Category: Technology
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Camper Electrical – Version 4
A couple electrical-related things happened on our September 2020 trip. The result is ‘Camper Electrical Version 4’. 😁 Our OEM WFCO battery charger/converter failed, which meant that we could not charge our batteries even if we were plugged into an electric outlet. I bought an inexpensive automotive charger to use to top off the AGM…
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Battery Monitoring – You can never have too much data
I have been monitoring battery status with a pair of Thornwave battery monitors. They work OK, but because they do not log data. I have to be within Bluetooth range to check the batteries. There is no history, so I have to guess what happened when I’m not around. Ideally I could continuously log data…
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Portable Solar
Make a note. Compressor refrigerators are nice, but they draw significant amounts of power. Ours is large, poorly vented and poorly insulated, so it sucks (power). We’d like to be able to stay away from electric campgrounds more often, but because the 200W of rooftop solar doesn’t keep up with the refrigerator, our battery capacity…
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Travel & Technology – Hits & Misses
I thought it would be useful to enumerate some of the things that worked well and didn’t work well during this last trip. Here’s the first ‘hit and miss’ list. Technology hits: Data plans: We have two ATT phones on a cheap 4GB shared data plan with about 3GB rollover and a Verizon 8800L MiFi…
Michael Janke 