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    Can home type appliances run on solar?

    Residential frig has to be adapted in what ways? About how big of a van or RV would you need to hold all the batteries and large capacity inverter for a microwave? (I said converter when I think the proper term was inverter.)
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    Can home type appliances run on solar?

    My home frig/freezer went out and I'm having to buy a new one. When reading reviews on a 10.7 cubic ft 110V model available at places like Lowes, reviewers often start out by saying "We bought this frig for....(our daughters dorm room, or tiny apt, or small space in our home, or even an RV). Is...
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    Roof racks - good, bad, and horror stories

    Using solar on top as an example, when people say to measure, do they mean to measure from one end of the van's interior to a spot where there is nothing attached to the interior ceiling, and then apply that same measurement to the exterior and drill your holes there?  I look at any vehicle...
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    Roof racks - good, bad, and horror stories

    How does anyone drill a hole in the roof, or anywhere else in/on their vehicle, without knowing what the drill bit might hit on the other side of the surface since they don't have X-ray vision?
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    What did U do with those valuable bench seats U had to take out before conversion?

    I was looking at a big F350 van that seats 11, with 3 bench seats that aren't cheap. So what do you do with them? There's no market of buyers who are going to pay anything for them, and no one wants to rent and pay for a storage facility to house them, and if you keep your bricks and sticks...
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