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The Electrical System
I tasked Franklin with 2 main jobs in the remodel: figure out a solution for internet while on the road, and take care of the electrical stuff. My goal was to have an RV that I could boondock in, which means camp without any water, sewer, or electrical hookups at all. I wanted to be…
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The Brakes
“How on earth did she get that thing over here without killing herself?!” asked the RV repair guy. “Um, she’s a really good driver?” Franklin told him. We knew the brakes had problems. The mechanic who did the inspection said that there was air in the brake lines and that a caliper was bad. The…
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First Look
Franklin and I had looked at a handful of RVs before finding this one for sale on Facebook Marketplace. All of them were older because the budget is very small, but they all looked like … well, like RVs. Any Boomers or GenXers who ever had a motorhome back in the 1970s, ’80s, or ’90s…
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Electrical Misadventures
I tasked Franklin with designing and setting up the electrical system, which involved converting the battery system to lithium-ion and putting solar panels in the mix. It also, apparently, required rewiring basically any and all plugs and electrical devices going to or from or into both the new RV and my old RV (which I…
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