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MEXICOWANDERER
Oct 25, 2018Explorer
Even
B.S.
Figured out what I am talking about. It isn't any type of puzzle -- far from it. The harder we try to be lazy and pushbutton simple the harder we have to work to keep the mechanisms working. It's called a paradox.
Back in the 1960's the federal income tax had strict definitive percentage tiers. Work say a maximum of 44 hours a week and the year tax was "x". Work your butt off for 50 hours a week, enter a new higher percentage tier and end up with a total income equaling 46 hours a week.
An RV is not a consumer item like an automobile or a microwave oven. A consumer item that gains a bad reputation goes bankrupt. An RV with mandatory "TOP FIVE" trouble-prone options that supposedly make life easier end up making relaxation harder and much more expensive.
Automatic Steps
Slide out room extensions
Refrigerator automatic controls
Digitally controlled heating
Digitally controlled water heaters
None of these items are a "muse". The sideouts are nice for extra room, but the remainder are utterly unneeded to have perfect functionality. And before you say "What's the gripe?" look at the forum threads. They are full of expensive, perplexing hassles for owners and there is no opting out.
YET
You cannot purchase a rig that does not have them. Why? There wasn't a huge percentage of gas refrigerator owners that had manual controls that had trips ruined when eyebrows, thermistors, and venting went wrong. A thermostat set at 70 degrees worked for many years if not decades flawlessly. Pull steps out and push them in for decades trouble-free.
Consumers got duped hook-line-and-sinker over the "Lazy Issue". George Jetson, automation.
And no, this cannot include converters because batteries are electrochemical devices that would require monitoring and processor power that would cost more than your house, the land, and everything on it to make it "plug n play".
Comparing an automobile to a horse at the turn of last century is not relevant. Horses need hay and water 24/7. They need the services of a farrier and vet.
And to claim similar automobiles, one basic, the other loaded with bling have similar malfunction percentages is absurd. Even my near junker toad has had issues with unneeded accessories -- all of them have quit working while the base chassis elements have enjoyed normal life spans.
If this is too much to comprehend, then sit back in your chair and ignore it's implications. And wisdom is need to separate a tire pressure monitoring system from electric steps or a refrigerator eyebrow...tires go flat while underway and that can be dangerous. A hot water heater that fails to light-off because of Star Trek automation is not dangerous.
Fascinating.
B.S.
Figured out what I am talking about. It isn't any type of puzzle -- far from it. The harder we try to be lazy and pushbutton simple the harder we have to work to keep the mechanisms working. It's called a paradox.
Back in the 1960's the federal income tax had strict definitive percentage tiers. Work say a maximum of 44 hours a week and the year tax was "x". Work your butt off for 50 hours a week, enter a new higher percentage tier and end up with a total income equaling 46 hours a week.
An RV is not a consumer item like an automobile or a microwave oven. A consumer item that gains a bad reputation goes bankrupt. An RV with mandatory "TOP FIVE" trouble-prone options that supposedly make life easier end up making relaxation harder and much more expensive.
Automatic Steps
Slide out room extensions
Refrigerator automatic controls
Digitally controlled heating
Digitally controlled water heaters
None of these items are a "muse". The sideouts are nice for extra room, but the remainder are utterly unneeded to have perfect functionality. And before you say "What's the gripe?" look at the forum threads. They are full of expensive, perplexing hassles for owners and there is no opting out.
YET
You cannot purchase a rig that does not have them. Why? There wasn't a huge percentage of gas refrigerator owners that had manual controls that had trips ruined when eyebrows, thermistors, and venting went wrong. A thermostat set at 70 degrees worked for many years if not decades flawlessly. Pull steps out and push them in for decades trouble-free.
Consumers got duped hook-line-and-sinker over the "Lazy Issue". George Jetson, automation.
And no, this cannot include converters because batteries are electrochemical devices that would require monitoring and processor power that would cost more than your house, the land, and everything on it to make it "plug n play".
Comparing an automobile to a horse at the turn of last century is not relevant. Horses need hay and water 24/7. They need the services of a farrier and vet.
And to claim similar automobiles, one basic, the other loaded with bling have similar malfunction percentages is absurd. Even my near junker toad has had issues with unneeded accessories -- all of them have quit working while the base chassis elements have enjoyed normal life spans.
If this is too much to comprehend, then sit back in your chair and ignore it's implications. And wisdom is need to separate a tire pressure monitoring system from electric steps or a refrigerator eyebrow...tires go flat while underway and that can be dangerous. A hot water heater that fails to light-off because of Star Trek automation is not dangerous.
Fascinating.
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