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Someone asked me to look at the Goal zero Yeti Pro 4000. I'm gonna say YES, does all you need, but still not recommend as best choice due to huge and heavy. In general, good unit with everything you need for truck camping, good inputs and outputs. However, it is more of a whole house backup...

I'm sure this won't be a factor to you, but might educate someone else reading: never let engine run if parked while snowing. The snow can pile up above exhaust, which causes CO to enter car. A friend of mine died in college with his GF, sleeping in car while stuck in road in snowstorm. None...

How much electricity does it take to make a 2-person camping breakfast? I make 2 meals each 2c coffee, bowl of oatmeal, 3pc thick bacon, 2 eggs. I use the most energy efficient cooking, electric kettle and induction cooktop. Use this info to help estimate how much electricity you need in...

I have a Tune, which has about 8" bedding height. When I looked at the OVRLND, I was definitely planning on getting the extra bedding height. Sorry, not trying to distract from the OVRLND, which I also love... you guys have the best builds and DIY info here, so it is one of my favorite popup...

I bought a Hest to replace the 4" foam mattress that came with my Tune. It is indeed much better. And the Tune 4" was better than most mattresses supplied with truck popups. We just couldn't get good sleep before, without using additional blow up thermarest pads etc, the Hest is waaay better...

Quick video I made showing the tools in my DeWalt setup I use on the trail and camping. I spent a bunch of time looking for chainsaws and electric chainsaws... I got tired of them leaking oil constantly. Now I have replaced it with reciprocating saw, works great on trail clearing, no mess...

Sounds good. Only issue I see is the 8awg whip. The max ampacity of 8awg is 50A, over a 1ft length like that in unbundled wire, 75c. Your fuse should be at or LESS than your wire, so that the fuse burns out before the wire. , but your fuse is 60A. Your wire needs to be larger, 7awg at least...

Gonna respond for both you and other future readers, maybe you know more than them, if so then the basics are for them... 1. Nice battery fuse and 50A Anderson plug, I literally installed the exact same thing on my 100Ah 12v mini LFP yesterday! I like that fuse choice. I see fuse is 60A, so...

Which was that, and do you recommend? I was about to buy one Will Prowse just tore apart and liked, WattCycle, but the day after his review price went from $207 to $250. Looking for a decent BT 100Ah mini. Thx

Well, nothing like taking one anecdotal frostbite statement, and extrapolating it into a General Theory of Heat Transfer. That there is known as the Redneck Scientific Method.

That's nice woods you have!

Yep. Every Boyscout used to learn to never set up a tent under clear sky, it it was possible to have a tree overhead, and you'd be much warmer.

Sorry. But you're just not correct. You are assuming that heat transfer through air molecules is the only heat transfer, and you're wrong. Everything radiates heat... many things will also reabsorb the same amount of heat through conduction, convection, etc. Making ice in a thermos, open to...

This thread is turning into an enjoyable engineering-fest ;)

Nor made ice in desert as a kid in that common experiment, nor seen frost on their windshield in morning when above freezing! Heat transfers many ways, not just convection through air molecules. Windshields frost up because they radiate heat out at night towards black sky, almost absolute zero...

1. In automotive and vibrating applications, you should be crimping, NOT soldering. 2. Use an actual crimper designed to crimp anderson connections. 3. Here, watch this:

Gotcha. Everyone always has different needs we forget about that don't match ours ;) I just want to keep battery above -20C, so I can get diesel heater started when needed... then allll my heat issues are gone. 10 min after firing up my heater, I could solar charge if desired, but I...

Ahh yah, typo, 0C ;) Renogy batteries, that explains it... what a poor design choice they made there. Well, it's a poor design for what we are discussing, and absolutely the wrong battery heat design. But there are other ones. Most self heated battery I have looked at don't require input to...

Uhm. Interesting, but it makes me want to say that your engineered solution is obviously insufficient to the task? The whole purpose of self heated setup is that the battery stays warmer than the 0f charge cutoff, at all times. Not to warm up above that the next morning. It doesn't really...

What @klahanie said. 40A charger gives 20A to each parallel battery. Also... you see what I meant about providing info in your post, not keeping secrets from your helpers? I wasted all my time typing out loads to convince you 100A wasn't enough. If you were a neighbor, I'd probably stop...