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maybe, even if its an absolute beater just tossing it out there.. its not like diesel trucks are cheap, and its not like burning big mud terrain tires off on 90% driving to work is cheap either.. putting $500 in tires on a lil beater every 2-3 years vs $1500+ tires and then a fraction of the...

INFO: Do you use your truck for work or are you just commuting in it? If its not a work truck a 70m per day commute might be better served by a small beater car.. You can pickup a #dieselgate vw for under $10k they are giving em away with unlimited mileage warranties, it'd cost you like $35 a...

those ASME tanks are seriously over engineered, I'd worry less.. my 1975 Westfallia ASME tank is at least 44 years old, and with a fresh paint job and modern fill valve it looked brand spanking new.. When I got it ~10 years ago the tank was all rusted up and looked like it was ready for the...

its physically the same size, the thing is you dont need two 100AH's to get 100AH of usable capacity.. you can get 95AH out of one w/out really hurting it.. though for long lifespan should stop around 80AH, I keep that last 15AH as reserve capacity I can use in a pinch like furnace shuts off in...

probably for the most part, as long you don't mind the occasional impacts.. my trailer is about 11ft tall and it got scratched up and antennas broken off pretty quickly on actual trails.. forest service roads its perfectly fine.

you can get 220AH Deka FLA 6v Golf Cart batteries for ~$100 USD each from bulk discount stores, thats 220AH of 12v for ~$200 USD.. they last 3-5 years of apathy, 15-25 years of battery banks for cost of LiFePo4. If your going AGM then yeah, dont mess with the crap AGM get the good stuff which...

permanently mounted tanks need to be accessible to be filled, they cant remote fill em because they need to access the fill valve to bleed it.. if you mount it some place they cant get the filler onto it your going to have to take it off.. ASME tanks are designed to be filled while still...

Well then I guess they cant fill up anything but aluminum tanks then, those are the only ones I've ever seen thats never been painted and is raw metal. every single one they fill has paint on it, if you give it a good enamel white paint job and tape off the valve correctly there is no...

sounds like you're overthinking it, if you hook your batteries together that's when you risk draining it say overnight when sun's not charging.. then you wont have a battery to jump the other with. leave em isolated, if it really comes to it and you play radio too long in tow vehicle or...

your misunderstanding the specific statement then, they will not refill tanks painted non standard colors.. its in federal fire safety requirements, you try to make a cute lego head propane tank yellow and the'll nope you right out.. or paint it black to match your trailer, nope.. but I took 5...

nonsense, they have to have good paint or the'll refuse it.. it has to be light colored (white/grey/tan) and no visible rust, because rust is dark and dark colors heat up metal and vent gas.. a freshly painted tank is safer than an old rusty one. ASME tanks dont have any recertifications, they...

if you do a slide out kitchen engineer a way to level the stove, having to get the vehicle nice and level just so your eggs dont spill into the fire is kinda sucky thing about slidout burners.. its easier to level a table and use a portable burner frankly.

vast majority of back country passes will be closed til July this year, record snow pack and all that.. most all trails are closed for mud season.. once you get past 10kft its feet deep snow

What are you running in the tow vehicle with engine off thats going to require it to have a jump start? If you have some persistent loads going on in the tow vehicle then perhaps consider a second battery setup for that.. or wire up those loads to run directly off trailer battery and disconnect...

my only regret going diesel is now I'll forever be unsatisfied with gasoline power and diesel's future is bleak.. I'm just hoping that when I drive my current rig into the ground there will be something worthy to replace it thats newer.

definitely horizontal, the ones they use on westfallias are really low profile.. but expensive: https://www.gowesty.com/product/lp-tank/2447/lpg-tank-with-regulator-?v=

Sterling Power or ProNautic units are really nice, and adjustable if your bank requires something unique.

oh definitely, the lower voltage batteries only need half the cells in the same general space.. all things equal a 6v battery will always have thicker plates and more lead-per-cell than a 12v, and thats what makes a deep cycle really.. if you can fit two 6v under the hood do it, though you'll...

4x the cost then yet only half the capacity required, dramatically less weight and what 1/4 of the charging requirements needed to meet spec? top of the line LFP's coddled would go low long you suspect? Decades mebe especially if you had access to cells.. its yet to really be determined but I'd...

I think very few on here can or want to coddle batteries to the point of eeking out maximum lifespan, if your investing many thousands of dollars into a big battery bank of top grade lifeline agm's like on a big boat or remote cabin then of course you'd want to coddle them dearly and never abuse...