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YMMV, they definitely are not quality like real moving blankets.. Ive had one as a trunk liner for 4 years and its holding up fine, I figured it'd be a pile of dust by now.. even went through the wash once or twice. they are cheap as crap, and I see em as disposable.. I just drape it over my...

I think the idea is more for abrasion from storage floating in a trailer or back of a truck.. especially when going down a rough road.. dont need much though to prevent that, heavy duty cardboard could get the job done til it gets wet.. but its sacrifical anyhow.. coroplast is waterproof and...

You could wire up a bluetooth/wireless connection to the unit, Ive just got a usb adapter plugged into the back of it all the time.. take my laptop out, put it in the hatch and program it from there.

Harbor Freight sells moving blankets, thats what I been using interim while I carry my portable inside the trailer.. I plan on mounting it to the side and carrying it outside eventually.. Could probably sew the sides together and make a nice sleeve for it.. tho a waxed canvas would be more...

Tempered Glass is extremely durable, usually more so than the coroplast backing on the rear of the panel.. these things take hail just fine.. a folding would be about hardest surface and most protection for the cells outwards.. which would be glass out, a canvas case would be more worthwhile for...

yep, the BP will be one of your lightest loads.. like a tiny fraction of an amp, so put it at top.. and likely your chargers at bottom.. if you think you got too much on it, its time for a bus bar.

shunt, always load side of shunt.. you never ground anything directly to battery anymore w/that.. if something says to ground directly to battery, just attach it to shunt load.. or a negative bus bar if you want to cleanup wiring that is hooked to shunt.

the "IN" side includes everything up to the battery. so directly to the battery, a special sub panel for charging, whatever you want.. as long as its on the IN side of the circuit and not the OUT, I didnt mean on the terminals directly, sorry for the confusion.. so yeah, the battery is fine if...

thats not program cable, thats probably the SBP Ground and external IO for Relay mode.. Put it between battery and fuse box, pay attention to the in/out on it and dont wire it up backwards.. dont push current through it backwards, make sure all charge supplies are on the IN side. 10.5v is...

I used to work next door overlooking a steam plant, most of downtown denver is heated by steam.. thats why the man hole covers are billowing it in the winter.

One can argue the same thing about lead batteries, they are inefficient and wasteful.. So Lithium is superior, hows your lithium setup? or are the inefficiencies and waste of lead more suited for your budget? Theres more to life than scraping out efficiencies.. my inverter is 92% efficient, if...

totally agreed, wind chill is meaningless.. most you can extrapolate out of that is excessive cooling which diesels dont need in such conditions.. extremely low wind chill might make you decide to block off radiator more than otherwise, but only as an indicator of wind speed and bitter temps...

sure it can, ambient air temp can change far more rapidly than diesel fuel.. example: 4am ambient temp is -5 degrees, fuel temp is -5 degrees.. 8am ambient temp is 1 degree, fuel temp is -4 degrees.

Most code calls for Neutral and Ground to be bonded at Mains, and only at mains.. Is the wiring to this ONLY hooked up to the inverter or is it also hooked up to shore power? transfer switch? If outlets are ONLY wired to Inverter, bond Neutral and Ground at Inverter.. if outlets are wired to...

it was hard enough installing one radio into my rig, two was not on the table.. so a moded dual band ham radio was by far the best option..

Thats new to this next phase, its gonna do a lot.. probably too much heh. Its going to drive a touchscreen display I'm going to flush mount to the overhead cabinets, thats going to display my system status/historical stats by default. The RPI is going to be wired up to VE.Direct bus on the...

I mean if you hookup a .2C charger up to a FLA bank.. for the vast majority of the charge cycle your using under .1C.. so that gives you an overhead of .1C+ for running daytime loads, thats more than enough already for most boondockers.. We are saying the same thing, a bigger charger than .2C...

@RandyP The fixed panel worked perfectly for most of the season with no need at all for the portable or genset.. May-Aug, however by the end of the summer.. Sept-Oct the sun was low enough in the sky all day long I really needed the portable panel, the low angle of attack means more canopy to...

yeah but if you have lead chemistry batteries you always have a ton of overhead during the absorb.. even with 1.5C charging rate.. its gonna spend >80% of the time under .7C.. so you got 100% Overhead 80% of the time.. most people here dont have an additional 1.5C of daytime loads, for...

you can overload the input side quite significantly w/house panels, at least w/a SmartSolar so as long as your input voltages stay within spec, it will cap amperage on the output.. meaning input amps is always lower. My Panel is 70v, the Victron takes 100v.. I've got enough overhead.. I'm just...