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Where to buy water tank fittings ?
I bought a 50 gallon tank from Plastimart It came with threaded holes of 1 1/2 inlet 1/2 npt vent 1/2.npt outlet I looked at Menards with no luck is there any store that sells fittings for my tank? Menards only had mil fittings I'm leaving town this weekend and so I don want to order online911Views0likes4CommentsRe: Would solar be effective in the midwest?
Lwiddis wrote: "I use just solar to charge my GC2's. I have never used a generator to charge my 8 year old batteries and they are still going strong. I boondock 99% of the time." I get tired of exercising my generator every other Wednesday since I too don't need it for recharging. Solar is fantastic! Solar probably is fantastic if you live in a nice climate like California, probably won't work good in the midwest.693Views0likes0CommentsWould solar be effective in the midwest?
Would a 200 watt solar panel keep a single 100ah lifepo4 charged during a midwest Iowa winter/December ? I use about 50 ah per day , I found a online calculator that said 50ah is about .65kwh I believe my 100ah lifepo4 is like 1kwh or 1.2 kwh .65kwh is about 20kwh per month so maybe a 300watt panel would work??3.8KViews0likes23CommentsRe: Battle Born Charging
Housted wrote: In January of this year we went from 420 AHr of AGM to 300 AHr of LI. Changed nothing else...Same solar (1050 watts) Same solar controller (80 Amp mppt). Biggest difference are: 1. saved 170# of weight 2. voltage drop througout discaherge is much more level and higher. 3. Had to re-program the solar controller for LI 4. Now turn off the converter at home and let the solar do all the maintain. I went with BattleBorn after seeing some youtube videos of their manufacturing processes and seeing one of their batteries disassembeled. Based on my experience so far I am not sorry for the change :B Housted 5. Your bank account is $2,550 lighter694Views0likes0CommentsRe: Battle Born Charging
BFL wrote "This is about building a set of factors to consider in the Li decision, rather than just going with an expensive fashion. Some good factors raised so far. Who's got some more?" The thing that got me to buy Li was when I learned how fast I could charge the lifepo4 , fast charging is a really big deal to me because since I'm able to charge the battery so fast I can get by with a single $850 100 ah battery but keep in mind I use a generator and some people don't like generators. The single 100ah Lifepo4 gives me reliable power when boondocking because even if I ever did get low on soc I fire up my genset and battery charger and in a very short time I can get the soc up no matter what the weather conditions are like and even at night time . This system allows me to have a very simple system with hardly any wires or components at all and also no solar panels Imo if your boondocking with a generator lifepo4 is definitely the way to go or you'll end up buying multiple lead acid batteries over the years and end up paying more then the li battery. If i had access to shore power I'd probably stick with lead acids for economical reasons , charging them correctly and getting there full life span. Solar panels and AGM or solar panels with li ?? I have no clue but it looks like Iternerant1 is showing us some good info. I'd be curious if there is some sort of fast charge advantage when using solar panels and li???? The other features of the Li didn't impress me much. Lighter weight ?? It's not like I'm going to carry them around , the vehicle would carry the weight, I prefer lighter weight but not if I have to pay for it. Better performance when running high amp appliances?? That didn't impress me much because I don't believe in running high amp appliances from batteries, I use the genset for that and save my battery soc. Another thing I just thought about is ,, personally I don't charge from alternator/Invertor/charger but if somebody does the fast charging from li may be a huge help on keeping fuel costs down .694Views0likes0Comments
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