Just a quick note. We are in Las Vegas at our lot in the LVM resort which is within 1/2 mile of the Ross where an active shooting situation happened earlier today. At this time, we understand that this was Read more…
That is not a typo… our RV is now powered by TESLA! Well, Tesla battery modules that is! Oh, and the Sun! Yes, the Sun, too!
WARNING — This post is full of technical content. Here’s the TLDR;
Our original House batteries only powered part of our coach via the inverter, and could only power the coach in a boondock situation for about 4 to 6 hours. After that, the battery voltages were below 11.8vdc and we’d have to start the Generator.
Our new Tesla batteries can power ALL of the coach, not every load in parallel, but 2 of 3 ACs can be running at the same time! Given the same loads that would only last 4 to 6 hours on the old batteries, we can now last indefinitely on the batteries / solar combo!
Check the bottom of the post for loads of photos!
Where have we been? Well, lots of places, we’ve just been terrible bloggers. Enjoy catching up with a lot of photos and videos below.
There is such enormous pressure to be with family this time of year. Pressure to make a huge sacrifice to sit with narrow-minded people that if you had just met them, you would walk away shaking your head in disbelief Read more…
We arrived back into Las Vegas on Friday morning. We were not at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, and we are both safe.
On July 27th, we took delivery of our new 2017 Tesla Model X P100D! However, we’ve only really had it for our daily driving for about 4 days.. and no, it wasn’t having repairs done. 🙂 (more…)