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On ‎1‎/‎3‎/‎2022 at 1:22 PM, nvrtoofast said:

Interesting to see most everyone drives during the day. While I have enjoyed seeing the country during the day. Most of my long drives are between 7pm and 3am. I stop about 2-4 hours for a break. Way fewer cars at night and always a surprise when the sun comes up on a new location in the morning.

I'm a tad different since I ride with the wife, 4 kids and a 75lb Boxer. It's a quieter drive at night. Just wrapped a 12K mile round trip across the US with them. Great way to spend time with family.

Time in the seat all depends on:
- Roads (wide and straight or small and windy)
- Construction (10 feet wide with 4 feet concrete barriers on each side goes white knuckle after 20 miles of it)
- Traffic
- Animals (Yes. Lots of animals like the night. Besides me, of course)
- Schedule (Gotta make that special once a year Pow Wow)
- Fatigue (Did you just hike the entire Big Obsidian Flow in Oregon? And THEN decided to go to southern California?)
- Don't forget the crazy factor (Mine is very high)

Highly individual. Biggest thing is stay safe! No trip is worth a life. But every trip is a life's worth.
 

I also have preferred driving at night, more so if traveling via interstate.  If I am in a new place and traveling back roads, I prefer daylight when I have time.  I suppose those of us that are working on tighter schedules tend to drive larger segments.   I have done 810 Miles with one stop for fuel, eating, walking.  

23 hours ago, cbr046 said:

You and I have traveled the same road to the same venues.  I recognized the NEPG schedule as soon as I saw it.  

I typically drive until I get there, but most of my trips are reachable.  Some of the longer one-sit trips have been to Turkey TX (1124 miles) and Tulsa OK (855 miles), those were epic trips.  Two trips to Cross Fork PA (792) and both times stopped and slept in Walmart in State College PA.  Easy one-day trips are Matthews IN (634), Camp Claiborne LA (624), Park Hills MO, (571) and many under 500.  WHY?  Because I don't like stopping, and sometimes it's impossible to find an open drive-thru space in a rest area at midnite.  I don't mind truck stops for shut-eye but (other than they're slam full also) it's very hard to back up a short trailer in the dark.  The backup camera is useless and I can't see the trailer if it's backing straight.  On the return trips over 500 I'll typically stop somewhere, but I'm not getting started until after 3-4pm. 

On ‎9‎/‎29‎/‎2021 at 10:28 AM, tmw188 said:

While having the rear engine access door lifted on my O2 Windsor looking for the source of some water dripping. I noticed it was coming from a very small duckbill attached to a half inch garden style hose. I’m assuming that that is a drain for the air intake Plenum at the rear of the coach for this year model Windsor? The duckbill was clogged with dirt and debris I pulled it off the hose was clogged probably a good inch and a half to 2 inches up inside the hose, once cleared it completely drained out and cleared the hose of water. I’m on a trip returning from the Smoky Mountains. I drove a good day in a moderate rainfall on the first leg of the trip. So my question is is that what that hose runs up to is my assumption correct? From the looks of the debris it seems possible it’s never been cleared. Seems like a good way for the motor to ingest some water if this isn’t kept clear or at least get the filter wet. When my new filter finally arrives if it ever does I’ll be able to inspect the existing filter.

I have similar intake holes in my 2000 Windsor, I have a duck bill drain at the bottom of the ~10" intake pipe that 90's into the filter. My duckbill is ~2" in diameter.  Farm and industrial equipment use similar "water dumps" on air intakes anytime there is a chance liquid can collect.   My John Deere riding mower actually has one.  

My relay is mounted in the cabinet behind the slide controls, inverter control, and tank gauges. 

I just had my alternator rebuilt locally for $285 out the door.  My built in 1999 unit had severe corrosion internally, probably from not enough use.  

I also had stray voltage, so I pulled the chassis battery ground and replaced.  

When I repaired my Dash A/C on my 2000 Windsor 6+ years ago  It required around 4lbs on a 40' coach.      

My unit has an expansion valve, so low side will change from 25-40 PSI depending on temp.   High side max is 250 PSI, however with the length of hose, I kept way under, in the 200 PSI range for max on a 90ish degree day. 

What I did do to verify was to use calibrated gauges and do a static pressure test after the system has been off for some time vs Outside air temperature at the condenser.   

I saw that article.   

The new LEO ISP service will/should be 8-10x quicker than current GEO services, and more than likely ~2-3X "less quick" than conventional services.  

It wasn't that long ago when commercializing space travel was considered unobtainable, did any see the recent trip to the ISS?  

On ‎1‎/‎8‎/‎2020 at 5:44 PM, woodylmiller said:

This has been a major problem for us, a mobile wifi.  No way to have a connected land based Internet Service Provider while moving around from place to place.  We would like to be able to stream Netflix, Hulu and other services, all needing a wifi  connection. 

The new LEO ISP sat system that is being launched will target latency time of sub 100 Milliseconds, early testing is in the sub 50 milliseconds.  Your previous experience with VSAT based ISP is GEO based, latency always > 650 Milliseconds.   The difference is the physics, LEO orbit is less than 5% distance of the GEO orbit satellites, therefore the roundtrip is significantly less.   The antenna requirements will also be significantly less complicated than GEO antenna systems, omnidirectional panels/domes vs highly directional dish units that GEO requires.