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To me it's not so much lacking a two-speed transfer case but lacking low gearing. The new Explorer has a 10-speed transmission but 1st is 17:1 while a decade ago a body-on-frame Explorer with a 5-speed auto and 2-speed t-case had a 1st-gear/low range of 30:1. All the torque vectoring, Torsen...

I'm hip to the @SoyBoy's sensibilities about not destroying all that is beautiful in this world. They ain't making more old Cruisers after all. But melding a thing of genius (done nicely maybe at least) to one isn't the same as gutting and chopping one for a hot rod or making a rock crawler...

GMRS is close and could have been cleared up in 2017 but the FCC is run by bureaucrats and lawyers more interested in protecting Verizon's spectrum from the hoards.

Why are you thinking about a Gen 1? Is your co-worker giving it to you? I think all four generations of device are essentially the same guts (the Gen 4 still uses 4 x AAA). I still use my Gen 3 routinely, it does the job fine.

Agreed. Doing that critical stuff kind of seemed to me like it would be an alright gig. The driving straight through might be tough but the teams that got our jobs got to go to some pretty cool places and carried truly critical things that are no longer still on our this planet.

Many shipping companies actually do have white glove service, if you want to pay for it. FedEx Custom Critical is how one place I worked moved stuff off our dock. That service is no joke treated like its irreplaceable because it usually is. It's a question of economics though and it's way...

It's probably too that Garmin's lawyers know there's no way to shoehorn the application into GMRS/FRS (I believe it was Garmin who actually got the original exception written to allow GPS data on FRS, so they have some history) and they can't play dumb with the FCC like has become the norm in...

I assume Garmin's decision to use MURS was due to a couple of things. First, there's the restrictive GMRS data rule. Normally GMRS isn't prohibited from using detachable antennas on handhelds except if it transmits data. Plus the duration and duty cycle are very limited. More fundamentally...

Does seem like either a BMS or DC-DC (B2B) power supply could potentially cause or prevent the alternator from going out of regulation. It's not the load dump per say but the sudden change in feedback (sense) to the alternator voltage regulator. It's the same damage that could occur if you...

Man, what a throw back.

Who needs a road?

The difference is how much current each can deliver during bulk, 5 amps verses 10 amps. If you're using it to condition and top-up that won't matter too much since the alternator is doing most of the bulk charge. During absorption and float they'll be doing about the same thing. But unless...

Interesting that the compensation isn't linear so I just did some formatting. Also did °F to °C for reference.

Indeed the GEN5X1 I have mentioned temperature compensation although I don't recall them saying what the compensation is and I have not personally measured it to figure it out. Even if it's not ideal any temperature compensation is I think preferred to none.

I just picked up a Noco GEN5X1 and it works fine for AGM but my criteria was looking for something waterproof more than an ideal charger. So FWIW my go-to for a while now has been a BatteryMINDer 128CEC1. The reason I got it originally was that it offers an Odyssey/PLT (PLT means Pure Lead...

I'd be very interested where you read this. Selective Availability introduced both delta and epsilon error to create geometric error, which understanding I'm definitely not an orbital mathematician, I understood meant an increase in VDOP can't happen without a correlating (and characterizing)...

Your URL has a typo. https://caatailantennas.com/

Doesn't Gaia use the iOS Location Services? I doubt it has the ability to select a source down to that level. If the iPhone is getting erroneous information triangulating from a badly configured secondary terrestrial source then the whole phone will likely be confused. Could try putting the...

They can't selectively degrade just altitude. GPS is inherently less accurate determining altitude so the added error will compound, though. As of Block III GPS procurement they actually will not be able to degrade GPS. It was intentionally removed from the specification going forward. As of...