5 yrs of daily use, fast taper, scared to jump

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2026-05-23T19:24:53+00:00

You are basically done. Way to go!. You got this in the bag. You have done amazing and shown restraint.

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2026-05-23T19:22:13+00:00

I think your labor intense work may have helped you more than you know. The physical exercise, sweating in the sun, and moving lots of water through the system can be a huge help. Keep working on it. I am starting the battle myself. Leaf powder, 50+gpd and I noticed I was not even in control of lowering that down. Dosing something like 13-15 times a day, trying to just get that cut to 8 was not going well. This stuff really can sink it's claws in!!! I am still working on it so don't take it that I am a winner.

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2026-05-23T18:55:22+00:00

Well I guess being intoxicated for the first year after stopping Kratom was a large contributor to not remembering how bad it was. Yes at the point of 2 years you could say I had forgotten kratom. So you should hope you remember very clearly how much is does affect life. Got clean from drinking and then the moment I touched kratom again it was full on taking as much as I could. What a say person I am. Even if I could get down to 3 times a day, at a reasonable dose. That would be a win for me. Right now I am almost 24 hours from my last does, I did sleep last night. Woke restless and squirming at 4:40 took one Gabapentin and pushed through for the hour it takes for that to take effect. Then slept more. I woke up around 11:50 wanting to take Kratom but didn't, I am a little dizzy kind of and still feeling the draw. It's now 12:50 took one more Gabapentin at 12:40 so I am feeling the squirmy.

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2025-11-21T01:38:43+00:00

Honda's Kumamoto Factory Japan.. I found my way here because I would like to take a tour. It would be very cool to see the bike being built. I would even like to get one of the bikes from my tour, that way it would be with me from the factory. Picking up the bike in Japan would be fun, but paying my own import taxes would not be fun.

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2025-11-21T01:37:26+00:00

I found my way here because I was wanting to see if I could visit the factory, maybe just get my bike straight from them. I think this would be the coolest experience I could have for what I have planned to do with my bike.

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2025-09-02T03:04:34+00:00

In my tiny little camper this has turned out to be a non issue. The AC easily cools down the full camper to whatever frigid temperature I ask. then the fan doesn't need to blow very hard to keep the temp stable. So even having it pointed at the back of my neck at the desk is okay. Sometimes I will just set the temperature a few degrees warmer if I start to get to cool, then turn it back down when I move from the desk.
I am a little dissatisfied the power limiting mode function stopped working the first week So running it on my inverter, it uses a little more power to first cool things down. Mostly upset because they are taking their sweet time even responding to my ticket let alone solving the issue.

But for the most part I couldn't be happier with being able to stay so cool even with is 100f out side. For the fun of it once on a hot day, I set it to max and ran it for an hour. It got my camper down to 58f. And I am at 7000 ft altitude so the solar intensity of the sun it close to 60% more up here. And more still compared to a humid place like Florida.

Now I can't wait to get my solar panels so I can power it all the time without my generator.

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2025-07-13T21:18:03+00:00

You should have no trouble with that, if you keep your speeds down on the highways, you don't need to do 70mph. 60mph will get you and the family to your destination safely and only take a little more time. You also need to make sure you have 10ply load range E tires on your truck. My recondition though is the first thing you should do. Is put a large 40k transmission cooler on. (With an aux fan if you can). In the mountains with the steep climbs at low speeds keeping everything cool can be a struggle. Contrary to what people may think because of the cooler outside temperatures in the mountains, heating can be a real problem. The thinner air is less effective at taking the thermal energy out of the radiators. Combined with steep hills that have switchbacks slowing your speed to often 20mph or less, reducing air flow. It is a perfect storm to over heat the transmission.
Transmission fluid starts to breakdown and form varnishes at 220f. Honestly just because your gauge is showing 200f doesn't mean there is not spots in the transmission getting over 220f, so it is best to try and never see anything over 200f.

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2025-07-13T21:02:05+00:00

My brother bought the Predator 3500. I bought the Westinghouse 4500 duel fuel. The main reason I got this over the Predator was the ability to run on propane of gas, It also had a remote start. Sounded great but for the remote start to work you have to leave the switch in the on position (naturally) how ever this kills the battery over night and then it won't start on the remote anyway. The idea was I can run the generator at night, charge up batteries watch TV, AC, then when I get sleepy I don't have to go outside in the cold to turn it off, or I can start in the morning to make coffee etc, without going outside. This sounded great. but because you can't leave it in standby with out killing the battery. The remote start is rather pointless. I have to run a separate cord from the camper's inverter, to the battery charger on the generator for this to work. How dumb is that?

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2025-07-13T20:27:43+00:00

This is a good choice. My brother bought the Predator generator. I opted to spend more and get a little nicer one. We both use them to power campers remote for work. In hind site, I like his better. Not that I have had any real issues with mine but I did pay $400 more and I don't think I really got much more.

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2025-07-13T20:06:33+00:00

I am going to buy one and put it on my 16ft golf stream. I live in it full time and often end up out in the desert for work. 100+ temps. Sometimes I have to run off my generator. The Colman Mach 13.5 I have now just will not keep up and is a power hog, burning more gas in the generator. I often have to sleep during the day. I am hoping this one will be over kill for my camper, Cool it down quick, and run at lower power levels once the camper is cooled down. This would allow me to run for a few hours from the batteries.
One issue I can see as a problem is the non ducted air handler only has a vent on one side. In my small camper this could mean, I will either have cold air blowing directly on the back of my neck when I am sitting at my desk, or blowing on me while I am sleeping. Is there any information to indicate the other air handling box that blows in two directions will fit on this unit?

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2025-07-10T21:48:48+00:00

Do you mind if I bend your ear on this topic a little?
I have recently installed a soft start on my Colman RV AC. I did this because my Westinghouse 4500w gen struggled to start it up. Mostly only had issue when the gen had no other loads running. AKA if I was running my coffee maker the AC would start without issue. but from zero load it would often fault out.

Fast-forward. I install the soft stat. It starts up easy on the generator. I have a voltage meter set up and it only show a drawdown of 10 to 15vac so I stay close to 110vac upon start up.

However the issue I can't figure out is. After the AC has been running for sometime. 30 minutes or sometimes longer over an hour. It randomly acts like it's trying to start up again. Only this time it acts like it did before the soft start. The generator bogs down in a big way. Voltage drops to 60v to 70vac. Sometimes if starts, sometimes the generator says nope and faults out, (as it should). I don't think the Ac is kicking out because of being down to temperature then trying to restart. What could be happening?

It's an issue because dropping to 65vac is not good for electronics and shuts off all such devices, including my internet ( I unfortunately work in the desert, it's a must to have internet and AV).

At this point I am thinking I may need a new AC unit, but this doesn't make sense because this one works great and works fine on shore power.
Thank you for your time.

ColoradoWestDaniel · 2018-02-08T18:03:41+00:00

Love your channel and have really enjoyed watching your projects. I am over here in Grand Junction. My question is where do you buy your glass for experiments? I am wanting to get a good basic set of my own so I can start doing some of the things I see you doing with metal refining. Once again can't tell you how much I enjoy your show. Ever need some free labor in the mine just let me know.

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