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    Overland Trailer Build

    Good move, if you don't need the extra clearance for sure the easiest way to lock the two sides in to be /stay parallel as well as rigidity against torque flexing. Read the data / install sheet, watch the videos etc from etrailer too before you think all done The triangulation off the ball...
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    New trailer- Powder or Paint

    The Timbrens being cross-braced by that not-an-axle tube in the first pic eliminates the need for added framing or heroic gusseting at the individual mount locations. Reduces the clearance a bit too though. OP, are you extending that tube through the Timbren unit like an outrigger? Doesn't...
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    Overland Trailer Build

    Bike racks Extra carry frame for wheelchair/scooter cooler, gas cans.
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    Overland Trailer Build

    Bike racks Extra carry frame for wheelchair/scooter cooler, gas cans.
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    Cots talk

    Can any of these work without the legs, suspended from some sort of "shelf framing" Rather, I realize likely any can but do any particularly lend themselves to being adapted that way. Keeping the original use case as well, perhaps just depending on the weather, or how much of the fam is along...
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    Advice Propane size for heater Alucab Canopy Camper

    A Master bottle of standard 20# BBQ size is the most practical if you're burning any amount regularly. Cheap steel, easy to swap out if it gets beat up. Then the smaller fancy portable aluminum sizes, collect at reasonable pricing as you find them. 1lb refillable, even the smaller hiking...
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    If you get say a Sterling BB DCDC unit setup to make a given bank happy just feed all other sources through it.
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    The usual best practice with trying to hit a specific endAmps range is trial and error using whatever AHT algo offered, until you measure it's holding long enough then just checking every say 20 cycles to verify still on track. The ability of the automated charge regulator to actually control...
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    Second Alternator Charging Lithium Battery Bank

    Of course the specific wiring varies by alt type. Note, I was not here talking about any killswitch idea but the scenario where the big LFP House bank gets taken offline, isolated by other control circuits while the alt is continuing to make power available to other perhaps now much smaller...
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    You mean AC-DC? Sterling Power ProCharge Ultra and ProMariner Pronautic P series
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    A charger that doesn't even drop to Float is not suitable for lead batts IMO. Volts are volts, amps are amps. A good charger accepts custom user adjustments to match the target battery profile. Automotive chargers are not, if you choose your battery to match their output then you are OK, but...
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    Dual battery maintainer with ‘smart’ isolator and daily driving.

    I admit I skimmed only, so will pontificate in generalities, do what you like. Low amp sources are only suitable for maintenance not replenishing a rig cycling deep. AGM units need **high amps** at the right voltage for longevity as well as (separate specs) very regular recharging to TRUE...
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    Axle Confusion

    That is of course an excellent point. The bigger picture for me in retrospect is not so one-dimensional. What the axle-less suspension frees up in design thinking to me is, **any** fixed relationship between the height of the longitudinal main frame beams and the clearance height of the...
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    Semi urgent truck selection help needed

    if not stepladder, hoisting handles
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    2002 GMC 3500 AKA Juggernaut

    just needs a little pivot
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    2002 GMC 3500 AKA Juggernaut

    art project
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    Second Alternator Charging Lithium Battery Bank

    No. Current does not flow "through" paralleled banks where one could be a bottleneck for the other. Your depleted LFP pack can be pulling 180A while the cheap lead batt is sitting pulling nothing, or half an amp. Lead is self regulating will not pull a current amount so great as to cause...
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    Second Alternator Charging Lithium Battery Bank

    A cheap lead batt hard wired to alt output is fine for a load dump
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    2002 GMC 3500 AKA Juggernaut

    What an unbelievable score even if you paid for a New crate engine, new diff tranny and converted to 4*4 or at least a Detroit locker will still be great value
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    Brass vs metal bolts in an electric system

    AFAIK NO-OX-ID "A Special" is dielectric not conductive Or did you mean another product? I am in fact looking for electrically conductive "grease" or paste, even adhesive. Suggestions welcome
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