Designing an electrical system is difficult on its own, but designing one that’s powered 100% by solar adds additional complications. Learn more about the electrical system in the Toaster.
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If you start reading about off-grid electricity or RV boondocking, you’ll come across mention of phantom loads pretty quickly. A phantom load is something that draws power but isn’t doing anything useful for you directly (and might be keeping itself secret, just to piss you off). Reading about these, they sound like a major obstacle to off-grid living, but our personal experience has shown that these loads are manageable once you understand them.
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Some time you have to do a lot of little things to be able to get to the bigger part of the projects, This was one of those weeks.
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Our post from January 26 talked about us working on the kitchen floor beams and sub-floor. Since then we've worked on a variety of things and finally came back to actually finishing the sub-floor. We had left the sub-floors not glued to floor beams because we had to run the electrical wires and water pipes below the sub-floor first.
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