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Re: Maximizing Solar Off Grid Potential - 740W Build
That trailer will hover all by itself.
Re: Newbie One Night Question
Me, too, @Deb55, but sometimes a change can can bring a wonderful new flavor! I had never had a Mimosa before!
Re: Newbie One Night Question
@Verna, good to know! Although, I like the wine selection in my camper...
Re: Newbie One Night Question
@Deb55, Cracker Barrel’s started serving Mimosas all day long, and wine and beer. It was nice having breakfast with a mimosa—I wasn’t driving!
Re: Glycol tank - cap will not fully tighten and glycol level problem?
Glad to see this discussion as I just added more fluid to the expansion tank in my [email protected] yesterday (second time since September) and noticed the issue with threading the cap back on the tank. I assumed it was me doing something wrong, LOL. Must just be the plastic threads.
Re: Fire Starter Recommendations
@tabiphile
You know that feeling you get in your nose when you have a mouth full of Diet Coke and then you read something funny?
Yeah...thanks! BTW, I'll be sending you a bill for a new keyboard!
You know that feeling you get in your nose when you have a mouth full of Diet Coke and then you read something funny?
Yeah...thanks! BTW, I'll be sending you a bill for a new keyboard!
Glycol tank - cap will not fully tighten and glycol level problem?
I am hearing my Alde system gurgling, so I checked the expansion tank. I found that the fluid was at the minimum mark and the filling cap could not be screwed on very tightly. The threads on the tank [or cap] appeared to be stripped. I can certainly pour more glycol in the tank, but I am concerned about having the cap be securely tightened. I didn't find any leakage; however, it may have evaporated. Any ideas on what is going on and some solutions?
Just some background information: I had my [email protected] 320 in for service at the dealership and to have the Alde system to be repaired. Well, the dealer fixed the Alde hot water problem but not the heating. I had to take it back. The dealership seemed to solve the heating problem by filling the glycol tank. Apparently, the tank was empty. I have had my [email protected] for just over 2 years, so it sounds like the glycol should be replaced.
Just some background information: I had my [email protected] 320 in for service at the dealership and to have the Alde system to be repaired. Well, the dealer fixed the Alde hot water problem but not the heating. I had to take it back. The dealership seemed to solve the heating problem by filling the glycol tank. Apparently, the tank was empty. I have had my [email protected] for just over 2 years, so it sounds like the glycol should be replaced.
Re: Fire Starter Recommendations
We use wax soaked belly button lint. 
A Firestarter is generally not necessary if you have a small supply of dry kindling bits and some newspaper. We split a few bits of kindling from the wood we use, carefully stack it around crumbled newspaper and light it.... Cardboard egg cartons also work well as a starter. You might opt to use the waxed starters but if you pay close attention to what happens with them, they generally just sit in the midst of the kindling doing very little. They will be sitting mostly unburned in the base of the fire long after you have it started.
If we are in a hurry then we either take the leftover charcoal from our Weber and dump it on top of our kindling pyramid or if we did not cook with the grill we will start use some charcoal in our charcoal starter chimney and dump that in. Lit charcoal will almost instantly start a campfire for you and it's not toxic.
The key to building a good fire is to use good dry kindling and to make a nice small structure that will light. You must have a small hatchet or axe handy to prepare your kindling. If you try to start bigger pieces or damp pieces of wood than accelerants become more necessary.
A Firestarter is generally not necessary if you have a small supply of dry kindling bits and some newspaper. We split a few bits of kindling from the wood we use, carefully stack it around crumbled newspaper and light it.... Cardboard egg cartons also work well as a starter. You might opt to use the waxed starters but if you pay close attention to what happens with them, they generally just sit in the midst of the kindling doing very little. They will be sitting mostly unburned in the base of the fire long after you have it started.
If we are in a hurry then we either take the leftover charcoal from our Weber and dump it on top of our kindling pyramid or if we did not cook with the grill we will start use some charcoal in our charcoal starter chimney and dump that in. Lit charcoal will almost instantly start a campfire for you and it's not toxic.
The key to building a good fire is to use good dry kindling and to make a nice small structure that will light. You must have a small hatchet or axe handy to prepare your kindling. If you try to start bigger pieces or damp pieces of wood than accelerants become more necessary.
Re: Recommended AGM battery capacity for boondocking
Oyaji said:2. I'm gonna keep Alde on at night at about 65 degrees. That's one of the main reasons I bought this trailer--I'm tired of cold nights in the back of my Ford Transit van . . .
LOL, am going off-topic here
Have recently moved my 'home' to an apartment that has electric only heat, in a Cold Climate. One of those noisy energy expensive Cadet ductless units, that is a lot like the non-Adle trailer heaters, after a life time of living in homes with natural gas ducted heat . . .
Every time it turns on my mind's eye sees $$$ flying out of the window.
So I'm wearing sweaters all day long.
Well due to C-19 risks decided to cancel the 2021 SnowBird adventure to AZ.
Instead will do a week or two at Washington State parks . . rain is not desert sun . .
Cannot express how happy I am knowing those campground stops will be at 30-Amp Electric Sites . . . Adle is going to be set to 70+F all-day-long
Have recently moved my 'home' to an apartment that has electric only heat, in a Cold Climate. One of those noisy energy expensive Cadet ductless units, that is a lot like the non-Adle trailer heaters, after a life time of living in homes with natural gas ducted heat . . .
Every time it turns on my mind's eye sees $$$ flying out of the window.
So I'm wearing sweaters all day long.
Well due to C-19 risks decided to cancel the 2021 SnowBird adventure to AZ.
Instead will do a week or two at Washington State parks . . rain is not desert sun . .
Cannot express how happy I am knowing those campground stops will be at 30-Amp Electric Sites . . . Adle is going to be set to 70+F all-day-long
Re: Alde propane burner vent outside is scorched.
Carrying the blankets I would require to sleep well at 60 degrees would cause me to exceed the gross vehicle weight rating of the [email protected] not to mention take forever to warm up to 73 for my morning shower.
Looks like scorch to me. As someone noted earlier there is similar but less discoloration at the side of the vent
not to mention take forever to warm up to 73 for my morning shower.Looks like scorch to me. As someone noted earlier there is similar but less discoloration at the side of the vent
