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It is to protect your battery in the event that the lift was overburdened. You can remove it, if you no-longer have the lift. It will not function as an isolator. If you have another battery, the second battery should be hooked-up so that it is not connected, until the car is started. (Unless...

The way you do the math can be simplified if you do it all in watts... Amp-hours is a useless number, without voltage. For lead-acid, you need to use HALF the amp-hours for your calculations, because you can't drain past 50%, without causing damage. Even in a deep-discharge battery. It just...

If it doesn't have four of those, it isn't a motor-home... It works both ways... If you don't want to qualify it as such. You need to have it qualified as such, if you want to have insurance claims held to statute of being a "motor home". Sometimes that is not always a good thing. It is like...

You are essentially just buying a "frame and a shell", when you buy a step-van... Unless you buy it new, for $23,000 to $58,000 $1,000 will get you new tires... If you are lucky... $2,000 will get you a new battery, air-filter, oil and filter, transmission-fluid and filter, belts, wipers...

When it comes to towing, it is all about weight, less about size... - This is where RV designs come in handy. Thin framing, paneling and foams. They are stronger than you think, when combined. Some even stronger than typical "heavy", but "cheap", home designs. When it comes to "living", it is...

Shuttles have a greater structure that is difficult to manipulate... You essentially get what you have, and can only add to it. Due to the fact that they are designed to carry "passengers". (DOT safety, which also shows when you have to register it.) They are heavy, hard to insulate and best...

When people are willing to pay ridiculous prices to save $0.00 and ultimately, don't mind paying nearly 150% more to operate and repair the things. There is no savings in hybrid vehicles, just diverted losses. They cost more to operate and sustain, and are harder to get rid of. When all the...

100% Foamie construction... Cloth/Foam/Laminate, with a tite-bond 2 outer coating and "Glidden Gripper Primer" as your interior adhesive/bonding agent, for the foam/foam and foam/wood joints. I would also push for a typical "teardrop" design, for reduced resistance when pulling. All you need...

Use a gas heater that vents outside. Wood mold is not that bad. It is sugar molds (fruit molds), and "fecal molds/bacteria", like found in a bathroom and air-vents, that are the real issues. Vinegar will kill most living things, as well as full-strength bleach. (By full-strength, I am saying...

Heat comes from the Far-IR spectrum, so you only need something that is... 1: IR reflective 2: Not Heat-conductive itself (an insulator) The color of paint is irrelevant. Black paint can be IR reflective and White paint can be IR absorbing... There is no singular "element" or "compound"...

Tilting offers more gains than rotation, unless you would just like it to rotate due to an inability to face an ideal location. I think they said that the gains were marginal, for rotation, when simply angled correctly in a fixed location. It was cheaper to just add another solar panel, in most...

The best storage capacity for power is Lithium batteries, but that is a vague answer. There are two styles of Lithium storage designs, fast-drain low-capacity and slow-drain high-capacity. There is honestly no in-between, in design. For "living" and "solar storage", you DO NOT WANT the ones with...

You would be better-off to use that power to simply pump out stale hot air and draw-in cooler ambient air. It will cool you, unless it is over 98.6F, in the shade. The more you can keep the sun off the metal of your vehicle, the better. Using the solar-panels is a good way to do that. If the...

Once a month, or year... Go on a road-trip... Camping style. With or without her. It is not a loss, as she will get what she wants, and you will get what you want. (Provided that you take your kid with you.) If you can't do that, then try local camping. (Less demanding and the ability to "go...

One of the best things you can do for "living", when you are limited in space, is to adopt the "world" as your second room. Invest in a sturdy (high quality), portable canopy shelter. It would be a bonus if it had removable netting. It makes a great kitchen-area, porch, and shower area. (where...