I’m not thrilled about having the diesel tank inside, but I didn’t want to fuck about with individual components.
I’m running on the theory that as long as I don’t spill any diesel, it’ll be fiiiiiine
Seriously tho, in a worst case scenario I can either replace this big boi with the lower power one, and put a seperate tank under the van or just rejig this one to hook into the diesel tank of the van.
It won’t change where I install it through the floor in any case.
Don’t want water getting down between the awning and the gutter, so need to fill the gap. I added a foam backing rod in the aluminium extrusion to fill up that hole and then sikaflexed another bit of backing rod on top of that…
Pretty happy with the panels, I got a few more wires to run and then I’ll properly mount those, not to come off until the next van renovation!
Plotted out how the crucial items are going to fit, the printer is going to be awkward to get to, but it’s the only place I can put it. If the printer ever needs to come out, I’m gonna need to pull the fridge out too, but them’s the breaks.
36v is a really odd voltage steep for solar systems, which usually operate at 12v, 24v or 48v nominal. Inverters also typically follow the same voltage levels.
Though LiFePo4 would be the best chemistry to balance cost, capacity and performance
This brings me to a thought, what is your fridge running on? Propane or AC? How big is your inverter? Will you be converting things like PCs and printers and stuff to run directly off DC or willl you use AC-DC rectifiers plugged into a DC-AC inverter?
