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:wa: MrRob.in :chevyvan:🇬🇧

Weather looks nice over the next few days so we thought she’d head down to visit D’s mum who’s poorly sick…

Feckin’ mice have moved into the #Roadtek 🐁🐭🤬

Time to clean, renew and declutter

At least the don’t seem to have eaten anything that can’t easily be replaced this time (there was no food in there they just chewed up be expensive lightweight waterproof) and the weather IS nice too 🤷‍♂️🤣

#CamperVan#VanLife#Motorhome
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Athamanatha

So today is not going entirely to plan.
The set of additional #solarpanels I connected up refuse to give us juice. I tried to trace the fault and got jack shit info because my cheap ass 19 year old #multimeter is (confirmed by many tests now) not working any more. Its fuse is fine too, as is its #battery. It just displays zeros.
So add to the list of unexpected expenses and delays one new multimeter...

#mutualaid is our lifeline to #selfsufficiency so we can help others. Can you help us out with our expenses for...?

Multimeter: $7-8 at Harbor Freight
Crimp connectors: $?
Tyres: ~$1200 (Vulpibus)
Refilling fuel: ~$100
Refilling my overdraft: ~$500
Refilling my other overdraft: ~$250

#moneyhelp#trans#escapingfascism
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Tio

Doing TROMjaro work from the motorhome :) forum.tromjaro.com/t/tromjaro-…

This is the first time I get to "properly" use this space for doing some more hardware and internet intensive work. We live in a motorhome from now on for those who do not know. This is it:

We have 650W of solar panels:

Internet satellite and 2 lithium batteries, each of around 1.000W. The download internet speed is quite good, some 20-30 real Mb per second, but upload max at about 1 ...

So, to download the updates to create the ISO is no problem. To compile the ISO itself, also not an issue because we have a lot of power. But to upload 2 ISOs, each of around 4.7Gb was really time consuming. So much so I had to leave the Internet and Laptop on over night.

But it worked and they uploaded. They only ate 30% of our battery capacity overall. Something we can easily put back with solar this next day.

This is our view from a really nice parking lot for motorhomes where you get free water and water disposal facilities :)

We can also charge one of our batteries while we drive with like 500W so in 2 hours we can fully charge one of our batteries just from driving, and we plan to drive for almost 2 hours today.

Therefore, the test was great! Because even if the upload speeds are shit, I can leave the laptop overnight to upload large files.

We have a Peertube channel where we try to upload videos from our adventures - videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/vide…

#xfce#tromjaro#linux
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Peter, clear on OPSEC

I just discovered a battery that was nerfing. We have 6 in the motorhome, all showing 12 volts on open circuit tests, but something was dragging power overnight to the point where equipment would start shutting down - including K's CPAP. I started load testing them and the first one checked showed a bad cell. Not collapsed, just not holding any charge. Connected my high-tech test equipment (a 45-year-old Fluke meter across a high-power L.E.D. strip removed from a discarded light bar) and the battery immediately dropped from 12.5 volts to 9.5.

Mind you, it's 6 years old, so we've got more than our money's worth from it. It's just a bummer that I have to buy a new one; lead-acid batteries are still expensive, even though LiFePo is more popular these days.

So, web surfing I go; I can buy a new battery, with free shipping to our daughter's house, and I get it quicker and at half the price (literally) of a locally-sourced, overseas manufactured, equivalent.

#RVLife#VanLife#Motorhome
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Tio

I think if I lived 678 years I would never get bored and I would have new projects to do all the time. I feel like I want to do a lot. And I do a lot every day, but the days are too short for my motivation and drive. The weeks, the months, are flying by so fast. The years, still more ahead than behind, but soon they will balance, and then you'll ride the ones ahead. But it's all about making the best of this ride, even tho too short.

This year we have a motorhome, very little money, and a lot of plans.

Make sure you follow us on Peertube videos.trom.tf/c/tromhome/vide… - we will go chase the darkest skies in Spain, meet with some wonderful friends from the project, volunteer, and do a lot.

GIF
#trom#tromsite#motorhome
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Curiosity Drive 🚐

What once seemed too far ahead of us is now behind us: our 18 months living in a van in New Zealand has come and gone. As we approach a month since departing the Southern Hemisphere, we reflect on what we observed about living full-time in a van, about NZ itself, and share some of the numbers and images that summarise those 18 adventure-filled months.

👀 More? See curiositydrive.org/2024/06/19/

🚐 #VanLife #Motorhome #CamperVan #RV #Travel #RoadTrip 🇳🇿 #Aotearoa #NZ #NewZealand 📷 #Photography

EIGHTEEN MONTHS IN NEW ZEALAND Observations on full-time van life: • Address dependence is an issue • Illness is no fun • Life’s problems are mobile too • Change is a travel companion • Vehicle living magnifies faults • Take the weather with you • It's easy to miss out Observations about NZ: • Kiwi foods aren’t always healthy • NZ has an a/hole problem • NZ's having a Māori renaissance • Image differs from reality • The cost of living is high • It’s a rugged landscape • It’s easy to appreciate nature • It’s pretty good here, actually
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Peter, clear on OPSEC

I should have explained: the RGS is a pressure switch that ensures the pressure applied by the hydraulic pump to the park brake doesn't drop below about 1200 psi while driving, turning the pump on when necessary. Having the park brake clamp down on the drive shaft while driving at 100 km/h on a highway would be ... awkward.

That's the function I now take care of.

I'm a human, replacing automation 🤣

#RVLife#Motorhome
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Peter, clear on OPSEC

Checked and double-checked what the RGS does, and how/when it does it. Grabbed a momentary push button switch and some twin-core from my spares box. Mounted the switch in the dash and ran the wire back to the RGS connector. Twisted and taped everything together and cable-tied the heck out of it.

Tested ... drop into a gear, turn the park brake off, jab the push button until the Auto Park light goes out, and away we go. Stop, flick the Park brake on as normal and everything works as it should.

I just have to remember to jab the push button before trying to drive away from a parking spot; but then, I won't be able to move until I do 🤣👍

#RVLive#Motorhome
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Peter, clear on OPSEC

Trials and tribulations of having a large motorhome.

Ours utilises an automatic park brake system that operates when you place the transmission into Park or pull the park brake switch, operating a drum brake on the drive shaft. Very effective, impossible to screw up. It relies on hydraulic pressure to 𝘳𝘦𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘴𝘦 the park brake when you want to drive away. There is no park pawl in the transmission as it wouldn't hold the weight of the motorhome.

However ...

Pulled up to dump off, all good. Moved around to a parking spot, the Auto Park light came on. Pulled up and parked for the night.

Went to leave, Park brake no workey. Locked on. Bugger. Start reading and testing ... proved it was the RGS, so start shopping ... Wow! That little mongrel was going to cost me around $400 Australian to get it delivered, in about 3 weeks! That's not happening just yet, and not going to keep driving with a disconnected park brake, so ...

#RVLive#Motorhome
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Curiosity Drive 🚐

Dawn view of The Watchman, an outcrop jutting deep into Karekare Bch & site of a pā built ~1750 (📷1). Accessed down the hill in Piha by walking up Glenesk Rd (closed to non-resident 🚗), 3-tier 40m Kitekite Falls (📷2). Above the falls youths were manu back slap training in large swimming hole—seeking combo of style, splash size & acoustics (📷3)! Others chilled in infinity-edged smaller pool (📷4).

🚐 #VanLife #Motorhome #CamperVan #RV #Travel #RoadTrip 🇳🇿 #Aotearoa #NZ #NewZealand 📷 #Photography

Dawn colours in sky above expansive beach, with rocky headland in foreground
Three-step waterfall cascades into a pool at its base
Boys jump into a large swimming hole above Kitekite Falls
A bather cools of in a small swimming hole near the edge of rock above the “proper” waterfall
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Curiosity Drive 🚐

Into the Mighty Waikato, via Waitomo District. Manganui/ Mangatoa Rds definitely the road less travelled, hilly & winding: view looking back (📷1). An elevated view over the coastal settlement of Marokopa (📷2); minimal life signs detected. A short walk to Marokopa Falls ~16km inland (📷3) & into nearby Piripiri Cave (📷4). Access to Mangapohue Natural Bridge sadly closed; skipped Waitomo Caves as $$.

🚐 #VanLife #Motorhome #CamperVan #RV #Travel #RoadTrip 🇳🇿 #Aotearoa #NZ #NewZealand 📷 #Photography

Rugged hill country with mix of managed forest, native bush & farmland
Sinuous river mouth dividing black sands at a small and quiet seaside settlement
Long-exposure effect at waterfall; bottom left of frame is a patch of Elatostema rugosum | parataniwha
Vertical striations in foreground cave rock, with daylight & leaves visible from entrance above
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