While we were at the big house I got a few things done to the motorhome.
Added a 120W GoPower portable solar panel.
Trimetric TM-2030-RV Battery Monitor System, this will give me more information about what is happening to the house batteries. It has a shunt so it can calculate the power go into and out of the batteries.
Installed a 2 gallon water accumulator so the water pump does not run so much and uses less power. The pump uses most of the power when it first starts up.
Motorhome got a new engine battery, replaced one purchased in 2010. Looks like I will need to replace the house batteries soon, they were purchased in October of 2012.
Added a WeBoost Cell Booster to improve cell reception.
I think I fixed the furnace.
Last spring ( 2016 ) we had a little trouble with it not lighting sometimes. It would go for long periods of time when it would work just fine. It did not work for a couple of days before we got to Yellowstone and then while at Yellowstone it would only work about half the time. When we got home to the big house it worked just fine. It also worked this spring all the way to Phoenix and back. This afternoon while loading the motorhome I started the furnace to take the chill of the motorhome and ensure the furnace was still working just fine. It would not light.
Did a little google and YouTube searching and figured out it wasn’t the circuit board, but it might be the sail switch which ensures enough air flow from the fan. I was able to pull a cover off the fan. The sail switch is located on the inside of this fan housing/cover. There was a fair amount of dust on the fan blades. Got the compressor out and blew the dust off of each fan blade. Put everything back together and the furnace fired right up. Checked it again 2 hours later and this time I let the furnace run for a while to burn the dust out of the heat exchange.
New CO carbon monoxide detector, replaced a hard wired unit with battery powered.
Air Tabs to help with coach stability in the wind.
We are in Missoula while Richard and Vickie are having their motor home worked on, it doesn’t have much power and is getting bad mileage (worse than normal).