The summer has just flown by. The best news we got this summer was that Ann would be able to travel again this winter. She worked out a way with her employer to be able to use a company computer on the road. Another concern was that her company was bought out by a very large company over the summer, but thankfully, they new company will operate it as a wholly owned subsidy, so there will not be many operational changes.
In the past few weeks I have been working on some upgrades to the motorhome that should make our snowbird adventure this winter easier than last winter.
The first item we bought was an MBR-1000 wireless router that has a usb port to connect to the MiFi-2200. Ann's work computer needs to be hard wired to an access point, and this will do this while still being able to connect other computers wirelessy to the router.
The second item was a Trace Battery Status Monitor that we will use to tell us how many amp hours of electricity we are using, and give us an accurate state of charge of our battery bank.
The third item was a Xantrex 600 watt pure sine wave inverter. This will allow us to run the entertainment center, our laptops, and our 120 volt lamp at the same time, and not have to worry about the inverter damaging our computers.
We have also purchased some items as part of a solar system to save on generator time, when we are parked away from campgrounds. We bought two 200 watt solar panels and a solar controller so far. The solar panels are made by Evergreen Technologies and are the ES-A-200 FA3 model.
We still need to get the necessary cables and accessories to complete the setup. We got the solar panels from ebay, but purchased the Morningstar-TS-MPPT-45 controller from EcoDirerect.com
We have quite a bit of work to do to get ready to travel again. We plan on leaving right after Thanksgiving!
Wish us luck!
Paul
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