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You simply tax diesel fuel significantly in areas with smog problems and let markets decide, I live in an area with smog issues.. Ive owned just about every iteration of the TDI in north america.. I dont really drive em in the city tho, I could if I wanted too but the engine would gunk up quick...

Short Term, in dense populations.. perhaps.. however in rural america NOx breaks down out of the atmosphere within a few months and presents very few issues in such concentrations.. vs centuries for carbon to be taken out of our atmosphere naturally. Hate to break it to you, but GPF's and and...

They called me today, got my serial number.. she expected a 5 digit number and got a 4 digit so yeah I'm an early adopter heh.. FedEx shipping label in hand, I'll package it up today and drop it off at the FedEx store a few blocks away.

Yeah they are super responsive and have high quality control, I been hearing about some of these features/fixes since April but they crammed so much into this release they set themselves up for months of regression testing. That fixes my biggest complaint about my SmartSolar, now I can set a...

one would hope it had a shunt internally so BMS would be capable of disconnecting on overload situations.. but perhaps they just use thermal monitoring for that? shrug. This is where I'd like to tie everything together into a lil RPI and add in my own layers of monitoring and alarming, could...

I'd have to see more than the demo app, the demo kinda implies you can see SOC but I'm not sure.. mebe not? You'd think the BT app would be able to show load/charge rates, calculated SOC and everything the BMV could but better.. but perhaps not without an external interface, the onboard...

looks good, if it were me I'd add in some manual 3 way switches between the BMS and the Charge/Load relays.. that way in the field you can make an "executive" decision and over-ride the BMS.. have on/off/auto and leave it on auto mostly and hide the switches somewhere curious fingers wont find em.

If your happy with the Victron BT app direct in the battery and dont wanna buy/build a Venus interface then also consider the minibms.. if you have aspirations for connecting all the victron gear together with a central controller/display then stick w/the VE.Bus option.. and in that case you...

Yeah route all Charge Supplies to the same side of that solid state relay, then you wire that up to the BMS as the Charge/Input Circuit.. all your loads up to another solid state relay wired to BMS discharge output.. If you want a manual master disconnect (suggested) put it right at the LFP...

hrmm.. you dont need 3 disconnects.. your alternator feed is your charge circuit, put your solar/ac charger on that leg.. also if your letting the BMS control them just get the Dumb Battery Protects, put them in LFP mode and they are just dumb solid state relays and it disables its internal...

Idiots and Drones are like Peanut Butter and Jelly.. I've been into RC aircraft my entire life, we had clubs, fields, flying lessons, and a very strict set of rules and self enforcement that kept the government regulations at bay for decades.. It was every bit as professional, humble, welcoming...

not really, perhaps the inverter was a bit too much.. I was pushing close to its rated limits, tho I'd expect it to provide its rated limits.. the most I ever saw was ~95A according to my battery monitor. If they make it right then I'll keep on going confident battleborn's got my back and just...

yeah because I aint shilling for anybody.. I'm not trying to influence battleborn into doing anything for me they wouldn't for you.

FLA and AGM are fundamentally the same, they are both lead batteries in the end, any charge system you build should be able to handle any battery chemistry at this point in the game, especially for global travels.. unless your sleeping in an airtight area the batteries wont be any harm.. they...

no, I'm not an "influencer"..

You can get Costco or SamClubs 6v Golf Cart Batteries and together they are ~220-240AH, for ~$200 In simple terms, since they are 6v, they have half the cells in the same footprint of a similar 12v battery.. so the cells are twice as robust w/twice as much lead.. this makes em pretty friggin...

He's a full timer, if he wants to spend the money then have at it.. definitely should have all sorts of monitoring and data gathering on consumption and charging. GC Batteries still seem more suitable, even for fulltiming IMO.. for world travels id want a flexible and cheap system, not tied to...

If you want shore power you didnt mention anything about it, just DC and Solar.. for AC power w/world wide support look at ProNautic AC Chargers, 40A would probably be fine... You are going to be underpowered on Solar, you really need about 2x that.. but w/out space for em your going to have to...

Ive got a Engel MT80 and an ARB60, perfer the Engel over the ARB.. mostly for simplicity's sake, dun like ARB's LVD as Id rather run an external one near the battery.. both did fine. A DC Only fridge you need a power supply to use at home, and when charging off a genset or something the fridge...

I'm expecting a refurb and the same unit returned.. would be surprised w/a refund after a year of usage.