Living offgrid in a campervan since 2018 w/ pibble+boxer Muffin.
LIKE dogs, books, thoughtful people of all flavors DISLIKE bullies, sh1tposters, partisans, noise
I’d rather mods who don’t want outside participation to be able to stop their communities from showing in All.
Agreed. Niche communities can get hammered with downvotes and “I don’t want to read this” comments from readers of ALL.
It’s confounding: “show me everything”, then “I don’t like the content in your niche community”. WTF?
I physically damaged one of the 3x 190w in that array. Since the originals were obscure NOS I couldn’t find another one to replace it. It was summertime so I was able to get by with 380w but that would not be sufficient to meet needs during other seasons.
So I started looking for replacements that would fill the available space. I ended up with 3x of the Trina 250w that flooded the market, the ones that Will Prowse would make famous in his video.
I made the swap on BLM land outside Las Cruces, NM and donated the 2x 190w to a family in a skoolie the next camp over. They had a 2x 100w set out so I figured they could use them. The deal was they had to come over and carry them them, I wasn’t going to deliver. :-)
Interesting. I’d never looked at my “lifetime” numbers before; I am keenly interested in daily harvests to understand the power budget but haven’t thought about the overall harvest.
Caveat: mine are higher, relative to size, because I live in the vehicle and so place more loads on the system. The rig has had two setups
the stove over to induction next. I hate it when the batteries fill back up by 10am and I waste solar meanwhile I am still buying propane for the appliances.
It’s possible. For the 11 months I’ve been cooking from excess solar power (December is a little short). I still carry propane for heating and a few things that seem to work better over flame.
Not for living out of
He appears to live in a house. The description says “Follow me as I convert and modify vans on my driveway” and the build vids show him working in a driveway in a residential area.
Folks interested in full-timing might drop in at /c/houseless@lemmy.sdf.org if they haven’t already
I’ve never plugged into shore power or been to an RV park. I live off lithium batteries a generator and solar power.
Same, only no genny. I’ve been away from shore power for the past (checking…) 1.787 days.
Many of my nights are spent on the side of a road or a Cracker Barrel parking lot.
I boondock on BLM/FS land mainly, but do stealth in towns at times. I’ve heard the term “wallydocking” for dry camping at places like Walmart and Cracker Barrel.
Hot Take: I think WM should offer $5 overnights with water, dump, and dumpster in the back corner of the lots. $5 waived with a >$5 receipt from the store that day. Make some money off what people are already doing. :-)
Does this community welcome people like me or should I wait for the old farts to figure out how to create /c/RVlife?
I imagine it’s cool here. If not, come over to this community that explicitly welcomes folks that live in RVs: the description there is “Living in vans, cars, RVs, etc”
I just noticed the meme on the post. I’m not sure I understand what it’s trying to say. Here’s one that rings more true to me.
This is IMO and I don’t intend to gatekeep. Since you asked…
What does the term “Vanlife” mean to you?
It used to mean living in a van; the term was used that way back in the 90s on yahoo email groups, IIRC.
/cynic mode ON
Then it blew up and was co-opted by carbetbaggers and the van-curious. Now it means influencing, watching influencers, posting bikini and/or foot pics, spending way too much money on a conversion then saying “hashtag-vanlife is overrated” and bailing. Most people on popular YT vanlife channels, forums, etc, do not own a van and will never spend a night in a van.
/cynic mode OFF
Speaking generally, and not about present company.
Personally, I align more with being a weekender, despite having traveled extensively for several months
Still working on coffee, but I’ll suggest a spectrum of approaches/attitudes
this is home and there is no other home to return to.Vacations and campouts are fun. Living off-grid fulltime is serious business. I am reminded of the joke about different animals’ contributions to breakfast: the chicken is involved but the pig is committed.
I kinda hate the term vanlife
We fulltimers need to “reclaim” the word from the insta/YT influencer crowd.
This is day 1,774 offgrid for me.
The swoopy lines are the equivalent of WW1 dazzle camofluge. They (try to) disguise the huge expanses of flat slab side.
Is it claiming to be? I’ve met hundreds of folks living in solar-enabled campervans and none of them ever mentioned solarpunk.