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Holy carp, look at the size of that doghouse! Great van, but how's the foot room on the passenger side? Good thing my wife has small feet! :bike_rider:

The IBS is like most of the other systems out there (including my T-Max), it can't sense "charge flowing", it only monitors the terminal voltage of each battery. As it happens, when something is trying to charge the battery, the terminal voltage will naturally rise, so these systems can sort of...

Photos for 2014 Well, it's been 2+ years and a few more mods since my last set of pictures. Don't want y'all to forget about me. Time for some new pics! Recent changes are mostly hidden (NP233 transfer case swap, water tank, etc.) and I've got a few more changes coming.

Wanted to share some of the highlights of our most recent weekend trip. I was inspired by a the concept of the 36 Hour Adventure. I really resonated with the notion that we can miss lots of great short trips if we focus too much on the long expedition-style trips. Too often lately I'd been...

Mike, IIRC the "plan" is the same, but I imagine the stretched dimensions would make everything feel even more open (although that Hawk already looks spacious).

The Flat-Bed floorplan just makes so much sense to me. Am I correct in assuming one could fit a porta-potti (or better yet a fixed cassette toilet) into the cabinet space to the right of the door as you enter? Sleeping for 2+1 and a porta potti ticks the right boxes for my family. If this had...

Yeah, I'm covered for cooked foods. We do everything from grilling to dutch oven to "al cartoccio" (That's I-talian for "Hobo pack"). Mostly looking for on-trail lunch ideas, stuff we can eat during a dayhike, since it's harder to feed the picky 4-year-old. I do like the idea of turning...

Partial Zero Emissions Vehicle - it's just advertising the relative cleanliness of the engine.

The connection from solar controller to battery should be fused anyhow, so as long as you have a free slot on the fuse block, why not use it as an input? Otherwise you've got this nice tidy block of fuses for your loads, but a separate inline fuse for the controller? My OCD doesn't like that...

Got these Harbor Freight solar stakes on a whim while shopping with my daughter. I'm proud to say we've gotten 2+ years of happy use from them. There have been few items that have brought the same ratio of toddler-glee to dollars. Usually a pair of them get tie-wrapped to the awning legs or...

Yep. Butane for ease. Use the propane adapter when needed. I only pack white gas now when I KNOW I'm going someplace REALLY cold.

Also, double check w/ your Autohome dealer (Mike S?), but I thought that the preference was for 2 crossbars only, assuming the load rating works out. I seem to remember 3+ cross bars not being optimal because there's a chance you end up with a less-than-perfectly-flat surface (due to curving...

Fair question. Astro/Safari guys are getting to a lot of out-of-the-way places and doing some cool stuff on 31" tires...

I just posted a short thread on how I did mine: http://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/124689-My-locking-solar-panel-roof-rack Short-short version: Frame-made of Aluminum C-channel, suspended from my roof basket:

I debated between the Family and Food fora for this, settled on the Chef's area: So I've spent years improving how I eat when hiking and backpacking, and eventually overlanding. I've got a hoard of recipes perfect for the foodie in the wilderness. I can have a fancy 3-course meal on a day...

Not in my experience. For a long time I was using an old cellphone to play music and run an "augmented reality" game while jogging. (Game plays story audio and uses GPS to track your speed and prompt you to react to imaginary threats while running). When used with data plan, the app would lock...

Yep. I have a pair for the front windows on my Astro. Very convenient to stick on, very easy to store. Nice to use in warm weather camping as we get decent flow-through if both the front windows and pop-top window-flaps are open.

http://www.overlandvans.com/ - Lift kits for Chevy Astro/GMC Safari vans, plus a few parts for fullsize Chevy/GMC vans http://www.astrosafarivans.com - Astro/Safari specific forum with dedicated info on 4WD conversions, lift-kits, and off-road use. Good DIY resource.

OK DiploStrat, you've convinced me. I'll leave the system to operate in "automatic" mode and learn to ignore the periodic clack of the solenoid as the T-Max couples and un-couples the starting battery in response to the output from the Sunsaver. I may sit down with a meter at some point and...

A second, isolated battery is really the best/only protection. You'll find the reason people don't use those peltier-style coolers more is that they're terribly inefficient, making a proper battery system all the more important Sent from my Nexus 5 using Tapatalk