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Originally Posted by AJMike
I don't see any clear rationale behind how Winnebago does this sort of thing. In our Fuse the inverter powers 3 outlets - one behind the front TV, one behind the rear TV and one in the bedroom, but some of the other Winnie diesel Class Cs apparently only have 2 outlets powered by the inverter. Why? I have no idea.
I would think that the bedroom outlet powered by the inverter in our Fuse would be for a CPAP machine but, if so, why not the other models? And I am not even sure that the other Fuse models (ours is the 23T) have the same outlet setup as ours. None of makes sense from a design standpoint to me.
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I don't think of it as being a design thing as much as a sales point.
If we go car shopping we can find things like a Focus that comes in some form they may call SE but also comes in SEL ( just making up names!) and there are several different ways people shop.
Some will ask which is cheaper and start there, while others ask which is better. Lots of folks start at the top and get the SEL Grand that has two hundred dollars worth of USB charger feature added and costs about $1500 more, so having both on the sales lot is really a good profit item for the dealer!
When we go looking for a new RV, most of us will be hard pressed to spot the small points in a Vita or Fuse, so we will miss lots of the small points but you can bet the design was certainly changed to meet the main objective of increased profits!
The idea of saving a few hundred dollars on a new RV may seem meaningless to many of us but if you figure that same amount saved on several thousand units built, it gets real meaning to them!
Like the different cost of putting a 300 watt inverter in, instead of a 1000 watt inverter, seems not worth the effort to many buyers but to the guy who owns the business it means a lot.
Bait and switch is just the final form of normal business practice!