Before our 5-month trip up the Inside Passage to Alaska aboard Airship, we did some major upgrades to Airship’s electrical power system. Now, after five solid months on the boat – mostly away from marinas, here is a summary of how the system performed, what we learned, and what our…
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When we bought our (second) Airstream trailer back in 2010 we had a solar system installed by AM Solar in Springfield, Oregon. We knew (1) we’d be using the trailer off the grid often, (2) we needed electricity to live and work (and blog), and (3) we didn’t want a…
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Today we've just been hanging out on the boat working while the solar panel install is happening. It's super windy (last night was 30mph gusting to 50mph, woohoo!) and there's been some rain, but this afternoon the sun happened to come out right when it was a good time for…
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We decided to dry camp at Alumafandango, so we never connected to electric or water (there was no sewer) while we were there – Tuesday through Sunday. Our AM Solar power system kept up with our electric needs 100% – we had 100% battery charge when we left. We ran…
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We've been asked a few times now if we have any good tips for conserving resources while dry camping or boondocking. Since we seem to be pretty good at it (according to ourselves anyway, and the length of time we've managed to dry camp), we thought we'd do a post…
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We played musical campsites here at Porto Bodega the other day. When the music stopped, we were in a spot with no hookups. So, we are dry camping again. I realized that sometimes my favorite mode is dry camping at one of the places that has both hookup and non-hookup…
Leave a CommentOkay so recently, our inverter started kicking its breaker any time we ran a couple things together (at first, then whenever we ran one thing for longer than a minute or so) even when we were plugged into shore power. We had AM Solar check it out and they eventually…
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Update: here we are! Heading down to AM Solar today for a few tweaks! Love these guys…I'm kind of excited to go back. We're still so happy with the system they put in for us two years ago. Here's a cool pic of their very nice shop (from their website): …
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Okay the torches have arrived. Here’s my review after early testing (in the living room): Very well made. The polycarbonate is solid and feels and looks good. Flicker is good. I’ve seen more realistic flicker, but this flicker isn’t annoying or annoyingly bad. They’ll be rockin’ our campsites just fine.…
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