Modifications and such in our RV.
Our smart thermostats have been working GREAT! So well, that our buddy David Bott from Outside Our Bubble decided he’d like them installed in his coach too! In classic Outside Our Bubble style, we opted to perform the installation LIVE! I’ve updated the original posting with the video, and I’m Read more…
Original Thermostat
If you’re like me, you tend to sleep with the temperature quite a bit colder than your daytime setting. My specific setpoints are:
76 °F for the day time, and 68 °F at night for the summer.
71 °F for the day time, and 64 °F at night for the winter.
While it’s a little thing, it’s becomes tedious to do these settings changes every evening / morning, especially knowing there are so many programmable and/or Smart thermostats on the market for the household climate control systems.
However, the RV world is woefully lacking of any type of programmability on the thermostats. Worse yet, RV AC/Heatpumps have some things stacked against them when looking for aftermarket kit:
This all combines to make replacing an RV thermostat with anything other than the OEM unit a daunting task.
After our big electrical system upgrade ( MOD: TESLA Powered Tiffin! ), everything was working very well. Until… (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!
We are music lovers. Michael is an audiophile. I know people SAY they care about sound quality and are particular about the set up they have for listening to sounds BUT seriously this man is very particular and to make matters worse he can hear a gnat fart at 30 Read more…
This will be a multi post tale. During our first outing with the new (to us) motorhome we decided to look into LED lamps for the rig. We checked Camping World and the price for ONE LED bulb was a bit much. So we checked online. After some research we Read more…