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This made me lol

 

IMG_5030 by Grant Wilson, on Flickr

found some wet things

 

it's a drawer in a drawer...some kinda Alien shit...

 

Anyone have an opinion on the goal zero yeti 400? They are on sale for $299 today

 

garbage.

Id rather carry 3 or 4 20k MAH power packs for half the cost

 

What makes it "garbage?"

 

I just saw them today at REI. Super cool! Thinking of buying one to run random accessories off of at camp and not having to be right next to the truck for electricity

 

You could make a DIY dual battery system for about the same price...well a little more maybe.

 

not with a good battery you cant.
A good battery is 300 bucks (northstar for example)

 

I think mine was about $80 but a I got a battery free.

 

I have found that some people do things. Others do them right.

 

When a battery alone is 3x what he spent. Just saying
Just the components to do it well are 100-150 bucks. Not counting a battery.

and thats not even accounting that you SHOULD get matched batteries among other things.

But hey, yall do you. I car camp with a fridge. Dunno about you

 

I actually run a single really good battery now (northstar on my last vehicle) and found that even without solar i can run two straight days with just a 30 minute idle to top off. With solar, its indefinite. Since the camper will have a dedicated battery, no need to even do a dual battery anymore.

Its super overkill for 90% of us. And that being said, i spend alot of time off grid.

 

Real story though, check out renogy 100watt suitcases. They are small, and charge fast as shit. I was pulling like 6 amps with mostly sunshine. 7-8 in full sunshine, 4 on cloudyish days

 

I would love to get a nice Dual batt setup for a couple hundo, i've been weary of those super expensive kits. seems overpriced

 

There is a DIY kit floating around... ill see if I can find it but its basically anywhere from like $50-$120 plus batteries of choice and cage

 

http://forum.expeditionportal.com/t...ke-a-cheap-isolated-dual-battery-setup-for-50

There you go.

 

thank you sir

 

I've been looking at dual battery set ups for a while and love the idea of making one for cheep ^ but a few concerns.

1. Having it wired automatically so when ya start the truck it connect both batteries wound be great but need some way of making sure the starting battery gets full first
2. never mix acid and gel batteries! And using different age batteries of the same brand will quickly destroy both since ones life is already shorter it will kill the newer one faster.