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[davidbrady]

The ad says "1.5 1 Ton House heat units" which I have to assume also act as air conditioners, but they're probably only useable on shore power. So you'd have your dash air and one roof top for going down the road, and a roof top and two heat pumps when plugged in. You'd be fine when plugged in but probably not so fine when traveling. To stay comfortable you'd probably have to close off the bedroom while traveling. 1.5 ton equates to 18,000 BTU, and 1 ton equates to 12000 BTU. The rooftop is probably 13,000 BTU. I'd guess the dash air is probably around 25000 BTU (if it indeed has dash air).

I'd like to know who the converter is. The pics look good, although they don't show much of the mechanicals. The interior design, cabinets, latches, etc look to be good quality and appear to have been done by a professional. It could be a Custom Coach, which was out of Ohio. I believe they did some MCI's and Van Hools. If so, that's a good thing.

The mechanicals seem to be lacking. No mention of an Aquahot or similar Wabasto unit, a 7.5K generator which is small, there's no mention of the size of the battery bank, and there's only one inverter. There's no view of the electricals, circuit breaker boxes, or low voltage control, so as Chuck mentioned, the infrastructure is suspect. It'd be interesting to know what can be powered by the inverter.

Prevost conversions seem to set the bar price wise. A '97 Prevost can be purchased in the neighborhood of $125K. None of the other bus chassis conversions (MCI, Van Hool, etc) seem to hold their value like Prevost conversions do. Most of the other non-Prevost conversions are way heavy on their steer axles. Only Prevost offered the big steer axle capacities required by modern day conversions driven by all the features the buying public desires.