After plumbing the toilet drain into the waste tank, we were ready to secure the tanks and then plumb the sewer drain. We will follow up later about how we are securing the tanks (we haven’t finished securing the fresh water tank yet), so for now, we will move
REC BMS: An Overview & the Setup
We are starting a four-part series on our major electrical components. In this series, we will share our research and thoughts as to why we selected REC BMS, the Victron Quattro inverter, the Victron Color Control GX, and the Victron Smart Solar MPPT solar charge controller. We will also go
Poop Pipe Adventures: Plumbing the Toilet
Finally, we are ready to start tackling the plumbing. We need to secure our water tanks in order to begin plumbing the drains. However, before we could secure the tanks, we had to deal with the toilet plumbing. Everything we had read and seen told us to make the pipe
Struttin' Our Stuff: Replacing the Bay Door Struts
Whack...thud! Those were the sounds my head and backside made as my head rammed into the edge of the open bay door so hard it knocked me off my feet and onto the driveway.
It was a hot, sunny day while Juan was working in our electrical bay. We
A Hacker's Take on RV House Batteries: Part 7.5 UPDATE to Supply Side Wiring
We want to give a huge thank you to all the folks who take the time to provide feedback and advice on our build. Thank you! We read every comment and consider every idea. When folks bring up potential issues with safety, we pay particularly close attention. A couple of
A/C Power: Part 2- Wiring the Circuits
After wiring the inverter to the 120V load center, we were ready to wire up all of the A/C circuits. We have seen many bus conversions and RVs that only have a couple of A/C circuits. But, we would like to be able to cook something in the
AC Power: Part1 - Installing a 120V Load Center
After wiring up the supply side of the system, it was time to actually prepare to send that power somewhere. We decided to start with the 120V A/C side of things. Our starting point was to map out where we need 120V in the bus and how many different
A Hacker's Take on RV House Batteries: Part 7 - Supply Side Wiring
This has been updated: please see the update here
In our previous episode in this series, we installed and secured the Nissan Leaf battery. Now we connect all the components to ensure safe power delivery to our systems. At the bottom of this post, we provided a list of all
Plugging In - Wiring Our Bus For 50 Amp Shore Power
When we purchased our bus, we knew that it had a 30 Amp shore power connection, but to be honest we were not exactly sure what that meant. We knew it was smaller than 50 Amp (you know because 30 is clearly less than 50), but we soon found out
RPM Love: Installing and Testing a Tachometer On a Vintage Bus (Detroit Diesel 8V71)
Why would we want to know the RPMs on an engine with an automatic transmission? Besides keeping tabs on the engine, a tachometer can be very useful when using the jake brake down steep inclines. From what we read, they never installed tachometers at the factory and instead limit the
Dash Rehab Part 4: New Sensors and Creating a Wiring Harness
In Part 3 of our Dash Rehab series, we showed our solution to one of our trickiest sensors: the oil pressure gauge. Thankfully, none of the other sensors gave us that much trouble. We bought our new gauges from Speedhut.com, and all the gauges came with very detailed instructions