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We just crossed from Mexico to Belize. Your about to have a great time. We spent six months in Mexico and felt like we could do another six with out coming close to seeing all the cool stuff there. We are moving slow (18 months from here to Panama planned) so maybe you'll ketch up. Safe travels...

A few more build pics, just in case anyone is interested. cutting the top off the campershell that is to be our home attaching the new rear wall to our camper I found it was way easier to lay big sheets of fiberglass to cover the center sections of each panel while the panels where an the...

Thanks sddiver5. I took a 1 day dive class in Maui that helped me out. I went from basically being uncomfortable diving at all to staying down for about 1.5 min and shooting fish at 35-40ft. It was a big improvement for me. I would totally recommend a class for anyone else that wants to get into...

yeah, I've just been getting into it the last couple of years while living in Maui, Hi. I'm definitely a warm water with good viability only guy.

Good eye aaronk. I dont scuba though. Just free dive a bit and hope to improve with the speargun during this trip

thanks aaronk. I do have locks on both boxes. I figure its one more thing to slow someone down. Here is the camper in its finished state. It started off as a hi-rise campershell that i purchased for $90. I cut the roof off and extended it 2 feet taller and about 3 feet over the cab (at the...

sorry I didn't keep up with the thread. I had a series of set backs that put me way behind on my build. Any way, I did get it done and am corresponding from Baja California Sur, Mexico. I know I have more build pics somewhere, but figured i would post what I have and if anyone wants more info I...

Wow. Thanks again guys. blown away by all the truly helpful input. I just did this as a way of testing to see how long i could run the fridge with out the panels hooked up. Simulating night in a way. I am going to increase the absorb cycle to 4 hours for now and just monitor things and try to...

I did not get the remote temp sensor, but I did get the meter and set the parameters to better fit the battery and got a much better result. The battery reached the voltages specified by Vmax before switching to float and I unplugged the panels at 3:30pm today and turned on my fridge/freezer. It...

Ok, I didn't want to wait for shipping and processing, so I drove the 3 hours to Renogy office yesterday. After an in person conversation with another tech guy who gave me yet another explanation and conclusion to my issue I got him to test my charge controller. Turns out it was working how it...

well, I plugged the battery into an ac charger over night. I got numbers that look more like what Vmax said I should be seeing with a full charge. 13.07V 4 hours after disconnecting the charger. That seams like a significant difference compared to the 12.8V I was seeing 4 hours after...

you are correct on my typo. It should have been 12.79v I will top it off overnight with a shore power charger and try the load test again tomorrow.

I am continuing to look for issues with my existing set up, but as the battery seams to be in working order, I am thinking more and more that the issue is the charge controller. So, any suggestions for a charge controller? I will hopefully still be using my 300W solar array consisting of 3x...

I tried putting the battery under load and taking some readings. I used a 4.99 amp load measured with a multi-meter at the load, 10ft from the battery, connected with 10awg wire. Before applying the load the battery voltage was at 12.29V. After 45 minutes, with the load connected I measured...

Thanks a lot for the help guys. I have been coming to the same conclusions as you guys based on my reading, but my inexperience with these systems and electricity in general keep me from being confident in my interpretation of what i'm reading. For example when I read that the charge controller...

I have approximately 12 feet of 4 awg cable connecting the two batteries.

Here is the data i collected today (battery voltages were taken with multi-meter at battery terminals): 10:20am charge controller gave me a "full battery" indication and switched to float charge. Battery voltage=14.16v I then unplugged the solar panels and took the following readings 10:50am...

The 14.17v from my alternator was at idle. Guess i should try it at maintained higher rpms as well. good point.

Thanks for the solid responses dwh. You confirmed what i thought with the dual battery system charging off of the alternator. I have just been getting conflicting information on this and various other forums. my manual toggle switch i added into the system outlined by Evil Dave just gives me...

I just checked my alternator and got a reading of 14.17 volts. I'm pretty confident it is stock. It has the Toyota 12v sticker on it. I checked the battery manufacturer's website ( http://www.vmaxtanks.com/SLR155-AGM-Solar-Battery-_p_66.html ) and it lists "Vehicle Alternator: 14V-15V" as a...