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I was just doing some plumbing checks; thinking about upgrading the pressure tank I am using to a larger one.  I have a two gallon pressure tank used for houses with Well Water and pumps and I have a 35 gallon livestock tank.   I may upgrade the pressure tank to the 8 gallon one to reduce the...

Carv Like the nice clean wiring. Think these dorm freezers are the way to go for these systems; takes a little more Craigslist shopping to get one for cheap but worth it. I love mine. Looking at the numbers and they are very similar to the big dollar 12V systems; has me sold on keeping it as...

I will give try running at as a freezer sometime; will have to wait though till I don't have a fridge full of stuff. I will definitely be back to share summer info to know how it will do in the 90's highdesertranger I guess that is were the math comes out but think its important to tell people...

That is total DC on the power line going to the Inverter. I have a shunt meter setup just for that line separate from the rest of my circuits. I am using one of the "bayite DC 6.5-100V 0-100A LCD Display Digital Current Voltage Power Energy Meter" Got a three of them to keep and eye on...

Just a recap of my system and did a few tests to get a day of use. Whynter CUF-210SS Freezer, 2.1 Cubic Feet Mighty Max 1000w Pure Sine Wave Inverter. 12V DC Digital Thermostat relay. bayite DC 6.5-100V 0-100A LCD Display Digital Current Voltage Power Energy Meter Thermostat relay has with 3...

I keep mine on pilot most of the time for the night; living up north most of my life. I am used to the winter heating situation as a kid we needed to keep the wood stove going so to me cycling the heater on for a little bit when I get cold at night feels normal. I also have some lanterns...

Thanks for all the replies. This is a really nice community!

Thanks that makes sense. Sounds safer too.  I had just thought of the oil filled radiator because saw one for free on craigslist.   Using a little metal rack for cookware right above heater may work nice and then put a small fan near them to circulate the air.  Mostly passive when I don't want...

I wonder if anyone has tried building some type of heat exchanger to go above the Mr Buddy heater.  Well, an idea I had today was if I put an old oil filled radiant heater with the electric pieces removed about a foot above the Mr buddy heater it could absorb some of the heat holding releasing...

Good to know I won't waste my time on that then.

Hope you figured it out. I have cut outs made for both of my tanks it was done by fleet service people before me. Anyhow pretty handy to check on things saved me from wasting money on new fuel pumps. Essentially if you can access them and test; don't have the urge to replace them without a...

Been reading for awhile but figured it was time to join in the fun. I live in Iowa and work a regular job always trying to make things work.  Winter is coming again here some don't like it; but I like to look at it as challenge.  Lots of elctronics and other misc maintence projects to keep me busy.

I know this is an old thread but figured worth sharing. I use the Hobbyking 30watt 12v iron for field work. But a nice temperature controlled iron and 100Watt cigarette lighter plug inverter works well in the truck.

bonvanroulez That is pretty cool very similar project! I haven't had mine setup too long but I will report back with some long term info. I do have a bunch of shunt meters setup in my truck as well split up by use. Electronics used to be my job and now is my hobby. Has anyone tried putting...

I have: Whynter CUF-210SS Freezer, 2.1 Cubic Feet Mighty Max 1000w Pure Sine Wave Inverter. The thermostat I just set it to 38 degrees (actually 3 degrees Celsius) it has a little relay on the board that energizes when it warms up to that temp. It stays on until it hits 32 degrees (actually 0...

Cool thread. Wanted to share my setup maybe someone may want to try this system. My inverter has a switch to turn it on and off I ran two wires to the back of the switch so I can control it remotely then I hooked them up to a 12V thermostat relay that I got from Amazon. So really simple...