Well the troopy's still getting its roof done, but meanwhile I've been busy confusing myself about how to run the fridge when you are parked in the one spot for days. The options seem to be solar, various generators or just run the engine for a while each day.
Solar is nice for the planet and works virtually indefinitely, but it's slow. If the panels are fixed onto your roof, you have to park in the sun which kind of heats up the fridge and rather defeats the purpose. If you use portable cells then you have to stay with them so they don't walk off with someone else. They seem to need just about the whole day to make much difference to an 80 amp hour deep cycle battery, so that limits your fishing time just a bit!
Generators are notorious around campsites and a great way to really annoy your new neighbours, but the newer ones are fairly quite and seem to be a lot quicker than solar. You get rather more fishing time, but have to carry extra fuel and they aren't very nice for the planet.
The best one I've seen so far is a 50 amp alternator running off a little 4 stroke engine. It's made by Christie Engineering (02 9620 1208 enquiries@christieengineering.com.au) and looks like this http://piranhaoffroad.com.au/index.php/default/obc25-55-amp.html .
Probably the only thing worse than running your generator out the back of your tent is running your huge turbo diesel tropy engine under the noses of your camping neighbours. So every approach has its ups and downs and maybe it's a matter of choosing your preferred poison and sticking with it.
Speaking of which, is that sun over the yard arm yet? all this typing is making me thirsty....
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