Technomads: Technology Enabled Nomads
Chris Dunphy & Cherie Ve Ard are exploring the confluence of full-time travel, technology, career and community; all while embracing nomadic serendipity.
Current adventure: Full time RVing in the USA in a 1961 Vintage Bus Conversion.
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We are deep in the midst of a kitchen remodel this week, and we’ve been posting progress photos on our Facebook page as we go. We’ll do a post with better photos of the completed project later.
But because the remodel has involved us permanently pulling our propane powered range / oven, we’ve been [...]
Continue Reading →It seems like every week we get an email or two asking us for more details about our solar RV travel trailer setup, what components we use, what things we run off of solar, and how well being solar powered is working for us overall.
We get so many questions that it seems like a [...]
Continue Reading →Though we normally rely on our 200 watt solar system for power, one of the essentials in our technomadic toolbox is our small Honda EU2000 generator that has been modified to run off of propane.
We rely on this generator to top off our batteries when the solar is not able to keep [...]
Continue Reading →One particular frustration that has vexed me for over three years now is that there is no “official” way to power any MagSafe-equipped Apple laptops directly off of 12v power.
But there is an alternative…
Mike Lee of MikeGyver.com has made a business of taking genuine Apple MagSafe tips, and splicing them onto 12v compatible power supplies…
Continue Reading →When we landed in South San Francisco a while back, we had the option at the RV Park we’re staying at to do a monthly rate which was inclusive, or a monthly contract which was $150 less but you paid your own electricity. We took the contract, figuring we had to be using way less [...]
Continue Reading →There are a few important things to know about electricity when wiring up an RV or solar electric system.
Electrical energy (Watts) is is determined by multiplying voltage (Volts) by current (Amps). This means that as you decrease the voltage on a wire, the current required to send the same amount of power increases. For [...]
Continue Reading →Boondocking or “dry camping” in an RV without a battery monitor is like driving a car without a gas gauge.
If you fill your tank up everyday and never drive further than to the corner store, this strategy can work just fine. But if you are going to do any sort of serious camping [...]
Continue Reading →I was just emailed this picture, along with this description:
“Thought you might like to see one guy’s solution to limited roof space. It is from a poorly scanned photo … but you’ll get the gist of it. Those are the old Siemens 55 watt panels times about 34 = 1870 watts plus two 300 [...]
Continue Reading →Solar panels are only half the battle… You next need something to take the sun juice and squeeze it into your batteries.
There are plenty of reasonably priced basic solar charge controllers, and if you have small panels or you are not overly concerned about every last drop of efficiency – a basic charge controllers [...]
Continue Reading →One of the biggest challenges to living a solar powered technomadic life in a trailer as small as the Oliver is the lack of roof space to mount solar panels.
The Oliver’s fiberglass roof isn’t just small, it is not even flat. It rises up in the middle to allow for interior headroom, and it [...]
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