Wayne and Cheryl Byrne

Has anyone had problems with their oven door shattering? Our van is 3 1/2 years old and the front glass on the door shattered while we were travelling, leaving the other glass in tact. Not sure if it will be able to be replaced or whether we will need to replace the whole door.

Thanks for the feedback, we did get it working and now leave the in/out switch in the middle position and do not touch the control switch and it seems to be working fine, may be a loose wire in the control switch, but we will try spraying the switch on top, Wayne did get up on top to see if power was getting to it. Thanks goodness it is working as our air con has given up the ghost and we have been in the NT (Kakadu now Darwin) for several weeks, so not good - hope to get it looked at in the next couple of days while we are here. Thanks again

We are currently travelling in NT and are having problems with our 12 volt fan mounted in the ceiling, thought is was a loose wire as it would not work after going on gravel roads, but it was working last night and will not work tonight after the van has just sat all day? Also found that it came on twice when we put a pump on, but that won't work tonight? :helpsmilie:

Found this topic very interesting, we also have black gunk in the top tank and as we are heading off around Aus on Monday, was off today to get some thetford chemicals - will instead purchase some napisan!! Thanks!!

I asked this same question when we bought our van. The most success I have had is to spray the fly screen with a white king bathroom cleaner or similar, but you need someone on the other side with a cloth so that is sticks to the screen, then have the person on the other side hold the cloth on the screen on the same part you are rubbing, so that you can put some weight on the screen (of course this is for very dirty screens, ours were a red colour in places when we bought the van)

We are heading north beginning of May to NT and agree that hopefully the plugged will be pulled by then and the fishing great.

Thanks for that we have a AECA PR3030 meter, maybe that could be the cause, will check to see what its maximum is, it was pulling nearly 29 on the weekend with some cloud around.

Has anyone any ideas as to why our radio/cd player should come on of its own accord? We spent a couple of weeks sleeping in our van at home (son called it the out-suite) while all the family were home over Christmas and noticed the radio on several times (standby mode only), it happened with 240 power connected and with no power connected. Just noticed it on again after putting some gear in fridge (the only thing operating) to go away for the long weekend :question:

Thanks for that, have looked on the net and not found anything so far. Cheryl & Wayne

Can anyone tell us where to purchase the snap seal water filter for the drinking water tap, ours has a model no. SLC-230-1C Cuno is the manufacturer? Thanks Wayne & Cheryl

Well we had the panels checked out on Saturday and it was a corroded crimped connection under one of the panels (see attached pics of crimp connections replaced one was okay but the other one the wire had corroded completely away), looked like it had been sitting in water. So looks like it is a good idea to keep the van out of the weather when not in use. We had purchased a stormcover for our van as we cannot fit it in the shed we have, it is supposed to be hail proof as well so we will have to bed it down now until our next trip. Thanks to all for your feedback. Wayne & Cheryl Byrne

Hi Roger Very interesting info, ours seem to be wearing okay but it is nice to know there is someone who can align them properly will keep a note of the website for future reference. Wayne & Cheryl Byrne

We did as Rosco suggested and it appears that only 1 panel which is on drivers side is working, the 2 on the other showed no reading at all - all fuses look fine, guess we will have to get a solar guy to check it out to see if the panels are faulty or wiring??? Wayne & Cheryl :confused1:

Okay thanks for that we thought there must be a problem, will get it checked out our van was built in Feb 2006. Wayne & Cheryl

As this was our first longer trip in our topender we are unsure what solar output we should be getting out of our 3 x 120? (not sure what size as our van is second hand) with 4 x 120 amp hr batteries. After a week of free camping at Manangoora we noticed the voltage kept dropping below 12v and decided we had better read up on the regulator directions and it appeared that the panels were not producing many amps sometimes none, the best we noticed was 6 amps going in and that has also been since we have arrived home. Just looked back on some old posts and noticed someone had a fuse problem with theirs - we kept the batteries up by running the 4.2 generator on it (as we did not get a generator before heading off). Any ideas on what our problem could be? Thanks Wayne & Cheryl :helpsmilie:

Hi David & Jane We travelled from Hervey Bay to Boroloola via Barkly & Cape Crawford, got there in 5 days not really pushing it as it was our first big trip in the topender. Went into Manangoora and sat on the riverbank there for 15 days, did lots of fishing, not always fruitful and crabbing which was tops! Headed home through the Savannah Way which we found to be quite rough, but the van travelled well. Had a bit of a spell at the Gregory River and arrived home Tuesday PM. We did not really intend to do anything else only maybe go into Kingfisher Camp but did not do that. Cheryl & Wayne

Having just returned from that area, we don't think the fuel at Cape Crawford would be any cheaper than the Barkly (not that we bought from either place) but on the way up we were told Cape Crawford was $2.15 and that was 3 weeks ago. While we were at Manangoora the fuel at Boroloola went up 10 cents in just over a week to $2.05. Also while travelling between Boroloola and Burketown, the only places to get fuel were at Doomadgee and Tirana Roadhouse, Hells Gate & Woologorang no longer sell fuel. Cheryl & Wayne

We spent 14 days at Manangoora, with not a lot of fish to be had, but lots and lots of crabs, did not go into Kingfisher Camp the Savannah Way was terrible in places don't you agree, but were very happy with the way our topender travelled as this is our first long trip in it, we reckon the road was worse in places than the Gibb River Road we travelled with a camper trailer 2 years ago. We are sort of sorry we did not go to Limmen where we usually go but think the weather turned cold for us at the wrong time. As we had only 4 weeks we are currently on our way back home to Hervey Bay. Wayne & Cheryl Byrne

We are heading up that way in 2 weeks time may see you on the road somewhere - we usually go to Limmen Bight but may try Manangoora this time. Cheryl & Wayne Byrne

Thanks for the input, we will probably be going with the yamaha as the specs we found for the Coleman Mach says 2117 watts at 35degrees which is outside the honda 2 capabilities. Wayne & Cheryl

Thanks Rosco We did the measurements and realise that the Yamaha 2400 won't fit in the generator box with the slide that is in there, would have to take it out. We were thinking along the line of the Yamaha but the size was a bit of a problem. Wayne

We purchased our Kedron Topender No. 650 second hand and did not come with a generator, we are looking at purchasing one and have read on this site people having trouble with the generator handling the air con. Our air con is a Coleman MACH, we don't have any books regarding the wattage required, does anyone else have this air con and is the honda 2000watt capable of starting this air con? Thanks Wayne & Cheryl