On some of our other Solar Panel posts I’ve mentioned Handy Bob Solar as a good resource for people thinking about adding solar panels to their RVs. I recently was re-reading some of his stuff and realized that it isn’t very beginner friendly and some of his advice is getting out of date. So here… Read More Handy Bob Solar Summary
I did an interview with the tech news website ArsTechnica about the costs and benefits of installing solar panels on our home in Denver (which we now rent out) and the article just went live a couple days ago: https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/02/solar-power-is-it-for-you/. It isn’t really RV related but we’re still pretty proud of being featured and we’re… Read More Solar on our House
We talk a lot about boondocking, or “dry camping.” We love it, but it isn’t the norm for RV full-timers and it certainly takes a lot of work! We figured we’d give the “crash course” in boondocking for those who want to know more about what exactly it entails. First, recognize that boondocking is not… Read More Boondocking 101
We installed a fairly large (for an RV) completely custom solar power system all by ourselves for right around $3000. It has 660 watts of panels, 540 amp hours (~6.5 KWh) of AGM batteries, and a 3000 watt pure sine wave inverter. This should be more than enough for us to have 2 people living… Read More DIY RV Solar
Again, we’ve been doing boring stuff. None of it is really big enough for a full blog post so here are some mini things. The Back Room is Complete! I finished the plywood in the back with some leftover Waterlox from when we did the floors in our house. It looks pretty good but the texture… Read More April 19th 2016 – Status Update
We’ve done a lot of work on the RV but none of it is impressive enough by itself (yet) for a full blog post, so we decided to just post a bunch of pictures of our progress so far. We finished installing the dinette in the back room. We also made the storage area behind… Read More Progress Report – March 19th 2016
This is going to be a big project and I’m totally going to nerd out about most aspects of it so I’m going to break it up into a few parts. In this post I’m going to try really hard to keep very high level. Hopefully Allison can even read this and know what I’m talking… Read More RV Solar – Overview
The Reckless Choice 