Mastodawn

The Atwood Propane Gas detector in our RV has reached its 84 months EOL. I know this because it's flashing its orange light, and beeping every minute or so. Neither of these behaviors is stopped by the Mute / Test button. The only way to stop the noise is to kill power to it, living us completely unprotected until a replacement arrives.

Do product designers not think of these things? What if that had started in the middle of the night? Was EOL really 84 months ±1 minute?!

#rv #atwood #design

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Matt Knight (KN6HTM)

And to make things worse, you cannot buy an exact replacement for it. All the new ones have a different form factor (landscape vs portrait) and given the tight space ours was installed in, it means the only way it will fit is if I rotate it 90°.

Functionally it'll work just fine, but aesthetically a total mess.

After 7 years of RV full-time RV living I should be used to it by now, but why are so many RV products just so terrible?

#rv #rvlife #fulltimerv