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  1. Turtle

    Satellite communications

    I have. I looked into buying my own unit and just paying Qualcomm directly for the service. All the carrier needs is the serial number off the QC unit to add you to their system. I asked someone at my carrier, three someones, actually, and got essentially the same response from all of them...
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    Installing a battery charger

    I probably went overboard on the AGMs available amps when it gets cold. Or rather, it was badly worded. CCA amps is a number for zero degrees. Whatever number is on the battery for CCA, you'll get that at zero degrees. The CA number is for 32 degrees. Everything else, like amp hours and reserve...
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    Oil change reignites debate over GPS trackers

    I actually don't have a problem with tracking all non-citizens unless or until they have a permanent resident card. Put an ankle bracelet on them, I say. People all too often come here on a student visa or some other means, and promptly disappear completely off the radar. However, the 20 year...
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    Installing a battery charger

    Might want to check the settings on the APU or find out for sure at what point the APU comes on when the batteries are low. Meaning, how low? If it's too low, more than 50% discharged, then they're routinely being discharged too deeply. If it's set for a really low voltage as the trigger, like...
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    Truck Stop Blimps

    This all came from when the FMCSA's Medical Review Board, not the FMCSA itself, but their Medical Review Board, made a formal recommendation to the FMCSA to have drivers with a BMI of 30 or great be tested for sleep apnea. A BMI of 30 or more will not, in and of itself prevent you from driving...
  6. Turtle

    Free Speech For Me.......

    To be fair, the GOP blasted the sign, as well. I love some of the comments.... Martelle Daniels, who chairs the Mesa County Democratic Party, denounced the work as “racist” and “homophobic.“ ”It doesn’t incite any type of intelligent response to whatever they are trying to represent,” she...
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    Installing a battery charger

    AGMs as starters are fine, but they're a little on the pricey side for starting batteries. They good for someone with a 1000 Watt audio system, tho, like the Optima batteries are mostly used with. But, as the temp drops below 32 degrees, the available cranking amps really drop off the table with...
  8. Turtle

    Installing a battery charger

    The reason is, wet cells and AGM batteries require different charging profiles, or regiments. Overly simplified, wet cells, like a cranking battery, get charged a a varying voltage, anywhere from 13.3 volts to 14.4 volts, but the amps going into the battery stays the same (since too many amps...
  9. Turtle

    Installing a battery charger

    I was hoping the CRS1 (or really the 2-bank model) would have different voltage outputs so I could charge a cranking battery and AGM's with the different required voltages, but alas it's just a pass-thru isolator/charger. I'm still thinking about it, though, as it's a regulated charger, rather...
  10. Turtle

    Installing a battery charger

    Here ya go: CCx15 Dual Pro Charger Cable Extension Kit I ran across that recently when I was looking at the Dual Pro CRS1 Charge on the Run Charger, which is a battery isolator/separator.
  11. Turtle

    Installing a battery charger

    That charger is waterproof, far as I know. I think all the PRO Sportsman chargers are waterproof marine chargers. They also make 5, 10 and 15 foot extender cables for their chargers. They're excellent chargers.
  12. Turtle

    He Really LIKES You All...From Kentucky With Love..

    That's pretty it in a nutshell. Larry the Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, that kind of thing. In Western Kentucky you do indeed need to be a Democrat, and whatever your voter registration is will be well known to everyone, despite the secret ballot nature of our system. Yet despite being Democrats...
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    Installing a battery charger

    You can connect them at the inverter posts, assuming the cables from the inverter to the batteries is less than 3 feet. If the cables from the inverter are more than 3 or 4 feet long, then there will be too much of a voltage drop and you'll want to connect the charger directly to the batteries...
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    The new 'safe food' czar hasn't always been safe with your food!

    Part of the problem is that genetically modified foods are largely benign, and most of the hysteria about them come from junk science experiments designed to show how evil GM foods are. People have been genetically modifying foods pretty much since agriculture was invented, primarily by...
  15. Turtle

    looking to buy a cargo van

    I got mine here: fumoto oil drian valves The Sprinter needs an F-106 or F-106N (nipple). Guido: The only thing that worries me about the Fumoto valve is that my drain plug is on the bottom of the pan.So I worry if I cannot avoid running over an object on the road,It may get snapped of in...
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    He Really LIKES You All...From Kentucky With Love..

    "Duh, I know the description....my question was more to whom it was directed....." It wasn't directed towards anyone in particular, other than those who are outsiders thinking they have it all figured out about something they are largely ignorant of, about things of which they have limited...
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    He Really LIKES You All...From Kentucky With Love..

    Outsider. Someone from outside the area. All of the blogs and outrage are from people not from the West Kentucky area. They come at this story from the point of view of gross ignorance, yet they have no problem in leveling judgment one way or another. This thread is a good example, where...
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    Oil change reignites debate over GPS trackers

    Here's some background on the 9th Circuit Court ruling, and why it's so screwed up. Ninth Circuit Court: Secret GPS Tracking is Legal | Executive Gov Basically, if you're rich and live in a gated community or can afford to fence in the car in your driveway, you're good to go. Otherwise, the...
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    building a generator?

    Still drives prices down, tho.
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    He Really LIKES You All...From Kentucky With Love..

    Leave it to an outsider to tell us what it really means. Thanks. The term originated from poor white farmers in the south who worked the fields and thus had sunburned necks. To many northerners it has come to mean anyone poor from the south, or in some cases an uneducated southern racist. But...
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