
Re: Confused with the position of the Alde bypass valve 2019 Tab 320 S
? ? Did I Just Solve This ? ?
While thinking about Truma's shocking recommendation not to service the TMV that includes a filter screen, but fully replace it . . . .
I revisited and merged the Voyager May-22 and May-23 pictures
and NOTICED the TMV is installed Wrong.
It appears (to me) the Cabin Hot Pipe is connected to the TMV Cold Input and the Cabin Cold is connected to the TMV Hot "out'. Am I seeing correctly? Gosh, how did we miss that if I'm right.
Re: Tires wearing badly
Re: Confused with the position of the Alde bypass valve 2019 Tab 320 S
Let's focus on figuring out where the problem is. Confirm: there is no water coming out of the faucets when set to full hot ? If so you don't even need to have the Alde turned on because it's a water delivery problem, not a water temperature problem.
Above I suggested to check if there is hot water at the outside shower and for some reason you can't test that but there is another hot water outlet near the Alde system: The hot water side drain for winterizing. So with the water pump on (no external water supply), valves in normal operating positions if you open the drain valve it should behave like a regular faucet. Water should come out below the trailer and the water pump should start running. If yes: Problem is in the lines going towards the front of the trailer. If no: Work back towards the Alde. Start disconnecting the push-connect junctions until water starts flowing.
Re: Battery for 2018 T@B 320
