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even w/all this solar I still need the genset from time to time, its not a panacea for long term boondocking.. but if your just needing short bursts it can do the job... considering the cost and weight of more battery, the genset made more sense. lets put it this way, I go spend big money on...

I love the brake check station on pikes peak, gets all the minivans and everyone off the road infront of me and the rest of the way down I can pretend I'm doing the hill climb in reverse... but I know how to descend a mountain unlike all the tourists traveling that road. Worst I've had was...

I've been using it as a shore charger for nearly a year now.. its not gone up in a cloud of smoke if thats what your asking.. I'm also far from the only one doing this w/a Victron Smart Solar, I found dozens of other people doing same thing I am with a lil bit of google-****... IIRC there's a...

I'm not sure explore dimensions, sorry.. a 75/15 is not big enough, my 325W solar panels will output ~27A charge current, nearly double what that SC can output.. would be a huge waste... nominal PV wattage for a 75/15 is 220W

I can use a handheld to talk to a repeater ontop of a mountain 20 miles away.. with 5W, so its completely capable of long range communications.. once you put one end a few thousand feet higher than the other end. Ive been driving up a pass talking to my brother on a 2W GMRS handheld >10 miles...

Once your over the Horizon w/out Line of Sight, you will loose communications on VHF, UHF, and everything but HF that you skip off the earth's atmosphere.. You literally put the planet between you and the person on the other end, you aint gonna get a signal through the earth unless yo butt so...

electrons are electrons, its fine.. I'm not sure how a static power supply could could cause a SC to not be fine, if it can take a variable device like a solar panel, why wont it take a static one like a psu. It does foobar my solar generation stats entirely.. oh well.

Yeah this is not a problem of wattage, but the horizon.. 50W aint gonna get VHF over the horizon: https://www.qsl.net/w4sat/horizon.htm Unless you put an antenna on a mast, a handheld nor mobile is not going to do much for range despite how many watts you dump into the lake.

yeah me too.. love ebay finds, scored tons of great deals over the last, leme check.. ******** 20 years. ok so I'm months away from my ebay account being old enough to drink, I think my gmail account already is.. aint no school like old school I guess.

there's nothing really to solve, the thing is if you take an electric motor and start spinning it manually it turns into a generator naturally.. the complicated bit is a singular brake lever that applies regenerative braking before applying mechanical braking.. suppose you could just add another...

yeah just use em for part numbers then go over to fle-bay and find some scrapper selling em for pennies.. I got a whole bunch of 8in axial AC fans for my server cabinets for nothing out of an e-waste pile at work.. they still working great 10y later, really well built.

Mebe one of these Wet Location fans: https://www.grainger.com/category/hvac-and-refrigeration/cooling-fans/equipment-cooling-axial-fans/compact-axial-fans/round-compact-axial-fans Can you go into the side of the AC housing at all to recess it with something like...

I suppose I do, the whole whopping 0.5v of either my 60v panel or 48v power supply at full rated load.. which seems to have negligible impact since both are capable of tapping out my solar charger at max output.. its not like my Solar Panels have 4 of these things built into it, oah wait.. it...

Here's how I'm doing it: First of all Solar panels and Shore Supply are isolated by two diodes so they can be wired up together at the same time: This is the power supply I'm feeding it: And here's the charge profile of my Lithium battery through it, holding max amps the whole way..

If your using the SC for both Solar and Shore charging, there is money to be saved.. Say I already got my $320 50A VictronSmart Solar, I got a nice high end medical grade 750W 48v DC Power Supply, with PFC and Global Voltage Inputs for a whopping $60 and now I got 50A Fully Programmable, Remote...

Whats the noise level like inside?

With a 0.025A load (25mA) You'll lose ~20AH a month, just enough so that when you park it in October it's gonna be deeply discharged come April when you check on it again.. assuming its Lithium, when it comes to lead chemistry, storing it at anything but 100% SOC is bad for it, so its gonna be...

on average humans are capable of creating about 50-150W with vigorous exercise, so if you took half of that for recharging the battery and the other half for moving the bike slower.. it'd be nothing, the wall charger for those are like 600W+ and it still takes way longer to charge than you would...

yeah MPPT can overload the psu if its undersized, once of the nice things about Victron SmartSolar is they have programmable current output to stay under your power supply.. if one were shopping for a power supply for this task on LFP I'd suggest shooting for a PSU that puts the controller right...

download the RepeaterBook App to yer phone, gives you an offline database you can reference on the go... I also keep a physical paperback copy in my rig just incase.