Power Demands Off Grid
We want to have land and a house and a place to have a garden to grow our own food as well as some animals to reduce our dependency on anyone else. We have a meager income, but if we...
Tag: DC
A Plan for Going Off Grid
We have a rather large roof on our 1988 Tiffin Allegro. The RV is 33 feet long with a solid aluminum roof, much of it free of anything. If we want to put solar panels on it, I'm sure there...
A Brief Exploration of Power Demands
To start with this, I'm going to delve into our power requirements of one simple subset of the whole system: Computers and internet access. I have not used anything to determine how much power everything uses yet, so I am...
Off Grid Power Requirements
I want to figure out exactly how much power we use a month in our RV and then figure out how to reduce that amount and prepare for living off grid on a solar and wind system. That means breaking...
Converting the RV to Off Grid Life
Since we live in our RV and want to establish ourselves on our own land somewhere, it makes sense to take the RV with us and live in it while we build our structure. At the moment, we cannot really...
Tripp Lite Inverter/Converter Introduction into an RV Electrical System
This review has been a long time in the works. Our original plan was to go to Florida last Thanksgiving and add solar panels, a much larger battery setup, an inverter, and the other parts required for running our RV...
Solving the Power Issue
While we continue to wait on the transmission to get fixed, we are busy with other projects such as solving the power issue. Today, we received a TrippLite 2000 Watt Inverter/Converter. I'm going to be hooking it into the power...
Raspberry Pi’s Everywhere
The search for a computer to build as a core unit for the Smart Home on Wheels has been difficult. I spent hours scouring the internet for a solid, small, and useable computer that I could use for the hub....