RV Solar Upgrade Review: 3 Years Later

After 3 years with our RV solar system, we're sharing what worked, what we’d change, and how it’s transformed our dry camping trips. Here’s our honest review.
After 3 years with our RV solar system, we're sharing what worked, what we’d change, and how it’s transformed our dry camping trips. Here’s our honest review.
Discover all the updates to the 2025 Jay Feather Micro 171BH, including new exterior features, interior upgrades, and key design changes for this model year.
For the last three years our family has owned a Jayco Jay Feather Micro 171BH travel trailer. And for the last two years we've created videos going over all the issues that we've had in the trailer the previous year. Well, now it is our third year of owning this trailer and we didn't have anything worth reporting in this third year of ownership. But I still wanted to check in, so I thought I'd go over some of the main reasons why we purchased this trailer originally and then how we feel about those items now that we've owned the trailer for three years. Then, we'll list some of our favorite trailer upgrades.
Our travel trailer awning started looking dirty and we wanted to not only get it looking nice again, but we also wanted to have a plan so it didn't get so dirty in the future. Here is what we did to clean our awning and our simple plan to keep it clean in the future.
We'll be comparing the Jay Feather Micro 171BH travel trailer to the Apex Nano 194BHS. First we'll compare a few specs like the length, weight, and tanks, and then we'll start comparing some of the features to each other.
We don't winterize our trailer in the traditional sense, but there are a few items we do to prepare our trailer for the winter. Here's why we don't winterize and what we do instead.
Looking for inexpensive yet important items for the trailer? These are six must-have items for your trailer that are under $15.
Want to make sure your trailer is stocked with the essentials? These are nine must-have items for your trailer that are under $30.
At first glance, the 2024 Jay Feather Micro looks completely different than the previous versions because it has completely different decals. The exterior looks a lot different, but I wanted to dig into what has actually changed and what is the difference with the new 2024 Jay Feather Micro 171bh.
We went on a camping trip that ended with ants. Here's how we got the ants out of the trailer and what we're planning to do about it from here on out.
We're going to compare the Jay Feather Micro 171bh to the Winnebago Minnie FLX 2100bh. These floorplans are similar but there are a few key differences we will go over.
We compare the Jay Feather Micro 171BH bunkhouse with the No Boundaries 16.6. These are similar floorplans but with a few differences which we'll discuss.