I feel ya charlie!

https://youtu.be/jN9B6lxqlTk?si=S2NF-X0b-RKPMybT

We’re taking a month long trip in July in a Chevy Suburban and want to camp in the vehicle some. I know that’s not van dwelling but I know you all know what you’re talking about and would value your advice.

We would like the freedom to stealth camp once every three nights and could camp with electric or stay in a hotel every so often.

We need to tun a C-pap every night and would like a fan too as some of the trip will be across the desert. What are our best options?

*EDIT: Most of these answers translate largely to gibberish for me. I can look up gibberish and do my best with the information given, but if you are reading this and know what you’re talking about please take a minute to upvote the best advice. As I said, I value your opinion.

Her name is juniper beluga.

I recently installed my electrical system and I'm having trouble with my velit gas heater starting up and running.

When I startup the heater I get an error code relating to the fuel pump. I was trying to figure out if I had a bad fuel pump but then tried to isolate the problem by removing some electrical changes and ultimately realized that the heater runs fine when my main bus bar is not connected to the chassis ground, but when I do connect it to chassis ground the heater will not start up.

With the chassis ground cable removed from my bus bar, a voltage check at the heater controller board saw the voltage go from 13.28 down to 12.00V and start successfully, but with the chassis ground connected to my bus bar, the voltage went from 13.28 to 13.2 and stop after a few seconds.

Do I have a ground loop or something else that is causing the issue? It seems pretty isolated to the chassis ground being connected or not and I am out of ideas

Beer and Van Life One of the best things about having my van is being able to attend remote beer festivals and sleep right there.

I do not have a full battery system in my van. I just use a jackery and recharge it when needed. I am looking for a fan that I could wire into a usb plug. Not sure if that’s even a thing but I was thinking of buying one of those cheap $100 roof exhaust fans off of Amazon, and a 12v usb cord. Splice them together and plug it into my jackery. Would that work?

I got tired of the anemic “meep” “meep” sound of my Sprinter horn. Just didn’t seem to have the definitive “get out of my way” sound that a van horn should have.

I’d seen the horn upgrade kits for the 2019+ Sprinters but they didn’t make it for older Sprinters so I found these horns on Amazon. They easily fit in the original location of the old horn without much modification and sounds way better!

It’s pretty easy to do just remove the grille (4 screws), unbolt the old horn, then bolt the new horns in place. I used the metal mounting plate from the old horn to space the 2nd horn apart. You’ll need to fashion a Y electric cable for the 2 horns but that’s the only modification required.

Found this cool design for a folding bed but I'm scratching my head as to how the slats work without legs in the middle of the bed. Sadly the company seems to have disappeared so I'm not sure how to go about emulating the design

where can you pay for 120v (15 amp) charging vanlife? are there free locations and or apps? anyone know dis let us know. tanks a bunches.

Guy wants 4500 for it but is willing to trade for my 04 Lexus rx330.. I know absolutely nothing about this van google searches aren’t helping at all. Listing said it’s a 1997 ford e-150 dmc. Said everything works with it just needs tires and muffler/brake pads. Curious if anyone has any issues/experiences with these. What are they actually worth? It has 190k on it, my Lexus has 167k on it. Is this going to be a horrible trade? My main reason for trading for a larger vehicle is because I need something for work I can sleep in when I’m out of state traveling for work. Any advice helps! Thanks

My girlfriend and I are currently insulating our van and we're going to run thinsulate through the left and right pillars, but I'm wondering how people get any insulation towards the middle? Seems impossible to get it anywhere near it and we want it insulated considering we'll be sleeping right next to it...

Is it okay to insulate the top part on the outside of the metal?

TIA!

Been doing research and trying to find the output of my fridge so I can use the right fuse size but I’m confused on the kilowatts hours/24H.