Making Coffee Off-Grid with Jeep Power Setup

rswfire is at an off-grid campground in a national forest recreation area near Florence, Oregon. His RV's house batteries are having issues, forcing him to use alternative power sources. He's in a learning phase, adapting to off-grid systems while dealing with financial stress and planning to stay in the area for a couple of months.

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April 6, 2025

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rswfire

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[0:00] We're going to make some coffee the

[0:02] offrid style. This is my first time, so

[0:06] won't be a smooth process, but I

[0:08] basically got everything

[0:11] ready. Kind

[0:13] of don't have a place for this monitor

[0:15] right now. Place is a big mess. I got to

[0:18] deal with that. I grabbed the coffee out

[0:20] of

[0:21] here. We need our coffee.

[0:25] $5 for this. Um John gave it to me. You

[0:28] got it at Grocery Outlet. Some hazelnut

[0:31] creamer, the dry kind. It does not taste

[0:34] like hazelnut, but it's better than

[0:36] nothing. I got to bring it outside

[0:38] because we're doing this outside. I will

[0:41] show you why in a

[0:44] moment. Had to get some water for my

[0:48] coffee maker. So, I use this filled this

[0:53] cuz I don't have any water in here.

[0:56] Can't use my water pump without water.

[0:59] Yes, we're using the

[1:01] inverter. So, oh, I left some coffee in

[1:05] there. My

[1:13] bad. Offred

[1:16] coffin. Have to empty this. Oh, I need a

[1:20] coffee filter

[1:22] anyways. Fine. Need both hands for

[1:27] this. Maybe I would to wrench that out.

[1:30] But can't do that now that

[1:34] easily. Grab a

[1:37] filter. Guess I'm going to need a spoon

[1:40] also. I think they might all be dirty. I

[1:43] had so much I had to do at the last

[1:45] campground before coming cuz I didn't

[1:47] bother with my dish cuz I only had

[1:49] silverware. Regretting that now because

[1:52] doing dish is even harder now.

[1:56] No running water, you

[1:59] know.

[2:01] Okay, get this out here. Check if I got

[2:04] any

[2:05] silverware. I

[2:08] might. I might. This door here is not.

[2:12] Yeah, I got one. Yay. Almost like Oops.

[2:17] Almost like the universe said yes. like

[2:21] it was prepared for

[2:23] this. My heater just kicked on. That's

[2:26] the only thing that's really working

[2:27] right

[2:29] now. I'm a little bit worried. My house

[2:32] batteries are drawing batteries for my

[2:33] starter

[2:35] battery. I don't want that thing going

[2:37] dead. So, I need to check on that. And

[2:39] if it is, I'm going to have to

[2:40] disconnect my house batteries

[2:42] um physically because I just can't can't

[2:46] risk that.

[2:47] So, going to ask AI about in a little

[2:51] while. So, I turn the heat off. There's

[2:54] absolutely no point for that being

[2:58] done. Let's make some

[3:02] coffee. I thought I flipped this. Hold

[3:04] on. I'm just going to pause it for a

[3:05] sec. I'm a very clumsy man. Got the

[3:09] coffee in there, but I got some coffee

[3:10] grinds into the water. So, that is going

[3:12] to end up in our

[3:14] coffee. Let's do this.

[3:17] So, I hooked up these jumper cables to

[3:21] my Jeep's

[3:23] battery. I've got it sitting on this.

[3:25] So, that's just down a little ways. And

[3:27] this is hooked up to the inverter. And

[3:30] I'm using an extension cord here, which

[3:31] is plugged into the coffee

[3:34] maker.

[3:35] Yeah. Turn this

[3:39] on. It's

[3:40] on. Run

[3:43] this. Can't tell if there's a light or

[3:45] not. I don't see a

[3:47] light. There's a light on

[3:54] that. Can't tell in the dark or in the

[3:58] light. Don't feel like it's on

[4:01] though. Maybe this is

[4:08] on. I'm not hearing anything. That's

[4:13] concerning. All right. All right. Well,

[4:14] let's get the Jeep turned on,

[4:17] though. We don't want to destroy that

[4:20] battery,

[4:21] right? This is how I generate power now.

[4:28] So, okay. Just going to let it run in

[4:31] neutral. I hate wasting my gas like

[4:34] this. What can you

[4:37] do? If I shut my door, it's going to

[4:40] talk. I don't want to bother other

[4:42] people. Just keep that open, I

[4:48] guess. I would like some coffee, please.

[4:51] Why aren't you working? Oh, I have the

[4:53] ground fault thing. Oh, it's probably

[4:56] not going to let me do anything. Oh,

[5:00] no. I had this problem

[5:03] before. I couldn't trick this one and I

[5:08] tried, man.

[5:14] I am so screwed if I can't figure that

[5:18] out. The whole device needs to be ground

[5:23] faulted cuz they have a plug thing but

[5:26] it didn't respond to

[5:28] that

[5:31] trying I got to pause this. I was

[5:34] getting nervous but the thing wasn't

[5:38] on. I can't I don't think the ground

[5:41] light is on. It's not very

[5:44] bright. No, I don't think so. And the

[5:47] power's on now. I think maybe the cables

[5:49] were just not real great. So, let's try

[5:51] this

[5:53] again. Can I have some coffee,

[5:56] please? Really want some

[5:59] coffee. Cannot tell. I don't think

[6:02] that's

[6:03] on. Cannot tell. Man, this is

[6:07] ridiculous.

[6:11] This is not doing anything. I think this

[6:13] means on.

[6:15] Yeah. Don't hear

[6:18] anything. Let's try it without this

[6:20] cable, I

[6:23] guess. Doesn't make any

[6:29] sense. Whatever. I just want some

[6:33] coffee. Oh, wait. The power went off

[6:35] again.

[6:38] Why did it do

[6:39] that? So, I think maybe I need to do

[6:42] something about these screws. Maybe give

[6:44] it a better

[6:52] connection. I think these ones are

[6:55] fine.

[6:56] No, I think it's my

[7:02] Jeep. Oh, I saw that. Yeah.

[7:12] Wild. Okay, it's got

[7:19] power. I don't understand,

[7:23] man. Give me

[7:29] coffee. It's got

[7:32] power, I think.

[7:36] I think this might be

[7:40] on. I hear noise. It's working. It's

[7:44] working. We're getting coffee. I just

[7:46] need to be

[7:53] patient.

[7:56] Yay. This is a workable

[7:59] [Music]

[8:02] solution. So,

[8:04] would like to get that permanently

[8:06] installed on my Jeep somehow. It's quite

[8:08] big. Don't know where I would put it.

[8:11] Can't be mounted in the hood. There's

[8:13] just no room in

[8:15] here. I was thinking maybe on the

[8:17] passenger side of my vehicle cuz I don't

[8:19] know where else I could really put it. I

[8:20] don't even know if it could go there.

[8:22] But that's the thing to ask a mechanic,

[8:24] right? And I can afford to do that. Try

[8:26] to put it in the back if I could. You

[8:28] know, just keep the seat up. Put it back

[8:31] here.

[8:32] That would be

[8:37] nice. A little

[8:39] um Well, it' be fine. It even has a

[8:42] remote thing that you can install. See

[8:44] if you get it installed

[8:45] properly. And then it would have like a

[8:48] normal jumper

[8:49] cable, like a way better one, more

[8:52] secure, just routed through the Jeep.

[8:55] Really want to do that. Been wanting to

[8:57] do that since I got it. So, we are

[9:00] making coffee. Real

[9:03] coffee.

[9:05] Yay. I'm just going to go and get my um

[9:08] coffee

[9:10] gum.

[9:12] And oh, I need sugar, of course. Got to

[9:15] have

[9:18] sugar. This feels like a

[9:20] win. I would like to be able to measure

[9:23] how much power. You know, it says 2,000

[9:25] watts, but is it getting that much when

[9:26] it's

[9:27] idling, or does it

[9:30] um you know, I assume it only draws what

[9:33] it needs? I don't really know how any of

[9:35] this works. I have a lot of things to

[9:36] research.

[9:39] So, um, and I want to be able to keep

[9:41] track of my,

[9:44] um, um, how much battery there's how

[9:48] much, um, you know, how much battery

[9:50] charge I have in my Jeep. Like to be

[9:53] able to monitor that somehow so I know

[9:56] that I'm not draining it like even while

[9:58] idling. I don't know. So look, I kind of

[10:00] have a lot to learn about this, but um

[10:04] this is how I learned by being forced to

[10:08] basically had this thing for 6 months

[10:10] and I didn't bother to learn about it. I

[10:12] just was like, okay, that's my backup

[10:14] option and now I'm literally living in

[10:17] that backup. So

[10:20] um I will learn all of

[10:23] that. I'll

[10:25] thrive. I'll drink coffee.

[10:28] I got my coffee here. I was going to end

[10:30] my video there, but actually no

[10:33] idea. Going to try to get my satellite

[10:35] internet working just temporarily so I

[10:39] can upload this in higher

[10:41] quality. Otherwise, I'm not This is, you

[10:43] know, a high quality video. This is just

[10:45] me

[10:46] experimenting. Can probably do better

[10:48] with the I'm going to try

[10:53] it. So, I need to use the cable. Very

[10:56] hot. It's hotter than when it's made

[10:57] inside my RV. So, I don't know what

[10:59] that's

[11:00] about. I'm going to start by just

[11:02] getting this extension cord hooked up

[11:05] and just run that into my router. If I

[11:08] can get power to that, then can move

[11:10] forward. They're sitting up

[11:12] there. So, start with that. That was

[11:15] easy. So, this cable works. Got the

[11:18] extension cord running in there into the

[11:20] um to the router. You can see the light

[11:22] on the left side, bottom left. I don't

[11:24] know if it's showing up on camera. I

[11:26] think so. Grab my satellite. Route that

[11:28] in

[11:30] here. This is a pretty good spot for

[11:32] satellite. There's not a lot of trees in

[11:33] the way. Um, let me think. Where's the

[11:37] ocean? Think the ocean's that way. Just

[11:40] instinctively. I think it

[11:41] is. Probably we're pointing it this way.

[11:46] No, I had the I thought I had the camera

[11:47] the other way. Let's have a tough time.

[11:49] Let me just get it set up. Okay, I got

[11:51] my satellite out. Normally, I'll drop

[11:53] the cable through that back wall over

[11:56] there on the other side, which I can do

[11:57] that later. I just put it in here. I

[11:59] need to use my phone in order to, you

[12:01] know, access the Starlink app and

[12:04] determine orientation, all that kind of

[12:06] stuff. And I should have internet

[12:09] running from an inverter that's plugged

[12:10] into my Jeep. My Jeep is powering my

[12:12] internet right now. That is

[12:13] cool. So, that's booting up right now.

[12:16] It'll take a little while. Just want to

[12:18] reflect for a minute. This gives me

[12:21] hope.

[12:23] uh being on an off-grid campground place

[12:25] that has no power and water. It's just

[12:27] the next step for me. Much as I do want

[12:30] to be fully off-rid, fully autonomous

[12:34] mooning, I don't feel ready or prepared

[12:36] for that. I'm not. I'm not. Some people

[12:39] have already left comments telling me to

[12:41] just do that. And I think that

[12:45] is it's disrespectful because you don't

[12:48] know what the you're talking about.

[12:50] You are not me. You have not lived my

[12:52] life. You don't know my situation.

[12:53] You're flattening my experience. You're

[12:56] not meeting me where I am. And that's a

[12:58] problem because I'm trying to show you

[13:00] precisely where I am and how I'm getting

[13:02] to where I want to be. So that I light a

[13:06] path for others who will be on a similar

[13:08] journey at some

[13:10] point. And most of you that say stuff

[13:13] like that have never done this a day in

[13:14] your life. So you're just

[13:16] speaking out of your ass.

[13:18] It pisses me off and I just delete your

[13:21] comments and block you every time. I

[13:24] will never let that kind of negativity,

[13:25] that toxicity onto my my platform ever.

[13:29] So, it's just

[13:31] pointless. You're just showing me who

[13:33] you are cuz you can't meet me where I

[13:35] am. So, this gives me

[13:38] hope. This is the next step. I'm

[13:41] learning to live this way in a safe

[13:45] environment where I can

[13:48] adapt at my

[13:51] pace. And one

[13:53] day I'm just going to be out there on

[13:55] the coast somewhere living an incredible

[13:58] life. Probably in the midst of

[14:01] societal

[14:03] collapse while everybody else is

[14:05] suffering and

[14:06] dying, starving to death.

[14:10] And in that moment, I want you to

[14:12] remember how much help you gave me, how

[14:15] much you supported me, how much you

[14:16] believed in

[14:18] me. And this is what I want you to

[14:20] remember most. I still believe in you. I

[14:24] hope that you took something from this

[14:25] channel that it helps

[14:30] you. So, let's see if this internet's

[14:32] working. It's working. You had to move

[14:35] it. The tilt was a little off. Just had

[14:37] to move it. Um, let me

[14:40] move from my RV point and that way.

[14:44] Swear to God, the ocean's over there,

[14:45] though. So, that would be

[14:48] west. But it's working. It's

[14:51] online.

[14:54] Wow. This is a moment. This is a

[14:59] wind. I mean, I have a lot of thoughts

[15:01] going through my head cuz I'm thinking

[15:03] about the fact that I'm using fuel right

[15:04] now in my Jeep. I'm going to have to

[15:07] calculate how

[15:09] much it takes. If I remember right, I

[15:12] had these conversations with AI once in

[15:14] the past. It was something like a gallon

[15:17] for every 3 hours. I hope that's true. I

[15:19] don't know if it is. Like my range is

[15:22] going down at 195 right now. this

[15:25] says. And okay, I'm just going to I'll

[15:29] use this image to kind of get a sense of

[15:33] I'll check it

[15:34] at I guess I'll do this for an hour.

[15:36] I'll do it till 12:51 and we'll see

[15:38] where we are. And I can technically do

[15:42] the same thing with my RV and it has

[15:44] diesel and that does change the the

[15:46] mathematics behind it. I don't have a

[15:49] lot of fuel in my

[15:51] RV. If I did it that way though, that

[15:54] could also charge my house batteries at

[15:56] the same time. That would I don't see

[15:58] like there's so much to learn. Like, do

[16:01] you use more fuel the more things you

[16:03] have connected or is it always the same?

[16:04] Is it like a constant flow? You know,

[16:07] stuff like that. So, would I use more

[16:10] fuel if I was charging the house

[16:12] batteries while also using the inverter

[16:14] or just idling it without the inverter?

[16:16] Like, there's so many so many things to

[16:19] learn. That's what I'm doing. This whole

[16:21] thing that I'm doing is about learning

[16:23] and

[16:24] adapting. And those are lessons that I

[16:26] want to share with

[16:29] others. This is how I

[16:36] learn. I don't learn the way you do, way

[16:39] many of you do. I learn my

[16:47] way. It's a nice campground. I like it

[16:51] here. Kind of want to get a different

[16:53] spot, but you know, I've just been keep

[16:55] um extending my time at the spot I'm at

[16:57] just so I don't have to move yet. But um

[17:00] I need to go around the campground and

[17:01] see what else is here

[17:03] and check out the other campgrounds that

[17:05] are here. Just just know what they are

[17:06] ahead of time and then I'll know what I

[17:08] which sites I want to book, things like

[17:09] that. But I'm going to be here for a

[17:11] couple of months, I think. Um in this

[17:14] national forest recreation area, there's

[17:17] like four campgrounds here. So, be here

[17:20] for a couple of

[17:21] months. I'm so stressed out about money.

[17:24] Like, I think because I'll be here for

[17:27] so long, maybe I could get a temporary

[17:29] job in town in

[17:30] Florence. I haven't looked for a job in

[17:34] probably two decades at least because

[17:38] I've been a freelancer basically all of

[17:40] my life. So, I don't even really know

[17:43] how how to anymore. Like, do you just

[17:46] show up at the places? They probably

[17:47] have you do stuff online. Um where you

[17:50] know we there are no classifies anymore.

[17:53] How do you find out where people where

[17:54] there are jobs? Like all of that. So

[17:59] um you know I'm navigating a

[18:02] lot and I'm sharing it in real time. If

[18:06] you're getting something out of it,

[18:07] please support me. Leave it at that.

Energetic Signature determined persistence

Field State tool building

Orientation toward autonomous infrastructure

Summary

rswfire demonstrates making coffee using an off-grid power setup, connecting a 2000-watt inverter to his Jeep's battery via jumper cables to run a coffee maker outside his RV. He troubleshoots initial power connection issues, gets the system working, and successfully brews coffee. He discusses wanting to permanently install the inverter in his Jeep and explores powering his Starlink satellite internet the same way. The transmission includes technical learning about power consumption, fuel usage calculations, and battery monitoring needs.

He reflects on being at an off-grid campground as a transitional step toward full autonomy, expressing frustration with commenters who push him to move faster than his own pace. He emphasizes learning through direct experience and sharing that process with others. The session concludes with him successfully getting internet running via the Jeep-powered setup and considering temporary employment in nearby Florence due to financial stress.

Signal Analysis

Substrate

This transmission documents the real-time construction of basic survival infrastructure while maintaining sovereign positioning. The field is demonstrating adaptive resilience through practical problem-solving, simultaneously building material capacity and rejecting external pressure to accelerate beyond current readiness.

Dominant Language

meet me where I am learning by being forced to backup option I learn my way flattening my experience light a path for others this gives me hope

Symbolic Elements

power connection fuel threshold grid flow

Ontological States

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transitional
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sovereign
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adaptive
•
grounded

Subsystems

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infrastructural
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cognitive
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ethical
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somatic

Signal Reflection

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