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This trip was recorded with the DJI Osmo Pocket 1, Insta360 X2, and a little from my cell phone Galaxy S21 Ultra. Now days I'm recording with a Osmo Pocket 3 which is a huge improvement over my prior Osmo Pocket, but the other two cameras are still current cameras I use. I also use a DJI Action 3, and Sony a6600 in some situations. I would put cameras in more creative locations more often, but I'm always balancing getting good shots while recording the event vs being present with my family which is a difficult balance.

Never ever allow youtube or anything get in the way of family

And if you would ever wanna sell your old equipment id def be a buyer for sure

​@@Familyadventure369Yes I agree most certainly family is more important than making UA-cam videos. The reality is before I was making UA-cam videos I was actually filming videos much the same as I do now I just would archiving on my hard drive and nobody ever saw it including myself. I much prefer making UA-cam videos because it gives me the motivation to take the time to edit it into something and watchable that my family can enjoy as well as others. I do film more than I would if I wasn't making a UA-cam video and I also explain what is going on where I wouldn't if I was just recording random family home videos. Overall it's better family home videos the way I do it because in the future I might very well be forgetful of what the trip was like and I appreciate the explanation of what's going on even though I was there but probably have forgotten.

Thats an awesome explanation and id have to agree with you i didnt think of all of that

Thanks!

Yes I've tested that ability by putting a bucket under the condensate drain while we're camped and using the AC heavily. I have my results in an upcoming video while we're camped. Since we're typically in the dry desert there's not a whole lot of humidity to harvest. I've had roughly 3-9 cups of water overnight in a couple different places. One of these days I'll likely take the trailer to a more humid climate then I'll test it again.

@@ElectricTechAdventures Looking forward to watch your upcoming video.

ua-cam.com/video/KF0T2JBb3jA/v-deo.html this is my latest update from 2024. I've lived our S and I'd certainly purchase it again.

I wish you the best on your upcoming adventures with your kids! I'm glad they like the videos too. I agree, I certainly am blessed!

I put lock washers on the bolts and if needed I would use thread lock on the threads. I have checked the bolts a couple of times and they have not loosened over the last 2 years and couple thousand miles. I did not cap the ends of the unistrut at all.

@@ElectricTechAdventures thanks for the response, absolutely love this build! I’m going to be imitating it with a 1.1kw system on a small TrailManor that I tow with my Model Y 🤘🏼

@@polykid101 nice! Someday I'd like to make a smaller version on a enclosed cargo trailer for something like a food truck but I have no intention of getting into food trucks myself. I just would love to be able to see a silent food truck powered by the sun. They're always accompanied by loud generators.

Yes we still have and drive the Model S locally. Any trip that requires supercharging we take our Y. I'm also doing an experiment right now where I'm exclusively charging our S from our RV solar panels, so when the S doesn't have enough charge for the drive we want to do I use the Y as backup in that situation as well. Yes, we transferred free supercharging to the Y and the employees told us we'd be able to transfer AND get the inventory discount so we ordered a Model Y in Vegas because it had the cheapest price. Then when we got there to pick it up they wouldn't give us the inventory discount so we had to pay the difference or walk away. In hindsight we should have walked away from the deal and waited because just a month or two later Tesla was offering the supercharger transfer WITH inventory discounts. They totally screwed us over, so we're exclusively supercharging the Y to get our money back which is going to take 30-40k miles probably.

The rear facing seats in the Model S was an option from the factory when our S was made. That option has since been discontinued. The bed of the Cybertruck doesn't have any climate control for occupants. Seats would obviously subtract from the cargo space, and also if we filled the rest of the truck bed with cargo (who wouldn't?) then if you got in an accident the bed would be a dangerous place to be with flying projectiles. Since all we need is one additional seat I'm much more likely to remove the center console and figure out how to add an after market jump seat there. Ultimately I'm holding off for now not just due to the lack of 6 seats, but also due to the super poor towing range that others have been reporting, as well as the $20k price premium being charged right now. When Tesla drops the Foundation Series pricing and adds a 6th seat then we'll have to revisit the Cybertruck choice. In the meantime I'm waiting and considering other options like various used diesel trucks in our local classifieds. I'd consider the Silverado EV if it wasn't so expensive and it also doesn't seat 6. I like the idea of the 2025 Ramcharger, but it's not available yet and there's a lot of details yet unknown such as will it seat 6? When we purchased our current Ford F-250 in 2021 it was with the expectation that we'd be getting the Cybertruck in a year, or maybe two at the max. Well...we were way wrong, or rather Tesla did a terrible job setting or re-clarifying expectations. We're now 3 years into our Ford ownership with no end in sight. I am grateful though that it does technically work for our needs and we just barely got back from a camping trip yesterday in it pulling our trailer successfully. It's just painfully gutless and expensive to operate. Granted yes it was way cheaper to purchase than any new truck. Right now I don't know what the future will bring and I'm just kind of ignoring the situation until our current truck completely dies or options open on the truck market with 6 seats.

Oh, then there's the range extender that Tesla has said the Cybertruck will have available someday for $16k. Again, a future option, and I don't make decisions now based on future promises. Plus I don't like the idea of paying that much more money to get an already $10k more expensive truck for less than promised range. Meaning we were promised 500+ miles of range for $70k and with the range extender Tesla is now saying we can get 460 miles of range for $96k. That's really expensive AND I'd lose a bunch of bed space and payload capacity.

Whoa you got a free car or more like a huge discount on the Y. You got it for around 3k. I also wanted to to ask what years were free super charging? How did you figure out it had free charging when you bought the car used?

Free transferable supercharging for life of the vehicle was on all Model S' through 2015 and then in 2016 if I remember right they switched over to a structure where it was free supercharging only for the first owner. My goal had been to purchase a 2015 so I didn't need to concern myself with whether or not it had it because they all did. It was a couple of months after we purchased our Model S in May of 2019 that test the began to strip free supercharging out of trade-in vehicles so now is far less certain that a vehicle will have it. That is obviously super sad and maddening. Nowadays if you are shopping for a used Tesla you have to look at the features screen in the car to see if it says it has free supercharging. I'm not totally sure where to find the actual back end code in their database but SC01 is the code that you want to verify that it has which means that it is transferable to another owner. If it is SC05 then it is not transferable. If you buy the car private party then it will transfer but if you buy it directly from Tesla then it will certainly not have free supercharging so make sure not to buy one from Tesla directly.

Thanks! This is a pretty unique video on my channel as I don't interview people very often in general, but I do have a couple other videos on my channel going to the HAM radio field day and powering the radios from my RV solar panels and we use our HAM radios during our camping adventures, especially when we're out of cell phone reception. I publish videos about trips my family and I go on in our fully solar powered RV, trips in our electric vehicle, and also electric bikes. Hopefully you stick around!

Haha me too.

Thanks, I appreciate your kindness and shared interest! I'd certainly lose motivation to edit and publish the videos if nobody watched. We'd certainly still go on the trips and I'd still record a lot of videos and pictures as I always have though.

There were no bugs when we were there on this trip and other trips when we've been there. Perhaps it's drier out in the dispersed camping area vs I assume you stayed in the campground? I highly recommend camping in the dispersed camping area. I've heard the BLM sold it to the state of Utah and I imagine they'll turn the area into a campground eventually effectively ruining it for us sadly. We'll keep visiting when we can until then though.

Thanks, and I agree family is THE most important!

Otherworldly is a word that comes to my mind to describe the area. I highly recommend checking it out when you do come out!

This playlist ua-cam.com/play/PLhYygFlMh_bdsFILlnuW7hlC3Loiceg9E.html contains all the videos that I've published so far of us going on trips in our trailer. The first 4 videos of the playlist are prior to the modifications. I'm just finishing up my latest video series of a trip to Moab titled "Unplugged In Moab" which has 8 episodes which is the most in depth video series on the performance of the trailer's electrical system to date, but I have many others coming I just have not had time to edit yet.

I know that Tesla's API supports changing the charging amps, but I haven't looked into Victron's API to see what options there are. I would like to into it more, but I'm so busy editing UA-cam videos that I haven't decided to spend any more time on trying to automate it. Also I'm not a computer programmer, so it would take me even more time to figure out how to do it. I don't check the system hourly though. More like 4-5 times per day because I've been doing it long enough I can see what the weather is doing and I generally know if the Tesla is pulling a certain number of amps how quickly that'll effect the charge state of the trailer battery bank vs the solar production. I'd love to automate it someday though and I'm all ears if anyone else figures it out before I spend anymore time on it.

@@ElectricTechAdventures You don't need to be a programer to do any of this. If both systems have APIs then their is a very good chance the Home Assistant community will already have made integrations for them and after that it's just making so rules called automations that say when the system is in certain states take whatever actions.

@@ElectricTechAdventures Home Assistant has Tesla and Victron integrations already which will pull in all the sensor data and control options your system has. And this video will let you see how simple making automations can be ua-cam.com/video/MGHIlMorTVc/v-deo.html You could even make a video on your adventures of getting it set up

@@Pegaroo_ Valid point. I do have work experience with Adobe Fusion which is another API integration platform. It still takes time figuring it out and while it would save me time long term not checking the Tesla and Victron apps as often, I'm still struggling with getting my UA-cam editing caught up. We keep going on new trips that I'm excited to share here on my UA-cam channel and my latest trip I'm about to finish publishing happened 20 months ago...and we just got back from yet another new trip yesterday. My current trip editing backlog is 12, and many of those trips will be a series of multiple videos. I'd love to be able to publish videos 2-3 times per week to get caught up, but alas for years now I've only managed to average editing about 1 video per week with what time I can spare from my family and day job. API integrations are just on my back burner along with building a new garden, washing the cars, fixing our lawns sprinkler system, fixing a gate in my backyard and many other things I could be doing. Adulting can be hard balancing priorities sometimes.

Thanks for the help and encouragement! I'll watch that video and see if I can perhaps setup the automation with less time investment than I've thought it would take to free up my time for more UA-cam video editing!

That's awesome, I'm glad you're enjoying your Model S on road trips! We certainly loved taking ours on road trips, and I say past tense because we recently transferred our free supercharging to a Model Y and it's now our road trip car. This spring we took our Model Y on our first long distance road trip going from Utah to Key West Florida and back. It was 7,168 miles over 22 days and I'll be publishing a video series of that road trip once I can get through my editing backlog. It performed great and the supercharging is significantly faster, obviously specifically at V3 superchargers. We still have our Model S and we use it regularly around town, but any trip that requires supercharging we obviously always take our Y.

I ordered 5 panels from SanTan Solar and they never mentioned a 10 panel minimum, so either that's a new policy or they disregarded it perhaps because these panels are much larger than their normal panels. The panels bolted to the unistrut have been rock solid with zero movement. I've checked the bolts a couple times to ensure they stay tight. I have not noticed a difference in driving performance towing the trailer with the panels on the roof. I expect it's probably hurting my gas mileage a little bit, but I have no idea how much since I used a different truck prior to the panels vs after.

@@ElectricTechAdventures thanks for the reply man! I found some panels like 6 hours away so I think I'll just have to drive up there to grab them. They're only 70lbs so arnt to heavy but they're almost 8ft tall and 4ft wide like yours, was it a PITA to get them on the roof? Lol

@@timcorona5069 Luckily my wife helped me, otherwise it would have been more difficult by myself. I parked my truck next to my RV as an intermediate platform to get them up. It was not terribly hard to get them up into the truck, then I tilted them onto the edge of the RV roof and had my wife hold the other end while I climbed onto the roof of the RV, then she passed it up to me. The big advantage to having them be the size they are is it simplifies the racking as I outlined in the video.

Pricing agreements with utility providers vary dramatically around the world. In my case as well as my neighbors we pay a flat $10 per month and the grid serves as our battery. Every kWh we push into the grid we can later pull out of the grid at no cost to us until our March bill of every year where if we have a credit on our net metering account then we lose it. They do not compensate us for any excess electricity at the end of every year.

@@ElectricTechAdventures We had flat rate agreements like that maybe a decade ago. They are unsustainable, and will definitely disappear as your renewable grid mix rises. Our overall grid mix is currently 82% renewable, and I'm enjoying almost free charging for my EV, but I doubt it'll make financial sense for me to get solar panels.

@@virtual-viking Our net metering agreement is grandfathered in until 2035. My expectation is that by then batteries will be cheap enough that it'll make sense to add those to our system to self consume as much as possible so as to transact with the grid as little as possible. But then again that decision will be effected by what the net metering policy is in 2035. We'll consider the factors at that point in time. Our solar panels have already produced enough value in energy produced that they've paid for their installation costs as of mid-2023. Now going forward we're driving for free on the sun, and we're also partially heating our home with the excess solar electricity in the winter which last winter halved our natural gas bill.

No problem, and you're the first "Super Thanks" I've ever received, so thanks for that!

I have shared my love of the idea of the Cybertruck with the kids most of their lives and they have been waiting patiently to get one, but at this point we've only been able to experience this one in the showroom since it doesn't fit our family sadly. I'm afraid the original Cybertruck unveiling was over promised and under delivered. We'll all be super excited if we're ever able to get one, but I have other concerns which are mainly towing range. I'm considering trying out the Cybertruck for a year, then perhaps getting a Ramcharger hybrid with 690 miles of rated range when they're available to buy. At this point we're just waiting to see what the companies offer and once any company sells a 6 seat version of an electric truck or hybrid with 6 seats and longer towing range (a good towing range is 200+ miles, and ideally more) then we'll get that.

I installed the solar panels myself so I am the company. If you had a company install your system then you would need to go to solar edge directly with your inverter serial number and whatnot and then get it set up under your own account I imagine.

Hey sorry for the delay, I just responded to your email with pictures and dimensions!

Thanks! The challenge with kids is real for sure. 😁

At what age and miles on the odometer?

2013 year model at 83,613 miles.

I was in sport mode the entire day if I remember right, and I think I probably stated that somewhere in the video. On the following bike ride documented here ua-cam.com/video/DVcayUs_P8w/v-deo.html I experimented with using eco mode primarily and I've found it to be sufficient for a lot of terrain, but there are times I have to switch to sport to get enough torque to get up an obstacle. Luckily the ability to switch between modes is very easy. I just have to stop twisting the throttle, hit the mode button, then twist the throttle again and the mode is switched. The Talaria is fantastic for crawling up trails at slow speeds. I've taken my young kids on bike rides and I'm able to just slowly roll along at their speed and it uses very little energy to do that and it's effortless compared to a clutched motorcycle. I love taking our Talaria on the back of our camper then use it to explore the are where we're camped and I charge my Talaria from my RV's solar power generation. I just did that recently near Capitol Reef National Park but I haven't published that video series yet because I have a video editing backlog. Editing is very time consuming. Thanks for subscribing!

Thanks! After making this video, starting in 2023 I decided I was protecting the temperature of the batteries more than needed at 90 degrees F so I raised my upper limit to 110 degrees F and over the entire summer of 2023 there was never once a time when the batteries exceeded 110 so I've basically stopped using the mini split when the trailer is parked. That kind of negates this video, but this video was still potentially relevant if we had more extreme temperatures where we live. I've found I also don't need the heating in the winter because the energy in and out of the batteries plus their thermal mass is able to withstand the overnight lows and keep the battery above freezing, and technically the limit is 25 degrees F. If it got hotter or colder where we live then the content of this video is still relevant for sure. Instead though I'm using the generated power for charging my Tesla as I talked about in the video and now more of that solar energy is more useful to us throughout the year since none of it is going towards the heating or cooling of the trailer.

Over in the High Desert in California there’s at least 5 months when the temperature is above 100F, and at least 4 months when it dips below 30F, so I’ll for sure be keeping the AC/heat on at least for a few hours to fend off the extreme temperatures, I think sacrificing a heat pump in the long run to keep everything inside the RV in good shape is a decent trade off. I may also buy an EV later. Cheers

Sounds like you have a great system there. What I also like about using something like the EcoFlow is you could easily take it elsewhere and leave the trailer behind whereas my system is tied to the trailer. There's lots of options out there for various price points and pros/cons. I'm just glad to see innovation because far too many people are just using the default tech from the RV manufacturers which is a comparatively terrible experience. I'm guessing you don't use your system much for cooling right? It sounds like you're going long periods without much external input which makes sense if you're powering relatively low power draw devices.

@@ElectricTechAdventures Ya, we do that. For example, if I just take my Bike to a motocross track, I take a Dometic cooler and one of the ecoflows. Probably overkill, but it’s nice to have dry frozen ice in 100 degree temps. Regarding cooling, our Lance is a 1685, and the AC unit is way over kill. We can run it for 5 to 10 min maybe in the evenings off of the EcoFlow and it cools it down for the night and enough power to run the next day. It’s funny but we won’t own anything but a 4 seasons camper, due to the sound dampening and insulation in the summer versus a winter demand. When we camp in 95F or higher temps we are outside (or in the water) most of the hot time so we don’t run the AC much. IF we do,then pound for pound it’s not realistic to use Lithium batteries versus gasoline. I like the batteries and solar so I don’t ever need to listen to a gas generator for a microwave (1800 Watts) or coffee maker (2,300 watts), which I can run at the same time, many times for a day. We also run a small vacuum which is about 1200 watts, and an electric pressure washer (1500 watts) . The black tank has only been used for freshwater, so I have a direct connector to the pressure washer to wash the truck and trailer if we have been on dusty roads, or washing motocross bikes, or an extremely muddy dog at times. So if you add all those up we have some pretty demanding usages for a few days. AC for more than 2 hours we would use gas generator.

I'm glad you liked it!

I agree, she has an awesome setup that works great for her!

Good to know, thanks for the info!

As I talked about in this video ua-cam.com/video/m_UNWLxNehU/v-deo.html my solar panels have broken even on their installation costs. The total cost of installation (zero maintenance so far) was $9,735.31. As of yesterday the solar panels have produced 97,620.89 kWh. At 11 cents per kWh (average where I live) the panels have produced $10,738 in value. Or multiply by whatever retail rate for electricity you'd like. At this point in time (May 27th 2024) my panels have produced $1,003 more than they cost to install. There is likely going to be some maintenance costs like replacing the inverter once over the lifespan of the solar array (25 year production warranty on panels, 12 year warranty on the inverter), and when the time comes that I need to spend money on replacing components I'll add that to the installation costs. Only when the entire solar array has been removed/replaced will it be possible to calculate the exact price per kWh over the lifespan of the solar array. Saying solar energy is "not free" in the midst of the lifespan of the system is not helpful. What is helpful is adding up the installation/maintenance costs and subtracting the ongoing monetary value of the produced electricity. In my case I've had zero maintenance costs since the installation went online August 2017 so I am truly getting free electricity from the sun. Is it possible that some component fails today or in the near future that costs more than $1,003 to replace? You bet. Maybe I'll even go negative again, but every day I get more energy going towards my "free energy" calculation. Over the expected lifespan of my system (August 2042 is when the solar panels and inverter will be out of warranty) the panels will have paid for themselves 4 times! (I calculated that by dividing 9131.25 which is the number of days over 25 years by 2244 which was the number of days it took my system to break even.) It's likely the system will continue operating past that point, or perhaps not; only time will tell.

"won in the stock market" is the understatement of your comment! That's a good example of one of the many possibilities for money (investing vs buying tangible goods or services) and how we have to choose what to do with our own money. In hindsight I can easily recount many instances in my life where if I'd done something different with my money (such as invest in Nvidia, Amazon, Tesla stock etc...) I could have much more money than I do now. Some of those choices I do regret, but at the same time if all I did was invest that money I'd have more instances of losses in the stock market potentially and I'd have far less fond memories and experiences that I've gained through carefully choosing where to spend my money for the benefits I value. I don't recommend that most people buy a brand new car and I personally never thought I would and only did so to achieve the free supercharging transfer.

I would consider seat covers to change the appearance (color, design, personalization) but not just to protect the seats that came with the car unless as a temporary measure when loading cargo into the vehicle or something. I love the look of white seats, but up to this point I haven't been willing to pay the price for a color change.

If you are happy with the end result for now what is it that would make you decide to pay a pro next time?

I'm in the software as a service industry. I was in support for a while and then consulting and now operations and enablement. I think that paint protection film on just the front of the vehicle is far more important than the entire vehicle. It is definitely still spending hundreds of dollars for aesthetics on the front of the vehicle, and I can totally understand some people wanting to save those hundreds of dollars and spend the elsewhere and just let their car have road rash over time and not worry about it. Some people have the mindset that they want to repair the damage when it occurs so they are comparing the cost of PPF to a body shop to repaint the hood or do rock chip repair but if you don't intend to do either then you could just save the money and not do anything.

Great points for sure for me i spent $11,000 on paint and body work a month ago and dollar wise makes it a smart investment but my self personally the pro cost was $8900 and diy was $1300 due to size and my time which im in the solar field so time is precious and hard to come by and thats a nice job def a job in need these days of tech age

@@Familyadventure369the vehicle is not an investment. Even the high demand Excursions.

​@@ThreeDogsTwoCatsAndAWife well sadly i believe your wrong vehicles are an investment i own 17 classics and much more so thank you for your opinion and all and i hope you have a blessed day

@@Familyadventure369 classics….ok. Dailys, no