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I can be more accurate with usage. 100ah/1200wh lifepo4 battery from fogstar drift. My laptop/tablet draws very little it seems used 5-6 hours or so per day. I would like to use less now it is getting warmer again as my main impetus living in this tiny van is to be outside of it more than...

Yea I get that it is worst than breathing fresh air. I am just wondering how bad. I mean humans have inhaled fumes from campfires since as long as we know and now that is said to be really bad for you too. I am not saying doing what we did in the past is good and sure life expentancy was low in...

Diesel stoves are not the same as normal heaters. The intake and exhaust pipes are actually inside the van because the stove has to be raised to a level to cook on. Even the wallas instruction manual says to expect a smell which indicates it is not an installation issue if they had to put it in...

Indeed this is the way I had thought of too. That is a great way to burn off excess as they are so power hungry. I suppose then I will have to get an inverter for this? Was wanting to avoid having to use inverters but guess will have to for powering that. Have not looked into the technology at...

In this video david mckluckie, who seems highly regarded on these forums for his self powered diesel heater, argues that it is perfectly safe to exhaust the fumes directly into the space where you are in so long as the carbon monoxide alarm isn't going off. In the description I noticed he added...

Thinking along these same lines I bought this but it didn't work at all! It seems that while it may be diesel tight it was not air tight at all and the suction no longer worked and no diesel would pull past the connection. A tiny bit came up to the upper part of the other side of the connector...

Everyone shit on flexibles but just these 2 x 200w flexible renogies are performing better than I would have ever anticipated from all the shit people gave it online before buying them. I noted the highest peak I have seen so far the other day at around 121w. All this and still only on the cusp...

Initially it was not screwed down so I just lifted it out of the passenger footwell and moved it round to the side where the main tank port is. I did think I could make it demountable again however this is not really good since I would have to constantly be pulling the fuel pipe connector on...

Why no love for this thread when this thread got so much attention? The topic is very similar.

Why no love for this post when my previous post on ventilation got 7 pages of discussion?

That was it. Finally got it going after a couple of more suggestions along this line. Was able to find a step down convert for only just under 2 pounds which is adjustable. See here. Working fantastically now. Really pleased to have plugged away and figured it out rather than acquiescing to...

Currently heater is at mid level of the van, placed right at the rear and facing the front. As such the heat spreads in a jet from the 30cmx6 approx aperture rising to the ceiling. I am only in a transit connect and thought it would be so small that it wouldn't matter and the whole space would...

Thanks for the detailed reply. I have actually been looking at this one. They custom key for security purposes as that is the main reason I would want it. I noticed many have just generic key so anyone could carry them with them although I guess that is pretty unlikely the opportunist theif...

1. How or moreso where to install starter battery disconnect? I know the process generally of how from doing leisure battery electrics though with installing a starter battery disconnect I am not sure where you fix it since there is no circuit board under the hood that I could see like with...

You are. The stock charger works flawlessly. There is a second charger, which is not the standard one, which I tried because it says 12v which I thought might be the same as charging from my leisure battery to compare it. It charges from the mains with that one but extremely slowly. Not...

Reminds me of when I went on a walk and got lost and got mixed up which direction the sun should be facing to orient myself. After about 4 hours walking and not seeing any of the landmarks I expected to see it then dawned on me I had been walking in the wrong direction and would have to walk...

Yea I was just thinking that enough panels to cover me would run only a few hundred more. I do also want to plant food crops though so south facing is also a big benefit for that. It is just case by case. I saw a south facing one the other day. Fantastic plot, which is mainly just a field...

Actually my van behind my mum's house where it is currently already has had 0 direct and only just starting to get an hour or so's direct now it is starting to creep higher in the sky and the generation has not been too bad at all. I installed the electric right at the peak/slump of the winter...

Ok so from what you are saying here the north east one sounds like it could do fine? It is on a fairly steep slope facing NE so would catch the rays from sun up to around 1pm. Also from what I remember there is already a clearing facing out into the valley below so would be clear from trees for...

Oh by the way! I think to start I would mostly be dependent on my van's solar and ideally would keep it all on there so I would not have to install any to cover my daily uses. As such would be less flexible with mounting and positioning. I do not fancy moving it around every day either to chase...

Most of what I have seen look very similar to your profile pic. Big trees, on fairly steep slopes. I saw a really nice one for solar when I went to look at a different one the other day. The one I went to see was north east facing, and I was there around 1-2 and I think it was just about going...

Yes, as I have just noted in a couple of my previous replies I just posted, the steepness is often a factor in these available plots.

Is that true though even if you are on a slope which is not facing the sun? Most of these are pretty steep facing either north west or east or a mix in between. So you might be only half way up a steep hill facing the wrong way.

It isn't as simple as that though is it if you are on land which is a steep slope, which the majority of plots available are which I have seen? Even though you can angle how you want it still won't get much if any direct sunlight. They are usually north or east or west facing slopes also with...

Well there is no question it is because I installed the leisure battery electronics myself and no other power but the stock electrics in the van before which would all be via the starter. Don't want to use that for this as it would be in use constantly. I just found this. Would this likely work...

So I bought a new connector and tried and still the same thing. I even tried charging with the first one overnight and by morning nothing perceptible was added, Something else interesting to note though. There is a second 'wall wort' not made specifically for the device, that is BESIDES, the...

What is latitude friend? It means the part of the world or the specific latitude of the piece of land. I could not say the latter since I haven't bought any yet. If the former, I am in the UK, looking at wales specifically.

Looking for land, especially woodland, finding south facing plots is rather rare. Would you say it is an absolute essential for power or are there other options which could prove equally as good as solar - at an accesible price of course? I will still have very modest electrical needs for now...

Also very expensive compared to other options I guess. I would sooner buy another tablet that could charge by usb out of the box. Or a raspberry pi which was my original plan but since my mum already had this spare tablet I am trying to figure if it will work for me first. Would the cigarette...

Nowhere did I deny that was a good idea. I simply had not tried it yet, except for the existing passive venting, due to focusing on heat - which provided limited benefit at least in short bursts and realizing the length of time needed to heat to remove substantial moisture would cost a fortune...

Yes I edited to say I was at error there and you did not state that when I re-read your post.

Well 5 seems the way to go first since I can see if it is sufficient rather than a hefty rejig of the whole wiring that parallels would entail.

Very strange. That link has suddenly disappeared from that forum and just redirects to their main page. I wonder if someone related to the company has google alerts setup and pressured someone to take it down.

In my previous thread it was recommended I can do 5 in series so might as well just do that than messing with parallel at all then. The information of the panels are there in the link on the OP if you scroll down the page.

Sorry he did not write that. I looked at his post again and I remembered it wrong so don't want to put that on him :LOL:. Oh right, so I could do 3 parallel x 3 parallel or the number has to be even too? No way to squeeze the 7th panel potentially to fill my van space real estate? Only with a...