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Now if they would just make this style, 9 foot bed! Too bad I lost it in a divorce :(

It's not really the yaw of the trailer I'm concerned about, it's going through deep trenches or over high humps in the road. I do have a max coupler on my trailer.

led strip lights can be attached just about anywhere, most of them have adhesive backing which I have found to not be very sticky. So you need to find alternative ways of helping them stay attached. But they do put out a considerable amount of light with minimal current draw.

It's 107F inside the trailer today, I got the problem solved! Made a couple of plenums inside the cabinets and added a nice big ball bearing computer fan to draw cool(er) air from the floor and exhaust it out the voids at the top of the cabinets.. The fridge is below 30 without any signs of...

I have had one on my truck for many years with absolutely no problems. The oil pan on my truck is high enough that only running over small standing trees would scrub it off. It seems like it could not open by itself but I have installed a small spring type hose clamp over the release lever.

haha ****** is current drop????? A reduction of current flow will be only be caused by a reduction of voltage or increase of resistance. I=E/R. If R=0 you would have infinite current. I'm not even going to look at this ridiculous thread any more.

In America the convention is current flows - to +, Europe the conventional thinking is + to -. How does it get from solar - to solar + ? through the battery otherwise there will be no current flow through the battery to charge it. What makes it flow? Difference of potential, voltage. Consider...

Don't be so dense. You guys are all wrong! If there is no difference in potential (voltage) there will be NO current flow. How difficult is that to understand? AS far as crimping or soldering, it all depends on the terminals that you are using.

So let me get this straight ... you are saying there is something magic in a pv system that makes no voltage developed across a resistor (the wire) when there is current flowing through it? YOU ARE WRONG.

So here's another way of looking at it: As long as there is current flowing through a resistor there will be a voltage developed across that resistor which will subtract from the source voltage. There is no way of getting around the laws of physics. If the controller is an MPPT it can output...

Even if there is no controller there will still be less voltage at the battery than at the solar panel. (No one is talking about what is happening inside the controller PWM or MPPT, we are talking voltage drop across the wires going to the controller) In this case current will be limited buy...

Are you disputing this schematic? .02 ohm wire with 10 amp flowing will cause a .2 volt drop across the + and - wire. Because if you are then there is no use talking to you any more.

You don't have a clue what you're talking about. All conductors have some resistance, any current flow through a resistance will cause a voltage drop. As stated in my previous two posts you can see that 10 amps through a 12 or 10 ga wire will have a voltage drop of somewhere around 2/10 of a...

That depends on the charger, smart chargers would not work well for powering devices unless connected to a battery while a simple transformer/rectifier type would work fine.

Amps has everything to do with voltage drop, keeping wire the same size, double the current you will double the voltage drop. I=E/R . In other words E=IR where I is current, R is resistance and E is voltage. Simple basic electrical theory.

Voltage drop is inversely proportional to wire diameter and directly proportional to current flow. 20 feet of #12 wire @ 10 amps = .32 voltage drop 20 feet of #10 wire @ 10 amps = .2 volts So you can see there is really not much to worry about when sizing wire unless you have hundreds or...

4' of #12 wire has a resistance of about .006 ohms so that is not your problem. It's probably the connectors or the "new" battery.

All optima's with dark cases are dual purpose and light colored cases are true deep cycle. I have two light colored case blue top optima's for my trailer with two 100 solar panels to keep the charged up and run lights after dark. The only thing using current in the day is a Engle MT27 fridge...

Adjust or replace the bearings and seals.....cheaper and easier than a new axle.

I personally hate logos on all my stuff and remove as many as possible. I'm not going to advertise products for free!