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My favourite method for converting 24 VDC to 12 VDC is, and stay with me here, a DC-DC converter.:razz:
One that can handle 8 A out is available for about $84 at Mouser.
ULQ-12/8-D24P-C Murata Power Solutions DC/DC Converters & Regulators
I doubt that your electric brakes could over-tax that...
Well, that's convenient, considering overwidth begins at 8' 6".
Protuberances (things that stick out) don't matter as long as they are as they were put on by the manufacturer. As long as you don't change from some dinky little OEM mirrors to some gargantuan after-marker monstrosity, you're good...
N345BG North American TB-25N
*contented sigh*
That reminds me of one of my fave romantic comedy movies. Anyone remember Always? Except Pete flew a B-26 (actually A-26), not a TB-25, but still, it'd be a similar feel. If I were to largely exhaust my obsession with green iron and step out into...
One use a MEP might be put to is simply as an emergency recharging system when (not if) the solar array fails, the sun and weather aren't cooperating to keep your battery bank charged, or if you simply have larger draws on your system than you scaled your battery bank and solar array for.
To...
Some more creative uses Russians find for their own military surplus trucks... and other things.
English Russia » Travel Russia Cars
Some of my faves:
The tiny winch on the front of that snow cat.
"Oh sure, he parks the truck, but I have to fill it up!"
The Aeroflot helicopter turned into...
Oh HELL YES!
I've been wanting to make a small squad of 1/12 scale M1A1 Abrams MBTs because at that scale a 10 mm handgun could easily stand in for the 120 mm cannon. Get some military school cadets and head out to the coal flats and have ourselves a mini-tank battle. Of course, mine would just...
I've gotta wonder... There's publishing on demand. You upload a PDF file for a book to the PoD company and as you have need, you order one, three, a dozen copies to be printed and bound, and it's economical.
When is someone gonna start a parts manufacturing on demand. The specs for these rods...
HTF did you manage to glom on to 6 all from the same year? Strickly speaking, I'm not interested in Deuces myself, but if I were to have one, it'd be a `73 bobber. (I was born in `73 too.)
Not that it's not cool to cryogenic standards, but I have a question regarding efficacy. You want an airraid siren to call out to all and sundry the instant you detect the airraid is imminent. "The instant". What kind of warmup time would a V-8 driven airraid siren require from the time the...
Personally, I like to do CAD designs and I would enjoy seeing a measured drawing with a cross sectionI can easily translate into my CAD software. Ditto for the 5-Ton front drive axles, which, now that I think about it, measured drawings of the 5-Ton axles are the original reason I joined SS in...
In all honesty, on further review, I can't be certain what the engine size was because GL wasn't sure what the engine size was:
The other ad (AucID: 2515525) was identical except the VIN is JKAKLMD16XA095981.
I assumed the GL auctions were 650 and that the 250 was another nomenclature for 650...