Truck Camping Photo Thread

Bennet Pass to Badger Lake, then Clear Lake last weekend. I got a lot of scratches to buff out

 

Got out of town for the night to celebrate my birthday at our local conservation area

 

Camping and pancakes! Doesn’t get much better than that

 

Oh but it does… they were birthday pancakes

Happy Birthday @RickydB

 

Rimrock Lake WA

 

what bracket is that for your *i assume* midland?

 

Yes, the bracket at the ditch light is for the antenna, I believe it’s from Caliraised.

 

@Timmaaaye253 What rear bumper are you running? I dig it. Pro/cons?!

 

Great pictures! Great build!

 

Outgear Solutions Hybrid.

 

Amazing shots…location? I’ll be going over stampede pass this week and spending some time up there

 

Camped at the Overland Expo in Loveland, CO and then drove up to Wyoming to Medicine Bow National Forest.

 

Sequoia and Kings Canyon

 

So, no scenic pics, but picked up a Jackery 1000 this week with the 10% off sale they've been having. Been tinkering around with it at home. I've been able to power my full size refrigerator, small AC unit, various electrical appliances, etc. So far, everything I've tried worked, including things with heating elements like my toaster, hair dryer, etc. I plugged it in to a pretty beefy fan to inflate a bounce house yesterday to run it down to zero charge. Today, i'm testing the charge capability using the two 100 watt solar panels So far, not too impressed with the solar capability. At least with these panels. I'm only pulling in 120 wats with both panels attached. Been hooked up for an hour now and only at 10% charged. I've been moving the panels every 15 minutes to capture the best sunlight. Not too overcast today either, but it is early so the sun is lower in the sky. Hopefully in a little bit that wattage will increase. We'll see. It's gearing up to be a great camping addition so far.

 

Man from what i gather, those are the like worst 100w ones. Espeically for folding briefcase style. Xtar SP 100 people have gotten up to 120w off one panel. I went with rockpals because it folds up smaller and if I want I can use it straight to usb so I could recharge like my smaller battery packs instead of the generator

All the name type ones seem to be overpriced. My friend works in installing solar and said just get the off brand as its the same quality just cheaper

 

i've found that the solar panel is good for just maintaining charge and even slightly increasing battery if you're in full sun and keep it directed. I left my fridge plugged in all day and the sun overhead with no clouds and my little jackery 160 went up by like 20 percent after 5 hours. of course yours is a MUCH larger capacity so it'll be way less for you.

 

Not a photo of me camping but maybe someone can help me understand - I got a rockpals 100w that wasnt registering at all with bluetti eb3a. I had connected the anderson connectors to the ..8mm? plug and 0w. But it was charging through the USB ports.

Is there some sort of compatibility issue? I was able to use both a topsolar panel with the same plug directly or with the mc4 connectors and the supplied bluetti charging cable.

At any rate I was gonna return it and get a different one since I feel like the rockpals should get better than 65w (both rated to 100w) and so much easier on setup.