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When planning on fitting some kind of diesel heater to your vehicle, don't think you have to drill a hole in your fuel tank. If you check with the manufactures there is often an option for the base vehicle to have some kind of auxiliary heating. As with many options, the infrastructure is often...

Finally got one Dave, I'll wire it up this afternoon if time allows.

Wildebus had me salivating the other day with the idea of using an easyplus on the Betty build. At first this seemed like a tasty idea. Then reality struck as it's not available in 24 volts :( So back to my consumer unit. RCD protection from the incoming supply. RCD protection from the...

I have been very naughty and not looked my air eberspacher at all since installing it around 12 years ago. I have noticed it shutting down early sometimes for the last couple of years. So the decision was made to service it, and I thought I’d share it with all six of you. ;) Planning ahead I...

First mock-up of Betty's Distribution Board. So what have I forgotten?

This is so much easier than you might expect. Basically it consists of removing all the old gubbins. This one that I converted has a festoon bulb as well. I left the holder in place and will upgrade the bulb with 797-2340 from radio spares. I like these as they are rugged and non polarised...

Ok fake title, but I made you look. Please don’t go away, as this could benefit us all. From January the 1st this will be a free site, I’m sure it’s not the money that stops people taking part in it, but from then on there will be one less excuse. I’m sure there is more than a dozen of us on...

Servicing your eberspacher, should you or shouldn’t you. I’m afraid that as years have gone on I’m becoming a fan of “if it’s working, leave it alone “. Now eberspacher servicing is a bit more involved than changing the oil and there is a chance you’ll damage it. Worse still you give the job to...

A very simple job if you are still running fluorescent tubes. Clean the housing of all the electrics and replace with sticky back LED strips. These lamps only had one tube and a festoon bulb so the savings on power were not wonderful, about 2 watts. I've done it before on older twin tube ones...

1. Should you or should you not ground your electrical hook up to your vehicles body? 2. Should you ground your Inverter (Inverters) to your vehicle body. 3. If you have grounded any mains devices to the vehicle body should you use an earth spike to ensure that ground is 0 volts? 4. Do RCD's...

Just stumbled on this when I should have been working ;) https://www.knallert.de/2019/11/19/volvo-l3314n-von-rick-aus-schweden/

The title would be good but I want to make some hydraulic levelling legs for Betty. Has anyone tried this or has thoughts on the subject?

Sultana sensing switch. I might try knocking this up as I think it might be the answer until I'm told otherwise. http://wiki.diyfaq.org.uk/images/3/35/Current-sensor-circuit.png

Some of you may have gathered I've been going through an unplanned upgrade with "Murky". Somewhat frustrating as I have a new build in process "Betty" Reading some of your posts should have warnings of seduction, as they make you question what your doing. Murky in the early days was battery and...

So has anyone thought of using a chassis cab version of one of these. They don't seem to be silly money new. They even make a "Rosa" Bus/Panel Van Version but not for the UK I think.

Finally this weekend I've installed a Victron BMV 712. I remember thinking about this many times and coming up with solutions. Unfortunately I forgot the main reason I hadn't done it. I knew the battery cables would be horrible to work on due to the fact the seat, gear lever and handbrake...

Inspired by another post, I thought I would have a look at loading from a switched off battery charger. We have a very small gel lead acid battery used for a door sounder that requires regular charging. Say once a month or so. If we leave the battery charger connected it only lasts a few days...

I won't go to heavily into the details, but with Murky's last MOT I was told It had to have a drivers seat belt. It had never had one from the day it was built. So one of the next steps was to talk to DVSA inspectors who warned against fitting a drivers seat belt to a vehicle not designed to...

As I was inspired to think about this after reading another comment on it. Personally "Murky" is 24 volt base vehicle with 12 volt habitation wiring. The New build "Betty" again is a 24 volt base vehicle, but nothing has been done that would steer me one way or another. What are your opinions...

Here's one for some of you expert tinkerers. Due to security issues I've been having where I store my Motorhomes, I thought that some of the answer might be to put CCTV in them. We have wifi in our works and have just managed to watch the outside cameras via the internet. Waste of time really...