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I am planning to take the family on a week long excursion to the Grand Canyon, and after looking at hotels, and such, the cost is extraordinary, add in gas, and meals, and its even more. So I started...
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I have a 12x6 enclosed that I haul my RC planes with. I installed a power system using a 6W solar panel, deep cycle battery and an inverter. I found out the hard way NOT to use the solar panel by itself. It fried the battery. It then fried itself somehow as it wont put out more than 7 volts under a light(literally) load. I have LED lighting strips in the trailer, and last year when I first hooked it all up the panel would light everything, now only the red lights work. I replaced the panel with an 18W panel that also has a battery controller to prevent over and under charging, now just have to replace the battery, I tried to recover it, but its too far gone.
Any traveling tips? Going to run from Rockford IL to the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon and back. Going south first then across OK, TX etc. Any places along that path that are good layover points? The trailer I am looking at has a rear slideout for the queen bed, so it has to be extended in order to use it, don't know if that will be an issue.
Anyhow, the rest of the answers helped me relax a bit, thanks, appreciate it.
I have a 12x6 enclosed that I haul my RC planes with. I installed a power system using a 6W solar panel, deep cycle battery and an inverter. I found out the hard way NOT to use the solar panel by itself. It fried the battery. It then fried itself somehow as it wont put out more than 7 volts under a light(literally) load. I have LED lighting strips in the trailer, and last year when I first hooked it all up the panel would light everything, now only the red lights work. I replaced the panel with an 18W panel that also has a battery controller to prevent over and under charging, now just have to replace the battery, I tried to recover it, but its too far gone.
Any traveling tips? Going to run from Rockford IL to the Grand Canyon, Bryce Canyon and back. Going south first then across OK, TX etc. Any places along that path that are good layover points? The trailer I am looking at has a rear slideout for the queen bed, so it has to be extended in order to use it, don't know if that will be an issue.
Anyhow, the rest of the answers helped me relax a bit, thanks, appreciate it.
