One reason that side engine radiator Diesel coaches are popular is that it takes all of those radiators at the back of the engine and moves them to the side where they make it far easier to access the engine, and they are out of the line of fire for oil coming off the engine
Excel Spreadsheet The process for picking appropriate size wires can be pretty confusing, but we’ve made it simple with an Excel spreadsheet. This allows you to enter your design parameters and see the effects on power loss as well as voltage loss. Download the Excel Spreadsheet here If you are interested in a detailed description
RVs of all types have two electrical systems: a 12 volt, automotive style DC power system and a residential style 120 volt AC power system. Understanding both of these systems is necessary to get the best use of your RV. We will do a series to explain some of the intricacies of both systems and
This is a companion to a YouTube video on the upgrade and goes into a little more detail on the trade offs between wet cell, AGM, and lithium batteries. You can watch the YouTube video here: https://youtu.be/dvhdrzzDqK4 Our coach came with four golf cart (GC2) wet cell lead acid batteries. While we bought the coach
There has been some interest in the photography gear I am using. I am in the category of “serious amateur” when it comes to both still and video photography. I’ve been taking pictures all my adult life, and have piles of 35mm slides, 8mm home movies, and videos that document a lot of my life
The Viair 400P is an air compressor designed for vehicle use. It features a high working pressure (150 psi) with good volume (2.3 CFM), operation from 12 VDC, and an automatic shutoff to keep the compressor from running continuously. It is designed to run at no more than a 33% duty cycle at no more
We’ve been working on updating our YouTube channel ( RV4X40 YouTube). There are a couple of videos from last year, but there hasn’t been much time to work on the channel recently, so that has been bumped up on the priority list as we get ready to do some more traveling. Since last November, we
Not so sure how this might ever apply to anyone else, or another coach, but I have been chasing a ghost, which has finally disappeared! We spent 3 months “work camping” at a national wildlife refuge, which is a whole other story about that, but we’ll save that for another time. Mostly due to not
For us, the starting point in acquiring our latest motorhome, the one we currently live in full time, was looking at an essential “must have” list. We had the benefit of owning our original motorhome (a Georgie Boy 34 foot Ford powered gasoline unit) some years ago so we weren’t without experience. After that, we
Naming a web site can be a venture into frustration. All of the “good” names you can think of seem to be taken. Some are taken and not even used. If you try to look at them, you get some sort of server not found error message, so they are “reserved” but not used. I’ve