Ski RV's, who's sleeping in parking lots?

[Falcon3]

^Nice rig, congrats

Here's an electrical gremlin question for the self-conversion crowd:
For the past few weeks I've been noticing that my batteries aren't charging. Basic troubleshooting reveals that one of my breakers, a 60A, tripped. My setup is a tap of the main battery running immediately to the 60A, traversing under the flooring in conduit, to a 30A breaker, to the isolated DC-DC charger (victron). I reset the 60A, it tripped again.

This leaves me with one of three possible diagnoses:

1) The 60A has somehow gone bad. It's one of these deals: https://a.co/d/4IKirYe
2) I have a short in the line running through the buried conduit (this would really suck to try to find)
3) My DC charger is for some reason drawing too much current. But, if this were the case I'd expect the 30A immediately upstream to trip first? (This was the intent of my design)

Other ideas? I'm replacing the fuse this weekend, I -really- don't want to have to tear up the floor again...

Yeah you've got the right idea, I'd bet on the 60a breaker being faulty. If you want to rule out the ground short, disconnect the cable from the positive tap and do a continuity test against a good ground.

[Huskier]

Great idea thanks I'll try that

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[gorgonzola]

saw this beast while dropping of my kids half done schoolie conversion for inspection

[BFD]

https://www.facebook.com/marketplace...78/?ref=search
This looks pretty nice. If I didn't have my camper would definitely take a look

[climberevan]

The prices of slide in campers are shocking to me. I expect to have $40k in my bus when I'm finished (plus untold man hours). It will have huge solar, batteries, AC, hydronic heat, etc. Plus, you know, a motor!

[byates1]

^ yep.

[muted reborn]

I had to work hard to get to 10k for this Uintah camp spot. I got stuck going up to it, with most of the weight on a front tire and the rear diff on a boulder when the van slid sideways downhill a couple feet on a sketch sidehill. Since the rear tires were unweighted the rear locker did not get me out. Almost lost a bead on a front tire. Kids were scared, dog was stressed and I was too - waiting forever for a truck to pull me out that never came.





The juice wasn't worth the squeeze but the shooting stars, one asteroid, and a rainbow was pretty cool.

[Name Redacted]

The prices of slide in campers are shocking to me. I expect to have $40k in my bus when I'm finished (plus untold man hours). It will have huge solar, batteries, AC, hydronic heat, etc. Plus, you know, a motor!

Yeah, why doesn't everyone drive a school bus? A lot of advantages to a slide in without "Countless man hours" involved.

Different strokes for different folks. The reason there are so many different camper choices and none of them are perfect for everyone.

[m2711c]

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...ota-pickup-12/

[Trackhead]

Perfect rig!

[m2711c]

you gonna bid?

[Cruiser]

That's pretty slick. Wonder what it'll go for. Also wonder what speed and gear you can expect to be in between bakerville and the tunnel.

[muted reborn]

That is a super cool vintage camper. It went for 23k last year on BAT. I couldn't pay that though for an underpowered 200k+ mileage vehicle.

[heckacali]

Reading the listing, the current owner/seller put a ton More money and time into it since the last auction.

[m2711c]

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/19...ota-pickup-12/

ended up goin’ for $26,500… for a 40 year old vehicle, that was a bit to steep for me.



fact.

[Trackhead]

ended up goin’ for $26,500… for a 40 year old vehicle, that was a bit to steep for me.



fact.

Yeah, it's cool, woulda loved to have it in my 20's when I was a dirt bag climber. But now it's just expensive nostalgia.

[whipski]

Refugio la Loup Crique' is nearly ready to go to it's new home

[byates1]

Nice work man

[cat in january]

That’s a monster stove for such a small space and I would be concerned about downdrafts with a straight pipe like that

[byates1]

I too thought holy shit dude is going nto melt his face in there but hey maybe that's the point maaannn...

[DanoT]

That stove is way too big for the area that it is going to heat. No problem getting an 8 or 10 hour burn though. Just needs some really large windows that can be left wide open all night and day.

[byates1]

Look tor the guy in the wolf Creek lot in his whites looking like he just spent 3 weeks in the Mekong Delta

[whipski]

44 degrees yesterday. Warmed up with a nice fire so I could work comfortably. Current plan is to supplement with a Vevor diesel from homey depot on thermostat while up skiing and after the fire dies in the wee hours.
Have a similar set up in my grain bin ski hut above St Elmo. It'll be fine.

[Whiteroom_Guardian]

Project camper I'm going to work on for a client. Hopefully haven't bitten off too much. He wants it gutted, needs a new wooden floor, all frame and fiberglass in pristine shape.

"I just want a bed so I can sleep in it after fishing all day and going to a restaurant to eat."

Biggest worry is that everything is riveted together inside and out. Guess I'll have to drill out every rivet? He doesn't even want the insulation/liner in it anymore.

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[carlh]

The cabinets are likely structural, if you pull them you might need to add bracing back in.