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Damn, Thea's upholstery work is soooo pro. That looks amazing. Love the fjord backdrop too, can't complain about those working conditions. :P

We missed some updates in between, but today's a big milestone!! I think this is a test fitting and they still plan to paint all the galvanized metal, but the chassis is already painted and looks great! This was from before the box fitting: Needless to say, we are thrilled to see it coming...

Quick update: finally painted! TBH we thought we were picking a slightly more orange color: But who knows, colors always look different in person, are dependent on the light, etc. Even if it's as yellow as it is in the pic, it's still a nice yellow. Still waiting on metal fabrications...

Framing and plumbing are looking tidy! Love it.

The heli rescue sounds like a cool story at least. Hope it heals up well!

When thinking about the truck, it feels like we've been waiting ages. But then I'm very surprised every time Nov/Dec roll around and wonder what happened to the year. The habitat will be attached to the subframe via 16 GRP bolts. I don't think there are any shock absorbers or additional...

Good data point about the solar, thanks! We may look at having a manual tilting mechanism for the panels, we'll see. AV have already replaced our alternator with a no-brand 100A one, bummer. But we'll consider saving that as the spare and upgrading to 150A. Did AV install yours? Best of luck...

Reunited with our truck after nearly 2 years! Closeup of the slightly-less-than-1.5-cab: Good progress on the box too: We are expecting quotes on the metal fabrications in the next couple of weeks. Hopefully they'll arrive by Feb/March and the rest of AV's work can be finished by end of...

I think we have planned for same diameters of things as much as possible, and the underfloor heating is on its own manifold. Hopefully it'll be fine! What happened with your breakdown?

There's a pump parallel to the Espar heater for when the heater isn't on. And a separate one for the underfloor heating circuit.

We got our HVAC system designed by Thomas from https://www.fabhabs.com/ (highly, highly recommended btw!) who owns the sharing rights but I'll DM you.

Yeah I remember you bought your truck suuuuuper quickly! It took us another half a year to finally settle on a truck. Crazy that that was nearly 3 years ago. Even if the Webasto kit comes with a pump you may still want a non return valve somewhere just to make sure the flow is always in the...

Such a cool update! Your truck turned out beautifully and we are living vicariously. Billie is fabulous and has nothing to apologize for. In your HVAC system, it might be a good idea to add a non return valve before the pump. I believe reverse flow, other than being generally undesirable, can...

Very good point about the truck systems, we hadn't calculated/estimated that yet tbh. 😅 But I think we should be able to selectively turn on/off one of the Orions for when we're powering lights and other heavier stuff. But yeah I think they've fitted one of those 100A ones for us too. We are...

- We'll likely not have a generator after all, very limited toolbox space and it's not clear we'll need one anyway. It's just in the diagram in case we would like to add one later. And we would like to make it over to North America at some point down the line. Anyway we've since replaced the big...

Thanks. We will probably stick with Victron for everything, and def spring for the bluetooth versions of the devices that have them. Although we're under the impression that engine and solar charging wouldn't happen at the same time, since the voltage will be high during engine charging and that...

We originally had separate/dedicated Phoenix inverter and 110/220v Skylla charger. The Skylla is quite large and we later started wondering if maybe we could do without it. But you've sold us on this smaller Phoenix charger. So the new plan is: Multiplus II which we'll try to only use as an...

If more than one person DMs me their WhatsApp # I'll start a group. :ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

What model is your second 110/220v charger btw? It's also a Victron right?

Hm, I presumed differently, he called it a coolant heat exchanger so I figured either hydronic heater or they try to time their showers for shortly after drives when the engine coolant is still hot.