Gyrophoenix
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Been boondocking at a small airport with a turf landing strip in PA. No hookup for 36 days so far, and haven't needed to run the generator. Solar is doing much better than expected.
Class A boondocking - 36 days and counting....
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Ray-IN
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Outstanding!
UTTransplant
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Good job. We have to dump and get fresh water after 9-10 days but that is with 2 of us and wanting daily showers. I agree this is the perfect time of year for solar though. Not too hot yet, but high angle sun and longer days.
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Gyrophoenix
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2,400 watts
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Arch Hoagland
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Where in Pennsylvania?
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Gyrophoenix
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There are two of us. We have a 40 gallon portable dump tank, and use the Polaris to take the dump material to a local farm where the farmer lets us dump into his manure pit. No need to move the coach to dump. One of the toilets is an Airhead composting unit, and as I'm the only one using it, it only needs to be emptied about every 6 weeks. The regular toilet blackwater tank only needs to be dumped once a month. Freshwater is obtained from a spigot a few hundred feet away. Again, the Polaris is used to transport ten 5 gallon water containers from the spigot to the coach, where a small electric pump tops off the water tank. Since obtaining water is easy, we're using an average of 10 gallons a day. On the road or when necessary, we cut back to about 5 gallons a day, so the 100 gallon tank lasts a fair amount of time.
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Gyrophoenix
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Fredericksburg
Back in 2005, we put 700 watts of solar on our 40-foot motorhome, and the first time we boondocked was for 48 days, with no generator use. We left only because it was too hot and mainly humid to survive without air conditioning, especially if you're trying to sleep. It was a very successful proof of concept.
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Gyrophoenix
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I use an AirHead composting toilet, which needs to be dumped about every 6 to 8 weeks, and the wife uses the regular toilet, which needs to be dumped about once a month.
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Gyrophoenix
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Near Harrisburg.
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Gyrophoenix
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The 2,400 watts of solar, combined with the 2,400 amp hour capacity of the LiPo4 battery bank allows us to run at least 1 A/C constantly if desired off the batteries. But that usually only keeps it around 80 or 83 inside on a really hot day. However there's no humidity, so that's not too bad. At night we close off the bedroom area and run that A/C on batteries all night at a nice cool 72 degrees. Makes life much nicer. I'm probably going to add another 1,600 watts of solar (put the panels on the trailer), which will make running 2 A/Cs constantly off the batteries a reality.
DutchmenSport
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Don't ya just love it when a good plan really does come together!
