Solar Install dilemmas

I was thinking about solar again and if there were other ways to mount it and came across this website:
http://www.camperize.com/solar-panel-mounting.html

The 3M VHB tape seems too easy to believe! Am Solar also believes in it:
http://www.amsolar.com/mountsandtiltbars.html

So I think we are going to go for trying the tape method.

Bishop Again!

We headed up to the Bishop area again with the van. Slept at our favorite spot outside Bishop 2 more nights. Again having the van was great as by one climbing area we just stopped and took a nap.

Secondskin products

Our products arrived from secondskin and they look pretty high quality. The Luxury Liner Pro is serious! It is really heavy and dense I think it will be very effective.

Secondskin order

Anja called and had a good talk with Ant the owner of secondskinaudio who was very helpful. He initially agreed with our plan for the dog house of damplifier, motor mat pro, and heat wave pro but once she told him we were going to do some noise testing he changed his recommendation to just damplifier and luxury liner pro for the doghouse.

We placed our order for products for this project:
Phase 1:
We are going with damplifier for the doors. We’ll try to do the inside the door space and surface of the door.

Phase 2:
We will put down two layers of damplifier, then Luxury Liner Pro, and then a layer of Reflectex on top of it.

Phase 3
77 x 30 x 0.6 inches and 21 ounces
http://www.rei.com/outlet/product/783025

Phase 4
Secondskinaudio Spectrum Sludge - $65

Reflextex

I got some Reflectex from OSH Hardware and we cut it to size of the windows in the back bed space. It makes an amazing difference in temperature with direct sunlight on the van windows. It also makes the back bed feel like a tomb because with almost all the light blocked out from those windows it is so dark.

Flying bug removal

Latest Discovery: The attic fan is for bug exhaust. Our SMB has an attic fan and we don’t keep the bug guard on. Most nights we turn it on to blow air out of the van. We ate dinner with the back door open and a rear bed light on. Many bugs came in the van. To get them out we turned on the light by the attic fan and turned off the back bed light. The bugs were drawn to the new light source but before they could reach the light VOOM out the attic fan they went. The van was empty of bugs in about 5 minutes. Sweet!

Rattle stop with felt

Noise Rattles: We put extra firm 3/4" round fabric tabs from KMart on the doors of the cabinets. It seems to have quieted the rattle a significant amount. Most effective $6 fix we have done yet.