In this video, I’m checking out a new power station from DJI, the company famous for drones. They have the Power 500 and Power 1000, but this is their new Power 2000. They asked me to review it. I’ll split it into a few videos. This first one covers the main features and tests the … Read more
This last winter I was approached by the GenTent company and asked if I would like to test out and review their tent-like portable generator cover. I was interested, but since I was traveling the southwest desert for months to come, I asked if they could wait until we headed back up the coast in … Read more
Last spring we had the great pleasure to meet with some fine folks from Wyoming, Eddie, his wife Aileen and daughter Laura. We spent about a week or so boondocked with them including the spectacular Valley of the Gods BLM area of Southern Utah. They have a 40-foot wheel which they live in full time. … Read more
A Little of My Rigs Battery History When we bought our 30 foot Keystone Cougar fifth wheel new it came with one preinstalled deep cycle battery rated at 85 ampere hours. Having camped for many years in a campervan with a similar sized coach battery, I knew that 85 AH capacity wasn’t going to cut … Read more
Guest post by Eddie from Mobile Homestead Solar Services 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. This was not without hesitation, followed by many mistakes before getting it to work for our “Real World” Boondocking … Read more
Introduction Recently I removed the small end table at the rear of our Keystone Cougar trailer to replace it with a custom built computer desk. The new desk is awesome and I love it but it’s created a problem with storing the RVs long power cord. In the previous arrangement, it would be fed through … Read more
Curious to See What’s Inside? Prior to becoming a full-time RVer I spent over 25 years as an electronics repair technician. Because of this background I just had to see what is inside the Renogy Firefly. Warning! I took the Firefly apart as part of my thorough product review and only because I’m very experienced … Read more
Introduction I recently received a 200 watt Renogy solar kit for the fifth wheel as a Christmas gift. As I usually do for our RV upgrades I wrote up a blog post and made a video detailing the install and my impressions of the product. Well, I guess the folks at Renogy took note. They … Read more
Introduction I recently had the great pleasure to meet up and do some boondocking with some RVing friends from Wyoming. Eddie, his wife Aileen and daughter Laura are full-time RVers living in their 40-foot fifth wheel. This winter they decided to venture down to the southwest and our paths were able to cross. We had … Read more
Introduction Having been an electronics repair technician for over 25 years I respect the power of electricity to cause damage and even death. My main occupation was repairing consumer electronics like televisions, VCRs and stereo equipment. I have seen what it looks like when electricity goes bad and felt my share of electrical shocks, not … Read more
I have a couple updates to my original review post for the hard wired Progressive Industries EMS-HW30C RV surge protector. 1) I was able to break it! I was messing around with one of my Champion 2000 watt generators during a recent boondocking adventure and decided to try and see if I could fire up … Read more