If you could drive a solar-powered car, would you? We live mostly off-grid and primarily use solar power to run our RV. When we started talking about getting a second vehicle, it made perfect sense to us that it would be a plug-in hybrid electric vehicle that could take advantage of our RV’s solar system. […]
Ultimate Off-Grid RV Solar Power System Build
More direct solar energy falls on the Earth in one hour than the entire human race consumes in a year. Here’s how we’re using RV solar panels to capture this unlimited power source to energize our travels. Using Solar Power on RVs Many homeowners and RVers like us have been using solar power for years. […]
Updated Tesla Module RV Installation
After over a year of working with these systems, I have refined my recommendation on equipment and build a little. .!!IMPORTANT!! Before reading further, the design in this article does not meet new requirements I have learned of about the BP220, During design of this 2 years ago, there was no information about reverse charging […]
Off-Grid 1979 Airstream Electrical System
We spent some time with Kyle and Olivia Brady of Drivin’ and Vibin’ helping with their extensive remodel of their 1979 Airstream Argosy trailer. As part of the project, we helped build an entirely new electrical system that would be optimized for off-grid comfort. This meant utilizing a large battery bank, a hybrid inverter, solar […]
Solar Phase 3 – The Inverter
The third and final phase of our solar installation on our RV was installing an inverter to convert the 24V battery power into 120V for general receptacles and higher power appliances. We chose to install a Victron Multiplus 3000W inverter. We also had to choose how to wire the inverter into the existing 120V […]
Solar Phase 2: The Tesla Battery
After getting the solar panels on the roof and connected to our existing batteries in Phase 1 it was time to upgrade the system with a bigger better battery. We opted to install a Tesla Battery Module in our RV. We did lots of looking into different battery options trying to figure out what would […]