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If the wire is too small I believe it will self-limit the current by getting hotter and presenting more resistance. I believe one of the strong points about AGM batteries is that they will accept a high rate of charge, but as pointed out above, in this case the charging system is putting out...

Off the topic, but I see you are using pipe insulation as rack padding. I have found swim noodles from Wally (the kind with the hole down the center) to last a bit longer and leave no marks on my kayak. This is a good time of year because they go on sale.

You may want to consider a solar panel. It adds a little weight to the roof but nothing unmanageable. I have found lifting the roof takes practice and good technique You guys might want to look at this thread just started today about a simple and clever lifting device...

HiLift jacks can also be used as a come-along/winch with one end of a line secured to the lifting mechanism and another line secured to top of the bar. Photo of winch setup on page 12 of the PDF: http://www.hi-lift.com/products/instructions_jacks.htm Interestingly, the working lift-load for...

Marine plywood would likely be a waste of money; reportedly the same glues as any exterior plywood and the real difference is there are no internal voids whatsoever and I think a limit on the size of plugs.

Some folks on a small-trailer group were talking about their original intentions to carry the panel on top but set it up on the ground in the sun after parking in the shade. Most found that even the shade power was enough to keep a typical battery charged, so they keep them mounted on top. I...

And I'll add that most converters, unless you pay a lot of $$ for the multi-stage (aka smart aka intelligent) charge option, are not good battery chargers. They typically only put out a max of 8 Amps and, depending on where the voltage cutoff is set, either can boil your battery out over a...

Some folks on travel trailer groups are using cordless impact wrenches (El Cheapo's from Harbor Freight, etc) to run their tongue jacks. You could also get a corded drill and an inverter to run it off the truck's 12VDC system. You might have to beef up the wiring to the 12VDC outlet or get the...

Ed, you might find this thread from a fiberglass trailer group interesting: http://www.fiberglassrv.com/board/index.php?showtopic=22303&hl=log++thermometer

I've run into something like the same problem in travel trailers. If the tank filler is the kind where a sort of circular drawer pulls out, if you look up above the drawer when it's out, you will see a hole -- Inside, the hole has a nipple on it for a tube -- Extend the overflow/vent tube on...

Ben said, the real problem would be hitting my head getting out of the truck since the Cougar is 84" wide. He also said, after the second time I smack myself, I would remember. :eek: I've found that I hit my head often on extended windows, overhead boats, etc., and am a slow learner (and each...

When I was FullTiming in my Scamp 13' (inside dimension is about 6'x10'), I got by fine with a 6KBTU unvented LP heater, very much like the small catalytic heaters, but I didn't sleep with it on, just used my sleeping bag. The standard RV heater has two major drawbacks; it will use a lot of...

I too live out of coolers for long periods of time and hate the floating food problem. Our attempts at solving that have not worked.Brian Here's what I did when I replaced a broken reefer with a large cooler in a travel trailer. First thing was to connect the drain valve to a tube going...

Auto-reset circuit breakers (ARCB - aka Type 1 thermal recycling) are available all over the place, like auto parts stores, Ace Hdwr and even WalMart. I believe they come in sizes from 6 to 50Amps and a variety of different ways to fasten them down. Some ARCBs are marked as to which terminal...

I hear you about redundancy. Actually, what I have done on my wiring systems is an auto-reset circuit breaker at the truck battery and another at the house battery, with no fuses in the system -- I don't want to find the fuse was blown by discovering a dead battery when I expected a live one...

I hear you; there's a fine line sometimes between bashing the other guy's product and extolling the virtues of your own, but in the long run I believe studies have shown that bashing turns customers off... Sounds to me so far that ATC and FWC both have a fine rep.

The thermal breaker is also the auto-reset circuit breaker if the auto-reset model is purchased (nothing special about the thermal part as that's how many circuit breakers operate). My guess is that the in-line fuse and the breaker are redundant protection (unless one considers the breaker to...

The thermal breaker is also the auto-reset circuit breaker if the auto-reset model is purchased (nothing special about the thermal part as that's how many circuit breakers operate). My guess is that the in-line fuse and the breaker are redundant protection (unless one considers the breaker to...

I'm not familiar with the way the truck campers connect to the truck's battery but I am familiar some of the various schemes used for small travel trailers. Because I like things to be more or less standard, and to fit various connections, I would tend to want the TC wiring to connect to a...

Thanks all! Stan, I will give you a call, but please post your comments here so they are available for others who follow or lurk. I presently own a Scamp 13' (fiberglass travel trailer for those who aren't familiar with them) and am on several fiberglass trailer groups. Scamp apparently...

I'm kinda new to this truck camper stuf, esp these nifty pop-ups, so I'm wondering what the difference is between FWC and ATC.... BTW, I'm not new to backpacking or RV camping (Full Timed in a Jayco 16' for three years and a Scamp 13' for six), just to pickup campers.

I saw a different approach to truck storage at a Florida RV show. A Florida company made storage boxes, to go with their fiberglass camper, that were cut into the sides of the truck bed, allowing access not only to the blocked space but also to the space between inside and outside panels of the...

Be real careful driving if you stick a lot of weight back out there because it unloads the front wheels, just like a see-saw. The shorter the wheelbase, and the further back the weight, the worse control will be up front.

When I was FullTiming in my 13' Scamp trailer, I used a mattress with a fitted bottom sheet on it and then just a sheet or light blanket or two light blankets or a good sleeping bag, depending on the weather. I dislike having to make my bed, esp in tight quarters, so that worked for me. The...

I'll add two ideas to the good ones of the vent stack fan (they can be thermostatically controlled), the inside distribution fan, being sure the reefer was properly installed w/regard to venting and insulation, and running in LP mode (moves more BTU's than 120VAC, which moves more than 12VDC in...