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More shizzle... : Pondering the ever more frequent local power outages -mostly intentional, annoyingly-, I was wondering what the minimum size of an inverter is that would be needed to keep my kitchen fridge going reliably, since I had an...

I suppose one important question -which may or may not be obvious- in all this conjecturing would be which of the 2 vehicles would roll over first?

I'm generally not that keen on using a powerful flame under my gas-fueled oil-lubricated plastic-laden memories-full truck, TBH, so I do like the induction heater approach a good deal

Maybe not the case here, but Project Farm has enough viewers that in the past whatever he came up with as tops ran out of stock or saw price increases very quickly

and the numbers on reduced torque he got with the induction heaters were pretty impressive..

my lunettes have 360deg swivel so not much rollover resistance with the pintle hitch. Not that I'd want that.

lovely! It does indeed look much better complete with the base. Now, you got me thinking, as I've got a Bullet without the swivel... Wonder if they'll take one of my kids for it instead of cash. That I could afford to do... :) )

the notion of single-speeds for mountain biking boggles the mind...! (well, unless there are planetary gears hidden somehow in those back hubs, AW style ... :) )

I do have a bunch of surplus NATO cans, which I do like a lot and use all the time. However, -and I don't know if that is because of a poor pre-sale quick job by the wholesalers- they do tend to shed bits of inside paint, which makes me use want...

seems to me that even if you could get them abroad now somehow, you'd still be in a questionable situation not having them available at all locally. What do you do if one of your tires gets busted while wheeling? What would you replace it with...

pleasantly surprising to see in that vid how much you can still get despite the bars shading. That shading might have about fully incapacitated many standard panels with discrete cells in series. Well, depending on the orientation of the...

much less than I thought, easier then.

I have not done that, but I imagine a welder running at 200A may need something close to 8000W, maybe even 10,000W, so to do that with a battery system you may need up to several hundreds of amps on that side, depending on configuration, which in...

I love my NATO cans but to be fair they also do balloon some in the heat. Not that this is a big problem TBF. [somebody knows what kind of spout that is up there in post 42?]

nothing special about that fuse, just a generic ATO 40A car fuse. Come to think of it, something similar also happened a few days ago; I was reconnecting my Victron Smartshunt, and that thing is inserted on the negative side but it needs of...

^ you probably know this already, but if not, you may want to keep in mind that -unlike for lead acid batteries for which it's pretty easy- you can't estimate SoC for LiFeP very well with the voltage, as it does not change much at all over most...

don't remember where I got that spout, looks pretty crude for military OEM TBH, maybe it's a clone. But works well. Got it 30 or 40 years ago probably, likely with my surplus 50s NATO cans. Here it is:

sounds good! With 300W of solar and 200Ah of batteries, your fridge should be running forever in CA summers if the panels are not much in the shade.

yes, BMV-712, those are nice too. And, yes, if your system is well designed, no need to keep checking things all the time. However, stuff happens, and it's good to have an alarm for low SoC if you are running a fridge, I think. An unexpectedly...

What are you using to keep track of your battery's state of charge?

The Victron app is pretty good, I use it a lot to keep track of stuff with battery voltage, SoC etc, very useful. Yes, you'd want to wire the charger in such a way that the smartshunt records the charging or your SoC numbers will be meaningless...

can't say enough about the benefits of picking the correct fuse size and type. Just avoided an incident a couple of days ago where I stupidly grabbed the wrong lithium battery to start a small engine without realizing it. Until it all...

I use an old military (?) rigid spout with my NATO cans. About 1" outlet, built-in air vent. Wouldn't want it to flow any faster.

the problem with lithium batteries is that -unlike lead acid ones- they have a pretty flat profile for voltage vs charge, so a simple battery voltage monitor does not provide good info on SoC. So you need a device measuring current, probably...