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This is something interesting that I never really considered doing myself until your post here brought this up as a possibility. I had experimented with doing dehydrated food way back when I backpacked more with mixed results. What is the entry cost to doing this? I assume that washing...

Could be somewhere in the electronics. I had the exact same issue with a 2000 Dakota truck (which is a totally different engine and platform) and it was a bad throttle position sensor which I replaced and then everything was good after that.

For every 100W of solar you will need 9A at 12 volts so you won’t exceed 100A unless you have a whole RV roof of panels. I think the main factor in your decision is if you are using that charger to charge another house battery in addition to the vehicle battery and what amp limits might come...

The eTorque generator doesn’t directly charge the 12v battery instead it charges a 48v battery which has a separate dc-to-dc converter to charge the 12v battery. I don’t know the specs off hand for that dc converter but it will be well above 100A and very likely at least 240A as the standard...

Dometic fridges are pretty good and one of the better one’s in terms of power usage so that will also help with managing your overall power requirements. I have the CFX3 35 as that is the best sized for what I need and the cargo space I have available. We had someone in our group with the 75...

I have the same Genesis dual battery setup in my Jeep JL with two AGM group 25 batteries. I have two circuits to my cargo area from the secondary battery bus bar. One circuit provides power to a number of USB outlets, a Dometic fridge, and also a 50 amp Bluetti portable battery and the other...

Was looking forward to this project but unfortunately I have to cancel. I literally have every day open in October except these specific days. Oh well hopefully will be able to join you for the project next spring.

Been looking forward to the mapping project since it was discussed as a possibility during our last Mojave meetup. I have rsvp’d but my mother might be having a surgical procedure that week and then I would need to cancel if that is the case. I’ll know more in a couple weeks at which time I...

Crawling through Holcomb Creek trail near Big Bear.

I would think that 3 months to do the trip would be very tight and unrealistic. The route is over 15,000 miles long (24,000 km) and not all just open highway so you are looking at driving a good 8 hours a day every single day over those three months. Your summer is also the middle of winter...

Overlanding in America’s dirty little secret is that it is really just camping by vehicle. So just go out there and camp like you have been doing. There are two main components to your camping; gear and vehicle. On the gear side if you feel you want to be more comfortable than you...

Yes the meeting is this Thursday (3rd Thur of month) at the Clearman’s Galley in Rosemead.

I backcountry camped for about 20 years in my prior vehicle which was a 4WD truck that had a good set of all terrain tires as the only mod aside from a bed cover to keep my gear somewhat dry and clean. I then got a new Jeep and went nuts on upgrades but nearly all of that has been more want...

A while back I did the online ham test exam where they would test you over and over with the questions that would be on the exam and I was able to get a passing rate after a few iterations of that. I’ll probably go to that as my core study method and watch a few of the videos on YouTube that...

I might be interested. I need something to motivate me to get this done.

Actually the Voyager probes have no solar panels and are powered by the decay of plutonium in their RTG nuclear reactors. Still waiting for that NASA tech to trickle down to my vehicle.

Capital investments are only done where there is a profit to be made not just to make things more convenient. The more remote a charging station is the less revenue will be made to offset the investment. The more remote a station is also significantly increases the amount of vandalism that...

As battery technologies continue to improve range anxiety will no longer be an issue and there may even be electric vehicles in a few years with a greater theoretical daily driving range than their gas powered counterparts. At that point it would make no sense to have a charging facility in...

This now leads to the question of how it got that way in the first place. Was it the weight of everything in the bed plus taking bouncy trails at speed? Did you consider the Dynatrac Dana 60 floating axle solution which is engineered for the JT and also retains the Jeep wheel bolt pattern?

I started out going on trips as a backpacker then it evolved to more of a car camper / overlander setup. If you bring everything you need from a backpacking perspective then you will be ok with what you need and then you can add comfort and convenience to that since you are traveling by...