My name is James and I live in Louisiana. I have a 12ft SRW box truck that I converted to a camper. 

Just saying hello!

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New Member here, been vanning/ camping since 78. Retired from the electronics and marine industry. Live in Fl. Travel, explore as much as possible. Did all the builds with present an previous vans. Present Van…….2000 Chevy High top, 350 small block. Fully customized. Enjoy exchanging ideas with fellow vanners.

I'm currently trying to switch my travel trailer from a Led Acid to Lithium battery. I have a Redodo 200ah battery attached to a Renogy battery monitor. It was not yet connected to shore power. I drained the battery until it reached the cutoff I set in the Renogy, 10.8 volts. I connected to shore power and the WFCO converter started chargin the battery. It starts charging at ~25A, per the battery monitor. It then jumps up to ~50A after a few seconds. It runs there for about 20 seconds at which point I hear the shunt disconnect and the monitor goes to 0A charging. After a few more seconds I hear the shunt re-connect and it goes through the whole process again, 25A -> 50A -> 0A.
This is my first foray into Lithium so I'm at a loss as to where or what to check. I have it wired just like the diagram in the booklet that came with the monitor.

im 6'3 and bought a 2007 mitsubishi outlander. Anyone got specs or images of how i can set it up?

As I sit in another hotel room on their wifi, I'm reminded once again why I should have a working VPN (probably?). I had NordVPN, but 99% of the time, if the VPN was on, I had no internet access. I've looked at Express VPN but that's $10/month! Does anyone have a VPN and if so, does it work?

Hey everyone!  I wanted to say hi.  I'm new to the vanlife and just bought my first van, a 2003 Ford E350 Cutaway Van with the Powerstroke 7.3L Diesel.  I have not began the build yet, as I just purchased this and am wanting to research and learn.  I figured this would be the place to start!  Below is a video of a full walk around from my van and I am hoping to get feedback, advice and criticism.  Look forward to learning from all of you more experienced vanlifers!  I wanted to post the video of my walk around, but it won't let me.  I'll try to post as a comment.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/12/clima...ticleShare

I’m getting in line…. Says it’s about a year out but from the article pretty incredible

I have noticed that not only does my speedometer not read accurately (replaced sensor at transmission- no joy)
It also reads differently based on ambient temperature.  Colder= less accurate.  Warmer= more accurate 
Neither is correct.. but when it is hotter outside.. it is closer to my actual speed….    ((Shrug))

Weird- hhuh?

I'm posting this as a reminder. Never, evah, click the links!

Someone, somewhere, is still falling for this foolishness!

   

There's a old facebook messenger hack that still goes around where a friend (who has already been hacked) sends you a PM that says something like "LOOK WHO DIED" and a link. If you click it, you've just lost your whole facebook account. It gives them full access, they change your password, and drain any funds they can if you use facebook pay. 

So...

Don't use facebook pay. They will still send the message to ALL of your friends, continuing to search for who they can bankrupt.
Don't click links. 
Don't trust that a good friend hasn't been hacked.

Do turn on 2 factor authentication on Facebook if you use it. This stops them from changing your password, but doesn't prevent them accessing your account and sending messages to your friends. AND draining your funds if they can.
Do set your friends list to be viewable to ONLY ME.
Do go over all your privacy settings again--as things change a setting may change to a default you don't want.
Do go through all logged in devices and log everything out you don't recognise.

I had to deal with this for a family member. There was no facebook pay involved thank goodness, but I was unable to recover the account at the time. We were able to turn on 2 factor authentication. We think Facebook eventually defaulted his account back to his very first password, which he discovered one day as he tried every old password he had. Another thing is, it had been about 2 months since he clicked the link before the hack sent out messages!! They must go through everything in order as they gain access.