Tech Tip: Looking after your lead acid batteries
Looking after your lead acid chemistry batteries doesn’t have to be complicated. There are simple routines you can follow to extend your battery's life and ensure it performs reliably.
Looking after your lead acid chemistry batteries doesn’t have to be complicated. There are simple routines you can follow to extend your battery's life and ensure it performs reliably.
Pickup trucks, trailers, and motorhomes are ideal for overland adventures, offering home comforts like communication devices, fridges, and cooking equipment. However, these gadgets rely on auxiliary batteries in your vehicle or trailer. Using battery power is easy with plugs and sockets, but recharging these batteries can be tricky. Here's what we recommend to maintain them.
In today's world, our trucks are equipped with numerous accessories such as spotlights, reverse lights, work lights, fridges, alarm systems, car stereos, and more. With all these additions, managing the extra wiring, relays, and fuses can become overwhelming, especially when trying to troubleshoot which component belongs to which circuit. Learn why good fuses and maintanence are so important.
When we’re Overlanding and living on the road, batteries play a big part of our activities. No longer do we seem to be able to live these leisurely camping activities without the need of a fridge, lights and/or any other non-essential power-hungry device. But the big questions when choosing a battery for these systems are What Sort, What Type and How Long?
Considering the vast array of pickup trucks available on the market today – including the various styles they come in, such as King Cab, Extended Cab, and Dual Cab – it’s easy to see how they’ve become so popular. There really is a truck for every driver’s individual needs! With their tremendous payload capacity and optimized available storage space, today’s trucks offer seemingly limitless options for auxiliary battery mounting locations.
Preparing for any major trip can be daunting. It only takes one missing ingredient to spoil a meal, one forgotten stuffed animal to ruin a good night’s sleep, one loose screw to make something fall off along a corrugated trail. If we’re honest, these are the worst-case scenarios that cross our minds. So you can imagine how high the stakes felt as we contemplated driving around the world for 10-15 years in a Jeep, leaving the United States in October 2021 with our four-year-old son.
SEMA 2023 was a resounding success for REDARC. Not only were we able to showcase our latest innovations but also strengthen bonds with industry partners and introduce the brand to new and diverse audiences.
Todo Bien is an 8 part series that follows the travels of MAK & Owen (Bound for Nowhere) as they venture into Baja California for three months.
REDARC delve into one of the numerous approaches to setting up power under the bonnet, in the cabin or in your topper.
REDARC are going in depth on some of their most affordable and popular 12 Volt products on the market. The Smart Start SBI, BCDC and Fridge Kits are all perfect accessories for a weekend getaway.
We caught up with our friends and ambassadors from around the country to find out the top three things they can't go on the road without.
With the holiday season and new year around the corner, for many people 2023 trip planning is well underway. We’ve caught up with a few of our friends from around North America to find out what their favourite trip has been and hopefully inspire some of your new year travel plans.