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Example Say your fridge burns 3.5 amps an hour. Just to power the fridge you need 40-60 watt capability. But over night you burn off 4x12=? Amps burned over night that you need to put back into the battery in say 4-5 hours peak solar time. Amps are you friend, figure out how many you burn and...

10watts is equal to a conservitive .5 amps generated in good conditions.

Look up the fridge stats and put a meter on it do you can track the Amps burned. Then look at 30-40% of the battery rated stored amps , then do the math on the solar needed to both charge the battery and power the fridge. Hint yellow tops are overrated, over priced and might be under capacity...

Yo be bluntly honest, our 2016 Fusion the tech package sucks bad! GM going the route of using current best of breed apps would be enough to sway me a brand over another brand with similar offerings today.

Gm so far cant seem to get enough diesels out to keep one on the lot. Id say they are doing well. The one thing the existing ranger has going is a little better interior layout and rear seating space over the Colorado/Canyon. I'm really curious. I would love to have one!!

Wow great find! I know a local couple that found a 98 Roadtrek same sort of thing, put in storage, had 20k on the clock. Looks brand new. They are having a blast with it. Be sure to put new rubber on it! Old tires on heavy RVs is not pretty at 65mph.

Mother natures kickstand. Lol

A few friends have tuff sheds as their off grid shack, but they are pricy. A few others simply built a simple shed for about half the price of a tough shed.

The service box is way way better than the chopper gun fiberglass junk. Why not build the truck as is? Are you sure that its not 5k since the odo rolled over?

Wow cool shot!

Good friend has the Xtera. Great truck. His big complaint is the stock drive line, its not the typical truck drive line its set up like a cv joint. This caused issues when he lifted it. He had to source a custom drive line more of an annoyance and added cost than anything. Out side of that solid...

Sorry missed the end regarding the panel voltage. You simply need a solar controller between the panel and battery. With out it you can have several possible issues. For one panels pump voltage out regardless of battery status, no controller to monitor that and a panel can cook your batteries...

Couple of things. Your missing a solar controller and a 1000watt inverter simply left active, with no load will wipeout your battery/s. Isolate the inverter and leave it off unless being used. A solar controller manages the actual charge process, to bring the batteries up. Be shure you havent...

Around here I think all smart cap owners have solid locking side panels. Keeps the looky loo out of your stuff. With the flippac open you have big windows at eye level vs knee level.

The LC has always had what I would describe as a Lazy mellow power its never been a super great towing rig due to the mellow power and short wheel base. I much prefer my Sequoias higher energy sharper tuned V8 and longer wheel base for the towing aspect. But that comes with negatives for trail...

Bummer. I was looking forward to hearing about your adventure. Though I can imagine that hauling any trailer south can involve a good shake down period before your in places where complicated fixes can pose unique challeges. Go south!! Dirt bag ;-) Looking forward to reading your adventures...

I really liked my old Legacy man that was a great car. Way stiffer than the wagon. This one looks like a 3.6L with the 5eat possibly. Not sure the first 2010-12's cvts had the spin tolerence in the logic where as the 5eat would let you spin more when needed. The 13 and newer cvts got some...

My hood. We sail out of Richmond YC, live about 2 miles as the Crow flies from your Berkeley hills hike. Glad you could enjoy the Bay! Lots of live aboards in Berkeley Marina, your violin player was probably a marina resident. Cool place down there. Goid mix of working boats and colorful boaters.

Small piece of black electrical tape on the dash. Fixed..

I need to take some shots of my simple charging hub and solar setup. But my whole thing was like $200 and was two fold, learning project and to get some basic power on the trailer. My big project was a $25k 8.2kwh solar system on the house lol. But what I learned doing the simple camp trailer...