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Dunno what type of heater you're talking about, but you'd want to avoid it if it's electric-only. Aka propane camper heater, diesel air heater good. Electric heater bad. It'd be an enormous draw on the system and while you're already going to have to plan for that with the coffee maker, a...

Would be interesting to know what the consequences are. I've sweat my battery hitting 115*F in the summer in the bed of my truck. Not much I can do about it as that's the coolest place (short of in the cab when I'm driving with A/C.) I capacity tested it twice last week before reinstalling it...

yeah the shallow threads got me yesterday, i received some cheapo 100ah cells for another fun project which came with crappy phillips head screws for terminals. Did some poor math and bought m6x25mm grub screws which are way too long. Maybe if I were using half inch thick bus bar... new ones...

Lots of people using the 280ah+ cells in mobile installations. No issues with my 200ah blue wrapped cells after a year and a half. I think there was a thread about the fragility of larger cells in mobile installations less than a week ago on diysolarforum but I can't manage to find it. I know...

There are 3.2v lifepo4 prismatic cells available in 280+ah that people have been doing builds with for the last year+. They're ~$115/ea shipped for the 272-280ah varieties if you can wait for them to arrive from China.

Definitely can handle that, the current charge controller is a Victron 75|15 SmartSolar. While I wouldn't be taking in any more than 210 watts with this MPPT, the increased footprint and voltage boost going from two to three in series would help. Especially in winter as you said. There was a...

Hi all.. I currently have 2 x 100w Renogy Compact solar panels on my roof rack that clock in around 40x40" side by side. This is an improvement over my previous setup which used the non-compact versions, which occupied a 40x47" footprint. I was pretty thrilled to reclaim 7 inches of rack...

I think the things you linked are just decoys/spoofs/triggers and negotiate the voltage from the power supply. These aren't bidirectional :( I actually have several in 20v and 12v. 12v have powered a home router and some other gadgets, and the 20v I've used many times to charge my existing...

Has anyone looked in to this for DIY packs? The best I can find (for boards/modules) are 18/24w max USB-PD modules that only work for 3.7V lithium batteries, 1-series. I've bellyached about this in recent years on here but now there are so many portable power station 'solar generators' out...

Here's a pretty cheap and certainly stupid simple way to do everything you're talking about. I do the same stuff with my DIY portable packs. Macbook pro, phones, lights, bluetooth speaker. 1 x panel mount cigarette socket (may as well get something decent, $10-20, with the high end being Blue...

AFAIK Victron still hasn't opened up their bluetooth comms for third party development and have been saying they won't be doing this for years. So unless they make one or allow third parties to, I think you're out of luck.

Yes and I used to carry it for the same purpose of keeping an aux battery topped off. Generator -> 24v 600w power supply -> MPPT PV input (anderson connectors). I don't carry it anymore because solar is enough and always was really. Just another screwing around project to do while drinking in...

If you have a solar charge controller on the bank like I'm thinking, since you mentioned the sun, you can just get a (whatever voltage your charge controller accepts) charger or power supply and sub that as the PV input. I run a Mean Well SE-600 24v 25 amp 120v power supply and feed that to my...

I think if he uses a trendy "solar generator" then it'll be some flavor of lithium and allow much more than 40ah to play with, possibly the whole 80ah depending on the marketing of the product... I'd trust a usable 80ah with the fridge specs mentioned for a 3 day weekend trip. Be mindful of...

Weird. Now he runs an incredibly helpful forum with a whole lot of knowledgeable members building things beyond many of our wildest dreams. I'm saying his reviews are negative on most products which takes away from the notion that he's shilling. Some companies have even been disappointed in...

I mean... he has quite a few WTFs and voiced disappointments on his EcoFlow videos. Has no reservations about calling certain aspects of - or entire products stupid. He exclaims "What the hell" and gets pissed when products don't live up to their advertising. I think you'd know this if you...

::cough:: Will Prowse on YT ::cough::

I know the type of chud you're talking about that (poorly) review portable power stations and crap and love to talk about Jackery. Will isn't that type of chud. I'm not sure what you expect out of a review or where you get the idea that his claims are worthless. He evaluates every part of...

Would be cool if you could make it slide out to the side so you don't have to lean over it to access things on the counter

eww "...inspired by current SUV trends and incorporates a 36W thin, flexible, and durable CIGS (copper indium gallium selenide) solar panel from Sunflare. The panel outputs 5 volts via two integrated USB ports and is designed to withstand heat, wind, cold, and impact, making it ideal for...