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In North America, sure. Nissan (and their partners Mitsubishi and Renault) make all kinds of them, the Patrol, Triton, medium duty, etc. I don't know Honda's motivation here or the way their alliances will shake out (don't Mitsubishi and Ram have some sort of cross marketing). I doubt they're...

I wonder if there's some Japanese business courtesy going on here, if that's even still a thing. At one time businesses would look out for each other (such as when Toyota invested in Subaru, which has only yielded a couple of niche vehicles for them) rather than the U.S. version of cut throat...

I wheel with Ace and been on the trail with him in this truck. He's being completely honest. It's a capable vehicle that he has used for it's purpose, but it's not abused and he takes good care of his trucks.

I think Toyota dropped Access Cab and went back to the XtraCab like the 84-04 trucks had. Which for me was fine, I owned a 1996 Ranger (pre-rear door) Super Cab first, followed by the 1991 Toyota XtraCab that preceded the 2008 Access I own now. I didn't need the rear seats on any of them (and...

Right. I'm old enough to remember a regular cab 7 foot bed small truck. I guess there just isn't as much fleet sales and people like me that like the (although really only slightly) smaller footprint in a vehicle with utility. If I was in the market it's possible to build an F150 or F250 XL...

I was kicking it around so I went to build a Ranger. Did they drop the extended cab and now only do a four door truck? That's a potential show stopper if so. I don't need seating for more than 2 but I do need 6 feet of bed without a battleship wheel base. The point of a small(er) truck is to...

@Pskhaat just looking through options. That cheap supply I mentioned requires you to switch 120V or 240V but there are industrial supplies that will auto switch on AC. This is more common with medical rated supplies and similar critical applications. They're still not super expensive, $87 for...

Are you thinking something like a regular ATX sort of supply? That might be an option, the +12V on those can be fairly sizeable. You may have a couple of options. First make sure you're above the minimum input voltage and can supply the power it'll work. My Victron says it'll work over an...

I mentioned this in another thread Scott but this same solution may work for you. You can run a AC/DC power supply into the input of a DC-DC charger. For example, I run a Victron Orion-TR 12/12-18, a DC-only charger. But when I have mains available I use a repurposed ham radio power supply...

Nothing wrong with 16 and 18 AWG wire if those labels are right about 3A load. Probably would be for 7.5A, too, although voltage drop could start to factor in on a very long run. An 18AWG wire with PVC insulation that's 72 inches long with 7.5A will have 0.30V of drop and around 7°C temp rise...

You do need bigger crimpers for SB120 and larger, although they don't need to be particularly special. For the PP15/30/45 and SB50 using the Anderson specific crimpers is pretty important for them to be reliable but the SB120 and larger are just regular hex crimps. To answer your question the...

Indeed Martin, in your use case using a temporary inverter as a fail safe is a fine way to go. No question better than dragging a generator around for what-if. I don't rely on the inverter solution but I do carry that AC/DC Powerwerx power supply sometimes for basically the same "just in case"...

I think we all sympathize. It's not a one size fits all answer. Using a DC-DC should be fine, although for 200 A-hr a 20A charger is a little light. If you run down completely that's still a 10 hour recharge idle even once you get all the kinks ironed out. To be honest the suggestion above...

If it gets you what you want it's fine, albeit with the extra complexity. You already have a decent charger in the DC-DC just my opinion the better effort is to figure out what's really going on. For one, that 9A might not be wrong. Have you verified that by discharging some and making sure...

Bypassing the DC-DC converter is technically fine as long as the charging voltage is well regulated to be 14.6V or lower. However the alternator is likely not going to be very tightly regulated and could be lower or/and higher than this. If you (or anyone) is thinking about this do NOT bypass...

@Martinjmpr, to your second issue with the lower charging current. What's the alternator end voltage and what's the voltage at the charger input? This is probably just simple loss in the cable. You'll see voltage drop with a run that long and there's nothing you can do about that other than...

If this is the correct manual: https://www.renogy.com/content/RNG-DCC1212-20-BC/DCC1212-204060-Manual.pdf The DIP switches seem wrong. If I read the chart right to get 14.6V you would have SW1 = ON SW2 = ON SW3 = ON SW4 = ON SW5 = OFF If I was to hazard a guess the controller could be...

Yes indeed, the built-in GPS in a modern tablet or phone is completely adequate. Devices for several years can use all major constellations with dozens of channels, so the limitation is GNSS function itself. Some devices can even do multiple bands (eg adding L2, L5, etc) and approach survey...

Agree with @undisider, don't use the crush crimpers in those do everything wire tools. The crimp shape I think is basically a standard Molex 'F' but the depth is longer. So if you have Molex dies for your crimper you might be able to do adequate crimps. It'll take two crimps of the same size...

I have an FT-857D. Also have an IC-7300 and a few FM mobiles and HTs. The 857, as well as the same platform 817/818/897 or 450, 950 and a few other Yaesu of the era are fine radios but I would caution you that they are growing long in the tooth so you have to cognizant of a particular unit's...