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    91 class c e350 460 motor rig

    It was the fuel tank causing my issues. They seemed to of had a problem with these years where the inside of the tank rusts and the fuel pump craps out. Confirmed this by adding an additional in-line one before the high pressure one on the rail and it doesn't miss a beat now so I can at least...
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    91 class c e350 460 motor rig

    Anyone have a class C here with the 460 7.5l EFI? Doesn't have to be the same year as mine as they are virtually all the same with this motor I believe So some back story before you ask me why I just bought it. Has roof leaks but nothing I can't rip out and fix myself. Needed a new place to...
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    Freaking out, head gasket blew

    I don't even know how to start this but I'm absolutely freaking out. So when covid first started I and my partner were forced out of our apartment because the landlord didn't take care of anything. Didn't even have a working bathroom and the floor was so bad it felt like I was going to fall...
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    Anyone measured real world wattage for cheap 12v compressor fridges?

    Yep. Mine is 90w at the desktop and web browsing but it's fine. I like the speed and with 32 gb of ram it's still got life left yet. It's no big deal with my battery bank. My subwoofers draw more than that lol. 3000w rms amp and that thing draws power when I drank it up. Around 400 amps when...
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    Anyone measured real world wattage for cheap 12v compressor fridges?

    No lol. It's just a beefy Ryzen 7 one with a desktop CPU and rx580. Old now but the thing still is fast. 200ah ain't a lot when you think about that. Uses 280w when I have something heavy running on it. I use it a lot for work. I don't mess with crypto at all...wouldn't even touch that stuff...
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    Anyone measured real world wattage for cheap 12v compressor fridges?

    These don't really use much. I don't even notice it on my huge lifepo4 bank. Mine uses 20ah a 24 hour period and it's set for 24f. It's a 60 quart one. I have 1200ah so I don't even notice the thing. My laptop alone uses 200ah a day so 20 is really nothing. I measured it using my victron bmv712
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    Caution for RV Owners Using Lithium Batteries

    So my lifepo4 bank is dangerous ....whoa man. I got to go back in tech time and use crummy old AGM now. I'm SO scared the BMS isn't going to protect if I somehow manage to go over 1000amps at 12v dc. Might as well just install FLA that outgas when charging and or AGM that has crappy voltage sag...
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    $1500 budget, Jackery Expoler 2000 or Zendure SuperBase Pro 2000?

    This isn't an attack on anyone but isn't the point of living in a van/rv/truck...etc like we do supposed to be about learning and saving money? 900 bucks for not even 1kwh is just insanity. Makes me dizzy and makes my heart drop into my gut when I see people not able to learn the difference...
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    The Box Truck Project

    The new USB is called PD and or QC 3.0...There are more but those are the main ones. They don't draw too much though. Don't go by the labels on equipment to calculate your power. You need to use a shunt like a victron bmv 712. I have that one and it works great. It will tell you how much battery...
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    About that 12v DC Refrigerator......

    Why wouldn't these last a good amount of time like longer than a year if your not letting it slam around or dropping em? These are compressor fridges and just like any compressor if your not abusing em they should last a good long time. Your electrical could be bad as well, or using them cigg...
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    How big of a solar battery do I need?

    Ya know for laptops that use 19v in, especially ones that drink a lot of watts like my ryzen 7 one with a dedicated gpu you can use a voltage booster like the drok one I got from amazon. says 1500w which is only at max voltage out but it works great boosting the 12+ v I get from my lifepo4...
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    Sabotaged engine :(

    It was almost like that sodium silicate stuff they destroyed all them cars with back in 2010 ish...I think it was literally called the cars program. I lost power just like that and clink....no external damage or smoke or nothing. This is pretty much exactly what happened and what it sounded like
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    Sabotaged engine :(

    Oh yea she's definitely locked solid. I know it usually takes a long time for this to happen and I know there should be metal flakes in the oil. The sand looked like dirty sand....not shiny and metallic looking. There was not even a knock at all. I guess it just got past my oil pump and through...
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    Sabotaged engine :(

    What should I give em though? The sd card from my DVR? Would they find it strange too that all the night footage is gone? Im no longer at that lot because I can't trust having it there. I really want to cry.
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    Sabotaged engine :(

    So I was FINALLY done with my rig everything mechanical checked, all fluids full. It drove great for a few miles and then lost power, and locked up on me. I had great oil pressure(30 PSI) for such a old engine...351w. Temp was 190 like it should of been.... I go to change the oil.....specs of...
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    Running a powerful desktop PC in a van?

    If you want to do it on the cheaper side, you can buy lifepo4 prismatic cells and put them together. I have both types, the prismatic rectangle ones and the 26650 packs. I have 900ah, and thats enough to support my usage with solar on sunny days and generator once a day on dark snowy ones. Im...
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    Running a powerful desktop PC in a van?

    my laptop with a ryzen 3rd gen 8 core desktop cpu uses 100w at idle at 300 with the gpu(rtx 2060). Why not just get a laptop with a desktop cpu like mine? It works great and you can just use a boost converter(12v to 19v, 20a) off amazon and be good to go. It can run my two monitors and the...
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    Is this a proper amount of amps for 200w of panels?

    Now grab yourself two more panels and put them in series and then put the two sets of series in parallel....then youll be really rockin. That was the best config for my setup....well similar. I have 3x 3 series of 100w and I regularly pull in 60+ amps from my epever 80a mppt.
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