hi.. great minds think alike! My current location of my balun and wire won't get me to 63 feet, already the last 14ft or so is bent towards the ground in an L shape but works well. I have a small lot with power lines at one end i can't go near. I already have the 49:1 balun and 63 feet of wire for a 40m EFHW just waiting on a corner mount or other solution to put a mount at the end of my house instead of the middle where the other is. My house is 52ft long and i'll be going high into a tree, so i might have to bend it a little over a limb. another bonus is it's broadside to the other antenna so i'll have more directions after I install it and can choose which antenna to use for my contacts.. Thanks for the great comment!

Unfortunately I haven’t seen an on/off switch on any charge controller. There is a backlight on the expensive 60A version and bigger so I think it’s a cost cutting measure I. The cheaper ones. Yes I’m getting RFI off both of my controllers pretty much identical… I don’t know it was giving off RFI until I got an IC-7300 and saw the vertical bars on the display about every 30kh. From the reading I’ve done most charge controllers have RFI … low RFI controllers have to be sought out not easy to find.. I can’t remember if I found any except maybe the Victron controllers. I’m usually lucky that my contacts haven’t been near the vertical bars … so it doesn’t really effect me much and it only gives off RFI when a lot of amps are coming from the solar panels. So cloudy days and nights are pretty much RFI free. Much worse is my inverter that only runs my TV. Inverters puts out broadband wide RFI that wipes out the bands including weak signals 2 meters! But when I’m watching TV I’m not in the radio so it doesn’t affect my radio operating.

@@hamradiocomms Same situation here and I've tried different combo's of toroids and beads mix 31 and it has reduced it some but not entirely and most notable on 80m and 40m....thank you.

You are so welcome! And thanks for watching

To me about equal in quality… some like the connectors better on rich solar but I have no problems with it

I wouldn’t do it .. opens up issues of fusing, and connections from RV and charge controller all connected to all three batteries batteries

@@hamradiocomms thanks

Hello from Maine and congrats on your new license. You’re close to the islands and South America, will be exciting to get on HF from FL

I’m using a 52ft end fed antenna with a homemade 9:1 unun at only 15 ft above ground and a 32ft counterpoise wire

It sounds like a great plan, best of luck and have fun !

@@hamradiocomms It looks like they sell on ebay pretty regularly. It'll happen soon enough. I was able to communicate overseas in data and throughout most of continental North America with just a speaker wire dipole in a tree. Can't wait to see how it goes when I actually build something

You can receive GMRS but not transmit. Transmit is 430-450mhz.. receive goes up to 469mhz

These are 12v panels.. though i currently have them in series for 24v going to the controller.

It's a great radio, fun to have colors tied to different functions. Has been reliable so far.

Thank you! Good luck and have fun.

I think that’s normal for his production schedule… he does them in batches with usually about a 6 month wait between batch releases.

I tried it a few times it helped restore to some degree 2 AGM batteries I had tried on the charger. I left it on over 12 hours it was still running so I don't think it has auto shutoff unless its much longer than 12 -15 hours that I tried.

@@hamradiocomms i tried it also at 37 hours and it still in repair pulses mode, i think it run forever (60ah 600cca battery regular flooded)

@@playstation2bigs thanks for the info…. I wondered how long it would go… I agree, if it didn’t shut off in that time it probably never does.

Good question … the charger automatically senses 12v 0:04 or 24v battery and adjusts the charging voltage automatically

I sure did … at the 4 min mark I show how to calibrate the meter for the SWR reading and I switched to SWR and pushed PTT on the HT.. there is no deflection on the meter because the dummy load is 1:1

The load output on the rover wouldn’t be a good charger, not meant for that, and the FLA batteries would draw the full amount of amps the Rover can produce but the load output isn’t meant for high draw devices. Yes it would also drain the lifepo4 batteries. Connecting the batteries directly to the fla batteries wouldn’t be a good idea massive current would flow through the cables. You can disconnect the lifepo4 batteries and connect the fla to the rover battery connection to charge them.

@@hamradiocomms thank you for the reply. I have a second rover that was for backup. (2 is 1) But I can use it to charge separately until the fla bank is depleted. This is what I have decided to do. ill throw a couple of panels at it. Right now my lifepo4 bank only replaced the genset through an inverter so it's not directly connected to the 12v system and I found that leaving the inverter on and connected to the converter charger uses too much energy even when idle. I'll tie it all together once everything is lifepo4 and disconnect the converter charger. I'm learning as I go.

Hello.. yes it’s always a good idea to have a fuse on the positive or inline on the positive cable near the positive. It prevents the wire catching on fire if the wire shorts or short at the controller.

I haven't tested custom settings, i just set battery type toLi which is for LiFePO4 batteries and the boost and float are correct so I never tested the custom settings. IDK if there is another setting that custom trumps battery type? Are you sure you have flooded? Deep cycle come in flooded or AGM types.. the Marine deep cycle ones are typically flooded. The 2v newer solar battery types are often AGM. That might get you closer to the numbers you looking for, but not sure.

@@hamradiocomms Thank you for this video and thanks for your quick reply to my problem, I just realized the mistake I was making. After I set all my parameters it was going back to my battery type, FLA and was overriding the settings I had programed and it was charging according to the factory settings for that battery type. Now I know that I need to make sure it stays on the USE icon after every thing is set and it will charge according to my custom settings. I should of figured that out from the beginning.

@@JD0333 That's great that you figured it out! Thanks for letting me know the details.