Those pipes definitely going to let creosote through my friend. Be safe. I also had the damper give me grief for years. Once headed it just wanted to flap around in there an not stay flat. But the more you go the more you'll know and be able to get her dialed in!
@Milnickel7 күн бұрын
@@TheOutdoorsMeGee i notice the damper moving back to the full open position a few times, I'm going to see if it can find some exhaust pipe to run the stove pipes the other way and try that hillbilly ingenuity.
@lulamilnickel23907 күн бұрын
Good coffee
@cfaz676313 күн бұрын
So my pump went, I need to winterize. Not sure of how to go about it now,
@Milnickel13 күн бұрын
@cfaz6763 they make a kit where you can use an air compressor to blow out your airlines for an r, v, you can look it up on amazon
@DbeeSapphire13 күн бұрын
I just purchased the same converter. I relocated the new lithium battery next to the converter. Next, called WFCO, and based on WFCO direction. I changed the 2nd fuse from bottom to a 40 (marked Red position). I ran the battery down to 0% (yes, that’s what they said to do). Charged on shore power to 100%. It doesn’t turn blue until after the first full charge is completed. At this point, it’s working great. The prior converter never worked well, I bought the trailer used. Edit: I unplugged the shore power last night, and ran battery down to 97%. Plugged 110 in this morning, and battery is charging at 14.3. WFCO stated the sweet spot for charging is 14.6. So, pretty happy with the 14.3 🙂👍
@lulamilnickel239014 күн бұрын
Looks good
@Milnickel14 күн бұрын
@lulamilnickel2390 After it sets for a week, it will be tasty
@royfletcher854815 күн бұрын
How many gallons did it take you?
@Milnickel15 күн бұрын
@@royfletcher8548 about two gallons , I also dump some more down the drans for the traps.
@kennethwilson863317 күн бұрын
Nice tent like the French f1 on steroids…have fun stay safe.
@Milnickel17 күн бұрын
@@kennethwilson8633 ty
@jakecassillo821917 күн бұрын
It is not a battery charger, it is a vehicle jumpstarter. I’ve had mine for four years and it’s been working flawlessly. Also holds a charge for quite a long time. I had charged it and left it in my truck for about four months and I had to use it on my camper van right now and it worked fine. 🤙🏼
@TBCamping17 күн бұрын
Great video. Interested in getting one myself once Christmas is out of the way haha
@Milnickel17 күн бұрын
@@TBCamping thankyou
@subthousandoaks18 күн бұрын
Wish you would have showed the six pin, the jumper and device?
@Milnickel18 күн бұрын
@@subthousandoaks i did in a longer video, I did a video of me putting it in
I bought one recently, too. I have camped in it a few times with no issues yet. Let me know what you have seen about the leakage you mentioned on the side seams. I may want to treat those seams before I really depend on it for next summer. Thanks for the video!
@Milnickel20 күн бұрын
@stevennelsonmn i saw a youtube video of a review, but this one i got looks better than the one in the video. I hope they have fixed that issue
@lowermichiganadventures21 күн бұрын
Hello from Lower Michigan Hillsdale
@lowermichiganadventures21 күн бұрын
Nice
@Milnickel18 күн бұрын
It was a really nice day.
@lowermichiganadventures21 күн бұрын
2:49 well we know one thing you’re on the north country Trail
@Milnickel21 күн бұрын
@lowermichiganadventures Yes, the campground is off the north country trail
@lowermichiganadventures21 күн бұрын
Where you camping at in Michigan
@Milnickel21 күн бұрын
@lowermichiganadventures Guernsey Lake Campground
@lulamilnickel239021 күн бұрын
Wow
@ernest960623 күн бұрын
That'll work
@MrBowNaxe25 күн бұрын
No pin hole in mine but making a wining sound... Any chance a fluid change would help/prevent this damage?
@Milnickel25 күн бұрын
@MrBowNaxe the pin hole is cause from the pump inside, moving back and forth, I would check your fluid level that's how we found out there was a leak, plus it made a vibration
@Milnickel25 күн бұрын
@@MrBowNaxe pluse it never hurts to change your fluid.
@denusklausen368526 күн бұрын
maybe actually smoke some cheese next time
@Milnickel26 күн бұрын
@denusklausen3685 i will just waiting for the weather to get colder
@lulamilnickel239028 күн бұрын
Yum
@bgs4896Ай бұрын
Good review keeping coming
@MilnickelАй бұрын
@@bgs4896 ty
@richarddupree426Ай бұрын
Thanks so much. Email already sent!
@MilnickelАй бұрын
@@richarddupree426 no problem
@richarddupree426Ай бұрын
So this jumper forced the box to a lithium profile is that correct? Can you tell me someone specifically at WFCo to talk to please? Thanks for this video! Great news!!
@MilnickelАй бұрын
@richarddupree426 Yes, the jumper forces it into that mode . You can go to the wfco website and go to support and send a message to them
@lulamilnickel2390Ай бұрын
Mint oil
@MightyempressАй бұрын
What about windows
@MilnickelАй бұрын
@@Mightyempress i do nothing to them
@Khorolskyi27Ай бұрын
Sehr schöne Video 😊
@LilikoiJamminАй бұрын
It doesn’t get much better than this. Thank you from us convalescences
@katehoffa34682 ай бұрын
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@Milnickel2 ай бұрын
Yes, after I cleared some brush out they will come back
@sweetleaf61552 ай бұрын
Our leaves are starting to change too and today is only 9/14/24. It's still summer!!
@Canuck7772 ай бұрын
Looking forward to the trail cam
@Milnickel21 күн бұрын
Finally, I found out what was going on. The batteries weren't the best , but I got it fixed and some pictures posted
@jaywholoveseveryone17212 ай бұрын
Don't be alarmed but, your buddy looks like he is _unalive_ 🤔
@Milnickel2 ай бұрын
@@jaywholoveseveryone1721 o man ty for telling me I didn't see that coming
@jaywholoveseveryone17212 ай бұрын
@@Milnickel 🤣
@MitchBrickman2 ай бұрын
The funny thing is is when the fan turns on the unit is warm in the family continually run until you turn it off and it cools down so you're really only get a few minutes of no fan when you first turn it on
@Milnickel2 ай бұрын
@MitchBrickman mine turns on and off. Also, I don't run a heavy load on it
@user-wr3gp8hj3i2 ай бұрын
What kind of stuff can you run reliably (heaviest load) on 400w?.. I’d assume stay away from sensitive electronics being modified sine.
@Milnickel2 ай бұрын
@@user-wr3gp8hj3i I use it to run my TV when I'm boondocking or use fast chargers for the phone and charge the battery for my electric chain saw just small stuff is what I use it for
@fawnremmy51113 ай бұрын
Yes
@timothymercer35263 ай бұрын
I think I see a person who realized there is a camera and ran out of frame as soon as he noticed the camera.
@BrewCrew_883 ай бұрын
Mine still works after 4 years. Im blown away!
@Milnickel3 ай бұрын
@@BrewCrew_88 nice
@reneroman14213 ай бұрын
Nice video....I have a wfco wf-8735p model charger working very well, I want to do an update for a 12v 250ah gel battery and I wanted to know if the charger (wfco wf-8735p) can charge it without any problem. ...could you guide me if I can do that update?...thanks
@Milnickel3 ай бұрын
@reneroman1421 I don't know anything about gel batteries, I want to update my rv batteries to lifepo4, and I have to change the converter so the batteries would get a full charge, if I didn't change the converter the batteries would only get 85% charge. You could get ahold of wfcotech.com and ask them.
@dougorlando10743 ай бұрын
did you get a full charge of your Lithium battery after you got it installed?
@Milnickel3 ай бұрын
@dougorlando1074 The batteries are getting a full charge after I put the jumper in, and it changed the charging profile to lifepo4
@jonradder52473 ай бұрын
Did you happen to test that jumper with a volt-ohm meter? I'm wondering if just installing the proper resistor would do the trick. I'm on my second attempt to get the charger to auto-detect my 200Ah LiFePo4 battery bank.
@Milnickel3 ай бұрын
@@jonradder5247 let me pull it and test it
@Milnickel3 ай бұрын
@@jonradder5247 from left to right brown, black, red, gold 1000k 5%
@jonradder52473 ай бұрын
@@Milnickel Thank you. I just did a 50% discharge of my LIP bank with converter power off and solar disconnected. Going to power up the converter tomorrow and let it charge the batteries. If it doesn't switch to blue I'll try the jumper!
@Milnickel3 ай бұрын
@jonradder5247 I discharged the batteries to 2% and recharge, and it didn't change, so with the jumper, it will be lifepo4 charging profile till I pull the jumper out.
@jonradder52473 ай бұрын
@@Milnickel I left a load on overnight and it went down to 20%, Powered up the converter this morning and it pushed over 30A for an hour or so, then the red light went out and now it's charging at only about 3A. Green still on. I emailed them for a jumper.
@jamesclark3273 ай бұрын
Thank you
@Milnickel3 ай бұрын
@@jamesclark327 no problem
@Milnickel3 ай бұрын
@jamesclark327 it's wfcotech.com. Sorry about that.
@jamesclark3273 ай бұрын
What is the email for WFCO? I am having the same issue. Thank you in advance.
@Milnickel3 ай бұрын
@jamesclark327 go to wfcotech.com, and on the top right corner, there will be three lines. Click that and go to contact our team, and it will send an email to them, and it will ask a few questions
@lulamilnickel23903 ай бұрын
Yep
@lulamilnickel23903 ай бұрын
Lots of fun
@marilynzepeda12064 ай бұрын
How did u do it?
@Milnickel4 ай бұрын
I had to pull the front drive shaft and make sure the ebrake is on and Chock , the wheels.
I'm going thru same thing with 8955, I reduced the wire length to 5'. Helped a lot with amps but still in LA mode. Getting full 55 amps when charging now. I emailed WFCO for a jumper hopefully I will get one. Great video, thanks for sharing!
@kenltron4 ай бұрын
Ayup, running into this b.s. with a WFCO WF-8955-AD. My camper has 8 gauge battery wire, so there's a large voltage drop from the WFCO to the Lithium battery. In reading forums, it looks like the WFCO never goes into Bulk mode as a result, and, obviously, the "AD" doesn't do the right thing. This is a HUGE failure on the part of WFCO and the RV manufacturers, as it renders the WFCO charger impotent -- and it breaks this "Auto-Detect" "feature." (As an aside...I had another thought as well: The voltage coming back out of the battery to the power distribution center would also drop in voltage. How does that affect the 12V items in the RV? And if you upgrade the wiring, what happens when the full Lithium battery voltage is applied to the stuff in your camper? It "should" be able to handle it, but...) I made my own jumper to get the WFCO into Lithium mode. I read it's a 1K resistor. Do you think you can Ohm yours out and see what it is? I'd like to know for sure. Anyway, I tried that 1K resistor, and the charger did go blue and start pulling about 700W, but AFTER THE BATTERY CHARGED IT WENT BACK TO GREEN. Are you seeing this? Anywhos, I'm looking at options for my waste of $200 on the WF-8955-AD. I may pull the charger and move it where the battery is to see if it actually works. I may disconnect the WFCO charger completely and buy a separate charger (Progressive Dynamics or whatever) and put that next to the battery. It would have been nice if WFCO and the RV manufacturers actually got together on this and worked it all out, but it looks like WFCO only benched tested their stuff and the RV'ers just slapped it in without regard to wire gauge. "8 gauge supports 55 amps, so what's your problem!!?!?!? Whaddya mean voltage drop!?!?!?!" Sheesh. Oh, I have contacted WFCO support just recently, and I got the same questions you did. I have since been told that the voltage drop is preventing the WFCO from functioning properly, that has ramifications for charging and the battery, and that's that. They didn't offer a jumper. I have read that Lithiums do need to be charged properly to 100% periodically. I have a Victron solar charger that does work and will do Bulk and Absorption modes, so at least that tops off the battery. I have a NOCO Genius 10 that will also do the Lithium charging when I have the battery in storage over the winter. But IMO the WFCO and the camper people really need to step up. Thank you for sharing your experience with this.
@Milnickel4 ай бұрын
@kenltron I will check the ohms on mine, when you call wfco ask for the jumper
@Milnickel4 ай бұрын
@@kenltron yes my jumper has a Resistor.
@Milnickel4 ай бұрын
@kenltron I checked today, and mine went back to green, so I turned my battery shut off and unplugged from shore power and turned the battery back on and plug it back in to shore power and it when back to blue. BTW, the resistor color from left to right is brown brown black Black brown hope this helps
@kenltron4 ай бұрын
@@Milnickel I think your resistor is 100 or 110 ohms, I used 1000 (per a post I found), probably doesn't matter, as I had the same result as you did where it went green. Yes, there seems to be a trick where powering everything down, then powering up the WFCO and then turning the battery disconnect back on turns the WFCO blue again. Great technology! NOT. I think the voltage drop due to the long wire is screwing it up. Meanwhile search for this phrase, where you'll hit a great discussion in the tab-rv community: 2019-tab-400-battery-charging A user in there rh5555 took the guts of his WFCO and wired it up near the battery, got it working, and then he chucked it for a WFCO AD deck charger (!!??). He included pictures and wiring diagrams. So essentially he did away with the AD charger in the WFCO and replaced it with a separate AD charger near the battery. I think AD isn't the way to go and I'd go with the Progressive Dynamics, as that lets you select your battery type (and people seem to like that one, although it's more expensive). Or something else. I think for me if I got the WFCO AD charger working when installed near the battery, I'm going to call it a win and be done. I need some cable-making stuff before I try that, though.
@kenltron4 ай бұрын
@Milnickel I moved the WFCO-8955-AD converter near the batteries -- no more of that 20 foot of 8 gauge, it's now less than 2 feet to the buss bars where the battery cables are. The battery is about 88% charged. The WFCO powers up in Lithium mode with the jumper and starts charging on high amps (55A), but then it starts cycling among high amps, low amps (30A or so), and 0A/off, as shown by the Victron battery monitor as well as the Epoch battery app. I don't know why it's cycling -- including going to 0A -- and if that will hurt the battery. Is it the WFCO converter/charger? The BMS? Dunno. It is possible that the WFCO is in Bulk Mode at startup and the battery's BMS is telling the WFCO to back off, given the battery has a fairly high charge already, and this causes the cycling. But I can't say I like what I'm seeing, especially not knowing if it's a problem. Unfortunately I don't know if the WFCO was doing this when it was 20 feet away. I don't know what my next step is. I may get a deck charger (non-WFCO) that's designed for this and have an outlet installed near the batteries for it. I guess that's what a lot of people do. I need to talk with the camper's owner to see what she wants to do. I'm curious to know if you have done anything more with all this.
@jaelowe9134 ай бұрын
You didn't buy me a new camper!
@Milnickel4 ай бұрын
You got moms truck and sold it!!! ,where's your camper? You had the money
@adammurray88464 ай бұрын
Seriously informative. Thank you. Straight and to the point.
@Milnickel4 ай бұрын
No problem, my power converter is a WF-8735AD
@KJC635 ай бұрын
Its the firmware!!! Dude, just contact WFCO and give them your address and ask for the "jumper" for the 6 pin location in the MBA. Stick the white jumper on that 6 pin, and it will charge at lithium ONLY. That's what I did for my WFCO 8955 MBA - AD unit. Then make sure to put a notification sticker somewhere on the unit for the next owner that its set to LITHIUM ONLY.
@Milnickel5 ай бұрын
I would pit my own jumper on if I knew which pins
@KJC635 ай бұрын
@@Milnickel 4. After you removed the silver screws the MBA will slide out. You will see two white pin connectors. One is a 3 pin connector and the one above it is a 6 pin connector. On the 6 pin connector on the top 2 pins you will place the jumper, remember the 3 pin connector is at the bottom of the 6 pin connector.
@Milnickel5 ай бұрын
@@KJC63 I will try that
@Milnickel4 ай бұрын
Well, I emailed them, and they sent a jumper, but it's not just a jumper it has a resistor on it. What size resistor? I don't know.
@KJC634 ай бұрын
@Milnickel yeah there's 2 different types. Mine was a full white plug with 2 holes blocked at the top. The other one in the directions looked like a resistor. It must depend on the model WFCO you have. Should be fine. If it's in Lithium only, there will be a blue light. And when it's charging, there will be a red light with the blue light both on. But they're in the back of the unit. You have to peek thru the vent if you have the unit all put back together.
@Tj-oq2lw5 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video I just got a lithium battery, and I have the same converter, I was thinking of getting the new one but I’m unsure with all the problems I’m seeing.
@Milnickel5 ай бұрын
You can run the converter you have from what I was looking up. Like I said, if I was yo do it again, I wouldn't change the converter
@Tj-oq2lw4 ай бұрын
@@Milnickel awesome thank you so much for the reply. So what I've been reading. It will charge the lithium battery just takes a lot longer? My lithium battery book says a 100% charge is estimated >13.33v
@Milnickel4 ай бұрын
@Tj-oq2lw I just put out a new video. They make a jumper, and when I put the jumper in, it change to the lifepo4 charging profile