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RE: Buying a Former Rental Class C. How many of us out there?
After having my 23A for over a year I thought I would check in.
I haven't had really any negative issues with the RV until recently, and it concerns the house battery. It seems I haven't been giving the battery the love it deserves. CA said they put a new battery in the unit before I bought it, and the battery is a rather expensive battery (Lifeline 100 AH AGM), but since I can't find anything on the battery telling me when it was made, and I suspect that if the battery was "new" a year before I purchased the rv, it probably wasn't charged or maintained as it should have been.
When I first got the rv, I put a number of long trips on it, which should have fully charged the AGM battery. It's only been lately that I think it doesn't hold a charge as it should. But then, how I'm using the rv now has changed, With the cost of gas, I don't make the long trips anymore.
So I think either the battery has seen better days due to the way it's been used prior to my ownership, and/or the way I've been charging the battery hasn't done it any good. For example, I thought that simply driving the rv a long distance would fully charge the battery. No, the alternator will only give it a bulk charge; to fully charge the battery up to 100%, I need to trickle charge it for a couple of days. Who would have thought that?
For a while I've been researching adding solar power to help fully charge the battery. I've learned a ton of information on batteries and solar on the Sportsmobile website. I realize there's information available on various RV sites, but I found that after reading them, they didn't answer all of my questions. On the Sportsmobile site, all of the information I was looking for was in one spot.
the link-->https://www.sportsmobileforum.com/forums/f20/faq-s-battery-problems-and-common-power-calculators-1940.html
Hopefully, this link will help someone discover everything they need to know about how to take care of their house batteries.
Lead acid batteries of any type self discharge somewhat rapidly. When it sits, leave it plugged in if possible. If not have a solar panel charge it if possible. If not put a trickle charger on it. If not... just cruise in it every month.
I just brought the cheapest Walmart battery (now about $129) which has not been a problem over several years using solar and an invertor whilst travelling. leaving in storage with a 10w small solar charger for 5 months whilst in Europe I had the battery go flat. Ever since I used to disconnect it from the vehicle terminals and the small solar charger worked.
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cencerrita
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09/23/23 06:29am |
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RE: Winnebago View murphy bed mattress
Sounds like "put a topper on the existing mattress and if the motor fails we will not cover a warranty claim". So any new mettress must not weigh any more than existing.
We have always had a topper and see no problem unless of course you smoke in bed!
My thoughts would be that there must be a maximum thickness of mattress or matress+ topper to fit in the folding space as well as weight.
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cencerrita
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07/29/23 09:52am |
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RE: Buying a Former Rental Class C. How many of us out there?
Just read through all 168 pages and i have most of the answers i needed before i head into Dallas to pick up my CA 23A. I've already purchased a lot of stuff for the RV as i know how many things i needed to get to make it the way i want after i get it back to Missouri. Just returned from 4 years traveling around the south pacific, Asia, Australia, and half of Europe. The plan was to get some land and build a container home on it and go back to the work force but now i found out its about an 8 month project for container homes. I decided to buy a jeep wrangler and an RV and just live in the RV and find some sort of part time job to keep me from being bored and spending a lot of money on amazon like ive been doing. got some job offers driving a big truck again but its a seasonal concrete job here and after like October its not gonna be so busy and id probably head south to avoid winter as much as possible.
I have some things i couldn't find out about the RV but i can just look at the heater controls to see what model the unit has on it before i order the replacement. Seems like i can install the thing in the parking lot in Dallas if i need to but will probably get it back to here before i start replacing shocks and so on. gonna be returning to this page a lot it seems to follow the writeups of replacing things that others have so nicely posted.
Have a great time and enjoy. If you need somewhere cheap to go in the Winter the BLM long term visitor pass Arizona and
New Mexico - 2023
• New Mexico pass is a good deal if you want to stay somewhere warm during the winter months.
• $6.5 convenience fee by Reservations America when buying a pass.
• Pass cost for residents $180
• Pass cost for non-residents $225 which is still a good buy.
• Annual Day use $40 except Living Desert Zoo and Gardens
• There is a fee of $4 night up to maximum $12 for each camping night booked via Reserveamerica.com the daily basic camp fees however tend to be quite cheap
have a good one
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cencerrita
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07/15/23 07:58am |
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