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I'm curious if you (or a representative) are going to be at OE West in Flagstaff also? I really need another one of you bags!

That Oru seems clever but I'd be concerned about on-water stability and long-term durability, especially for the price. I've got an inflatable Razorlite 393 from Sea Eagle. Pretty much the same price range but it's nearly indestructible and tracks\handles as well as a solid boat. It's a bit...

That makes life easier but I often have 7-10 days worth of trash to manage....

Hmm. Dry bag. That's a good idea I hadn't thought of. Is that difficult to get into when you need to toss something? I feel like I'm accessing the trash every ten minutes (I smoke so I always have an ashtray to dump and I seem to go through millions of tissues every day) so I'm looking for...

Thanks for the feedback everyone. Excellent advice and we already do that. We carry a bunch of reusable zip-top bags and a few SS bento boxes. Pretty much everything comes out of the original packaging and into those before we leave the parking lot. Wine bottles get emptied into wine bags and...

Wow. Nothing like that here in the west...certainly it is common knowledge that it is best to not move firewood but I've never seen a checkpoint. We only have those for watercraft! I passed 4 of them in one 120 mile stretch last week...

Wait, a what? Firewood checkpoint? That's a thing?

I just put up a sign that says "Bears Prohibited" - so far so good! More seriously though...You're absolutely right that there will be bear attractants in your "sleeping container" so you want to be sure that your container is solid and secure. I make sure everything is packed up and locked up...

I don't have any experience with higher end watches but I have a couple of mechanical self-winding Tissots that I use regularly. As a practical matter, if you want a mechanical self-winder, pay attention to the manual winding mechanism to make sure it's easy to turn. While my watches will stay...

That would be optimal. Seems like you've already looked at Redarc, can't really go wrong there.

I would like to know how you good folks manage your trash while on the road... I operate out of a Tacoma with a squaredrop camper. So far, I haven't come up with any better solution for trash than a standard trash bag balled up in the bed of the truck. When we're camped, and it isn't too windy...

Seriously, read the other thread posted by @tacollie - the ridiculousness of this thing has been thoroughly hashed out...

If you know something I don't know and that isn't going to work, please tell me now! The new charger is getting installed this week, lol!

That's the plan! I've actually got 3 separate panels but 2 (90W each) are paired in a single "briefcase" unit (what a misnomer! no one would want to carry that "briefcase" around :ROFLMAO:) and run through a single controller. The third is 100W and has it's own controller. Both outputs are...

The big advantage of the ACR is that, in a pinch, if your starter battery is dead you can use the secondary battery to start the vehicle. However, the caveat with the ACR is that the batteries need to be *identical* (same manufacturer, same model, same age) to ensure proper charging from the...

Well, In my real life, managing my batteries for the last 5 weeks on the road, monitoring charge controllers all day to see how they are behaving - one of them *always* shuts off prematurely (the smaller panel of the pair). If running both panels through a single controller doesn't get me better...

While access to gear in the back of the rig may be an issue while traveling I don't see it being an issue when camped. Maybe I'm in the minority here but I don't see any real-world scenario where you would want to camp with the trailer still hooked up to the rig - in my experience, it just...

Are you saying separate controllers for each panel? I don't think that is optimal since each controller needs to gauge the state of charge independently while the other panels (which it is not aware of) are also pushing power into the battery. I currently have 2 portable panels, each with their...

If you've got the space to fit it all in boxes under the flatbed then that seems like a great option. I would, however, recommend against hard mounting the solar panels if you expect to be dependent on them for any length of time (i.e. if you'll be stationary and off-grid for more than 1-2 days...