Is solar the way to go?
Looking for some input from those of you that use solar to charge your battery. What are good kits to buy that are affordable and portable? How long does it take you to charge in all conditions? Is so...
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NinerBikes wrote:
Solar is great, non smelly, non noisy and unobstrusive, but it's but one item in your bag of tricks to make electricity. The generator is back up, better to have it and not need it, than need it, and not have it.
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IMHO, self contained camping should be all about options, Plan B's, and backups.
For instance:
1) We carry along a long necked funnel along for whatever. Once our traveling companions had their transmission blow at a campsite up a mountain and they were able to make it back into town and a repair facility by constantly topping up the transmission with our funnel.
2) We carry along a spare water pump. Recently our traveling companions had theirs fail in Northern Arizona. We popped our spare waterpump into their rig and they were able to finish the trip without any further hassles.
3) We carry along a rugged hydraulic jack. We lent it so to some folks who needed to lift the tongue of their TT to hook up their tow vehicle due to their built-in tongue jack having failed.
4) We carry along a full size air compressor (our built-in generator will power it). We lent it to some folks at a horse auction who where having some problem with the tires on their 5'er.
What we don't carry along is any solar, but we may get around to it. :)
