Installing Lighting, Refrigeration & Electrics In My Camper | Ep 13 | Nissan NV200 Camper Van Build

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In this video, I’ll be installing lighting, refrigeration & electrics in my van build and sharing what lights I've used, how I plan to keep my food cool when I’m staying in the van and what battery I’ll be using for powering and charging my appliances and devices..

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0:00 - Intro
0:49 - Lighting
1:36 - 12v Electric cool box
4:33 - Van leisure battery

When starting out on my van conversion, I thought about how I would be using the van & so the power and appliances I’m installing reflect this usage.

So first off, my van is a leisure and holiday vehicle - starting out I knew I definitely wouldn’t be living in the van and would be using it for camping & overnight trips, of which I’ve already done quite a few. I would also use it as my day to day vehicle - be that for getting to work or for days out around Cornwall, where I live.

As a result, you’ll see I haven’t installed a state of the art fridge or even some complex leisure battery with solar panels, simply because it would be overkill, unnecessary for my purposes & put a big dent in my budget.

I’ll start with the lighting & as I mentioned earlier I installed this quite early on, before I had even thought of putting a power source in the van. I needed easy-to-install, effective lighting which was battery powered, and so I bought a pack of 6 battery powered LED spot lights.

I installed 4 of these in the van and they each get their power from AAA batteries. They push to turn on and off but also come with 2 remote controls for turning them all on or off at once, as well as adjusting their brightness and setting a timer for when they turn off.

They come with very sticky double-sided tape which stuck very strongly to my ceiling ply.

Moving onto van refrigeration, I had been eyeing up the Halfords 8 Litre 12V In-Car Electric Coolbox for a while, as a method of keeping my food cool while camping.

It’s a small appliance that cools its inside compartment to 18 degrees below the outside temperature & also has a heating function for keeping food warm.

Not only can it be charged using the 12 volt port in the van, but it also has a USB charging socket too & a mains adaptor can be purchased separately. It only costs around £35, which I think is really great value.

In between the front seats of my NV200 is this segmented plastic surface. The numerous raised areas meant that the cool box wouldn’t sit flat & so I decided to make a wooden platform that the cool box could sit on.

I made a template & cut the finished shape out of a piece of plywood I had available.

I utilised screw threads already in the van floor to add 2x 15cm M6 bolts at the back of the platform to hold it dow & I dowelled in a couple of legs near the front to provide support and to bring it level.

I also cut a v-shape out of the front of the platform so as to ensure easy access to the 12v input, USB & AUX inputs.

I thought long and hard about how I wanted to power my van. Having camped a few times in the van, I knew that having a power source would be really useful, however I have absolutely no experience with electrics and I didn’t want to spend loads of money either.

Whilst a second leisure battery that was charged via my van when moving would have been an option, it would have required a lot of wiring that I wouldn’t have felt comfortable doing.

In the end, I got a portable power generator. They seem to me to be a great way of obtaining off-grid power to everything from van conversions to tiny homes. After a lot of research I purchased a NOVOO 230wh power station.

The battery has a screen that shows its level of charge, the battery operates silently and it has a 12v charging input, 3 standard 5v USB inputs, as well as one type-C input (charges up to 60w, which is perfect for fast charging phones) & 230v AC input, which takes UK plugs.

The battery charges via a DC input in the back, through the type-C usb input in the front & you can also charge it with a solar panel.

The battery is 3.2kg & is very portable.

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DISCLAIMER: In this video, I am in no way stating that this is the proper way to undertake the conversion of a van, however after research & experience using the van, I believe this to be the way that is best suited to my van and the way I intend to use it.