![]() ![]() ![]() Leave your dome light on and kill your starting battery. Run your auxiliary lights too long at camp and it kills your battery, no problem, your main starter battery is still charged and ready to go. The Smart Isolator automatically handles all charging functions isolating all vehicle systems to the starter battery while additional accessories run off the second battery. Power and ground bus bars make it easy to connect accessories including large-capacity accessories like winches. It is a fully comprehensive solution, including a mounting bracket for two Group 34 AGM batteries, and a top cover plate that includes all necessary wiring and solenoids and comes pre-wired ready to mount and connect to the batteries. Since then they have expanded their lineup to include Toyotas, Polaris, and universal applications, but their strength, in my mind, is still the Jeep market. While dual battery systems have been around for quite a bit longer, they were the first ones to come out with a complete dual battery kit for the Jeep Wrangler. Genesis Offroad has been making dual-battery kits since 2010. The Wilwoods have four-piston, while PowerBrake’s sport six, and come with a whole of additional features. Wilwood makes excellent products, but in this case, I believe that PowerBrake has the superior product. But when does high quality ever do? With just a quick Google search I found a similar big brake kit from Wilwood for just over $2,000. The only possible drawback? Price! At $2,675 they don’t come cheap. Once you see them for yourself the attention to detail in design and manufacturing becomes evident. The design significantly increases cooling vane surface area and airflow when compared to factory/OEM disc designs, resulting in vastly improved cooling.Ĭlearly, they have thought through every last detail. The discs feature 48 x curved, directional cooling vanes. The 1-piece discs used in the Jeep Wrangler JK big brake kits are cast from a proprietary high-carbon cast iron alloy that provides excellent durability and stability under the high thermal loads experienced under fast-street or off-road driving. We have not yet used them extensively but have been extremely happy with them so far. It was something truly innovative that we hadn’t seen before. We picked up four of the powercases as well. Now you can drop the Powercase into your pack and could have a supply of light for close to 28 hours (4 from your original headlamp charge and 24 from the powercase) at full power and 245 hours at the lowest setting. ![]() With a standard headlamp, you can just pop in a set of batteries and you are back in business. ![]() One of the concerns of a rechargeable headlamp is that if you are away from power and your headlamp dies, you are out of luck. With the included USB you are also able to charge any other USB-compatible electronic device such as a cell phone. When fully charged, it can charge your headlamp up two 6 times. The Powercase has a built-in 5,000 mAh power bank, so not only does the case provide protection for your headlamp it also provides magnetic charging as well. While the headlamp comes standard with a magnet mount power cord, you also have the option to add their Powercase. To be clear, we are not sponsored by any of these companies (although, if you’re reading this, we’d love to!) all of the products that we use or bought, we paid for full at full retail, or at least retail prices offered at the show. We are not necessarily saying that they are earth-shattering, they just had something about them that made us remember them. While most of them started to blend together after a while a few unique offerings stood out from the others. I found it thrilling, I knew most of these products pretty well, but I have never seen them in person. As were all the big offroad product manufacturers, ARB, AEV, iKamper, 23 Zero, Dometic, Redarc, Battleborn Batteries, Alu-Cab USA, BF Goodrich, Maxxis, Milestar, Four Wheel Campers, Garmin, and Goose Gear, just to name a few. We were like kids in a candy store!įord, Toyota, GM, and Rivian were all in attendance. If you really think about it, two hundred and forty is a lot of vendors. Overland Expo claims that over two hundred and forty vendors were in attendance but it looked more like a thousand. That is what was going through our minds when we attended our first Overland Expo, Expo East 2022 on October 7th, 8th, and 9th, at Oak Ridge Estates in Arrington, VA. Where do you even start? That is what it felt like when we looked out over the sea of vendors from the hill above the showgrounds. Looking down the rows they look like they never end. ![]()
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