Re: Our First Serious Solar Use Reply #25 – June 26, 2018, 08:59:49 am Randy, keep working on the water use. We can go 10 days easy. Showers are a pretty big user of water. Turn it on to get wet then off and on to rinse. Put in a hot water recirculation connection so thta you run almost no cold water down the drain waiting for hot. We reused a 2 gallon laundry detergent jug to hold water for bathroom use. If sits in the generally empty shower and can prevent those two flush toilet operations. Toilets use 1/2 gallon + per flush. If there is a bathroom in the campground use it.Hot Water RecirculationRoof top space is often the limiting issue for solar. I am about maxed out with 4 300 watt panels. If you can fit more up there and leave a reasonable way to move around to service items on the top of the coach then even if they are different than what you have you can use two controllers. Or all new matching panels and a single new controller. All projects considered, solar has been one of the easier DIY projects, at least for me. Quote Selected 1 Likes
Re: Our First Serious Solar Use Reply #26 – June 26, 2018, 09:53:50 am Using our '81 Foretravel for 18 years with a 51 gal. fresh water tank, never on hookups trained us. Paper plates a must, "if it's yellow" you know the rest of that one. Quote Selected
Re: Our First Serious Solar Use Reply #27 – June 26, 2018, 10:41:30 am Use basins in the kitchen sink so the wash water doesn't go down the drain. Hold the water until you can use it for a flush. Quote Selected
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