Originally posted by robusto link=1184736302/0#8 date=1184818897
tried to get a few cottonbuds soaked in Coffee cleaner under the carrier, but i fear that there is so muc oily residue there i could sit peering in Carimali innards for years....
we are currently "on site".. our itinerary for the last year looks something like this:
went fishing up North, off site last year for 3 months, then 1 month on site Perth, 2 weeks off site Capel, 4 months on site Busselton, weeks off site Capel, and now since middle of April, on site in Perth.
we aim to leave here in 2 weeks, (hmm, where did i hear that before???... were about a month late!!) to spend another week in Capel before swinging south and dividing our time between caravan parks and (shore-side
) free camps on our way "over East", aiming to take about 3 months to get back to North east Victoria.during our "on site" periods there is no problem with the power requirements ( :P)
.... "off site" we have 540AH battery storage @24V to supply fridges and lights at 24V, and ceiling hatches at 12V (via a 24V to 12V charger into single deepcycle 12V battery) as well as 240V via 2400W modified sinewave inverter/charger.
we have 85W @24V solar to trickle charge during the day, and run our 3KvA inverter genset for about 1 hour per day to charge the batteries to full +10%, plus about 15 min to bring up enough hot water for showers. (total about 3 litres fuel per day)
during that time the Bott can be used (reason why we charge in the morning!!
), other times we use the plunger.our internet runs through a bright orange "next-letter" broadband modem, which gives us 1G download per month for $99.
so far we have been lucky with our off site locations... mostly there was some scat over the water from mobile towers and around sunset we had generally about 20 minutes of connection.
our contract allows us to scale the monthly cost down to $49 when we know we will be "remote" for a while and dont expect to have regular internet connections.
we also carry a INMARSAT phone on standy-contract (no charge unless you make a call, then its quite expensive...), so even in the most remote of remoteness we can dial in/out.
mmm, ho said motorhoming was "the simple life"...?
cheers,
L


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