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THE PERFECT BOONDOCKING TRAILER WITH SOLAR AND LITHIUM
Travel has become problematic for me, but my loss is your gain. It would take 6 – 12 months to order and modify a trailer like this, here the work has been done for you on a trailer only occupied 3 nights on the trip to AM Solar. They installed $19,000 of 450 w solar on the roof and 600 ah of lithium batteries, with Victron controls and displays and 3,000 w inverter. To boondook without water, a waterless Separatte toilet is installed with a fan to dry solids and liquids going to the black tank. All tanks can be drained with a standard hose! With more battery than the stock trailer, I could update to the 2021 all electric refrigerator so it will cool even when you are towing. I also prepped for an f 150 with 2,000 w electric in the box, by installing a plug in the hitch to charge from the trucks inverter.
I never got to use this, but everything is there ready to go. ProPride hitch, back up camera, wheel chocks, levelmate pro to make leveling the trailer a breeze, tools, even Rock Tamers for your tow vehicle and WeBoost with antennas inside and out so your cell phone will work inside the trailer even with weak signal. Finally I modified the twin bed supports so unlike a stock trailer, they dont slide to the middle and lose support in the middle of the night!
All together more than $27,000 of add ons to a new trailer kept in a heated garage since purchase. over a year and a half of factory warranty remaining.
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