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I steered away from one of those portable LP heaters once I saw the altitude ceilings in the manual.. most are lower than my back yard.. I'mna go like teardropper and get a pressurized steel container I can put right on a burner and also use as a reusable fire extinguisher since pressure really...

if you obtain a ~20AH per day fridge diet, which is honestly really good... you got ~5 days before you need to drive it w/poor solar.. not bad at all and would suit 90% of the people here perfectly.. but if your out for up to 6mo like you said, you'll find out that total solar independence is...

I can keep pre-frozen food still frozen for a week at bottom of my 84qt engel.. for a family of four this is large, even with a big beer budget. I came up from a 64qt ARB and they both seem to consume about the same power per day, ~20AH on average.. sometimes higher, sometimes lower.. packed...

Canyons and stuff arent much better, I was in Utah in october but I didnt spend much time out in the desert flats, when I did it was overcast all the time.. most was at altitude in the trees.. tho this time of year would be the time to be a desert rat, and would be really your best hope for...

the low angle of the sun makes finding a shade free spot very difficult in the winter, then you subtract hours of actual sunlight and the poor angle on the panels and its a tough situation this time of year. My portable solar was performing like a beast May-Aug, I had more energy than I knew...

Oh I definitely accounted for that, also keep in mind your putting it in a vehicle or trailer.. there's a many residential fridges that never shut off just sitting in a hot garage.. and at least here domestically nobody will warranty any of those new high efficiency units if they are in a garage...

Famous last words, how many of these have you built to support a fridge? Average MiniFridge is over 100W + Inverter Losses taking it from 12VDC to 120VAC.. average DC fridge is like 30W and far better insulated so they run much less frequently.. Basic back of the hand math is showing you'll...

I bought one of these for xmas for my brother after last time he tried to find my camp he blew out two of his tires following his GPS down the wrong road.. its a quality radio and very nice, my primary reason for buying it tho was for the repeater support.. I've been GMRSing for a few decades...

New Defender has a Hitch that might be able to learn my wife a thing or two..

no, if one pannel gets shade the voltage of the whole string will drop, but its still well above what you need for a charge and it'll adapt.. Bypass diodes will cut a fully shaded panel out if it drags the input voltage under the output.

series em all if the specs on the panels fall within the max voltage of them all combined.. thats the only way its gonna work right.

I would think any full air system would allow changing ride height, the trains, vans and busses can squat for loading.. Ive even got a loading button that deflates the rear bags entirely and sits it on the bump stops so you dont have to lift as high to get stuff in the back. but I dont know...

Ive got OEM Air Suspension, I very much like it for my style of overlanding.. awesome for towing and general road travel, crank it down and low CG makes big heavy SUV feel sporty.. and then I can crank it up for ample clearance for all mild trails, mountain passes, forest service roads I'm...

its GPLv2 already, all the code is there.. anyone could jump in, fix it and send him a merge request... the problem is that mobile platform's App Store ecosystem is the antithesis of what FOSS is about so the amount of Mobile FOSS Devs you can count on one hand.. Android is better than the rest...

I have to use the OSM version of APRSDroid now that my Pixel updated to Android 10, the normal version just crashes hard due to mapping changes.. they are gonna have to do some maintenance on APRSDroid and get it updated soon or its dead in the water...

yeah I'm using APRSDroid w/Offline Maps, its basically just in RX mode and mapping out received stations and letting me analyze the packets from em for any additional data.. Any Android Phone/Tablet should work for that task, as for uploading repeaters I dunno.. I use software called CHIRP for...

My Volkswagen Golf towed 1800lbs @ 80mph way better than my stock TJ did 1200lbs at 50mph.. thats my only point of reference for towing w/a wrangler, I did it once and then never again.. at my altitude I was just beating a dead horse.

my ARB first lost the control panel after I spent a day driving through rain storms w/it attached to the outside of my trailer.. was fine, just didnt have any way to change set points anymore or see temp but meh.. then its 12v side stopped working much like the OP a year or so later after...

Ive got an ARB Fridge here that had parts fail within warranty.. I contacted em several times about fixing it and they just blew me off and I never got anywhere, since I was not far from the warranty ending they managed to stretch it out long enough I just gave up and got my self an Engel.. the...

this is all because they are one piece, the smaller <45A powerpole's can be keyed differently depending on how you hook em up.. like instead of side by side, you can stack em ontop of eachother.. or have one up, and one side facing, or both, could also use nulls.. so those are inherently easy to...