One of our recent customers to purchase our South American Topographic Maps Series 2 which covers almost all of Brazil (as well as most of Peru and parts of Bolivia) had a few questions for us after downloading the 124 maps from the OverlandResource.com client download center (you can do the same by purchasing the…
I thought I’d write down an email exchange I had with a recent customer who purchased one of our South American Topographic Map series. As you can read on the download page, the maps are in Russian, and normally not of much use to us English speakers. To remedy that we provide a database of…
Someone came here the other day looking for the answer to this question – which battery terminal should you connect first. It’s a great question. We’re talking about automotive batteries, and whether you connect the positive terminal or the negative terminal first.
If you are building an off-grid power system you probably need to start building a battery bank. And one of the first questions you’ll have is how many batteries do you need. To answer that question you need to start by understanding the capacity of batteries. This article explains what is meant by the Amp-Hour rating of a battery.
You need to increase the amp hours available from a battery bank as well as the voltage. This article shows you how!
We have opened the website up for our readers to guest write articles for the site. If you have something to write related to any topic that even loosely falls under the subject of overland and expedition travel then go ahead and visit our article submission page and send us something!
How do you connect two 12 volt batteries in series to get 24 volts? On the face of it it’s an easy answer – read about it in this article. But there are many complications when you get into mixing systems – maybe you have a 12 volt alternator running your main circuits, and a 24 volt auxiliary piece of equipment. This article starts by explaining the basics.
GETAC Inc., a leading manufacturer of rugged notebook computers, Tablet PCs, and other mobile computing products since 1989, is proud to announce it has finalized an arrangement with HP to supply – and service – rugged computer products to the company’s 3rd Party Solution group.
We’ve spoken with a number of Overlanders, and the biggest complaint we hear about rooftop tents is keeping them clean. And for some reason it’s the men who don’t seem to care, while the wives just hate sleeping on the scratchy, gritty, sand that collects on the mattress. This short article lists the few things we do to keep everyone in the household happy!
The biggest strength in OziExplorer is its ability to display georeferenced, scanned paper maps. But many really good maps don’t come in the rectangular format that OziExplorer likes to display – there are often city cut-outs, indexes written down a sidebar of the page, legends, and even advertising. Using the moving map feature, your track would run through the middle of these areas, making them useless to you. So, what can you do?