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No, it doesn't necessarily indicate the charger. I did a poor job of explaining. What I'm suggesting is that the voltage drop could increase with load. When you first turn on the DC-DC it's a low draw, just the internal consumption, a few watts perhaps. This is the power the device itself...

recreation.gov is run by Booz-Allen-Hamilton. https://pmags.com/the-scourge-of-rec-dot-gov Who, I'm not sure incidentally, was sued over just where the fees go. https://web.archive.org/web/20230607024751/https://www.tzlegal.com/recreation-gov-fee-investigation/ The whole process is a scam, a...

Try measuring the resistance of the input on the DC-DC, both polarities. If your meter does it I'd also check the input using the diode check function, also both polarities. What you're showing looks odd and what I'm asking is to eliminate that it's the DC-DC. It's possible the DC-DC did...

Regards to made in USA or perhaps just not made in China. There have been such radios in the past but current production isn't really going to be an option. You might get not Chinese made but I'm not sure there's ever been a US-made GMRS/FRS. I'm not sure there's even been a US-made FM mobile...

An alternator will have a continuous rating and a peak or absolute maximum. I don't know yours specifically but typically medium, heavy duty, marine type Denso, Balmar and similar fall around 80°C to 90°C for continuous and might tolerate 105°C or so. For a light duty I would expect 93°C/200°F...

It's not a simple yes/no. You're right that multiple chargers can and often do run in parallel. The problem is coordination. You have multiple control loops running and there's no guarantee they'll operate well together. This is more of a problem you'd have with smart or multi-stage...

Not an influencer but I run a DIY battery box. I had some of the components already so if starting from scratch I might have made a few different choices. It has come together over time as I change things, experiment, etc. Having commercial off-the-shelf devices can be handy with apps and...

This piece of advice needs to be clarified. If you're fusing for a 50A circuit you use a 50A. Fuses are sized based on the current they will hold indefinitely. They will open at some current higher than their rating, which is going to be based on a time-current curve. So the higher above...

That's the bike industry in a sentence. You could have also said "the manufacturers love to convince everyone that they are Matteo Jorgenson."

Dylan Johnson did a great video on this. It's hard to really believe how back in the day we were running slammed mile long negative rise stems and rock hard skinny tires and all that. We thought we were fast but really smooth is fast.

FWIW in case anyone's interested. This is my all around mixed surface and gravel all cleaned up for spring. On the fatter side at the moment coming off winter, 29x2.2 front and rear, so technically 700x55. The frame is the tail end of what I'd call the classic MTB frames, 2012 Gunnar Rock...

Unistrut is happy to send you an engineering catalog that tells you everything you need to know. They know it's used for all sorts of things other than just hanging conduit and pipe from ceilings. It's completely fine to use for racks like this. https://unistrutohio.com/pages/unistrut-catalog...

You are a pretty ideal candidate for a gravel bike. What exactly is a gravel bike is blurry, some trend more towards a road bike or racing cyclocross while others are barely different than a hardtail mountain bike. I personally use an older (2012) 29" steel hard tail MTB with a 100mm fork and...

In North America, sure. Nissan (and their partners Mitsubishi and Renault) make all kinds of them, the Patrol, Triton, medium duty, etc. I don't know Honda's motivation here or the way their alliances will shake out (don't Mitsubishi and Ram have some sort of cross marketing). I doubt they're...

I wonder if there's some Japanese business courtesy going on here, if that's even still a thing. At one time businesses would look out for each other (such as when Toyota invested in Subaru, which has only yielded a couple of niche vehicles for them) rather than the U.S. version of cut throat...

I wheel with Ace and been on the trail with him in this truck. He's being completely honest. It's a capable vehicle that he has used for it's purpose, but it's not abused and he takes good care of his trucks.

I think Toyota dropped Access Cab and went back to the XtraCab like the 84-04 trucks had. Which for me was fine, I owned a 1996 Ranger (pre-rear door) Super Cab first, followed by the 1991 Toyota XtraCab that preceded the 2008 Access I own now. I didn't need the rear seats on any of them (and...

Right. I'm old enough to remember a regular cab 7 foot bed small truck. I guess there just isn't as much fleet sales and people like me that like the (although really only slightly) smaller footprint in a vehicle with utility. If I was in the market it's possible to build an F150 or F250 XL...

I was kicking it around so I went to build a Ranger. Did they drop the extended cab and now only do a four door truck? That's a potential show stopper if so. I don't need seating for more than 2 but I do need 6 feet of bed without a battleship wheel base. The point of a small(er) truck is to...

@Pskhaat just looking through options. That cheap supply I mentioned requires you to switch 120V or 240V but there are industrial supplies that will auto switch on AC. This is more common with medical rated supplies and similar critical applications. They're still not super expensive, $87 for...