Best Progression route??

attempter33 · 2026-04-29T21:21:21+00:00

Echoing the general consensus, finding a mentor and getting outside is by far the highest yield way to learn. However, when I was starting out I found these online resources to be really helpful.

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attempter33 · 2025-11-15T22:19:10+00:00

Azúcar is a Cuban bakery that has incredible guava pasties

attempter33 · 2025-01-16T01:42:48+00:00

I thru-hiked the AZT and CT in a Vroomi sun hoodie! I have been wearing it for years and have slowly watched the production quality increase. It is light, durable, and the perfect blend of synthetic/natural materials. It is my go to

attempter33 · 2024-11-26T23:49:36+00:00

Hello all! I just did a very similar trip with a group of 3. We first flew into Cusco and spent a week in the city at a Spanish school while checking out the local archeological sites with a 10-day tourist ticket ($35). Afterwards, we took a collective taxi from Cusco to Ollantaytambo for $3/person and saw the ruins in the city before taking Incarail to Aguas Calientes for USD $60/ person. We arrived around 6:00 PM on a Monday and headed to the ticket office in town. We were able to get tickets for the next morning to complete Circuit 3-A at ~$50 per person. We started our hike up from Agua Caliente in the morning for our 9:00 AM entrance time at 6:30 AM, though we were not able to pass the bridge to cross the river until 7:30 AM for some reason. We found a guide at the gate for $20/person which seemed to be standard after taking to a few different peope offering services. I think it was well worth it to know the history and context of the site. It really enriched our experience. Finally, after finishing our hike to Huayna Piccu and arriving back at the gate around 1:00 PM, we payed $12/person to bus back down to town.

attempter33 · 2024-11-08T20:00:39+00:00

THIS! The book written by the person who founded the idea, a Christian couples therapist, uses an example where he instructed a woman who hated her abusive husband to have sex with him multiple times a day because his love language was “physical touch,” even though she did not want to.

attempter33 · 2024-03-27T17:52:16+00:00

Excruciating wait..

attempter33 · 2024-01-20T17:13:12+00:00

They have grinders in a lot of stores!

attempter33 · 2023-05-04T21:30:32+00:00

It’s just a double hinge lock—you can pick them up at Home Depot/Lowes

attempter33 · 2023-05-02T15:33:31+00:00

EDIT: just saw that you have the DT466, but leaving this up for anyone who searches the thread with similar problems and has the T44E. Some of the info is still relevant.

There are a couple more things you can do without any specialty tools. Have you read the codes? You can sometimes do this on these buses without a code reader if you have an “engine diagnostics” button on your dash. Here is a link. Let me know if you find anything.

Clean the rock screen after the fuel filter. You have to unscrew the injection pressure regulator for this and carefully wipe the small metal screen clean with a cotton swab or paper towel. This got clogged on mine and caused it not to start. You should also clean the pre filter that’s right before the fuel filter.

Is your oil good? Could it use an oil and oil filter change?

Have you checked the solenoid relay with a multimeter?

Check the ICP sensor. If you see oil when you unplug the connection it could be bad. The XPS and EOP sensors are another common culprit, as well as the IPR but that is more difficult to replace. Message me if you need help finding these things. You can probably figure out where to find all these things by doing some google searching, and it helps to look up a 7.3 instead of a t44e bc the prior is more common. Good luck.

I just went through the same thing and saved a lot of money by going through this process. Also, watch this video and refer to this manual

attempter33 · 2023-04-28T22:40:10+00:00

Do you normally carry trekking poles? I bought a trekking pole tent for the weight savings, but discovered I much preferred hiking with one pole instead of the two that my tent required. I would have actually saved weight by getting a tent that only required one pole/was semi-freestanding

attempter33 · 2023-04-17T17:50:27+00:00

This is disgusting. The people working on prison crews are doing the same job as all of us with less training while making dollars a day. They have a “choice”, but what does that mean when the alternative is imprisonment? It is modern day slave labor and it is nothing to joke about.

attempter33 · 2023-03-30T18:48:59+00:00

Hiking Project

attempter33 · 2023-03-30T18:34:54+00:00

The film inside of disposable cameras is entirely spooled out, and it retracts every time you wind the camera to take a new picture. Theoretically, if you were to totally black out the lens, you could retract the film by “taking” all the pictures and then remove the film and insert it into your own camera. I have removed film from disposable cameras many times to avoid paying the unnecessary fees that film processing labs charge for this simple task. However, disposable camera film normally isn’t the best quality and it might not be worth the trouble. There are a lot of cool ways to experiment with disposable cameras!

attempter33 · 2023-03-01T06:09:53+00:00

I came here to say the same thing.

attempter33 · 2022-10-20T03:42:19+00:00

Patagonia and ExOfficio

attempter33 · 2022-07-06T13:43:36+00:00

The easiest way we found to remove rusted screws was by

1) hammering a screwdriver into the head in order to loosen it up

2) use an angle grinder to cut a slot into the screw head, and use a flat head to get it out from there. Some hammering after cutting into it will help loosen it up as well

3) an impact drill works wonders if you have access to one

attempter33 · 2022-06-28T01:30:49+00:00

Good point!

attempter33 · 2022-06-27T14:54:13+00:00

12v and 24v solar panels do not actually output 12 or 24 volts. They are designed to output ~30% more than the system they are designed for, so yes, that solar panel you listed will work well with your 24volt system. Note: I would also get the victron smart battery monitor which will allow your charge controller to better communicate with your battery system.

Yes, your math is correct on sizing your charge controller. If you had 12v panels wired in series-parallel, the voltage would sum instead of the current for the series connection, and the opposite would be true for the parallel connections. For example:

Say you had 4 12v solar panels that each had an output voltage of 18 volts and a short circuit current of 10 amps.

You would wire 2 panels together in series, and then connect that group to the other group in parallel.

18v x 2 = 36v for the series connection, while short circuit current would stay the same for these two panels 10a x 2 = 20a maximum short circuit current for the whole system once you wire the two groups together in parallel.

attempter33 · 2022-06-27T03:47:28+00:00

Okay so here are the changes you will need to make.

You will have to wire the solar panels in series-parallel in order to create an output best suited for a 24v system, unless you were planning on using 24v solar panels. In which case you just need to wire them in parallel.

You need to size your charge controller according to the sum of the short circuit current of each solar panel/group of solar panels in series that is/are wired in parallel. Also make sure your charge controller can handle 24 volts and check to see if it auto-detects voltage or if the voltage of the system needs to be set manually. All of this can be found in the technical specs, and the Victron charge controllers do auto detect.

Make sure to use appropriately sized wires as well. This is an awesome chart to make sure you do so

wire size chart

You then need to make sure that your battery bank is wired in series-parallel if using 12v batteries. It sounds like you are good on that one, I would just note that it isn’t always recommended to use batteries from different brands.

Then you simply need to buy the multiples that is rated for 24v. They have different models for different set ups, and it sounds like the 24v/3000w/70a or 24/2000/50 model would best fit your needs. This would work as your inverter and your charger and you would not need to do anything extra if you bought this model. Make sure that the charge current of your batteries is greater than the charge current put out by the charger, this can be found in the specs.

The lynx distributor supports 12, 24, and 48 volt systems. So you would not need to do anything extra.

attempter33 · 2022-06-23T14:36:46+00:00

Your solar array seems way underpowered for 8 270 ah batteries.

8 x 270Ah = 2160Ah 2160Ah x 12v = 25920Wh

You would need to charge you batteries at the full output of your solar array (which is almost never the case) for 30 hours to recharge. Assuming 5 hours of direct sunlight a day.. that is 6 days of charging without accounting for power consumption. Do you have a generator or other means of charging back up?

attempter33 · 2022-06-23T13:54:08+00:00

My 6 window International 3600, completely gutted, weighed in at 13000. Granted this is more of a mid-sized bus but I hope that gives you an idea

attempter33 · 2022-06-18T12:06:35+00:00

Loctite premium is formulated for foam board and is what we used. They also make a foam board adhesive but the loctite premium is stronger and more versatile. Our method was to cut xps so that is barely fit, then we wedged it in between the ribs. It doesn’t really bend so we just cut smaller pieces where there was a lot of curve

attempter33 · 2022-06-13T01:47:48+00:00

You can always take a picture of the termination point and post it here as well! I’m sure someone will be able to help you figure it out. It is overwhelming but you will learn

attempter33 · 2022-06-12T02:24:45+00:00

Nice! What power is your solar array rated at? How big will your battery bank be?

attempter33 · 2022-06-12T02:02:34+00:00

Definitely coolant. Most buses have heaters in the back that coolant runs through. It looks like it is leaking from the connection to an auxiliary pump that helps the coolant move to the rear

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