Truck is now usable... sorta

 Im continuing to tinker away on the truck project whenever I have time and the weather is good... Its actually been a very rainy end of March this year so its slowed me down quite a bit.

Here is the progress so far.

Ive put in counter-tops and added a sink and plumbed water in a temporary form... a pressurized 19 liter  beer keg does the trick for now, and likewise, the sink drains into a 20 liter jerry can for now.

Slide-out table, counter-top, and floor covering

Then I added a two burner induction stove at the other end of the kitchen counter, and a small fridge freezer unit (purchased on Amazon, like most of the stuff Im fitting) next to that.

I then wired the stove and several 120V electrical outlets up and took the wires forward to the electrical cabinet...

Sink (with cover) and stove and countertop.

Water and drainage system that will work fine for weekend trips.

And as luck would have it, I received the shipment of all the solar equipment, so I spent a couple of days fitting all that stuff into the habitat.

The crated solar panels, batteries, and inverter.

Its a 3000W inverter with a built in solar charger. It takes the power from the 4x 375W solar panels on the roof and feeds the 2x 100AHrx 50V LiFePO battery packs... and they are pretty heavy at about 40Kg each.

Anyway, I got that all mounted in the box and then I got up on the roof and mounted the 4x big solar panels up there and hey presto, Ive got a functional 120V power system.

Drilled the first hole in the expensive white box... just a tiny little hole to let the wires in from the solar panels.

Fridge (red) above inverter/charger (yellow) and Batteries (black) with tape marking location of pass-through to cab on front wall of habitation box.

Batteries and solar disconnect switch.

First weekend camping trip... a shakedown to see how everything works.... Lots of things need to be added and adjusted.

Came home from the weekend trip and promptly cut a huge hole in the side of the box and added a new window... Much more light now... Ive got another one the same size for the opposite side of the seating area... Hopefully Ill get that installed over the next week, but I need to think a bit more about the next windows exact location because i cant very well move it somewhere else if I put it in the wrong place... and its a very expensive box to be cutting holes in :)

New window from outside view.

New window from inside view.

And the additions keep coming... will post more soon.