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Yes it is, no issues whatsoever...I can whole-heartedly recommend it. I think the main gain in Cu Ft is the greater depth in all but the lower area where the compressor, power supply and fan are located...and not losing space at the top behind the Norcold control panel. It's a toss up between...

True, you can dump a lot in up to around 80%, but it's that last 20% that you need to get in there to not greatly reduce AGM battery capacity. They really do need to be brought up to 100% charge regularly and aren't really a good fit for a system that doesn't have a good means to bring them to...

The only question I'd have about this is your battery choice...and it seems you've got more battery space than I do in my Lance 815. Why not a 100AH Lithium...you'd have the same (or more) useable power with only 30% of the weight and half the space. The price of those two AGM batteries is 60%...

Earlier this year I bought an AT&T IFWA-40 Wireless Hotspot to use at home and on the road. Where I live, my max wired DSL speed is about 7Mbs download and around 756Kbs upload speed...pitiful, I know. The problem is I'm a long way from the nearest AT&T hub and that's the best they can do over...

No, my goal was to not have to carry extra extension cords. I sometimes stop overnight at a friend's place or at a "Boondockers Welcome" host when traveling cross-country and like to have at least 100' of extension cords with me to reach an outlet. I carry a 50' 10ga and 2 25', 12ga...

John, I'm fully aware of need for codes and regulations when it comes to safety and reliability of engineered systems, but I'm also capable of making an informed "engineering" decision to arrive at a cost effective, flexible solution for a very specific situation using readily available...

The howls of stupid was meant about the use of AC extension cords...and the "potential" for someone (not me) inadvertently plugging something into an AC receptacle at some point. Since I'm using them in "reverse", with the male end of the extensions being "hot", the only damage that could be...

Late to this discussion, but I faced a similar dilemma with my truck camper that was pre-wired with an SAE connector on the roof as shown in the OP's original post. I have two 100W panels mounted to the camper roof and two additional panels that I can deploy in a sunny location if needed. I...

Duh! Of course, goes without saying, but not having a selection of small, 110V reefers sitting around my shop that was not an option, now was it? Perhaps I should have stated it explicitly, but I was speaking in terms of finding said information readily available on the internet at places...

It's hard to find power consumption values for the small 110V units, but the one I did find was 150 watts for a 3.2 CU.FT. model. That's 3x what my 4.2 CU.FT. unit draws. If you have the power to spare, it's certainly not a bad way to go, given that most of these type units sell for $200 or...

If you look at individual mtbf values on most equipment as an overall system, it's the mechanical items that generally have the lowest mtbf values of all the components that make up a system. If I get a wild hair I may see if I can get a glimpse of the mfr and model number of the fan in use on...

Those numbers align very well with what I've measured on my 4.2 cu.ft. Vitrifrigo unit the I installed in my Lance 815 about a year and a half ago. When the unit first starts up, I see about 4.1A current draw and within a couple minutes, it drops to around 3.7A until the end of the cycle...

Your situation is not entirely unlike one I faced with my own truck camper rig over the last few years, though yours seems to have a lower overall power requirement due to not running a refrigerator. I went with LFP and I'd do it again, given my space constraints and desire to keep it simple...

Coming into this late and what I'm relating is my experience with a 5'x9' trailer that I recently extended the tongue on so as to allow the mounting of my truck tool box ahead of the front fence of the trailer. The original axle to coupler distance was 104" with 48" of that distance being from...

From what little I've been able to glean regarding charge/discharge curves for LC batteries, yeah, you can draw them way down without killing them, but they don't have a mostly flat discharge curve down to the last 10% or less as LFP do. So you can run them down to 0% SOC... what good is the...

You've nailed it...as I touch on in the thread I posted a couple days ago, the biggest advantage for my situation, is the potential to charge LFP safely, in a hurry, without substantial long term degradation. Someone show me their 80-100AH (useable) FLA system that they can put 50-75AH into in...

Over the last 4+ years I've been working through the challenges of getting my rig better suited for extended off-grid camping with the goal being limited only by water and food supplies and not having to run my truck or generator other than in very rare circumstances. I've learned a lot from...

A data point with regards to background draw in my particular camper (Lance 815). In my case, background draw is 1.2 watts...that's with the refrigerator off and no 12V DC devices plugged in, other than things that are hard-wired as part of the camper, ie, monitor panel, wireless jack control...

I have been using a Battleborn 100Ah battery for a while now and I see about 13.32V when fully charged with no or very minimal load. When my solar system is charging the BB battery, I'll see voltages up to just below 14.5V just before the solar charge controller curtails charging. From the...