Recent content by dreadlocks

I've been sternly warned my language is unacceptable, but I'm not sure what language that is because they edited all the posts, must be really terribly offensive or something.. so I'm not posting anymo, so long and thanks for all the fish.

I've got a 93 Suzuki DR350 I paid $1k for, street legal.. its about 250lbs, does great for basic travel on everything from highways to trails.. bit too small/light for interstates (but it'll do 70mph+ if your brave enough), and a bit too big for high speed, high air trail running so its a...

you need a bunch more equipment to support lithium, gets expensive.. we're not there yet.. its hard to beat a pair of 6v Golf Cart batteries in a series if you have the room and weight carrying capacity, which most trailers have in spades.. for ~$200 you get ~220-240AH @ 12V, with lead batteries...

I'd not buy a super small genset with the current situation with Lithium breaking ground quickly, anything you build today should really try to hope to expand into that later. You also dont want to run a genset over more than ~25-30% load if you wanna keep it quiet, so a Honda 2.2k Genset is...

Go get a pair of 6v GC2 Golf Cart Batteries from Sams Club for ~$100 each, a Victron Smart Solar 75/15 or 100/20, and 200-300W of solar panels and you'll run your fridge and camper fine for the most part as long as you don't go overboard on other 12v accessories.. your tow vehicle will keep the...

not really, it still takes ~7-8h of charging at full rate to get a lead-based battery back to full after depleting it, in a trailer you could fix some solar panels to the roof that would give you a decent charge while driving and also when not... the lengths of wire are so long you cant fully...

all the trail runners in trucks/rtts that spend all day long w/an engine running posting great results w/fridges and minimal battery are kinda what threw me way off on my first fridge on a trailer w/a dedicated house battery, I greatly underestimated how much energy my battery would get from the...

If you really got 8awg at 8ft (really 16ft because the negative conductor) then its really at 11.5v (0.1v drop under a fridge load) if nothing else at all is running off that circuit, if you put anything else on it.. then all that changes, as the loads go up the drop gets bigger if the wiring...

keep on reading there buddy.. The fridge is load, the LVD cuts off when fridge is running its not a resting voltage, and your argument is using that graph is an epic fail is because its worse than that.. not better, so are you not seeing the fallacy in your argument?

Medium on the ARB Fridge is 11.4v which it shuts off at This is a batteries state of charge for a given voltage: So 11.4v cutoff on your starter battery is draining it down BELOW 10% SOC, again I'm stoked your managing to crawl back out of the woods doing stupid ******** like that.. but I know...

your wiring is inadequate, so its shutting off at a higher voltage than you set it at.. you didn't seem to do it intentionally, so your personal experience is largely irrelevant as its not a universal truth that everyone here is going to use your gauge and length of wiring with similar loads, if...

Wiring, the LVD is on the fridge side and not the battery side.. so under load it'll reach the low voltage cutoff before the battery is there.. that's the other problem w/fridges, them shutting off too early when you got a dedicated battery because you need ridiculously oversized wiring for a...

Naw, all the low voltage disconnects I've seen on Fridges are set way too low.. they only kick in to stop you from completely destroying your battery by draining it down to 10v, you wont have much luck starting a vehicle with less than 12V.. 11.8V was highest my ARB fridge went IIRC, is only at...

lol, yeah me too.. 650W of solar, Lithium, and a Genset now days.. it all started off with a lil fridge about a decade ago.. that spiraled out into a very expensive setup, but hey I can finally boondock indefinitely w/out ever running out of power and that's not a very easy target to hit.. my...

You should have a jump pack regardless of the fridge or not if Overlanding, not many people around to hook jumper leads up to.. However, starter batteries are not designed to be discharged deeply (ie, over 10% discharge).. they are made for high amp output with a ton of small cells in...