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I have a Battle Born 12V 100ah battery. I rarely drain it very far. I think the lowest I have ever seen it was about 60%. My main way of monitoring it is using one of those cheap generic battery capacity monitors that use a smart shunt. Lately I have been leaving the solar panels disconnected...

Well, I knew that my van had some rust on the rockers, but I got under there and really started poking around, pulling away the material that was totally rusted, and it's pretty bad. I did jack up the van from the area just in front of this rust hole, and it is solid. It lifts the front of the...

I have the Joytutus 26qt fridge, and I have been pulling the power plug out of the side of it any time I don't want to run it. I've noticed that it has a small battery draw even when it's off, so I decided the best thing was to just unplug it when I don't need to run it. However, I've noticed...

Hello, I was thinking about upgrading the fan on my refrigerator. I have the Joytutus 26qt chest fridge. I took the side panel off that houses all of the mechanicals, and the condenser fan is literally just a 12V 90mm computer case fan. They make many higher flow fans. Obviously a higher flow...

I was recently camping in some fairly hot weather, and I left my fantastic fan running on low almost all the time to keep the inside of the van at least at the ambient outside temp. Unfortunately even at the lowest of the three speeds, the fan draws around 1 or 1.5 amps, which equates...

I need a quieter water pump in my van. Part of my water system runs outside of the van, so I have the pump set up to periodically run throughout the night and recirculate water when the temp drops below freezing. But the diaphragm pump I have right now is very loud, and there's no way I can...

I'm going to be helping someone install one of the Chinese diesel heaters that comes as an all in one unit into a van. (The diesel tank and the unit are in one metal enclosure.) Since the unit itself will be raised up off of the floor somewhat, I'm not quite sure what kind of sealant to use to...

Every time I see one of these they intrigue me. Every one I see seems to be done up with RV rental logos, and I can't find any for sale new that are this small. Is this a special unit they just build for rental fleets? I see you can buy some used from the rental companies. Are they any good? Are...

I installed one of the fantastic fans that has a rain sensor. While I'm happy with the fan overall, I've found the rain sensor can be a little annoying sometimes. There are times when it's raining, but I still want to leave the fan cracked open just a little to still get some air circulation...

I have a DC to DC charger, specifically the Renogy DCC50S that has a solar controller in the same unit. My question is, if I have the vehicle running, and therefore power from the alternator is going into the charger, and I have something drawing power out on the house battery side of the...

I finished building my van last spring, complete with a Webasto gasoline heater. Since I got it finished just as the weather was warming up, the need to use the heater since then has been pretty rare. I would say when sleeping overnight, I used it probably no more than five nights, always on a...

Saw this Sprinter parked at a local park yesterday. Can't guarantee it was a camper since there weren't any outward signs of a conversion. It had out of state plates though. Regardless, it really made me angry because it's such a clear example of people in their vans being completely careless...

I decided to wire myself up a way to run my van's stereo off of the house battery if I want to use it for prolonged times when the van is parked. It ended up being slightly more complicated than I expected, but it works. First let me say that you could probably get away with just running the...

I finally got around to putting solar on the roof of my van, 2 100 watt flexible panels. At 200W, after doing the math, I was expecting in nice direct sun I might see about 16 amps flowing into my battery. The thing of it is, after a little use, I have rarely seen the output from the panels...

A while ago I bought one of these filler caps to cap off my water fill hose. I know it's meant to be mounted on the exterior of an RV, but I just needed a fill cap that would fit into my 1 1/4" filler hose and cap it off when I wasn't using it. I was disappointed to discover that this cap is...

Ok, before you assume I am trying to patch an actively leaking heater hose with a bike tube patch, I'm not. Now that that's out of the way... In doing some other mechanical work on my van, I found a couple of heater hoses that had been rubbing on various other parts. I re-positioned...

I'm about to start mounting solar onto my roof. I got one of these solar cable glands to make a nice neat passthrough in the roof. However, the way things are working out, it would work much better if I could mount it with the wire side facing forward. I know that generally this is designed to...

Figured I would start a separate thread on this from the rest of my build since it is by far the most mechanically complex feature on my van. I was not sure how well it would work, but now that it's all put together, I can confirm that it is very possible to build a tankless hot water system...

I saw this van come up for sale just now, and my first thought seeing this photo was "did they put some kind of crazy sky jack on that thing!?"  :rolleyes:

Pretty much as the title asks. I found a lot of threads on the Fantastic Fan vs the Maxx fan, but I'm having trouble finding an answer for this. If I decide to go with one, and I cut the hole and mount it in the roof, if I later decide to go with the other one, can I remove it and install the...