Lou Schneider

Most likely it will. I put a pair of 105 ah Lion Safari UT1300 batteries in my Safari Trek and was going to upgrade the inverter and charger, but decided to try the existing one first. It's a 1 Kw MSW that was installed by the factory back in 1997 and puts out a constant 13.6 volts. The batteries have an internal 5 LED state of charge meter. At a constant 13.6 volts they'll charge until the batteries are >80% full at 25 amps each (50 amps total). 5 out of 5 bars lit on the meter. Raise the voltage to 14.1 - 14.6 volts and you'll get the last 15-20% in. Or don't, leaving LiFePo batteries partially charged doesn't hurt anything and may even prolong their already long lives. Doesn't this sound amazingly similar to a multistage lead acid battery charger profile? Constant current for bulk charging at the charger's rated capacity until the voltage rises to 14.1 volts. Hold it there for a few hours for an acceptance charge, then reduce to 13.6 volts for long term charging. There's a reason Battleborn, Renogy and others are marketing their batteries as plug and play compatable.

Isn't Palo Verde Hospital in Blythe about 20 miles closer to Q than Parker?

Another alternative is to use smaller gauge wire that has the ampacity to handle the load and ignore the long distance voltage drop, i.e. #6 or larger foir 50 amps. Then put something like a Hughes Autoformer at the load end to boost the voltage back to normal. I haven't priced wire lately so I don't know if this would save anything vs. just using larger wire.

No, no, and no, usually jeans and a pocket tee shirt in good condition. If you've ever been to an Escapade you probably saw me running the sound board in the big room. No bumper stickers or flags, just a small, older motorhome and a car with some paint fading from the desert sun but both clean and mechanically sound. Like I said, I'm sure I fit some profile, probably being alone in an older motorhome from CA where they allowed small quantities of pot for personal use. Illinois doesn't. I only posted this because RVs may come under increased scrutiny since the Memphis bombing and finding a "harmless" amount of something that is legal in some states won't be so harmless in others.

In over 30 years of RVing, I've been pulled over exactly once. It was by an unmarked car on an Interstate just east of St. Louis about 5 years ago on my way to the Sedalia Escapade. When the uniformed officer approached the driver's window he asked for my license and registration, which I gave him, and said "I think you know why I pulled you over". I replied I really didn't, at which point he walked away. The only thing I could think of was wind gusts were blowing the motorhome back and forth in the lane and he thought I was driving under the influence. When he returned he asked me to stand outside the RV, then he asked about twenty different ways if I had any pot or other drugs in the vehicle, "not even a little?". I answered no each time because I don't use, but he was obviously fishing for cause to do a search and seizure. Then he did a walkaround with a drug sniffing dog and asked if he and the dog could enter the RV to continue the search. I declined. He didn't cite me for anything but the ordeal only ended when his supervisor and another officer in an unmarked car arrived about 20 minutes later. After they discussed the situation I was told I was free to go. Maybe it was because I was alone in an older motorhome with CA license plates and fit some profile, who knows?

Except for this Forum posting glitch, Brave has worked flawlessly. All those annoying pop-up and third party ads simply disappear. And on the rare times this removes some content you want to see you can disable the Brave shields and return to it a straight browser with one click on the Brave logo in the address bar. The one exception I've found that isn't fixed by disabling Brave's protections is the message editor here. I kept Chrome as a secondary browser and use it where I'm not worried about popup ads, etc. like online banking, bill paying, etc. And here when I want to post something.

Welcome! Comments about already registering were from last year's Escapade (2020), which wound up being cancelled due to Covid. Registration for the 2021 Escapade (also in Rock Springs, July 18-23) will open in February.

When I try to post or reply using Brave, there's no place to enter text. Logging out and returning using Chrome makes everything normal. Any idea on what I broke in the Brave settings? Attached is a picture of the Brave posting screen - notice there's no place to enter text.

Look again at the Hindenburg. Which way are the flames going after the hydrogen cells ruptured? Straight up and away from people on the ground. Compare that to a gasoline tank truck fire where the flames are spreading out across the ground - if the tank itself doesn't explode. All fuel sources have hazards, we're just used to the risks posed by common ones.

It works fine as long as the filter is on the intake (suction) side of the fan. Any backpressure through the filter just draws air around the edge of the fan so the motor load doesn't increase. My sister's house was less than a mile from the Creek Fire and when she returned after a 2 week evacuation it had massive smoke and dust inside the house. She ran two box fans with filters 24/7 for the three weeks until her electrostatic filter arrived and they did fine. Went through 2 dozen filters in the process.

Truck drivers are usually dispatched and paid out of a single terminal, even if they are driving across the country. This becomes their place of employment for tax purposes. Even independent truckers have a fixed addres somewhere they use as their office. Even if it's just the kitchen table in their home.

Originally communities set their clocks based on their observation of the local "high noon" sun. This was called natural time and was different in each community. Ever notice in the old western movies the first thing someone would do when entering a new town was to check his pocketwatch against the local town clock? Natural time ended when the railroads connected the nation and needed consistent timing across their operating area so they could enforce timetables that kept trains from colliding with each other. This meant synchronizing each town's time to the railroad's master clock. Time zones offset a precise amount from each other followed.

Technomadia's app US Public Lands maps all of the public land holdings in the U.S. It's available for a few bucks on Apple's App Store and on Google Play.

There's a seller on Las Vegas Facebook Marketplace offering Trina 250 watt panels for $50 each, local pickup only. They're 6 year old panels removed from a major installation because they're upgrading to higher wattage panels. I bought 6 out of the thousands she had available, they're in excellent shape and make their rated power. It's impressive to see the back and side yards of a suburban house filled with pallet stacks of solar panels. Watch out for shipping costs if you can't pick up locally at Santan or any other seller. Larger used solar panels have to be strapped to a pallet for safe shipping, unless you're buying many at once the shipping charges can eat up a lot of the bargain price. In my case with a semi-local seller I just stacked the panels in the bed of my pickup truck and secured them together with a couple of cargo straps.

Locast is great, and I didn't have to alter my location. AT&T reports me as being in Huntington Beach, CA whenever I visit a chain store website even though I'm physically in Nevada. Did the same for Locast so I qualified for the L.A. market channels.

Death Valley is open for day use but closed their campgrounds effective today. But there are workarounds. Longstreet Casino and RV Resort is just across the NV border in Amargosa Valley and is only 40 minutes away from Furnace Creek. Pahrump, NV is 20 minutes further and has numerous RV parks. And gas prices low enough to more than pay for the drive back and forth.

The method we used to semi-permantly mount 6' satellite dishes on flat roofs was to put down a rubber mat to protect the roof membrane, then put the dish and it's mount on top of the mat and weight down the base with 4-8 cinder blocks on each leg. You could do something similar on a smaller scale. I wouldn't use the a/c shroud, they're just thin fiberglass or plastic.

I'm currently at my sister's house on 10 acres near North Fork, at the east end of Bass Lake and the next valley east from Oakhurst and Park of the Sierras. It is indeed beautiful country, the only concern is wildfire. In spite of the Creek Fire getting to within 1/4 mile, her property and the surrounding area was spared and has no after effects except for smoky air that lasted a couple of weeks after they were allowed to return home (they were under mandatory evacuation for two weeks). The weather here has been beautiful, highs in the 60s, lows in the 30s-40s, sunshine and little or no wind. Nice and peaceful.

From what I understand it's not just having satellites in the sky but also having regional ground stations for them to link to. Starlink is starting with ground stations in the NW US, thus the geofencing to limit the beta test to that area. Yes, the satellites can link from one to another to increase their range from a ground station but that adds to the load on the satellites and decreases system performance.

Got the resolution to the disputed charge today ... the full amount has been credited to my account.

Adding a bit of liquid detergent or dishwashing liquid to the water will break down it's surface tension and help it be absorbed into the poop pile.

You said you aren't planning on moving the trailer "for now". Keep in mind if you get a park model over 8'6" wide (102") it will have to be moved by a commercial transporter with Wide Load permits, just like a mobile home. You can't just hitch it to your own truck and tow it down the road.

By far the easiest solution is to add a resistor across each of the LED bulbs. As far as taking away the "advantage" of LED bulbs, the only thing the resistor does is draw a little bit of current when the LED light is on to clear the trouble code. Not enough to worry about unless you plan on leaving your truck unattended with the flashers on for more than a day or two. https://www.amazon.com/Zento-Deals-Pieces-Load-Resistors/dp/B01N0ZKV1R

What is really frustrating is I did check on "Orders" and there's nothing there. Paypal didn't give my CC a transaction number, just "Paypal - Gearbest" showing the $375 charge. Gearbest's chat representative upgraded my inquiry to their Customer Sales team promising a response in 24 hours. Three days later still nothing. My order really did fall down the rabbit hole and my only option has been to dispute the charge, which is pending.

The hot deal right now is in used panels removed from buildings when their tax credits expired. With panel life exceeding 25 years one that's been removed after 5-10 years service still has plenty of life left. SanTan Solar in Arizona and other dealers are selling used 250 watt panels for $50 each. These are about twice as wide as the 100-150 watt panels usually found in RV systems and are nominally 24 volts (36 volts open circuit) so you need a MPPT controller to feed a 12 volt system. MPPT controllers are pretty standard nowadays, you'll only see PWM controllers in the cheapest systems. A single 250 watt panel is enough to keep a pair of batteries charged. $50-100 for a panel and wiring, $50 for a Chinese amp-hour meter and $150-200 for a basic MPPT controller and you're up and running to charge the batteries you now have. Of course you can expand the system beyond that if you want.