Friday, I had to dash down to Camping World to get a missing shelf for the new refrigerator. Several other errands and some shopping and I made it to Dawn’s house in San Jose to do a little more work on the fence. I installed the lattice work on top of the fence. The neighbors […]
I finally completed the solar panel installation.
I installed two 120 watt and two 80 watt Kyocera solar panels which provides a total of 400 watts of power. I used Unirac 990002 Tilt mounts that allow tilting the panel either to the left or right of the vehicle for maximum power output.
The SolarBoost 2000E MPPT charge […]
It looks like rain in San Jose through Wednesday. Don went to Bakersfield to see his ailing Uncle Doug. Stopped for dinner at Harris Ranch near Coalinga. They have the worlds best chicken fried steak so that was dinner. Staying at the Wal-Mart Astoria Hotel (Wal-Marts) in Bakersfield.
Visiting relatives and the hospital to see Uncle […]
One of the main reasons I came to Quartzsite was to get a deal on my solar system. As it turns out, Quartzsite isn’t the place to get a deal on solar. Their prices for panels are 25% higher than the normal low prices from reputable dealers on the Internet. They also didn’t have the […]
A couple of weeks ago, I went to Circuit City and bought a VOIP (Voice Over Internet Protocol) device for the Vonage telephone service. When we were down at the Pinnacles last month, we had no service on our cell phones. The VOIP phone seemed like a way to have phone service almost anywhere because […]
I’ve just completed some updates to the RV. I installed 6 AGM deep cycle batteries to replace to 2 wet cell Trojan batteries. This should allow for up to two days of our heavy use without the need to run the generator. AGM Batteries are no maintenance low internal resistance batteries that are great for […]
We found a deal at Office Max and got an LCD/TV monitor for the bedroom. I made a bracket so it is mounted to the wall at eye level so I can setup a desktop later and it can be used for a computer as well.
I’ve setup my office in the RV. I’ve been looking for a good, small printer to install in the dash where the TV was. I found the Brother MFC-420cn, a multifunction scanner, fax, copier, and printer. It’s a color inkjet printer and it includes a document feeder for the scanner. It also has USB and […]