RV REVIEW
GOLD CLASS CONSTRUCTION
The Gold Class AC19C is built atop a 6in hot-dipped-galvanised chassis on Airbag Man suspension with auto height control and digital pressure monitoring. The floor is a‘ honeycomb’ system, while the van is framed in laser-welded aluminium clad with composite aluminium and black checkerplate.
Let’ s look at the van’ s power system. At the heart of it is a generous 600Ah worth of Enerdrive lithium power with a whopping 1225W of roofmounted solar with dual 40A MPPT solar controllers. There’ s a 3000W Enerdrive pure sine wave inverter, too, as well as a 100A mains charger, and no, they haven’ t forgotten the 40A Enerdrive DC-DC charger. It’ s a comprehensive 12V system. Further, you can expand your solar input via the inbuilt Anderson plug on the offside which, I’ ll add, is nestled within a protective housing – wonderful.
When it comes to monitoring the 12V load and state of charge of the batteries, there’ s a Simarine digital display inside the van, which also has smartphone connectivity so you can monitor things via an app.
The features keep coming. There’ s a large storage box on the A-frame complete with general storage either side( the diesel heater tank, though, is in the nearside compartment) while two 9kg gas cylinder holders are in the middle. Why have gas when the van has such high battery capacity? Well, the gas powers the stove on the nearside slide-out kitchen, as well as the gas-electric hot water service. As much as I appreciate that caravans have adopted the‘ gas-less’ approach, I think it’ s wise to have a gas backup so that you can at least cook if there’ s an electrical failure somewhere.
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