RV Service Manuals for DIYers and Bus Converters
We bus converters have a long, lonely road sometimes. Well, all the time, it seems. It’s one thing to design and build things yourself that are in your control, but when one has to start interfacing with component manufacturers and RV dealers, the road can become rather trying. It seems that the entire RV industry is geared toward the supply chain. Manufacturers make stuff, sell it to a distributor, which sells it to a dealer, which sells & installs it for the end customer. And many customers don’t even get the chance to figure out if what they’re being sold is right for them.
…the entire RV industry is geared toward the supply pipeline…
Neither manufacturers nor dealers give the customer much to go on to specify their products, and I guess most dealers figure out how to install stuff as they go along. With the research I’d already done, I knew more than the dealers I talked to about the very products they were trying to sell me!
So in my frustrated Googling I came across Chris’ Bryant RV site, which has a motherlode of Service Manuals covering many of the major manufacturers’ products from Awnings to Reefers, from Air Conditioners to Furnaces. There’s also an only slightly smaller section for RV appliance Owners Manuals.
Hats off to Chris, who also has some great tips on his companion RX4RV RV Service and Opinions Blog. I’d actually discovered his blog awhile back when I decided to grit my teeth and wade into rv.net’s Open Roads Tech Issues Forum to try to find some answers that still remain somewhat elusive.
Thanks, Chris!
