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Posted by: RussWhite
10-24-2012, 11:49 AM
Forum: Exterior
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Too many years and most of them outside with awnings out. My ZipDees were just worn out. I had a small rip where the one went over the edge on the rear slide. The others were just getting thin and the seams were beginning to part.

I live in one of the boat building areas and we are fortunate to have a canvas company with some very skilled worked, who can be talked into a little moonlighting.

So here are the pictures. The material is Sumbrella in Linen - C/N 6083-0000. My total cost was under $600 for all three. If you DIY, just be very careful. Lots of time on the roof, on ladders, and the springs have a lot of stored energy. That's the last big project I wanted done before I would be ready to migrate south. Later Gurus....

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Posted by: Gordon
10-24-2012, 09:16 AM
Forum: Technology In General
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I've had Dishtv for years & was always annoyed I could not control my audio system from the Dishtv remote. I've looked at the Logitech piece & didn't like it. Anyway a friend just up graded his dish box & a learning remote is included. The installer set it up for his audio system.

I borrowed his remote & it worked on my older vip622 DVR.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-20-1-IR-Dish...41601175cd

For a wopping $7.00 I purchased this remote on Ebay & now I can control my audio system, TV & Dish DVR on one remote

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Posted by: Fulltiming
10-24-2012, 05:57 AM
Forum: Newell History
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1934: Wally Byam begins using the name "Airstream" for his travel trailers, closes operations due to WWII and goes to work in the aircraft industry
1946: Byam hired by Curtis Wright Industries to design the "Curtis Wright Clipper" travel trailer.
1948: Byam leaves Curtis Wright Industries and reopens Airstream
1949: Pat Patterson and 2 other investors purchase the rights to "Curtis Wright Clipper" and form the Silver Streak Trailer Company
1957: Patterson founds Streamline Trailer Co.
1964-1967: Streamline Trailer Co, of El Monte, California, manufactures aluminum motorhomes under the name Streamline Travel Car Lodge and later Streamline Travel Homes. These were 25' and 30' designated length (excluding bumpers), mostly 30' and most used Ford gasoline engines. They built 84 or 85 motorhomes between 1964 and 1967.

L.K. Newell purchased a 19666 Streamline Travel Home with an aluminum body on a one-ton Ford front engine gasoline powered chassis and in less than 2 weeks, returned to the factory to have corrections made. He shared his suggestions for product improvements with Streamline's owner who responded "If you are so damned smart, why don't you buy the motorhome operation from me?"

Within hours of that comment, Mr. Newell bought Streamline Travel Homes and moved the motrohome operation to Miami, OK (pronounced MY-am-uh). The first few coaches built in Miami carried the Streamline Travel Home name.

In 1967 he started using the Newell name on the motorhomes.

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Posted by: les korcala
10-23-2012, 04:17 PM
Forum: Heating Systems
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    Hello,
We are having problem with our Aqua Hot after servicing it few weeks ago and some $800 bill , having isues with switches keeping AH on!

what is happeining is that AHot will turn itself off and randomly turn itself on?
We called Newell and the have recomended all 4 termostat switches replacement ! Was wonder if anyone had same isue and also .

Before I do that i would flip the two brakers on my power panel in the coach, are there any fuses you would sugested to remove it or turn off near the circuit board right on Aqua Hot itself.

I did take some photos of teh panel with four switches position so I can put the back same way!

Love to hear if there are any aditional test I could do to be sure the termostas are the problem.

I have attached image of our AHot system

Best,
Les

Bestm
Les

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Posted by: Bill and Sonja
10-23-2012, 01:31 PM
Forum: Engine and Transmission Monitoring Systems
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Hi Gurus, I have had a occasional flicker of the yellow check engine light on our last 3 runs. Our Newell is powered with the 8V92 TA DDEC. I'll describe the circumstances.

1st time was after a 300 mile drive ending with a long climb of about 4000 feet. No flickering of the light till we had levelled out for a number of miles and started to slow down for a nights stop over, the temperature had dropped quite a bit. I check fluids and found all in good order. Oil pressure and temp gauges all good.

2nd time - drove 200 miles in cold slushy weather with no check engine light. Stopped for fuel towards the end of the day, it was cold and snowy. When we got under way again the light flicered occasionally till we stopped for the night. Oil pressure and temp gauges all good.

3rd time - drove the next day from Edson to Edmonton Alberta in cold snowy, slushy weather and the light flickered occasionally. Stopped in Edmonton for cheap fuel and a hours vist and drove on to Calgary with a bit warmer and dryer weather - no check engine light appeared.

At all times the engine ran beautifully cruising around 60 - 65 mph, temp between 160 - 170 except on long climb when it might get to 180. Oil level up to the mark, coolant just at the bottom of the sight glass. I use Howes fuel conditioner all the time. I

I'm wondering if it might be running just cool enough in the winter weather to set of the check engine light. I have touched base with a diesel mechanic friend who will come by and have a look one of these days. He suspects a poor connection.

Any thoughts greatly appreciated.

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Posted by: les korcala
10-22-2012, 05:28 PM
Forum: Exterior
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Hello everyone !

We are staying for 2 weeks in Northwest and ready to travel south (Santa Barbara, Ca & later Tucson, AZ)

This morning I wanted to retract our slides (Newell 2001 2 hydraulic slides) and floor in front slide dropped off about 3" and that was all.

Went outside to listen for motor sound when my wife pressed the slide switch, just heard two knocks (out of the two square boxes) and there was no sound of the hydrolic pump doing its work.

Tried rear slide, no sound, nothing!

We called local mechanic and he helped to get both of them back but we still don't know what the problem was and why it happened.

We had plenty volts going - 13.8v showed on the panel, plugged into 50 amp, generator on, and house and engine battery merged. We have been having power issues and that was the recommendation from Newell to get them to retract (which had been working).

We turned engine and generator off, waited for the mechanic to come out and see what he can do.

He came and asked us to turn the slide out swich on, front slide retracted; he said he touched all wires for conection. He then checked the two relays make sure voltage was going in, which it was. We then tried to bring in the rear slide, and that one did not respond at all. We checked fuses which were fine.

Few minutes later we tried the rear slide again and it came in.

It looks like we have some kind of problem. Has anyone experienced similar problems? it might be near the cotrol boxes ( two sqare nes ) or two slide in switchs , but why would both of them went bad same time?

We tried the whole process two times just be sure it worked and it did.

In last month we did have problem with the slides. That seemed to be a voltage problem and Newell said plug in to shore line, gen on, engine on, than try it and that worked. There was not enough voltage to slide them in. We tried all those tricks initially today so the voltage was high enough. So now I suspect it wasn't just the voltage but something else is going on.

Wanted to ask if anyone had same problem or if anyone might know what to look for? Could it be the Panel boxes (that is where I heard clicking sounds).

We are heading to OR and found a service center in Central Point in OR. near Medford who works on HWH systems, hope we can get it figured out and fixed, but again wanted to get some input from forum members.

Best,
Les Korcala
Newell 2001 2 slides #582

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Posted by: encantotom
10-20-2012, 10:53 PM
Forum: Electrical
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hi,

my coach has over 70 of the round halogen puck lights.

the 10w halogen bulb draws about .8 amps dc. (i measured one tonite) the 20w draws 1.6 amps. (hey you could calculate that easy enough as well)

darlene and i like the cool white/bright white color for lighting. so i bought a bunch of the round g4 replacement led's to experiment with and then settled on the one below for the bulk of the fixtures.

it is has 12 5050 led's. it draws 160ma. or .16am.

for the bigger round fixtures i used a 15 5050 led g4 one. this particular one is too big to use in the round puck lights. these bigger fixtures used a 20w halogen bulb. these halogen bulbs get really hot.

the led g4's get hot but nothing like the halogens.

it takes some work to convert. i did the bedroom tonite and had already done the front of the coach. i just have the two bathrooms left now.

once you take the cover off the puck lights (they rotate slightly to come off) then take the old halogen bulb out. then you have to take the reflector out. i used a small curved pick tool to pry it out over the tabs. to make these round leds fit, it has to come out to make space for them.

then the round g4 led has to be modified slightly. take the plastic piece off that is pushed over the 2 pins. it has to come off so it will push completely into the fixture. then with mine i had to trim the leads down. you can decide if you need to do that but i had to on all of mine.

then you can try them in the fixture. you have a 50/50 chance they will work. led's are polarity dependent, and halogen/typical light bulbs are not. so no one paid attention to what side positive or negative was attached to the fixture. if it doesnt work, turn the bulb upside down and you will see if towrks. then if so, you have to take the fixture out of the ceiling and reverse the wires. not hard, just takes time. the puck lights are a tight friction fit, but will come out if you are patient.

the light is as bright or brighter and a clean white light. if you dont like the cool white, you can get the bulbs in the warm light that is closer to the color temperature of the original halogen bulbs.

if i did the math right, with 70 lights replaced and 70x.8=56amps dc. and now is 70x.16=11.2a dc 20% of the original load.

they dim using the dimmers in the coach as well.

btw, i bought the led's on ebay from china. paid $1.78 shipped each.

later

tom

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Posted by: folivier
10-20-2012, 06:28 PM
Forum: Newell Sightings
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Saw a late model dark brown with lighter brown bottom heading west about 14 miles east of Van Horn, Texas
Couldn't see the coach license plate but his toad was from Florida.

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Posted by: Chester Stone
10-19-2012, 03:44 PM
Forum: Engine and Transmission Monitoring Systems
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I am trying to find a ProDriver manual. I hope someone know where to download this manual.

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Posted by: Brad Townsend
10-19-2012, 01:07 AM
Forum: Howdy and Welcome to Newell Gurus
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Ok how does one change the location pin?

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