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> Battery banks with multiple parallel batteries can live a long life **if they spend a lot of time in float** in order to balance with each other. | > Battery banks with multiple parallel batteries can live a long life **if they spend a lot of time in float** in order to balance with each other. | ||
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+ | > Adding more battery capacity is akin to opening a new bank account without increasing your income. - Peter_n_Margaret((https:// | ||
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> There is a famous saying that "no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy" | > There is a famous saying that "no battle plan survives first contact with the enemy" | ||
+ | > vandwelling won't solve any issues that lie between your own ears. Van life is just life, in a van. It's not a magical cure for " | ||
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+ | > The road to vandwelling is paved with the shards of crushed and broken dreams. It is a lifestyle that chews the fantasy-prone up and spits them out. Watching it happen all the damn time gets disheartening after a while... But, sadly, some people just HAVE to piss on the electric fence for themselves.((https:// | ||
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> I need to remember to stay on topic. It's like laying sod, "green side up, green side up..." -- dusty98((http:// | > I need to remember to stay on topic. It's like laying sod, "green side up, green side up..." -- dusty98((http:// | ||
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> It always makes me laugh when people idealize vanlife as being " | > It always makes me laugh when people idealize vanlife as being " | ||
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+ | > If algebra is going to keep you from making a safe build then you should probably not be taking advice from amateurs on a free forum -- LetzterMensch11((https:// | ||
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> Most of these answers have to be provided by you if you want a system that meets your needs. You can't just hand this off without knowing what you want - vanprof((https:// | > Most of these answers have to be provided by you if you want a system that meets your needs. You can't just hand this off without knowing what you want - vanprof((https:// | ||
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+ | > The biggest problem you're going to encounter is that very little will go according to plan. You'll think you're going to accomplish a task in one way . . . then you'll get halfway through, realize it won't work at all, and have to start over completely from scratch. Probably multiple times. - Princess_Fluffypants((https:// | ||
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> "the man who … organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day… Nothing can be taken from this life, and you can only add to it" - Seneca | > "the man who … organizes every day as though it were his last, neither longs for nor fears the next day… Nothing can be taken from this life, and you can only add to it" - Seneca | ||
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+ | > Drink cups never go as low as the floor, pee cups never go above it. -- tatertom((https:// | ||
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> "If you are towing and don't know the area, drop the trailer and look around." | > "If you are towing and don't know the area, drop the trailer and look around." | ||
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