| How to Go Green
With Your RV
Just like your stick house, adding solar panels to your RV can help you
save on shore and/or rv generator power usage. A few large solar panels on the RV roof will
help keep your batteries charged up during the day so you don't have to run your
rv generator
for battery charging. Yes, it's expensive to install but the rewards are priceless. If you
can't go solar because of the cost and you have an on-board rv gas generator, consider
converting it to propane. It's cleaner burning with much less CO emissions than gasoline,
and your on-board rv propane tanks can supply the fuel. Kits are available from almost any RV
parts supply. If you have a rv diesel generator, run it on bio-diesel if the
rv generator
manufacturer will allow it without voiding your warranty. French fries smell much better
than diesel fumes anyway. But if you can swing both, solar and a rv propane/bio-diesel
generator is the cat's meow, making your RV a nice deep shade of green. Install a
rv propane
catalytic heater. Your regular RV furnace uses both electricity to run the blower and
propane for heating. A catalytic heater uses no electricity, provides radiant heat, and
saves you rv battery power, lessoning the need for generator run time. Step 4
- Replace
incandescent bulbs with rv LED lighting, even the running and parking lights. Doing this
alone will help you save a lot of rv battery power since LEDs draw very little current
compared to their incandescent brothers, again saving you rv generator run time. There are a
variety of LEDs in all shapes and sizes to fit your RV light fixtures. Recent
advancements in LED construction make the light from an LED almost identical to an
incandescent bulb. And all this without sucking your battery flat if you forget to turn
off the lights. Step 5 - Most RVers are already doing this but using paper products, like
plates, bowls, and cups, can help reduce landfill decomposition time, unlike plastics
which can take hundreds of years to break down. Don't forget to use paper bags as well.
Trees can always be replanted so get out there and plant a few. Just don't park the RV
near those trees if you have rv solar panels, as the shade from the trees reduces the
rv panel's
power output. Step 6 - Use the GEO method for controlling odor in your holding tanks rather
than rv holding tank chemicals. The GEO method is simply a combination of water softener and
biodegradable laundry detergent. Both of these are friendly to septic and rv sewage treatment
plants. Add a few cups of water softener and a cup of laundry detergent to a gallon of hot
water and pour through the toilet in to the black tank. Use rv tank as usual. When full,
drain as usual and repeat. The laundry detergent will keep the tank clean and the water
softener will keep the tank slick so nothing can stick to it. For all your Two Way
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