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[*] posted on 5-6-2014 at 11:31 PM


Great report as usual. What is the limit for clams in Baja?;D;)
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[*] posted on 5-7-2014 at 06:47 AM


WE just sold my Cougar and bought Heartland, better built for Baja back roads. Heading up to Coos Bay this summer and have solar and inverter installed, what type of solar etc. did you install, thanks again love your reports. Cliff
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[*] posted on 5-7-2014 at 10:14 AM


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Great report as usual. What is the limit for clams in Baja?;D;)


In Baja? Hmmm....you mean ...If you avoid the clam police?

If so..then a good bowlfull has always been our limit. :rolleyes:
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WE just sold my Cougar and bought Heartland, better built for Baja back roads. Heading up to Coos Bay this summer and have solar and inverter installed, what type of solar etc. did you install, thanks again love your reports. Cliff


Cliff, I've seen Cougars almost everywhere we've been..a very popular fiver. (Also some that are NOT rvs...harump....;))

I'm an old solar user & fan...used them in pumping water for livestock since way back, then a couple of off-the-grid homes (Coyote Bay in Baja) and another fiver about 15 years ago, a Montana 34 footer. So I got educated early on about what I wanted ..and needed. On my first solar-equipped RV, the salesman asked me what I wanted. I said, "I want to pull off the remote Yukon Highway, open all the slides, turn on the heat or AC, sit in my powered Lazy-Boy, drinking a blended margarita, and watch the news on my satellite tv." He grinned and asked, "Fox or CNN?" He had got the idea.

The Montana fiver...was a ton of fun, plus I sold it for the money I had into it. Can't beat that!



I do a LOT of boondocking all over the continent, so on this new Heartland Bighorn I installed everything on my want list right away. One thing...I would advise NOT having an rv dealer do it...get a real pro if you can't do it yourself.

Another thing - When buying a RV for the first time, most folks don't know the house battery and converter are inadequate at the time...for any long time boondocking.

Here's what I did:

Changed all lights possible to LED to reduce loads significantly.

got a good readable digital voltmeter

Onan Marquis Gold 5500 Watt LP Vapor Generator with remote start. Quiet, no vibration...makes any neighbors thankful.

a SurgeGuard Model 34560 50 Amp Hardwired surge guard with voltage protection ….(Note - the SurgeGuard has shut down our power due to voltage drops or surges that could have damaged our equipment. In my opinion, these devices should be standard equipment in every RV.)

4 maintenance free Lifeline 6-volt AGM batteries (instead of wet-cell batteries)

Xantrex RS3000 pure sine wave inverter/charger

TriMetric monitor

combiner box

Solar panels….. (Solar panels in an RV are nothing more than battery chargers) I had a choice of either Kyocera or AMs. I choose 6 'AM' 100-watt panels with tilting mounts, brackets, screws & wiring because they are better sized and engineered for RV rooftops. In Baja I used 16 Kyocera 130watt panels on a house roof, but that's impossible and unneeded on a RV.

Heliotrope HPV-30DR MPPT solar controller

solar monitor

Good wiring...nothing small diameter.


That's about it....for now. :rolleyes:

I hope you have more sun than we did in Coos Bay, Cliff. But then we were there in the winter...Summers are great on that spectacular coast..Enjoy! I might be using my solar Way Up North by that time...on the shores of a good walleye lake!

[Edited on 5-7-2014 by Pompano]



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[*] posted on 5-7-2014 at 03:17 PM


Thanks for the info,we will be in Buena vista until mid June then start winding our way north, usually take a month to get ten mile lake north of Coos. thanks again Cliff
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