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Remember that most DC arc welders are in the 100-200 Amp range and are at low voltage (6-24V). Your starting battery with 600+ CCA at 12V is right in that window - with a pair of 6TLs, 100Amp alternators, and 24V you should have no problem fusing steel continuously for a few hours...

Nothing gets you over the last one like the next one :beer:

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Cold (slower chemical reaction, freezing damage), sitting (self discharging), over-charging (water boil-off), undercharging (sulfation), dirt corrosion on the terminals... There's a huge list of ways to kill a battery or significantly shorten its life. That, plus the GP relay chatter you...

That voltage is low, both the pink/back wire and the battery voltages. A dead 12V lead acid battery reads around 11.85V - under very light loads, the battery should not drop below 12.25V, only with cranking is it allowed to drop down to 9.6V. If the indicator lights and a fer solenoids are...

I need someone to meet up with Dr. Evil Porkchop at the MTA show in NJ next Friday or Saturday, and move 4x 20mm ammo cans to the Cincinnati, OH area. I have in-laws around there who can hold them until I can arrange a ride further west.

Anyone going to be headed to this show from SW Ohio or West Virginia? I have 4x 20mm ammo cans I'd like to get from Dr. Evil Porkchop, he's going to be there Friday and Saturday next week. I have in-laws in the general area of SW Ohio who can make a detour on their regular daily trips to meet...

Reflective sheeting is available from a wide variety of places. I have purchased mine from: Grainger, eBay, sign shops, craigslist, various safety supply shops and catalogs... I now have a large collection of different tapes and sheets for various uses (bikes, cars, trucks/busses, etc...)...

Two reasons: I have committed to doing this truck as close to factory/deployment-ready as possible - everything I do that is not "DoD Authorized" must be un-do-able, magnets come off :beer: I have yet to do body work and paint, at which time I will have to remove the reflective tape if applied...

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How did you test the batteries? Volt meter only or load tester? The front battery is the 0-12V battery and is the one which powers everything (except the glow plugs plugs and starter if 100% original wiring - GP relay and controller are still powered from 12V). Changing a rear battery only is...

Just because it measured out fine once doesn't mean it's not the problem. The relay can just be sticky - which is even more annoying to trace. It shouldn't take forever to crank. White smoke at cranking is usually cold unburned diesel (and usually accompanied with the heavy diesel smell)...

Been dabbling with some 3M Diamond Grade reflective sheeting, I'm sticking it to magnetic backing which makes it removable: For exaggeration of the FMVSS required retroreflectors I'm putting 4"x9" panels on the front and rear fenders in Red and Yellow: At night the size and enhanced...

From the datasheet (attached), the 2031 is a Coleman 2-burner stove short of 700lbs. I have some difficulty as a 140-ish pound 5'8" (1.72M) individual just moving around the 305 shell and frame pack - I can dead lift about twice my weight a few times before I'm spent (the shell/frame weighs...

If you can get the airbeam on the ground with a crane that'll help, but you may have to find a way to roll it out and back again with a vehicle (and that can make site selection complicated). My truck will have a compressor, but not a high volume one, so again I'm hoping to reduce the tools I...

Start with a resistance check before pulling them. :beer:

Looks like an MEP-831 on two furniture dollies hanging from the crane... Base-X tents are often shipped in very large and heavy Hardigg cases which I don't need or want (more to store and carry), I'm focussing on building a collapsible frame to but in a trailer bed that will contain the tents...

Yes, with the GP card in. 24V off and 0V on is good, but when it clicked into the "resting"/off position after the warm-up it should have jumped back to 24V. That smells fishy, and not in a dinner is served kinda way, by not jumping all the way back to 24V, it tells me your GP relay is not...

Yeah, one of the reasons I went with Base-X is the reduced personnel count to set up. All the videos I've seen of DRASH tents being set up look like you have to get a bunch of people inside to push the tent out, or having to do a dead lift while ballancing the tent on a pole...

Thanks for the PM. Just from a quick read, it's starting to sound like a bad GP relay, or bad fusible link. It looks like most of the measurements you've taken are good. Can you do a sanity check? Measure the voltage from one large GP terminal to the other GP terminal. When the truck is off...