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I'm looking to purchase a Grand Design Solitude 384GK. The GVWR is 16,000 lbs. UVW 13,400 with the hitch weight of 3,150. My truck is a 2011 3500 Mega Cab dually, 4x4 ,3.73 gears, with the 6.7. Doing ...
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Jim,
Know you also know and we both are/were in the OEM design/engineering side...
An example based on your very good comment "...it is what it is, though quite
unpopular on these camping forums..."
Taught my engineers/designers to design it for the "Idiot and gorilla", as if they
can do it wrong, they will. Even the pro's at the industrial and commercial
customer sites...but mainly for the consumer market...
Funny, but so true:
At the usability labs (one way mirrors, sound proof rooms, etc)...one of my
product teams were watching hired folks off the street setup a computing system
"Why are they trying to open the bottom when the markings say this side up, do NOT
open this side, etc????"
Plus many other wack stuff that the manual/docs/read me first/etc...'read me
first' is a sheet/pamphlet on top of the side you are supposed to open first...
My fav packaging engineer (Sally) laughed and said she would take care of that
Packaging, as the box the product ships in. We stopped them and told them to
take a break in the lunch room and the next group were told to get ready to
come into the usability lab...
She went back to her cubicle and changed the robotic packaging system...she changed
the amount of glue the system applied to the bottom of the box flaps. So much
that it became one solid cardboard/glue bottom...
Amazing that some still tried to open the wrong side, but the glue foiled them...
Too bad TV OEMs can't do something similar...
Okay, a quick one since you mentioned defense stuff...
One day my service manager came in and said there is a call waiting for your
from a Navy officer from Charleston SC...
Yelling at me and told him to calm down so I could understand what the heck...
Back then, Polaris Missile Subs came in every few years to have each missile
taken apart and rebuilt 'cuz of the liquid propellant was corrosive
One of the robotic cranes barfed and E-Stopped (Limp mode to folks
here). It had one missile hanging over the Sub and they could NOT
get the crane to reboot.
He had fighter jet warming up at Moffett Field just down the road...to fly one
of our engineers down there to fix it...
Found one of our field techs in NY City that had the correct parts and tools...
Turned out that they did NOT follow the manual recommendations. So the cooling
air intake filters were NOT changed so the panel overheated and tripped one of
the tiny fuses in the sync system. Cooling 5hp blower
that pushed in IIRC...1,600 CFM at something like 4 inches H20
Funny to this day and thank you Jim for bringing that back up for me!
Know you also know and we both are/were in the OEM design/engineering side...
An example based on your very good comment "...it is what it is, though quite
unpopular on these camping forums..."
Taught my engineers/designers to design it for the "Idiot and gorilla", as if they
can do it wrong, they will. Even the pro's at the industrial and commercial
customer sites...but mainly for the consumer market...
Funny, but so true:
At the usability labs (one way mirrors, sound proof rooms, etc)...one of my
product teams were watching hired folks off the street setup a computing system
"Why are they trying to open the bottom when the markings say this side up, do NOT
open this side, etc????"
Plus many other wack stuff that the manual/docs/read me first/etc...'read me
first' is a sheet/pamphlet on top of the side you are supposed to open first...
My fav packaging engineer (Sally) laughed and said she would take care of that
Packaging, as the box the product ships in. We stopped them and told them to
take a break in the lunch room and the next group were told to get ready to
come into the usability lab...
She went back to her cubicle and changed the robotic packaging system...she changed
the amount of glue the system applied to the bottom of the box flaps. So much
that it became one solid cardboard/glue bottom...
Amazing that some still tried to open the wrong side, but the glue foiled them...
Too bad TV OEMs can't do something similar...
Okay, a quick one since you mentioned defense stuff...
One day my service manager came in and said there is a call waiting for your
from a Navy officer from Charleston SC...
Yelling at me and told him to calm down so I could understand what the heck...
Back then, Polaris Missile Subs came in every few years to have each missile
taken apart and rebuilt 'cuz of the liquid propellant was corrosive
One of the robotic cranes barfed and E-Stopped (Limp mode to folks
here). It had one missile hanging over the Sub and they could NOT
get the crane to reboot.
He had fighter jet warming up at Moffett Field just down the road...to fly one
of our engineers down there to fix it...
Found one of our field techs in NY City that had the correct parts and tools...
Turned out that they did NOT follow the manual recommendations. So the cooling
air intake filters were NOT changed so the panel overheated and tripped one of
the tiny fuses in the sync system. Cooling 5hp blower
that pushed in IIRC...1,600 CFM at something like 4 inches H20
Funny to this day and thank you Jim for bringing that back up for me!
