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Lou Schneider

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  1. You really don't need a fuse between the solar panels and the charge controller. Unlike a battery or a conventional power supply that sends humongous amounts of current into a short, solar panels will NEVER produce more current than their rated Short Circuit Current (Isc). This is only a few percent above the Maximum Power Point current so if your wiring can handle normal current it can also handle the slightly higher current the panels will send into a short. Likewise, if a fuse is sized to handle the solar panel's normal output the current will stay low enough to keep it from blowing if the wires are shorted. Where you DO need fuses are on the battery side of things to interrupt the huge rush of current if something shorts there.
  2. Try opening the story with a browser that isn't subscribed to the service.
  3. At least part of the reason for the 6 month policy is while you can file a change of address to instantly start sending your mail TO a mail forwarder, you cannot issue a similar change of address AWAY from a mail forwarding service. The post office won't pre-sort the mail going to the forwarder to look for your mail. When you leave the forwarder you have to notify everyone of your new address and mail will continue going to the forwarder until the senders make the changes.
  4. It's not just tornados or earthquakes that can interrupt natural gas service. When I moved up to WA my new bride told me when they lose electricity in the winter they shelter in place using blankets to block off the room with the gas fireplace and cook on the outdoor gas grill. The year before I got there they got a major snowstorm which cut the electricity for about a week. The town's natural gas storage tank ran out the third day stopping the flow through the gas lines.
  5. Are you absolutely sure the DC output is connected with the correct polarity? Reverse polarity will blow electrolytic capacitors.
  6. I carry enough cash to buy gas and groceries to get home. Once when I was in my 30s while on a trip to Colorado a malfunctioning ATM machine ate my debit card. Not having any credit cards at that time, I had to go to the bank's branch the next day where the teller intercepted the ATM courier and retrieved my card before he had a chance to shred it.
  7. Once I bought new tires for my Ford F-350 and the shop inflated them to the full sidewall pressure which was 50% above the pressure on the truck's placard. It was a 60 mile drive home (unloaded) and the truck felt very unstable, like it was sliding and fishtailing. I almost brought them back the next day but I caught the error and setting them to the correct pressures solved the problem.
  8. I'm surprised no one has marketed ABC (brand) DEF.
  9. Do you participate at places like iRV2.com, Campground Reviews or any one of a number of manufacturer specific forums? These are owned by Social Knowledge LLC, the parent company of RVLIFE and your information could have been gleaned there. https://www.socialknowledge.com/our-communities/ When Social Knowledge purchases a Forum they encourage members to sign up for free access to their other RVLIFE sites like Campground Reviews and Trip Wizard. The recent mailing is a pitch to upgrade these free membership to paid status and IMO was a major PR blunder. You don't have to upgrade if you don't want to use those sites.
  10. No need, any tow truck large enough to tow the motorhome will have their own air supply. When I was maintaining large diesel generators at transmitter sites, we'd "polish" the fuel every year or two. Essentially it's passing the dirty fuel through a series of filters decreasing in size to remove water, sediment and microbial contaminates. When you're done you have essentially new and fresh diesel. We used a commercial service for our 5000 gallon storage tank but you can DIY for smaller quantities. Google "diesel fuel polishing" for several articles and videos.
  11. With Visible (owned by Verizon and using the same towers) offering unlimited data for $25 a month it kind of limits the value of a grandfathered Verizon account in many cases. If you can live with it's conditions (one device at a time using a cell phone hotspot, occasionally having lower data priority on a crowded tower) it's a great deal.
  12. These fools made their own bad luck. I wish SFGate had a comments section. They couldn't even follow Google's directions, the pin on the map shows them well off of the intended route. Had they glanced at their phone before they turned off the highway they would have seen they were going down the wrong "road". They were supposed to take Sandy Valley Rd, 20 miles of 20 ft wide, graded and maintained road with a sign that says "Sandy Valley." I call it a "45 MPH road." If you go 45 MPH or faster all of the bumps disappear. From Sandy Valley it's another 20 miles on narrow two lane paved roads to I-15 at Jean. Instead, they took off down an unmarked, unmapped dirt track. Had they glanced at the phone before they left the highway they would have seen they were in the wrong place. What's really hilarious are the lemmings who blindly followed behind them. Or they could have looked at the suggested detour and said, "Hmmm. This will add an hour and a half on slow roads to our trip. Maybe we should just chill here until the freeway re-opens." Or take US 95 to I-40, it's only 30 minutes longer than taking I-15. At least they had fairly pleasant weather, not the 110 degree summer heat.
  13. When I was traveling via air and motels for work I would stop in a Wendy's, either at the departing airport or as soon as I landed and have a meal. While I was there I would grab several of their forks, knives and spoons from the condiment counter. One set would live in my carry-on luggage as a reserve set. Wendy's utensils are high quality plastic individually wrapped and they last for quite a while.
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