Building the FUDRNR for 50 state trip
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ctran013
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Nice! So what did you have to do to get it to charge your battery since you mentioned that was an issue earlier in your post? The clamps that came with the briefcase set up didn't work? The whole thing looks like a plug and play.
Prototype_X9
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Thanks man! Im hoping to be able to be able to find some cool stuff along our travels that people want to see. our trip is a little food focused because we are chefs, but i think everyone loves food.
i want to have a focus on what we are cooking along the trails. i think we bring a different perspective to camp cooking. not that we will cook douchy over complicated food. but we can make some lovely food anywhere. im trying to convince my better half to work on desserts at the campsite. She is a pastry chef for Jose Andress for pete's sake.
Prototype_X9
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Offroading in canada???? Around toronto, ottawa, and montreal.
We are going from detroit to maine through canada and id love to get offroad.
We are going from detroit to maine through canada and id love to get offroad.
eyerolleddapiece
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If you can make it work, head to the west side of Michigan. There are some sand dunes there that are awesome. Silver lake sand dunes in Hart, MI
Prototype_X9
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You can do that just fine. but I didn't want to need to use the alligator clips at every stop. doesnt seem very safe or convenient to me. So we added a new connection to the charge controller, added a ring terminal connection to the aux battery, and a 20' extension chord to get it out into the sun. Ill find some amazon links. I also just picked up a socket kit that I will run into my grill, so we wont need to pop the hood at every stop. just hook up the extension chord to the outlet in the grill.
I used 2 of these.
https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Tend...rd_wg=TLd72&psc=1&refRID=E26J51GP1206TDD57QNV
and 1 one these.
https://www.amazon.com/Battery-Tend...rd_wg=hpp0p&psc=1&refRID=Q84N7G14YSQ3Y7QVB7AX
one ring terminal I installed directly to the battery like normal. The other I cut off the ring terminals and fuse. Then I hooked up the cut/stripped wires to the solar charge controller's positive and negative ports. This gave me a new connection using the standard 2 pin socket system, at both the panel and the battery. Then just use the extension chord to link the two together.
Here is the chord that I cut and added to the controller.
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ctran013
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Ahhh makes sense! Thanks for sharing man.
Prototype_X9
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No problem man. Ill do a full writeup eventually. It was super easy. The reason for the connector change was that every truck stop sells those standard 2 pin plugs. If something goes wrong i can make repairs without needing a dedicated solar shop.
Prototype_X9
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It really is strange how Canada limits your ability to camp out in their large parks. There is no car camping outside of approved campsites and camping without officially renting a site calls for a hefty fine which stack. We have been haning out in sites around toronto and now we are in an absolitely beaitful part of the Algonquin Park. We are driving out after using their laundry facility and headed to Gun Mountain loop trails to do alittle 4wheeling. Food is toronto was pretty good and i have a new favorite punk rock bar to go to, which makes excellent nachos
Prototype_X9
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Well, I guess it is finally time to share some of the food aspect of the fudrnr.
While in chicago, we went all in at Alinea. One of the single greatest restaurant in the world, and essily the best meal of my life. Around 3.5 hours and 20 courses, including their grand main dessert. It took 10 chefs around 5 mintues to plate that dessert on our table while dancing to strobe lights and music. I need to video uploaded.
The floating edible balloon is always a massive crowd pleaser. Every part is edible including the string, and its filled with flavored air. crazy.
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The Menu
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OF course we cant eat like this every day so we soon found ourselves back on the road and cooking for ourselves. Here is our best verison for beef stroganoff. It was great to eat before and after a 12km mountain bike ride. Im still sore from tht ride.
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other photos from the last few days.
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We randomly met these guys with the RZRs and they were super cool. They were loggers from the local area, just getting out and getting dirty. Cool guys to wheel with. They said the 1000cc versions of the RZR was around $25,000 canadian. Jeez. They are awesome but damn.
We are heading into montreal soon and then finally heading down out of canada in a week. Is there any good 4wheeling or trails in the NY, NH, or vermont area? possibly min , Maine?
While in chicago, we went all in at Alinea. One of the single greatest restaurant in the world, and essily the best meal of my life. Around 3.5 hours and 20 courses, including their grand main dessert. It took 10 chefs around 5 mintues to plate that dessert on our table while dancing to strobe lights and music. I need to video uploaded.
The floating edible balloon is always a massive crowd pleaser. Every part is edible including the string, and its filled with flavored air. crazy.
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The Menu
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OF course we cant eat like this every day so we soon found ourselves back on the road and cooking for ourselves. Here is our best verison for beef stroganoff. It was great to eat before and after a 12km mountain bike ride. Im still sore from tht ride.
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We randomly met these guys with the RZRs and they were super cool. They were loggers from the local area, just getting out and getting dirty. Cool guys to wheel with. They said the 1000cc versions of the RZR was around $25,000 canadian. Jeez. They are awesome but damn.
We are heading into montreal soon and then finally heading down out of canada in a week. Is there any good 4wheeling or trails in the NY, NH, or vermont area? possibly min , Maine?
Prototype_X9
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Uploaded my first youtube video. Very cringe worthy, but its a good start. I have more video before and after this day but im having issues getting the video edited. Need to just buy the adobe suite and be done with it.
https://youtu.be/xkK0yKAByEs
https://youtu.be/xkK0yKAByEs
Prototype_X9
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Lots of traveling happening. A good amount of offroad time spent in large national forests. Most trail stuff but we have been having fun. We dropped into vermont. We spent a few days there and are now heading toward the Mid atlantic overland fest in pennsylvania.
Here is a few highlight reels from our last few weeks.
https://instagram.com/p/BmJUhGxnILp/
Here is a few highlight reels from our last few weeks.
https://instagram.com/p/BmJUhGxnILp/
Crikeymike
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....tell me about it. My parking space at work is the only place I can work on mine!!
Crikeymike
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Does the tent have an internal bungee cord system to "suck in all the sides" when you close it up? If not, you might want to rig something up like that so that the extra fluff of the tent lays inward when you close it.
FirefighterMTN
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Great build! Great thread! Love the reason for all of this! Busy Livin'!!!!
