Solar Powered Onboard Compressor Build



Imagine the sun powers a battery that runs a compressor that fills a tank in the bed of your pickup truck. With the flip of a switch, …

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  1. Love it!! I fixed something today (always working on a project) and said the same dang thing… “If you’re willing to try, you can learn a lot”. Keep up the great work. Organization rocks! Haha.
    Oh and that captains log, you’re still the captain whether on sea, land or air. Hope just maybe it gets a little use. I know I’m not very good keeping up with a lot though.

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  2. I sure hope you have a fuse to that compressor wiring setup. Chances of rubbing through that wire and causing a short inside of that square aluminum tube with all those screws protruding are pretty good. You could have put a piece of PVC conduit inside of the square tube. Really don't like where you brought the wire out at the end of the tube either rubbing right up against that sharp edge. Looks like a good way to burn down your truck

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  3. Cool video. I see your truck is like mine tools to work with. The air line fittings are from semi's. They use them for everything. I might have to make a few of those milk crate drawers for the bed of my truck. A bad day of fishing is still better than a great day at work

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  4. Fantastic video thanks Marty! Love it when you start constructing & problem solving – I'm very similar. And always something new to learn. For some reason I was waiting for an Inverter to appear – I assumed the Compressor would be AC mains voltage! Good to see the Pups looking well, stay safe & well yourself! 😁😁👍👍

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  5. I have the same panels and controller. The controller is junk, I swapped it out for a better Renogy mppt control. the panels where listed as 2 100w panels but are 50w each. you will get about 2- 2.4 amps out of them together. average 31v @2amp is 64w. Mine is feeding a marine/RV deep cycle until I can get a better battery.

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