John & Angela wrote:
Almot wrote:
Your rig is not optimized for boondocking. And so is lifestyle - this is individual, but there are things that you just can't do in the boons without either a good solar or substantial genset run.
Big rig, two furnaces - both can be replaced with cat heaters. Older inefficient TV, and many hours. PC instead of a laptop, and again many hours, and this is simultaneously with TV because you're a student and your partner has to kill the time somehow. Huge - by boondock standards - 120V fridge, you think it's drawing 80W @30% cycle, but there is a high startup current. And microwave, and toaster, and all this with inverter losses.
Yepir. There are so many things we could change not to mention how we do things but we are full timers and this is our home so we lean towards the comfort side rather than the power conservation side. Overtime it will get better as we replace the TV's. This year we went with all warm white LED's which I'm sure helped somewhat. It would be hard to give up the big fridge. We still love to dry camp and do a fair amount of it depending on the year. When the weather is sunny we are stand alone and need no generator run time but any shade and the genny is coming on for an hour or two per day. Really not to bad in the big scheme of things.
Good points... solar when it's there, when it's not there, the genny is plan B.
