packnrat

this new tech sounds way too good to be true. sure in a lab one can get great test results. but how much lower use in real life usage? then the co$t? worth it? might be able to go through two or three sets ( for me it counts as six 6 volt) of normal golf cart batteries long before even getting close to the cost of one lipo battries. forget the price gouge of something new and ”improved”. unless the cost is far below the lipo units most will never buy into it. most normal lead acid will last up to six or more years. of heavy usage. and not abused. and you can buy two ( more) sets of them to just one of lipo. sure they have a weight penalty. but only have to touch once every so many years. now if this new stuff does prove to work out in real life usage. last 10+ years, and cost less than a third of lipo. then maybe they could become popular. till then just a toy for the supper rich, and gadget geeks. i just bought 6 new lead acid 6 volt units. ( total cost of less than one 12 volt lipo unit) so no need for me to change out for many years. sure will be keeping a eye on this. maybe install on a new rig in 7 years? ( i retire in 7 years).

sorry you feel my input is invalid. i was just stating that it is best to be up to date on dmv taxes before selling. only used ca a example. and yes i am using the non opp on a couple bikes right now. as better to not run afoul of the dmv. no matter what state you live in.

i say get the gov paperwork in order first. then sell it. i base this on ca laws. and nobody wants to deal with a sellers passed on headaches. many a dmv problem has caused a deal to vaporize right there. word goes never have problems with the tax man, or the dmv.

a solution in search of a problem? i have never used or owned a “auto” style awning. but at times have used a string on mine as a light wind “support” ends of the tubing down to the heavy weight on the ground. also help to stop head bumps.

i got in trouble with a landlord cause i had a "jeep" parked on the side of the house for longer than a week. it was in the back side yard. it is still a "play toy" not a commute car. and i moved out when i was accused of parking a van on the street, it had nothing to do with me. but the "jeep" was called a rv not a truck or car. so had to be moved. as in into a rented parking lot. not on said property. so yes rv can be anything to some out there.

the "jeep" but the web site linked to is not all correct. bantam did design the "jeep" bantam won the contract, but could not build as required. (but they got exclusive contract for the trailers, some aircraft landing gear and other contracts). so the contract was awarded to willys car company. then during the war ford received a secondary build contract. (due to fears of sabotage) to build a 100% identical 100% interchangeably. (they got sued and fined by the gov for placing "ford" tail gates on them), this is how the GPW came about. G stands for government. P stands for the 80 in wheel base. W stands for willys...built by ford. reference # ISBN 0-910667-10-1 volume one. all American wonder look on page 34. great car for the time. it would never be built today. do to the governments excessive regs on occupant safety. in the 1940's everybody just wanted things that worked correctly. easy to fix, and did not cost 5 years income to buy.

having lived where ice does not stay around very long. i do not have real experience with a frozen diesel motor. but from talking with many a driver that did. a block heater would be the min for these motors. (talking about class A type diesel motors) a simple heater pad placed on the oil pan is also a great way to have the oil up to "usable" temp. this i know is to keep the motor oil and water warm to get the motor up to running temp faster to keep ware form being a $$ problem. then there is the temp of the fuel. as it can gell above 32F. if gelled it can not be pumped into the injectors. a chem helps, but not if that cold. this is one of the reasons why diesel motors were never turned off. but any block heater will never get so hot as to damage the block or anything else by heat alone. the block of the motor just bleeds off the heat to the air. but if it gets too cold the freezing coolant can crack a block.

where does "community" come in here?. thought we were talking personal choice. what is wrong with wanting to spend MY money as i see fit for MY usage? where does what the family next door have to do with this? now if you want to be able to control MY life, then how about you pay the bills. so much in and around our privet life's we have no control, sure some controls are good, but i believe some are not so. out in public that is another thing. controls are needed there, like in keeping traffic mostly doing the same on the roads. saying all electricity will be at 60 hrtz, and house hold voltage is set at 110volts, 15 amps out of the wall socket. (and "other" sockets at such voltage/amps). i have always (or at least as far back as i can remember) helped others with no repayment required. i help them just because it is right. even well past the point it cost me a day(more) and cash out of my pocket. i never even thought of a "payment" in any word or form.

you can buy the stuff. just not government approved. if not for there past legal usage of these two items we would not be able to have surgery, or dental work done, as we would feel full pain.

my mom did not have money back in the 60's when she bought a car, she paid extra to have seat belts, but they were not expensive (cost $ to me unknown), and in the late 60,s they were stock items before the feds did anything. so some things were going out (or in) before the government got involved in peoples lives. sure some regs are good, not debating this, but there is a point of over control. and we are still paying for lung cancer. tobacco (smoked and chewed) has not been banned, now these E- smokes and pot is now legal. just more cancer death for this government allowed products. i am of the FREE market, let people decide where there money goes, not a nanny state government tell you what to think, or do.

no they were leds. i refuse to buy mercury vapor for use in the house.

i like the ice cube trick, the price is right. and no batteries to fail. if the power goes out it goes out as i would not be home to know about it or able to anything anyhow.

no nothing "suspicious" here. in my rv i have had no problems with incandescent bulbs they last no problems for me. only ac power to the coach is via the plug at home, or a (now sold off) honda eu 2000, now own a honda eu 3000. it is now 2019 dec. i bought this rv new in june of 2001. and only had two problems with inside lights in all this time, the clearance lights outside are falling apart, plastic degrading. i forget the converter manf but could see if it is bad, stop by here and test it for me. in the s-n-b house, is where my bad luck with leds has taken place. and all that juice comes from pg&e. i am trying to reuse a older home depot contractor gen for emg home use. just last week got it started up, but it is so () loud. might just sell it off and use the honda eu 3000 for emg use at home, as the governor has threatened to cut off our juice again. as to "cheap" leds. no such thing. they are all over priced. but i buy whats on the shelf at the big box hardware stores, and only if i know the brand name on the box. i try to avoid wally wourld.

yes i have. only one model out there and it is a junk trash unit.

ca schools never taught us phonics. never even heard of that word (phonics) till in high school.

kinda sad none on on the shelves any longer. looks like a ban to me. sure you can get other way more costly. and mercury vapor (just never let the gas out of that one). maybe not a "ban" just a profit thing going on? i see it as my wallet, my choice. i do not spend much time at home (work 12-15 hr shifts right now, used to do multi day layovers, heck years back i might get home every couple of weeks). when home i sleep. so the cost of good bulbs that for the most part last a life time. longer. i dump leds home style lights in the trash far more than normal incandescent bulbs, so no cost saving there. heck had two of them (more in that box?) that i had to turn on the light and return 10-15 min latter just to have enough light to see things. no instant light, started off very dim, and then the chip in the base let it ramp up to a usable light. wheres the savings? about new leds gone, fed up with them, just trashed them. no reason to use plastic, or have any electronics's just to make light. just tin, card stock, and glass. yes i do have the 4D mag light, and they do have the leds in them, (those cost $10.usd more to buy). had one, i dropped it again the bulb went out, so replaced it with a led. could not find a reg bulb replacement that day. as to more light, longer life? i just know what i see every day at work, and leds do not last as long. decades back running lights just did not fail. now all the time. my employer spent a LARGE amount of money having the flood lights removed and replaced with led style stuff. will take decades to recoup that cost. (about the time they are designed to fail, then what gets put back in there? and the old light were still working, now just rusting behind the shop.) and the leds are too bright for my eyes (i work the over night shift) tons of glare. i have to block them to see behind me while back in to a door. and they block out the whole night sky, can only see a couple of planets and the moon. no stars.

i say 'sand" cause i am not sure how to spell selicaka. to me just a truck driver it is a fancy word for sand.

and if leds are so great, why did the government ban the making and importation of normal incandescent bulbs?

i never said "decompose". needs to be organic to decompose. but glass is only refined and melted sand. plastic does not decompose. or return to its native elements. sure weather can erode it to plastic dust. but that is not a nat element. and everything non food (organic) stuffs, just buried under ground will tend to stay that way for a very long time, as in many human life times. glass is very durable that way, but in the open, or in a river setting it will erode over time, and return to its sand beginnings. to me what happens in the end to the product mtr is the answer. not how long it will last. no i am not one of tho's environmental nut cases. just for me less garbage is better. i can not remember the last time i placed a normal light bulb in the trash. but i have dumped a number of leds in the trash in the past couple of years. (home use stuff). i always smash the glass bulbs. mercury vapor, in the house i avoid like the plague. yes i have some tubes in the garage. have had them for many years. never a problem as long as the glass is not broken. but nothing worth it to replace them with. but the price has gone up to way over board. so in the future? if they ever burn out.

stow it away during any storm. will cost you less.

note to dutch_12078 video link does not work. but by the numbers most did not happen in the USA. 1: anything puts the white house into lock down. heck just someone who wanted a photo........and just lost control. No body hurt. 2: yes bad people, so NOT a drone anything.......... do cars cause drunk driving? not a hobby thing here. 3: bad flying by the operator, and i bet there was a legal permit for this fight...... not a hobby thing here. 4: sounds like someone tried to just steal a drone from another..... not a hobby thing here. 5: another loss of control, ran out of juice in the batteries, here is why delivery drones are a bad thing. maybe a hobby thing? and here is a bad pilot. 6: just a word here, any video? it was a news helo, so they do have cameras on them. nobody got hurt except the feelings of the helo pilot. did the drone operator break any laws? none listed. 7: how close is "close" i am not a pilot, but i guess they have better things to do than look out for a drone. flock of birds, etc. bad choice for a drone operator if there was one, and NOT a deal in the USA....hobby? or just a fool? 8: DRUGS, the mexical cartel's have used far worse ways to smuggle DRUGS into the USA....not a hobby thing. 9: a cheap fool wanted to watch a game free, we got's to pay over priced fares to the very rich for this privilege. just a fool, flying in a no go -for profit-- area. hobby? or fool? both? nobody hurt. 10: same as number 9. and only the so called "reporter" said anything about a drone set up to hurt anybody. hobby fool? nobody hurt? 11: the nat park service never found one. even after there drone and a helo searched for it. but even i say some places drones should not be. not even where the park service is the control. 12..14..16: fly near wild critters, pay the cost, but for the birds... they were the attacker. heck even the monkey attacked the drone, none the other way....hobby? fools lost there drones, money is the only thing hurt here. 13: again why drones should not do deliveries. 15: crashed on a return to home program. so a computer error. again why drones should not do deliveries. as to the owner and operator. heck a tower is a magnet for videos. and again bad control thinking here. hobby, most likely, bad judgment yes. 17: again Not in the USA. as here a fifth story window would be made of a far harder glass. heck even the best computer in a drone can not see glass. hobbyist, most likely. a bad controller yes. prohibited area?? now with all this said. NO i do not condone any BAD or ILLEGAL flying. give them a ticket and there day in court, if in the USA. other countries, do as per there laws not a problem here. if i was a spokes person for any of this, yes i would encourage prosecuting all who break the laws. but would also, rally for less government intruding in our lives. like the alleged event in Yellowstone. sure i got into flying a drone, running a gen for juice. riding a dirt bike. (both pedal and motor), driving a quad, driving a jeep. but there are places best suited for this activities. and places best to just not be. i for one do not want a drone flying around in a "special" place. of see a fool driving there 4X4 through a open meadow. so put away your flame throwers. i do agree to prosecute on some listed here. others the loss of there drone can be enough. (well over $1,000-$2,000. USD).

sad but if not street legal, will never be allowed on any of the dwindling dirt roads and two track trails in ca. state law says must be street legal, except in off road quad parks.

show me your papers..... please. just another way for the over reaching government to control your life. a couple airports that drones were said to have been at, (both in england), none in the USA. but one was found out after a none airport police investigation, it was the airport police drone, they tried to hide and cover it up. the other one there was never a drone seen, or could be proven to have been there. it was just a report from a busy body lady, off airport property. sure i am not in the loop, but as i have known, no drones have even been involved in a "problem" at any commercial US airport, but then even a grass field where old gramps used to fly his biplane out of (now unused in 50+ years) is call a airport. heck even a rc field can be registered as a airport. the faa never removes them from there listings. even if that spot is now a housing development, shopping mall, hospital, other building, etc. as to home delivery of things, drones can only carry so much weight, and are limited to a very short flight time. and like everything else the fcc says, everything must accept any rf. including harmful rf. so how many delivery drones are going to fall out of the sky hurting people? O and they can not fly within 5 miles of a "airport", hospital (helo pad thing here). jail, prison, government center, anyplace that has to do with power generation, or water pumping, etc. (more places???). https://uavcoach.com/drone-laws-in-united-states-of-america/ https://www.faa.gov/uas/ http://knowbeforeyoufly.org/learn-the-drone-laws/ https://jrupprechtlaw.com/drone-laws-state/ then the county's, citys, and communitys can tell you what to do, and how to do it.

seeing as i will not be camped “in town” , so parking to me is nothing. sure might go see the circus. but as to buying anything. if possible will be buying from another on this forum. ( why asking about cell service). to go to the tent would be more to see whats up, then go home a build it myself. better maybe, even lower cost?.