Whom Of Us Boondocks 14-days Or More At A Stretch?
I mean on a regular basis? Vacations like...
Trying to get an idea of whom is whom...it helps.
SOLAR or GENERATOR?
Trying to get an idea of whom is whom...it helps.
SOLAR or GENERATOR?
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- We do it all the time. And in any weather.
I bring 4 extra propane tanks, 16 water jugs, and 55 gallons of gas. I have a 5 cubic ft. freezer on the rear rack of the TT. We have two Honda EU2000s, we only use one at a time (usually) but a backup is a necessity in case one fails on a trip.
We chose our TT specifically because in has two 42 gallon grey tanks and two 42 gallon black tanks.
We can live it up in style in just about any weather from subzero to over 110 degrees ice snow etc. we just ride it out. The freezer gives us many more options for what food we can bring. Pizzas, wings, small turkeys, roasts etc.
We do manage our generator power differently than most here... Rather than run off the batteries at night when the furnace is putting a whupping on the batteries, we run our generator all night. We awake with fully charged batteries that can easily get us thru the day.
Doing this allows us to run a dehumidifier and seal the TT up tight to reduce propane use. - Eeeeewwwwwww Subject....
Just for the record (in deliberately HIGH abstract verse)...
It requires the action of both Anaerobic and Aerobic bacteria to completely process the waste "product"
When I was digging 100-year old frontier privvies searching for pricey bitters bottles, the uh, ground, was indistinguishable from surrounding desert soil. - You forgot the image...
MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
And don't call me Shirley
as refrigerators....
Lift a 10 CF Servel sometime, then run around to the rear and tap the absorbsion tubing. Thick isn't it? I mean WAY thick. It has nickel and chromium in it.
Think a Dometic or Norcold has chromium nickel alloy tubing?
Shirley you jest. It is 1010 mild steel oops excuse me, sheet metal.
Albert E was no fool. He had genuine absorbsion cooling refrigeration - not some ripoff toy.pnichols wrote:
:h David .... how are you freezing stuff out in the wilderness?
He has both generator and solar. Probably both kinds of fridges too. Other than a few urban hubs, the state of Michoacan perfectly qualifies as wilderness.- as refrigerators....
Lift a 10 CF Servel sometime, then run around to the rear and tap the absorbsion tubing. Thick isn't it? I mean WAY thick. It has nickel and chromium in it.
Think a Dometic or Norcold has chromium nickel alloy tubing?
Shirley you jest. It is 1010 mild steel oops excuse me, sheet metal.
Albert E was no fool. He had genuine absorbsion cooling refrigeration - not some ripoff toy. - G
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r - MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
"I mean on a regular basis? Vacations like...
Trying to get an idea of whom is whom...it helps.
SOLAR or GENERATOR?"
I do it all the time. (at least 6 months every year) I'm a self certified fair weather sissy. In the summer, I stay at higher elevations in the SW USA where the temperatures are more to my liking. (below 90F) In the winter, I boondock at CA beaches or the AZ desert for 2-3 weeks at a time then stay in any one of many available full hookup campgrounds for 1-3 days to refresh, charge, clean, dump, etc. You know the drill. Often, I use my generator, a little solar, and a bunch of unmetered full service campground utilities like electricity and water, to clean myself and my RV up a little. When close to public services, (trash) I spend a lot of my free time volunteering and cleaning up the horrific mess (litter) left by lots of RV/homeless people on unregulated sites. If you are one of those people, or, their friends, please don't camp/boondock next to me. We won't get along very well.
Chum lee MEXICOWANDERER wrote:
They freeze very well.
:h David .... how are you freezing stuff out in the wilderness?
(We use a good old absorption refrigerator - cuz Einstein did.)- That's why the Kubota sits on a slab.
The Niehoff charges 400 amperes at dead slow idle. The Cummins has a 12" crank pulley. 400-amps at 28 volts is = to 800 amperes at 14 volts (va/watts). It charges the (4) 400/AH L-16's as fast as safely possible. Hee hee I MADE my own 24 volt toaster. Eight slice. Yep with a 5-minute windup intermatic timer. Want really dark toast - 5 minutes, all the way down to tan toast 1-1/2 minutes. I have a special 4" burner that roars like a jet. It will heat to boiling 2 liters of water in a few seconds under 2-minutes. For heating water, regular stoves, house, or RV are a joke, a stupid LPG Coleman camp stove burner puts out twice the heat. While people re standing around waiting for the generator or inverter to process an electric drip coffeemaker, I am halfway through m French Press (Walmart "Bubba" 20 oz first cup. I am working up a design using 14 gage nichrome to make a grille. The secret is to heavily insulate the appliance and barely keep the meat out of splatter range of the burner. This is a future project. With the monster adobe oven out back, I cake bake six San Francisco sourdough loafs or an equal number of rye for freezing. Then I roast coffee. Hah! I use the infrared pyrometer to throttle temperature, and attain perfection of the 2nd crack.
Wilderness camping does not mean eating Spam and slurping Kool Aid. The grandkids have to help with the lifting and mixing. Shoot I even bake my own croissants, now. They freeze very well.
