First Time Boondocking Plan - Tech Question
I am trying to learn & prepare to Boondock for 12 days in Oct. I have a standard 5er setup (two 6 volt batteries) and a 2000w Honda generator. For convenience I purchased a battery level indicator at ...
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We have considerable solar and lfp batteries. We have not tied into line power or generator since our older son designedand fabricated system in June. Have run ac for 3.5 hours at times and the forced air heater in 0 F and snow for a week at a time (still got 150 W with total overcast once snow was brushed off the 6 x 235 W panels.
We Are full timers and boondock invariably: Alaska, Newfoundlnd\Labrador, Baja, Yucatan/Belize. We did use semi-developed RV parks in Mexico but no real hookup places (electricity would fry m/w anyway). Dry camped at all night trucker stops going to Yucatan and at a nice place in San Miguel Del Allende. We did stay at Inglewood RV park in Belize, the only one in Belize so we. Would leave rig and drive to Tikal in Guatemala.
Our older rig did have glass mat and they were doing great at six years but totaled rig in 70 CSR pileup 80 miles west of Vera Cruz. Son is solar designer fabricator (has contract on 1.5 MW Project for panels and low voltage). Cary was excited about newer solar and battery concepts so we now have 1.42 kW of panels and 9.7 kW hours of lfp. The lfp weigh 160# total.
Read through the posts on this thread and we pretty much agree with the ideas on life style expressed. We choose not to bother wildlife and others who might also be engaged in dispersed camping' there are definite payoffs: we had two adolescent bull moose "fighting" within 25 meters of our rig at Vedauwoo this last September.
Reed and Elaine
We Are full timers and boondock invariably: Alaska, Newfoundlnd\Labrador, Baja, Yucatan/Belize. We did use semi-developed RV parks in Mexico but no real hookup places (electricity would fry m/w anyway). Dry camped at all night trucker stops going to Yucatan and at a nice place in San Miguel Del Allende. We did stay at Inglewood RV park in Belize, the only one in Belize so we. Would leave rig and drive to Tikal in Guatemala.
Our older rig did have glass mat and they were doing great at six years but totaled rig in 70 CSR pileup 80 miles west of Vera Cruz. Son is solar designer fabricator (has contract on 1.5 MW Project for panels and low voltage). Cary was excited about newer solar and battery concepts so we now have 1.42 kW of panels and 9.7 kW hours of lfp. The lfp weigh 160# total.
Read through the posts on this thread and we pretty much agree with the ideas on life style expressed. We choose not to bother wildlife and others who might also be engaged in dispersed camping' there are definite payoffs: we had two adolescent bull moose "fighting" within 25 meters of our rig at Vedauwoo this last September.
Reed and Elaine
