On
Saturday the 17th of September Dave Christmas of
Rainbow Power Company picked up a three ton Mitsubishi
Canter covered truck from Thrifty Hire in Lismore.
On arrival back at the company premises in Nimbin, Terry Thomas, Hugh
Murtagh and Dave loaded the truck with stock. The next day they all
headed off for Maryborough, Queensland, leaving at 7.30am and arriving
at 1.30pm. The rally was held at the show grounds on the Bruce highway
and was attended by almost 70 trade exhibitors and well over fourteen
hundred CMCA members housed in a wonderful variety of Campervans and
Motorhomes.
As well as Terry, Hugh and Dave the RPC stall was staffed by Lance
Hannaford and Craig Burnett with Andrew Nicholas the Kyocera sales
manager from Brisbane also in attendance for the last three days of
the rally. Andrew made the comment that having a couple of technicians
on site was a very clever move. Wonder who will copy the idea next
year?
Hugh
and Craig were kept very busy checking out systems in a
wide range of vehicles and fixing up any problems they
found. They estimate that they checked out well over two
dozen systems. Problems most often encountered, of course,
were flat batteries, but they also fixed up problems with
faulty inverters, chargers and regulators.
Needless to say, Rainbow Power Company had supplied none
of these faulty items. The faulty units represented the
lower end of the quality spectrum, with all having been
imported. Any items that couldn’t be fixed
up on the spot, were brought back to Nimbin to be checked out in the
electronic workshop and fixed were possible.
Well over forty owners expressed interest in coming
down to Nimbin to have work done on their vehicles.
In the three weeks following the rally, over
ten owners have brought their vehicles down to
RPC to have various problems sorted. Lot’s
more are expected over the next few months.
Rainbow
Power Company is becoming known as one of the leading
company’s in the field of Motorhome installations
and problem solving.
Look out for any Motorhomes carrying the RPC logo. Ask them about their
experience in Nimbin. Then come and have a look for yourself.