Morning all, I am a total novice at this lark and far from an electrical wizard. I suffer from sleep apeona and have to use a CPAP machine at nights. When on a site with hook up its perfect.
Would the leisure battery last all night running a 240v appliance ? if I was offgrid?
If not I have been...
Due to upsizing our house am with a heavy heart selling our 2020 t6.1 van full high spec Conversion spent absolute fortune on this van , was a factory kombi
I’ll probably miss some stuff of so please bear with me
Austops pop top with scenic canvas
Offgrid solar panel on roof
Night heater...
Looking for ideas for what systems people are using to control the electrics on their T6's
I will be using my 300w solar panels, 2x 220ah batteries as I will be offgrid quite alot, but i also want to be plugged in a some point and probably power a coffee machine, Hair straighteners etc.
I...
We are looking to sell our campervan, it's been much loved but as our kids grow and get too big for the pop-top up we're just not using it as much as it deserves. As you can see from the images it's in great condition and has been well cared for. We are the 2nd owners and bought it to have the...
Selling our families beloved van, Denzil the Diesel.
The van has been with us for 3 years before which it was the Demo vehicle for Denson who we bought it from. Whilst its higher milage at 145k, its only done 7k in our posession and since converted. I feel the milage is reflected in the price...
@Mike Dean
EHU is the 240v connection at the campsite . . .
so are you asking for a Solar setup (thats plug and play) for when you are OFFGrid and not on a camp with the 240vac?
prob best if you post a few pics of your vans setup.
starter battery,
leisure battery,
sockets, charger etc etc...
Thanks @Dellmassive,
My intention would be to use something like this, nice and simple and cheap with the switch under the seat and also so I can turn the inverter on and off at the switch.
https://amzn.eu/d/clzPyQ2
Attach a plug to the inverter and wire it into the crossover switch. Then have...
Firstly, £800 for 100W, when the battery etc are already in o_O
For what you describe, you won't need it. If not camping offgrid, I presume you'd look for hook up and have 240v, invertor etc?
Have a few trips and see how you go.
A fixed Redarc 150w on roof
150w Redarc solar blanket
200w korr solar blanket
Redarc BCDC 1225d with mppt
Amptron lithium 240v 15a charger
150ah Amptron Lifepo4 175amp battery
Victron bmv712 monitor
No inverter
Have finally got a setup that copes with offgrid camping in hot weather due to...
Hi, Sorry to be newbie like. so at the moment, the van battery has a system to charge the leisure battery. (relays and stuff). All works well. BUT, in winter, my plan is to have the EHU do the charging when on site. I am guessing that the Victron does that?. T
Here’s a curve ball,
I've just upgraded my van, to have small scale offgrid240v system just to run a low watt kettle & hair drier.
So Theres a shore/ehu 240v system
the offgrid system with a 2000/4000W inverter
138amp lithium battery with 120w fixed solar & currently 120w folding solar panel...
2017 Kombi Highline DSG 2.0TDI with 56.5k on the clock, FSH, freshly Serviced and MOTd in march 2024.
Unfortunately I am having to sell my campervan. It started life a kombi highline , and over the 5 1/2 years of ownership I’ve built it up to this beautiful spec. I’ve looked after it...
Design your energy system to do what YOU need because there are a number of factors that influence how much battery capacity and solar generation to fit.
Lithium has major advantages over AGMs because it will have many more charge cycles and can be discharged much lower than an AGM with no...
This is great thanks- you’re echoing our worries about some of the appliances! One of the reasons for having a camper is being able to do our usual camping trips but “with luxury”, but everything needs power!
I suppose we could keep the purely Shore Charge AC sockets (so not drawing from the...
12v system ----- hmm, so which way to go.
well i was going to go down the CLAYTON LPS route, have have now decided against this.
the LPS needs to be built into a cabinet, and as we are KOMBI + OVANO its just not right for the setup.
by that i mean it needs placed somewhere, in space i havent...
Hello guys , thought I would put up a few pics of my recent install. I got some inspiration advice and ideas from some of your threads and info on here . I went for a 100ah lifepower lifepo4 battery from eBay , 2 x Lensun 110w solar etfe solar panels , a victron smart protect , Aili battery...
Thank you very much. I appreciate the time taken to write to me, this was really helpful.
Would it be unreasonable for me to ask the company I purchased from to upgrade the DS300 as per your comment?
Something is odd there! What does the control panel above the USB socket say about the state of charge of the 2 batteries? This needs to be done with all loads turned off and nothing being charged otherwise the reading is useless. The reading on those is not great anyhow, but it’s better than...
yes it can, and no i dont.
i havent got any EHU installed in the van yet.
so im 100% offgrid.
but with a 230Ah lithium . . . . who needs EHU anyway lol. - Roamer LiFePO4 Gen2 230Ah Seatbase battery -- "How I Done It" --
Re Renogy inverter EHU,
its not a charger, but will work as a...
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