Camping Calculator

The smell of wet cardboard greeted Heather as she stirred. She had a headache. Her wood stove was operating, but its chimney pipe wasnt long … Read more

Batteries are consumable products, so they don’t last forever, no matter what size or how many you have. They degrades with use, and also with … Read more

The best way to boost your GMRS range is to focus on better geometry and height. After all, I figure, that five watts is good … Read more

If you think it’s dramatic engineering, or that standing on a hot RV roof in July is some sort of thermal issue, then forget it, … Read more

Sometimes less is worse. A big shadow hurt your power budget, and so does a little one. For example, a roof rack crossbar or an … Read more

It’s easy to forget about the alternator hiding in the front of your van, yet you drool over the shiny lithium batteries promising infinite range, … Read more

This is a good example: You’re on a ridge and can see your receiver. Since you can see it, you figure radio will also reach … Read more

Charging current isn’t necessarily a set value but a rate of consumption to be considered. Say you have a two-hundred-amp-hour battery bank. If you push … Read more

You don’t need to guess at conversions or coefficients. Just plug in your rainfall and roof size into the calculator above and let it handle … Read more

Nothing sums up ice fishing like the panic of setting into a walleye that just turned under the ice. You’re feeling weight. Then, the next … Read more

The variables is different when sizing touring skins for a splitboard, which most don’t consider. This happens until you get to the first steep pitch … Read more