Comments on: Solar Rover, Part 1: Why Go Solar?

By: Life Rebooted – Solar Rover, Part 3: Inverter Upgrade

Life Rebooted – Solar Rover, Part 3: Inverter Upgrade — Sat, 20 Feb 2016 19:08:46 +0000

[…] late 2015 we installed 600 watts of solar panels on Rover’s roof. You can check out Part 1: Who Go Solar? and Part 2: The Install for more background on our solar setup. The solar panels are just one […]

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 22:23:18 +0000

In reply to Ed Bickford. We could, but I'd have to open the fridge to change the settings, and opening it will cause the temperature to increase as well. We have tried a few nights where we turn off the refrigerator and have seen a 2-3 degree increase inside overnight. Not bad...

By: Ed Bickford

Ed Bickford — Tue, 19 Jan 2016 02:34:29 +0000

In reply to Rod Reichardt. Could you instead raise the temperature setting a few degrees so it wouldn't run unless the temperature got to the point where you would want it back on?

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 17:17:49 +0000

In reply to Rod Reichardt. Rod, that's great to hear! We'll give that a try in Quartzsite in the coming weeks. We did an overnight test with everything turned off except the fridge and we used a lot more amp hours than I expected (100 AH over 12 hours). That was in Florida where it was 70 degrees at night, so I'm also expecting the fridge to run less often in Quartzsite where it's 40 at night.

By: Rod Reichardt

Rod Reichardt — Tue, 29 Dec 2015 08:37:07 +0000

Just catching up on your solar install. We typically turn off our fridge in our 36LA when going to bed at night when boondocking and have never had any issues. I checked the temp the first time. I don’t remember the drop but it wasn’t much at all. I remember being surprised.

By: Mike

Mike — Sun, 22 Nov 2015 23:00:01 +0000

In reply to Jerry Plante. LOL! For me, no cellular/internet is my breaking point...

By: Jerry Plante

Jerry Plante — Thu, 19 Nov 2015 15:58:43 +0000

Good post Mike. Looking forward to the details.

I doubt that I’d be doing this on the old Sahara. Jeanne’s idea of boondocking is no cable.