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Sacrificial anode
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OK all you plumbers out there, this is probably a dumb question from an electrician. When you run almost exclusively on gas will the anode have less wear? Looked at mine this morning and there is not a lot of material eaten away, it's an aluminium anode in a suburban HWS. Mind you, when I took it out whol...
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Aluminum battery from Stanford offers safe alternative to conventional batteries
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http://news.stanford.edu/news/2015/march/aluminum-ion-battery-033115.html
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Laptops
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We haven't hit the road yet, but wanted to know what sort of laptop computers/accessories others find helpful to work online, and keep in touch, whilst on the road.
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Linux Users
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Hi Guys, Can I make a suggestion, perhaps you Linux guys could make a new topic maybe titled Linux User's or whatever, and if there are enough members here to follow the topic and seek advice I am sure you would both be able to supply info to those that need or want it, there must be other members on here that...
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Solar Panel & Auto Electrician
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Just had an additional solar panel and two 12V plugs installed, on site, for our van, by Steve Pap from Caravan & RV Solar Fittings ( formerly Ace Auto Electrical ) ph. 0417 573 019 - who also repaired our reversing camera lead, and relocated our 12 pin and Anderson plugs. Exceptionally friendly, e...
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Turtle wax works great
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Just finished polishing Athena, used Turtle Wax superhard shell, it came up a treat
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portable wi fi
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Hi All Last month after reading on the forum that the big Telco was the way to go for mobile portable wi fi and phone, purchased the phone and hot spot wi fi, getting very disappointed with it all. Was in Sydney other week and went into there big shop come out with a replacement 4g/3g netgear dual band best t...
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deep cycle batteries
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Over the wet and miserable Easter weekend , I only got a day and a half out of my 3 x 100a/h Batteries before I had to turn Gennie on. Solar panels weren't not generating because of the overcast wet conditions ( have 400w solar on roof ) . I was running 175lt 12v Waeco Fridge/Freezer and the 40ltr Engle const...
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Is doing this with an inverter a good idea...
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I found this on a forum somewhere and it seems to go against what I have seen on here. Aussie Paul.
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Why the hubbub over electrical stuff?
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Hi all lets set this electrical hubbub straight. 1. 240 volts from our power points has a fluctuating voltage/current that will send your heart into ventricular fibrillation if you stay connected. Please remember that if you grab hold of a live wire you will not be able to let go. This will KILL you!...
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UPDATE
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hi all update well laptop went to in for repair not good news some thing badly wrong with windows itself not worth fixing he tried all the simple things but would not work on most of them so looks like a new one but thanks all for the help cheers snap
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phone
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hi all can some body guide me trough how to connect my phone to my laptop by wireless I don't seem to have the settings right on the laptop urgent help please
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Welded on tow bar
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Hi A friend has just purchased a Rav4 and the tow bar has been welded on. She has been told it is not supposed to be and is not safe. Any advice if this is true or not. Thanks
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Duel batteries in tug
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When you set up duel batteries in the tow vehicle through the Redarc isolation switch ,do you run your wires for the fridge freezer in the back ,off the crank battery or the auxiliary battery or doesn't it matter,and also do you need to put a fuse or circuit breaker on each pos battery lead to the isola...
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Just fitted 280W of solar to my Avan pop top.
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Well I finally got around to fitting solar panels to my pop top. I fitted 2 X 140W panels using a couple of rails of 40x40x4mm ally held on by 6 ally brackets. The panels are attached to the rails with 5 stainless self tappers down either side. The side brackets are 50x50x4mm ally held onto the roof using S...
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Replacing fridge
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How do you get the old fridge out of the caravan and the new one in , Do they fit through the caravan door if they don't what next .
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Fridge on 12v when driving
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we have a new van and trying to learn how it all works. We have a Thetford 2 door fridge/freezer. We noticed the other day the freezer had de frosted and temp had dropped from 0-5 in 3 hours travel. Our last van which only had a small freezer never did this. So many wires now but we think after a bit of investig...
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2005 GEIST485 electrical dwgs needed
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Hi every one sorry not real good on computer ,trying to find some one with a electrical layout for a geist 485 .2 dead batteries so far my sparky asked me for a diagram,can anyone help please. thanks bob k.
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BRAKE AWAY CABLE
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Good morning all, I checked "search" but only brought up brake controllers. Just wondering if people leave the brake away cable connected to the VAN at all times and only disconnect at the car when set up at the camp site or at home. I saw a stretchy cable with clip on the car end to make for ea...
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Charging a Laptop computer while free camping
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Hi All. we are setting ourselves up for doing lots of free camping. Already have plug in chargers to charge the phone and tablet but need advise on the laptop. Will a 180watt pure sine wave inverter with a cigarette plug charge my Acer laptop or is there a charger like the phone one that I can buy for ch...
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