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Living via Solar Power in an RV (Our Oliver Travel Trailer Install – 2008-2011)
2012 Update: This post was written based off our last RV – a 17′ Oliver Travel Trailer that was designed for being off grid. After 3 years of full time travel in the Oliver, in June 2011 we moved...
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Technomadia’s RV Solar Challenge
Our first home on wheels – 16′ T@B Clamshell. No bathroom.. but we had solar! I have been a fan of solar power as long as I have been living on the road. One of the first projects I tackled when I...
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Understanding Solar Panel Specifications
This is the second post in our series researching adding solar power to our bus. For an introduction to the project, click here. And for an index to all the articles in the series, click here. Before I...
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Zephyr is Solar Powered! – 800 Watt RV Bus Roof Solar Install
Heading towards Mono Lake, with solar on top. For those of you who have been paying close attention, you might have seen a little extra something perched on our roof in the last few photos we’ve shared...
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Solar Planning: Conducting An RV Electrical Consumption Audit
An energy audit is a big job – it is good to have help so that one person can be taking measurements and notes while the other is running around flipping breakers. We get asked all the time: “How much...
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Living the Lithium Lifestyle – 3.5 Year Lithium RV Battery Update
Our 500 Amp Hour Lithium Bank – Weighing Just 141lbs! BTW – don’t wear rings while playing with batteries! Bad Chris! One of the most unusual frequently asked questions we get asked out on the road:...
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Back to Boondocking: Being Electrically Abundant in a Mostly Electric RV
We’ve seen it advised so many times on RVing groups and forums, if you want to boondock – you have to rely on propane for cooking, refrigeration, hot water heating and heating. If your coach is...
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The (Almost) Fantasy of Solar-Powered RV Air Conditioning
It is going to take a lot more than two 100W panels to keep an RV AC going. A LOT more… We see the questions all the time – people wondering: What will it take to run an RV air conditioner off of solar...
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RV Solar: Is It Worth It?
We absolutely love living in a solar powered RV. But as awesome as solar can be, it is NOT for everyone. A lot of RVers seem to think that a few hundred watts of solar will magically give them absolute...
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Running an RV AC off Solar, Batteries, and a Hybrid Boosting Inverter
Our Victron CCGX control panel lets us see the power from sun, shore, and battery combining to keep us cool on a hot Georgia afternoon. We’re currently driveway surfing with friends in coastal Georgia,...
View ArticleTour of our Boat’s Electrical System – Solar, Lithium & Inverters!
As technomads – our mobile electrical systems are the lifeblood of our various nomadic homes. After all – we need to keep all this technology powered up somehow. And while stock RV and boat electrical...
View ArticleWhat Killed Our RV Lithium Batteries? 8.5 Years of LiFePo4
In what seems like another world now, last December we replaced our dead lithium batteries in our vintage bus, Zephyr. We originally installed our GBS lithium cells back in August 2011 – and as far as...
View ArticleGetting Back to Abundant Desert Boondocking
Earlier this year we returned to our boondocking roots for a month in the deserts of Arizona in our bus. It was oh so wonderful to be out in nature, on our own and feeling abundant in the systems we...
View ArticleFlooding Prioritizes Boat Electrical Upgrades – New Inverters for more Solar...
Our last post was on October 6 – just as we passed a previous record flood level from 1953 here at the waterfront in Downtown Sanford Lake Monroe ended up cresting at 8.96′ above normal on October 9th,...
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