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Your appeal to authority not withstanding, unless you've placed one of your eight sensors into a bottle of water, all you're measuring is air temperature. Of course the air temperature rises in the fridge when you open the door - the point is that the embodied energy of that air is a fraction...

I find that the "cold air pours out" argument is dramatically overstated. What you're cooling is the stuff in the fridge, and if you're doing it right, there shouldn't be huge volumes of dead air in there. Running the numbers, water has more than 4x the heat absorption of air by mass. (And...

My only advice is be really sure about where you're going to put it, and how you'll use it. I bought a decent fridge for my first purchase - it's still working very well for the guy I sold it to after I realized it wasn't the right shape for my space. My 2nd fridge is 100x better for me. In...

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Last consideration: Will your route take you over state borders or through standard trucking lanes? Whether or not you can make that tow Safely (and whether U-Haul will greenlight you) is obviously the most important consideration. However, if you can be reasonably sure you'll be crossing a...

"Fast" is relative. A Thetford 135 (2.2gal) was good for our family of three for two days, but it got close at three. We upgraded to a Dometic 976 (5.5gal) and have never filled it on long weekends and several much longer trips with mixed-toilet access. I figure if we're remote enough that we...

OK, I've finished going through the kit. These are all the tools I have removed: As addressed above, the biggest item is the Bogert SafeJack and jackstand kit. Also removed: Redundant sockets, adjustable wrenches, allen sets, channel locks, and fixed screw/torx drivers. Went through the...

Agreed that they're great vans. I love mine. I'm just all about not overstating the plusses. The Van that LiveWorkWander drove was this one, IIRC: https://www.instagram.com/shortcakechronicles/ https://liveworkwander.com/syncro-broken-astro/ But T.Low was doing all kinds of awesomeness with...

I was wondering about that myself. That's certainly higher than anyone I've ever heard report getting. There are a couple of guys on the ASV forums who get between 20-25 with 2WD vans with shorty bodies, with skinny tires and basically empty vans. You're running AWD and VERY tall tires for...

Very cool! I'm intrigued. I'll go search for generic photos of your camper interior, but would love to see photos of yours when you can manage.

It's not got a good connotation in the states, either...

Looks like the top label has specs on it - if you can snap a shot of that, we could help compare the output to other "known" compressors. That said - it's an AC powered compressor, so unless you already have a hefty inverter, and are prepared to accept the loss of efficiency in having to make...

I don't use the BROG bag, but had a similar problem when I was using a knife roll as an "all the utentils" roll. (The problem being not only length but that utensils tended not to "roll up" well since they weren't flat/straight like knives.) I have a mix of folding utensils now - GSI makes a...

She's cooking on the standard butane "catering" burner that several of us have mentioned upthread - the kind they use for the Omelette station at a brunch buffet. They range from ~7k BTUs to ~15k BTUs and $20 to $50. Those grill pans are similarly inexpensive if you have an asian market close...

Yep. Not just tools - anything you wouldn't want your biggest friend to chuck at your head, shouldn't be loose in the vehicle. Half the reason I built the cabinet that houses our Porta Potti was because I got tired of the dance of trying to strap it down with cam loops - easier to slide it...

1st, Maybe your Jeep has better insulation than all of my vehicles, but my hoods definitely get warmer than my roofs (including when I had black colored cars and the black-colored solar panel I have bolted on my van). 2nd, We have plenty of examples from ExPo alone where people have experienced...

Yowza. I'm all for over-building stuff, but using a 120A rated connector set for a fridge which should probably be on a 10A fused circuit seems a bit much. There are other positive-locking electrical connectors in the world... EDIT: And just because it seemed so odd, I looked at it again...

That's a cool rig. I'd buy it, but I'm afraid the Joker would try to hijack the caravan anytime I went anywhere.

We know heat + solar is a bad combination - I fear this may really hurt both the panel's efficiency and its life.

Bumper looks great, but... is it an optical illusion or will the diagonal tabs on the hinge plates foul on the rear doors?