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opinion:frater_secessus:beginner_mistakes [2020/06/24 12:35]
frater_secessus [van]
opinion:frater_secessus:beginner_mistakes [2020/06/24 12:43]
frater_secessus [relying on tilt]
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-**A van is not an apartment**, so stop thinking that way.  A productive approach is to **start from nothing** then decide what you need to make your vanlife workable. Prefer non-electric approaches to electric ones.  This goes hand-in-hand with the math below. **Wanting everything you had in a house or apartment** will cause disappointment, great expense, or both.    +**A van is not an apartment**, so stop thinking that way.  A productive approach is to **start from nothing** then decide what you need to make your vanlife workable. Prefer non-electric approaches to electric ones.  This goes hand-in-hand with the math below. **Wanting all the amenities you had in a house or apartment** will cause disappointment, great expense, or both.    
  
 Power in the camper is misunderstood by some and hand-waved away by optimists.  It's mainly math with some extra reading required, so I get why it's not a fun topic.   Power in the camper is misunderstood by some and hand-waved away by optimists.  It's mainly math with some extra reading required, so I get why it's not a fun topic.  
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   * tilted panels take time to deploy, store, and interfere with your ability to leave a given location for safety or other reasons.     * tilted panels take time to deploy, store, and interfere with your ability to leave a given location for safety or other reasons.  
  
 +==== failure to add alternator charging ====
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 +[[electrical:12v:alt_and_solar|Adding an isolator]] can be very cheap and //supercharges// solar configs;((this effect is strongest on systems with PWM controllers))  if run at the right time it [[opinion:frater_secessus:panelsizesforinsolation|can double or triple the effectiveness of solar]], meaning one can
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 +  - run more loads; and/or
 +  - reduce the amount of panel; and/or
 +  - use the excess capacity to extend [[electrical:solar:sizing#your_reserve_needs|autonomy]]
  
  
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