My names Mel welcome to my world and if you're new to my channel I'm
currently turning this ford transit into a stealthy off-grid
camper van and I fought a bit do an update tonight
because tomorrow is the Eurovision Song Contest nobody's going to be watching
YouTube alright everyone's gonna be watching your vision song contests awful
yep I'll better do one tonight now talking to the Eurovision Song Contest
have you seen Australia's entry my god gives a whole new meaning a pole-dancing
ocotilla news we haven't seen Australia's entry
to the Eurovision Song Contest I suggest you go check it out he is a spectacle to
behold I really don't think I deserve to win now enough about the Eurovision Song
Contest let's talk about my vein and today I want to talk about the electrics
okay so let's talk about the electrics in this vein now traditionally I would
charge my leisure battery using your and I are and the leisure battery will then
control everything inside the vein the lights the fridge the ceiling fan all
that good stuff but this fan has got a smart organizer so we can't use a split
charge relight and the split charge way that comes in about I II quit I think so
we need to splash out a little bit of extra money for a DC to DC charger but
the upside is this also controls the solar panels so we've no need to buy a
solar controller so you kind of spend a little bit more money but you do saving
it comes back in that way so well yeah quite nice little bit of kit as well
it's even got a temperature sensor on it so it since he's a temperature of your
leisure battery stops them overheating which can't be a bad thing that's got to
prolong the life here leisure battery surely and you don't get that with a
regular split charge rely when your engine is running the split charge
really light comes on and then charges your battery regardless so yeah it can
be a good thing and the real good thing about it is this is brilliant this is
Lester's wiring diagram right there that is it it's so simple to wire up it's
literally a positive or negative to your engine battery a positive or negative
thing to your leisure battery ain't a positive
and negative to your solar panels and I see it the temperature sensor it's just
simple little tiny plug it just plugs in and the temperature sensor itself just
bumps to the terminals of the battery like that so so simple really is
literally plug in and ply it just makes it so much easier so I highly recommend
these I'll I will put a link in the description save you're looking for them
via Amazon and eBay I'll put two leaks one frame is in one free buy yeah I
think they're about hundred and seventy quid
so not really that much dearer than having a regular split charge relay and
a solar controller separately and yeah okay neat that is I mean we're not build
another vein this is what I'm going to be using differently Alison I'm never
going to go back to the Marvel ones again I'll always use these from now on
it just makes perfect sense to me right so the main switch is in this van
here this is the the bank of switches that's going to be in this van and it's
nice and simple don't do like to keep fig soup always you know and the
interior lights are going to be controlled from this switch these two
switches here one the front one are back and then I've got a separate switch for
the USB charge Succot here I separate switch for the fridge because we want to
be a isolate the switch the fridge so there's a switch forward the fridge
guess alarm again another switch for the gas alarm and the reason we have a
switch for the gas alarm is because the gas alarm does draw current continuously
so when the veins not in use you can simply switch the gas alarm off but you
must remember to turn it on obviously when you're using it and then the in
switch there that's going to be for the rear USB ports
words of tongue-tied which are up there this one each side next to the bed at
the back and that is it that is pretty much it there's all the switches that
are going to be in the vein and the little thing above it that's the
controller for the nighttime heater that is it
that's as simple as that you don't have to go over the top and
have loads of electrics in a vein you really don't need it and the center one
by the way this one in the middle this is a voltage made us to tell us to stake
the delecia battery even though we've got a meter on here it just saves keep
opening the cupboard door to have a look it's there in front of you can see it
all the time so that's what that looks like and that's the electrics in the
vein I'll take you around the other side of this panel and show you how the
leisure battery is connected via the cuchara controller to the main engine
battery and I'll show you where the fuses are to so that charge controller
is simply connected to the main vehicle battery like this it's so easy to do
there's simply a war our bomb wire going to the positive terminal of the battery
and another wire going to the neutral and that is it it's as simple as that
and there's also a fuse between the two as well that's just for safety but that
is it it's as simple as that and behind the switch panel inside this
is where my mind bank of fuses are now this is where all the feeds down to the
fridge lights everything the charge sockets all going to come off of this
one fuse panel and that little block there that's me neutrals all my neutrals
to go back to that and then they itself will be grounded to the vein and that's
the back of the switches I've yet to wire it all up obviously once I've wired
it all up I'll show exactly where it looks like but SS simple it is it's
simple and it's safe so check this look what my battery
charge controllers done it's only gone and fallen asleep which saves a
batteries I hope you haven't fallen asleep as well brilliant innit so this
would give you an idea what the kitchen cabinet is going to look like as you can
see the battery compartment it's nicely covered up now there's a cover over the
top of the batteries and those batteries are screwed down incidentally they're
not going to be moving around in there they're nice nicely secured down there's
gonna be a drawer up here for cutlery hopefully I can get a drawer in there as
well and some little doors down the bottom and this part here that's kind of
a door on front that arrows will so that's gonna look really nice when it's
finished I'm really pleased daddy she's turning me out now it's evolving so here
really pleased with it so if you like this video please do give me the thumbs
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