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All Electric Coaches - Pro or Con?

Yahoo Message Number: 73503
As are quest for the perfect used Country Coach continues, we've seen several coaches listed as "all electric" - no gas burners in the kitchen...which with residential refrigerators is I guess the only LP usage.
Personally, I like gas burners in the kitchen and though adding a "T" connection to the tank would also enable me to use an LP powered BBQ in the curb side area.
We plan on dry camping a significant amount of time (30% ~ 50%), and even with 400w solar panels are wondering if we wouldn't be running the generator a lot. We would appreciate any and all views - Pro or Con, that anyone would share.

Thanks in advance!
Mark

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Reply #1 –
Yahoo Message Number: 73515
My coach is an Allure and has propane only for the stove. I put a quick connect in so I could hook up the BBQ. It has a residential refer w/4-8D batteries. I have 720 watts of solar on the roof. On a good day it will put out about 35 amps. The generator rarely comes on during the day even if I watch TV but I generally have to use the generator a couple of hours before retiring and a couple of hours in the morning.
So, it depends on how much TV you watch, etc. to determine how long the generator needs to run.

John Pratt

2006 Allure 31308

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Reply #2 –
Yahoo Message Number: 73518
Ditto what John said below but I do not have solar...(yet). I dry camp all the time when I use the motorhome. I a residential refrig (samsung) that takes about 18 -20 hours with full on use of other appliances to cause the generator to kick on for 2 hours to take it back up to 92% state of charge from 55%. We did convert the inverter to a pure sine wave inverter at 2000 watts and added all AGM batteries for house batteries because they take a much faster recharge than flooded batteries (more expensive).
The only draw back to dry camping which has nothing to do with an all electric coachg is that I ran out of water even with 89 gallons of capacity (wife takes long showers) so I added another 50 gallons in the next bay along with another 40 gallons of grey water tank just in case I did not have a dumping place near. i Took out one of the three bay slides and put the tanks in. The slide weighted far more than the empty tanks and I found that I did not really not loose much storage because of the tanks because I found better ways of using the space that the slide mechanism took up as well as the space on the ceiling of that bay. The residential refrig is great and would never do with out one if I ever bought another coach.
I also put a 'T' quick disconnect of the low pressure side of the main propane tank for the BBQ. Still have the Gas stove and intend to add a gas oven below it eventually. We also installed a dish washer (fisher Paykel) and we run it when the generator is on charging the batteries, or at least when it gets to the drying cycle.
I figure we use about 2 gallons a day in Diesel for the generator and another gallon or so for the hydro hot system. Much cheaper than paying for hookups.

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Yahoo Message Number: 73528
Friend there out there! One of the Last Motorhomes I saw in our Truck shop before I retired in Tampa was Electric! Our truck shop had no Pedistal for Cust to hook up their Coach! I ask the Truck shop Forman why is the Generator running he said all electric coach, Dont remember the Brand but I remember it looked like a Preve or a Liberty. Ken retired Cat Tech. 99 Allure 30356