Exploring With Intuition

Van Camping and Sailing in North America

Category: Projects

  • Window Leak Cure

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    09 April 2023 We had a very small leak on the passenger side rearmost window of our 2018 Lexor. Blue painter’s tape cured it temporarily, but it was time for a more permanent repair. These are CR Laurence windows, installed in a Pleasure-Way Lexor TS which is a professional conversion based on a RAM ProMaster 3500…

  • Separated Battery Separator

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    19 February 2023 Troubleshooting the Battery Charging System On our way home from New York, we noticed that the house batteries weren’t charging. This was apparent because we run our 3-way refrigerator on DC power while driving and it was quickly drawing down our house batteries. Note: We updated the installation in June of 2025…

  • Fridge DC Mode Troubleshooting

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    11 October 2022 2018 Lexor TS Refrigerator Troubleshooting Our Dometic RML 8330 UL fridge wasn’t working on 12 Volt DC. This had happened a couple of years ago and it was a non-working circuit breaker. This time we traced it to the DC 12V 30A relay.  We followed the power to the relay with a…

  • Three Months with the Truma Aventa

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    Truma Aventa Eco Air Conditioner Update 2025-7-27:    Truma now offers a unit that includes heat in the same footprint. Here’s a comparison of the available Aventa units: Update 2025-2-14:    The system continues to operate as it did during the test the only issue we’ve had was when birds decided to build a nest…

  • Pleasure-Way Owner’s Groups

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      East and West Clubs at the Pleasure-Way Connect Rally in 2018 2022-6-20 Meeting a few new owners recently, we wanted to give them places to learn more about their rigs. So… here’s a list of groups we know about. Nothing beats getting together with other owners. Join a group and attend a rally. If…

  • Re-fanning the Fantastic Vent

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      Our Fan–tastic Vent fan wasn’t working at maximum speed. It would run for 5-10 minutes, then stop. We rely on the cooling breeze this fan brings while camping, so decided to order a replacement motor and see if we could get it working ourselves. This is the standard fan installed in a 2018 Pleasure-Way…