Recent content by DaveInDenver

You have to know consumption, if you can find it, and your stored energy. The few I've looked at in the store seem to draw about 3 amps, so very roughly 12 V x 3 A = 36 watts. A Jackery 300 stores 293 watt-hours. So to calculate how long to zero you do 293 W-hr / 36 watts = 8.14 hours. Many...

Odyssey happens to be one who publishes a reconditioning procedure, too! Not sure if it applies to X2 and Northstar but since they're the same company and technology it certainly may. So we can see what the NOCO is doing and compare to how it matches up...

It's important to watch details. It is a true statement that gel, AGM and sealed batteries are "lead acid" generally speaking but sometimes "lead acid" is used to mean vented or simple flooded lead acid, that being the kind with removable caps on the cells. The confusion stems from the fact...

Stock pads and rotors (or Aisin/ASCO/Advics directly) are generally the best value in my experience. From what I've seen the conversion kits don't give you that much improvement. Not enough to me anyway to justify well over $1k and all the time tinkering to get it tuned.

I replaced the double DIN factory radio in mine and the new insert had a pocket under the new single DIN radio that fits a mobile radio face nice. It might be possible to fit a complete radio here if it's not too deep. It would be close with my CS800D, might stick out a bit. The body is under...

There would be no attenuation unless something is broken or not tuned. Depending on how a diplexer is made the losses would be similar to those in a matching or phasing elements. If a multiband whip isn't tuned then it will show attenuation across your frequencies of interest. That's a...

REEB puts split stays on their frames standard but if I was having one built it would be a tough call. Probably wouldn't bother either. Remembered another reason I didn't love it. The tension you have to put on the belt wears on the bottom bracket and freehub. In particular I didn't like the...

I originally built my REEB with a belt. I bought it as a frame and they included the system for a reasonable price. But I eventually went back to a chain. It came down to a few reasons. In the hot desert the system is less quiet with sand in it and the dryness tended to cause it to...

Put me in for the count! This photo was about 10 days in along the Colorado Trail. 2016 REEB Dikyelous, FOX Factory 34 (120mm), 1x1 (usually geared 32x22 packing), Hadley/Stans Arch Mk3 wheels, Dirtbags frame and top tube bags, Oveja Negra seatbag, Revelate Sweetroll

You pick your poison to some extent. Say you're running a pair of monoband antennas that you combine using a diplexer. You have insertion loss and an extra layer of connectors. If you use a switch instead of passive filters you can reduce some of the loss but then you can't work both bands...

That's a great image but the truck was stolen here in Grand Junction and not Durango, right @devo?

I'm humbled, but it's not like you were blocking ambulances delivering food to starving children or anything. Never feel embarrassed to enjoy your life even if a few hyperactive jerks can't deal with a climb on a scenic byway taking 3 minutes more. Then definitely know that the jokers you...

My understanding is the Nuvi 350 firmware has a POI bug that is unique to it which makes this work. According to the wiki the 7200 does make waypoint duplicates, so it would leave the trail of points as a station moves and would necessitate periodically deleting them to keep from filling up the...

I've tried now with a Nuvi350 and a Garmin GPS III+. Both can act like the GPS source for the FTM-350 with current firmware. The radio does not do anything special with an external GPS compared to the Yaesu options. You get the same information on the screens regardless. To connect the...