battery update, Air Step, Primus

[Julia Bonser]

1. After researching batteries and getting quotes we decided to go
for the Trojan AGM BCI Group Size 31. These should last longer than
our previous batteries. The only place to buy the full range of
Trojan Batteries instead of marine batteries was here in Madison at:

Wisconson Power Control, LLC
6909 Raywood Rd. Ste. B1 Madison WI 53713
Telephone
608.663.4604
Contact Greg Fitch URL http://www.wipowercontrol.com

They did a first rate job of installing our new batteries. The frame
that held down the wet cell batteries interfered with the terminals
so they strapped each battery down and put a thin sheet of fiber
glass between the terminals and steel walls as extra insulation just
in case there was some shifting of batteries. We asked for a discount
because we were buying 8 batteries so what he did was not charge for
the installation. It took about 4 hours but we are sure it was done
right. We also learned that in spite of the automatic watering
system we had installed the last batteries in each bank was dry. This
was the automatic system sold by Camping World.

2. I did not get any response about how to determine where the valve
is for the air step. It is leaking and we are having problems with
step retracting properly and now it won't lock out all the time. I
need to know how to find it and tighten it.

3. We looked for the switch/button? behind the Primus boilers to
reset. Our boiler controlled from the Driver's Seat in front is not
igniting. At least that is what I think having the red light flicker
off and then come on and stay on. Any more directions on just where
it would be and what it would look like. A picture would be great!

We are operating with just the rear controlled primus and it is not
keeping up as we would like with the cold nights here in Madison. It
seems to have lost some of it's heating capacity and I don't know
what would cause that. We both remember that it used to put out more
heat and just one was sufficient to keep us warm below freezing.


Julie Bonser
1992 WLWB PT 40'
Madison, WI dry camping in a parking lot Days in the 40's nights in
the high 10's.