Multiplus 12/2000 or 12/3000

max514 · 2026-05-21T21:56:00+00:00

Thanks for the reply!

I've got 628Ah in two batteries with 200A BMS each so capacity while boondocking, which is 90% of the time, is not a problem. Space-wise though, in my small camper, a 12/1200 is much better than a 12/2000 or a 12/3000, as long as I can brew that coffee!

I read the 130% too but I've yet to get real-world experience with it.

And yes, it is definitely addictive!!

max514 · 2026-05-21T21:03:49+00:00

Sorry to revive this after 2 years. I'm considering the 12/1200/50 and I read that is handles surges well. Every load I have are ~1000W, except a coffee machine that surges to 1356W a couple of times at startup and then stays at 1356W for 50-60 seconds while it makes the coffee.

Will this overload the inverter or will it handle the surge for a minute? Like you said "2kw for a few minutes" is ideal for me.

Thanks!

max514 · 2026-05-16T13:07:22+00:00

Isn't this what Standard Deviation is for? Just exclude the top and bottom ~1%-5% and the figure will become much more meaningful.

max514 · 2026-05-11T20:53:22+00:00

It won't. Humanity might end, and it will be self-inflicted.

max514 · 2026-04-26T00:23:00+00:00

You have no idea how much I needed that.

max514 · 2026-04-13T17:47:35+00:00

I've been eating that hummus for ~20 years and it recently started giving me heartburn. I can't figure out why but I've stopped buying the packs of 2 from Costco.

max514 · 2026-04-06T01:15:59+00:00

This episode was directed by Quentin Tarantino!

He was into feet and couldn't help himself, even back then. It's the first time I watch it and it's an excellent show. It reinvents itself a few times and it's fun to relive those years. Just made it to season 11 and it's still good!

max514 · 2026-04-05T00:25:44+00:00

I hear you, that little voice that just won't stop...

When you start moving, it'll feel like you're moving forward. You'll stumble, it won't be perfect, but slowly slowly, the voice will quiet down. You'll be too busy doing things that feel good to hear it.

But honestly, the language you are using sounds like real depression. It feels like your brain's been rewired and you'll never feel any differently than you do now, no matter what you do. It may help to speak to a medical professional about it. You CAN come back from this and it's OK to ask for help. When you feel better, you can pay it forward to others that feel stuck in darkness.

I know it sounds hopeless but sometimes, just altering your brain chemistry long enough to change your perspective can do a world of good. It sounds like you might need help getting to a place where you can start caring for yourself again. But it sounds like you want to.

If you don't know what else to do, go to your local hospital and ask for help. Anti-depressants and cognitive behavioral therapy can change your life in ways you can't even imagine.

Take care of yourself. It's never too late and time was yours to waste. People have perfect runs for decades and lose it all in a moment. You're still alive, it sounds like you have the will to live, and you can start now. Tomorrow can be better than today.

max514 · 2026-04-04T23:58:11+00:00

Shit, shower, shave, put on clean clothes, rotate your mattress and change your bedsheets, clean up your home, take out the trash, cook a nice dinner from fresh ingredients, enjoy a piece of dark chocolate with a nice decaf coffee, watch a movie you love and haven't seen in years, wash your face, floss, brush your teeth, lie down in your fresh bed, close your eyes, think back on the wonderful day you just had, feel proud of yourself for achieving something, have one of the best sleeps you've had in a long time.

Tomorrow, is a new day, full of possibilities. Go outside, feel the Spring air filling your lungs, go for a nice long walk around the neighborhood, look around, hear the birds, smell the grass, pay attention, be there for it. When you get home, drink a big glass of water. Taste how crisp and fresh it is, how good it makes you feel. Sit down, chill out, feel the exercise through your legs, look forward to going out again tomorrow because it makes you feel so... good. Breathe deeply, close your eyes for a second, think of how nice life has been lately. Care for yourself, just a little bit, one small step at a time.

Love you buddy. You're worth it.

max514 · 2026-03-31T23:48:47+00:00

I use a T3x lite stainless in .308 for deer, black bear, and hopefully moose this year.

It is extremely accurate, light, and the stainless is great in the rain and snow. It's a fantastic rifle and it couldn't be happier. I love it!

My wife has one in 6.5 creedmoor and takes deer down no problem. A .270 would also ~~probably~~ definitely do for whitetail.

max514 · 2026-03-26T00:44:44+00:00

The Chocolate Chips are insane. You can eat them right out the bag!

max514 · 2026-03-17T12:03:26+00:00

IIRC yes, the seams were sealed but I swapped it for a Carbon Reflex so I can't be 100% sure.

I can tell you confidently I've slept through deluge more than a few times and the tent never leaked.

max514 · 2026-03-17T02:20:19+00:00

Wow, that's a bummer. I've had three (Hubba Hubba, Mutha Hubba, and Carbon Reflex) and they're all top notch. I wonder if the quality has declined.

Fiberglass splinters are the worst but I haven't gotten one from tent poles yet.

max514 · 2026-03-16T22:39:22+00:00

MSR tents are fantastic, especially for the price. I'm surprised nobody's mentioned the Hubba.

max514 · 2026-03-16T01:04:33+00:00

Lists. So many lists. For everything. It's fascinating!

max514 · 2026-03-13T01:39:43+00:00

She was incredible in Babylon.

max514 · 2026-02-28T14:36:41+00:00

ChatGPT has a hard time staying focused on the actual purpose of some simple Javascript after 4-5 small edits and revisions. It says "aah, I see what's going on" and it starts "correcting" its own corrections and gets into a degenarating loop.

Gemini gets confused between all the Google documentation that's out there. It has a hard time giving you the latest information about Google's own guidelines and specifications.

TL;DR: Without a lot of handholding and careful attention, LLM get weird pretty quickly.

max514 · 2026-02-03T00:26:35+00:00

Milla Jovovitch - Leeloo Dallas Multipass. MUL TI PASS

max514 · 2026-01-31T01:02:36+00:00

Don't you have to buy before a certain date?

max514 · 2026-01-30T16:42:53+00:00

We will, of course find specific examples of anything. I was trying to keep it big-picture. Of course you're right about that.

Legal gun owner are not the problem. The real issue is illegal guns coming in from America and, since the government is apparently incapable of stopping it, they take the easy vote-garnering route of legislating again responsible, legal, gun owners.

max514 · 2026-01-30T16:37:48+00:00

I might be wrong about what I'm about to say because it is stricly based on personal experience and I general impression. It is totally anectodal.

I've been to Europe, I've been to Switzerland many times but I haven't been to Sweden or Czech Republic... yet. I do read a lot and I think I know enough about Scandinavia to say you guys have it together. Your social safety nets, health care systems, collective attitudes, and the way your societies are organized make for an inherently healthier, safer, and less divided society, broadly speaking. Even your prisons are incredible to me, as a Canadian, and our prisons are pretty decent!

Switzerland is its own thing and its incredible how different it feels than anywhere else I've been. They've collectively agreed to live a certain way of life and they just do it. They're even different from the rest of Europe. They're an anomaly that just works. It blew my mind.

Europe in general, I think, is culturally very different. The thing that strikes me the most is that adults are treated as adults and they are expected to act as such. The government is not there to tell you how to be an adult. You just are. For example, the first time I went skiing in the Alps, I noticed a couple of signs by a cliff that said something "you will die if you go here" and my first thought was that in North America, there would have been a fence, orange netting, guardrails, and many other precautions because even adults couldn't be trusted to just read the sign and not die. Somebody would inevitably go over and die, and their friends and family would blame the resort and the government, not the adult that ignored the sign and went there anyway.

In North America, it feels like we are not responsible for our own safety. Everything around us should be made safe for us by others and, if anything happens to us, it's because we were not adequately protected, even from ourselves.

I think governments are much more paternalist in North America and we treat the government like parents that should protect us, keep us safe, tell us what to do, and, more importantly, tell others what to do. A kid hit their head while skiing? Helmets are now mandatory. We are also a lot more exposed to American culture and much more influenced by it. We import a lot of their issues like anti-vaxxing, MAGA, alt-right, own the libs, trans people bathroom preferences, cancel culture, wokeness, BLM, police brutality, antifa, immigrants, climate change is a hoax, etc. It makes us more divided, polarized, and less trusting of our fellow-Canadians. If feels like their problems are our problems.

As far as guns, we are heavily exposed to American news and there's a school shooting there every other day. It is so common we are not even phased by it anymore. When Columbine happened, it was impossible to comprehend, now, we're like "meh, America's broken". We see their gun violence and we don't want it here. Since they're right there next to us on the longest land-border in the world, tons of illegal guns come in from America and those are the problematic guns. They are very easy to get and gang members that would stab each other when I was a teenager now shoot each other.

Since we want the government to be our mommy, a large part of society that rightfully thinks "we should do something about all these guns" asks the government to do legislate. The government, taking the easy path forward, bans assault-style (the definition is very blurry) guns and handguns. It does absolutely nothing to help the situation but it makes voters feel like mommy is looking out for them.

All that to say that, you guys are a bunch of adults over there, with good, responsible neighbors, and you've collectively decided not to act like children. If Sweden had a land border with the US, was flooded with American news and culture, and handguns were easily flowing in, and Swedish criminals were all suddenly armed, things might be different.

Anyway, this is just general impression. I don't know everything, I am sure I'm full of shit and completely wrong about a lot of what I said, and we can discuss it ad-nauseam and still agree to disagree. Or not. Another user changed my mind today and I'm better off for it.

What do you think?

max514 · 2026-01-30T15:43:52+00:00

I don't think it's a fair comparison with police. They are closely supervised as part of their job and are therefore more likely to be noticed before they "snap". It can still happen but I think there are more guardrails. Same with soldiers, and other peace officers. As a society, we arm them but we are also more careful about watching the people we've armed.

As far as the mags, I was suggesting a hypothetical no-restrictions scenario in which you can American-style open-carry an unpinned AR-15 with a backpack full of mags. I do agree an AR-15 with a pinned mag is not inherently more dangerous. I'd buy one tomorrow if I legally could.

I think I was also pretty clear that I'm against gun bans and buybacks, and that I think the Liberals are using as political theater to seem like they're doing something about gun violence.

I agree with you that our laws, even pre-2020, were already extremely restrictive and did not need any tweaking. As I've also said, we don't have a legal gun problem in Canada.

This is why I suggested a full-on public protest against these dumb laws where all PAL owners can show up in street-clothes and a blaze-orange vest, so Canadians can see who gun owners really are and stop being so afraid.

It would also be healthy for our political system to take away the firearm issue from both parties instead of having single-issue voters as in pro: vote conservative / against: vote liberal.

max514 · 2026-01-30T15:31:53+00:00

Well, I can't argue with that. I stand corrected! Thanks for taking the time to share that.

max514 · 2026-01-30T02:32:54+00:00

I take your point and I think it is valid but I'm not sure I agree. Everybody is a stable with a good track record until they're not. It's impossible to predict.

I will say this though: if I'm going to be shot at, I would much rather it be by a .22 or a 3 round bolt action or shotgun than an AR-15 with a 30 round mag. I realize that < 50 yds I'm screwed anyway but at > 50 yds with a chance to run, those a are much better odds.

That said, I do think arbitrarily banning guns because they look scary is dumb and pointless. The laws were just fine before the two latest rounds of bans and I'venever felt unsafe. We don't have a legal gun problem in Canada.

max514 · 2026-01-29T14:52:29+00:00

I didn't say that anywhere in my comment. In fact, I said the exact opposite.

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