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I like what you are saying... but..... I cant visualize when you are half way out, how to transition from upside down face first into side wall to a heads up position. I like to believe I could have maybe done this in my younger days when I was half the weight and twice the strength. Now I am...

There is a lot of good thoughts and comments. I will need to process all this for a bit and come up with a plan. As previously said, in the fire, there wont be time to figure this out. I am not sure about me practicing the escape plan out the window but I might offer the grand kids $20 to give...

I keep thinking if I had to use the camper emergency escape window. I would end up breaking my neck while the windowsill adds more injury scraping off body parts. I understand if your alive, your alive and that is something to be grateful for. If you can't exit through door there is very little...

55 AMPs is a lot of DC to trip a breaker. It is not an instantaneous trip but a sporadic trip. Meaning something is causing it. You implied you have two sources heat from your coach. Propane furnace and electric heat pump? is the heat pump AC or DC? Were you on shore power when you when the...

Sometimes the best deal is the one you did not get.

Think of it as three separate things. Step 1: Starting the compressor is often expressed in the in rush current or the amps required to start the compressor, condenser fan, blower and move the refrigerant. This where the soft start helps. Instead of using just the power source amps to start the...

Judy, You Rock Girl. Congratulations

I just reached out to an old colleague of mine who is an industrial HVAC control expert. He was surprised that my generator would even start the AC. ( To get my AC to start, I turned the converter breaker off. I then turned the blower to run on continuous low, after a few minutes, I started the...

That is the plan if I love camping off the grid. I have a generator that I have not used in 4 years. The AC purchase is for the workshop. I can't help it. I love a science project. What is the worst that can happen?... Sweat? there is worst things that can happen on the road. :) I can buy a...

Many thanks to everyone for your thoughts and comments. They have helped me look at problem resolution though many perspectives. After long thought, I don't know that I am all that excited about off grid camping. I will know better after this summer. So, for the short term I am going to buy a...

I have been thinking about a soft start, but I don't know if this would really help me. The full load amps are really close to the generators limit. As the AC builds head pressure, the FLA will go up. I am not an authority on soft starts, but I believe they are just capacitors that help spin the...

I am going to be doing a little off grid camping this year. This not something that I normally do. I have been searching pretty hard, looking for a RV roof Air conditioner that is 5,000 to 8000 btu's. Something that draws about 5-6 amps on 120V ac and will run on my 2200 kw Generac generator. My...

Unless you are on concrete. Place a 2x8x12 under the jack so the jack does not tip over in the dirt.

Just write the way you want. If people don't like you for who you are, they will never like you for who you pretend to be.

You are going to have a bunch of time in setting up a temporary residence, skirting, winterizing, well, water lines, sewer, power, etc. If there is a mobile home park nearby, it may make sense to buy a budget line mobile home with the utilities already hooked up. Then use your time to get in to...