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Originally Posted by Nikki_Licks (Post 20303853)

You are right all the liquids do add up. We also have 70 gallon grey water and 70 gallon black water tanks too. I usually keep those dry when traveling, but when all is said and done, we weight in at around 40,000 lbs with the bus fully stocked.
As far as wifi, when we are boon docking I don't worry about internet, but when we are at a camp site with the wifi we will use it from time to time.

Here are a couple of pics of our coach when we first purchased it. I will be finished with the replacing the entire interior by this summer and will then be prepping the exterior for a new paint and graphics scheme along with new Alcoa rims and 8 new tires......then we are hitting the road for a year....:thumbsup

http://nikkilicks.com/pics/1.jpg
http://nikkilicks.com/pics/2a.jpg

dang. nice. rig!

I'd like to drive that just for fun!

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Originally Posted by nico-t (Post 20304118)

It's pretty weird to me to go 'camping' in a riding apartment. I'd choose a road trip in a normal car with hotel & hostel stops instead, and maybe a small tent for emergencies.

When it is your mobile office and you can travel with pets that you can not bring to hotels you would understand.

Reality check: most women will not camp for weeks at a time or at any time of the year at the drop of a hat in a tent.

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Originally Posted by GFED (Post 20304093)

I really liked the suggestion to rent a couple first. I've never driven anything larger than a passenger car. I think anything larger than 25' would be a challenge. I'm not worried about space for belongings, but maybe a Class B will be too cramped for me.

I'll be boondocking/drycamping most of the time. Solar panels will be a must. Thinking about 500 watts panels with a 6 battery bank of 6v AGM. I'm not sure if that's enough? It's just what I guesstimated.

I look to this general guideline for batt run times. How to Calculate the Run Times of Your Battery

I would also tend to think 500 watts of panels is all you will get on the roof of a class B, the space for 6 6v batts would be hard to carve out I bet. If you use energy efficient everything and also use propane, you can go very very far on 2 6v golf cart batteries wired in series, which is what I did. that bank = ~230 Amp hours of power and can get you 20 hours if you are conscious of your power drains.

But if you drain your batts too far, your 500 watts of solar will not replenish it. You will need a serious battery charger/generator combo.

Your rig comes with one but they usually only have shitty chargers which would take more than a day to recharge my bank, a day on the gen is not good.

The good news is there are plenty of current tech multi-stage chargers you can quickly update your stock house charger with. I just upgraded mine to a progressive dynamics 70 amp charger/converter (it also runs the 12v house system), it recharges my fully depleted bank back to 90% in 2.5 hours

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Originally Posted by dyna mo (Post 20304135)

dang. nice. rig!

I'd like to drive that just for fun!

Thanks! It is fun to drive if you like to double clutch. It was fun to drive until we got in stop and go traffic going across the country.

We will be heading to BHC in a few months to change out the transmission from Allison 4 speed to Allison automatic.......gonna be a week of hard work. I will lose some gas mileage going to automatic, but this switch will allow the wife to drive as she does not get the double clutch and to tell you the truth, I don't really care for all the shifting.