Avion truck campers - Hundreds of photos
Without going into too much painful detail, we had a mishap several week-ends ago. While working with sand bag crews on the Mississippi River, the truck and camper fell into the flood waters as a road...
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SilverPompadour wrote:
Happy holidays to all. I hope many of you are on the road enjoying your Avions.
The LP forced air heater I installed is overkill unless it's real cold out, great for the quick warmup though. Im looking to add a Wave 3 to the system and wanted some input from the group. Has anyone had any issues with dust causing a malfunction? Do they really weigh close to 7lbs. without the legs? IIRC DGordon has his mounted inside a cabinet door which looks ideal but I dont think my feather weight doors could handle that much weight.
Silver,
I had only the Wave 3 for the first 5 years. It works great down to about 30. Below that it has difficulty keeping up, even with putting reflectix in all the windows. Also you have to keep the vent cracked, and there is so much moisture produced by the Wave and the bodies, that the moisture freezes on the vents, and then when it warms it rains on you... Arghh.
Having just spent almost two weeks living out of the Avion with the furnace, what a difference. Still have to contend with the moisture generated by bodies and breathing/cooking etc, but the 12000 btu Atwood worked like a charm even down to around -8F. If we hadn't augmented with the small electric when connected to shore power, we would have gone through alot more propane, but we were nice and toasty the entire trip.
Hope this helps!
Garry
