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I too have flickering 12 volt dc incandescent lights in the bathroom when connected to shore power or not. The flicker occurs about every 12 seconds when for a an instant the light dims ever so slightly. Also, about 50% of the time I get a low voltage warning from my equalizer leveling system when retracting this can happen when using any power sources, shore, generator or battery. I've cleaned battery terminals, ground connections where ever I can find them. Do all motorhomes have electrical ghost? Desmo 2008 Charleston

Thanks Gary and Tom, you have some. useful ideas. We are from the Orange County California coastal region and are acclimated to 60 to 80 degree temperature year round, we have only been to the desert a couple of times in the summer and then it was in large hotel resorts. I think a lot of our problem was the heat gain from the side windows, skylight over the shower and roof vents. I should be able insulate the vents and I'll have to check into external solar screens. All our side windows are tinted dual pane and we do have awnings on all side windows and they helped. We also pulled in our slides to reduce air volume and that helped. The front window solar reflector also helped a lot and you are right that it would work better on the outside rather than the inside of the windshield. The manager the RV park where we stayed warned us about the motor home air conditioning in desert conditions. Do you know anything about swamp cookers, I understand they can help in very low humidity conditions?

We just purchased a new Charleston 41' with Dometic 1,400- front and 1,200- rear BTU air conditioners. We used them for serveral weeks on the East coast in 80- to 90-degree weather and they worked OK, But not quite as well as a home air conditioner. Then we traveled to Yuma, Arizona, in August and the motorhome was uncomfortable with the outdoor temperature of 112 degrees and 10 percent humidity. We were only able to reduce the inside temperature by 20 degrees from outside temperature. The front window was covered with heat-reflecting material and the air conditioners were blowing cold air but the motorhome could not keep up with the heat. We finally had to run the dash air conditioner to bring the interior down to 80 degrees. Questions: Are motor homes built for desert climate? Would larger-capacity air conditioners make a difference and are a 8000-KW generator and 50-amp shore power sufficient to power larger air units? Are swamp coolers a better solution? "Don't travel to the desert in the summer" is not a solution. Any help is appreciated! Steve

Rick: I am a California resident whojust registered my RV with a montana LLC. The deal is that the LLC buys the RV and takes delivery of the RV outside of California. The cost to set up the LLC, register the Rv and lawyer fees came to $1350. Every year after the first will cost about $150 to register the RV. This is a bonified legal way to avoid California Sales tax but you must follow it to the letter of the law. You may bring the RV into California as often as you like for maintenance purposes only. You may not store or use the rv in california. There is a squealer web site run by DMV to catch out of state license plates. I have seen some RV in California storage with Montana plates, there is a lot of ignorance about laws. After proof of 6 months out of state usage, you may register the RV in California and avoid paying the initial sales tax of 8+ percent. If you already own the RV, you should talk to a montana lawyer to find a legal way to transfer ownership to a montana LLC. This is the lawyer who handled my Rv http://www.bennettlawofficepc.com/

I had similar problem and it was due to low voltage. Make sure you batteries are charged or run yor generator while leveling?