The moral of the story is to make 2 trucks identical, keep one in South America and one in North America! Thanks for sharing, it was really interesting how the turn of events can happen in a heartbeat. Wish you the best.
Thanks for all the updates. The mountains have to be a little piece of heaven after the month you've had. Hopefully you'll have some time to relax a bit.
Loved Panama and a trip thru the canal with all the monkeys. It is a contrast of old and new, rich and poor... Watch out for the taxis playing chicken.
Congratulations you two that is an awesome trip of a lifetime. Columbia is an absolutely beautiful and hot country. I'm in my boler around Wawa, Lake Superior right now and the water is freezing. Cheers
Glad you made it...big step! Travelling with a Chevy Van? Awesome! The weather there (temps) sound like Leadville...would be great as it was 105F here today! Looking forward to the next phase! Safe travels and God speed!
We met in Costa Rica and then again in Cartagena, they were waiting 3 weeks for their van/container to show up. We could relate to each others pain, then once we found this spot we couldn't help but share the reprieve with them.
Thank you for the diligence and good example ... these principles apply to many aspects of living day by day. Good Job. We here too are in Oregon,, southern coast ...
Very cool... I was looking into a South America trip with a rig a few years ago right about the time the ferry stopped running!! Looking forward to following your Journeys down there 🙂🚚
WoWzaa ! i gotta take a nap 🙃 , great to see you guys again ! Thanks for the informative Vid , so inspiring to see .. Sending you both well wishes for safe travels and good health ~peace~
I got both notifications but clearly there is some problems, 44 views 10h later just doesn't mach up. Started my morning with this video and continued with all the recent live streams, I have to say: it was seven hours of good content. Question about Renogy dc-dc chargers, clearly not good product, but I have already installed 20a version as an backup option. You have seen few broken ones, any advice how to get one last as an backup. on-off will be controlled via esp32 and relay so there is options to tweak duty times.
Thanks for the update... Many of the DC-DC units that I've worked on got untouchably hot on the Input Negative terminal, I suspect they are tying all the hot components to that ground plane. Further, I feel the thermals were not well engineered, compounded by vanlife babes installing it in a sealed box with subway tiles boxing it in. At the very least, put a 120mm PC case fan near the unit and ideally punch a hole in the case to increase airflow. The larger 60 amp version has an option to "half' the output, and I've wired this option for one fella for everyday use and then he has the option to "boost" when situations are dire. Unfortunately they are very lossy and they are dumping all that loss as heat... (the enemy of electronics) Another layer of protection would be to put a 50c thermal switch in-line with the enable wire... something like this: www.amazon.com/uxcell-Thermostat-Temperature-Bimetal-KSD9700/dp/B00C97H95Q
@@Everlanders Thanks for the reply, It's not in ideal place for ventilation, but i will make couple extra holes, additional fan and put extra temperature sensor near negative terminal to keep an eye on it. I'm thankful for the warning with dc-dc chargers, I would have used it as an full time charger while driving and probably burnt it out under a year. Now I hopefully have longer lasting backup option for cloudy weeks.
Yes, but I've limited it to 50Amps with the 6AWG wire, plus I was on a time crunch to get the Customs Inspection area to make our appointment. So I took all the help I could get...
