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A new firmware update (V1.1) is now available for the BCDC Alpha and BCDC Alpha R range of chargers. Improved Solar, alternator sharing and battery protection.

Adding solar to your vehicle, trailer, or RV is one of the best ways to keep your batteries charged, power your appliances, and extend your stays off-grid. This guide explains REDARC’s solar solutions, how much solar you really need, and which option is best for your travel style. 

A solar panel converts sunlight into usable electricity. When sunlight hits the solar cells, they generate DC power that charges your batteries or runs devices. With the right setup, solar panels let you harness free, renewable energy anywhere — perfect for camping, overlanding, boating, or remote worksites. 

How much solar power does your van need? All your solar power questions are answered here. 

Todo Bien is an 8 part series that follows the travels of MAK & Owen (Bound for Nowhere) as they venture into Baja California for three months.

It’s important for a beginner overlander to tackle some smaller trips before they tear up it up on a long and rigorous US overlanding journey.

To prepare for this, REDARC have put together a few easier trips you can do before taking on the extreme.

Anyone who’s spent more than a bit of time off-grid knows that to live comfortably you need power, and a great way to get endless power while living and working remotely is through solar. There’s something about being in the middle of nowhere, putting the 12v solar panels out and being powered purely by the sun. We caught up with travel photographer, Dan Kiritsis to find out how portable solar panels allow him to work off-grid.

Getting off grid is one of the most exciting, rewarding, and best ways to camp when exploring the country. Well, that’s life, according to Four Hands in a Tin Can. They walked us through their recent REDARC solar panel upgrade, a system they couldn’t live without.

Is it time for your and the family to do hit the road? Discover what 12v gear the Blonde Nomads use to keep them on the road 365 days a year.

With free camping and boondocking becoming increasingly popular, REDARC are here to help get your setup off-grid ready.

Adding solar to your camping setup is one of the easiest and most efficient ways to put that extra bit of power back into your batteries.

For many people, vanlife means a sense of freedom, of escaping the city and confines of daily life and following the road as far as it can take them, then further again. Because of this, for many van owners, they want to be able to power all the comforts of home while getting as far off grid as possible.