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I think a basic electronic set up video would be awesome even if you would be newly jumping into that world! I have a 92 XJ, I take a lot of inspiration from your videos and would love to watch your process and approach to an “overlanding electronics basics”. A lot of old heads local to me (Utah) are big on their Radios, back up battery systems, solar chargers- stuff like that, all things I wish I knew more about!

rain may go into those vents and short out your expensive system. if you do put in those vents , make sure they are rain proof.

Perhaps a vacuum can buy you some time between now and when you'll need a van! 🤣

One of my fav channels. Up there with 4wd 24-7 and TFL etc. love the videos. Was looking forward to watching two batteries fighting. Keep it up and hello from Canada mate.

As others have said - PC fans, loads to choose from, cheap as chips, use hardly any power, almost silent - bigger fan and slower RPM, and can get them with a little thermal sensor attached and variable RPM depending on air temp. Although it's more of a ballache I'd use something like 2 inch (or whatever you can get away with) plastic pipe so that the air coming in and air going out come from the wheel well because if you take air in from the outside and vent into the vehicle that's asking for wind noise, dust, insects etc. into the boot and hence also passenger area.

If you do a scoop vent will rain and snow get into your gull wing?

Bigger PC fans (120 or 140mm) should be much quieter. You can put a variable control in line with the fan to control the speed

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Great video! I have no electricity in my vehicle at the moment but keep thinking about it. One video id love to see is how to build a vehicle tool kit. I think it would be really valuable considering your experience as a mechanic and explorer.

Carefully with the vents to cool. If they draw in air, they will with water also. No good with electrical. Sorry but I don't have any bright alternatives.

AGM makes sense for your setup I think. The cold temps and the fact you are charging off the engine for months at a time, you don’t need the ability of lithium for ultra rapid charging and discharging, or the extra energy density. Lithium has been a game changer for me on my boat, with the ability to run induction cookers and hair dryers (for the Mrs) etc… off a lightweight system. And with a high output alternator I can replenish it quickly when blasting to the next destination. But for your setup I would also have gone AGM.

Nice video as always! It would be nice to see that M57 Navara, i didn’t even know that it’s possible to do that swap in it, i thought only Patrol can take it.

‘Black Mamba charging station’ was oddly specific 🤣

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You wont necessarily need to add a fan, a couple vents into the cab will be ample heat dissipation for those units, plus being on aluminum its a massive heatsink already.

As for boring, definately NOT!! Your one liners crack me up.

Careful of the blowup doll. All those sharp edges in that box may make her fart and fly out the window on next use. 😲

Hope you're keeping safe Mike! I see Mike at TA Outdoors got hospitalised with eColi, then Joe Robinet ran his trailbike into a ditch and was in a coma. Competition in RUclips is crazy 😛. Stay tidy my friend!

Enjoyed the video. Perhaps a timer on the inflatabe doll switch. Nothing worse than a doll that's too tight.

I bet the Welshmen will adore the inflatable doll

I don’t want to be “that guy” and it truly doesn’t matter, but it is “dual” not “duel”.

Inflatable doll oral vacuum pump switch😂

This… It’s the best electric mod you can do. Portable power pack are good for auxiliary power, keep it. A basic, alternator power power setup In a vehicle is the way to go. Glad you’re learning 12v 😜

Obvious question..why no lithium...heated if necessary power density weight price per watt appears better...

Noctua fans makes hardøly any noise and draw very low amperage. What you have there is a server-type fan, no care for noise. Noctua is top notch all around.

nice one

Wouldn't having vents on the outside allow water,snow,mud, etc to gain access and end up damaging the electronics? Maybe place the vents on the backside (inside the vehicle) of the box? Nonetheless, the setup looks good and squared away. 👍

Quick Tip for the summer months - Store the Black Mamba in the fridge, it's a great way to cool down at the end of a hot day 😉

I would personally have a fan on the inside of the wing box, sucking air from the car into the box. Perhaps it could be mounted on the bottom of the box, directly below the charger. Drill vent holes somewhere above the charger, just enough to maintain positive pressure and take advantage of convection. I believe your box is about 80mm deep based on the charger so something like a Noctua NF-A6x25 FLX (12v, non PWM) should be more than enough. A decent quality fan like the Noctua should have no issues running at 15v. The issue is powering it. If you have a handy ignition live wire back there, then relay to that. If not, perhaps you have a voltage sensitive relay kicking about from an old battery setup, you could use one of those. A bit overkill as you only need about 0.1amps, surprisingly hard to find low current, cheap ones. You could go totally mad with it and use a photoelectric sensor on the LED of the charger. I wish Victron and others would put a signal out on these things. I'm almost certain the 'remote' terminals can't be used as a signal wire but worth throwing a multimeter on them to check.

As always we in the colonies enjoy your humour....learned it well from my dad a boat orphan..heat in DC to DC ..back is heat sink mounted on aluminum box...perfect. put a hole in box behind in and screen if needed. Lots air flow no external intrusion. Fan would suck air into box or die trying to blow out of box. If fan is your desire get a large MTI vane computer fan. Slow and serrated blades are quiet. My two nephews are hockey coaches in sweden....all the best.

Boring AF zzzz. Lol great as always Mike.

Switch for the inflatable doll! Lol, man after me own heart. Love the vid as usual. Cheers

PC computer fans would be a much quieter option. They’re designed for quiet operation and you can get different styles designed for static pressure or higher volume cfm. Noctua 120mm fans are available in 5v and 12v varieties. They would be my choice for quiet constant airflow in that gull wing.

Hi. Good Video! Why dont you take the cool air from with in the cab? That air is cleaner and no leaking from moister or water. You dont have to put the fan in the box, put it under the seat and then lead the air via a hose to the box. Dont go for the external vents.

I like all the different shit you get up to aye hopefully get a run down of your mate's rig🤙🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Nice one 👍 add a bit of this and remove some other to get were you won't it ,if it looks good it probably is .

Not sure what sort of spec fan you would need but you can get much quieter ones, from my experience building computors I'd go with Noctua fans. Also I imagine vents in conjunction with a fan would get you the best result.

If you put louvres on it, add a drain to the corner similar to a sunroof drain with a hose off the bottom to the outside. It’s bound to collect water in there if it’s exposed like that. Can’t wait to see the finished setup!

hey mike why dont you look at making a heat sink that is part of the lid - so when the lid is closed it sits ontop of the orion like a cpu cooler cheap copper block that way it will be a passive cooling system , i do think the one issue to that would be it could pull heat from the sun into the unit would require a bit of testing the other option could just be a little rad on such a cheap aliexpress 320mm pc rad and have that pull the heat out the unit , couple ideas keep up the content mate

Hei, problem with intake holes is dust and rain, electronics don't like either. For a fan check out gaming computer related fans, they are much quieter and move quite a lot air.

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You have great videos reminds me a lot of my terrain here in British Columbia Canada I have a 1998 XJ 4.0 great all around bush banger keep up The good videos !

I have never heard of steel or iron pistons. But there are forged, cast and different aluminium piston types out there.

Great video thanks for sharing looking forward to more, cheers

You need extra batteries for your slightly outdated powerpack m8

Nice m8 I do the same stuff in my Defender 110. Send me ya email pls

If big foot is wanting in Mike he's cumming in what every you think at least you get to try your gear out in shit weather yes mate show us more of that location 🤙🏻🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

😂😂 still makes me laugh to hear and see this different side to you after all the years watching McQBushcraft Really like that cooking grill/plate and lid you’ve probably covered it before but what is the name of it and where can I get one.

What’s your other channel called ?

Awesome video... The XJ looks great in that spooky environment....!!!