Silver Dream Machine - aka campervan mk2

[richbee]

What an excellent design!

Thanks Joe

Must admit there has been many hours spent watching YouTube & seeing what others have done to hopefully come up with the optimal solution for what we want

[Joeboy]

What an excellent design!

Thanks Joe

Must admit there has been many hours spent watching YouTube & seeing what others have done to hopefully come up with the optimal solution for what we want

Simple & efficient, nice!

[richbee]

Sure you'll be pleased to know that I've found a use for old solar panel rails - as the middle bed support.
My parents had their roof replaced, and solar panels, so there was a pile of old rails left and I helped my dad to dispose of them.
A raspberry cage for him, and a camper bed support for me (plus a few left over for a potential future solar project)

[Joeboy]

Sure you'll be pleased to know that I've found a use for old solar panel rails - as the middle bed support.
My parents had their roof replaced, and solar panels, so there was a pile of old rails left and I helped my dad to dispose of them.
A raspberry cage for him, and a camper bed support for me (plus a few left over for a potential future solar project)

I'm all for aluminium relifed in any form. Such a versatile easy to work metal but a huge production cost in energy. It's looking good!

[AE-NMidlands]

Sure you'll be pleased to know that I've found a use for old solar panel rails - as the middle bed support.
My parents had their roof replaced, and solar panels, so there was a pile of old rails left and I helped my dad to dispose of them.
A raspberry cage for him, and a camper bed support for me (plus a few left over for a potential future solar project)

That slide-out cargo tray is very neat, what a good idea.

[AGT]

Great idea, makes the most of the space available.

[richbee]

I'm trying to assemble my fogstar 315Ah battery today, as it's raining.
Not as easy as I hoped - I think they've sent me a mix of old and new components. The official assembly video shows a different end cap with terminals and vertical fuse mounting. Seems odd to me that the fuse is on the - ve side, and mounted on red terminals, but that is, what the video shows (there is no manual as such, just the video)

Other YouTube videos show the same end cap as mine, but the fuse on the +ve side and connected t the cells via a able instead of the folded busbar from my kit.

I've contacted the help desk, waiting for a reply.....

As a general question, is it not normal to have the fuse on the + side?

[Joeboy]

I'm trying to assemble my fogstar 315Ah battery today, as it's raining.
Not as easy as I hoped - I think they've sent me a mix of old and new components. The official assembly video shows a different end cap with terminals and vertical fuse mounting. Seems odd to me that the fuse is on the - ve side, and mounted on red terminals, but that is, what the video shows (there is no manual as such, just the video)

Other YouTube videos show the same end cap as mine, but the fuse on the +ve side and connected t the cells via a able instead of the folded busbar from my kit.

I've contacted the help desk, waiting for a reply.....

As a general question, is it not normal to have the fuse on the + side?

Yes it is, worth asking them why on the neg side? At its most obvious I'd want the the positive side to let go if somewhere in the circuit I had a fault to earth. All the best with the build. I am finishing off packing out the corners for the France trip, nearly there!

[richbee]

Their reply so far is that I might be able to bend the bus bars & frig it make them fit!
Not really the answer I was hoping for, and no response as to why they changed the fuse to the - ve side.
I've asked them to send an alternative +ve cable, basically to go back to the previous design.