I moved into a van to travel about...
Hi, people. I'm Kevin. I like mountain biking, skateboarding, and just about anything technology related. I work in IT as a Systems Administrator and enjoy it thoroughly. About 8 months ago, I started to get kind of bored with day to day things and was really craving to do something different for a while. With my lease ending in October, I had about 2 months to decide what sort of adventure to get into...
I ended up trading my car in for a 2016 Ram Promaster to outfit it to live in and travel around. I the majority of my belongings, keeping only the stuff I cared about...mountain bike, skateboard, and laptop...
When I bought the van it was basically just an empty shell in the back. So I had quite a bit of work to do. I purchased four 12v 100 watt solar panels to mount on the roof.
I bought 2 210 Amp-Hour batteries for the solar system to charge during the day, and my electronics would all get power from this.
I purchased a LED-light kit to wire into my system, it does all sort of colors and has a remote control.
Found a nice 12v TV that doesn't take up very much space and mounted it where I can lay in the bed and watch stuff.
More posts to come of the adventures in the van!
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Welcome to steemit @zip512. I admire your zeal for technology and travelling. I dont think I could do what you do, well maybe for a month or so of travelling but not permanently as I love my space. So kudos to you man. I absolutely love the idea of the solar panels; very energy efficient and economical. I would have loved to learn more about you in your introduction though as you seem like quite an inspiration and an interesting person but here is a future filled with steeming. Wishing you all the best on steemit and hope that you will enjoy your time here.
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STOPNice looking Van, I see you don’t have a Steemit Profile Picture I made a contest post on the bottom it will teach you, then after you make yours feel free to enter the contest to create mine. https://steemit.com/contest/@isteemithard/design-isteemithard-a-profile-picture-avatar-contest-14-winner-of-13