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Sounds great Joe, Do you still have the boost relay and can you use it without tripping the overload on the bms ? And what are you going to do to charge the chassis batts from the house when it has shore or genny. Does the charger have any lithium profile or just treating them like lead? Got any way to take them to full charge ? Bill g 06 dynasty Actually I guess your dc to dc will take them to full charge if you drive long enough . bill g 06 dynasty

Renolgy makes dc to dc chargers in 20, 40 and 60a that should do a good job of charging them from the chassis side and have lithium profiles. They have an input from the ignition to let it know that the engine is running . Amazon has them . I think you could still use a big boy for a boost. You could put a separate smart charger on the chassis batteries to maintain them w shore power. Bill G 06 Dynasty

Ray, I have a vague remembrance of seeing you all and the body damage caused by this in Fl at Alliance if I remember right . Something tells me it was a Goodyear gy670rv. Is that right ? Don’t remember if a 295 or 315. Anyway, regardless, the Tyron is a good thing and a gy670 is not , imho. bill g 06 dynasty

IF the 8D worked good, there would be little reason to want to go to anything else.

I rely on my balance masters totally. The instructions tell you to remove any weights when you put on the disks. If you spend the money to balance them and then use the disks you are wasting money. I’m not sure why you would put disks one tires that are already balanced ? bill g 06 dynasty

How are the Panhard bar bushings ? bill g 06 Dynasty

That may vary by tire model and manufacturer. I believe with the Michelin xza2’s that I run it is not supposed to matter. But the only rotation I have ever done is to retire steer tires based on time and put them on the right drive wheel as a pair. bill g 06 dynasty

NO. Dry air and nitrogen behave the same way. Most of what is claimed about Nitrogen is false. The main thing is it has no oxidizer and so cannot promote or feed a fire which is great on an aircraft but not so meaningful on a Moho. Bill G 06 Dynasty

I wish my pressure pro receiver could use the car transmitters. The batteries lasted 12 years on my pickup and I got a whole set of 4 for 40$ on Amazon. Instead I spend about 150$ a year on a few replacements that are supposed to last 5 years. I like the pressure pro other than that. It has always been interesting that car tires are affected by temp change much more so than rv tires. The reason is atmospheric pressure is about 1/3 of the total pressure in a car tire but maybe only 1/7 of the rv tire pressure. So for the internal pressure to change by 10 percent to respond to a 10 percent change in absolute temp, the car tire pressure changes my more than twice the rv tire pressure. If you were in outer space, the rv and car tires would change by the same. So, is there anything that can be done to make tire pressure less temperature dependent ? Bill g 06 dynasty

They look real nice. I would be interested in the dimensions to see how many I could put on a deck. Bill G 06 Dynasty

Let us know how it goes. I’m going lifepo4 if my agms ever wear out. Been seeing price down to about 80$ for 280ah cells. Could diy 4 cells and bms and box and freight for probably about 600$ which is in line with agm price . Two of them should do it. Might be able to get three of them , 840ah , on one deck. Cut out a bunch of lead weight. Bill G 06 Dynasty Look nice . How much ? With freight .

Yeah Bob N. Not sure that you struck a nerve but maybe just noticing something is up. Not to sound political but my sense is that Biden may take office on Jan 21 and gas will be back to 4$ a gallon in short order , or more. I have taken to hedging my bets on oil of late in case he does. My guess is that as his admin makes things hard for oil producers that we will no longer domestically produce as much and may become reliant on imported oil again. Pa will get the shaft. I believe that there is enough solar to provide much of energy needs. Powering cars with electric is a good idea. But keeping gas at 2$ is a good idea too. Like Trump, I have no axe to grind with any form of energy. Well I wouldn’t want a nuclear reactor in my back yard that depends on control rods to throttle it. Bill G 06 Dynasty

A 315 on an 8.25 rim is de-rated because The narrower rim moves the flex point in the sidewall farther outward. That is not the optimal flex point. That makes it harder to flex and thus the tire runs a little harder , having to dissipate added heat. So for a given energy dissipation rate at a given speed, the tire cannot carry as much as it could on a 9” rim. What one might learn from this is that the 315 reduces your mpg, having to dissipate more energy as heat than a 295. bill g 06 dynasty A Michelin uses 5psi less air pressure than other brands because its “virtual” foot print is larger. Since a 295 casing is a 295 casing then the difference is in the length of the chord struck on the pavement . That’s why Michelin’s have the low on air look. The pressure x the virtual area = the load. At 100 psi the Michelin’s strikes a 5 percent longer chord than the other brands . They Can do this because their sidewalk is more flexible than other brands . The actual tread width is less than other brands. bill g 06 dynasty

Hi Bob, Agms should not need equalization. One of the things that causes the need for that is electrolyte stratification, a layering or pockets of difference in the fluid. But the agm electrolyte is sandwiched in to its glass fabrics and can’t go anywhere to get out of place. However, Lifeline says that theirs can be equalized.... and they have a procedure. I wouldn’t do it. My 8 Duracell gc2agms are over 6 years old and going strong. And you know I use them hard. Next batteries for the house will be Lifepo4. My little Duracell marine agm 34m chassis batts are only 5years old but doing fine. Maybe when I go to lithium for the house which will take less space and weigh a lot less I’ll go back to group 31 agm for the chassis. Hope the agms go a couple more years . bill g 06 dynasty

I paid $1.60 a couple days ago at TA in Meridian Ms with the TSD card.