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RV Solar Power Blue Prints - Mobile Solar Power Made Easy! 4000 watt, 24v Off-grid solar power system Recommended Components (scroll to bottom of page to see what products I recommend):400-4000 watts of solar panels ​2x 40 amp MPPT charge controller with over-current protection 4x+ 12v,100 ah LiFePO4 Batteries (wire these 4x batteries in series/parallel to create a large 24v battery bank)3000 watt, 24 volt inverter40amp DC-DC Converter for 12v appliances. 24v goes in, 12v goes out​2 gauge copper wire and lugs/heatshrink50 amp circuit breaker for the MPPT's​, 25 amp fuse for the converterWooden board to mount the componentsThis system is a beast!

RV Solar Power Blue Prints - Mobile Solar Power Made Easy!

It can handle any solar panel array up to 4000 watts, can handle a large battery bank of 24/12/6 batteries wired to 24 volts, and can power a large 24 volt inverter (inverter size will be limited to battery size in this situation)​(The 220 amp battery protect is unnecessary. DIY Solar Wiring Diagrams for Campers, Vans & RVs – EXPLORIST.life. This blog post is an index of ALL of the DIY solar wiring diagrams for campers, vans & RVs you can find here on EXPLORIST.life.

DIY Solar Wiring Diagrams for Campers, Vans & RVs – EXPLORIST.life

There are several options below to choose from. There are varying sizes of systems and this list is constantly changing and expanding to fit your needs. All of the diagrams below feature: Lithium Battery Bank StorageAbility to Power Devices via Shore PowerAbility to Charge the Battery Bank via Shore PowerAbility to Charge the Battery Bank via Solar PanelsAbility to Charge the Battery Bank via Vehicle AlternatorAbility to Run both 12V and 120V AppliancesApplications for DIY Campers, 30A OEM RVs & 50A OEM RVs. 12 Volt, 24 Volt or 48 Volt. Question: Should I choose a 12 volt, a 24 volt or a 48 volt stand-alone power system?

12 Volt, 24 Volt or 48 Volt

Reply: In short, your energy consumption should determine the voltage of your power system. You should not have continuous currents greater than 100 Amp. Check out our off-grid system examples and find out how consumption relates to voltage. The examples list typical appliances found in average households; get an obligation free quote while you are there.

(17799) Ambri: A Battery that Could Change the World. (1) 200 WATT SOLAR PANEL — RICH SOLAR. DCC50S DC-DC MPPT On-Board Battery Charger. (15139) AC ON SOLAR!!! Installing a Mini Split Air Conditioner on our Class C RV. (6499) Building a 3.5kWh DIY Solar Generator for $650 - Start to Finish. (14770) Medical Battery Packs - What's Inside, Testing, and Cost Evaluation. (13343) 古老的绳结技术,最老式的提瓶结,生活中用处大. All-in-One Solar Power Packages - Mobile Solar Power Made Easy! All-In-One Solar Power System-Build a full size system in minutes- That is awesome!

All-in-One Solar Power Packages - Mobile Solar Power Made Easy!

What is the catch? So loud fans, and high idle consumption. Not that bad! And for this reason, I am using a solar box to power my computer while building this webpage right now. 100Ah Lithium Battery 3.2V 6C. There are 2 ways to get an exact quote for the base shipping for your 100Ah lithium battery EV, LiFePO4, LFP aluminum shell battery order. 1.

100Ah Lithium Battery 3.2V 6C

Colorado Top Bar Assembly : 9 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables. 18 Brilliant DIY Wind Turbine Design Ideas For Living Off The Grid. (2045) SOK Lithium (LiFePO4) 12V RV Battery - Demo, Tests, and Initial Review (Model SK12V100) Genuine Lithium Batteries for DIY Projects – Battery Hookup. Untitled. Double-Door Camp Stove, Secondary Combustion - Homemade Wood Stove for Camp M-Stove Project Part-2. Powerful to Cook - Homemade Wood Stove for Camp M-Stove Project Part-1. (54) Budget Friendly 24V Solar System: 2.4kW Inverter, 2kW Solar Array, MPPT and 60A Charger $1500. (54) Beginner Friendly Lithium Battery Capacity Test Method. PVWatts Calculator. (54) How To Size RV Solar and Batteries the Easy Way! RV Tips – Mobile Homestead Solar Services. (as seen on LOVEYOURRV.com) The following is a guest post I did for Ray Burrs’ blog -Eddie Glonek One of the biggest and most liberating changes in the 7 years that my wife, daughter, and I have been full-timing is to go solar in our RV.

RV Tips – Mobile Homestead Solar Services

This was not without hesitation, followed by many mistakes before getting it to work for our “Real World” Boondocking RV lifestyle. As many do I turned to the best looking add-on “RV only” equipment at first, but fast found out they did not work and I would be throwing money down the drain. (481) Off-grid Solar Battery Price Comparison: Tesla vs. FLA vs. SLA vs. LiFePO4 vs. Tesla. (54) Fortune LiFePO4 Battery Cells: I love them! 100Ah Lithium Battery 3.2V 6C Aluminum Encased. There are 2 ways to get an exact quote for the base shipping for your 100Ah lithium battery EV, LiFePO4, LFP aluminum shell battery order. 1.

100Ah Lithium Battery 3.2V 6C Aluminum Encased

Contact us at (801) 449-0681 9am-5pm Monday-Friday or email info@electriccarpartscompany.com or go through our Contact Us page Or 2. Place your order by clicking in the shopping pallet “Proceed To Checkout” a. B. DIY How To Install Solar Panels On The Roof Of Your RV: What Components Do I Need? Tesla Solar Battery DIY - Mobile Solar Power Made Easy! SolarFlower.org tutorial. Vertical Axis Wind Turbine v1.0 Updated 12/March/'17 Developed by: Daniel Connell Tutorial Text: Daniel Connell Contents of this tutorial: Description ToolsMaterials Resources Step By Step InstructionsConfigurations and Applications.

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VRUZEND DIY Battery Kit. Unlimited Portable Off-Grid Power Station: Inergy Kodiak Solar Generator. Generate Energy for Living Off the Grid. Colorado Top Bar Assembly. Rocketstoves - www.ErnieAndErica.info. Ianto Evans, Leslie Jackson, Ernie Wisner, Kirk Mobert, Paul Wheaton, and other friends are among the researchers developing efficient, clean-burning, affordable stoves for a variety of heating and cooking needs.

rocketstoves - www.ErnieAndErica.info

This group developed and published the current editions of Rocket Mass Heater, or Rocket Masonry Stove, designs. The technology combines an innovative clean-burning combustion chamber, with an earthen masonry thermal mass, resulting in extraordinary heat capture and low waste from an incredibly small amount of wood. The goals of Rocket Stove researchers include - meet human needs for food, warmth, comfort, and safety. Living Off the Grid: Free Yourself. Removing and saving 50,000 bees from inside my walls. Successful Sawmilling Series - Quarter-Sawing Made Easy on Your Portable Sawmill. Mint Tin Backpacking Stove. Know Your Knots! (STEP BY STEP GUIDE)

Building a primitive wattle and daub hut from scratch. World’s First 3D Printed Solar Powered Stirling Engine. Wood Cabin - Album on Imgur. 9 Awesome Vintage Buses Converted Into Beautiful Mobile Homes. These vintage buses have all been converted into beautiful mobile homes!

9 Awesome Vintage Buses Converted Into Beautiful Mobile Homes

Mobile homes come in all shapes and size, so do vintage buses. In my opinion, you can calling anything a mobile home as long as the unit is mobile and has an area for sleeping, eating, and/or living and buses are a great option for anyone wanting their own mobile home. Buses are perfect for those that want to live in or just travel in an affordable home. Bus 1: Hank Bought a Bus The first bus was bought by Hank so it was fitting that he call his website ‘Hank Bought a Bus’ at hankboughtabus.com.

With a living space of 225 sq ft, Hank created convertible furniture to make the most of every inch. The Do It Yourself World. Hugelkultur Raised Bed Garden — Home & Garden. Turn an unused corner of your backyard into an impressive DIY garden with the hugelkultur raised bed garden technique! According to permaculture expert Paul Wheaton: Hugelkultur is nothing more than making raised garden beds filled with rotten wood. This makes for raised garden beds loaded with organic material, nutrients, air pockets for the roots of what you plant, etc.

As the years pass, the deep soil of your raised garden bed becomes incredibly rich and loaded with soil life. Oasis Design: Grey Water Books, Ecological Design Information & Consulting. Pigs, Hogs & Boars: Facts About Swine. Pigs are mammals with stocky bodies, flat snouts, small eyes and large ears. They are highly intelligent, social animals, and are found all over the world. Pigs are in the Suidae family, which includes eight genera and 16 species. Among those species are wild boars, warthogs and pygmy hogs and domestic pigs. Pig, hog and boar essentially describe the same animal, but there are some distinctions. A boar is an uncastrated male domestic pig, but it also means a wild pig of any gender. Pigs were among the first animals to be domesticated, about 6,000 years ago in China. Stingless bee - Wikiwand. Stingless bees, sometimes called stingless honey bees or simply meliponines, are a large group of bees (about 500 species), comprising the tribe Meliponini[1] (or subtribe Meliponina according to other authors[2]).

They belong in the family Apidae, and are closely related to common honey bees, carpenter bees, orchid bees, and bumblebees.[3] Meliponines have stingers, but they are highly reduced and cannot be used for defense. Meliponines are not the only type of "stingless" bee; male bees and bees of several other species, such as in the family Andrenidae, also cannot sting.[1] Range Behavior Hives Hives box containing colonies Heterotrigona itama . Homemade Wind Generator - Renewable Energy. Are you headed for the beach or going camping in the mountains? Maybe you live on a boat, visit a remote cabin or you're living off-grid.

Electricity is yours for the taking as long as the wind is blowing... And you can get it on the CHEAP with an easy homemade wind generator. Light up that storeroom, barn or use the generator to keep all your vehicle batteries charged too. Underhill - The Magical Hobbit-Like Eco Cave House. How to Make a Safe Watering Hole for Bees - Make: It’s spring and that means it’s time for nature’s critical pollinators to get busy. As you undoubtedly know, bee populations are in trouble and can use any kind of help they can get. Bees work hard this time of year and need available sources of water to rehydrate. They get this water from places like bird baths, rivers and streams, and open pools of water, but they risk drowning. You can help give them an easier place to safely drink by, as this post suggests, placing marbles inside of a shallow bath of water. But as one guy points out in the comments on the linked page, the drawback to this design is that you have to maintain the water level (e.g. a heavy rain could drown your marbles).

Wooden Boat Building - White oak vs Red oak with Louis Sauzedde. Paul Stamets: 6 ways mushrooms can save the world. Tractor Invention. New Invention - Flow: Honey on Tap Directly From your Beehive. You Absolutely Should Not Get Backyard Chickens. I was talking to a friend the other day. She’s a gentle soul, a kind-hearted person who says, “I could never kill an animal” with wide, pained eyes that let you know she’s not talking in hyperbole. She wants chickens. She wants them bad. Harvesting Honey. Skinning a Deer with a Golf Ball and Pickup Truck: Original. Beehive Wrap Up Cocoon with Environmental Monitoring.

Some might say I am slightly obsessive about beehive insulation for the winter, but I am only guided by other beekeeper's experiences in my neighbourhood. Two years ago people were losing 2/3 of their bees due to the cold and they're still not insulating their hives. Now, I have come up with a third design that leaves them no excuses as it is incredibly cheap and quick to accomplish, easy to mass produce and re-usable year on year. This design will be especially relevant to bee keepers who experience harsh winters in Canada, Northern USA, Scandinavia, Russia, central Europe, Scotland etc. and have quite a few hives to manage. GREENPOWERSCIENCE - YouTube. Whole Hog Butchering: Breaking down a Mangalitsa-Red Waddle Heritage Pig.

Much of meat’s flavor comes from fat. People are starting to embrace fattier cuts, and cooking with pork lard is making a comeback. With the welcome of full flavored, lard-laden pork, the fat, furry Mangalitsa heritage breed of pig, native to the Austro-Hungarian Empire, is gaining in popularity. Known as the “kobe beef” of the pork world, their meat is marbled and fat stores plentiful. Stay Connected with a Solar Powered Fridge. Whether you're looking for a fridge because you're off the grid, or a fridge to have as a back-up during a power outage, or as a creative way to save money, a solar powered appliance makes a viable option. Census Reporter. Stealth Survival. Have a Cow, Man. Owning a cow may be more involved than a backyard chicken, but when’s the last time you got farm-fresh milk from a hen?

Maybe it’s time to buy the cow and get the milk for free. The Beautiful All Black Ayam Cemani. It's Known As The Lamborghini Of Poultry... The Ayam Cemani in case you didn't know, is the most rare and exotic chicken breed in the world. Hence the unusual title of The Lamborghini of Poultry. I'm delighted to inform you of these facts because it's vitally important that you know. Free power- How to convert an old washing machine into a water powered generator. Coulter's Smithing. Wonderful Academic And Mother, Emma Orbach Shuns Society And Enjoys A Simple Back To Basics Lifestyle In A Self Built Mud/Straw House... I love this wonderful woman. And unless someone goes to visit her on her property on the lower slopes of Mount Carningli near the Welsh county of Pembrokeshire tells her she'll never know as she shuns all types of technology.

And I don't think the postal service delivers. I also admire this wonderful, inspiring mother of three and Oxford graduate with a degree in Chinese and an eccentric childhood for having the guts and the moral fortitude to eschew a life of plenty to be her own person, to walk to the beat of a different drum, to be true to herself and her own values. Mobile Sun Tracking Solar Power Plant. Are Your Delicious, Healthy Almonds Killing Bees? Oregon Manifest TEAGUE X Sizemore Bicycle. Sugar Coated Honey Bees -or- How To Test for Varroa Mites.

Conqueror Australia’s Urban Escape Vehicles are the ultimate Aussie off-road camper trailer built to travel anywhere. Rocket Stove. The Incredible House Truck Michael Ostaski Built. Raising Backyard Chickens for Dummies. The Perfect Crime: What's Killing All the Bees? Wood Gas Camp Stove. Pure Genius: How Dean Kamen's Invention Could Bring Clean Water To Millions. Backyard bees in the 'burbs. Easy no mess mason jar beehive. DIY camping projects. ●BEES WAX LOTION: for hands, boots and wood● How to Pack an Emergency Kit Like a Spy Plane Pilot. Your Own Honey Cow. DIY Growing potato tower with turning bins. Big Steps In Building: Change Our Wiring to 12 Volt DC. The Art and Science of Muskrat Cooking. Which Pig: Find Your Next Pig Thing. Homesteading and Gardening Projects. How to Find and Cook a Heritage Chicken. Upgrade Ideas For Your New RV - Love Your RV! 5 Basic Survival Needs From a [BUSTED] Cell Phone : All Self-Sustained.

DIY Rocket Stoves. How to live like a king for very little. Handy Resources For Full-Time RVers. Virtually silent, fully enclosed, bladeless wind turbines on the way. Emergency Water Purification Kit Made Affordable.