Texas-based SkillAbove said it is now making specialized diagnostic test tools available to RV technicians and RV owners through its website at RVTesters.com.
SkillAbove was founded in 2021 to develop and produce tools for mobile RV technicians, RV owners and technicians employed at RV dealerships. Its RV Testers Innovation Center is where prototypes are developed and evaluated. The company’s primary goal is to help service technicians do their jobs more efficiently by diagnosing the real reason something is not working, said Chandler Cooper, president of SkillAbove.
“When the pandemic struck, many people were just standing around asking what do we do now?” he explained.
Instead, Cooper, who is a full-time RVer and lives in a customized fifth wheel with his wife and three children, started building test and service equipment specifically for the RV industry.
Chandler is also an instructor at the National RV Training Academy (NRVTA) in Athens, Texas. He specializes in RV exteriors and hydraulic systems. Chandler has been experimenting with ideas to enable RV technicians to better use technology to zero in on problems with recreation vehicles.
After attending Texas State Technical College in Waco, Texas, Chandler went to work in the gas industry servicing advanced electrical controls and safety systems. From there, he began specializing in high-speed manufacturing systems encompassing programable logic controls (PLC), robotics and network communications.
With that experience, Chandler became a co-owner of a technology training company, which contracted with several Fortune 500 corporations to train their maintenance staff. When COVID restrictions paused their live training events, and the job opened at NRVTA, it led to the formation of a unique partnership.
“Chandler has developed a reputation as a strong troubleshooter and problem-solver for his ability to use technology to improve the lives of technicians,” said Terry Cooper, founder of NRVTA.
The RV Testers Innovation Center is transforming Chandler’s prototypes into finished products for the RV industry, and is in the process of getting patents on his innovations. With 26 products in development for RV technicians and RV owners, Chandler has committed to releasing a new product with SkillAbove every month for the next 18 months.
“I plan to create quality tools that technicians and consumers can use to better diagnose and troubleshoot various systems in modern RVs,” said Chandler.
When creating the products, he chose to power the bulk of his testers with the same batteries used in popular cordless power tools that many technicians and consumers already own.
The tools he’s created are for sale to professionals in the industry and to RV owners. Visit the website for more information.