So I'm down here in Adelaide, good old sunny Adelaide at the moment.
But we're down here because we're at the Redarc factory.
And can you believe that?
It's a product that is made in Australia.
Everything. Everything from from the the little green board right through to the the plastic box
that it sits in.
Our factory is an end-to-end, so we do everything right from the very start of design concept,
to engineering with our 35 engineers we've got on on-site, through the manufacturing.
So we load boards.
We test our product, and we package it and send it out to our customers.
We've been partnered with Redarc now for a really long time.
And I don't know exact years, but it's that long that I can't remember the years.
But I've seen it evolve.
I've seen it go from BCDC, which is still the product that they sell today... to this
Manager30... and then even further.
Using this product as it's progressed, I get a feeling how much more convenient and how
much more effective it is when you're off grid.
Because that's what it's all about.
It's all about being off grid.
I'd better put these batteries on the charge... otherwise I won't have anything.
So over time we started with our SBI which is our smart battery isolator.
We've moved on to BCDC products which we pioneered back in 2009.
And more smart battery charging.
That's turned into our Manager30 which did charging from three different sources.
And the natural progression then was to control the loads that that battery would then be using.
So that's where the RedVision system comes in.
So the new RedVision system, it's like the next level.
So RedVision couples up with our Manger30 which I know Jase has been using a lot of.
What it does is it controls all the loads within your vehicle.
So you can turn on lights, you can control your fridge, you can turn on the compressor,
you can turn on a fan, and it takes care of all that in one simple unit.
So with the RedVision, we've got the app too, so that's sitting in here.
So you've got your phone app.
That's the part that I like the most.
Exactly, so you've got now the same information we've got sitting on here with the BMS happening.
That's going on there.
You can see what the loads are going on, and we've also got the inverter interface here.
So with this screen, we can go down here, and we can turn the inverter on.
And that inverter has just turned itself on.
And you can see what's happening with the inverter as well.
So that replaces either the switch on the front or the remote switch that I'm familiar with...
Exactly.
...that I put in on my canopies.
Yep, so you can turn it on and off with with the RedVision now with the app.
So this car is set up with different lights everywhere.
So there's a little bit more information on the app in terms of what's happening.
So we've got the right awning, the rear work lights.
We can turn the compressor on.
So now the compressor's on working. Happy days.
Importantly the fridge, and you notice that there's a little padlock on the fridge.
Yeah, I see that.
So what that means is if you decided, right I'm done for the day.
I'm gonna go away and go out somewhere.
I can hit this ‘off’ switch here, and everything on the system turned off but the fridge.
Except for the fridge.
Exactly then you come down to the the actual system itself.
So everything comes back into here.
You can see how neat and tidy this is with the wiring.
We've got the fuses here.
These fuses, if there's a fuse blown, it'll show a light behind it.
It'll show up on the screen here and say, hey that's the fuse that's gone.
So if we take this fuse out here, which is the fridge fuse.
It's now telling your us there it is there.
It's telling us there's the issue there.
And now you come in and go, oh that's the fuse that's blown.
Pop a fuse back in.
There it is. Now you're happy days again.
Mate, how cool is that?
It makes life so much easier for you when you're on the road.
Oh hell yeah.
You can actually understand what's going on.
Mate, that is amazing.
Yeah, look that's... inverter.
And then we just turned the inverter back on again.
We've got the inside lights, interior lights in here, and it makes life so much simpler.
The big benefit for the 4-wheel drive and the tourer is that they can keep control of
all their lights or their loads, what they're doing, but also be to monitor the battery situation.
So part of the system is that you can see you started to charge your battery.
So whether you've got 90 percent charge, whether you've got a hundred percent charge, how things
are going overnight, how much solar you put in, what's your source that you're charging from.
So there's some real benefits for people just to really understand what's happening, and
ultimately we know that there it is.
It's keeping the fridge cold and hopefully keeping the beers cold as well.
The one thing that I've noticed about Redarc, there's nothing else on the market that is
so convenient to give you everything in one package.
I don't think there's anything else there that can compete.