Boondocking and working with no electricity
Hey all, obligatory "just started fulltiming" (class C Coachmen leprechaun 32 ft) and we have been thinking about boondocking with the weeks that we have to be away from a thousand trails campgrounds....
Forum Discussion
MitchF150 wrote:
Solar costs a lot to start off with, but as long as you have sun, you can run your A/C on it if you have a system to handle it.
Gens are easy, but loud and use a lot of gas if you are running an Onan just to charge the batteries..
Upfront cost of a modest solar is way less than the cost of Honda generator. The problem with many users - they buy a generator before they learn how to do solar, even in sunnier places. It will of course take more than a modest solar to run A/C reliably. This is one thing that is difficult on solar. Everything else is feasible, especially with large Li bank.
If laptop is their biggest worry, Li bank alone can be a solution, with occasional charging by either generator or a small solar, or going back to shore power once in a while.
