Lou Schneider

So they're basically motorhomes minus a front axle and driving compartment.

A pan stops heating the second you remove it from ANY kind of burner. Gas, electric or induction. Induction heat is concentrated in the base of the pan because it's closest to the induction coil and has the greatest mass to react with the inductive forces. Plus the amount of transmitted energy falls off at the square of the distance. Elevate the base of the pan the same distance above the burner as the sides are when the pan is sitting flush and you'll get little or no heat generation.

Something in CA's water? Explains a lot.

Using a router with a Visible phone has become largely irrelevant. Visible no longer restricts the phone's hotspot to one device at a time (the reason for making an external router the single device) so multiple devices can connect directly to the phone's hotspot. But all of them have to share the somewhat low 5 MBPS speed limit for the standard hotspot or 10 MBPS for Visible+.

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.

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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.

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.

Are you absolutely sure the DC output is connected with the correct polarity? Reverse polarity will blow electrolytic capacitors.

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.

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.

I'm surprised no one has marketed ABC (brand) DEF.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

Laine hasn't been back since February 1.

Highway 190 through Death Valley still has extensive damage from Hurricane Hilary's rains a couple of months ago. They just re-opened it last week. Expect to encounter construction delays and one way traffic control at several places along the route including a 12 mile stretch west of Panamint Springs where the wait can be a half hour or more. Most of the park is closed due to roads being washed out but you can drive down to Badwater Basin and see the temporary lake that is currently there. RV camping is available in Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells. If you aren't interested in seeing the limited areas open in Death Valley I'd take Hwy 395 down to Barstow and then take 58 and I-15 to Las Vegas.

Just a quick addendum - when I was working in Los Angeles 8 years ago I stayed in Hollywood RV Park in Van Nuys (San Fernando Valley), one of only two RV parks in the area. It's a very nice park but spaces are tight (it was laid out for officer's housing during WWII). Monthly rates were $895 a month, and daily rates were around $50, now it's $79 a night and $1400-1600 a month depending on the size of your RV (some spaces are longer than others) and last time I was there the owner had a foot tall stack of applications on his desk from people wanting to get in. I was working in San Francisco Bay Area before I moved to LA and I stayed at Marin RV Park in Greenbrae. Rates then were in the same range as Hollywood RV Park, today they're $99-115 a night or $595 a week during the winter months (weekly rate only available November 1-March 30).

NPS is now saying Death Valley will re-open on October 15, with Hwy 190 allowing access to Furnace Creek from both the east and west entrances. Previously they said only the west entrance over Towne Pass would re-open then. Most other roads in the park will remain closed. https://www.nps.gov/deva/planyourvisit/routes-into-death-valley-from-highway-190.htm @homelesshartshorns The Travel Logs section doesn't allow replies, so I'll answer the question you asked here. Death Valley's west entrance over Towne Pass has a very steep grade (something like 27%). Going eastbound it was the only time my Safari Trek was forced into first gear to climb it. Then there's a continuous 20+ mile downgrade from the summit at 4970 ft. to below sea level at Stovepipe Wells. Fortunately the east entrance at Death Valley Junction will also re-open on October 15 and it's much easier - mostly level as it follows a usually dry riverbed into the Valley. Only the areas in and around Hwy 190 (Furnace Creek and Stovepipe Wells) will open in October, the rest of the roads and trails in the park will remain closed. Unfortunately, the same floods washed out a lengthy section of CA 127 where it crosses the (also normally dry) Armagosa River between Baker and Shoshone. I haven't heard of a re-opening date for this stretch, my guess is Caltrans prioritized re-opening Hwy 190 instead. If you're approaching from the south you'll have to detour via Las Vegas "up and over the hump" to Pahrump, take NV 372/CA 178 to Shoshone and then go north to Death Valley Junction. Or take Bell Vista Ave on the north side of Pahrump, a more direct route to Death Valley Junction.. The Beatty entrance from US 95 is closed but you can take NV 373 through the Amargosa Valley to DVJ.

Starlink needing to see the "northern" sky is false. Their satellites can be anywhere overhead. Dishy orients itself to the north so it's uplink (which is less directional than the receive side) doesn't interfere with geosynchronous satellites over the equator.

So just another case of vaporware.