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...
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Winegard ConnecT 2.0 – Apparently Dead?
I went to turn on the ConnecT 2.0 this morning to see if I can reach the campground wifi network now that there are less RVs blocking the signal. The wifi SSID is not showing up at all. I'm not...
What is the next step in our journey?
We've owned our 1988 Tiffin Allegro for two years now. We moved in over a year and a half ago and have plenty of issues. Our journey took us from Wisconsin to Florida, back north to Kentucky and again south...
Food Preparation Off Grid
As I discussed in an early post, we have a lot of technology to power. Those devices and electrical demands are all for ways to make money, entertain ourselves, and communicate with the outside world. The topic of this entry...
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...
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...
What We Have Underway
We have a lot of projects being worked on at the moment, so this is a list and update of what we have underway. We've received a few items to do instals of, but due to the weather right now,...
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...