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    Refill disposable propane bottles?

    Yes it can be done, it works best if the cylinder being refilled is refilled right after being taken out of a freezer. Personally I can get one refilled about half way. Beware, it is against the law to refill disposable cylinders and illegal to transport them, so do it with your eyes open...
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    Aluminum Fender Skirts

    I guess you are looking for wheel well trim panels not not the skirts that go down the entire sides of the TT that hide and cover the sidewall to floor joint and the floor framing. Sorry for the confusion. Yes, the wheel well trim parts on the Edge are some sort of one piece on each side...
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    Aluminum Fender Skirts

    The Heartland Edge used aluminum skirts, and they are shown as availabe for order if you wanted to look into adapting them for your TT.
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    Thinking of using Adventure Caravans to Alaska. Has anybody used them?

    Counter - point to last post. Adventure Caravans makes it clear guests are free to leave the caravan and re-join as they see fit. We get a trip book at the beginning so we know where the Caravan will be camping each and every night of the 59 days. At this point at day 35 only one person...
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    Thinking of using Adventure Caravans to Alaska. Has anybody used them?

    As a guest traveling single to Alaska, Adventure Caravan charged me about $ 120 per day for the 59 day trip. This goes up to about $ 160 per day for 2 guest and a rig. What is covered below (for a better description see the Adventure web site). The price is same no matter if your rig is big...
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    Thinking of using Adventure Caravans to Alaska. Has anybody used them?

    I am currently on 59 day Canadian Rockies and Alaska, June 18 thru August 15. traveling with my 2011 Edge towed by my 2006 VW Touareg SUV. There is also a Heartland Bighorn in the caravan. Having a great time. This tour uses the Top of World and Taylor highways but if taken slow is not too...
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    Setting up 12 Volt System for Best Dry Camping and CPAP Use

    Suggest you put a battery voltage monitor into your TT. You will want to make sure you don't let your battery voltage drop below about 12 volts or you risk not being able to put in your slide out when its time to leave if you use too much of your stored battery energy. See below - if you...
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    2400 Miles in the M17

    Did 500 miles in my M21 today, also all good.
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    braking question

    There is a small cable connected to a break-away switch that when the plunger pulls out it applies 12 volts from your trailer batteries directly to the trailer brakes. This is separate from your brake light circuit, so generally if the break away switch operates it would not be "seen" by the...
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    Hammering when faucets (any) is turned on.

    You must not have the pump right under the bed in the 22FBS like it is in the Edge M21 :-)
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    Bath Tub in Place of Big Shower

    Water is very heavy, to put a residential bathtub in a RV takes a LOT of supporting structure to accommodate the worst case weight where it gets filled with water to the overflow point plus the weight of a largest person it is designed for, together that is over 500 lbs. That's why you don't...
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    Hammering when faucets (any) is turned on.

    If you are trying to get to where it does not wake up someone sleeping when someone else uses water and the pump comes on when dry camping, forget it. Can't be done the way that the Heartland and pretty much all other smaller travel trailers are designed. Sorry its the brutal truth. The only...
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    1st Time Buyer's Mistake

    It will help the price "ouch" if you move up used to used and not used to new. My two cents.
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    Unsupported foot of mattress?

    FYI here is my design drawing for the bed extension with storage I built for my Edge. The storage is custom for 4 stackable plastic storage units sold at Wal-Mart to make use of the space under the extension. The space under the storage shelf is perfect for my sandals and slippers.
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    SOLVED: Residential Fridge problem

    Re: Inverter for fridge problem Keep in mind if the inverter size is increased the 12 volt fuse and 12 volt wire size between the battery bank and the inverter will likely both be under-sized and need to be increased too. Not sure what the point of running a huge residential refrigerator in a...
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    Unsupported foot of mattress?

    RV "standard" mattress is about 6 or 7 inches shorter than an standard residential mattress in length. Perhaps your unit was upgraded with a standard mattress when built or has a standard topper over the RV mattress below. On mine I have a standard memory foam topper over the OEM mattress...
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    Wires in vent

    Did you check for DC voltage as well as AC voltage? Check for 12 volts DC. Only 2 wires, white and yellow = 12 volts. For AC prewire - there would be white black and bare or green, and likely 12 gauge not 14 gauge. Looks like you are pre-wired for a 12 volt fantastic fan at that vent...
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    Fresh water pump problem.

    there is a in-line debris filter and two plastic connections with plastic nuts on the inlet side of the water pump. tighten them both as much as you can by hand, this is where I once had problems with the water pump on my Edge sucking in some air when the pump was generating suction.
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    Edge preventative maintenance suggestions

    I am giving my 2011 Edge M21 a good going over in preparation for extended travel to Alaska and Canada this summer and thought I would share some areas that I have had to do some preventative maintenance and some things to watch out for that others may want to consider as well, if you like to...
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    Do I have a problem?

    If the converter sees the voltage across it drop below 12.5 or so it will increase output and will drive voltage up to the 13 volt range. This is not that much of a percentage change and should not generate much change in lighting brightness. But the voltage will fluctuate some and some...
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    Converter - Charger Trouble? help/advice

    Don't know about the popping but with 50 Amp there are two separate 50 Amp 120 circuits feeding the 50 amp receptacle, part of your RV breakers are on one of the 50 Amp feeds and part are on the other one. 30 Amp receptacle is a single 30 amp feed. The 30 amp plug to 50 amp receptacle adapter...
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    Generator/Inverter needs

    There is also a 13,500 version of the Brisk II, which is what I upgraded to on my RV last year. If you have not already done so, I suggest you pull the top cover and look at the identification plate as the interior stuff looks the same on both. If it turns out to be 13,500, I use the Yamaha...
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    Taking my Heartland Edge to Canada and Alaska in June - Advice and suggestions?

    Thanks for all the suggestions. I too have found my 2011 Edge M21 to be trouble free after I read all the Edge forum lessons learned posts after buying my Edge and doing DIY changes to resolve them.
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    Need Help on Inverter

    Your lighting refrigerator and furnaces are all 12 volt powered on a Cyclone, so you can dry camp without any inverter load for these items. You can even get 12 volt TV and not even have to run that off the inverter. So you can add up the watts of all the 120 volt items you want to operate at...
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    Taking my Heartland Edge to Canada and Alaska in June - Advice and suggestions?

    I am going to Canadian Rockies and Alaska on a 58 day Adventure Caravan in June. Please share any "suggestions" or "lessons learned" or "don't miss this place" advice. Much appreciated. Tow vehicle: 2006 Volkswagen Touareg V8, 75,000 miles - - new tires, taking full size spare tire and...
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    couple of rookie question's

    If you use campgrounds with shore power a lot, suggest you get a small 120 volt low profile electric heater and heat using the campground electricity and save your propane. Plus you can get one with a quiet fan and the loud gas heater blower fan cycling on and off at night won't interfere with...
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    lug nut torque spec?

    On my Heartland with aluminum wheels the torque spec is 120 ft-lbs.
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    Max extension cord length for 120V 20A home use?

    Voltage drop is directly related to current, the loads you list above draw almost NO current so that's why you are seeing little drop. If you turn on the AC too and measure AC at an outlet in the camper again you will see the voltage drop many volts, if the draw after startup while running is 10...
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    Max extension cord length for 120V 20A home use?

    I have watched my 50 amp 3 stage converter on the kill-a-watt when plugging my camper into shore power. It initially draws 600 watts AC ( 5 amps ) for a short time then once it senses the charge state of the batteries it will stay at that "fast charge" level only if the batteries are below...
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    Max extension cord length for 120V 20A home use?

    Your worst case voltage drop thru the 75 foot 12 AWG cord at full 20 amp load is 10 volts AC. You might lose a few more volts in the house wiring leading up to the 20 amp outlet, and in your shore cable. Buy a Kill-A-Watt Electricity Monitor for $ 22 and you can plug into an outlet in the RV...
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    Lost or Open Neutral Presentation

    Yes it is possible that shore power pedestal L1 and L2 power sources will be opposite phase 120 volts and that you can read 240 volts with a meter between the L1 and L2 sockets on the shore cable receptacle. This is allowed by electrical codes but not required. If neutral is open if shore power...
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    Convection/Microwave combination good idea?

    I upgraded my Edge with the Sharp 820 BK and use it often to cook a frozen pizza when too lazy to fix a real dinner. Also use it often in the morning to do 6 muffins for breakfast. Also works fine as a normal microwave. The wall kit does not seem to be available anymore so this may not be...
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    Furnace questions

    Do you have wasp guard on your furnace fresh air intake and exhaust vents? If not did your service person inspect for insect nexts in the furnace? This might be a factor.
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    Fresh water storage Heartland North Trails 2014 27BHDS

    Water weighs 8.3 pounds per gallon, so we are only talking about 100 pounds difference here. The TTs are rated to hold 900 pounds payload including the water so it might be do-able but it might reduce the non-water payload correspondingly.
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    Had a question for general area

    A rodent can enter any opening that is the size of a dime or larger. look under your rig and chances are you will find openings where gas lines, water lines, etc. are not completely sealed that you can close up with foam spray or caulk.
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    ATF: Edge - Slide rubber barrier deployment

    When I first got my Edge used I had similar issues but after I manually corrected the barrier positioning at the corners one time the issues were resolved. Here is how I have my corners: The top barrier goes above the side barrier on both sides when slide is extended. The side barrier goes...
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    TT Leveling - Question from a Newbie

    I have the Edge which is similar to the North Trail, in that it has a flat single level sandwich floor over a 2 rail flat chassis that everything is built on top of at the factory. The vinyl floor in the center between the frame rails is what I based everything on. The "A" frame may or may not...
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    Electrical problems

    The problems you are having are not defects in your trailer it is a problem with the combination of shore power source and adapters you are using to get power to your 50 Amp Plug on the trailer shore cable. It sounds like you are getting L1 and or L2 to Neutral voltages of 240 instead of 120...
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    Converter and inverter Question

    Couple of thoughts: - Standard solar panels output up to 19 volts in full sun and you need a solar charge controller to sense when batteries are charged to shut off the current from the solar panels, to prevent over-charging causing batteries to lose water and require constant maintenance. Each...
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    Update "Your Message" applet for Microsoft IE 10 compatibility

    The "your message" applet does not work right since I upgraded to Internet Explorer Version 10, unless I reload the www.heartlandowners.org/newthread.php in compatibility view. Is it on the forum administration's radar screen to upgrade or patch the forum serving application to become fully...
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