*Blog Post (With Spreadsheet):* www.explorist.life/what-size-of-solar-system-is-needed-to-power-a-camper/ *Interactive Solar Wiring Diagrams:* www.explorist.life/solarwiringdiagrams

@georgefenrich4119

5 жыл бұрын

WOW, I had no idea that I would need (want) 600 AH of batteries! ! ! $,$$$ :(

@EXPLORISTlife

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It can add up in a hurry. What was your biggest energy demand?

@derekraisor8451

4 жыл бұрын

Nate, you are the man. Thanks for all the info and taking the time to explain the process and how do it right. I have a dumb question. If I need 300 watt solar panel why can't I buy (1) 300 watt panel and not (3) 100 watt panels? I was just thinking of (1) set of wires to run on the roof and into the van. I am sure you have addressed this before but I am looking for a reason to not buy (1) panel. Thanks and keep up the great work and helping people like myself Be safe and stay healthy

@EXPLORISTlife

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks! Glad this has all helped. If you can fit a 300w panel; That's a fine choice. With 3x100w panels you gain a bit of extra voltage but I'd speculate those gains wouldn't be worth the hassle given most 300w panels are already 40+ volts anyway.

@NickGled

3 жыл бұрын

THANK YOU! This has to be the best explanatory video on electrical usage and solar power requirements. I have downloaded the spreadsheet but, ask do I need to change anything for the UK and 230v standard appliances?

This dude is a rocket scientist.

@user-rq2mq8nx3f

5 ай бұрын

I can't see the chart what website is this

Sir, you deserve some kind of metal for putting this spreadsheet together and making it available like this. Fantastic help!

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!

@fastway007

Жыл бұрын

What kind of metal would you recommend, steel, iron or perhaps some aluminum. I on the other hand would maybe suggest a medal to show appreciation of his work…..just sayin

@VinceBadovinatz88

Жыл бұрын

Gosh you are totally right 100%

Thanks for putting in the hours to provide the RV community with a spreadsheet that is actually easy to use. Really appreciate all the hard work.

It really Bums me out that you guys don't get more views. You provide really useful info and real life views of van life, but don't get the views that "Van lifers" get where a lot of what they show is just the trendy side of living in a van, and tend to lean on the sexy side of the thumbnails (bikinis, tight pants, etc etc), which I have nothing against, its just more clickbaity. I think I have watch your van build series 3-4 times in preparation for our van build, and I don't think I'll take other information as seriously as I take yours.

@TheBlackSheepChronicles

4 жыл бұрын

Great comment. I agree with ya for sure

@CheeseOnEverything

4 жыл бұрын

That's the yt algorithm for u...but with content like this, they'll grow fast.

@fishhuntadventure

3 жыл бұрын

People generally don’t actually want to think these days, so they tantalize themselves with kewl videos and either copy other people (not necessarily useful), over-buy the need cuz they’re guessing, or - buy cheap, inadequate equipment with lots of reviews that tickle their ears. Or pay some solar place to install a bulky, mismatched snd often overpriced system that provides power with ancillary compromises the uneducated won’t have the ability to immediately see. What he described here doesn’t take a lot of work but it involves work. Way to many people these days are averse to work. And thinking. But this is very solid advice.

@thepoorblackman

2 жыл бұрын

We're at 100k views and over 100k subs..good content wins!

@simonmorter9341

2 жыл бұрын

Idk I think this thumbnail is pretty sexy… 🤣

I never comment but this was SO HELPFUL DUDE. I have been so stressed over my conversion and especially the solar and this helped me so much. Cant believe you don't have well over a million subs, just gained one more though. Thank you again dude

Thanks guys, I can't express how much your build, the solar information and all the tips you guys provide help me!

Great job on the spreadsheet, thank you for that. It will save me lots of time!

Nate Great video. You guys always make videos that are great! Thanks for making our life easier on the DIY projects.

Great job Nate! Good editing from your partner getting it down to 9 minutes! Very informative and hopefully I’ll use this soon . . .

I just followed the link to your site. Brilliantly explained and answered my question perfectly. Thanks and keep up the good work.

Just wanted to say thank you for all your awesome content. We just started our van build out today and we've already found so many of your videos helpful for us! Thank you thank you!

Your channel has been so fun to watch and learn. Thank you for your help!

Dear god im so happy to have found this. Youre amazing.

Wow, thanks so much for this! Makes things much clearer!!

Very informative, concise, not too fast not too slow , easy watching and clearly described thanks!

Great video thank you. It's guys like you that make society so much better.

What a great video! Nate, you sir are a legend. We have just started our van build and I've been watching KZread videos all day, and yours are by far the best, most concise and easy to understand. Thank you for providing such great content.

@fishhuntadventure

3 жыл бұрын

things often are very hard to understand when being explained by people who regurgitate but don’t actually know what they’re doing. This guy has useful info as opposed to most others

This was a incredible idea. This will help me alot when I get to our build.

This is so useful and thorough. A man after my own heart. Subscribed.

Hey, I just wanted to let you know this video and your excel sheet really helped me figure out how much solar power and batteries I need in my campervan. There are so many numbers and things to pay attention to, but you made it easy. Thanks a lot!

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!

You're amazing. Best 10 minute s of my year. Seriously, thank you!

Another AWESOME posting!!!

Fantastic video! Short, digestible, and informative. I'll be sure to use your Amazon site when ordering.

You're doing a wonderful service.

Man this video is so helpful! He work you put into this with the spreadsheets is amazing. An extra step you didn’t have to do for us. Much appreciated!

@EXPLORISTlife

2 жыл бұрын

Hey cjmiles7, No problem! Glad it helped! :)

Amazingly helpful video. Thank you for taking the time to make that spreadsheet.

Glad we came across your info, going to be very helpful!!👍

You are amazing, clear and helpful; thank you.

outstanding. The spreadsheets are exactly what I have been looking for. Its like the missing link for all things solar

Great info as usual!

Nate, you sir are a legend for creating and sharing your spreadsheet. I cannot thank you enough for the time and money you will be saving me when calculating and then deciding on my build components. Living in the UK where the sun is more like a UFO, solar efficiency is definitely not something i want to guess at. Top man, top channel, Happy Subscriber. Cheers.

I am thankful for your help and appreciate your videos!! You are obviously very competent and geared to master this difficult topic!! Your videos are great and complete!! Need not to watch anything else!! Thank you, great work!!

Best spent 9 minutes of my day. Thank you for doing this.

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!

For a beginner trying to get electrical system together, this is really helpful, thanks!

@EXPLORISTlife

4 жыл бұрын

Very welcome!

I'm an overplanner, and love to go through all the aspects of these builds to ensure I'm maximizing my space, time, value, and money spent. So far your videos are head and tails above the rest, are far more informative, and really well done. Those spreadsheets are incredible, and they save people a bundle of time. It would take me hours to go back, re learn basic electrician formulas, and prepare and set up a spreadsheet just like you did. Thank you for providing this service to people for free, it truly is incredibly generous! Cheers!

So stoked I found this series of videos to help guide us thru our project. Amazingly well done. Thank you!

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Scott Dailey, No problem! Glad it helped! :)

Great information and very helpful. Straight to the point video! Thank you.

Thank you so much, this is going to help me so much for my mini bus conversion!

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!

Man, thank you so much for making these videos. I am an electrical dummy, which is doubled when addressing solar, making me a dum dum pertaining to that subject. Seriously though, you’re helping me get this broke ass airstream working, thank you.

Great job. Muchas Gracias.

Thank you so much! This was really helpful! 💖

Amazing work done, many thanks for the content)

This is so thorough! Awesome.

You're amazing, thanks for posting

You’re the best man

I'm so glad I found you! I'm about to start my van conversion, this is great info Thank you!

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Hugo's Auto Clinic, No problem! Glad it helped! :)

This video and spreadsheet are “friggin awesome”. There is no telling how many people u have helped, but I bet it a ton. Thanks for the video and the resources!

@EXPLORISTlife

Жыл бұрын

Hey Tom Freer, No problem! Glad it helped! :)

Great video.

Very helpful. Great not having bad background music. Going to subscribe.

I'm going to use a 48 volt solar power system on my skoolie. This is a great vid

This is awesome!!!!! Thanks a bunch.

SAVED ME HOURS. THANK YOU

God bless you for making these videos dude. You’re awesome as such a big help.

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Micah Harris, No problem! Glad it helped! :)

So helpful. Thank you so much 💪🏻

This just saved my life. Thank you.

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Cheers!

Man.. I love your approach and thanks for helping us all out here... its appreciated

@EXPLORISTlife

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Happy to help. Thanks for watching!

XLNT and very helpful. Thanks.

Brooooo I've never subscribed so fast. So so helpful👍🏼

I'm so impressed on the super valuable information and the staright to the point explanation! I appreciate this and keep up the good work

Dude this is the greatest video ever! That spreadsheet makes it so easy, THANK YOU!!!!

@EXPLORISTlife

Жыл бұрын

Glad you liked it! Thanks for watching!

Nate yarbrough you made me understand something which I could have naver understood. Although English is not my first language. Well done bro

this is awesome thank you just saved me a major headache

Outstanding!! Now I can get to work. Best video I’ve seen by far on the subject, thank you heaps 👍🏼🇦🇺.

@EXPLORISTlife

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped!

Awesome spreadsheet! Thank you for your time creating and sharing it!

@EXPLORISTlife

Жыл бұрын

Hey Jenna Brown, No problem! Glad it helped! :)

One stop portal for solar system information.

This guy makes it so easy to understand and is really fantastic at his job thank you sir its very much appreciated 🙏

@EXPLORISTlife

2 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Cheers!

This is a super informative and very clear video, so useful... Thank you so much!

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!

Wow, THANK YOU!!!

Thank you 😊

Excellent

I feel so lucky to have found your video's.

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!

Awesome content ! Will bookmark that one

@EXPLORISTlife

2 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!

this will be so helpful.

Very good !🇵🇷

Thank you bro this is the best !

Great content, an amazing amount of job done for providing such content, many thanks

@EXPLORISTlife

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoy it!

Cracking stuff Nate

@EXPLORISTlife

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks! 🙂🙌

A God among men! Thank you!

@EXPLORISTlife

Жыл бұрын

Glad it helped

Great video! Thanks!

@EXPLORISTlife

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Cheers!

Subscribed!!

This is SO incredibly helpful and is helping me reduce a lot of time on my travel camper conversion, I'm truly grateful. You guys are awesome!!! 💙⚡️

Amazing! Thank you!

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Cheers!

Thank you so much! This is so helpful! 😁

@EXPLORISTlife

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Meli Moo, No problem! Glad it helped! :)

Nice thanks!

Ty for this!

@EXPLORISTlife

Жыл бұрын

Hey Charlotte Snider, No problem! Glad it helped! :)

Wow. A scientist.

@EXPLORISTlife

2 жыл бұрын

Just a guy who likes spreadsheets.

i simply purchased a plug-in power meter to monitor just how much power my caravan is consuming over a 2 week period while running on mains electric, living normally after 2 weeks i ended up with a true numbers of my power consumption.. heaters, hot water and the cook run off gas :) lasts a long time and works out pretty cheap.

i love channel bro. all the best to you

you are Awesome man

@EXPLORISTlife

Жыл бұрын

Hey Ephraim Kiptiony, Thanks so much! Cheers!

thanks mate, very usefull, nice voice to listen to, great sense of humor ;-)

@EXPLORISTlife

Жыл бұрын

Hey Sander Bremmers, Thanks so much! Cheers!

Hey Nate, really good and informative videos! We're since one and a half years on the road and I just calculated our installed solar system and our consumption with your table. I gotta say in our case, it fits pretty well with your recommendation. The only thing is our inverter that's only 250VA instead of 1000VA

@EXPLORISTlife

10 ай бұрын

Nice work!

best guy

You just earned our 👍@EXPLORIST life - DIY Campers AND we hit the bell! Dude! We made a spreadsheet, but it was not organized as good as yours. Right now, we're converting a school bus into a tiny home on wheels, and have no prior experience with electrical stuff (like most people, right?) We're checking out your other vids now and your guide on your site to gather the links and get our system pieced together. Thanks so much!! - Brian + Erin

@EXPLORISTlife

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Glad it helped. Thanks for watching!

Thank you. Now i know.

Nice one; there’s a noticeable step up in quality since the rebrand

@EXPLORISTlife

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! And thanks for that. Before we were trying to pump out quantity. Now, it's all about the attempt at being genuinely helpful/useful.

Thank you sir

You sir are Badass.....

@EXPLORISTlife

Жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful. Cheers!

Thanks!

tks, very good video