Bluebeard wrote:
By the way, we bought the 2002 25-5N- it was in immaculate condition, for $8k- we figured we got an ok deal.
Any of you who have had one of these, are there any hints or tips you can offer to improve our "experience" of this thing? Anything I need to change, or improve upon? Looks like I need to get a solar panel to charge the batteries, at a minimum. I am curious if anyone modified it in any way to "improve it". Not spending much time in a small 5'er ever, I'd like to hear other's experiences of mod's they may have done.
I don't think any of us "24-5N" owners got back to you on this...
We added a fold-up door between the closet/bath-room and main area. This gave us a "changing room" I could stand up in.
We brought the solar lead down via the refer vent and connected to the power-box.
The charge controller is the Charge Wizard, your PD converter is under the main closed, towards the front.
You know that the "steps" open for more storage right? I kept a set of "grungy" cloths there for "just in case"
I swapped out the old mechanical thermostat for an electronic, did a much better job of keeping temps even.
The cabinet between the closet and the dinette has a dead space below it. I used a zero-clearance saw and cut the "base" of that away. Then put firing in and made the base removable. Nice -really- obscure place to put things.
Well, that and the stairs, I've meet more then one "2nd" owner of Nash/Arctic Foxes that didn't know that Northwoods frequently builds storage into the stairs.
