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Clever idea!

As someone who had the bad sense to take a saw to fiberglass panels, let me say "I feel your pain." I itched for two days after attacking my bus side panels with a circular saw.

Redbear - Is the voltage limiting responsible for my LED flashlights going from full output to no output in a few seconds? I love the led flashlights but they do have a habit of going dark at the worst possible time.

Jack's just being humble. Did you guys see restoration he did on the toad? If that's hacking it's the best I've ever seen.

Looking good Jack! --- And no doubt you also have some trick for making all the styro-crumbs disappear. What's your technique...shop vac...static wand...or just teleport it into that other dimension where all lost socks go? It would be environmentally wrong to waste all those beads and use literall...

Replace that turkey! Checking the line pressure is a real good idea.

I can just see you dancing around when that molten plastic starts flying! :lol: :lol: Glad it's not just me that does stuff like that. I've had some interesting moments while trying to re-purpose some random tool for something nature never intended. :lol: :lol: :lol: Turns out, I DO have a router......

Stay with copper!! Roach, the aluminum is more than 50% more resistive - combined with the corrosion possibilities, copper replacement asap would be good - save some heat, move some more electrons more easily, etc. - 2.82 aluminum versus 1.68 copper. Yeah, I know about the advantages of copper, but...

I'm not sure what constitutes string of batteries either. My understanding is that a bus bar could be as simple as a common attachment point for all battery cables. My system is much smaller than yours (two 6v trojans) but I made a bus bar out of heavy aluminum stock. If you went this route be sure ...

Lets say you've got 6 12v batteries connected together in parallel, in a row with the positive and negative leads coming off the battery on the far right of the string. Due to cable voltage drop the right hand battery will be charged/discharged the most and the battery on the far left will be charge...

Amazing stuff Jack! Can't wait to see it finished.

How are you planning to weather seal it?

I'm IN!!!!! Damn Jack, looks like you're building a transformer! It'll be pretty cool when you drive up in an apparently normal '35 Chevy then push a button that transforms it into the space shuttle which then blasts off to the moon. :lol: I'll chime in and vote you keep the windows. When I covered ...