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Originally Posted by larry2c
Ha ha, I get ya Murbella - it got over my head pretty quickly. Yep, I want to be more aware of my batteries but I'm not ready for a full blown engineering analysis
I agree with TitanMike - it would be great if the RV manufacturers offered some more appropriate options. Our previous TT was a Jayco and I probably put $500 or more into it with installing things like LED lights, a "smart" control to make the power converter 4 stage, better shower head and on & on. I paid retail but I'm guessing if Jayco would have purchased the same things, it would have cost them less than half. Making a "pro" version of a TT instead of a luxury version would be a nice choice to have. On the other hand, they have to get it right - an example of not so right is the LED's in our new TT - there are probably more LED's in one light fixture than in all the replacement bulbs I put in the old TT. So there goes my energy savings - but I can say it's plenty bright in there!
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The trouble with that idea is the 'value added' costs in including or adding stuff pre-sale. My theory is that the boys on the top floor think more laterally. They posit that these high rolling retirees need something else to do other than lounge around all day sipping on their reds or guzzling beer (whichever fits your style). So they build in 'opportunities' and 'potential options' that cost them nothing, at the sales desk (probably save them a bundle though), but gives the buyer a series of things to do, from day one I might add.
Not just simple things like refitting a self-stick towel hook, but really interesting stuff like, fixing leaking taps, replacing lamps that have come loose, smashed and spread broken glass all through the living space, repairing cupboard doors that fell off during the first 10 miles of the first trip, fixing broken beds, figuring out which connector works with the ludicrously complex TV cable wiring system (that has no known logic or formal circuit schematic), wondering why the fresh water tank exploded when it was first filled (insurance company said manufacturing defect, salesman said, nothing, he just hung up).
So, no more whinging about things that don't work, but should, or options that should have been included but weren't, it is planned that way, this is the life of the RV family, eternally, forever, ad nauseam.