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It's humbling when this happens. But in some seriousness sometimes they get in but can't get them back out. Not to mention they aren't going to be a good long term solution without wearing them out. The more apt stereotype is the best off road vehicle is a rental car. My approach to vehicle...

Sheesh. It's a joke and I took some liberty with the details, 6.6 liters = very approx 400 cubic inches.

It's got a cop motor, a 400 cubic-inch plant. It's got cop tires, cop suspension, cop shocks. It's a model made after catalytic converters so it'll sort run alright on regular gas.

They are not crazy conservative. To guarantee they meet environmental, mechanical and electrical parameters there's a limit to the number of times any connector can mate. The limit might be 200, 500 or it might be 101. Tyco designed and tested to meet 100 with typical manufacturing tolerance...

They are a good connector, too, but they meet a similar design goal as various locking circular types in that they are not expected to see that many mate cycles. They'll do more in all likelihood but I'd start to wonder about the locking tab as well as the terminals on these. But real...

I have an ancient Jackery that doesn't seem to mind charging and powering device simultaneously. It has two ports, 1A and 2.1A, and charges at 1A so running two devices it might not charge at all or at best very slowly. The newer Jackery banks charge at 2A so if the load demands are low it...

I really like circular connectors. I use them for several things, like my winch controller, the control line to my remote antenna tuners. As you say, robust, weathertight, etc. The ones I've standardized on personally are the Tyco CPC, circular plastic connectors. They aren't Amazon cheap...

It should be noted that what I show here is fairly abusive on a starting or so-called dual purpose battery. They aren't built to do these little cyclic loads over long periods like a real deep cycle. If you do this often it does shorten their life and thus decreases replacement period and may...

FWIW, I've recently been using a data logger to watch the voltage at my MT45, which is wired in the bed of my truck with about a 30 foot 8 AWG out and back loop to my batteries. This is example of an overnight with no solar helping. You can pretty much figure out the stages where I'm driving...

I went from 3-ply BFG KO2 E-rated LT235/85R16 to 2-ply AT3/W E-rated LT265/75R16 on my Tacoma. The Falkens do ride noticeably softer, jury is still out on durability. My KO2 had several cuts in the sidewalls by the end but never failed me. I doubt the Falkens will be as tough. But I also...

In PP15/45 there are 3 options for terminals, the left two are the 15A and 30A and referred to as closed barrel. IIRC, they can be crimped or soldered according to Anderson with the caveat I believe is either but not both crimped and soldered (good general rule anyway). The one on the right is...

Good point about assembling horizontally vs vertically. I'm partially color blind so using black and another color for USB/5V will only make sense to me since greens and yellows kind of look similar and wouldn't necessarily look right to everyone. Red and black might even look like grey and...

BTW, one thing to consider is safety. The XT60-F (female, the right one) is shrouded against being shorted so that should be the power or battery side. I don't know which pin is positive vs negative, I assume there is a standard for this. OTOH while PowerPole are intrinsically safe from...

I haven't used the XT60 extensively and finding information of them isn't completely straightforward. AFAIK the real ones are made by AMASS in China and they don't seem to offer much on their website or specification documents that I can find in English. This I think is the OEM website...

Thanks for closing the loop. Might be useful for a future search to know the problem and solution.

Keep one of those jump packs in the glove box for back up. Or the solar generator might serve for that. There are options for good battery monitors these days that knowing consumption and charging with better resolution should help. I just watched voltage, which is a very poor guesstimate for...

Fitting 200 A-hr of golf cart batteries would leave no room for a fridge in a 4Runner! Not everyone drives a 4wd motor home with every imaginable appliance. I ran an Engel MT45 from an Optima Redtop group 34 for several years using a 100W solar panel (a pair of 50W in a DIY suitcase) and a...

He doesn't want to go with dual batteries so the starter is the house. Using a modest solar system makes sense and having a shore charger is smart to keep the battery conditioned. Not sure about needing everything - an MPPT solar controller with 50 ~ 100 W panel, a 40 A-hr lithium solar...

I know what you meant. I'm joking that you have too *good* of an antenna and insufficiently lossy coax thus are overloading the front end of the Midland, giving the AGC fits and desensitizing. The GMRS radio just has lower tolerance for frequency drift or reception artifacts. It's front end...

LOL, you're probably overdriving the poor thing's front end. The question regarding bandwidth is still open. That could certainly wreck havoc. A TM-V71 would be the opposite problem, wideband listening to narrowband would result in low audio and loss of range.