Day: August 6, 2012

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Snowballs

Once upon a simpler time, an RVer decided to increase the capacity of her inverter to allow her to run more office equipment.

This RVer went out and got a great deal on a higher capacity inverter and she was happy.

And then this RVer started to read about the installation of higher capacity inverters and realised she needed much heavier gauge cabling than she thought.

Much heavier gauge cabling in the needed lengths meant making her cables.

Making her own cables meant needing lugs and a crimping tool.

The bigger capacity inverter also meant needing to add a high amperage fuse to her system.

And once the RVer made a shopping list, she realised that there was no way to one-stop shop for everything.

And then her woefully inadequate battery bank space began to eat at her. How could she properly wire her solar panels, inverter, and battery monitors to the bank in a space too small to work in? Would she have to move the battery bank?

All the RVer wanted was a larger capacity inverter…

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Woman Lives in Her RV in Vancouver for $500 a Month

There is a lady living in Vancouver in an RV for $500 a month. The police actually recommended the park where she lives. Kudos to the authorities for dealing so positively with the housing crisis in Vancouver!

I did find it sad that life in the RV is seen by the narrator as so hard and full of sacrifice with few luxuries. This lady has a nice, big, class C. She is fortunate to have all the comforts of a small apartment, a great view, and no rent in one of the world’s most expensive cities! I look at this as fortunate misfortune. She might be out of work and poor, but she has a real home in the city she loves.