Drew Callahan Drew Callahan · May 2, 2026
I’ve got a Riverstone control board sitting on my workbench right now — scorched at one corner, the solder joints cracked and discolored where the heating relay used to fire. That blackening tells you everything: a furnace that kept trying to ignite, kept failing, and left the board to absorb the electrical punishment until it … Read more
Drew Callahan · May 2, 2026
“Drew, my Cougar’s furnace won’t light at all. I’ve got heat in the morning or it shuts off mid-cycle. Dealer wants $1,400 to even look at it. Am I looking at a full furnace swap, or is this something I can actually fix?” That message came through on a Tuesday afternoon from a guy in … Read more
Drew Callahan · May 1, 2026
I’m crouched beside my rig right now with my hands on a hydraulic jack cylinder, feeling the weight of the entire coach bearing down on a piece of equipment that could catastrophically fail if something goes wrong. That’s the moment leveling systems stop being abstract and become very, very real. I’ve seen a powered jack … Read more
Drew Callahan · May 1, 2026
I watched a 2019 travel trailer get towed into a shop with $4,800 in suspension damage after a single tire went from 68 PSI to a shredded sidewall somewhere outside Flagstaff. The owner had no way to monitor pressure on a dual-axle setup—by the time they felt the vibration, the wheel well was already compromised, … Read more
Drew Callahan · April 30, 2026
I show up at rigs that won’t run, and nine times out of ten the owner swears they did their de-winterization. They didn’t—or they did it halfway, which is worse. Burst water lines in March, water heaters that shatter because someone fired them up with air still trapped in the tank, pump failures that trace … Read more
Drew Callahan · April 30, 2026
Are you staring at a campground electrical pedestal right now, wondering if that flickering voltage is going to wreck your refrigerator, your air conditioner, or your entire 12-volt system before breakfast? If you’re living full-time in your RV, you can’t afford to gamble on shore power quality. Electrical protection—a surge protector paired with an EMS … Read more
Drew Callahan · April 29, 2026
I was three weeks into a late-September push through New Mexico when the Thor’s batteries gave up the ghost around 4 p.m.—not dramatically, but that slow, creeping fade where your fridge compressor runs, your lights dim, and you realize you’re about eight hours away from a dead house bank. I’d been through the same cycle … Read more
Drew Callahan · April 29, 2026
Call a Winnebago dealer about powering a Solis off-grid for a week, and they’ll tell you the stock 60Ah AGM battery setup is plenty—you just need to manage your usage. Ask that same question in any RV forum, and you’ll get a dozen voices saying flat-out that those batteries are undersized and you’ll be in … Read more
Drew Callahan · April 29, 2026
Staring at a battery monitor that won’t stop flashing warnings? Wondering if you can actually trust what it’s telling you anymore, or if you’re one dead night away from being stuck in the dark with a fridge that won’t run? That’s the call I get, and it usually means the same thing: the original battery … Read more
Drew Callahan · April 28, 2026
Airstream doesn’t include a footnote in the owner’s manual about what happens when you inherit a used Interstate 19X with a shot lead-acid battery bank and a solar setup that’s been slowly starving itself for two years. You won’t find it in the dealer literature either. What you get instead is a rig that holds … Read more
