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Problem - the latches on my under-body lockers can be jammed by the contents of the locker shifting and preventing the latch from opening. This happened last weekend - I was able to pry the other end open a bit and poke in a long stick to shift the object in the way, but it could be serious...

I realise you weren't trying to give exact numbers, but you would need one hell of a big tyre to get a footprint 40" long. Even at minimum pressure the footprint length is not going to be any more than maybe 1/2 of the tyre diameter at max. The pressure inside the tyre is always going to be...

Yes, being able to read a weather forecast. That country is impassable to anything when wet.

Depending on what quotes you get it might be worth asking yourself if you need insurance. I've made the choice to self-insure my rather high value overland vehicle (other than for third party liability, which is dirt cheap) since I don't see the value in paying out around 2.5% of the vehicle's...

Great to hear it's all going well. We saw your rig being built last year when we were at the factory putting in our order, and finally got a confirmed date yesterday for the delivery of our truck - the 20th - just 13 sleeps to go!! Apparently the order book at SLRV is so full now they are...

It's actually pretty easy. Going from 12VDC to 40VDC isn't inversion (an inverter converts DC to AC.) But, while there is no technical reason why a lithium powertool battery couldn't be charged from 12V with a DC-DC step up power supply, there are practical difficulties - e.g. charge control...

With that much rear overhang the 4x4 will get little use. I suspect the departure angle will be a single digit :-)

Firstly, Airplane Mode on a WiFi device does very little, by default it turns off WiFi and Bluetooth but you can turn those back on and still be in Airplane mode (I'm typing this on a WiFi Android tablet in Airplane mode.) On a cellular device Airplane mode will turn off the cell transceiver...

Not that it has much to do with the quality of today's products, but in fact WiFi was invented in Australia. The CSIRO patented it in the early '90s. Australia is good at inventing stuff, not so good at commercialising it. The Netherlands is home to not only Victron, but also Mastervolt - the...

I'm a bit confused about what you are doing (and I've never heard the term windoor before, though I assume it's some kind of a cross between a window and a door) but if you are suggesting that you install a y-cable with one branch left unconnected most of the time, and then you will plug into...

Someone else's Jeep.

Spinning disks in a laptop? That's so last-century.

Oh, and the protection against reversed polarity is not relevant here - that would only come into play if you swapped positive and ground.

Only if you wired the changeover on the input to the charger. That also should do no harm because the charger has to be able to cope with having a battery on its output without any power on its input. It's the same reason you can wire multiple chargers (e.g. DC-DC, solar, mains) in parallel to...

It would probably do no harm, but it would be best to use a changeover switch (so that the charger was disconnected) to avoid the problem. The other issue is what do you expect to happen when the service battery is switched in parallel with the vehicle battery? Are you intending using a big...

My reasons were price, size (did not have much room to fit it) and the fact I could DIY. At least here in Oz any gas install needs to be done by a licensed gasfitter to be legal.

Not really. I put a heater in my slide-on - it's a Chinese Eberspacher clone that came with a 10 litre tank which I mounted at the rear. That lasts quite a long time. It puts out a massive amount of heat at full bore, when it throttles down to minimum it's barely audible so I'm pretty happy...

Well north I suspect. I know someone who just took delivery of a Bruder and tows it with a 79 series Landcruiser (not the one in the picture) and the Cruiser alone has nearly $200K in it.

I can understand why someone might think that but it's never going to happen unless you were to use a truly humungous controller with a power rating exceeding the alternator rating. To explain: MPPT controllers work by varying the impedance presented to the supply in order to find the sweet...

The specs on the fridge are suspect. It's said to draw "1.1 Amp per hour" which I assume is meant to mean that its average power draw is 1.1 Amps (there is no such thing as "amps per hour".) The battery is quoted as being 42Ah so 1.1 amps average it should last about 38 hours or so if you run...