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DaveInDenver replied to the thread Reinforcing Camper Frame - Need Structural Advice.For what's it worth I put a similar topper on a pickup years ago and asked what the roof rack weight rating would be for the factory... -
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DaveInDenver reacted to llamalander's post in the thread question about parking your solar topped camper under fluorescent lights at night with
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To sum-up Dave's post; Park under a streetlight and see if your panel registers any input &/or activates the MPPT-- chances are slim... -
DaveInDenver reacted to pluton's post in the thread question about parking your solar topped camper under fluorescent lights at night with Like.
Just for reference, the normal brightness of sunlight, measured at an intercepting surface near the ground, at 12 noon, on July 1st, in...
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DaveInDenver replied to the thread question about parking your solar topped camper under fluorescent lights at night.For what its worth, the luminaires I most recently spec'd produced 5000 lumen at 4000K on a 30 foot pole. At grade (in other words, on...
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DaveInDenver replied to the thread Got a spare $100K laying around? Maybe buy a new Ram TRX, but DO NOT drive it much (sez Dodge Spokesman 🤪).This doesn't seem controversial, it would have been like Bill Collins, Pontiac's chief engineer at the time, suggesting you might not...
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DaveInDenver reacted to Shawn686's post in the thread I Just Bought A New Radio and Comms with Like.
Sounds like they will work for what you want. Like Dave explained better than I would, unless mountain peak to valley or the like, the...
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DaveInDenver replied to the thread Americans Just Spent $15 Billion On Buying New Pickups In One Single Month.Credit makes it possible, not necessarily sustainable. But they're not interested in anything temporal beyond next quarter.
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DaveInDenver replied to the thread Requesting assistance locating power enclosure.I imagine the enclosures are something they make or have made for them custom. The closest I can think of are thin IEC enclosures...
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DaveInDenver replied to the thread I Just Bought A New Radio and Comms.50 km is pretty good for VHF at handheld. To get 130 km would take 1000 meters of elevation gain and that's technically possible if I...
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DaveInDenver replied to the thread I Just Bought A New Radio and Comms.41.6 miles is pretty incredible on VHF. That's nearly what I can count on getting when activating peaks here and that's with the...
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DaveInDenver replied to the thread Check Your Battleborn Positive Terminal!.The problem seems obvious in the 3rd video tear-down. There's a plastic form between the internal busbar and the terminal. Giving...
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DaveInDenver reacted to ExpoMike's post in the thread Better or best automotive batteries for my Overlander? Interstate, Odyssey, Optima, LiFePo, etc. with Like.
Are you looking for a starting battery or a house battery? They are very different. For a starting battery, most factory charging...
