RVs are very inexpensive to live in... as long as you don't actually go anywhere otherwise with the current cost of hotels and fuel they are about the same cost per distance as traveling via credit card and air (expensive @ around $300-$400 per travel day)docnjoj said:That is a great idea. I have a disabled older son and if one of those stupid new Congresses cut off disability like they claim they will, I may do the same thing. I do wish I could get the one in the picture, but I suspect it is a "Collector Item" now.
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Don't know why, but I've always had better performance using less-expensive tires! (except wear) I've had rotten experiences with Hookworms in 16" rims for whatever reasons. Used wallyworld Bell tires but thought I'd try a Marathon+ because blackberrydocnjoj said:Thanks DDK for the rundown on motorhomes. It would not go anywhere.
We went back to Walmart Kevlar belt tires after the European ones like Schwalbe failed and punctured quite a lot.
Familiar with the wildlife along the Gulf, having lived in the Biloxi area for a few years... next to a river (creek) close to the bay featuring armadillos, geckos, alligators, snakes, bugs... lotsa bugs... weird languages spoken (French Creole) hardly understood anyone and that was back when shrimp/fish/crab boats still worked the waters (long long time ago)docnjoj said:Our version of Paradise has bugs. Alabama gulf coast.
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spent a couple of years mere meters from surf. I moved a couple of kilometers further after the tsunami of 2011 destroyed the local harbor (one of two harbors in the usa damaged by this event)docnjoj said:Yeah that is the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Casinos and level stretches of beach where hurricanes blew away anything that was there.
Alabama coast in the area of Baldwin County is all rich people. Needless to say we live not on the direct coast
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thanks!craneplaneguy said:I stumbled upon a way to join 10 gauge stranded wires that I have used for some years now. I use an aircraft cable (as in wire rope cable, not intended or designed for electrical use) crimper and all copper 3/32" swedges. The crimper looks like a bolt cutter but has pre determined spaced holes for whatever cable you are working with, it occurred to me one day while needing to splice some wires on the back of a solar panel, that 10 gauge wire stripped is about 3/32". I did an experimental swedge, and then tried to pull it apart, couldn't do it. The copper swedges are cheap, a few cents each, the swedger is expensive but I already had it, and it's design allows for absolutely consistent swedges. I used it last a couple days ago making up an extension cord to go up into a backpack battery.
Having said all that, I like your system, looks good.
The above statement is, well, completely (almost) false because I didn't realize the battery's resting voltage varies as much as it does due to temperature differences.ddk said:~after a few more days of meter testing under real conditions:
The Wh reading is a stored function allowing you to turn the meter "off" without losing said reading. Otherwise (although seriously I don't consider this an issue as I ride the trikes most every day) the meter "powered on" causes the 7S battery to discharge about 0.02V daily (including battery's "self-discharge")
I haven't done the whole math thing to figure out how much power that actually is, but it's a bit larger number than I expected, meaning the meter probably uses an inefficient method of dc-dc conversion for powering its' electronics stuff.