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Re: Lost the old rig time to rebuild
um 3K, 10.5 foot tall brick, get it right . sorry just looked up the camper milage and that one was for a canadain gallon of gas, not your small US gallon 😁so the actual milage was 14.1L/100km which works out to 20 miles per gal Cdn, or 16.7 miles per gal US. but the 5th wheel is bang on, 14mpg US, 16.8 mpg Cdn or 16.8 L/100km. thoes were from this summers trips. part of it is, normaly when I am towing the 5th wheel I am doing 55mph and running the 45hp towing tune. when I am hauling the camper I do 60mph sometimes but normaly 55mph plus I run the 100hp tune when hauling that. I don't know if you have ever hopped up your diesels, but if you did you would know the more you hop them up the better milage they get if you drive it the same.11Views0likes1CommentRe: Lost the old rig time to rebuild
your a little out in the cost of a diesel. yes they cost 5 to 8K more to buy, but there is less than half the maintenance on them, and the fuel savings alone coverers that if you were disciplined enough to put those penny's away. for example with my old trailer I had a gasser and I would get about 8mpg towing with it (trailer was 1500 lbs under the capacity of the truck) because you are towing you now go by the "extreme" category in the maintenance schedule. I switched to a 3/4 ton diesel and the only maintenance was filter and fluid changes. yes the oil change was three times the price but it was half the frequency so only a little more expensive, filters cost close to the same, but yes the diesel was a little more in filter costs, not much. the difference is I went from 8 MPG to 18 MPG toing that trailer AND diesel was $0.10/L cheaper than regular gas (37.8 cents a gal cheaper). now, its a little more than gas which is weird. I also do a lot of longer trips, so 1000 miles return with no extra driving but when we go see the older boy that turns into a 2500 mile trip we do ones a year over a couple weeks. so that would have been 312 gal of gas in the old truck in the old diesel it was about 138 gal of gas, plus the diesel was much nicer to drive. so up here out gas (cheapest price from Costco is 3.49 US for a US gal, and diesel is 3.84 US for a US gal. taking todays pricing I would have spent 1089 bucks US for that trip in gas. with the diesel the same trip would cost 530.00 US. now with campers there is a difference also, not as big, but with my new diesel I get 14mpg (US) towing the 40 foot 5th wheel, with my truck camper in it driving at 65mph on average, am getting 19mpg. if I slow that down to 55 I jump into the 20mpg range. I do have it tuned with emission on tunes which helps, and when I finish the deletes and switch to emission off tunes (because I can do that where I live) I will probably jump 1 or 2 mpg more. what is really nice is to be able to leave my house heading west. I have a 12 mile grade 8 climb, then I still climb over the next 50 miles, and the truck engine isn't screaming and I can easily maintain the 70mph speed limit if I want. also the convenience of using truck stop and high flow diesel nozzles is nice also. easy as pie when you are towing a trailer.12Views1like3CommentsRe: Looking for a Used (new to me) Fifth Wheel
wow, your still around, that's great to see.. but the LiFePO4 argument is getting kinda old, like your stuck in 2018. I was just camping in Banff a couple weeks ago in -7C the battery temp never dropped below 22C, if your going to post like this tell the whole story, you can use them because you refuse to move them to a location where the furnace will keep them warm, or now days you can simplify buy heated LiFePO4 batteries and now worry about it if that's how you camp. Also the newer generation of cells coming out can be charged to -5C now. but it is good to see you back13Views0likes0CommentsRe: 2002 Alfa See ya #70749 no power to coach from shore power.
so just to make sure I understand, your ATS blew and you have no power to the breaker box from shore. when you start your genny you do have power or do not have power? if your genny is run into the other side of the ATS and you do have power when the genny is running then one side of your ats is blown, but the secondary is fine, if you don't have power either way the both relays are gone and you need a new ATS. If thats not what you mean your going to have to explain it a bit better.45Views0likes0CommentsRe: Just looking for info.
I can run the ac and the microwave at the same time with 30 amp power in my last camper that was 30 amp, I Imagin if you can't then you have a week breaker or something else going on.. as for running it like a house, you could but it would take some money to set it up and buy the parts. you could get a few Lithium batteries and something like a Victron multiplus 2 which will take power from the batteries and combine it with the shore power to give you more than the 30 amps on the few times you might need that. renogy makes a inverter/charger than does the same thing if you don't want to over pay for Victron.34Views0likes0Comments
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