SnEak Peek of Un-published Improvements

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The factory-installed spare tire makes SUIET longer than 20 feet - and our town limits parking to 24 hours. Today, SUIET lost 11 inches so at 19 feet, 8 inches our town treats her like a car. To celebrate we decided to upgrade SUIET to Aktiv release 1.1. We realized that this and other hacks are hard to see when the bed and the cabinet doors are installed so today we are publishing a few pictures of the new compartment on the driver-side rear section under the bed. Several of our projects are revealed in these pictures:

• Moved spare tire from bumper to under the bed. No more lowering the spare tire to open the rear doors.
• Expanded storage space in valuable wheel well area for our camping gear.
• Improved heating and air conditioning by adding a bedroom Truma vent. The factory-delivered bedroom had no heater vent, leading to uneven heating and wasting propane. Now the bedroom has its own individually controlled heater vent. In the summer the Truma can be set to fan-only so the the bedroom air conditioning is circulated to the kitchen and dining room, again raising comfort and lowering battery consumption.
• Easier winterization of Aktiv's plumbing. The factory-delivered plumbing needs to have antifreeze separately drill-pumped in the rear sections. The new plumbing configuration winterizes the whole system from the dining room winterizing valve.
• Four USB plugs added to the side of the bed where we lay our heads. Have you noticed the refrigerator is quieter when you lay your head on the driver's side of the bed? We wanted to charge our USB devices from that side too.