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We've had a couple of dry years here in Grand Junction but that's of course just one data point. But the drought is pervasive in the Colorado River basin. This year has seen about 3 million acre-feet inflow, which is 18% of the Compact assumption (16.5 million total including 1.5 million...

What @pluton says. Or verify that the iPad is in fact cellular. If it's WiFi-only it won't have built-in GPS.

The benefit of Gaia is really found when you do the upfront work, whether on the iPad or a regular PC. That's where you research places and set up waypoints, tracks and routes. The vehicle-side while in motion is just following what you have build ahead of time. Gaia does do auto routing in...

It's a regional thing I'm sure. CB is quiet around here for the most part on the Interstate. I've actually talked to more OTR drivers on amateur radio than CB over the past year or two. That's not to say it's been a lot or anything but it seems a handful got their ham tickets to actually have...

Use CB or don't. It makes no difference to me. It boils down to use what the people you need to talk to are all using. It must be that no one around here has dads, uncles, grandpas because the question is always "what radio do I buy?" Which is followed by "How do I mount an antenna?" Since...

The cost is a factor but so is maintaining the radios. Eventually any group that's attracting new members has to decide to keep recommending CB or convince existing users to use FRS. Finding a CB is getting harder without Radio Shacks around or even many truck stops. You can get FRS radios at...

This isn't understanding current flow? From FAA-H-8083-15B. I'm not a pilot but isn't this the handbook you'd use training to get an instrument rating?

I'm not defending A-hr as the best unit of measure, just saying that since just about every car, boat or plane at one time had an ammeter along with sometimes a voltmeter indicating an acceptable range knowing amp-hours is a familiar carry over. Watching the rate of electron flow in and out is...

I've never really thought about it but you're right. Maybe it's because of the use of ammeters and thus Coulomb counting to stick with it as a base unit?

The market is distorted compared to historical norms right now. It's always been more or less accepted that you can't get back out the cost for modifications to your truck compared to stock used. Usually the recommendation was to remove the mods you could to sell individually. Today that may...

That's a sweet filter. I know I should do something better than running an air muffler as an intake filter. Just what I had in the junk box to replace the original plastic and foam job. I had a couple of those sintered mufflers from a previous axle breather project and they were 1/8NPT ready...

Well there you go. Mine was an RN110 (even so stamped on the frame rail, complete model was RN110L-CRMDEA - 22R-E, W56, XtraCab, DLX trim) so 2,520 kg = 5,556 lbs. That 2,730 kg = 6,018 lbs. So it's a little higher but not 3,000 kg that I thought. In a move somewhere along the way I lost the...

I wholeheartedly agree with you but what's interesting to me is that the Tacoma and Hilux share some common parts, at least in design, such as brakes (both are still disc front, drum rear), front suspension, steering, similar family transmissions (gearing varies). At a high level their main...

Strictly speaking 102" whip with a 6" spring is 1/4λ on 27 MHz. Your K40 (great antenna BTW) is also a 1/4λ electrically, just physically shortened with a transformer in the base. The radio won't know any difference but the 102" whip has more radiating length and can work better (to some...

You're carrying the charging system in your vehicle whether you use it or not. If you've designed a power system that is optimized for running from batteries, e.g. using solar primarily, then carrying a generator for an occasional use does seem quite redundant. Using a generator instead of...

In economics it's known as opportunity cost. In our current reality even if you can find the two parts for those asking prices doing so without lead times is impossible. FWC is suggesting a potential buyer should be ordering now if you want it sometime in 2022. A new Granby could be priced at...

Too bad it's come to this because in normal world that looks like it would be a pretty neat truck.

"Owner of an overland® camper tries paralleling 20 USB charge packs to run his laptop and cell booster working off grid for a week."

This is the fundamental to the O.P.'s original question. A 20 A-hr Anker pack is nominally 3.7V, thus 3.7V x 20 A-hr = 74 W-hr The 100 A-hr BattleBorn is nominally 13.8V, thus 13.8V x 100 A-hr = 1,380 W-hr Just comparing 1,380 / 74 = 18.6 times the stored energy. If the Anker is $50 x 18.6 =...

The MV-50 is specified 72 LPM (about 2.54 CFM) @ 0 psi, 50% duty cycle @ 40 psi with a maximum of 40 minutes continuous run time and weighs just shy of 11 lbs. It's roughly similar to a Viair 300/400 on paper. I run my 265/75R16 tires at 42 psi (E-rated) on the street and generally air down to...