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?
International Travel Maps have some of the best paper maps available for expedition and adventure travel. Based out of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, these guys have been producing maps for over 20 years. This article describes the process we use for calibrating the maps for use in GPS software, and shows how well they actually work.
We’re seeing more and more fully customized CF-28 Panasonic Toughbooks out there, particularly on eBay. Vendors are buying old laptops in poor condition, pulling them apart, and refurbishing them. This article is a quick review of what you might expect to buy.
Lonely Planet Travel Guidebooks have grown to be the biggest and largest guidebook company in the world. They have been an invaluable resource on our travels – this article lists the books that we have bought for our South American travels.
Do you have the discontinued Garmin GPS 35 TracPak GPS, and you need the manual? OverlandResource.com has a free copy available for download.
One of the issues with a dual battery system is to keep both batteries equally charged. This applies whether you have a 12 volt series system to make 24 volts or more, or if you have a 12 volt parallel system for extra starting power or maybe a secondary power system for recreational use. This article describes how to charge two batteries so that both of them are charged the same.
Do you fear travelling to a foreign country, and not understanding the language? This is how I, a Canadian, learned Spanish on the fly, in real time, on the road. And you know, it was fun. Really fun.