new to rving, resorting camper
I am resorting a 1971 Holiday Rambler Travel Trailer "free Spirit". I want to make everything electric. Do I need a converter? Only using shore power or generator.
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I suppose some did have 12v. We had a 16 ft 1972 Holiday, got it in 1984 in NS and towed it across country to BC. (With a 1979 Ford LTD sedan)
I remember it had four fuses in the 120v panel for shore power and that propane lamp over the table in front. Don't remember a battery at all. It had electric brakes and the car had a metal plate above the brake pedal that worked the trailer brakes when you stepped on it. (I guess that got the trailer stopped first now that I think about it) Also had a sliding over kind of lever in a box on the front seat you could adjust the trailer brakes with manually. Same as on a modern brake controller for that part. I never used that ISTR.
The OP could say if that one has original 12v.
EDIT--ISTR you pumped up water to the kitchen sink by hand. Can't remember if it had a shower in the bathroom or how it would have worked for pumping water if it did. It had a real bathroom at the back with a toilet and sani-dump outside like they all have now. Can't remember how the toilet got its water.
EDIT some more--The Ford was an early idea for a Crown Vic, being a tad smaller than the earlier Fords. It had a 351 engine. But you had to be ready to say it was a "Windsor 351" and not one of those phony 351s made in the States somewhere :)
I remember it had four fuses in the 120v panel for shore power and that propane lamp over the table in front. Don't remember a battery at all. It had electric brakes and the car had a metal plate above the brake pedal that worked the trailer brakes when you stepped on it. (I guess that got the trailer stopped first now that I think about it) Also had a sliding over kind of lever in a box on the front seat you could adjust the trailer brakes with manually. Same as on a modern brake controller for that part. I never used that ISTR.
The OP could say if that one has original 12v.
EDIT--ISTR you pumped up water to the kitchen sink by hand. Can't remember if it had a shower in the bathroom or how it would have worked for pumping water if it did. It had a real bathroom at the back with a toilet and sani-dump outside like they all have now. Can't remember how the toilet got its water.
EDIT some more--The Ford was an early idea for a Crown Vic, being a tad smaller than the earlier Fords. It had a 351 engine. But you had to be ready to say it was a "Windsor 351" and not one of those phony 351s made in the States somewhere :)
