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Hello. Thanks for a great site. We are 2 years new to the coach world so trying to learn as much as possible and meet new people. AND......getting a little antsy with our non-slide Prevost interior space. Not well schooled on Newell (except the beauty from outside) so thought this might be the place to listen and learn. Thanks for having us. Tip

Need some help,

I went during the weekend to start the coach as I always do and this time the Low Air light stayed on after starting it, I thought it might be that needed to build pressure but after the needles reach normal pressure the light stayed on anyway, I even left the generator and the engine running for almost 45 minutes and nothing changed. I stopped both engines and started looking for air leaks but can't hear anything, I also know that I might have an air leak and might not hear it easily so wondering if I should keep looking or if this could be a sensor that is failing as I don't seem to have major issues with air pressure (after I turned the engines off and for 30 minutes didn't have a loss of pressure).

   

Any help will be appreciated.

2020p, quad slide, bath and a half, Cummins ISX 600 HP, Allison 6 speed, front entry, porcelain tile flooring throughout.

http://www.newellcoach.com/newell-coaches/coach-1546/

Can anyone give me some help troubleshooting my invertercharger?
My coach is in storage, plugged into 220, but my batteries keep going down?
I either have a charger problem or I have somehow shut off the charger?
Both coach and chassis batteries are down ?
I would think they should be electrically isolated systems.
Any suggestions appreciated
It’s a 2009.
New to me about6months ago, so I am still learning.

Quad slide, Cummins ISX, bunk beds, bath and a half. 2020p

https://www.rvtrader.com/listing/2017-Ne...5002972343

Quad slide, P2000i, C-15, Allison 6, Bath and a half, Bunk Beds mid coach, front entry. $549,000

https://www.rvtrader.com/listing/2009-Ne...5002976257

I saw a youtube of a guy extolling the virtues of soaking your serpentine belt in 303 Protectant before installation. He had a belt with 300,000 miles from a car that still showed no cracks on the inner ribs. He also highly recommended it for tires (inside and out) to prolong the life of the rubber. I have heard that Armor All is not recommended by some detailers because it is petroleum based but a few years ago they changed the formulation to a water-based formula similar to 303. I'm interested in thoughts from my fellow Gurus on this.....

The Newell dash was designed for someone with the eyes of a young eagle and the arms of an orangutan.  I can't identify the switches on the switch panel without getting down on my hands and knees and peering through my bifocals.  What I need to know is whether or not the identification labels on the dash gauges are lit.  Going down the road, I have a hard time deciding what gauge is what since I have to run the generator to run the house air to make the machine almost cool enough to ride in.  I can see identification on the dash near the gauge if I make the steering column as compact as possible at a full stop.  I can then get close enough to see what's what.  Short of using a Dymo labeller, anybody have any suggestions.  I already have my battery select switch marked with glow tape and my tank dump switch taped over.

I don't want to tear into the dash without some reasonable expectation of success.

[And as an aside, is there any good reason for there to be a dump switch on the dash? The one on the house panel and the one in the basement would seem to be enough. Is it just there to see who's unlucky enough to hit it while feeling for some other switch?]

Has anyone installed a silver leaf dash in there coach ? Just wondering if there is a kit and this cost.

Hopefully you will read this as an entertaining tale about yet another Richard folly. 

The expression is, when you hear hoofbeats think horses first, not zebras.

Starting a year ago, my aquahot began to exhibit some strange behavior. It would almost always light when turned on, but occasionally during the cycle, or when restarting to reheat the tank, the controller would fault. In another worlds for no clear reason the red light would go out. Flip the switch, and almost always it would ignite. 

I am going to give away the punch line, but I know the Rudy would advise to service the unit and replace the nozzle. Well I did, sort of. But I used the old nozzle because it had less than 10 hours on it. 

Being convinced this was some sort of sporadic gremlin, I bought a data acquistion device and hacked into all the control wires to allow the device to see what the voltages were doing for the pump, ignition, flame detector, and ON light. Since the data device could discern events as small as a gnat's eyelash, I was certain it would allow me to capture the sequence of shutdown events and go right to the source of the problem. After all throwing parts at an Aquahot is not a cheap exercise. And I'm cheap. 

But alas, the data acquistion device consumes a ton of storage to give that level of detail. More storage than my poor laptop has. And the malfunction being sproradic, and the AH not heating that often in the tepid Florida winters, meant I never captured the event. I would run out of storage. I, and my computer became weary of the exercise. 

But, not to be deterred, I bought a little microcomputer and wrote the code to have it monitor the same things as the data acquisition device, the only real difference being that I wrote the code so that it cleared the useless data from memory frequently so that the data bank would be open to capture the failure. By the way I learned this data clearing technique from my self. These days I am always clearing my own data bank but I haven't figured out just how to keep the useful stuff yet. 

Anyhoo, hook this new toy up, and cycle the unit. Three days and no faults. Oh well, must have fixed itself. Yeah right, that happens a lot in my world. 

Get ready to leave for the 2018 tour, remove all the extra wiring from the AH, and away we go. First time we tried to use the diesel function on the AH, it's back to it's old tricks. Arrrrrggggggghhhhh. 

To prepare my self for an embarassing phone call to Rudy, I went ahead and cleaned the unit and installed a NEW nozzle. Not one single fault since then. 

So, when you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras.