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Thanks! I have the Victron 701 and really like it. Thebluetooth dongle was also very handy.

I like the way you have your 100W panels set up. Are they wired in parallel or in series?

Thanks. That is pretty much what I decided as well. Not enough to lose too much sleep over. It would be great if I could adjust the cutoff voltage, but since I can't, I will live with it! :)

Thanks Vic, I will look at putting in a switch which I can use to disconnect after I arrive at a site. I can look at replacing the truck battery with an AGM starting battery when it dies...

Did you just put a switch in to switch out the original ACR Battery link (7611)? Or did you go to the full M-ACR unit? Can I mod the factory installed one to work? Or just live with a loss of a few Ah after charging...

exactly. I am guessing that the truck battery does not charge to the same high voltage as the camper AGM one. It does not matter if I am using solar or a standard charger to charge the batteries, current always seems to flow to the truck battery.

yes. the 7611.

I have a portable 40W Coleman solar panel which plugs into the ports on the camper as installed by the factory and does seem to charge the camper battery. I wanted to know if there is any problem hooking two of these systems up at the same time (one in the back socket and one in the roof one)...

I have noticed that after I have charged my 92 Ah AGM house battery, my Victron BMV700 tells me that I am charging up the truck battery for a while... (I leave the camper switch off and there is still significant discharge). I would prefer that the truck be able to charge the camper battery, but...

I am curious as to how you mounted the hullavator on the round Yakima bars. The one I was looking at was for Thule rectangular bars...

Thanks Frank. Those show clearly what you did. Looks like you used aluminum sheet and bent it to shape and size. Drains onto the cab roof?

Thanks all, I am going to try the stick on gutter on the roof as per Yukon's and Porkface's photos.

I would love to see more photos of solutions to this problem. I have the same problem with water dripping on or into the driver and passenger windows. Hawk on a GM Sierra 1500

So I ended up deciding to go with a portable group 27 AGM battery (88Ah) that can be moved back and forth between camper and boat (and used as a trolling motor). I have also installed a Victron battery monitor (BMV 700) for the main camper battery which has been very educational. The BMV shows...

Just thought I would provide an update. My ARB 50qt has been using about 12 Ah per day while keeping everything at just above zero Celsius. So I appear to have about 3 days worth before draining my 72AH factory supplied battery to 50% (assuming no other draws - I rarely use the heater and...

I am very fond of the watermaster rafts or flyfishing lakes and rivers. I have a 21 year old version of the Grizzly and it is still going strong! http://www.bigskyinflatables.com/

I was thinking of keeping the main camper battery charged via vehicle and solar, but use the trolling motor battery kind of as a backup - probably charge it via the vehicle or generator if needed.

Thanks for the ML-ACR 7622 suggestion. That looks like a useful alternative to a switch.

Thanks Sage and Vic. f I go to the two battery option, then I would go for a second identical battery and since my camper is only 6 months old, they should be pretty similar. If I go for the trolling motor battery option, then I would definitely use the switch. In general I would not expect to...

I am thinking about setting up a second battery for my new FWC Hawk shell. It came with a single Exide FP-AGM24DP (BTW, I see there is also a FP-AGP24DPC but can't find out what the difference is!) and I want to see if the following idea makes sense: Use a deep cycle trolling motor battery in...

Thanks. I was going to check the actual temp soon. I have a wireless thermometer that I was going to rig up... I don't remember seeing how to calibrate the ARB temp setting.

So, I ended up getting the ARB 50 qt and so far it is looking good. As a bit of a test, i have been running it in my c-dory on AC in my driveway with a power meter in line. So far it has been cooling several litres of water to the set temp of zero C, and being opened occasionally. Not very...

I was wondering about the cockpit and weather for an electric device. Would have been fine on our lake Powell trip!

Small world! I am definitely also a C-brat. Where do you keep the Engel on the c-dory?

Thanks for all the feedback! It looks as if I can't go wrong with any of the models mentioned. After more searching I found good info on power usage etc, which helps in the planning. I need to measure some spaces in my boat as I would like to be able to move the fridge from the Hawk shell to my...