Dirtfarmer515
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Hello and thank you for all the info I've gathered off this site on ambulance conversions so far!
Long story short, we decided on an ambulance after looking at something to take on family vacations. We have a child with fairly significant health issues. One of the problems we run into is the travel time, about 2 1/2 hours is the max that she can be in a chair in our wheelchair van without needing to lay down and rest for a while. We thought about an RV, and she could lay down while we travel, but there is not a good way to safely strap her in, and it would be difficult to retrofit one to get her chair in and out. We've spent enough time in an ambulance to know that they are comfortable and safe, the bonus is they have on board suction, Oxygen and inverters made to run medical equipment. So we started the search.
After looking at several, we found this one. It's a '08 C4500 with a McCoy Miller module. The thing that really sold us on this one was that it has double doors on the side. The thought is that if this works as well as we think it will, I can install a wheel chair lift the side. With the bigger module, we can have the cot in the back, and her chair in front of that.
As for conversion, we really aren't planning a whole lot for now. I'll add a couple of TV's and a DVD Player, and some tie down track. Other than that we'll use it a while and see what we need to change.
One Question I have, is on the shore power. There are two plug ins on the divers side. Why is there two? Do they do different things?
Thanks again!
Long story short, we decided on an ambulance after looking at something to take on family vacations. We have a child with fairly significant health issues. One of the problems we run into is the travel time, about 2 1/2 hours is the max that she can be in a chair in our wheelchair van without needing to lay down and rest for a while. We thought about an RV, and she could lay down while we travel, but there is not a good way to safely strap her in, and it would be difficult to retrofit one to get her chair in and out. We've spent enough time in an ambulance to know that they are comfortable and safe, the bonus is they have on board suction, Oxygen and inverters made to run medical equipment. So we started the search.
After looking at several, we found this one. It's a '08 C4500 with a McCoy Miller module. The thing that really sold us on this one was that it has double doors on the side. The thought is that if this works as well as we think it will, I can install a wheel chair lift the side. With the bigger module, we can have the cot in the back, and her chair in front of that.
As for conversion, we really aren't planning a whole lot for now. I'll add a couple of TV's and a DVD Player, and some tie down track. Other than that we'll use it a while and see what we need to change.
One Question I have, is on the shore power. There are two plug ins on the divers side. Why is there two? Do they do different things?
Thanks again!