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Sorry to hear of your loss. Understanding that you may not be appropriately motivated to spend time in society at the holidays, I can offer a few suggestions from my single days living far from family: 1) Turkey can be cut up frozen with a hacksaw and thawed and roasted in small portions...

I think this is a vehicle specific question. What vehicle are you working with?

Not sure you will effectively fly with a jumpstart pack or a lighter. Personally, I would simply know and adjust my limits when traveling in a rental car. I’ve been on several 4x4 trails or just sketchy backroads in rented Jeeps, and usually just turn around a lot sooner than I would in my own...

Additionally, Enterprise and some other major chains rent 4-door JLUs in various trim levels. Not sure if that $2000 hard top is a good idea? A $300 weekend in a soft top rental might tell you quickly… etc. I was set on upgrading JK to JL until I spent a long weekend in a rental. I know I’ll...

When we started leaving my wife at home and only taking the stuff that my kids and I thought we need… packing got much easier!

I’ve used to for those purposes as well as daily driving for over 8 years and 140k miles now. I would say very suitable. Depending on the ages of the kids, some adaptations are needed. 1) Find the smallest car seats possible and get them out of those seats as soon as you can. 2) I still have...

Yep, think about other things joined with dissimilar metals. Aluminum heads bolted to Iron blocks, or steel bolts holding aluminum brackets onto an engine… yes they can corrode and even fail, but the likelihood is low and there is usually a contributing cause, like an antifreeze leak or...

Look up galvanic series chart with enough details to show your specific steel and aluminum alloys. Even with the chart in mind, it can be really difficult to estimate without deep experience. In many fields, there is an entire career available just in corrosion engineering and corrosion...

Many places don’t allow barbed hooks. I would have to check the specific regulations river by river, but I’m fairly certain that California doesn’t allow them on “native” trout waters. Basically the concept being that it is unfair to have a hook that the fish can’t spit easily. Although I’m...

I used low voltage landscape light wire from the local big box and ran one paired cable to each zone. It has really thick insulation and is UV stabilized, so it lasts a long time. There are multi-conductor marine cable solutions as well.

I was going with “trying to build a field-expedient defibrillator”…

Lawyers. Actually, mostly a guess, but the loads on the wheel lugs are much higher and less predictable as it moves and hits stuff and whatnot. The loads on the other side of the bearing unit are more predictable and as you can see, there is contact between the bearing unit and the axle...

@DiploStrat, I think you are hitting the core of my question about seeing the switch. Lacking scale in the photo, I’m going to guess either 4 AWG or maybe 2 AWG cables with 5/16 lugs in the photo? It doesn’t make sense to have a full-load rated switch connecting the 2 battery sets unless...

A better description of what the lights are for might be useful. White flood lights? Stop, Tail, Turn? Spots?

Have you checked continuity through the switch when closed / in the OEM+AUX position? getting out there a ways, is it possible that the OEM batteries have been connected in series, Thus not having enough charging voltage? Have you tried charging each OEM battery separately and disconnected...

Do you have a picture of the “separator switch”? Have you done any voltage or continuity checks of the system in its various modes or the switch in its modes? Do the dash gauges show charging taking place? I would also give every terminal a good shining with fine abrasive or a wire wheel on a...

I’m not sure I understand what you mean when you ask for a regulated output that can be hard-wired. But, yes, I would expect to DIY something like this. It could be very easily hard mounted and wouldn’t need to be in a case, although a system that could be quickly removed from the vehicle in...