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You can safely plug a 50 amp RV into a 200 amp service with no problems. The problem comes in when you think that you can use adapters to use a 50 amp RV with an adapter that is rated at 15 or 20 amps and still run everything in the RV like you would if you were plugged into a 50 amp pedestal.

I'd start with checking all of your 12 volt fuses and all of the 120 volt breakers. Then if you don't find anything out of whack there, use a volt meter to see where you have power and where you don't have power.

That's the same one that we have. It isn't great but it works and I didn't need to reengineer it to make it work for us.

I ended up leaving our old one in there, but my understanding is that you do need to vent them. I put a piece of wood over top of the microwave and screwed it in so that now, the microwave can't bounce out of the little holders that the legs fit in. Our rig has easily over 10K miles on it since...

I know that this is a very old thread that some would probably rather forget, but it popped up on me and I read it from start to finish. I had considered starting a similar thread for our 2011 Bighorn 3055 but never did as the rig is long out of warranty and I've done most of the repairs myself...

I've been in an area where our internet is severely limited for a while now, so sorry about the delay in responding. After I got looking at the new 30 amp breaker with the wrong tabs I noticed that the breaker itself was the same size and planned to cut the tabs off and let the bus bar hold...

I'll check with an auto parts store. The RV stores that I've checked with don't have this style with the metal can.

I'd like to find a drop in replacement that would fit my bus bar.

I'd like to find a drop in replacement that would fit my bus bar.

Greetings fellow RV'ers. I'm having a problem with the breaker that runs our slides. It seems to be getting worse, and I'd like to replace it. Last summer when I'd put the slides in and out the breaker would stop the slides after the large slide went about a foot. Now with it being cold out, it...

I typed up a long reply yesterday but for some reason it isn't here. Bottom line is it works great. I added a third 280 watt panel so now have 840 watts of solar and a 2,800 watt Magnum inverter. I took the advice of one of our other members and put down a strip of dicor tape and then put the...

They are better than nothing if you just need something temporary but they did leak. I talked to a friend that ran a forklift repair service for decades and he told me that they use them all the time but not on the lines that Lippert uses. He called them plastic coated instead of rubber coated...

I called the factory and they had them in stock in Elkhart, Indiana. I picked ours up as we're only a hundred miles or so from there. It was also pretty inexpensive at around $70 for ours. If you call them make sure to have the serial number of your rig handy as they'll need it to make sure they...

The only 120 that we have in a generator or inverter and I don't want to run the inverter for the same reasons that I'm leery about running the fridge with the higher voltage. I think even if I'm running the fridge on 120 it still may be getting the power for the control board from the battery...

Greetings, I'm getting ready to equalize the batteries in our RV and will be running the voltage up to 16.2 volts for two hours. I usually just turn the refrigerator off and keep the doors closed but with the weather warming up it would be nice to be able to just let the refrigerator on...

Our tire pressure monitoring system alerted me to a low tire on our trailer one morning after we had stopped for the night. Instead of 100 psi for the G rated tires that the previous owner had installed, one tire only had 53 psi. I couldn't find any leaks so I got out my compressor and pumped it...

Thanks for the responses guys. I got it fixed. After I posted this I took a look at the gas valve and found the line that goes to the pilot. Unhooked it and lit it with the knob pushed in but it barely lit and then went out even when I was holding the knob fully in. It has always had a very...

Hello fellow campers, My wife and I have a Bighorn 5th wheel that we've had for about 6 years and for some reason the pilot won't light on the oven. It has always worked fine up until now. I don't think it's the thermocouple as it will the burner will light and stay lit if I hold a lighter...

I have some of those coming today to try to repair my lines. Hopefully they will work but I have concerns that the OD is too small on my lines. The link to Ebay in post #2 says the OD of the hose should be .593 and my lines are only .433. I have a machine shop so if the OD needs to be larger I...

Did you have any luck with those fittings on your hydraulic lines? I had rats chew through the outer coating on mine and they seep oil.

I found these on Ebay and think they will be a good way to repair the hydraulic line with a leak in it without having to fully remove the line. Hopefully there will be enough extra line to get it to where I can cut it and repair it. I still need to measure the line and make sure it's the right...

That's what I was looking for. Hopefully it will find it's way through the underbelly without getting snagged on anything.

Greetings campers, My wife and I spent the winter in Arizona and when we headed back to Michigan I noticed that the slides were opening slightly. I closed all three valves and the only one that opened then was the offdoor slide so I just kept the tank topped off and made it home. Now I have dug...

There is an open breaker in the strip of breakers and I'm planning on hooking the landing jacks back up to that one. If it gives me problems I have a spare that I'll put in place of it. I've blown three of four 30 amp fuses in the last few weeks. It just seems odd that it never blew a fuse until...

Greetings, We have a 2011 Bighorn and just recently the landing jacks have been blowing the 30 amp fuses and I'm wondering if something needs to be lubed. Same thing on the big slide only that one has a self resetting breaker on it. I suspect that the landing jacks also were fused with a...

Greetings fellow RV'er's, My wife and I have a Bighorn 3055 and have never been real thrilled with the Apollo half time microwave. My wife likes to make popcorn and it just doesn't seem to have the power to do it so she had been using an air popper but that's just one more thing we have to take...

Re: Installed New 1300W Solar, 400 Amp Lithium Batteries, 3000 Watt Converter and Surge protection: Critique welcom I got the unistrut mounted today before the rain started. Out of 10 screws I hit one wooden rafter. The rest are just in the 3/16 luan and styrofoam. Tomorrow is supposed to be...

Re: Installed New 1300W Solar, 400 Amp Lithium Batteries, 3000 Watt Converter and Surge protection: Critique welcom My panels are about 41 x 61 or there about and around 60# each. I think the whole things weighs around 200# with the unistrut. I'm going to shoot for the trusses as best as I can...

Thanks Jim. I should have 560 watts of solar panels mounted this week while it's still warm here in Michigan. Possibly mounting another two of the same panels on the front later.

Thanks for the quick responses. I think tomorrow I'll pick up some of the tape for under the unistruts. I already have a tube of dicor and plan to drill a 1/8" hole in 5 places, then give each hole a nice shot of Dicor and put the lag bolts in. I have 1" lags and they will be about 3/4" into the...

I'm getting ready to mound a couple of 280 watt panels on the roof of our 34 foot Bighorn 5th wheel. I'm using a couple of 10 foot lengths of unistrut to mount them on and am wondering what kind of fasteners to use to mount the unistrut. I'm planning on using 1/4" stainless steel lag screws and...

Re: Installed New 1300W Solar, 400 Amp Lithium Batteries, 3000 Watt Converter and Surge protection: Critique welcom I'm pretty sure that you are right on that. If I recall correctly there are metal rafters with 1/2" plywood on top of that. Did you try to hit the rafters with your mounting...

Re: Installed New 1300W Solar, 400 Amp Lithium Batteries, 3000 Watt Converter and Surge protection: Critique welcom Thanks for the info Jim. I decided to use unistrut to mount my panels on. I'm wondering if I should try to hit the rafters or just put the 1/4" stainless lag bolts into the...

Re: Installed New 1300W Solar, 400 Amp Lithium Batteries, 3000 Watt Converter and Surge protection: Critique welcom I forgot to ask you about mounting your panels on the roof. The guy that I bought my panels from (280 watts) told me to use double stick tape under the z brackets then self...

Re: Installed New 1300W Solar, 400 Amp Lithium Batteries, 3000 Watt Converter and Surge protection: Critique welcom Hi Ron, Nice looking setup. I have a somewhat similar system with 6 golf cart batteries and I haven't mounted the panels on the roof yet. Mine also doesn't have the voltage...

Hi Carl. Are those maintenance free batteries in there or do you pull them out of the carrier to water them?

We returned home from a trip to find the globe on the floor in one piece but the bulb was broken. Pretty sure that the screws came loose that hold the globe on. I didn't put the globe back on right away because I wanted to put a new bulb in first. Left the globe laying on the sofa and forgot...

Is the thermistor inside of the refrigerator or in the back?

It seems like the error message was just an Er flashing on the display. Next time I'm at the 5th wheel I'll check the numbers and post them here.

Greetings Campers, We have a 2010 bighorn 3055RL. We've had if for about three years and the refrigerator has always worked fine until this winter while we were full timing in it. We left for a weekend and when we came back the refrigerator had an error message. I turned it off and back on and...