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Got that notice on the 6th at work, our Firewall uses OpenDNS, but when it blocks, we have a form we can fill out to fix the site data - I sent in a form and got this reply the next morning and it was working (I use all browsers at work): Might take a little bit of time to propagate out that...

With a sigh of relief, I picked up the Ohio shipment today (took a month to get here). This shipment contained the troop seats I bought from Shrapnel, and the front end I bought from 2002ford including the bumper+grille guard. It was too dark to take any pictures tonight (gets dark here at 5)...

Something that is brought up when one does these types of builds, is the number of little things that have to be obtained/purchased to keep the project rolling, but I think when it's brought up, it's more of a complaint in hindsight. What is happening behind the scenes here while you don't see...

Picked up a P-pump for the Cummins yesterday, and ordered a P-pump gear cover and gear as well. I think I'm going to try to get the engine running and through the BAR referee before screwing with it. I don't think this year is a SMOG check year for my truck, but I won't know until the...

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Not much happening right now other than acquiring parts. The shipment from Ohio isn't expected to get here until either next week, or the first week of January (holidays). I bought Pedram (Pfab) a new tailgate from the night we dropped off the engine to cucvnut - apparently GM didn't design...

I used a circuit breaker like that I my Toyota truck for the stereo, the 4/0 wire melted the jacket and nearly caught the truck on fire when the positive rubbed on the frame wrong (the contacts welded closed inside, so it couldn't "trip"). Now I don't run anything but type-T fuses for stereos...

You'll start to hurt the diodes at anything sustained (longer than a few minutes) over 350F, however, you will start to melt the plastic casing before then. The solder holding the parts to the board should melt in the 240F range. LEDs #1 killer is heat. Running LEDs creates heat at the die...

This is what I selected for my CUCV project: http://www.ecodirect.com/ProductDetails.asp?ProductCode=Blue-Sky-SB1524iX details: http://www.blueskyenergyinc.com/products/details/solar_boost_1524ix Small and simple, does 24V banks and should support your 300Watt panel idea. For the isolator -...

Try using dental picks wired to the bench power supply to pierce the potting compound before digging into it If it turns out to be on the back (regulators), it would save you some time figuring out which part of the potting compound you want to remove.

The heat won't melt the epoxy until it burns the plastic, FR4 circuit board and melts all of the solder. Those look like red piranha-style LEDs, good news there is that they are CHEAP (in all senses of the word unfortunately). One good thing is that optical epoxy is REPAIRABLE :) - in other...

Thanks for the update and pix - I would love to see a video of that running :).

I'm back in California, from a two week visit with the in-laws, have been spending most of my free time in town cleaning up our new digs (apartment, last tenant left a mess, land-lord cut us a deal if we cleaned it :)). As I mentioned above, while I was in Ohio I picked up a set of troop seats...

These are the electronic "compressor type" headsets - the Bose type just kill all sound outside the headset, these knock down the sound to safe levels and compress loud impulse type (gun shot, engine backfire) sounds, and they also plug into radios. These let any sound that is below the danger...

Why not go the way of the Spec-ops guys and leave the truck alone? http://www.envirosafetyproducts.com/peltor-swattac-iii-ach-single-communication-headsets.html

Just picked up a set of troop seats from another SS member, now I can be truly confused as to what to do with this truck when I'm done. :)

I wonder if you get around that if you have a PTO generator and you are not sitting at "idle" but rather 900RPM or 1800RPM and obviously have power cables running from the truck to another location...

3kW (3000Watts) = 210Amps @ 14.4VDC or 105Amps at 28.8VDC. That's going to be a big alternator if 12V, and still a pretty large one if 24VDC. Interesting to note, 3kW = ~4.5HP (no loss assumed), so you should be able to get that out of a 5HP diesel (finding a quiet 5HP diesel is going to be...

I like your truck's snow camo :)

This is a slight tangent, but I'll clarify. These are packaged single LEDs - they are higher density than the LED light bars which are constructed from dozens of packaged single LEDs. The 500Watt looks like this: Inside that yellow colored square area is actually 20 x 20 (400), 1mm...