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Based on everything I’ve been taught on Arctic exposure/survival and from personal experience you can’t get frostbite if the ambient temp is above freezing, regardless of a windchill value. You will absolutely lose heat faster but the exposed skin won’t drop below the ambient temperature and...

They don’t though. It is not possible to cool through natural means below the ambient air temperature. If the ambient temperature is 35° with 50mph wind (windchill 18°F) you will not get frostbite. The same way your batteries or floor will not get below 35°.

@Martinjmpr you can swap the trailer’s onboard AC/DC converter for fairly cheap in about 30 minutes. I did that in order to have it be lithium compatible and saw 35amp charging from shore and generator power.

Do the lessons to get a good baseline introduction and feel for it and then buy a Catalina 22. Small enough to easily handle but large enough to teach good sailing habits and have people along with you fairly comfortably.

One caveat - it’s charging not discharging that challenges lithiums in cold weather. I had no issues running everything in my trailer (to include instantaneous 100+ amp draw to start my onboard generator) even with -20°F cold soaked lithiums.

I like the truck. Looks like a good combination of modern but not over the top and maintains a lot of mechanical input rather than relying on just one big touchscreen. Range extender variant solves a lot of concerns with range and charger availability for rural areas or longer off-road trips...

Not at all in my experience when there is a decent breeze. The cooling effect of moving air over and around the surface outweighs the radiant heating from the sun.

That’s basically what I said. The batteries (and their housing if applicable) will cool faster with the added convective cooling caused by the presence of wind rather than just conductive and radiated cooling in a no wind situation.

Tell the kids they’re on their own for college and go take your trip. They only have a 60% chance of graduating while you’d have a 100% chance of the experience of a life time. Spend their booze money on your trip.

Wind will cause whatever it is to lose heat faster than without wind so the time to cool will be faster and the time to heat will be longer. It’s still a valid concern.

I saw that choice as a benefit actually. While they took longer to begin charging the next day I didn’t lose up to 600wh (half an 100ah battery) overnight keeping the battery warm for charging when I wasn’t trying to charge anyway (no sun).

That’s how most heated lithium batteries function. They use input charging power to heat themselves rather than stored power. You have the same limitation I described - at night when temperatures drop and the batteries cold soak there is no input solar charge and you probably won’t be running...

My assumption was you’d be mounting them on the exterior of a trailer where they’d be exposed to cold temperatures. If you put them inside the heated cabin area then self heating would not be a requirement. The Renogy batteries use 50wh to power the heaters but if there is no incoming charge...

Keep in mind that self heating requires constant input of power in order to heat. On cold winter nights in Colorado my self heating lithiums wouldn’t begin charging until around noon each day after several hours of solar input to power the heaters. During extended 0° periods the batteries...

I don’t want to have to explain to people why I was out in the woods Moonlanding with my buddies.

To be fair he’s talking about that cost/range in a LMTV. With a diesel LMTV getting about 6mpg that’s a cost of $616 to go 1000 miles (paid $3.69 for diesel yesterday).

It’s not that complicated. A house has electricity already and in many areas they all have electric stoves. Induction is just a more efficient version. Many travel trailers are built with solar panels and batteries more than capable of running induction stoves. On a lot of modern trailers/RVs...

I saw that. Nice looking bike, hopefully the rebuild was a thorough as it looks and all the 40 year old wiring/sensors/components were replaced. I can see the appeal of a nice, simple bike for the traveling she does.

If you get a 2500 make sure it's a gas engine. With a diesel you're right back in 1/2 ton payload capacities.