Electricity In

 

A dry day at last so time to start cutting holes in the side of the van (well one at least), and the old adage of measure twice and cut once came into practice, in fact it was measure twice, have a re-think and measure twice more. You will notice the first place where it was marked to be cut, this was the flattest part of the van, but first, it was higher than the seat base, this would have been ok except that there was not enough distance between the inner and outer skin as the cable comes out of the back of the box, lower down the distance between the skins is a lot wider. Secondly it doesn't look as good on the van higher up for some reason. (Hope that all makes sense).

 

The hole from the outside of the van

And the box in place looking from the outside, although the box sits in a rubber seal it still got a bead of Sikaflex to seal it in place

 

And looking from the inside, again sealed with Sikaflex, the rough edges of the hole were filed down before the box was fitted in place and the bare metal was given a coat of Hammerite.

 

7 separate 12v cables have been passed down the corner post, the space under the seat that you see here will house the leisure battery and all the other electrical gubbins. The cables just run to the middle of the van and will be joined up as things progress, some of the  cables will run across to the other side of the van. As I am not 100% sure where everything is going yet I think this is the best way to do it, each cable is marked at either end with just a number so that I know which is which, these cables need to be in place so that the bottom half behind the seat can be boarded. Before it is boarded I need to send a 240v cable through also, terminating in the same places.

 

The plug all wired up and in place

 

And the view from inside all wired up and the panel insulated, all ready to be connected to the consumer unit. First the bottom panel will be boarded out and the seat base put back in place.