Recent content by Steve and Karen

Even 1-pounders that aren’t refilled can develop leaks, if they are spun on and off multiple times. Unless you are in the habit of soaping the orifice to check it, every time you take one off an appliance (I’m not), these brass caps with an o-ring will help to contain a low-pressure leak, and...

K&P: I too was concerned about the cost and waste associated with the 1lb bottles when I got the Mr Heater Big Buddy, and considered refills as an option. Mr Heater Buddy Connection To Aux Propane Port? A shallow internet dive dissuaded me from pursuing that approach. There are far too many...

Sorry Sweeney. I have been a little "unplugged" from the forum lately. The 3 on-board chargers I have are the: 1) Renogy DC-DC 30A (set to a maximum Bulk 20 amps) 2 A Sunsport6 for the 100W solar panel 3) the Victron IP67 7A charger Everything seems to be playing well together, with nothing...

I've recently been "playing" with a lot of gas stuff (auxiliary heaters, C-I stove, a vintage cooker) and some of the problems I have run into have been pressure-related. Diagnosing some of these issues might have been a little easier if I had had this on hand...

It came today. And it's so cute!

Very sorry. Forgot you had a Precision. If you have LiPO, then the charge profile will be much different than what I described. The LiPO pre-sets on the charger will dictate when, what and how much the charger will be doing. I don't have a LiPO. Yet. So I can't speak to the charger's exact...

(italics mine) It would work best at 17A for the Bulk (initial) stage, which the charger will go into if it detects that the battery is below 80% or less than 12.6V. After a few minutes the charger would go to 17A max during the Bulk stage. It maintains this high current until the voltage...

... in case when you ask that person at the check-in about firewood, at that sketch campground you pulled into, and they point to that pile of whole skids beside the office.;)

This isn't what I would consider to be part of a "mini" kit, or carry with me on the motorcycle: ... but it does go in the front compartment with the folding saws, makes kindling, and steps up whenever something needs an indelicate, indiscriminate pounding. Box Tool - Lee Valley Tools...

True. The 7A has an even lower "low" setting of 2A. Which would be OK for a motorcycle battery as well. The app and the user-defined mode is a godsend if you have multiple, and multiple-sized batteries, or wish to squeeze the most out of just one. As an aside, the conventional wisdom is that...

I think the two standouts, that don't make regular appearances in any sort of emergency kit, are the multi-blade saw and the mini-pry bar. The saw fills that wide gap between any sort of cutting that a firewood type of device would perform, and the wholly inadequate saw-cutting abilities of...

David: I’m assuming that you either upgraded the trailer wiring to accommodate the 15A charging (12 gauge wire, or 10, from the charger all the way to the battery and a 20A fuse), or you have set the set the charger at the lower charge setting. If it was the former, how easy was it to install...

Update: My powers of perception are waning. I did order a 12V / 7A Victron. What came and what I unknowingly installed was a 12V / 17A Victron. I missed the "1". It took some trouble-shooting (but no damage, or major inconvenience) before I discovered the discrepancy. I had taken the battery...

You may have just sent me down the rabbit hole of no return.

The cap orifices? Or just generally: "They ain't makin' that kinda cast iron stuff no more. " ? Since I acquired it, I've noticed that the few cast cook tops that have shown up on Ebuy aren't nearly as serviceable as mine was right out of the gate. Like they've been stored in a water-logged...