Post by swampmonster on Nov 9, 2018 4:30:56 GMT
Nov 8, 2018 23:56:28 GMT v10 said:
It is a good idea to protect and secure all wires in a moving vehicle.
In the picture above the kinked white wire at the top left corner is dangerously close to the sharp edge of the metal work box. It might be pretty but underneath it's a truck. Trucks vibrate.
Left uncorrected, an exercise in redundancy would be a good pair of boots and a backpack
Several posts back not directly above
lol, to heck with walking, I got a sweet little Honda motorcycle hanging off the front hitch....I throw on the back pack and ride it to fetch beer.
Yes v10, redundancy...total redundancy because my very life might depend upon it like it has several times before, where daily my QUALITY of life certainly will enjoy that same redundancy....I am outfitting my rig to be a totally self sustaining rig that will FULLY support me for many weeks at a time totally alone way far out in the wilderness.
In that regard I have selected and installed the worlds best hand made solar batteries LifeLine), and the best equipment to charge, monitor, and maintain them....With back ups.
I purposely designed my systems to be quickly configured into Split independent systems, AND seamlessly combined into just two ...To where I have when required, 3 separate solar systems that will support my needs as stand alone systems.
I have also designed and outfitted my rig with MANY devices I may need to recharge all or any of my batteries including my starter battery and the ability to interconnect any battery bank to my starter if required, and isolate it as required.
For charging, first I have the Sun thru my three separate panel arrays, then my built in Onan, then Two new Yamaha 2000 inverter gensets that can be split or paralleled, then the engine alternator...Thats 5 very reliable methods of charging batteries....
For solar charge control, I have three separate solar charge controllers.
For shore/genset charging I have also three separate methods; my built in Progressive Ind converter for my house bank, my large Aims inverter for my solar bank, and a portable top quality Iota 45 with IQ4 built in that I can quickly apply to any batter bank.
Yes redundancy...Where with redundancy comes safety and reliability...And when things go right comes all the creature comforts.
No matter what....No matter what.
I am in no way a prepper, but in many ways It might look that way....Because I guess I am very prepared compared to most folks. Prepared exactly for what?..Well, I guess I would say prepared for Life...I have lived a long life and served in many wars where I have seen and sometimes caused the devastation and the impact, and the results on folks....And I have also somehow survived the extreme weather both at sea and ashore, so yeah as a survivor of all that, fersure this guy will if possible outfit his vacation rig in a fashion that will allow him to escape trouble quickly, and remain somewhere distant for a long period of time...And that often as a vacation, and when required called an escape....And if prepared properly, then an escape is exactly like a long vacation, yaknow?
So, just me being me, I tote a full ton of food, over 500 lbs of water in my tanks and lotsa bottled water. Well over 150 lbs of propane,..Charcoal...blankets...tents...miles of para cord and rope....knives and firearms and ammo...Yaknow, guy stuff...About 2 tons total.
Usually vacations are carefully scheduled, and escapes simply pop up...Yup, but I am so retired and so single and so very free, that every day anywhere is a vacation, even when at home....And with a simple turn of the key it allows me to propel my alternative house in any direction I choose...And I often do exactly that no matter the time of day or weather, I just simply turn the key and go with no destination in mind and return to my house whenever I want....If I were to pull up to my house after a year on the road and discovered it flattened or burned out, then big deal-file an insurance claim and go back to vacation or escape or what the fark ever you wanna call it....Just roll the wheels to better pastures...Easy stuff, yaknow?