[Ted]

David,

One thing I have found over the years is regardless of the converter you will spend most of your maintenance and repair efforts on the Prevost side of the conversion. I think others will agree our conversions are remarkably trouble free especially considering we are driving them down the road attempting to shake them to death.

I do not know Donny Meyers, but I do know both Rick and Ben. All have been highly regarded and I suspect every one of them will make the time to discuss with your their experience regarding frequency of repairs and how the systems function. Vantare runs 100% of the 120 volt circuits through the inverters which is a departure from the way most others set up the electrical systems. But nobody on any forum I have been on has criticized the Vantare way of doing things. Ben would be the go-to guy to discuss the electrical systems.

Almost every converter avoids merging house systems with the chassis, so you are going to find the only two areas the Prevost and conversion meet is at the alternator(s) or at the designated converter fitting for the pneumatic or aux air system. Regardless of what coach you settle on, you will have a fairly steep learning curve but with your background I don’t think you are going to find anything to scare you away from any conversion.

I believe the use of the Cruise Airs combined with the RVAC was common with Vantare. The RVAC was a “package unit” of around 26,000 BTU and as installed it would be the equivalent to 2 Cruise Airs in performance. I would think (but don’t know) that is would be relatively quiet and unless it was exceptionally hot that Vantare owners would use that as their primary, bringing on the Cruise Airs when additional cooling was required