a few quick BB questions

[George Witt]

--- In WanderlodgeForum@yahoogroups.com, "birdshill123"
wrote:
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Bruce,
You just really don't understand overkill, do you? :o)
I swear, some of the Blue Bird Engineers must have worked on the
space shuttle, they have so many backup systems.
If you have 3 and lose one, it's not a trip-interrupting event.
You also get to have separate temperature controls for different
areas.
Mine has the motor driven generator, I took it out and put in a
Xantex invertor/charger. The motor driven unit was the best
technology available at the time. Many owners update things with that
in mind on the updates, going to the best available when the update is
done.
Blue Bird's engineering motto was: If some is good, more is
better. ;o)
My '81 is still an engineering marvel 25 years later and has many
features even new "other brands" don't have.
We had a little get-together here and had 5 Birds show up. We
all gave tours of our coaches and wowed the group with the cool
features each one had. It's just amazing to see what they put in
these things.
The one thing that stands out to me from a design standpoint is
that it all makes sense and whoever designed these things must have
used them a lot to come up with the neat ideas they had.
One of my favorites is the ladder to the roof. The top bars go
over 5 feet onto the roof. This lets you get horizontal safely before
you hang one leg down searching for that first step on the ladder.
Every other ladder I've seen makes you try to find that step
while precariously perched almost upright with little to hang onto.
The more Birds you look at, the more awed you'll be by the design.

George Witt
81 FC 35
Lincoln, Nebraska


> Why do the older FC's have a 12.5 KW generator? Our Bounder DP has a
> 7.5 and it sure seems adequate. Why do they use the powerline gen. as
> well? Did all the FC's use the motor driven gen. or was it an option?
> Why do many BB's have 3 A/C's? Most coaches use 2 and I have never
> needed more. I just know that BB had a good reason for more.
>
> Thanks: Bruce
>