I recently totally reconfigured the solar charging system in my Forest River 19RR Grey Wolf toy hauler. I’ve replaced the PWM charge controller with an MPPT unit and added Renogy DC to DC 40A charger in the truck. Here is a video, in two parts, showing the updated system PART 1 PART 2 Be sure
Seems I’ve somehow earned the reputation of knowing something about travel trailers……After owning a 20′ Toy Hauler for 5 years and towing it all over America, I’ve got some opinions that I’ll share with you. Please feel free to add comments below if you think I missed something or want to add something . Here
How did all this start? I currently have a nice Forest River 19RR Toy Hauler camping trailer. It suits me fine as I’ve dragged it cross country four times and in 5 years I put 50,000+ miles on it! My wife and I shoot a sport called Cowboy Action Shooting. We travel to events all
Camping with a roof top tent in the winter can get darn right cold! There are many ways to attempt to keep warm…..Better sleeping bag, propane heater, another warm body…. Better sleeping bag will work great until it gets REALLY cold. Then your body stays pretty warm but your head, ears and nose suffer. I’ve
Recently I decided to add a Rooftop Tent to my truck for far offroad “Overlanding” adventures. Not wanting to mess with coolers and ice I built a “Portable Generator” to power a small portable refrigerator freezer. Lots of choices out there for a good quality refrigerator. I had boiled it down to a few models
I needed a PORTABLE GENERATOR which we used to can a simple battery box. There were used for years with trolling motors onfishing boats. Now with the huge interest in OVERLANDING and BOONDOCK CAMPING they are now Portable Generators… First, I needed a box of some type. I looked into AMMO CANS and tool boxes
I recently built a portable generator using a 100Ah AGM battery and peripherals. You can read all about it here on my web site www.rvbprecision.com To charge it I bought a 120w folding power panel I used a 150w inverter to charge my new laptop and drew the battery down to 80% Up here in
THIS SYSTEM WAS INSTALLED IN 2015 If you have followed along on this web page, you realize I’m a solar power junkie! I have a 10.5Kw system on my house, my previous truck camper had solar and I even have a small solar panel on my motorcycle to keep my lap-top charged! I’m infatuated about
Recently bought a Smittybilt RTT. In the world of Motorcycle touring , we call modifications , “Farkles”…. So Farkling was required of my new RTT First, I needed to electrify the tent for lighting and charging of personal devices. This will be Off Grid so only battery with solar charging will be used. A small
I recently purchased a Smittybilt rooftop tent to go on top of my camper shell on my 2018 Ram 2500 Now I had to figure out a way to get it up there! The RTT weighs about 125 pounds…. I wanted to mount it “North-South” so when deployed I had some cover over the tailgate.
