Unlike a campsite in an RV park, when you're wild camping (or if your prefer - boondocking, dry camping or RVing off the cord) in a remote location like Quartzsite, AZ, you can usually park your RV facing any direction you want to.
Here are some tips on how we get the most out of the sun when we're camping off the grid. These tips are especially useful for winter snowbirding, when nights are cool, days can be warm, and the sun never gets very high in the sky.
We hope these ideas help you make the most out of the sun when you're camping in the middle of nowhere.
We don't pretend to be experts on any particular RV topic, and mostly know about maintaining our own rig. But many systems are the same on different RVs. The advice we give works well for us, but be sure to consult a professional technician if you're unsure about working on your own RV.
While the solar panels would be flat in the summer, would you park faced to the west, in order to reduce the southern sun on your patio area?
ReplyDeleteWe actually prefer to face East all year round. While facing one way or the other has no effect on the solar panels in the summer (since they're always flat on the roof that time of year), the issues with heat apply even more. The hot afternoon summer sun is best kept off the front of the RV, since even with our windshield cover on, more heat gets through than at the rear of the RV. Also, summer is an even more important time to have our fridge facing north. And since the sun is so high in the sky, our main patio awning does an even better job of providing shade on the patio.
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