What Have You Done To Your 3rd Gen Today?

Couldn’t you just install a DC to DC charge controller for $380 which should allow the batteries to be fully charged. Wouldn’t that allow for a longer battery life?

 

From what I understand those are mainly designed to charge just the auxiliary battery and not your starter battery, but if they were linked together I suppose they would share some voltage. The people that have those devices seem to like them.

 

got some new tires today
just one size up from stock 265/75r16

 

I think a charge controller can be set to do both. However mine is not. My truck battery is designed to be charged only from the truck engine and only run the truck and winch. The camper battery is only designed to run the camper and can be charged three ways: shore power, solar (I have 3 panels totaling 420 watts/ and from the engine. The redarc deals with all three seamlessly

 

Will be installing this tomorrow or the day after tried them on today just to see how bright they are and I was quite impressed
Will post here once I’m done

 

How much taller are they from stock?

 

Stock is 30.6" and the 75 size is 31.6". So a 1/2" gain in height. Don't forget to up-size the spare too.

 

I was considering this as well, but was concerned about the seal between the ply and tailgate. Did you do anything special there or just wrench it down?

 

Now that I get it, I love it. Might need to ask the wife to make this.

 

Got my shit aligned after the dobinsons lift.

 

The quick answer would be yes you need to supplement the charge. The smart alternator will not charge these batteries to what is needed and due to that your starter battery will die and need to be replaced sooner rather than later. The Blue sea ACR does nothing with charging and will not help at all in this area, it is only a battery isolator .................hope this makes sense.

 

In my scenario I dealt with exact same OGE setup there was a failure. That was the starting battery being drained numerous times and the truck would not start. I had to link the batteries together to "jump start" my truck. My truck was a daily driver and was not producing the proper charge to keep the batteries maintained. It was my daily driver and until the failure I was not aware of issues with our trucks and the maintenance of the AGM's. After reading TW threads I have found several ways to correct or help the problem,(solar as you suggest) I am just trying to offer help on the front end. I wish I would have known sooner rather than later, it would have saved me from depleting a less than 2 year old Odysee AGM battery.

 

I retired in mid-February. But I guess I must be TOO old..

I started hearing "Flowers on the Wall" . . .

 

Congratulations!

 

75 days to go for me. Looking forward to cutting the grass when I want and laying by the pool enjoying social distancing whenever I want to.

 

So it’s not the best but here is a pic of what one of the mounted lights looks like. I plan to remove them soon and put a 4”x4” square of clear adhesive in the spot each one resides in to resist any wear issues on the paint. I also need to clean them lol.

 

Looks great! just a thought, the plugs in the body near the light are threaded holes, you could mount them there with SS bolts.

 

Thanks, I didn't know that! However, I have some sliders to install soon and will be moving them to the legs of the sliders most likely.

 

Oh, Brother.

Now I've got it in my head...

 

Perfect!