What did you do to your Patrol today!

Installed step-up transformer to drive the LED lightbars at 28V, rated at 40a - turned it on and burnt the retinas out of my eyeballs - very very bright! No, I don't have before and after shots, but turned on with 28V in half bright sunlight the garage insides simply washed out to white. Will see how they last and what effect they have on other road users or when using in the bush - probably overkill. in close quarters.

Felt a bit of "chatter" in the steering directly after having a wheel alignment. I adjusted the steering box grub screw and all is well. Strange that it needed doing though.

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Originally Posted by PBBIZ2

Installed step-up transformer to drive the LED lightbars at 28V, rated at 40a - turned it on and burnt the retinas out of my eyeballs - very very bright! No, I don't have before and after shots, but turned on with 28V in half bright sunlight the garage insides simply washed out to white. Will see how they last and what effect they have on other road users or when using in the bush - probably overkill. in close quarters.

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This sounds like a decent mod, got any more info about it, very interested
seeing most light bars are what 9-30volts??

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Originally Posted by threedogs

This sounds like a decent mod, got any more info about it, very interested
seeing most light bars are what 9-30volts??

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http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/152215332...%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

This one is 30A, but you can get another for 40a, which I did. Simple to wire, just need to find somewhere to fit it - IP68, so a dunking won't hurt it. It does 'buzz though' but you can only hear that with the bonnet up.

drove it to the panel beaters

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Originally Posted by Clunk

drove it to the panel beaters

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Betcha wish you drove it home from the panel beaters.

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Originally Posted by 4bye4

Betcha wish you drove it home from the panel beaters.

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only because I don't like relying on others for lifts to and from work

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Originally Posted by GQtdauto

Putting finishing touches to Titan draws , fridge plug was working it's way out so now Anderson plug .
Current job is installing third battery which will go beside fridge on passenger side so will have main crank plus two 110 amp gel cell batteries in car and two 105? Amp in camper trailer , fridge in car 45 ltr will be used as a freezer , 60 ltr ARB in camper as a drinks and food fridge .
Just finished the cooling fan to back of fridge mounting still have to put in the switch and the fridge switch and get proper tie downs .
Setting up for desert trip in may / June .

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GQTD, do you have any details on the cooling fan you have used? I have installed a temperature controlled unit directly above the engel that turns on when the air temp gets to 36Deg and off at 30 - its fully automatic but a bit bulky - have tried a number of the 'computer style' cooling fans but they don't last - yours looks a lot heavy duty than the ones I have used.

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Originally Posted by PBBIZ2

GQTD, do you have any details on the cooling fan you have used? I have installed a temperature controlled unit directly above the engel that turns on when the air temp gets to 36Deg and off at 30 - its fully automatic but a bit bulky - have tried a number of the 'computer style' cooling fans but they don't last - yours looks a lot heavy duty than the ones I have used.

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I used a small computer style fan that blows air on the motor everytime it cycles.
very cheap and easy as ti fit and wire, Huge bang for buck outcome imo
Been in for over 20yrs and still going strong

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Originally Posted by Clunk

drove it to the panel beaters

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Got to be happy [sort of] about that