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Good question. Maybe some kind of draw latch, slide bolt, or multi-point latch My GF hates the spring-loaded latch too

I started with a portable all-in-one (EcoFlow) powering everything in my pop-up camper, worked fine. After a couple years I installed a proper house battery system, properly wired and fused, lots more capable and expandable. I end up bringing the EcoFlow anyway (special needs maybe, as I do a...

Necrothread but why not… https://applink.ikea.com/tY8M9r9M4w--70510300--us--en This is just a little folding coffee table, nothing big but just enough for drinks and plates, the occasional HF transceiver when I get on the radio at camp, and folds down very small into the same space as our...

Year three with this Jeep, and finally earned that badge on the hood

I run GMRS through the 19” Larsen, works fine

I’ve also got a Gladiator with an Alu-Cab Canopy Camper on the back, also with a big 200W solar panel on most of the roof panel. I put two antenna mounts on the rearmost slanted section, so they’re below the roofline and won’t get scraped off by passing low branches (in 3 years of use I already...

Thanks for the links folks! OTTE look nice, and the variety of camo patterns will suit a lot of people here. Me, I’m increasingly worried about setting something down outside or at night, and leaving it behind. So I’m trying to convert over to all orange and blue and dayglo colors Mystery...

I used sat messagoing on iOS last night and had a new experience - after starting the sat interface, it geolocated itself, thought for a while, then said ”satellite available in 5 minutes.” Longest “5 minutes” ever, because it was more like 10. Then once in range, it switches to a...

Those look about right, thank you.

I have a set of Eagle Creek “packing cubes” that I got from REI decades ago. They’re reasonably sturdy, ~300 denier nylon, and I’ve used them for years to fit random stuff in odd spaces around my truck and camper. They’re finally wearing thru, but I’m having a hard time finding similar...

Camped out in the Black Rock Desert, on a secluded side playa. Got the ham antenna up, taking advantage of the low QRM. I really need to move some heavy stuff from the very back corners to midships, to hopefully even out the rear squat.

Great question. In addition to the possibility of flying projectiles in a bad failure - consider a tree strap of sufficient rating for any recovery, and sufficient width to not damage a tree. You'll find the loops on the end of the tree strap are so thick that it's a huge PITA to get both ends...

I thought this was interesting, hadn't seen anyone testing soft shackles to destruction before. Pretty logical conclusions: they're likely to break where the loop goes around the knot (as that's where it's single-strand, and likely to be the minimum bend radius). And if you're looping around...

https://cubeseries.com/camper/ ? "Depending on the option you select, it will have a dry weight between 1206 to 1750 lbs."

In practice, you’ll find that 50V nominal voltage to be too much for many MPPT converters. If you building a fully discrete system, I’m sure there’s a Victron etc that will handle it, but all-in-one and Renogy grade things will likely choke on it. (Recall that nominal solar specs are quoted at...