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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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 →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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