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There's nothing wrong with the Blue Sea fuse block. All things being equal having things sealed is preferred but not critical for most of us. If you have a master breaker you don't gain anything with a battery-mounted fuse. Just my $0.02 but not enough benefits to bother replacing perfectly...

You could go all in like Foz Roamer. https://americanadventurist.com/forum/threads/subaru-forester-rear-front-bumper-build-pics.3788/ Or the Aussies with their cool stuff. http://www.subaxtreme.com

I've used 90°C XLPE a few times but definitely 105°C or higher is better. It's important to realize that ampacity of wire is how warm it can get before melting through the insulation, not the fusing temperature of the copper, which melts at 1,084°C. The actual threshold isn't the temperature...

You could convince yourself that the wire itself never heats enough to be an issue with 60°C insulation but that's a fairly low temperature just for the environment of a vehicle.

Yes, you're correct.

There's two facets to this, marketing and engineering. Marketing will slap whatever the biggest number they can get away with and not get sued for false advertising or when someone breaks their truck down the road. OTOH engineering, testing and manufacturing have improved so much that the...

FWIW, you can refer to many different sources and get different answers. For example the ABYC E-9 (for boats) has this suggestion, which is the primary basis for the Blue Sea calculator. SAE and NEC have different set of rules deriving from a different set of assumptions and requirements...

Winch motors for vehicles may specify their full load current but may alternatively specify a locked rotor or inrush current and leave it to the user to calculate full load current based on HP. So if the motor is rated 170 amps FLA and you're protecting for motor overload you could use 1.25 *...

Before assuming a major issue at least make sure everything is tight and solid. I'd also hit every bolt in the front end to make sure they are torqued and nothing has come loose. Next step would be to at least service all the bearings, if not just replace. Bad wheel bearings or king pin...

It is apples to squirrels. Transmission lines have line loss because they are long enough to have impedance at 60 Hz (wavelength of 5 km). Reactive loads have different apparent power because they are complex with significant reactive power. The protection and copper are sized based on real...

That is the crux of the argument and basically what I think should happen. OHV, equestrian, bikes, foot - doesn't matter how you choose to use the land. Limit the number of users. Period. We're all in this together. I think a compromise would be to issue 'x' number of permits and your...

I dunno about back East but here in western CO, eastern UT between the USFS and BLM there's I think 3 enforcement ranger to cover millions of acres. Making them meter maids by adding more places to be ticketed for the public lands equivalent of jaywalking seems counterproductive. Basically...

I should have read closer. Adding radials might help with radiation pattern, which I suspect is fairly distorted. But as long as the ladder is conductive and you get solid contact on the ground side of the mount I doubt you need artificial radials to get it to tune. You could also just use a...

I do get the feeling the outcome is pre-determined and the path is kabuki theater. I came to that thought after seeing what's happened the last couple of years of the San Rafael Swell. It's been a contentious area for years, a push-pull between Sierra Club-backed SUWA (who is based in SLC, not...

Can't hurt but is unnecessary to go to that expense. Is the antenna mounted on a thru-hole? You can use foil under it to make a plane. In commercial and aerospace we use copper tape and foil but aluminum foil or the aluminum tape you find at Home Depot for wrapping things like dryer vents...

Access by means someone else is dictating. For the most part the restrictions don't close land permanently just as long as you jump the barriers put up, so the point is agreed that they haven't completely eliminated access. So I'll make one argument to the point that nuanced details like how...

Ouray County's latest conditions: (Note – Crew 1 and Crew 2 work concurrently) Crew 1: Yankee Boy -- OPEN Crew 2: Red Mountain Town – Open the Main Loop-- OPEN Crew 1: Corkscrew – (in progress) Crew 2: Engineer Pass (in progress) Crew 1: Imogene Crew 2: Crews will move to help open Imogene...

I've been driving 4wd and camping for a long while. It's never been in my lifetime something rare, but that's also why we moved to Colorado originally. To be outdoors. We used to camp in Missouri as a kid but not 4 wheeling and poking around backcountry. There's just not the open land and...

The West is different, "we" do own most of the land collectively. It's public land, not private. In some states, such as Nevada, around 75% of the land is publicly owned. In this case Pismo is a California state park, supported by taxpayers, managed by the state in trust of the People of...

From the factory 2003+ 4Runner, 2005+ Tacoma and 2006+ FJ Cruiser have an extended breather for the front diff and transmission. They are located in the engine bay near the battery. So are you talking about using that "manifold"? It's not really a manifold but just two breathers joined...