Blue's Electrical System, Part 2

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Blue's Electrical System, Part 2

This week’s Blue View discusses the 12 vdc electrical system, including the battery bank - the heart of the system. A little over a year ago, when we were still aboard Nine of Cups, it was time to replace our house batteries, and I spent a fair amount of time investigating the options. Our old Lifeline AGM batteries lasted seven years, not bad at all, but battery technology has changed a lot over that timeframe, and I wanted to see whether any of the new products would be better for Cups.

Now, a year later, I took another look at the available battery technology to find the right batteries for Blue.


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Choosing a Composting Toilet

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Choosing a Composting Toilet

You’d think that finding the ‘right’ composting toilet would be a cinch. After all, how many of them could there be? I planned to do a little research on the Internet, weigh the pros and cons of each, make a decision, place the order and voilá … we’d have ourselves a composting toilet. But, as we found out, it’s really not that simple. Read on …

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Blue View - Finding the Right GPS for Blue

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Blue View - Finding the Right GPS for Blue

Our Ford Transit didn't come with a GPS.  We do need one, however, and on our initial travels, we used a smart phone as our GPS. Our iPhone works reasonably well, but the display is small, and the ambient road noise sometimes overwhelms the voice commands when we're at highway speeds. Since we plan to be traveling a lot over the next few years, we wanted something better. Here's how we chose it.

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