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Fascinating read, though. :squirrel:

Wheels, especially the brakes, obviously, can get very hot. After lots of braking the rotors can get well over 1000° F. The tires should generally not get above about 195° F. The biggest thing is to check them occasionally and look for large temperature disparities. I carried one (Infrared Heat...

Well, at least the walls are finally closing in.

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The eSprinter only has a range of like 250 miles on the highway and about 310 if you stay in the city. It's thoroughly impractical for time-certain expedite. A 700 mile trip is gonna require 3 charges, at roughly 45-60 minutes per charge, That turns a 14 hour trip into a 17 hour trip and you're...

From what I've seen, seems to be the Transit.

Thanks, 66

So you're considering using a $15,000 generator instead of a $2,000 generator? Seriously, your line of thinking isn't wrong, I and others have tried it out crunched the numbers with experts (off the grid RV and boat people), it's just that many others have tried to do the same thing, and it...

Correct. 12-volt air conditioning is for short term usage, like in the cab of a farm tractor. The LiFePO4 batteries will last longer than a wet cell or AGM lead acid battery, but a 95 amp draw even for an hour or two will rapidly decrease the lifespan of the battery. On paper he's right. In the...

There's no way up know an extract number, but I talked with tu he dispatchers on a regular basis to find out how frequently 3 skid loads showed themselves. It's certainly possible that I missed three 3 pallet loads before getting one I could take, but the point is, I got one I could take instead...

I held tuff at a permanent bunk. I waited to be able to sleep while loaded, no matter what. And I often did sleep while loaded. That meant 9 feet for freight, not even a quarter inch more. So 2 pallets. I can count on one hand how many times I missed out on a load because it was 3 skids and...

If I were to get a new van it would be a Ford Transit.

The picture above of my battery bank is exactly that - two pairs of 6-volt batteries. The 6-volt batteries are beside each other left/right, and are connected in series with the black and red cables. Each pair of 6-volt batteries equals a single 12-volt battery. The resulting two 12-volt...

No, you chain them together to EITHER add the voltages together OR add the amp hours together. Like LDB said, your house bank is not a bunch of individual batteries, it's one great big battery (once chained together in parallel). What you have here is three 12-volt batteries of 100 Ah each...

Why would you have them in series? Everything you're running inside the van is going to be 12 volts. The van itself is 12 volts. The alternator won't charge the house bank if the bank is 24 or 48 volts. If you have a bunch of 6 volt batteries, you'd series those in pairs to make one 12 volt...

Batteries wired in series will have their voltages added together. Batteries wired in parallel will have their capacities (measured in amp-hours) added together. For example, wiring two 12-volt batteries with 100 Ah capacities in series will output 24 volts with a 100 Ah capacity. Wiring the...

The the the more better.

Correct. It'll take longer to recharge the house bank than you think, but at least with lithium batteries you don't really have to worry too much about making sure they are full recharged every time you charge them.

Your best bet is a 12 volt fridge designed for an RV, truck or a boat. Not a dorm fridge or an Igloo plug-in, but a $600 or so fridge designed to efficiently run on a 12 volt system. I started out with a very efficient down fridge/freezer, but in the end it was just too hard on the batteries...

A fridge will use more amps than a microwave will. It's just that the amp draw from the microwave will be a really, really lot over a short period of time. Let's say the microwave draws 900 Watts. 900 / 12 = 75 amps. Add 10% for the loss from the inverter, so 75 + 7.5 = 82.5 amps drawn from the...