Category: RV Upgrades
Upgrades to our Pleasure-Way RV
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More Knowledge Project
With the largest battery we could find to fit under the hood installed, we now have the responsibility to manage that power to maximize the life of the battery. This means not drawing the battery down to more than 50%. With a 125 amp hour battery, we have 62 amp hours of usable capacity. The monitor…
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More Power Project
The ability to camp overnight without needing to plug into the grid is something that would be helpful, especially when transiting to a destination. The van has a single house battery that hasn’t really held much of a charge since we bought it used. Our project is two-fold: 1) Replace the existing battery with one…
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Screen Door
Beth repurposed a spare screen from our defunct screen tent to work in the van. She slipped the edges behind the big door gasket and it looks like it was designed to be there. Keeping things cool and bug free will be most welcome during summer adventures.
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Valve Stems
Sprinter 3500 vans have dual rear wheels for weight handling and Pleasure-way installs good looking hubcaps to improve their appearance. This combination makes it almost impossible to reach the valve stems. Polling members of the Pleasure-way Yahoo group, we found a solution named DuallyValve. You can see the valves before they were installed below: The…
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