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@roamie I collected some more info on the heat pads used with the Victron battery solution. As previously discussed, since Victron batteries don't have internal heater, STC is using external heat pads. They shared that the heat pads watt/amp draw is 78W/5.8A for a 400Ah Victron battery bank...

Without the cover, the cables rise up from the top of the actuators fairly far. When you slide down the cover, you slowly press downward, while easing the cables down the side channel, to seat the cover a bit lower and curving the top loop of the cables sooner. This results in what seemed like...

Both my covers ended up about 3.5" from the gasket. I measured to ensure they sat uniform between the two. If you unscrew the cable glands to push in slack cable, ensure you are only unscrewing the gland cap. When I started unscrewing the cab, the gland nut itself started to unscrew on one...

All done. Was pretty straight forward. Instructions are good. The parts look to be 3D printed. Takes some finesse to get the main part over the square actuator tube as I was scared to crack them. Went fine, though. The two sections slot together and are a tight fit, but using the recommended...

Might simply be mailing time. MT and CO has shorter USPS time than to east. Finished chores for the day so heading out to install now.

External actuator shrouds arrived this morning. This is the first phase of a two-phase Supertramp actuator solution. I plan to install prior to our rainy trip, this coming weekend, to chase Tamarack color change.

STC estimate sounds about right. Battleborn says there heater draws 1.8A when active, so that would be 3.6A for the typical STC which has two 100Ah batteries. Internal battery heaters are much more efficient per watt because they are within the battery housing. With the Victron batteries, the...

I don't recall if I posted this STC video previously, but still one of their best comprehensive system walk throughs and Matt always does a great job. Held up quite well over the last 10 months, though there are some additional options since this was releases (like the Victron battery options...

@roamie Went back to some of your previous posts and and guessing you have the Victron batteries. If so, then they have external battery heaters and power consumption that would be tracked by the shunt (the load you see when everything else is off and battery heaters are on) unlike the...

Battleborn battery heaters are internal. When heater switch is on, they burn battery power, but that consumption is not going through the shunt so your battery manager gauge (and percentage State of Charge) is not reflecting that draw, so the displayed SOC is higher than actual. Using battery...

Nice. I can see I need to revisit the Sherptek solution as the original dropsides didn't seal.

Welcome to the thread, @nmorrill25. While I can't answer measurement questions, so other can could you confirm that the Bowen bed you are considering is the bed for slide-in campers, that keeps stock bed height, compared to a Bowen flatbed? And for 6.75' bed rather than longer (they make many...

Hard to pin down a perfect rule of thumb but most say 50% to 70% load is ok for accessory load, but it depends on many things; underhood and alternator temps, idle rpm vs driving rpm (higher-than-idle rpm is better) and relectric load duration (minutes vs hours on end). That being said, 100amps...

@twowheels19 We've discussed it directly, but for other readers, I'll mention that STC doesn't retrofit A/C units to Flagship campers because retrofitting the wiring is a challenge. So, everyone be sure to keep that in mind when deciding on camper options. There is a non-advertised "A/C prep"...

Well, you basically have two monocoque shells joined in this case. Does that count? Ha. There are no internal frames or other structure for the vacuum-infused tub nor the one piece upper half. The two structures are bonded around the entire seam, on two planes, with the proprietary process. And...