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New Great Dale Electrical System

The Gel battery I bought a couple of years ago wasn’t operating as well as I liked and the charger was almost constantly running. So I decided to upgrade to a 200AH LiFe Pro battery instead. I bought it just before the COVID crisis, so it was reasonably priced with free shipping. I was also […]

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Great Dale Swamp Cooler Update

The 1st revision of the swamp cooler looked like this and its description can be found at http://greatdalehousecar.com/great-dale-swamp-cooler/. Then I added some vent hose to help direct the cooling where we wanted it. Everyone made fun of it, so I switched to one large vent hose.  The blue media released a bunch of particles that gummed

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New Great Dale Gas Tank

Everything mechanical was running great, so I decide to mess with.  A 22 gallon tank doesn’t give us much range, so I up-sized to a 43ish gallon tank that is EFI ready if I ever decide to get fuel injection. I couldn’t find anyone to build and install it form me, so I had to

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Great Dale Swamp Cooler

The Great Dale Swamp Cooler prototype is complete and tested. This is a modification of a modification of the home depot swamp coolers that people usually build for Burning Man. I made a couple previously for burning man and learned a lot from my mistakes. The idea here is that you can get better cooling

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Great Dale Door Holder

We’ve always had a problem with the door on the Great Dale. There was no way to latch it open and it would blow around in the wind. I tried a standard RV door latch in the beginning, but the bedroom windows sick out too far. Larry tried a couple of options when he re-skinned

Great Dale

Great Dale Swamp Cooler

The Great Dale Swamp Cooler prototype is complete and tested. This is a modification of a modification of the home depot swamp coolers that people usually build for Burning Man. I made a couple previously for burning man and learned a lot from my mistakes. The idea here is that you can get better cooling

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