Setting Up Solar Power and Preparing RV

Early April 2024, stationed at parents' property in RV. Cloudy weather limiting solar generation. Day before scheduled RV inspection. Final stages of house liquidation and mobile transition preparation.

Energetic Signature

methodical

Field State

tool embodiment

Orientation

toward technical sovereignty

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April 7, 2024

10:44

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Author

rswfire

Status

ARCHIVED

Type

TRANSMISSION (CAPTURE)

Temperature

0.00

[0:00]morning FL Nation it's a wonderful day

[0:03]it's a bit chilly out it'll get nicer

[0:05]though going to have lots of sunlight I

[0:08]got both my solar panels out now I just

[0:10]want to show this to you I love this I

[0:13]am the king of

[0:15]solar for

[0:19]real oh that's so that's a sight to see

[0:23]so I destroyed my battery within like an

[0:26]hour and a half maybe two

[0:28]hours yeah that heater definitely uses

[0:30]lot to to put my battery into like a

[0:33]protective State not even charging from

[0:36]the solar panels yet apparently that's

[0:38]normal they're lithium um but I did I

[0:41]did the math you know it's 3,000

[0:43]kilowatt

[0:45]hours

[0:47]um that you can store in the battery

[0:50]right so and if I'm using 1500 watts

[0:53]from my ceramic heater I can run it for

[0:57]2 hours that's how that works so um it

[1:00]doesn't need to run like the whole time

[1:02]right if we get to a good temperature

[1:04]and keep it

[1:05]there um which obviously we weren't

[1:08]yesterday and we won't be for a while

[1:10]but I'm just I'm getting a second

[1:12]battery it's going to

[1:13]come between my birthday and like four

[1:16]or five days after that so I have it

[1:17]going to my parents house I have to pick

[1:20]that up this thing is working great guys

[1:23]um let me just show

[1:25]you

[1:27]so I've learned to just double tap that

[1:29]thing thing

[1:31]right that's the output for both my

[1:34]solar panels not very high you know it's

[1:37]kind of in the Shadee but I need to get

[1:38]extension cords they come

[1:40]Monday but that's both of them running

[1:43]that's so

[1:44]cool oh I guess those are I wonder what

[1:47]I got to learn I need to learn this

[1:49]stuff I need to know what a volt is

[1:50]versus a

[1:51]watt all of

[1:54]that for real oh I think there was

[1:57]another one I needed to

[1:58]learn

[2:00]volts Watts what else is there amps amps

[2:03]so I got to just understand what those

[2:05]things mean I don't know but I will

[2:08]learn I'm having a great day I hope that

[2:10]you guys are having a great weekend it's

[2:11]like Saturday I guess it's today

[2:13]Saturday man one day closer every day

[2:16]it's a little scary not going to lie

[2:18]like I am so excited just thrilled right

[2:23]but oh my God one day closer to driving

[2:26]this thing again but it'll be fine it

[2:29]it'll be fine it'll get to the point

[2:33]where that's just normal we'll see how

[2:35]my cats react to it you know cuz they're

[2:37]going to be in a little mini earthquake

[2:38]every two weeks but I hope that becomes

[2:42]normal yeah that's all for now look how

[2:46]awesome that is you know it comes with

[2:48]this by default you get a cable that has

[2:53]connections for two solar

[2:54]panels we got two out

[2:57]there with my starlink got a put that

[3:00]through here now this thing is just a

[3:02]lifesaver it really is I'm so glad my

[3:05]dad did that I really appreciate him for

[3:07]that so it's just not charging the

[3:10]batteries yet at all the battery

[3:13]yet but chat gbt says this is normal if

[3:16]I discharge it all the

[3:18]way so we're going to just give it some

[3:21]time today we get organized in this

[3:23]camper because it gets inspected

[3:25]tomorrow so we definitely want this

[3:27]thing in tip top shape don't we

[3:30]I made the difficult decision and I got

[3:34]rid of my monitor it doesn't belong here

[3:37]and I made some I made some changes in

[3:39]here so now we got real easy access to

[3:42]this very awesome thing it died um maybe

[3:46]an hour and a half after you know the

[3:48]sun went down the ceramic heater you

[3:52]know it needs 1500 watts on high so

[3:54]that's only 2 hours for that battery if

[3:56]you do the math and so I'm getting a

[4:00]second

[4:01]battery that would give me 4 hours in

[4:03]high which you shouldn't

[4:04]need because it shouldn't be on high all

[4:07]the time once it gets to a certain

[4:08]temperature then I'll just kind of try

[4:09]to keep it there right so I'm hoping

[4:11]that will help I won't get that before

[4:13]my Adventure Starts so I had to send it

[4:15]to my parents and I'll go pick it up

[4:17]this is real close um the spot right

[4:21]here you know it's kind of why I didn't

[4:24]want on this side for some reason it was

[4:25]just a little bit better over

[4:27]there oh and my dad help me cut those

[4:30]and we got blue board back there

[4:32]now which is awesome this is perfect

[4:35]this will become the living space I got

[4:37]rid of I got rid of um my monitor my

[4:41]laptop will sit on here but maybe on my

[4:43]bed a lot more often than not because I

[4:45]lot of thing to do that to just sit it

[4:47]there cuz you know this is where I eat

[4:49]and everything

[4:51]else apparently Alexa thinks I said her

[4:55]name anyways that's off for now exactly

[4:59]ideal conditions but the cats are back

[5:01]in here you know how they are my parents

[5:03]have gone somewhere doing some tasks for

[5:06]me really some

[5:07]chores and you know the cats can't be

[5:10]alone they're

[5:12]super what's the word I'm looking for

[5:16]super dependent that's not Stak down but

[5:18]this is a project that my dad is going

[5:20]to work

[5:21]on um he just doesn't know about it I

[5:24]don't know about it yet this thing isn't

[5:27]secure it will be though buddy I hope

[5:30]you use

[5:31]it so I just got to deal with all this

[5:34]you know working on it all this stuff

[5:37]inspector comes

[5:38]tomorrow something I knew I wouldn't be

[5:40]able to prevent in the long term which

[5:42]is why the monitor is

[5:44]gone

[5:46]and while I'm going to just tolerate it

[5:51]the best I

[5:53]can guys this is our eating area though

[5:57]just hope they stay off of that I'm

[5:59]going to have had to figure out a way to

[6:01]prevent that no I knew you'd want to go

[6:04]for

[6:05]it cannot do that just stay off

[6:10]there I mean it Oliver I don't want you

[6:13]over here I knew oh no no no this is not

[6:15]going to work over

[6:20]here okay I mean I know there's not a

[6:22]lot of room right

[6:24]now we're working on it we're working on

[6:28]it you got can

[6:31]supervise well with a sky like this

[6:34]we're not getting any power

[6:37]guys oh Sun's over here

[6:41]somewhere yeah went down to like 80 and

[6:45]I was running like

[6:47]120 so I was draining my battery I'm

[6:50]trying

[6:52]to trying to charge that thing

[6:55]up so just see how we're doing now so

[7:00]tired I am just exhausted from all this

[7:03]work work work

[7:07]work

[7:09]oh I shut everything off well we're up

[7:13]to 180 now 190 that's good not a lot

[7:17]though I should be getting up to like

[7:20]700 maybe even a little more on a real

[7:22]sunny

[7:23]day see this thing's I don't think it's

[7:27]reached 20 yet yeah it's been pretty

[7:29]much all

[7:30]day so you got to keep that in mind too

[7:36]you so that becomes pretty important too

[7:39]you're going to want

[7:41]to really understand the weather I guess

[7:44]like some days you're just not going to

[7:45]get power so you need your

[7:48]batteries glad I'm getting a second

[7:51]one cuz I'm going to have to conserve

[7:54]and learn to live so differently working

[7:57]on it I love how variable this is it was

[8:01]500 just a second

[8:04]ago so I know it's using both panels

[8:07]I've got them both out there it's just

[8:09]you know cloudy day think you're going

[8:11]to live your life by the sun like you're

[8:14]going to want to be up with the first

[8:15]rays of light you know you're going to

[8:19]want to get as much sun as you

[8:23]can oh I'm just so tired I am so tired I

[8:27]think I'm taking a nap

[8:30]so I just woke up from a nap I took in

[8:32]the camper my cats were in here baile me

[8:36]out at me the second I came near the

[8:38]door he wasn't too

[8:39]happy didn't sleep too well though I was

[8:43]worried about someone taking my solar

[8:45]pounds or something and I feel like I

[8:47]won't be afraid of that on campgrounds

[8:50]or boondocking but I feel that way in a

[8:52]neighborhood isn't that

[8:54]weird I don't know that I'm wrong

[8:57]though um I have some food coming I was

[9:00]just thinking about it it's probably the

[9:02]last time I order door

[9:05]Dash which is a good thing way too much

[9:08]money spent on that

[9:11]thing have some work to do in the camper

[9:14]just to get it right like when the

[9:17]inspector comes in the morning I just

[9:18]want the thing to just look like it's

[9:20]ready to go you know

[9:23]and not really worried like you know

[9:27]this is pretty routine but you know I'm

[9:29]just hoping it all goes well and just

[9:32]want to present the best face I

[9:34]can that's really it it's kind of a Loy

[9:37]day I just feel super tired

[9:40]today oh

[9:42]Bailey's that is not his that he's

[9:44]inside that is Oliver's but he's took

[9:47]taken both of them over this is all my

[9:50]cat has he's both of the cat carriers

[9:53]belong to him I

[9:55]guess I'm really looking forward to

[9:57]getting started the house is

[10:01]is the house is in a state right now but

[10:06]my mom has helped a lot and pretty

[10:09]much packed up parts of each of the

[10:12]rooms you know there's a whole bunch of

[10:15]stuff going

[10:16]to to Goodwill and I think most of my

[10:19]books I'm just going to take those to

[10:21]the library and see if they want

[10:24]them and I think what that's going to

[10:27]leave pretty much is Just furniture

[10:30]and maybe a few electronic stuff like

[10:33]that so hopefully it won't be too hard

[10:35]to get rid of my things whatever's

[10:38]left I'm ready to go I'm so ready to go

Summary

The speaker demonstrates their solar panel setup outside their RV, showing both panels deployed and monitoring power output on a display device. They explain battery capacity calculations - noting their 3,000 kilowatt hour battery can run a 1500-watt ceramic heater for 2 hours before depleting. The battery went into protective mode after heavy heater use the previous night.

A second battery has been ordered and will arrive between their birthday and a few days after, being shipped to their parents' house for pickup. They're learning electrical terminology (volts, watts, amps) and troubleshooting why the battery isn't charging yet, consulting ChatGPT which indicates this is normal after full discharge.

**Interior modifications** include removing a monitor to create better access and reorganizing the living space. Blue board was installed in the back with help from their father. The eating area has been reconfigured, though the cats (Oliver and Bailey) keep trying to access surfaces they shouldn't.

**Inspection preparation** is underway - an inspector is scheduled to visit tomorrow morning, so they're organizing the camper to present it in optimal condition. The speaker took a nap in the RV but didn't sleep well due to concerns about solar panel theft in the neighborhood setting.

**House transition** continues with the mother helping pack rooms. Most items are going to Goodwill, books to the library, leaving mainly furniture and electronics to dispose of. The speaker ordered what they expect to be their last DoorDash delivery and expressed readiness to begin their mobile lifestyle.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission demonstrates the embodied integration of technical systems as extensions of sovereign agency. The field is learning to inhabit its tools—solar panels, batteries, RV systems—not as external objects but as metabolic components of a self-sufficient organism. Technical mastery becomes somatic knowledge as the boundaries between body, shelter, and energy grid dissolve into operational unity.

Dominant Language

batterypowersolarinspectorready to goworking on itone day closer

Symbolic Elements

solarbatterygridthresholdcontainer

Ontological States

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transitional
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integrating
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embodied
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sovereign

Subsystems

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infrastructural
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cognitive
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somatic

Transmission Details

Source Type

local

Video Quality

1920 × 1080 @ 30fps

Duration

10:44

Bitrate

2641 kbps

Codec

avc1.640028