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Any good? TIA

My affordable plan for the season ahead will be to add the new induction version of the ridge monkey sandwich toaster to my gear. I’ll keep the original, but I’ll be able to use the new one on any cooking surface, not just gas like the original. That might be the best £39.99 I spend all season...

It's very much dependent on how hard a life it's had. I've got a 2016(!) vintage 75Ah AGM factory leisure battery still under the passenger seat and it's fine. Granted, it's undoubtedly not got the charge capacity it had when new but for 8 years of use, including a few multi-week off-grid road...

I would be interested in the inverter but am pretty clueless about them. Does this hook up to my leisure battery? I’m looking to upgrade my power set up so I can run off grid for longer and would buy this if it would work on my system Is this a pure sine wave ?

Had a similar experience with mine when I found the existing system fitted by a so called professional conversion company (now gone bust!) was not suitable for the van and wasn’t lithium capable. I changed pretty much all of it and fitted solar and relocated the battery and chargers to under the...

Sounds like how we go. As I mentioned above, your use case doesn’t need a massive setup. I have a 105ah lifepo4 and do not feel the need for any more. I don’t use an inverter and the fridge is the most power hungry thing I have. With a 200w solar panel I have yet to ever get close to running out...

I’m after some advice on how best to charge our river 2 pro when away (off grid) during the colder dark months, (in summer we use the portable solar panel) We have a Roamer 160 lithium leisure battery and a Renogy 1000w inverter under the passenger seat base, the single outlet socket in 3...

Excellent thanks, I've ordered a battery will have a check on the fuses when it arrives

The Renogy inverter is fine. If its powerful enough for your requirements. Maybe just fit it to a dedicated socket/s And have your standard EHU feed Via CU to different socket/s Or as @roadtripper suggested above. Use the inverter exclusively to run the sockets and have your EHU power a...

All current Renogy Inverters with passthough function are incompatible with RCDs. They’ll work when passing through the mains, but not when supplying ac from the inverter itself. They supply 115Vac between L and E and N and E to give the 230Vac. The E is connected to the chassis and battery neg...

If you’ve got a T6.1, the low rate of charge is most probably because of the ‘smart’ alternators that are fitted to Euro 5 and Euro 6 compliant vehicles such as T6 and T6.1 Transporters. As I understand, you’ll never achieve much more than 80% charged under normal running as the BMS will...

EHU just provides 240v into the van. If you want it to charge anything (LB or SB) you need a charger in the system. Some complete systems (e.g. CBE) may have one included. A custom solution will need one added such as a Victron ip22. I haven’t fitted mine (cables installed but not the charger)...

An induction hob with variable power can be a good no-gas solution, especially if your use is mostly going to be on EHU (where you can go flat out power wise) but occasionally need to have a brew on the road. Throttle the stove back to 300w it's much more inverter and battery friendly, though...

I did wonder about that but it seems unlikely as you'd still want to use the leisure battery in preference to the starter battery even off grid, and the manual makes no mention of it (though it is badly translated so not the greatest manual!) I'm 99% certain all it does is light an LED in the...

Making a toastie is challenging off grid - anything electric that heats (kettle, heater, toaster, girdle) requires quite a substantial battery and inverter system, you want to be really certain you want that off grid before you spend the money and sacrifice the space on the equipment compared to...

@meza Bunging in a portable power station really depends on how you want to run your van electrics, really how you use your van. If you want a mains supply for camping then it depends how long you're going off grid for, if you're always going to be in a regular site on hook up then apart from a...

Uninterruptible Power Supply - so if the grid supply fails the house battery takes over almost seamlessly. Even if there is a bit of a flicker the core IT already has local higher grade online UPS systems as I rely on them for work. The difference is that the existing IT UPS run off small lead...

We love what you’ve done with our van Jason. You and Noel are magicians. We’re looking forward to getting our (faulty) solar panel replaced and upgraded so that we can realise the full off grid potential of our leisure electrics install. You’ll just have the diesel heater to install for us when...

Sorry @wallport been off-grid for a week but concur with good advice from @TallPaul_S and agree it's time to disconnect the CTEK - there should be no risk as the CTEK should not kick in if it doesn't see a voltage on its charge output. I've seen references to the CTEK reverse trickle charge but...

Are you wanting to share one EHU between the van & caravan, or are you wanting to power the caravan with the inverter in the van?