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I use one of those cheaply made, plastic pumps that uses two D cells and sits on a 5 gallon water bottle. I use it for my daily drinking water as well as refilling my fresh water tank 30 gallons at a time. I am on my second replacing the first when the switch on the cap went out after 4 years...

I can just see the jokes now Where DON'T you visit in a solar powered RV? The rain forest. ------ Why take a break from traveling each year? The monsoon season. ------- Not a good vehicle to have for evacuation during a hurricane. ------ Martha and John decided to visit the Northwest in...

Live inside the vehicle you are suppose to be living out of.

The last big hail storm we had in Denver before I left broke windows, dented cars, tore holes in vinyl siding and PVC fencing. It also took out the vent lids on my trailer and dinged up two sides getting it totaled. I'm talking larger than golf ball sized hail. Driving around afterwards looking...

I have groomed my schnauzers for 30 years but am not above having Max done if I can get it for a decent price. The groomers in Quartzsite charge $35 to $40 and do a decent job. Certainly worth it considering the time and effort I put into grooming Max. My kit is a basic Wahl grooming kit from...

Since isolators are rated in amps and the ones I have installed called for 4 gauge wire, they were fused for the output of the isolator which was well below the capacity of the wire.

These were replacements for your original set of flex panels. How did you have them glued down and why did they need to be replaced?

I've use gutter mount racks to mount 300-400 watt panels up to multiple panels totaling over 1000 watts. No one has called me to say that they have loosen up or flown off. I have also mounted directly to the top or built custom mounts to accommodate for the odd curves. One person ran into a...

Small dog has no energy? This is a person that has never met Max.

Currently I have a single 200 amp hour LifeBlue lithium battery. One of the 3 LifeLine 8-Ds listed below failed this last winter at 11 years of age and I decided it was time to make the move to lithium since just getting to the bank was a major pain in the butt. I considered replacing the bank...

I'll have to check with Joe to see if he took a picture.

One thing to consider is that you can not just leave them alone often. They really are a sacrifice of your freedom as well as mentioned above, they are expensive to keep. Personally I like mini schnauzers. Max is my fifth. They are intelligent to the point of being not just stubborn but...

I have to agree. I was asked to look at one of their solar generators in the past and found it to be over hyped, over priced and playing off of peoples fears. Some of their other products are even worse and do not do what is advertised at all. There are other units like it that are better built...

A more recent example of MacGyvering it is over the winter a friends propane fridge went out. He had taken the burn tube out to clean it and found that a third of the area that was slotted to distribute the flame had burned through leaving a big hole instead of slots. I took a single strand out...

Sometimes it isn't a question of buying the item or not. Sometimes there is not a part available or obtainable. Growing up out in the country is not much different than being out in the middle of no where dwelling. There are no hardware stores to buy parts from and you can't order it online and...

A credit card can be a valuable tool if you know how and when to use it. However it’s usefulness declines greatly on a Friday night before a holiday weekend as a friend of mine found out.

I gave five guys a buzz cut with clippers . I use clippers to groom my dog too. Anything can be run off of a solar system if it’s matched up properly

The ways I work out what a device uses are the formula above if I only know the watts it pulls in a hour watts used per hour divided by 60 minutes times the number of minutes used divided by the voltage of the bank at the time equals actual amps out of the battery. We generalize it's 12 volts...

I have at least one customer that uses a induction cook top with 200 Ah of lithium and 345 watts of solar. I can't say that she uses it for three squares a day or long term meals like frying chicken. I do know that normal quick meals do not take huge amounts of reserve. It isn't that much...

Y'all are way more fancy than I am. I put a can of cheap no milk needed cream of chicken soup in a small mixing bowl. I boil the noodles from your basic cheap Ramen package and drain enough of the boiling water to fill the soup can and discard the rest. Pour boiling water into soup, stir, add...