Can you really boondock in the Summer?
A few months ago, I boondocked for a week in Chicago in the middle of the summer. The biggest problem I had was the amount of electric used for the air conditioners.
I've got 16 large coach batteries and a 12.5 KV generator plus 600 watts of solar (that I never get over 250 watts out of) but at the end of the day, Summertime is hot and my RV got very hot during the day when I was out and stayed hot in the evenings where the low was around 75 degrees.
Clearly, if I wanted to boondock in a hot environment, I'd need a lot of diesel fuel to recharge the batteries every day and run the air conditioners at night. Is my only choice to buy 5 gallon fuel tanks and re-fill the main tank or do you guys have any special magic for keeping cool in the summer-time? It seems to me that the fuel costs would be more than the cost savings of a full-hookup site.
Is summer-time boondocking a high altitude activity only?
I've got 16 large coach batteries and a 12.5 KV generator plus 600 watts of solar (that I never get over 250 watts out of) but at the end of the day, Summertime is hot and my RV got very hot during the day when I was out and stayed hot in the evenings where the low was around 75 degrees.
Clearly, if I wanted to boondock in a hot environment, I'd need a lot of diesel fuel to recharge the batteries every day and run the air conditioners at night. Is my only choice to buy 5 gallon fuel tanks and re-fill the main tank or do you guys have any special magic for keeping cool in the summer-time? It seems to me that the fuel costs would be more than the cost savings of a full-hookup site.
Is summer-time boondocking a high altitude activity only?
