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Originally Posted by Smithmoto
it really is crazy how little information the manuals or the dealer provide.Bought my terrain a couple weeks ago and have been very frustrated with lack of information.I have so many questions.
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I can tell you one thing for certain. If you are relying on Jayco to answer your questions you are out of luck. My dealer had never sold one of these much less seen one because they are not popular here. But we are moving West where they are much more popular. It is not my dealerships fault for not knowing every aspect of the van and I understand that. As you bring up. I have read every manual that came with the Terrain and I still have so many questions. But all of this I have learned on my own. Through YouTube videos and forums such as this.
I had my van serviced yesterday because last month it got down below 0F here with -35F windchill. The van had less than 7 gals of water in the system at the time. I ended up siphoning 5 gals of RV antifreeze through the pump and pumped the antifreeze through every line in the van. Set the Timberline heater to 80 degrees and I still woke up to a sink that was frozen. There is only one line that runs outside of the van and that is the sink drain (which we actually poured RV antifreeze down and used the macerator pump to pump it through that line to the grey water tank. After further inspection under the van (during 0F I might add), I found the problem. The line that runs from the sink, through the floor of the van, and over to the grey water tank was not insulated at all from where it exits the van. There was about 1 foot of exposed sink drain that was open to the elements. Not only that, but there was a 6" hole cut in the bottom of my van that was completely open for that line to run through.
This is what I found:
That hole was large enough for a small rodent, bugs, snakes, dirt, water, etc... to enter. It was like they insulated the entire portion under the van and got to that point and said F it. How this possibly misses quality control at Jayco is beyond me? So I ended up having to fix it myself.
Took it to the dealership yesterday and they insulated that entire portion with foam and Dicor over the top. So it is now well insulated. But it's issues such as these that make me wonder... "what else is wrong with the van?".
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Originally Posted by Smithmoto
Didyou have to do a battery re set?
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Yes. To do a full battery reset you have to do it in order.
1: Make SURE you are not connected to shore power!
2: Turn off the solar controller located in the rear compartment of the van.
3: Make sure the Inverter is turned off
4: Turn the main house power off at the switch that sits right underneath the fridge as you walk into the van.
After you do those steps your power is off.
Next:
1: Turn off the battery in the back panel of the battery compartment.
2: Let it sit for 10 mins or so for the relays to cool down.
From this point forward... there is zero power flowing anywhere inside the van.
Restarting the power to the van:
1: Press the main battery switch in the rear compartment of the van
2: Turn the solar charger back on
3: Turn the main house switch back on (located under the fridge)
4: In the upper cabinet behind the driver seat there is a battery reset button. Hold that button down for around 10 secs. You will hear the relays clicking in the back of the van. Once that stops release the switch.
5: Turn the inverter back on. It will take a little bit to reconnect with the Firefly system in the van.
Once you have done all of this you will have to reset every single clock in the living area of the van. That should take care of the reset process.
The issue I have is I have heard two different things about the solar charger.
1: If you aren't using it? Turn it off. I don't subscribe to that but I can find no information stating one way or another
2: Leave the solar charger on. This is what I do and I never turn it off. So far so good. But I've no idea if this is correct?
The other thing is I now run with the inverter on all the time. The reason for this is because I was cleaning out the van one day with the inverter off. Spent all day just messing around cleaning things out. Got done and was cleaning out my garage and started hearing a beeping noise coming from the back of the van. Took the panel off and the screen was reading 0V then going up to 54V and back down to 0V continuously. I didn't think to look for what code it had thrown because it had never done this before. So I went through the shutdown process noted above and have run with the inverter on ever since. The issue is, the inverter is a parasitic draw on the battery even if nothing is running off the inverter itself. There is no need to run the inverter unless you plan on using the 110 outlets or run the diesel heater. Everything else in the van is 12V.
So I would love some information on why it did that and what to do about it. But good luck finding it.
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