Recent content by SethB

You'll see when you have a chance to watch that the peak power usage passes in a few minutes, heat or AC. But you're right, you'd have to move a lot of power in those few minutes. This is a pretty thorough review; "Tito" discusses expectations of how much gain or loss to expect. But I really...

I’m excited to see that heat pump manufacturers are continuing to develop products that will someday be reasonable choices in off grid small trailer camping. Here’s the first I’ve seen (haven’t really been looking). The review shows: Settles about 300w at max. Idle heat should be a lot less in...

I’ll take it! Sending a PM.

If you’re near to any boating areas, a marine electrical service installer or shop can make this up with your parts or theirs… or really anyone handy with electrical connectors.

Here’s a summary of my current approach, which has been working well for the last few years: My current practice is to put a splash of distilled water in the humidifier chamber but leave it turned off, sometimes called “passover” humidifying. It’s not much but it helps. Since writing about my...

Early on with CPAP I found that I had to turn off the humidifier to achieve my minimum of 5 nights off grid. Eventually, between a dedicated 50ah lithium and a 100ah lead/acid in the camper I have up to 11 nights with some margin. At that point in time sogens were new and relatively expensive...

The 3-pin twist lock is a Marinco trolling motor connector. I think it’s this one but @Cary Winch could say for sure: https://www.amazon.com/Marinco-12VBP-3-Wire-ConnectPro-Black/dp/B000NHZV6S/ I think it would be a custom cable. It’s been quite a while since I looked at setting this up, my...

It’s essential to bypass the Renogy controller electronics (if any) for that setup. It’s the raw panel output that should go to the CTEK solar inputs. Otherwise there will be two controller/chargers in line. If that’s occurring it could account for low or no battery charging. My 100w Renogy is...

We have the same setup with CTEK DC/DC and Renogy 100w panel. Just to confirm, you *are* bypassing the controller on the Renogy to connect the panel(s) directly to the CTEK solar inputs? Our use is a little different than @Ericp , on extended trips I charge a dedicated cpap 50ah lipo battery...

I just found my photo that I’d uploaded a couple years ago: https://campinnforum.com/community/threads/mr-heater-buddy-connection-to-aux-propane-port.6161/page-3#post-59500 There’s also a little description of what I thought I saw at the time.

I was going to reply yesterday but was stymied by being unable to upload a photo. I had the sink out (ugh) for a project and snapped a couple… but the area you’re interested in is right at the bottom of the rat’s nest and isn’t very visible. The photo appears to show the secondary regulator...

Quite right, we use our 8’ ARB awning All. The. Time! For us it’s one of the two best exterior accessories. Deploys quick, high functionality. If we didn’t need rack access for a canoe we might have two awnings. As it turned out the big awning room wasn’t for us. But other folks love them!

Small is beautiful. And, you don’t need to have a barn, just a normal garage will get your CI under cover… preaching to the choir, I know. If one did need standing headroom and indoors plumbing, how many model years back would you have to go to find quality, long-lived systems? Would you still...

It must be said that a big piece of cast iron cookware is quite heavy and doesn’t suit everyone! Pro: the lodge covers 2 burners and you can cook 6 or 8 pancakes at a time. Con: the lodge covers 2 burners and you can‘t heat up water for coffee, tea, or dishes until you lift the still hot and...

Waaiiit a minute…. Doesn’t mine catch the grease off the cooking surface? It turns out I’m on a different model than @Sweeney. I think this one was the only one Lodge made at the time (1985?). Cast iron really does last! It still takes a lot of paper towels to cook bacon…...