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16A for that Norcold, oh hell no.. you could run 4 of these Engels with that power envelope: https://engelcoolers.com/collections/powered-fridge-freezers/products/sr70-rv-camping-fridge LP fridges are made to run off LP or 120VAC primary, the 12VDC is just for driving down the road and they...

You should nail down that bank size, a 400AH LFP bank @ 0.4C is 160A, 160A * 12V = 1920W, you could run this through a Honda EU2200 Companion w/30A plug and a 20A circuit on the charger, but that genset is gonna be wound up to 100% load, so you can kiss quietness goodbye.. you do know you can...

How Big is this Lithium Bank again? Charger Size is gonna be dictated by that.. and with LFP you really wanna charger that has current limiting capabilities, because that bank will take pretty much whatever you give it, healthy or not. 0.4C is typically the target charge rate for LFP, and if...

Kenwood TK-380 he mentions is a 1lb brick with its little nicad battery that provides a whopping 8h of battery, motorola too.. my $16 Zastone weighs less than a 1/4lb and its lithium battery lasts 3 day weekend easy as pie.. I used to use something similar, none of my users wanted to carry em...

the handhelds are big heavy crappy bricks by today's standards, thats what I used to use before China radios hit the scene.. if you need a radio you can beat someone to death with, sure.. but they really dont offer much more.. I use a couple of the Kenwood Mobiles for my repeater but that was...

I do 2m/70cm and GMRS off one antenna.. you dont need to add one, just mars/cap mod your dual bander and get a nice wideband antenna for it like the Comet CA-2x4SRNMO

sure, connectors induce more loss than that amount of wiring, so as long as its not too short it should be okay.. I'd think that should be plenty long enough to get from the back of a crew cab to the front drivers area, if you go under the headliner even less.. more importantly what kinda coax...

Those are the same connections bro, one is Male the other is female.. all you need to do is join em together.

lol yeah I hadn't felt that woozie since my wife had a C-Section and I stood up and saw over the curtain accidently.. I was just using my angle iron a buttload to cut up aluminum angle, crouched down on the ground and grinding inbetween my legs, omg never gonna do that again.. think I'll start...

I could see both a 3L Defender 110 and a 2.3L Bronco 2dr 7MT in my fleet down the road.. Defender for me, Bronco for my Wife.. I need space/payload, towing, power, and comfort for the long hauls.. She wants a fuel efficient wheeler that she can use around the city regardless the weather that we...

holee crap, I just found your build and love it, but very much regret scrolling through it quickly.. I think I passed out somewhere on page #4 and everything been woozy since.. glad ur okay and starting making more progress on the build, I dont think imna ever look at my angle grinder the same...

Fixed my Genset today, the jet was clogged up despite me running ethanol free w/stabil storage added.. musta forgot to run the carb dry last time used it, doh. So now I have a small needle and an 8mm wrench duct taped inside the generator cover so if this ever happens again in the field I can...

Yeah I ran across a couple of those, I started down this path I think when I found the Webasto on a HVAC site when I was trying to find an heater core that was low power for a webasto diesel water heater, but just the compressors are extremely expensive.. This is not going into a Vanagon, but a...

Your wrong, it would be 430AH if you had a 6v system.. but you have a 12v system, so your wiring em in series to get to 12v, its gonna be 215AH @ 12VDC.. Wiring em in Parallel would double the AH Capacity, but wiring em in series doubles the voltage instead, capacity remains. Ive not used one...

The most budget friendly way is simply an accurate voltage monitor, once you get to around 12.0v you should find a charge source.. print this out and put it near the monitor. Something like the Victron Battery Protect LVD can be installed to drop all loads automatically when voltage drops too...

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I'm fine with that as there's no way in hell I can fit enough solar on that lil VW to run it off battery, the radiator I'm looking at is not that big, its a little drag race radiator shrouded w/fan.. it can be powered by genset, and I'll have full control over fan speed.. but for a bigger...

would there be any way to just steal the compressor out of one of these and wire it up in parallel with the vehicles existing evap and condenser? or is the vehicles electric radiator fans too much wattage to make this reasonable? I'm wanting to install both shore power and engine powered AirCon...

On the subject of the 2nd solar charger, I mis-spoke.. my next SmartSolar is going to be the 50A variant.. with the intentions to wire that one up to both my portable panel and my 48v AC Power Supply, with its output limited to 40A.. to further reduce generator runtime by quick charging my LFP...

yeah thats exactly what happens, the weaker panel would drag down the stronger one so the internal bypass diodes cut it out.. say I'm seeing 100W out of the roof panel, then I plug in the portable one in slightly better conditions, I'll see like 150W.. clearly with two panels in different...