2020 Micro Minnie 1700BH Lithium Conversion

[No1Hunter]

I'm surprised you can have fires. We are totally shutdown up here in WA State due to fire risk - only gas stoves/barbecues are allowed.

[Marine359]

Sorry to hear that. I hear there are fire restrictions all up and down the west coast. When I was there last month Colorado had no restrictions. And back here on east coast, business as usual. Campfires are fine as long as don’t bring your own wood.

[No1Hunter]

Yeah, we generally don't have fires anyway. We don't like the smoke or smell. We do take an electric chainsaw and cut our own wood when we want to roast marshmellows!

[Marine359]

Wood restrictions are due to beetle infestation.

[No1Hunter]

Originally Posted by Marine359

Wood restrictions are due to beetle infestation.

Same out west. Thus, why we carry an electric chainsaw. Once we drop the TT, we are always out exploring and while out there, we cut some firewood if we can have fires.

[No1Hunter]

Originally Posted by Fanrgs

And mine! 350w of rooftop solar, 100w of portable panels, and two 105A-h Li batteries. Runs my Norcold 12v fridge with no problems when boondocking. It cools down in a few hours enough to keep ice cream frozen in July heat (no milkshakes instead of ice cream!). And we dry camp and boondock at least a few times on every long trip. In fact, our propane generator has 17 run hours, one hour of which was battery recharging after a two below freezing August nights in a shaded USFS cg. at 10,000'. The rest of those run hours are to periodically exercise the gennie.

No more leveling the fridge, no more shading the fridge vents or keeping those vents always facing north, no more 12v fans on the coils to help vent it or inside the fridge to circulate air, no more burner outages at 10,000', and no more turning it completely off in tunnels, on ferries, or when refueling!

In case you still don't understand, we LOVE our 12v compressor fridge and will NEVER go back to an AC/LP fridge!

So, your propane frig won't run at 10,000 but your propane generator did???

We just got back from a short boondocking trip hoping to get out of the heat (didn't work). It was 100+ at home when I fired up my old technology Gas Frig (temp inside frig was 95 freezer/96 refrigerator) on my shore power. 4 hours later, it was 40 in the freezer and 68 in the frig (typical, as the freezer gets colder first). The next morning, it was zero in the freezer and 38 in the frig. Switched over to propane and off we went.

Set up camp and outside temp was 85, Freezer was -1 and frig 36. Next morning, we took an 11-mile hike while it was cool, returning to find the inside of the trailer being 85 degrees, outside temp 87 in the shade. I couldn't ever imagine what it would have been like in the full sun all day. We were in the full sun for about 3 hours, not enough to recover full battery power from our solar panels. Freezer, -3 and the frig was 35. Plus, no hot air being exhausted inside the TT as it goes out the roof in the back.

FYI - the ice cream was frozen solid, no milkshake here.

[Fanrgs]

Originally Posted by No1Hunter

So, your propane frig won't run at 10,000 but your propane generator did???

The propane fridges were Dometic AC/LP units in a Rockwood travel trailer and later a Rockwood fifth wheel. We had no generator--propane or gas, portable or built-in--with either trailer. The propane generator is an Onan built-in unit in our Winnebago Class C and our 12v fridge is a Norcold. So everything is different--different fridge companies, different RV companies, different times. And much newer in the motorhome than in either trailer.