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I've been thinking of adding some inflatable Kayaks to the rig.. I was hesitant on an inflatable and was leaning towards a Canoe or something like PortaBote, but after talking to a couple of my fishing fanatic friends who been using Inflatables for decades they changed my mind.. I was thinking...

very clever, nice work.. thanks for sharing.. Originally I was gonna do an external hookup for the tank like that but last time we went out one of the water containers kinda exploded and got a bunch of blankets wet.. luckily here in Colorado we dried em out in a few hours.. but if that...

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Not really, this is why Chest Deep Freezes are the most efficient.. cold air sinks to the bottom, you open the lid and all the cold air inside stays right where it is, doesn't pour out the front and suck in a bunch of room temp air every time its opened in a big convection like a front opening...

Victron's got some of best documentation out there, its all on their website with detailed spec sheets.. and you can even install the app on your phone and play with virtual units to see what configuration options they got.

You do have one of the rare exceptions where two house banks does make sense, most people try to use em like dual fuel tanks and it dont make sense for battery storage. the all in one units also fail all as one, and cant expand/grow.. Victron's more modular approach would be more suitable for...

So flipped water system design on its head again this weekend, tossing all the previous plans.. Now I'm thinking of getting a 1/4 thick aluminum flat bar, 2-3in wide and spanning these two 16in structural supports on the front of the trailer: Then in the center of that bar, drill through into...

I got a 120lb Pyrenees and Corgi on the floor, plus one of the major justifications of upgrading to a trailer was the capability to just crash and roll, so gotta be able to crawl into bed without unloading the trailer.. and vice versa, load up everything the night before.. then at 4am, carry the...

yeah your doing it wrong if your crimp is distorting the thing your trying to crimp.. every once and a while I might have to bend an anderson with the tool ever so slightly just so it clicks in better, but I've made hundreds of em without issue.. mostly using one of these cheap harbor freight...

you can flip one of the andersons 180 on the solar input so it'll have one pin up and one pin down, the roll pin should still work for holding em in place.

Thats good, most Vans converted to campers dont have any payload left for towing anyhow.. one of my first vans was my dads old conversion van, had a high top and big ole captain chairs and back bench electrically folded into a bed.. once we put good tires on it went just about anywhere, was a...

thats incorrect, most lithium batteries will gladly try to smoke your alternator and themselves in the process.. however many amps they capable of outputting they are capable of absorbing, its a good idea to have something limiting current to 0.4C or whatever your manufacturer stipulates. Check...

the "water resistant" one I picked up from HRO that looks just like that was like potted in place w/epoxy, didnt seem like it could come apart at all.. just crimped pins and pushed em into the back.. was fine since it was just a dual outlet I had no need to change anything up.

So my regulator is why my Propex is giving me issues, damnit.. shoulda known. So the propex is running at ~10.5in, full load w/everything else on its at 10in.. that seems good, however the issue is the "lockup" pressure dont stop rising.. What I've been reading said after shutting all loads off...

If you used the ARB Fridge Wiring Loom it shoulda grossly oversized the conductors that the voltage drop at the fridge is minimal.. the only times it should shut down on you is if your cranking your starter (drags voltage way down) and if you severely over-discharged your battery. I had some...

If the batteries are full you'll pump whatever the panels highest voltage is right into yer BMS and likely foobar something, if they are not full the'll try to charge off it... mebe a couple Diodes to keep one as Input and one as Output, then it wouldent do anything.

yeah they dont come out of that one

Fitted a Swiss Pressure Gauge to the low pressure side, this should make adjustments for the furnace much easier and diagnosing issues in the field like bad regulator, gas leaks, no gas, etc.. NOS deal off ebay for $20 Also painted up all the supports and added a small piece of aluminum...

Iook at it this way, 50lb genset is lighter than a 70lb 100AH battery and weighs about as much as a ~300W house panel.. for an energy supply its pretty good IMO. Load plays a big part in genset noise too, if you get a small sub 1k genset and load it up to 80-100% load its gona be far less...

shrug, almost always holding so its been working so far.. the one time I had a customs agent determined I was holding when I wasn't and they tore my car apart.. kinda wish I had a bowl or something to satisfy him before he wasted a whole day and ruined all my food.. in the end he finally found...