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An inverter on an idling engine will certainly work, but is a pretty inefficient generator. Also, a maxxed out alternator at idle parked, is not a happy alternator. I have acquired temperature data on my own alternator, and will no longer max out my alternator, at idle ,for more than a few...

Hutch mountain eu3000is propane conversion kit, under 300$ He has a large 300 gallon propane tank buried in backyard for gas grille, and is lamenting not being able to access it. He says he can run generator for 2 hours to bring freezer back down to 0f, and claims he should have enough gasoline...

My father will not take any suggestion I make. I've been wrong since I was in the womb, and likely before. I made this thread to perhaps help others, satisfy my own curiosity as to how to extract fuel, safely, from a modern vehicle, in an emergency.

I'm 2500 miles away and have not yet even seen the vehicle in question, as it was leased after I was last there in March.

Every suggestion I made pre storm to my 85 year old former engineer father was rebuffed. especially the 'get more gasoline containers' one. Luckily he was outside the eyewall. regardless, he has no power, He does have a Generator, but no more fuel for it. Has a 2022 cadilliac with a full tank...

Sister in SRQ county, said power came back on 2 minutes later brightest light she ever saw outside 15 seconds later loudest bang she ever heard as transformer nearby blew. I.said.dont expect.to have power for a good while after that, assuming replacing a transformer is far.more labor intensive...

My parents are ~80 miles North of where the eye made landfall. 11 feet above sea level, 200 yards inland of Intercoastal waterway. Lost power before conditions even got bad., suspected FPL shut him down as he was on the edge of mandatory evac zone. Dad's got a honda 3000 generator, recently...

Stormchasers in Punta Gorda, are at this moment reporting far worse conditions in western eyewall than they experienced in eastern eyewall.

Get some small clamps, reverse them so their backsides hook inside, and can vastly increase the pressure that the original clamps provided with this tester can exert on the battery posts, and I bet once can achieve +/- 150CCA depending solely on the amount of clamp pressure on the battery...

Self discharge can vary greatly, even Among batteries off thesame line, on same day. Self discharge increases with temperature, and battery age/decliming health. An older but retailed as new unused battery, if put on a charger which takes it to mid 14's for an hour or three, then floats for 24...

With a shroud, the fan blades need not be close to the resistance of the radiator. The blades are likely stalled, pulling a fraction of the air they would, if not stalled, or if movement was assisting the flow. Im a bit of a fan nazi. All my axial fans,, both the 1500 rpm ones and the 7500...

I expect 78 to 82 watts from my 12v 100 watt panel, aimed at sun, once it has heated up, around solar noon, within 3 months of June 21. When solar is maintaining a battery, that was not discharged overnight, it does not need to hold battery at 14.4 for hours each day. Yet, Many lesser solar...

Impressive skills. Thanks for taking the time to share.

I spin dials on adjustable voltage power supplies, to choose target voltage, while watching an ammeter showing total charger output, and amp hour counter which also displays amps into or out of battery. Ive a battery temp display and adjust accordingly. I do this Hundreds of times per year. I...

Bulk stage is not a voltage, it is a maximum amperage stage that will take a certain amount of time, to get the battery to absorption voltage, well hopefully absorption. The higher the amperage potential of charging source, the sooner absorption voltage is achieved. The charger is basically...

I bought an autolite reman alternator from Kragen, 2005 era. Lifetime warranty employed at least half a dozen times till 2019 when oreilleys claimed to have no record of me ever buying an alternator. Externally regulated. I later found the sliprings installed to wrong depth on shaft, and one...

How tall are the adults? A late 80's chevy, sheet metal to sheetmetal or conversion window glass to glass, side to side, would allow a 6'3" inch person to sleep side to side, with no headroom or footroom. The jackknife sofa bed in most conversion vans is wide enough to sleep two adults side by...

Saw enough in that article I would not believe anything they write even if on a subject I was completely ignorant. A bigger battery, if still healthy and well depleted, can indeed put a larger load on an alternator, when the voltage regulator is asking for the same voltage as it would on the...

My HS10 took 16 days to arrive to west coast. Got an sp10 from Amazon in 2, Yesterday. My protected Olight 14500s, too long to fit inside it. Ripped cap off of one, so it would. Sp10 pro okay, kind of floody, for a handheld. No internal charging. Gets hot fast on turbo. Amazed at output from...

There's very little energy stored in a battery below 10.5v, some AGM say 11.1v at rest, is considered 100% discharged. Huge difference if it was drawn below 10.5v 7 weeks ago or the day before, in terms of potential recovery. Getting it battery to its full (unknown) potential remaining...