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Absolutely nothing wrong with an SR5. The only significant improvement you get with TRD Offroad is a factory locker and that's something you don't strictly need most of the time. There's an extra fuel tank skid plate that's nice but also not make-or-break. I drove my first truck with open...

My ARB (2005-2011 Tacoma with plastic insert for fog lights) with a Warn XD9000 and 80 feet of 5/16" synthetic rope weighed 155 lbs on shipping crate scale. Can't say the scale was certified for accuracy though.

I only know of these things tangentially living in Denver and orbiting in circles with engineering school classmates who worked there. Gylling is Swedish or Dutch, I forget, and Tomkins is a UK company. So global licensing and patents I could certainly understand being a sticky issue. I don't...

Gates Rubber used to have a division called Gates Energy, which invented the technology that eventually became both Hawker (flat plate AGM, which were at one time called Hawker-Gates) and Optima (spiral plate AGM). What I know of EnerSys is that it organized from Yuasa around 2000 so perhaps...

Seebeck generators exist. We've known for 2 centuries from the work of Peltier and Kelvin that it can work. It's how deep space spacecraft are powered, they use the decay of radioactive materials for the heat source rather than the Sun. So whether this line of technology can be scaled...

FWIW, Optima was never part of EnerSys (of Odyssey, Genesis, Hawker, etc.). Optima was originally started as a division of Gates Rubber, who made them in Denver in the 1980s and early 1990s. Gates sold the division to a European company named Gylling Group in 1992 who built a bigger factory in...

The Broadcom BCM4774 that is typically used in devices does GPS, GLONASS and SBAS but it also uses Galileo (European GNSS), BeiDou (China's GNSS) and QZSS (Japan's GNSS). A phone or tablet is capable of the exact same accuracy. To be rated for IFR use the GNSS receiver has to use RAIM...

We went for the Forester over the Outback for a couple of reasons. One is it's taller and so our dog (a German Shepherd) at the time could sit up fully without hitting her head. The Forester is just slightly narrower and quite a bit shorter (both overall and wheelbase). They actually have...

I think it's cool out there and when we still lived in Ft. Collins we'd head east as much as north or west just to avoid other fun hogs.

One clue is it's rated as 100 A-hr (which is specified at the C10 rate) and states a C/3 (30 A) charge current limit. The terms sealed lead acid (SLA), AGM, valve-regulated lead acid (VRLA), gel get mixed and confused. Whether it's gel is really neither here nor there and does have some...

I know, but it is a legitimate argument. Forgetting trips that are intentionally difficult but just getting a trailhead there's plenty of times that we drive my Tacoma over her Forester for the 1% that requires things like clearance or low range. The other 99% of the trip the Subaru would have...

The problem it seems with a Sienna (or similarly Subarus, whatever) is that a fairly low first gear doesn't necessarily indicate it'll be happy locked in 1st gear and traveling slow without overheating the transmission. It's low enough to get the van moving fully loaded but the design criteria...

I'm not sure the linked Amazon example is even really AGM. It's probably a gel tolerant of higher voltage. AGM is technically still a wet cell but the electrolyte has been fully absorbed in the glass mat to make it immobile while the electrolyte in a gel is mixed with a silica to achieve the...

It'll tell you where you are fine (just as well as a phone or any other stand-alone single frequency and non-SBAS/WAAS GPS receiver) but they aren't IFR rated GPS. So pilots using them or GLOs or whatever else is irrelevant.

True, FLA will typically vent during charging while AGM shouldn't normally or at least it will be minimal. The correct modifier (is it extremely lower or just significantly lower?) is probably a matter of personal preference but it's not impossible and so probably wise to take the same...

No, they aren't. The only advantage to AGM is being spill-proof they don't need to be mounted upright. Otherwise they cost more, need more careful charging, can't be serviced or recovered if abused. Places like Amazon like AGM since can they can be shipped easier, so buy FLA locally and use...

He's also starting with a TRD Offroad so it's also got the extra fuel tank protection from the factory. Most aftermarket skids mount to the same place as the stock plastic one, just hung from the tank straps. The fuel tank has to take all the weight no matter what unless you rework things to...

It is available in all-wheel drive, too. No low range t-case (so technically a Tacoma has 12 forward gears) but otherwise you might be on to something.

I corrected my original post. Didn't register these were 18V.

I was thinking that, too. Seems like it would getting power storage at a premium. Seems these particular batteries go for about $100 each so it's a bit more than $11 per A-hr (but at 18V so $0.62/W-hr). A Battleborn is about $9/A-hr (albeit at nominal 12V), a premium Odyssey is about...