Lights At this point in time there isn’t any reason I can think of to not use LED lights. I like the clean look of flush mount lights and I felt they would work well installed in the headliner. I used the same flush-mounted lights for all the ceiling lights which include the reading lights…
Mounting Electrical Fixtures I needed some mounting locations for bus-bars, fuses, and the battery-monitor shunt, so I cut a couple of pieces of scrap plywood to fit the inside front of the seat base as well as the door-side just below the opening. These were screwed in place from the outside of the base. Here…
I bought a couple 100 foot rolls of color coded stranded copper wire in 14ga and 12ga along with shorter lengths of 8ga and 4ga wire for the main battery connections. At this time, I had most of the interior of the van taken apart including the headliner, side panels, seats, and front flooring, so…
Battery Selection As noted before, I chose to use two 220Ah 6-volt AGM batteries wired in series to get my 12-volts. I think there is already WAY too much written on-line about the pros and cons of 6-volt vs 12-volt batteries and even more written about how many amp-hours are necessary. In the end I…
Electrical Design I have to start off by saying that I’m not an electrician. I understand that spending countless hours online really doesn’t qualify me for anything. So nothing here should be considered “official” or even “correct.” That said, this is what I did and why. My main goals of my van’s electrical system were…