Search results

  1. dreadlocks

    Kenwood Installation Cable extension question

    How are you gonna hear anyone calling for you when your music is playing? you need more than an amp to get one to mute the other on activity.. just hide a speaker under the dash, a speaker for voice is gonna do a ******** job at music and vice versa.. Ive got over 20 speakers in my vehicle from the...
  2. dreadlocks

    Kenwood Installation Cable extension question

    If you only plug in one speaker it gets both sides of the radio, if you plug in 2 speakers each one geta a tuner dedicated to it.. You cant stream music over HAM so yeah keep that seperate.
  3. dreadlocks

    DIY Lithium Packs, Proposal and Discussion

    You can fire up the free version of eagle, put in the dimensions of your favorite project box, draw out a board and send it off to OSHPark and in a few weeks you'll have 3 boards in your mailbox for a few bucks if you wanna whip out something more designed for your needs.. could get 3 hand made...
  4. dreadlocks

    DIY Lithium Packs, Proposal and Discussion

    what solar charger are you using? I know with my Victron 100/30 & 50 they sell this doodad that would work great w/BMS: https://www.victronenergy.com/cables/ve-direct-non-inverting-remote-on-off-cable
  5. dreadlocks

    Another VW Bus thread

    yeah i was inspired by clyde and its chevy v8 for the cooling solution, front mount is the way to go.. too much kludgery and overheating issues with rear and under mounted rads.. I think I know of the dude in KS, I think his fist melt down was failed cooling kludgery, he tried dual rear mounted...
  6. dreadlocks

    Another VW Bus thread

    oh I'm pretty sure it'll be enough if its front mounted with actual airflow on it.. its getting a 110hp 4cyl diesel engine that could run just fine off a Honda Prelude "half sized" radiator, which is roughly the same dimensions, just not as thick of a core or a dual pass radiator like that...
  7. dreadlocks

    Another VW Bus thread

    You've already got an 091 right? If you get the mexican bellhousing & input shaft you can bolt up just about any 4cyl VAG motor you want and not have clearance issues on back side of the motor.. its a few inches longer and pushes the motor back far enough so all those coolant flanges and crap...
  8. dreadlocks

    Confirm my ‘basic’ understanding of single-dual batt set up comparison

    So a jump start thats smaller than your 2 big house batteries can start it but if you took the battery out of the jump start and wired it up it wont? yeah thats not how this works.. This lil bad boy will often output 2x its rated CCA, which is probably as much as one of your batteries now...
  9. dreadlocks

    Confirm my ‘basic’ understanding of single-dual batt set up comparison

    yeah not really, in that case you make both big batteries a house bank and toss in a little deka AGM racing/cycle/mower battery for starting.
  10. dreadlocks

    Limited Slip Differential vs. Traction Control

    Electronic Diff Locks (EDL Traction Control) dont do anything until the mechanical diffs have done all they can do, if your wheel up in the air and the diffs try to send power to the free wheel it senses the wheel's speed and applies the abs pump to just that one wheel and allowing the diff on...
  11. dreadlocks

    Confirm my ‘basic’ understanding of single-dual batt set up comparison

    the problem is you have 55AH @ a 20h discharge rate, not a 5min rate.. thats much less: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peukert's_law The Yellow line is most FLA batteries, so on this 120Ah battery has less than half that capacity at 50A, half that again and you got 25AH to work with on a 50A...
  12. dreadlocks

    Confirm my ‘basic’ understanding of single-dual batt set up comparison

    engine running does help, but it dont take much winch to overload most OEM alternators at idle.. especially as the winches heat up with extended use..
  13. dreadlocks

    winch for trailer loading and (rare, if ever) trail use...

    High Amp Andersons, and either welding cable on cheap end or marine grade tinned on the buy once, cry once side.
  14. dreadlocks

    Confirm my ‘basic’ understanding of single-dual batt set up comparison

    Dual Battery setups can provide an advantage over a singular battery setup when it comes to winching, as loads go up the usable stored power goes down with lead chemistry, a dual battery setup splits this heavy load in half reducing wear/heat on the bank and increases winching capacity.
  15. dreadlocks

    Window tint

    yeah that was back when my dad ran his own concrete company, we didnt have medical insurance.. a couple polaroids were much cheaper than a doctors visit.. so dishonest or not, whatever.. it was not even local. and she's bleach blond and blue eyes, good guess heh.
  16. dreadlocks

    Window tint

    Sir, you're under arrest for resisting arrest..
  17. dreadlocks

    Window tint

    its not universal, but in many states the equipment requirements are specifically for vehicles registered in that state.. so technically, there kinda is.. sometimes.. it would be a fallacy to make the assumption outright tho.
  18. dreadlocks

    Window tint

    Given the context of this comment, is an interesting court ruling: https://caselaw.findlaw.com/us-4th-circuit/1004800.html
  19. dreadlocks

    Window tint

    Oh they can cite you for anything, now if it'll hold water is another thing.. Way back in the 90's my mom caught a fix-it ticket for window tint, I drove around the local college campus for 10mins and found an identical car to hers w/out window tint.. snapped a photo from both sides, she mailed...
Top