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General Discussion / Re: Water heater

« Last post by Ron Dittmer on August 29, 2026, 08:40:07 am »

Bob/RKS, I hope you ruled out the possibility of the electric heating element leaking.  It is close to the floor, fitting your original description.

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General Discussion / Re: Water heater

« Last post by LRUCH on August 29, 2026, 01:30:07 am »

Feel free to ask questions. Putting in the suburban was a bit difficult, but not impossible. I've had no problems with it since.


I think it performs better than the original... But then again, I insulated the new one better. It's so quiet I have trouble hearing it inside the coach.


Larry

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General Discussion / Re: Water heater

« Last post by RKS on August 28, 2026, 03:12:04 pm »

Thanks for the replies to my issue.   Larry had decided on the Suburban issue and your detailed explanation (and issues) will be invaluable in this endeavor. Will post with a follow up, hopefully when successfully installed.
Bob

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General Discussion / Re: Unknown Switches on Dash

« Last post by Dystevens on August 27, 2026, 07:42:53 pm »

Thanks to all for the info. I figured the white switch had something to do with charging the chassis battery from the coach batteries but the red switch is still a mystery. With the ignition on the switch glow red when switched on but it doesn’t light up lights on the back of the coach. I will keep checking to see what it does affect. I wish there was a way to provide power to the Garmin without having to have the ignition on. The aux position doesn’t seem to power anything.

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General Discussion / Re: Unknown Switches on Dash

« Last post by LRUCH on August 27, 2026, 05:49:23 pm »

Thank you Mike!


I've never seen any one post the correct way to use the white button. Very interesting how it wil stay on.


Thanks.

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General Discussion / Re: Water heater

« Last post by LRUCH on August 27, 2026, 05:45:53 pm »

I put in a suburban and a full write up is here:
https://forum.phoenixusarv.com/index.php?topic=5089.msg45549#msg45549

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General Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself!

« Last post by LRUCH on August 27, 2026, 05:44:19 pm »

Hi, I replied to this earlier , but looking back I don't see my posting so it must have not saved. I can remember when I first joined the forum I got the same prompts. But I think it finally went away one day when I logged off and log back on and and clicked a checkbox that was labeled to click here to stay signed on.

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General Discussion / Re: Unknown Switches on Dash

« Last post by mikeh on August 27, 2026, 10:28:17 am »

LRUCH and WIDEGLIDE have identified the white switch. However, note that there is a specific way to use that. If your Ford battery is too low to crank the engine, it will take some time for the coach batteries to charge it enough to do so. The white switch energizes the relay on the firewall to connect the coach batteries to the Ford battery, but because it is a momentary switch will only keep it energized when held down. The process is to hold down the white switch and turn the Ford key switch to "On" (NOT "Start"). After a minute or two enough charge will be transferred for the relay to be held energized through the key switch that is "On", and you can release the white momentary switch (but leave the key switch "On"). It may take 20-30 minutes for enough charge to transfer to actually crank the engine.
On my unit (2019 2552), the red switch in the same location activates my rear docking lights that I had installed as an option from Phoenix.
Mike

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General Discussion / Attaching pics tutorial

« Last post by wideglide on August 27, 2026, 09:47:54 am »

To attach pics reference the steps and pics below

1. Click on "attachments and other options" just below the text window you are typing in.
2. Click on the "choose file" button. Pay attention to the 240kb file size limit.
3. Click "allow" in the pop up window.
4. Select the image you want to attach and click "open". You should see a short duration progress bar as it attaches.
5. It will now show you what image it will attach when you post beside the choose file button and if you want to add multiple pics there is a "more attachments" selection to click on. Just repeat the same steps for up to 10 pics limit.
6. Once you have all of your attachments loaded you can then post your message. They wont display in your message until you post it. You will only see them in the list while editing.

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General Discussion / Re: Introduce Yourself!

« Last post by wideglide on August 27, 2026, 09:17:46 am »

What I meant by having to authenticate again is that even on a quick reply you have to prove you are a human by retyping the image based letters, solving the math problem, and replying that the sky is blue. Is all that necessary for members who have already signed in. Is everyone having to do this just to post or reply.

It did that to me for about the first 10 posts i made but now can post freely so hopefully that stops for you as well also as you post more.