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The TriMetric models can also monitor the voltage only of a second battery bank by scrolling thru the display options (& assuming that ti was wired to do so).

One of the shunt's big terminals should be connected to the battery's '-' terminal, either one. The wires currently attached to the battery's '-' terminal, all of them, should be moved to the other big terminal on the shunt. The shunt has to be between the battery '-' and every other wire...

Typically a shunt has to be in the circuit. So it could be attached to that unused post, but then everything attached to the used post needs to be removed and attached to the other terminal on the shunt. Which means that the wire between the shunt and the battery needs to be big enough to carry...

The Western Auto that used to be in Ojai, CA I remember as sort of a hybrid between an auto parts store and a hardware store. I think that I was only ever in there once, looking for a tube for my pre- BMX era 20" bike. Now the Coast Hardware that was in Redmond, OR; I was in there a lot in my...

As I recall the determining factors are permanent sleeping, eating, and a commode. Note that if you do take the camper off for any reason, and have so much as a bag of groceries on the flatbed while on public highways they can ticket you for hauling stuff without a 'commercial' plate. The...

A mobile welder old friend of mine told me that even with the welding unit bolted to the bed, his flat bed technically meant that he had to stop in the scales. The only trucks exempt from having to go thru any and all scales are pick-up trucks with the factory bed on them. I noted that some of...

In our short lived and probably myopic view, they don't.

Had a HS kid and his GF trail us in his dad's JK on our 2018 Elevation Extremes trip. This starts out at Badwater and gets more remote from there, what could possibly go wrong? They knew the general route due to a discussion that his dad had had at work with one of us. We played hop-scotch with...

The contacts are silver plated, under a fair amount of contact force, and experience significant wiping during mate and de-mate. Use care with the heat shrink, easy to get it where it won't allow the contact to engage the connector body correctly or move like it should.

The rigid panel that I put on our old camper came with MC4's and cutting them off voided any warranty. So I bought a pre-terminated jumper off amazon and cut it instead. Both jumper wires into the j-box's terminal strip. Then much more finely stranded plated marine wire down into the camper. I...

Found a pic, not that it should need it, but why not? EDIT: Just in case there's any confusion, that is NOT house wire. It is Ancor Duplex 6 ga. https://www.ancorproducts.com/en/120710

I used a typical house wiring sealed duplex sized j-box on our old camper. That gave me room to install a two conductor terminal strip. I sealed it to the roof with 5200 and all wires exited through cable glands like RCP Jim's install. Might be where I got the idea from, don't recall. Looks like...

We use SB120's at work with a right angle bracket that places the open end of one flush to the panel it is mounted on. I think that they found that bracket on the powerwerx page, but I don't know that for sure. In our truck's bed I merely bolted it flat to the bedside pointing up. I pointed it...

All too often it is assumed that what works and happens in racing directly translates to driving on the street or in the dirt. While the hard physics of it all still apply and do not change, the environment is not as exact and the vehicles in question aren't tuned to the knife's edge like any...

Take the Timbrens out and report back on how the truck rides and behaves. At least some of the harshness is likely caused by them and the bouncy is the result of the damping being designed for leaf springs and they can not cope with a rubber 'spring'. What load range tires and what cold tire...

The heater in our old Phoenix was behaving oddly and that spurred a complete re-wire when I saw how the factory had stapled wires to the underside of the counter. In the process of deciding what to do with the heater, fix or replace I discovered that the replacement cost as compared to replacing...

Recall that there is a battery at both ends of the connection between the camper and the truck, there needs to be a fuse or breaker (I prefer the latter) at both ends of that connection. I prefer breakers with a manual reset so that I can easily disconnect one or both batteries, and I put the...

I re-sealed the Phoenix when it started leaking around the vent. Hasn't leaked on those screws since.

I do not think that bonding to the roof is an assured heat-sink unless what you've used to do the bonding with is thermally conductive. It would shock me immensely to learn that all VHB tapes are good thermal conductors. I'd had a couple "object lessons" in lack of thermal conduction. Substances...

Auto body shops have a product that is specific for removing silicone. It probably won't do much for the globules, but it should help with the trace bits left behind. If you have a real auto parts store that also mixes automotive paint or an automotive paint supplier in your area you might go...

If the truck bed has internal tie-downs you may be able to run a cable from one rear tie-down around the backside of the camper to the other tie-down. This can be down low where visible and possibly even be run behind a piece of trim should there be any. Shouldn't take much to stop the rearward...

Marketing trumps physics every time!

Not too sure about the 3M adhesive being a thermal conductor. If it is not then you won't have gained much for your trouble.

All panels are facing a heat source, admittedly one a long ways away, but it's pretty effective even at that distance. For a panel to radiate out heat out of the top face it has to drive backwards against that heat source. Clearly this works, but I have to wonder what doing so costs us? I...

I go for broke and use 5200. I have not experienced the horror stories that others tell of in using it and am unrepentant in continuing to use it. :)