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looks like just the bottom, should be plenty

just treat it as an isolated system, should be getting ground from its charge source.. and everything running off it should be getting ground off the battery directly.

If your wanting cabin heating a thermosiphon setup is not gonna be adequate, you'll need a circulation pump to get the flow rates needed for good heat, and then it dont really matter where you put it inline in the loop as the circulation pump will take care of that.. probably between the engine...

your hood is a nice ground plane and you can see if anything is gonna knock the antenna off.. but seems more suited for that kinda scrubby desert environment where most foliage goes under the vehicle not over it.. any thick woodland environment that needed branch risers for would just expose it...

Sure Chassis is fine, the charge source (alternator) is block/chassis grounded.. Adding some redundancy may be wise. Sure Sure No, always fuse at the battery.

If properly cycled Lithium cells will last for 15 years on Mars (>5k cycles), imagine how long you could get em to last here with a more friendly environment.. follow the suggested guidelines, at 0.4C charge rate you can get em from totally flat to full in 2.5h, which is already absurdly fast...

LiFePo4 Cells should not be charged more than 0.4C rate if you want em to last, this is standard industry knowledge.. They will however take far, far more than that charge rate if you do not limit it.. if you hook up a 50A DC-DC charger to a LFP battery it will charge at 50A regardless if thats...

its like a wiki, its up to everyone to provide updated information.. the app syncs every 2 weeks, the website is like 48h to get changes approved.. lots of people just walk away and never let anyone know the repeater's down until someone comes and reports its gone.. so not much yeh can do about...

Any lead battery Fully Discharged (50% SOC) will take 7-8h to recharge at full rate.. A fully discharged LFP battery takes ~2.5h to recharge at its fastest "safe" rate, but it'll take more than that and charge even quicker if u give it enough power. The biggest difference for...

Yeah you and your wife could get amateur licenses and try to use local repeater infrastructure, we HAM's tend to stick repeaters up high over most popular recreational areas.. However you guys will be guests on some one elses setup, so be very respectful when using em for personal comms and if...

Would be very simple to plug a handheld into a masthead antenna.. you simply need a handheld w/a detachable antenna, and either an adapter or have the feedline terminated in the connector the handheld uses.. If there's a HamRadioOutlet, or any local ham-clubs near you, check em their tackboard...

I think QSL is using the radio horizon, not the optical horizon.. If you put in 5ft, it shows 3 miles.. antenna height is the limiting factor on range here, not power, and since he's on the water its not like he can go climb a hill to gain some elevation.

GenuineDealz makes good stuff, when it gets to the heavy gauge I've not been able to justify it cost of a crimper.. even after tons of jobs, the quality of crimps and cable from sources like them would be expensive to recreate.. I'm not looking for speaker wire or welding cable normally so...

experiment some, I dont even keep mine that low, right at freezing is were I sit and frozen stuff stays frozen and nothing else freezes, love beer chilled down to 0C.. but each setup is different in how it cycles and stuff.. my engel keeps it right at set temp and dont cycle between 8 degrees...

12.2v is ~60% SOC, thats pretty deep for a starter battery.. those normally sit >90% SOC, dont expect a long life out of it if you do this regularly.. deep cycle batteries only go down to ~50% SOC.. this plus always being able to start are why so many are running a house battery.

it dont mention it but on the photos it looks like its got a water port no? Top row left to right is 120V detachable power cord (gotta store that), SAE port for Solar, and CableTV hookup.. then below looks like one of these next to the battery vent...

yeah I got lucky, it was hard to find it even listed, then I hadda travel quite a distance.. when I showed up the dealer specialized in tear drops and lil trailers, this was biggest thing on the lot and they were happy to be rid of it.. then every other one for sale I had been watching vanished...

nope, usually next model year shows up at dealer lots at end of season typically.. MSRP for mine was $28k in 2018, got it for $21k as new old stock because it sat on a dealers lot for a year w/nobody interested in it.. Didnt own it a month before they discontinued the discover, I suspect they...

use the insert media function, if you hardlink things on this site you have to manually underline em yer self (super damn annoying)

yeah I documented the bigg differences in the spec sheet between mine and the new one already over here: https://expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/nobo-10-6-vs-intech-explore.197082/page-6#post-2823934 Looks like they shave a ton of weight, and overall GVWR without dramatically dropping the...