My DIY Camper Van Electrical System (Full Walkthrough)

[@joeythenomad]

Ask me anything about van electrical systems here in the comments and I'll do my best to answer! Get my wiring diagram: www.joeythenomad.com/van-electrical-system VanLife Electrical Usage Estimator: docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1uAHmifOvnP6prpQgGXDmY4emdsPnQyS_-mY0Dk7Yzpg/edit#gid=0

[@chartmann43]

I LOVE your ceiling! What is that and do you have a video of the build?

[@dipndalip]

As soon as I see those light blue boxes... nahhhh

[@joeythenomad]

What you got against victron?

[@dipndalip]

@@joeythenomad They offer products to over complicate an install. They offer products to expense you for not knowing how electricity can work for you. DC to DC chargers are unnecessary and limit what your alternator can do for you. If you are not electrical savy then they can offer you a solution for a price that can't do what you can do without them and understanding. I do apologize as I did not have any thing to compare this too. I do now have a video on my channel explaining how to run an electrical system without any components besides your batteries and in the rv/van sense an additional charger/converter that is cheap/powerful and optimal for any use case. This is for those who do not mind building their own batteries and have a way to monitor the capacity in those batteries. Nothing victron offers is ideal for a simple, reliable, cost effective way to do so. If solar is involved there is still cheap ways to integrate them but understanding is necessary.

[@dipndalip]

@@joeythenomad Thank you for replying. I had to take time to gather a response and in tandem making a video for the car community. It really came down to not finding their 100 amp buck boost converter a serious option. nearly a 1000 dollars and in reality you can connect your lifepo4 battery directly to your alternator with no problem at all.They have monitoring solutions that can track your battery health and individual cell health, charge controllers etc but those are absolutely unnecessary if you have quality cells and understanding. I do appreciate the market for people who do not understand or have the time to understand or experiment.

[@joeythenomad]

I think they definitely serve a place in the market for those who want to build a system but don't want to do absolutely everything themselves. I disagree that you can't make a simple and reliable system with victron, though I admit its definitely not the cheapest and there are ways to do things cheaper yourself. But most people don't feel like learning and going through that so the extra couple hundred bucks for their time is the trade they make for a system that still works great, and I think thats fine. Just serving a different market

[@neomage2021]

no way that induction burner or air fryer pull 120 amps. That would be 120v*120amp =14.4kW!

[@joeythenomad]

I should rephrase that. The induction burner and Ninja Foodi are rated for about 1800W each so they are actually pulling about 15A from the inverter at 120V. But my battery monitor system is set for 12V since thats the voltage of the batteries that the inverter is drawing power from so it reads as 120A on my monitoring system because that's a better indicator of how long it will take to drain the battery. E.g if my monitor system says I'm pulling 120A at 12V but its actually 15A at 120V, seeing the 120A on my monitor system i know that every hour I'm depleting 120A from my battery bank, and if my battery bank is 400Ah total then I know I can keep running at that level for just over 3 hours before my battery is dead. So its more a conversion and base voltage reading thing, I guarantee I'm not actually pulling 14.4kW or something would explode lol

[@neomage2021]

@joeythenomad totally makes sense when looking at it from the 12v side

[@joeythenomad]

Thanks for the callout though, I should've explained that better in the video so thanks!