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I was boondocking once deep in the backcountry in early spring, way out of cell coverage and in a box canyon with only one way out, we'd been out for a week or so and saw a fire just over the ridge, went to my D710, sorted all stations by distance, found a guy moving nearby w/his frequency and...

Just throwing it out there, but a KISS approach to this problem is just get a USB power bank and some USB powered lights, I used some of these that could be daisy chained with great success w/a powerbank: https://www.amazon.com/Onite-20-US24USB3W-WW-Warehouse-Emergency-WarmWhite/dp/B00QX096L0...

Ive been doing solo expeditions since I got my Drivers License, always made my mom nervous so as a courtesy I'd find a pay phone and call her every few days to let her know where I was and when I'd check in next, then cell phones came around and I'd shoot her a text anytime I was at a high...

I use APRS for rallying with friends/family, just did this last weekend.. I head out, find a camp site w/out any reservations which means I'll be somewhere but who knows where.. they check my location before they leave cell phone service, if any of em really needa reach me they can send a sms...

This is what I use for my GMRS party use, I really like em.. stupid simple, usb recharging, very small, rugged and good audio and range: https://www.expeditionportal.com/forum/threads/zastone-x6-retevis-rt22.203725/ edit: All my radio lanyards have emergency whistles on em, if you need to...

then you should have another battery to jump off of no? no big house bank, or dual winching setup or solar or genset or none of that? If your gonna try so hard to go someplace nobody's gonna find you for months then I'd have much more self reliance than a jump pack.. but I suppose having quad...

Always have jumper cables even if you got a jump pack.. also keep in mind cold temps kill jump packs, so if your battery is struggling in sub-zero temps the jumper you left in the back is gonna struggle too.. I keep a Jump pack at home charged up, and at work charged up.. but I don't carry one...

Rode nice and solid over Monarch Pass twice, no problem.. and we needed all the solar this last weekend. Used >2kWh Friday and Saturday, was one of my son's birthday so we had a lil party and used the ice maker a bunch during the day when the battery was charged, but once the sun stopped...

4A is only like 48W, into a >200AH battery that's pissing in the ocean.. thats about what your trailer plug is gonna see.. part of the abuse deep cycles take better than starter batteries is going days without a recharge, but all lead chemistries should be recharged to 100% SOC asap for...

Just got back and did a bunch of recon for future trips, Pitkin Campground was almost full thursday night, Gold Creek Dispersed had tent sites available with lots of private property on the way, Middle Quartz only had a couple people, most sites open and tons of dispersed going out to it, and...

nah for house batteries you want true deep cycle, and that basically means fewer, but bigger cells.. they dont dump a ton of amps on demand for the same weight but they take more "abuse" from discharging slowly and recharging infrequently.. True Deep Cycle AGM's are like insanely expensive...

I did mine finally too, had all the stuff laying about and got sick of carrying this monster 325W inside.. need to attach shocks next, but for now my aluminum level does fine. 1/4in thick 2in Aluminum angle used for everything, painted it and used a nylon washer between the two brackets so...

I only use AGM for starter/winch batteries, they okay when you want most amps outta less battery.. but they suck ass for house bank use.. GC2 all the way if that's an option.

assuming your doing portable solar andersons also give the advantage of having one coil of cable you can use for all sorts of things, and have it cut into smaller segments held together w/locking pins retained by a little thread so they dont get lost.. if you bring 100ft of cable but only need...

Ive got a nice die crimper for andersons too, once you adopt it really should get one as it will make life much easier when your putting andersons on in tight spots or making a bunch of em.. a nice wire stripper too.. but when I first started with these well over a decade ago I just ordered the...

You got it wrong, Andersons do 1500 for TIN and 10,000 with Silver conductors.. XT-60 does 1k regardless.. also, I know numbers are hard.. but 1000 vs 1500 is 50% more life, thats considerably more than "not much more" by anyone's metrics.. If you got paid 50% more is that not significant? For...

Yeh doing it backwards, Go get a Deka (and not some MightyMax ********) ETX20L and wire it up to your starter directly, put an isolation relay in em and use the big car battery for your loads and the little battery for starting. Remember with lead based chemistry your usable energy is 50% of spec...

yeah there's a ton of ways to uniquely key up andersons to prevent anyone from accidently plugging the wrong things together, rotating the plugs in all sorts of orientations.. all sorts of colors you can get too (but as you pointed out colorblindness could screw up the best plans).. and when you...

yeah I like that andersons can be keyed and re-keyed on the fly.. If you have a DC input and a DC output from your bank you can make one horizontal and one vertical or vice versa.. good for when you got 2 pigtails coming out of the battery with different voltages for solar and battery, no...