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    Why such a high surge?

    No house batteries connected. A 4s lifepo4 100ah battery charged from a 60a mppt solar charge controller fed by 600 watts solar. Inverter connected to the battery, shore power plugged into inverter. The converter/charger in the RV isn't connected to batteries.
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    Why such a high surge?

    Working on setting up a new travel trailer on solar and have had two occasions where I've connected the inverter and had the internal fuses blow and FETs short out. This is a 1500 watt (3000 surge) pure sine inverter.  The loads in the travel trailer are the converter/charger (no battery load -...
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    Fuel recommendations for new Generator

    I've never personally, in many many years of using ethanol containing gas, seen any failures related to its use. Never heard from anyone either. I'm willing to call it a myth at this point. Sure there were some fuel system components years ago that were perhaps affected by ethanol (and likely...
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    Replacing battery cables, isolator considerations

    4/0 would just be silly. I've built backup ICBM rocket ignition sets that used 4/0 cable. I'm guessing if 4/0 can light off an ICBM, 2/0 should be good for a 7.3.
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    Calling Mart and drwireless

    Interesting thing to note for those that may have purchased a mifi from drwireless (I am one) - when you go to callingmart.com and purchase a $5.00 verizon RTR refill, this is posted:   "Notice to Customers: We have been receiving some issues with the Verizon MIFI device purchased from...
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    Verizon MVNOs for $5 3G refugees

    It cuts the bandwidth of the wifi in half - which is still leaves a heck of a lot more than the 5mbps that visible restricts their data to.
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    Verizon hotspot renewal problem

    So we don't use the $5 data refill now? I missed that on the 3g thread. I did see where the RTR is to be used on the 4g. Thanks
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