2018 Nor Cal Wheeling, Camping and BS

I need to get back to climbing too, im out near the concord location tho. I agreed to do the Nose with 2 buddies either next year or the year after so i need to get my shit together lol

 

That's awesome, I never managed to get into trad, just mostly suck with sport and bouldering.

 

Lol

 

All really good ideas but time consuming.
I could climb at pipe works it's on my way to work, my schedule is tight. Work until 4 pick son at 430 home by 5, cook dinner and eat by 7. Relax and check TW. Go to bed around 9 or 10.

 

I have a membership at pipe works

 

When do you go?
Can you bring freinds?
I haven't been. There in a few yrs. Pass by it everyday

 

I’m up to the 22oz curls. I start heavy and go light till done! I started with 16’s and in a couple months, I’m moving to 40’s.

I’m usually so tired at the end, I can’t walk.

 

As a guest, you can get in once a month for free (with me). But you gotta rent the climbing gear. A whopping $6 for shoes and a harness.

As a member I can bring 2 guests a month. One is on a certain Friday of the month or something, one is an anyday pass. I try to go mondays, wednesdays, and fridays. But if a weekend day works better for you I need to burn extra calories.

 

Here's a question I'm struggling to find an answer for and I'm sure someone in here knows.

I'm looking at some point adding some otrattw switches and a panel for let's say compressor on/off, ditch lights left/right/off, front lights on/off/bar to include a bar and both ditch, reverse lights, amber fog lights, etc. The otrattw switches are rated at 20 amps from what I saw and if the amp draw is less than that, let's say 2.5 amp / ditch so 5 amps for both, is there a need for a relay? I get id want a fuse and will prob use a blue sea box but do you need to add a relay?

If so why? If not but you should anyways then why?

I don't wanna waste valuable trail beer money if I don't have to!

 

You can probably safely skip a relay BUT personally, I’d rather keep the wiring cleaner by only needing one wire to run into the cab (relay trigger) VS two (one hot 12v and then the wire to your accessory. You’d be running 8-12 wires without a relay and you’d want to use a thicker gauge wire and that could get messy depending where your switches are. I’d say do it safely and do it cleanly now while you can

 

Well played sir!

 

Yeah, you can run a single powered trigger wire into the cab instead of a wire for each. Much cleaner. Unless you have multiple trigger wires like one off the reverse lights, one off the head lights, and another that powers everything else, etc.

While I'm thinking of it here's some things I learned along the way.

When you wire your stuff up use different color wires. You can get a GXL wire variety pack off ebay in whatever guages you want. That way you can color code each of your accessories. Also use matching color shrink wrap.
For example I have -
Light Bar - Yellow
Bumper HID's - Orange Wires
Fridge - Purple
Aux Tank - White
Inverter - Red (this one is on a 150amp relay with it's own breaker)
Reverse Lights - Blue Wires
Relay Trigger Wire - Green


It makes trouble shooting and install a lot easier.

I put all my switch panel wires into single connector. This makes things much easier to install and if you ever have to remove it's super easy. I got mine on https://www.corsa-technic.com/
Just make sure you have the proper crimping tool for the crimps for the connector.



I have another one on my aux tank guage too.

 

100% agree. I made my own fuse box following the DIY Bussman thread on here somewhere and it used one wireloom to my switches so it’s fairly clean (not completely since i added some random one off wires later)

edit:
link to bussman diy thread:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/diy-build-and-install-a-bussmann-rtmr-fuse-relay-block.399454/

 

I'd be down to boulder at Diablo Rock. I used to have a membership but it's getting too expensive. Nearly $80/month. That's twice as much as what I currently pay for my 24hr membership

 

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If that was around when I built my system I woulda gone that route. It's way cleaner and more organized etc.

 

Yeah man its way too expensive.

 

Planite Granite is $98 a month. When I joined in 2011 is was $52. The place is packed after about 5pm too. I ended my membership after the last rate increase.

 

Actually the Diablo Rock gym probably has the best bang for your buck because you get CoCo Crossfit included with the membership. We all know crossfit is like $150+ a month just for that. Diablo rock has bouldering (tiny ass space but the routes are a bit harder), lead climbing, free weights, and crossfit.

 

Im close to canceling mine as well. The gym amenities are far less than others. no pool, hot tubes, the lifting area is tiny, the towels are shit and the showers are kinda gross lol.