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UPDATE: Visible continued my $25 plan for 2023. Just paid my January $25 bill. Hopefully, it will stay that way for those who with the old plan.

Garmin is the best brand, IMO. They go for nothing used on ebay or Goodwill. You want one that has lifetime maps and traffic notifications (LMT). Get the latest features like wireless cell phone connectivity (bluetooth) and voice activated. Voice activation is amazing as you can tell it...

I've had Visible for 3 years. It was great in my last location all the time, but just moved and coverage is great during the day but during morning/evening rush hours it is almost uselesssly slow. I think Visible speed depends on your location.

I believe when Visible's Party Pay ends on Jan 1st, 2023 that the $25 plan will convert to the $30 plan.

BLIKA camp toilet seat seems best. It takes less room to store and rugged.

I have a 300W pure sinewave Bestek converter and oscilloscope. I pulled 270W out of it and the sinewave didn't change at all and looked as good as my house voltage.

I camped out using gutter guard on window this week and it worked great in a buggy NF.  Not one bug got inside!  I put a fan next to one gutter guard to draw air in and it cooled down my vehicle with outside air.  Here is a better video showing how it works and how to make one.   Really cheap at...

Saw several Youtube videos for using Gutter Guards from Homedepot for air ventilation on Van/SUV door windows.  Here is one video. I bought a two with builtin screen mesh for about $2 each.  Cut them down to fit rear SUV windows.  Problem is the screen mesh was to big and seemed mosquitos...

You can get used lifepo4 battery tested at 64AH for $169 that weighs 16 pounds. https://www.ebay.com/itm/4-x-75Ah-Lithium-Iron-Phosphate-LiFePO4-Prismatic-Large-Format-Cells-3-2v-Used/274401342899?hash=item3fe39835b3%3Ag%3Ap9MAAOSwyz5e4bMc&LH_ItemCondition=3000 Used lifepo4 out of solar farms...

Another battery option is used Icccnexergy 12V 38AH Lifepo4 on ebay for $114. They are pulled from hospitals typically. These particular batteries have limitation of 20A draw, but can be charged at 20A too. https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=iccnexergy+lithium+battery Use this with a Renogy...

How much are you traveling? You may not need solar. You can get a DC-DC three stage charger that maybe all you need. Renogy sells a 20A version here. https://www.renogy.com/12v-dc-to-dc-on-board-battery-charger/ It will restore 20AH for every hour you drive. You would need three of those...

Consider you only run a hair dryer for 10 minutes at most.   1800 watts / 12v = 150 amps. If you run it for 10 minutes then 10min/60min * 150A = 25AH (amp-hours). You would have to budget 25AH out of your battery power.

Visible can be used with your own Samsung phone, but only certain models.  It's on their site.

If you want to track packages ordered from China try this site. https://www.17track.net/en Often times it can track china tracking codes to your door step while USPS will not.

You don't have to worry about catching virus from China products.  The virus is dead after 4 days on any surface. Almost everything in Walmart is from China, and no one gets infected. Visible has a US warehouse where phones sit for weeks. Visible will Fedex you a new phone in 2 days! I buy...

I've been using Visible for six months and very happy with it. Mostly use it as a hotspot for my laptop. Since $19 R2 phone only allows one hotspot connection, I use my Windows 10 laptop to create a secondary hotspot for up to 8 devices. They say you are limited to 5meg speed but that comes...

The 5 gallon plastic jerry cans get bad reviews about leaks.  The higher quality ones are very expensive.  Homedepot has a 5 gallon water container by Coleman but not sure of it's quality. Homedepot has 5 gallon buckets and Leaktite screw on lid with rubber gaskets. What is the best solution...

One trick to try is a shallow baking pan full of soapy water on the floor and hanging a light bulb inches above it. At night the fleas will jump towards the light and fall in the soapy water. The soap insures they will sink to the bottom and drown.

Here is a video of a fellow who made the switch from AGM to Lifepo4 in a big class A rig. Not everyone has a big rig, but you can scale down to your needs, build your own to save money, and get the same benefits. He compares his past AGM experience to the improvements using Lifepo4.

If you are willing to build a Lifepo4 battery and get used cells (that were properly maintained in a hospital or wind farm) they are very competitive with AGM. I got 65AH Lifepo4 which have useful power equivalent to 100AH AGM. A Lifepo4 will hold it's voltage for 95% of it's capacity so I...