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Components purchased through Explorist.Life. Wires/Consumables purchased via Jeff Bozo. Frame extrusions from TNUTZ. If you watch van conversion DIY videos this will all look familiar, but this is my flavor.

Build a frame and make it fit the space.

Fit mounting panel into frame and start laying out components and connecting them with beefy wire.

Reconfirm things fit including battery stack. Also not pictured…confirm your Velit Air conditioner is working.


Add solar input, DC2DC input, and coms lines and make a nest of unorganized wires. Realize that the wire ingress for case is in the wrong spot (upper right corner). Congratulate yourself on making a ‘handle’ to made installation and extraction easier.


It’s in…and it all works…except for the blue network cable. Which Guy Community Manager just help me diagnose…so…more wire re-management in my future. And some deep thoughts about how I mount this door. Cause so far…every blind corner hinge I’ve found doesn’t mount the way I want it to, and that’s ‘only’ .5" ply…so recessed cups are out…sigh…problem solving never ends.

Nice to see someone gave the inverter a bit of space to breath. Mobile installs often do not.

“That MPPT can probably handle more panels than the roof of his van” was my first tought. :wink: My second tought is that you could have placed the battery fuses closer to the positive terminals of your batteries. Ideally the cable of the the positive terminal to the fuse should be short enough to make a short to the negative impossible in case of a car crash for example. That also counts for the little fuse for powering your GX. 3th is there a smartshunt somewhere? This is a schematic of a campervan I did once:

Shunt and primary battery fuse are both directly off the bus bars for the links distributor. Primary battery lead and ground could be shorter but would route around the front of the multiplus instead of over the top. Primary battery cable lengths are equal.

Awfully big MPPT… and awfully small PV cable feeing. What Gauge wire is that? Is your PV high voltage?