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    Van Build - Design Check: Have I sized my battery fuse correctly?

    Sounds good! Yes, purchased and have pretty much everything - last bit of things are trickling in.
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    Van Build - Design Check: Have I sized my battery fuse correctly?

    Fantastic. Well, I will add that an appropriate sized fuse block fuse in, as well as one for the inverter (just for safe measure). Gotcha, yeah initially I was following Will's 400W System with Alternator Charging pretty closely, where he said to use 4awg pretty much everywhere except the...
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    Van Build - Design Check: Have I sized my battery fuse correctly?

    Thank you so much for your review! I really appreciate it! I will be switching to an MRBF fuse for the battery - thanks for the suggestion. Gotcha, I will add in another fuse for the inverter - probably will go with the 80 fuse there. Let me know if you would recommend something other. Would...
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    Van Build - Design Check: Have I sized my battery fuse correctly?

    Mike, Thank you so much for taking the time to review this! Sounds good, I will purchase either a 100A or 125A MRBF fuse to replace the MEGA on the battery terminal. (If you would recommend one amperage rating more than the other, please let me know). For the fuseblock feed, how did you...
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    Van Build - Design Check: Have I sized my battery fuse correctly?

    I am not sure about is whether or not to size my battery bolt on fuse based on the 700W Inverter or the DC Fuse Block. Right now I have it at 80A, sized by the inverter: 700W/12V = 58.83A 58.83 x 1.25 = 72.92A -> round up to 80A If I were to size based on the fuse block, I imagine...
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    Van Electrical System Without An Inverter

    Hello everyone! I made a post the other day on Reddit about some electrical questions and a few people suggested to me to make a system without an inverter. At first, I thought this to be a bad idea, as it would pigeonhole me into a configuration with only (12V) DC capability, but now I can see...
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    All-In-One Solar Power System (12V) in Van Build

    Fantastic, I will PM you. Thanks!
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    All-In-One Solar Power System (12V) in Van Build

    Thank you for your response! I have been leaning towards getting an AIO for the pros you listed above. Do you have any experience with building a system that has an AIO, but also has a DC-DC charging capability via the alternator?
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    All-In-One Solar Power System (12V) in Van Build

    Mike, thank you for your response! So I will be living in this van full time with my boyfriend. A majority of the time, I hope to be boondocking, but I can see instances where having access to shore power would be nice. As far as power usage goes, I have come to the conclusion that I want to...
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    All-In-One Solar Power System (12V) in Van Build

    Has anyone built/is using Will Prowse's All-In-One Solar Power System (12V) and if so, how do you like it? I am getting ready to build my electrical system and I am torn between building a variant of Will's "The Classic 400 Watt Solar Package", or going with the "All-In-One Solar Power System...
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