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This page is devoted to the links I've been collecting for a while now.
Some links will take you to manufacturer's sites, others are distributor, parts or informative sites.

Manufacturer's Sites:
Atwood Mobile Website Home Page
Bogart Engineering Trimetric Battery Monitor One of many battery monitors, this is the least expensive. They don't come with shunts!
Check-All Home Page Manufacturer of VERY High Quality (that means expensive) Check Valves for every application.
Dinosaur Electronics Home Page or See R & G Electronic (below) for a distributor.
Dometic USA Home Page
Everstart Batteries Home Page (The Everstart link is deleted, it just returns a search engine, sorry! I guess they gave up the site.)
Eternabond Home Page of Leak repair products. This is the stuff you use on those rubber roofs, or anything else that leaks!
Exide Battery Home Page or RV, Marine batteries or Golf Cart batteries.
Fantastic-Vent Home Page This is the home of the Fantastic electric fan vent. Excellent customer service from these people.
Glo Warm Home Page Blue Flame and IR Heaters. All the info on the available models.
Hughes Home Page of the famous Autoformer
Intellitec Home Page Power management and distribution systems.
IOTA Engineering Home Page or Converters Page or IQ Smart Charger
ITT Jabsco Industries (Flojet) Home Page or RV products or Water Pumps
Lifeline AGM Batteries Home Page
Manchester Tank Home Page Propane Pressure Vessels (LP tanks) or RV Products or D.O.T. cylinders of all sizes
Optima Battery Home Page or, Red Top (starting), Yellow Top (combo starting/deepcycle), Blue Top (marine), batteries.
Parallax Home Page if you want it. I suggest you read very carefully the info here before purchasing one of these converters.
Progressive Dynamics Home Page Home of the PD91xx series converter/chargers.
Progressive Industries Home Page Surge protection for your RV (Not affiliated with Progressive Dynamics.)
Rolls Battery Home Page Home of the high end Rolls (Surrette) deep cycle batteries
Shurflo Home Page or RV products, Accumulator Tank, Standard water pumps, Macho water pumps
Snake-River Electronics Accu-Gage. Non-intrusive External Tank Sensors
Suburban Manufacturing Home Page or RV Products
Supco (Sealed Unit Parts Co. Inc.) Homepage. Makers of the SPP6 Hard Start Capacitor Here's a Distributor for the SPP6
Surge Guard Home Page Power protection for your RV
Thetford Home Page RV Toilets and supplies
Trojan Battery Home Page This is the home of the T-105, T-125, T-145 (6 volt) and T-1275, J-150 (12 volt) you've heard so much about!
Trojan Battery Warranty Information, Here or Download.
Trojan Site Map Lists every available page on the Tojan site.
VentLine Home Page Makers of vents, vent fans and other ventilation items.
Victron Energy Home Page High quality sinewave inverters and other power products.
World Freedom Co (WFCO) Homepage
Wrap-On This is the place that makes Heat Tape.
Xantrex Power Products Home Page Link 10 - 20, XBM battery monitors, Prosine 2.0 Inverter.
Zane Inc. Low voltage AC and DC controls for you projects.

Distributor's Sites:
All Electronics A great source of inexpensive electronic goodies for your projects.
Amerigas Home Page LP gas supplier.
Battery Chargers.com Home of the renowned Schumacker line of battery chargers
Bestconverter HIGHLY RECOMMENDED! Get WFCO, PD91xx's converters or, the Trimetric battery monitor, other gadgets too.
Bulb-Man Home Page. This is one of the best places to get replacement lamps (light bulbs) for just about anything.
Dicor Home Page Supplier of EPDM rubber roof products and sealants.
Ferrell Gas Home Page LP gas supplier.
G.R. Frequencies Though not directly RV related, there are items that even RV'ers can use. Think, wireless, but not WIFI!
M & S Service Home Page or Parts for your Glo Warm heater
J.C.Whitney The online autoparts store. These guys have been around forever. Yes, they have lots of RV stuff too!
Kansas Wind Power Home Page or, 12 and 120 volt electric bed warmers.
Mouser Electronics Inc. Geek heaven of electronic goodies of all kinds. Very large catalog! Almost every component ever made!
Northern Arizona Wind & Sun Home Page or Most popular Battery Monitors
PPL Motorhomes Home page or Parts or Marshall Remote Change Over Indicator for the model 254 dual tank LP regulator. [Instructions here]
PPL Motorhomes Marshall Model 250 regulator
PPL Motorhomes Shurflo Accumulator Tank
R & G Electronic Dinosaur circuit board distributor. Replacement control and igniter boards for reefers, furnaces and water heaters.
Ritten House 3-Way ball valves. Can be used for One Valve Water Heater Bypass systems.
RV-Addons I believe this place has the lowest prices around on the things they sell.
Water Filter Store Every type of water treatment known to mankind is located at this site. See for yourself!

Parts, parts, parts and more PARTS for your Furnace, Water Heater, Reefer, Toilet, Brakes and everything else.
AAA-RV Parts
All-Rite - Doors, Siding, lots of hard to find stuff
Camco Home Page General RV parts and accessories.
Dr. George - Salvaged and surplus RV parts. Northern CA (Sacramento area)
Dyer's RV Supplies A good source for various RV hardware
Mark's RV - Parts for most appliances and more
RV Mobile - Hard to find Refrigerator specific parts and cooling units made simple
RV Parts - Lots of Atwood parts and everything you can imagine
RV Parts Outlet - You have to do some digging but you'll find it
RVSurplus Surplus RV parts.

Informative Sites:
See RV.net member Chris Bryant's site if you need a Owner's or Service manual for your appliance or help with Troubleshooting.

Electrical wiring stuff you NEED to know Includes 12 volt TV/TT and 120 volt wiring diagrams and connector types.
Even MORE electrical stuff

See Mark Nemeth's documentation on the 12 volt electrical system from the following two links.
12 Volt Side of Life - Part1
12 Volt Side of Life - Part2

See Jesse Kovach's site for actual output waveforms from a Honda EU2000i generator. Also shows Modified Sine Wave waveforms.
Jesse Kovach

Motley RV Repair Articles for all common RV problems.

RVer's Corner This site has TONS of information

Questions about BATTERIES? Go HERE
Comprehensive battery information from 1949. This is good reading and easy to understand. Everything about flooded cell batteries.

Propane Facts you should know
Living in COLD weather? Here's information you should know about your furnace, staying warm and winterizing.

Winnie Owners! Here's a couple good sites for you!
Documentation can be found HERE look under resources.
Parts for your Winnie can be found HERE

Considering a Bus Conversion? Check out Mr. Sharkey's site for great info. Go directly to the Bus Barn HERE.

See the RV-UNFRIENDLY site for places where we're NOT WANTED on a large list of unfriendly places everywhere!