recharging while driving
I'm winding my way south and boondocking. Last power was in Regina, SK I used a heating pad and lots of computer time last night, powering them from a 400 watt MSW inverter. Batteries were at...
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pianotuna wrote:
Hi all,
I'm currently staying ahead of the snow! In fact, if I'm lucky I won't see it at all.
Overnighting at Harmony, MN or possibly farther south.
You're on US 52? OK, just beat it South below Dubuque, IA and you should be OK. It's raining and cold up near the Twin Cities, today. Expecting rain, freezing rain, and then wet snow, all capped off by sub freezing temps, tonight. Roads tomorrow AM will be miserable. Western part of MN will be impassable except for local trips on well maintained roads (and maybe not even then). The bad part of these first storms is that the rain cleans the surface, snow packs, and THEN salt gets put down. If they pre-salted the surfaces, we'd be better off but that's a budget-buster.
Yes, a larger wire and maybe, even, an external rectifier would be advantageous for your alternator charging. I guess I'd listen to Mex. He has forgotten more about this (and not much) than I'll ever know. Good luck with the charging. Hopefully, you'll hit open sky and sun as you slip South.
