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I like air tanks. Gives surge capacity. Airing tires you can run the compressor 100% of the time. Even as you are checking pressure or moving to a different tire the compressor is running and saving that air until you get to the next tire. If you keep a head of pressure in the tank there are...

I go with the simple solution of not adding electrical loads to the frame. Most body on frame vehicles the frame only has a token ground for RFI. All the major electrical loads are either to the engine or the body, both of which sit on rubber mounts to the frame. For my trailers where the...

Worst case, 100% duty cycle. For the most part, everyone runs the A/C 100%. Just a wild assumption you have an invertor that can take the start up load, it probably can if the fans are on low. I've seen invertor generators fire up A/C units they had no business running so long as they were...

I bought a new van 2 years ago. The only thing I could get was Pedophile white. A no body work, doors off, jams done right cost me $7k. Did not include the roof (covered in solar) and I did a lot of work stripping it down to nearly not legal to get it there and back. You have to have a good...

Back when I played with 3000-4000 pound rigs and the 2" nylon strap was what everyone used, Pin through the receiver hitch for a straight pull and never worried about it. Didn't have enough mass to be an issue. If I was wanting to play a little safer I had a ball mount with no ball on it and...

Just looked up the spec sheet. It is rated up to 3C for full capacity. I'm only drawing 0.5~0.6C, intermittently, as the toaster oven cycles for 10 minutes or so. Yes, 100A is a good pull, but not excessive.

You have not been in a vehicle that is parked in the sun in Arizona in the summer. Interior temps can easily break 150+° and there are sometimes contests for cooking an egg or cookies on the dashboard.

Just discovered another glitch on my CFX75 DZ. The USB port only works if you pull the USB out 1-2mm. If you plug it in 100% you loose connection. I plugged my phone in and got my charging beep but it didn't charge. As I pulled the plug out of the fridge I got a beep again. So slowly...

Got a 75DZ a few months ago. Just found this thread by accident (really wasn't looking for it). Have a few questions. Instructions say I can't have 12V plugged in the same time I have 120V plugged in. Why is that? I read one comment (maybe a joke) that it catches fire. I have had an ARB...

Thank you. That was what I was hoping to hear. I am planning on running a BMS that is 150-200% of my anticipated load. I have actually switched from a microwave (very high power consumption) to a toaster over (only high power consumption) and have found the total watt hours consumed is...

I'm currently running 200 Ah of lead acid battery for a house battery. When I fire up the invertor and put a 100A load on the battery pack to cook up some breakfast I get enough voltage sag to kick off the diesel heater. Running big cables, short runs, the sag is in the battery itself not the...

100% duty cycle, about 40W is correct. Have no idea what math your cheap watt/amp hour meter is using. If it was powered on for 2 hours, but only hooked to the fridge for 1 hour, it might be trying to use that in the math? Maybe it does a rolling 24 hour average? You didn't tell us what you...

After getting crap off Amazon, twice... I went to McMaster and got some good stuff. Cost more, but actually works.

A lot of it is "bigger is better" mentality, even if not. But there is some truth in the higher payload capacity, as so many overload and don't even know it.

No. I would like to see it in the charge controller. Not internal to a proprietary battery. I don't want to see the battery heating itself. I want the heat applied from the charge source. The battery can still be discharged at fairly low temperatures, just not recharged. Zero point in...

Battery light is typically the charging system failing, not the battery. Best way to destroy a good battery is to pair it with a failing charging system.

But find the right crowd and the 6-speed is worth more than the auto. Very nice driving manual transmission. But not the mass market model. You have to list it in the crowd that wants the manual. A 2nd gen manual in true off-road trim is as good as it gets. True off-road trim has to be...

I have a friend who is a cop that uses something along the same lines. Don't know the brand. Loads it up in the cruiser and has hot leftovers. The slow heat does wonders for those days where you don't get to eat at a predictable time. Loves it. I'm running a home microwave off an inverter...

It would be nice if the makers of the charge controllers (solar or DC-DC) that have a low temp cut off added another little feature. Heater power. Go from a disconnect to a transfer switch. Too cold to charge, but there is power to charge, send that power to a heater element. Once the...

If you have LiFePO batteries it might be worth it to run some heat under them. Nobody says you have to do full multi-pass loop. A little section of loop through a corner of the area to give a tickle of heat if you like. A single pass directly under the batteries on the return leg of the...