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No, I'm going to politely disagree with you here. What overly complicates things for basic users, and confuses them until someone explains it correctly, is people posting incorrect units, terms, nomenclature like you are. Instantaneous power use is Watts, stored power is Watt-hrs. If you use...

ISSUE with Dometic Go 11L water Jug "Hydration system". The 2.5" lid cap cracked, due to air pressure while sitting in hot garage. I should have opened the airflow valve a little, but didn't think of it. Most water containers can flex due to air inside heating up, but the Dometic jug is...

BougeRV 20L fridge. Perfect for roadtrips.

There is always condensation if no airflow... you can add insulation easily to any roof if desired to avoid condensation there. But the answer is to have your fan running on low, and an air source, window etc, open slightly, particularly when cold, to exhaust the 1 litre of water you breathe...

I do love your setup! My buddy has a Jeep, I showed him your setup this weekend!

For sure. And honestly, he is a pretty "roughing it" overlander in most all things, and his vast experience surely lets him get by and be happy with setups that wouldn't work for wife and I... I'm not as hardcore, and my wife wouldn't go without a gucci mattress, the next day backpain just...

I've been watching it. Fun series but... that sleep platform design is a nightmare! Having to hook it up and down on all 4 corners with carabiners, and a 2" foam matress?? I've seen 100 folks reject poor 4" mattresses and switch to Hest. 2" is all the room he has? Yuck. Not loving his sleep...

Will Prowse has a list of current recommendations on his review site. But he does like LiTime a lot lately.

Actually an AGM and LFP combo for cold weather isn't a bad option. You need to deal with slightly different voltage to charge. But an AGM can provide heat for the LFP in cold weather. Look at the charge profiles for your AGM, and for an LFP, they are close. My victron ip67 charger has...

I use my dewalt 20v sawzall thing, with a 12" wood blade. Cuts through most branches etc

What Peter said, but also YES. You can overstress your alternator with a battery bank and wires that will pull a lot of amps, pushing alternator to 75-100% output for long periods of time. For some folks with motor homes with 250A or bigger alternators, designed to output a lot, no problem...

Great! You should tell all the manufacturers of LFP battery chargers, and dc to dc chargers--Victron etc-- that they're wrong too, and that their products aren't needed and pointless! Will Prowse has 10 videos or so about setting up parallel LFP battery banks and cable length issues, you should...

Hmm... that's not the case according to about 1000 posts on Will Prowse's DIYsolarforum: https://diysolarforum.com/forums/vehicle-mounted-systems.7/ In fact, a constant 14.4 volts is NOT the optimal charge schedule for most all LFPs, no matter what BMS they have. Each manufacturer specifies...

It looks like a rooftop tent just bolted onto a canopy. Doesn't look like it has a passthru. Zero advantage over any old rooftop tent?

Thx much

This is a good dang post. What spring set do you recommend for 3rd gen Tacoma, 700-800 lb camper plus gear? Deaver stage 3?

30A, 10Awg. 3% voltage drop is 10ft circuit length, or 5ft one way. 10% voltage drop is 30ft total, 15ft one way. The 7 pin is not meant to supply 30A. Run your own positive AND NEGATIVE TOO! There are probably 100 threads on guys trying, and failing, to power 20A or more on their 7pin. Go...

Couple more tests: Rice cooker, 2c rice with 4c water, 200 Watt-hrs. Normally rice is x1.5 water, so 3c water for 2c rice, and uses 150 Watt-hrs. But this was basmati rice which uses x2 water. BougeRV 30L fridge. From 77F down to 32F, empty, took 43 Watt-hrs.

Nice. I've always kept cars for 13 yrs or more. Used to like the Accord and Camry, but when i get in them now, I hate the reclined seat positions, lack of headroom, and sitting so low you can't see around cars in front. Last time I shopped, I went out for an Accord... came back with a Tacoma.

I bought one, the duxtop 9600, still testing it out. Didnt get any of the bad high putch noise in so many reviews, so far...