What you can do with solar
No sure how many other follow "Gone with the Wynns" but they did a nice little video on Solar Boondocking. They make it very enticing. Check the video out Here.
Forum Discussion
Brian,
Thanks so much for sharing our post...and happy we were able to give you the solar "bug".
This video is 100% authentic. We never ran the Generator that day and we did not "fudge" anything. We pride ourselves on creating entertaining and educational content that will hopefully inspire the viewer to "go outside and play"!
We do NOT use as many electronics on a regular day as we did in this video. This video is exclusively shot to see how far we can push our solar and batteries in one day's use, and trying not to deplete our batteries below 50%. This video was created as a continuation of the original 'solar intro' video we created a few months earlier: http://www.gonewiththewynns.com/extreme-rv-solar
At night you can see we turned off the all electronics along with the inverter in order to conserve our batteries for the morning. When we awoke we had to wait for late morning to start running electronics. We kept the fridge on LP all morning, which drastically drops our consumption, and we did not use the water distiller which allowed our batteries to charge back up by the early afternoon. By using the Fridge on LP and not running the distiller we save 4.490KWh which allows us to be completely sustainable without running the generator.
One cannot expect to run as many electronics as we did in the video on a daily basis, the batteries would never reach 100%. I hope this helps clear things up on what one can realistically expect from a good solar setup on their RV.
Thanks so much for sharing our post...and happy we were able to give you the solar "bug".
This video is 100% authentic. We never ran the Generator that day and we did not "fudge" anything. We pride ourselves on creating entertaining and educational content that will hopefully inspire the viewer to "go outside and play"!
We do NOT use as many electronics on a regular day as we did in this video. This video is exclusively shot to see how far we can push our solar and batteries in one day's use, and trying not to deplete our batteries below 50%. This video was created as a continuation of the original 'solar intro' video we created a few months earlier: http://www.gonewiththewynns.com/extreme-rv-solar
At night you can see we turned off the all electronics along with the inverter in order to conserve our batteries for the morning. When we awoke we had to wait for late morning to start running electronics. We kept the fridge on LP all morning, which drastically drops our consumption, and we did not use the water distiller which allowed our batteries to charge back up by the early afternoon. By using the Fridge on LP and not running the distiller we save 4.490KWh which allows us to be completely sustainable without running the generator.
One cannot expect to run as many electronics as we did in the video on a daily basis, the batteries would never reach 100%. I hope this helps clear things up on what one can realistically expect from a good solar setup on their RV.
