solar – Beller Blog https://bellerblog.com Follow our adventure Tue, 11 Jul 2023 05:50:02 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.4 https://i0.wp.com/bellerblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/cropped-Beller-Blog-logos_white.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 solar – Beller Blog https://bellerblog.com 32 32 214485999 Finding Our Rig https://bellerblog.com/2022/10/02/our-rig/ Sun, 02 Oct 2022 06:53:38 +0000 https://bellerblog.com/?p=67 In the summer of 2022, when we decided to give #RVLife a try, we owned neither an RV nor a truck capable of towing. The only two vehicles I had ever owned were SUVs, and I had only a handful of experience towing things of any kind. I towed our Kia behind a U-haul when we moved from Denver back to Sacramento, and I towed a travel trailer briefly during a recent trip to Alaska. Aside from that, the occasional small cargo trailer or boat, but even then I often handed off driving duties when backing became necessary. Christy drove a Chevy Cruze, a compact sedan intended as a commuter car, but it mostly sat in the driveway since working remote in 2020.

In order to give us the best chance of success and actually having a good time on this voyage we were about to set out on, we needed a setup that checked all the boxes. Something that allowed us to be mobile, but stable. Not too big, not too small. Flexible. Safe. Affordable.

After visiting a few RV lots, we started to get a

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]]> 67 DIY Solar https://bellerblog.com/2022/09/12/diy-solar/ Mon, 12 Sep 2022 04:58:00 +0000 https://bellerblog.com/?p=530 As part of our new RVing lifestyle, we really wanted the ability to get off-grid and dry camp. On the other hand, we needed a reliable source of AC power for the computers and internet we use for work, but the idea of running a generator for eight hours a day was out of the question. The solution was to add solar panels to the roof of the RV and an all-in-one power station capable of solar charging, high wattage AC output, and enough battery storage to get us through the day.

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