After a bit of a summer break here on the blog, we are back with more content. This time, we want to show you how we are controlling the LED lights in our camper.
You will learn about:
If you are interested in our electrical system and electronics, we have a video dedicated to electrics!
We left you in the breeze on our shower, but rest asured, work has continued. We took a break from building as it was scorching hot. Despite our insulation, the box heats up beyond 36°C and we weren't keen on sweating in this hotbox.
With the days cooling down as of late, we finally tackled the shower stall.
This post, we'll show you how we:
As Canada enters its fourth month of COVID-19 lockdown, it only makes sense that sales of camper vans and RV trailers are trending.
Without flights, the only options are to travel by car, by bike, or by foot. (Or horses and mules.) It’s no surprise, then, that “camper” reached its peak popularity in the last 12 months of Google searches.
People are bored, and they want to escape. Building a camper sounds like the perfect weekend distraction with an escape pod as a reward.
But do they really know what goes into a camper conversion?
Well, we thought we did, but we were wrong.
If not for...
we’d have thrown in the towel long ago.
Highlight reels on social media rarely appreciate the sacrifices that builders make, or the endless stream of challenges that builders face. I'm here to debunk some of the myths of building a camper van while proving that there are ways to overcome these obstacles.
We had our doubts.
Our friends had their doubts. The internet also had doubts.
But it worked! We managed to build a full set of drawers for our custom storage area with only a few simple tools and no table saw. In this post, I'll go over how we designed, prepped, built, and installed our drawers. The whole process took us 3-ish days.
In the first part, we went over building our own custom shower pan to fit exactly the way we needed it while saving significantly on cost. In this post, we'll go over:
We've modified a 10 L water heater to run directly on our battery. This saves losses we'd otherwise have from our inverter and it also keeps the size of our inverter low.
Water is just as important as electricity in a van build. Not only will we need a source of water to cook with and drink from, but we'll also need water to clean (dishes and ourselves) as well as a proper catchment.
In this article, I'll introduce you to our water system and show you how we built our custom DIY shower pan with easily accessible materials. In an upcoming post, I'll show you how we modified an electrical water heater to run on our battery.
