2011 Hotshot Conversion

[Hotshotliving]

Hoping to have all my wiring here today to get the solar compartment all wired up and my victron accessories powered. I ran the wires for my solar down the same side as the roof A/C so they are hidden behind a diamond plate cover. Then did a grommet to pass thru to the compartment as well as my alternator supply. I would definitely like to hear from others who have first had experience with the victron MPPT charge controllers. As far as wiring and configuring. I’m pretty sure you are supposed to supply your battery feed to the controller before you supply the controller with solar, correct?

 

[Hotshotliving]

Got all the components wired up and the solar connected and charging the batteries. So the solar is charging the batteries and also the truck alternator charges the batteries when it’s running.

 

[Hotshotliving]

Not much to report, just did some misc wiring in the solar comparent, hooking up the Bluetooth for everything and getting power over to the dongle. I must say having everything Bluetooth to you phone and being able to view it from the app is very nice. Tomorrow I will get all my solar panels mounts siliconed and fastened down as well as staring on my pluming. I also installed 3 additional circuit breakers into my blue sea AC breaker panel so I have the ability to have more then 3 AC circuits.

 

[Pacific Northwest yetti]

The victron and BB work well togather! Great job on it.

 

[Hotshotliving]

Haven’t been able to do much cause it gets dark so early now with the time change and working all the time but did make time to get the hitch assembly built. Hopefully have this welded up tomorrow after work and then can get the trailer hooked up and see them together!

 

[Hotshotliving]

Got the hitch all welded up onto the rear Ibeam. I have to to a little trimming on the aluminum diamond plate cover so it clears the ball when it turns to unlock the pentel hook. But other than that it fits. Here’s a picture of the truck and trailer. More once I get the generator on and it all buttoned up

 

[Hotshotliving]

Got the Gen on the trailer, dropping the truck off at the shop to get a full service and glad hands for the trailer brakes tomorrow

 

[Hotshotliving]

Today I got the inside bins in the passenger side removed. Definitely makes it seem way bigger having both side opened up!

 

[Hotshotliving]

Also got the plumbing sorted out to gravity fill the 2 40 gallon water tanks.

 

[Hotshotliving]

So now that I had some time to work on it I’ve got the plumbing done from the water tanks through the filter and basically to the outlet where I will split it one for my cold water and one for my cold water into my hot water heater. Also got the bumper fitted to go over the hitch not much needed but just a little trimming.

 

[Hotshotliving]

Leaving tomorrow and heading do to vista CA, nothing crazy but will get an idea on fuel mileage and drivability and comfortability. Meeting a guy down there to hopefully give me a quote to build the interior. 👍🏼

 

[jojabis]

How's it going we just picked up our rig this weekend. How difficult was it to remove the cabinets and overhead bin? What did you decide to do about the cab/box passthrough?

 

[Hotshotliving]

How's it going we just picked up our rig this weekend. How difficult was it to remove the cabinets and overhead bin? What did you decide to do about the cab/box passthrough?

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Heck yea!! Congrats looks super similar to mine! Did you get it out of phoenix area?? The inside where the seats were I just unbolted and the part where the hinged boxes were and cup holders are just all help together by pop rivets so I just drilled/ ground the heads off and those were easy to remove there is 3/4” foam insulation behind those side panels. As far as the over head bins they were kind of a pain to remove because everything is welded in place so what I had to do was use a cutoff wheel and cut the shelves off of the side walls. I left the 1” tubing on the roof and on the side walls to use as furring. As far as the pass thru goes we decided to go with a fixed bed up against the cab because obviously your only current access is thru the rear door so we can’t do your typical ambulance style setup so for that reason it is become more of a “crawl thru” we removed the back windows of both the cab and the box and then enlarged the opening as big as possible and then sealed it up with the accordion style weather-stripping. Would love to see more picture of your rig and get to talking more!

 

[Hotshotliving]

I have a line on these wheels and tires for the build but they are in CA although I’m pretty they are the correct bolt pattern for my rig the tires are 395/85r20 and I believe they are about 46” in diameter and my originals are 41” my only concern now is the brakes clearing. I believe these came off a LMTV which is the same 10x11.25 bolt pattern as my truck. And budd style

 

[Pacific Northwest yetti]

You may want to check the date code on those.