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Thanks John 🙂 Bill, I'm still weighing the pros and cons of the roof panel install vs only carrying around the 230w portable and charging through the solar port. I'm now leaning toward the roof mounted option and carrying around a smaller 170w portable, just wanted to know the problems with the care of the roof panels. For sure I like the idea of spreading out my weight and use of some grippy knee pads, no walking around up there 🙂

Bill, I'm still weighing the pros and cons of the roof panel install vs only carrying around the 230w portable and charging through the solar port. I'm now leaning toward the roof mounted option and carrying around a smaller 170w portable, just wanted to know the problems with the care of the roof panels. For sure I like the idea of spreading out my weight and use of some grippy knee pads, no walking around up there 🙂

B.O.B. Will the roof support my weight (170) if I have to get up there.

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For all you full-timers, how often do you clean your solar panels? I've seen comments, elsewhere, from every couple of months to twice a year. John

Welcome Katie and Jeff, The factory tour is what put us over the edge. We have to wait until mid January to pick ours up. Hope to see you "out there" one day. Have fun and safe travels 🙂

Looks like a decent mod 🙂

Welcome! 🙂

Hi ya'll and welcome! We must have just missed you at the showroom. Our down payment to Jason gave us a January pickup date. Safe travels 🙂

Best of luck to ya'll! Safe travels and have a ton of fun 🙂 Sorry I can't share experiences with tune up but I've not heard anything but good things about their service.

Thanks for the info, Bill. Nice wheels 🙂

Mike, thank you for this article! Bookmarked! 10 or 15 more times of reading it and I might just retain some of it. Very helpful 🙂

Thank you much B.O.B. 🙂 Good advice and thoughts to consider! Summer weekends are indeed few and far between....if you can't boon dock 🙂

Thanks again, SeaDawg. We were pretty basic with our Casita... just an 100AH AGM battery with a 100W Renogy on 2 separate 8 day boon docking excursions. And the limiting factor was, of course, the bladder tanks. Your video is very much appreciated! Spot on as far as I'm concerned. Especially concerning the generator. We did get the easy start capacitor for the smaller gen sets.

Rideandfly, thanks for your help and for the picture! According to the Zamp website, the controller is rated 15 amps and produces 12.6 amps. Can all that be passed to the battery? Not sure if that's a proper question, my electrical expertise is rated about 5 out of 100 🙂 You stated a Furrion solar port is rated for 10 amps. Is that the port OTT installs?

Thank you, Mike. I would definitely lock it away when we're gone. As you well know, those panels are not cheap! 🙂

Thanks SeaDawg, 15,000 miles last year, full timers, and very little boon-docking. I see more boon-docking in our future though.

Thanks for the help John 🙂

I went with the 390 AH Lithium batteries and Xantrex's 3000W inverter but elected to opt out of the 340W roof mounted solar panels. I will get Zamp's 230W portable with it's controller and have OTT put a solar port on the LEII we just ordered. Seems like it would be more efficient to aim directly at the sun, not have to park in the sun, and be able to keep the panels cleaner. I have read that it's better having the controller close to the battery vs at the portable panel that's on the end of 30ft of 10 AWG cabling. Would it be beneficial to have the controller taken off the Zamp and moved to the battery compartment (if there's room) or maybe better, inside of the trailer where it would have been if I'd have bought the complete solar package deal. Hopefully I'll get enough power from the portable to charge the batteries and not wish that I had put the larger roof mounted panels on. Thanks for any and all suggestions 🙂

Thank you, Bill, for the help. I think I'll try out the way it comes and with extra back support it may be just fine. 🙂

Thanks for the links, Overland. Jason said I could pickup an extra counter top made for the storage compartment to make my shelf from. Do you know the width of the beds on the standard?

Thank you Overland. That's our intended course of action as a backup. Your setup is pretty sweet! I like the table and additional shelf beside the stove top. We are total newbies, we just placed an order last Friday and won't pick up until mid January....which is a bit of a bummer. But we've been through it before with our 2018 Casita, but that wait was only 7 months 🙂

On the twin floor plan, has anyone removed the bed rails and trimmed off a couple inches to make it a little easier to use the beds for seating areas? At 30 inches it's a little far from the wall to the edge of the bed. 28 inches would be fine for us as a bed width dimension and 4 inches wider in the isle way would be welcome. Fitting around the lamp stand cabinet would have a 2 inch gap on each side to be filled in somehow, I suppose. I asked Jason about it at the factory and he said the area where the rivets fasten the rail down is thinner and if I cut off the back side it would then be too thick to lay level with the rest of the molding. Thanks for any help, John

Thanks SeaDawg, the app is pretty good and does reflect good info concerning Awendaw, SC 🙂

You are right IMO, RB. Non ethanol is the way to go but can be hard to find sometimes 🙂 Anyway, weed whackers and chainsaws are things of the past for me, and if I need a generator I will definitely go with non ethanol!