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Not quite right. The 90% efficacy means that of the people that get Covid-19, 10% of them have had the vaccine. In the initial trials for the Pfizer vaccine, they had something along the lines of 43,000 people in the study. Half were given a placebo and half the vaccine. They had roughly 190 people that got sick out of the study. Out of those 190, 10 of them had been given the vaccine. Take the 10 number divided by the 190 and the odds of you being one of the people infected was just over 5%. the inverse of that is just under 95% and that is the efficacy number. Note that your total odds of getting Covid-19 after being vaccinated in this study was 10 out of 21,500 or .047%. Your odds of getting Covid-19 without the vaccine (in this study) was 180 out of 21,500 or .84%. Edit: note, this efficacy number is the rate for the duration of this study. Over time and with more exposures, the odds of you contracting Covid-19 will go up for both groups but the efficacy will remain roughly the same between the vaccinated and unvaccinated groups

Rick, looking at the picture again, you really need to paint the smart's safety cell in the same red as the truck. that swoopy stripe would mirror what is on the trailer.

I knew you would come around to the dark side sooner or later, even if you do drink that muddy Irish creek water they call whiskey.. 😎

We have a full wall slide in our Jayco Greyhawk 30X and have never had an issue with it.

Glad to see this is going to be a simple, easy to understand, beginner type of class....

A 3/4" or 1" impact will be your friend. Most shops hammer them until they quit moving and that makes it difficult for everyone. I always use a 3/4" torque wrench to put mine back on to prevent the aluminum wheel from getting cracked. If you don't have a large impact, get a torque multiplier to break them loose and then spin them off with a smaller impact.

Nah, I didn't miss anything, the sarcasm in my post must have been missed....

OK, to be fair, we are just 64 feet and 58 inches in length so I am just under 65 feet long..... Having said that, take a look at double towing your Sport Ute behind the trailer. Just make sure the frame is reinforced well enough to handle the additional stress. If you are pulled over, it's a simple matter of unhooking the car and letting your wife drive it for a while. There are many rigs that run that way and it will not draw the same attention as a 40 long HDT will get with a full size vehicle sitting on the back. Just remember that you need to disconnect the car before attempting to back up.

Hmmm.... Borders that you can't cross without permission and the proper paper work. What a novel concept...

Rod, I sent the spec sheet on that inverter to your yahoo email account. David

That will Vicki and I in a few years. On second thought, Carl and Donna might beat us by a year.

For those that might not know, Mike drove the conventional blue Western Star with the American flag in the grill. Mike was a true American patriot, a loving husband and a true friend that will be sorely missed. He left behind a host of friends that enjoyed his sense of humor, his outlook on life and, for myself, his loyalty as one of the few, true friends that I knew I could call on anytime, anywhere, for any reason and he would would be there to help with no questons asked. Godspeed to a friend that will be sorely missed.

LOL, I can send you the specs on it but Victron is starting to come around. When you look at Magnum inverters, they state maximum watts which equals Volt-Amps and that is true for a purely resistive load. A Victron inverter lists the watts taking into account a .8 power factor. The end result of two inverters with the same VA rating is that they both will produce the same power to a load.

Glen, it will be a 3000vs Multi Plus unit only. As far as VA goes, take a close look at the specs.

Kirk, watts are watts but in a DC circuit, volts times amps will give you watts. In an AC circuit you have volts times amps to give you volt amps (va) but the power (watts) will depend on the power factor. A purely resistive load (think electric resistance heater) in a AC circuit has a power factor of 1. An electic motor might have a power factor of .8 and will will use the wattage of the va times the power factor with the remainder being mostly waste heat and other factors. Look at some of the inverters out there with a va rating of 5000va and a wattage rating of 4000 watts. That is something that you need to take into account when looking at inverters. You also need to carefully look at the wattage rating on inverters. If they say "maximum wattage", that is the rating for a purely resistive load only without a power factor. Others will be rated with an assumed power factor.

OK, still trying to figure this out, jump out of a plane without a parachute? Odds of living? Pretty much zero. Walk around in public? Even IF I catch Covid-19, my odds of living? Pretty good. Your point is?

There are a few cases where converting DC to AC and then back to DC makes sense. An example would be a 24v or 48v DC battery bank located in the front of a unit. Yes, they make DC to DC converters but they are not efficient and if your 12v loads are in the other end of the house, the wire size is huge to prevent an unacceptable voltage drop. In that case, a lot of the time it makes more sense to run a 120v AC line to the rear of the unit, add a small converter to go from 120v AC to 12v DC. One major thing to remember is the higher the voltage on a DC circuit, the smaller the wire for a given wattage. The other main consideration on 12v DC circuits is that the entire run of wire (out from the load center, to the load and the return) has to be considered when determining the wire size.

Easy, let the first three jump, go into the cockpit, knock the pilot out, turn on the autopilot, take the pilot back and throw him out the door, go back up front, disengage the autopilot and land the plane.

I will see what Irish goodness I can find for you when we meet up at the ECR. It sounds like you could use it.

Jameson over ice, relax and then you can tell us about the loose or corroded ground wire. 😁

The watt rating will depend on the power factor of the load. The only constant will be the VA rating. If all you have are purely resistive loads, a 3000VA inverter will produce 3000 watts. A motor load with a power factor of .8 will give you a watt rating of 2400 watts. A .9 power factor will give you 2800 watts. Most companies use a power factor of .8 as an estimate but that power factor can range from .75 to .9 in most cases depending on the load.

I run a 2017 Kenworth with a 500 HP Cummins 15 liter ISX and a 13 speed Eaton Ultrashift Plus transmission. That transmission has creep mode enabled, will skip gears when shifting and do pretty much the same as any of the newer automated manual transmissions. The new DT12 from Freightliner, the I shift and M shift Volvo and Mack, the new 12 speed Paccar in Pete's and KW's as well as all of the Ultra Shift Plus transmissions are very good and seem to be holding up well.

When I was in school (you know, when they used coal oil lanterns for lights) all of us had a good stash of snacks in our rooms and a good percentage of us had cans of sterno or a mini camp stove in our backpack to cook with. We didn't use them for books back then, we were hiking and fishing on the weekends and always kept a pack ready for those short notice trips.

I thought you folks in the hills used corn cobs???