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Re: the hunt begins
that was the one we were originaly looking at, well the 2023 version, but I decided it had a lot of unusable space on the inside, and the weight would have maxed my truck out. I was willing to deal with the weight, but the more time I spent in it, the more I disliked the layout. I did like the exterior storage in the slide though.9Views0likes0CommentsRe: the hunt begins
ya it is going to be fun, the best thing is it ticks off all the "wants" we have come up with over the last 5 or 6 years with the older slumberqueen. we get the north south bed, a heated bathroom, better interior storage and exterior storage (although not as much exterior as I would like, but it will work) for the battery I'll probably just transfer my home made LiFePO4 over for now and work on solar. I am hoping to get 600 to 800 watts on it depending on the room.12Views0likes0CommentsRe: Tips for Managing Power Usage While Boondocking?
leave the microwave at home and learn to realy cook 🤣 seriously though I have the microwave in my 5th wheel, in 10 years the only time we used it was when the grandson was a baby and we had to warm up bottles while we were camping. the coffeemaker and the microwave run off the 2000 watt inverter. I have 480 watts of solar in the 5th wheel but only 4 GC2 batteries for now. heck I even let the kids watch a movie every evening. don't worry much about the A/C as I don't camp in arazona or florada, although it is just as hot here, I only have to drive 20 min to a higher elevation and by bed time it is cool enough for sleeping, and during the day we are outside anyways. the A/C is realy the only thing you would want a generator for. eveything else can easily be run off a solar and battery setup with out spening as much money as you would have buying that generator. you can do it with solar and batteries but thats when your getting into issues with space for panels depending what you have. panels are dirt cheep right now, about 200 cdn for a 560 watt panel, what is driving me nuts is that drives up the cost of smaller panels as they are not the ones that are being made right now, so trying to find panels for the new camper might cost me a little more.12Views0likes0CommentsRe: the hunt begins
ya I haven't been to the adventurer factory, the only one I have been to is bigfoot. Bighfoot was neet, they make the bottom shell build the ineriot into it then drop the top shell on. I have seen videos how adventurer do it and its like you were saying. I guess I wasn't clear in my previous post they put the moduals on the base then they stand the walls and add the roof. so probably simular to nmost ofther. do everything you can from outside conection wise then close it in and finish it off. I also like adventurer's stance on reporting real weight. they have two weights, so the outside sticker lists the weight of the camper at 3,096 pounds with full water and full propane tanks. the inside sticker is that weight plus any factory added options. so realy the only weight you have to worry about is the cloths, food and camping tools you pack. I wish all the manufacturers would do this. AF for example doesnt even tell you about the 350ish lb mandatory option package in the weight, they don't give you the water or propane added in either. not many do. Bigfoot does, they fill up the tanks and everything outside the factory when they do the predelivery PDI and give and exact weight, well not everyone any more they know how much weight it adds so they only do one once and a while as quality control.6Views1like0CommentsRe: the hunt begins
that very well would be a factor, although its not like the old days where they are inside assembling, they build outside in moduals then place them on the floor as it rolls by, so you would just have to have one or two guys doing any finishing work and conections for water and electrical lines etc. I can't find how many campers adventurere puts out a weel, but ya AF is 20 per week now, I would suspect with the new facilities and more lines and employes that adventurere is higher than that when they have all their lines running.35Views0likes2CommentsRe: the hunt begins
ya I have always thought our two curencies should be tied togeather. I view the US and Canada as two countries that were founded by the same people and only differed in the type of goverment they setup. I have at least 10 distant relitives that fought in the civil war and eventualy the families wandered up to Canada. so me of my relitives came here briefly left a sibling then went back to the US. then you have all the buisness movment back and forth accross the boarder that benifits all of us. if we were always ties togetather pricing would be more stable. heck I bought my harley when we were almost par (98.9) I bought my harley. now that we are at 72 cents I could probably sell it for a killing because the used harley prices ate tied to the US buck I have seen a few advancments, the hydronic heat and hot water systems, I wish every camper would have moved to that. artic fox went to that curved roof as it was the only way they could make a block of foam strong enough to be self suporting, but I think they dropped the ball when they made it so thin along the edges and reduced the r-value. frames ya alumium was a good move. adventurer takes it one further and puts wood inside the alumium for more screw bite which I kinda like. I was unsure about it at first but now I think it was a pretty smart idea. truck campers have always been expensive for what they are, but there is no way in heck that any truck camper should cost more than a 40 foot 5th wheel haha5Views1like0Comments
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