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Something tells me you would love to come out to Aspen in a couple weeks to get a personal grand tour of Fall colors, a great five star dinner at one of our fine eateries all for the low price of helping me not burn my camper up....;-D When you say charge in parallel for a short time, we are...

So you want the fridge and the other loads on the same battery, solar charged, not split with the fridge dedicated to the solar charged battery as I had interpreted. So a revised plan: Truck to isolator/charging relay (truck side) Charging relay to Switch Terminal Common. Remove DC Panel...

Long shot, but low voltage, either battery or bad electrical connections might cause it to go off. The rough road might be shaking up some crusty connections. Keep an eye on your battery voltage when it goes off next time, easy to do.

I think this is what you described: Truck to isolator/charging relay to Camper power panel and Battery 1 terminal as stock. Battery 1 to Switch Terminal 1 (wired to the stock isolator/charging relay and charged by truck) Battery 2 to Switch Terminal 2 (charged by solar) Solar charger to Switch...

I would keep an eye on the voltage with the new battery and ensure it is up over 13 (or even 14) volts when there is sun on the solar array. Going much further into analysis is probably not worth the attempt over the internet, most likely a bum battery, it happens. If you have the manual for...

If the battery voltage stays high when you are not runnign anything, then drops below 10.5 volts with only a lighht or short load, and takes a while to recover back to 13V, your battery has gone south. If the battery is only a year old, and had a solar charger on it the whole time, either there...

For Chicken Corners, there is an adventure camp a ways past Hurrah Pass that a loaded down (supplies in, garbage out) pickup truck travels too just fine. Lots of smaller 4x4 trucks/SUVs on that road. Beyond the camp turnoff there are a few tough places, 4x4 stuff due to the sandy steep nature...

A well placed rock spit out of a riding lawn mower at passing by at 40 feet takes down a tempered glass sliding door pretty fast I found :-)

It helps to have minimal voltage drop between the batteries (run heavy wire, keep it short) and the same type of battery chemistries for the alternator to do it job best via a low voltage drop battery isolator/solenoid device. A DC-DC converter is great when your charging source is low voltage...

The Powerstream manual should talk about this case I would hope. Here are my ideas Option 1, Install an Isolator Between the truck and camper batteries. Perhaps the Powersteam when turned off passes through this current like an isolator would? An isolator in this example is a diode based...

Thanks K7, You are correct, I did mix up on my terminology for the coffee maker. That is what I thought about the Wattage issue with the IOTA. I am considering on updating to a higher wattage Inverter in case of future add ons or a coffee maker w/ 12V adapter plug. If you get a 12VDC coffee...

Re: 800W coffee maker on 400W inverter. Won't work. Watts are watts regardless of the voltage, AC or DC (for our purposes at least). Your battery can supply lots of juice, but the 400W inverter can only supply more than 400W for a very brief time, likely called the surge current capacity if...

My personal favorite for indoor 24VDC and 12VDC is the Anderson Powerpole. Standard is red and black for our 12VDC systems and it is also a standard for interconnect in ham radio usage so our radios might get power from others in emergency times. They do come in other colors. The smaller...

Murphy Hogback was repaired last spring and is like a highway now. Hardscrabble hill on south/west side can be a bit tight still for big rigs. Start now for camping permit, but given it is still hot, you might not have much competition. You might consider going in part way and heading back...

Not sure, but unlikely as it's going to be a paid storage yard... I was wondering about perhaps covering the turnbuckle doors, for when it starts to rain/snow sideways and also the furnace exhaust port. Any tips on that? The access doors are tucked under enough that no significant rain is...

K7MDL, Are you looking for an LCD TV wall mount to mount a TV or to mount your table? The stock FWC table. I have seen in the past simple ones made of a tube bent 90 degrees, and the vertical part slips into the wall mount extrusion. The LCD mount is usually pinned or bolted to the end of...

I have been looking at LCD TV wall mounts, but have not found the perfect one yet. I have the stock couch in my 2006 Grandby and envision a Lagun type arrangment with the stock table top, but mounted on the front of the cabinet, just aft of thermostat so it is located under the sink, in front...

I agree not looking for any dangerous problems.Explain the automatic charging unit please,where to get one and what they are. Thanks Frank Automatic Charging Relay (ACR), Battery Combiner, Voltage Sensitive Relay (VSR) These are really the same things, different name. A solenoid, relay, or...

I'm going to just run without the separator for the rest of the summer and straight wire the truck charge line to the camper battery. I'm really not at risk of draining my truck batteries in the summer now that it is finally warm enough to not need the heater. It will charge all the time -...

Thanks for the great information! I will look in to a UPS unit. It would suck to have to resort back to a cooler if I fried my fridge....ahhh the old days. A UPS unit would be cheap insurance to protect against high and low voltage situations. For simple plug and play use, you will need to...

Since we are on the topic of this, and I don't think this question deserves another thread, maybe sombody more knoledgable in this subject, can answer me this quick question ?? I always thought it is best to charge a "Deep Cycle" marine type battery at a low rate of Amps. In other words...

If the manufacturer has deemed there is enough of a problem to warrant a recall, it will have a timeline of immediately (i.e. NOW!). They can't very well advise you to keep using it until it is convenient for you to replace it. If your camper burns down before you got around to replacing it...

Breakers and power strip protection won't do much about high or low mains voltages. Think brownout or periods of overvoltage. Those conditions won't trip a breaker until it is too late, the event is typically too slow and not drastic enough to kick in a breaker or fuse. Several of the loads...

Assuming you are talking about AC to AC protection using your camper AC outlets (hard wired to the shore power source via your breaker panel). There are simple solutions like filtered and transient protected power strips and inline plugs, or you could go the next level and get an inexpensive...

Coming to Bend! Camping or just passing through? Maybe we can hook up. Missed this reply. Was there on motorcycle and stayed in the Lara House B&B for 2 nights July 1 and 2. Drove around the local roads and Cascade Lakes Highway July 2. Saw a FWC Eagle and Hawk pass by. Did not get a...