Just an other aluminium truck camper project

[rhodos]

so in the meantime I put in the inner walls - Forex (a PVC hard foam), some wood, water tank (19 gal) and started with the wiring





Tech cabinet







bye Werner

 

[rajacat]

Very nice work!

What kind of glue do you use for bonding the aluminum panels to the frame?

 

[rhodos]

i use "klebt und dichtet" from wuerth

https://eshop.wuerth.de/Konstruktio...KLEBST-KD-GRAU-300ML/08901002.sku/en/US/EUR/#

 

[rajacat]

Thanks!

 

[rhodos]

Not much to show - lots of nitty gritty detail work, wiring the electro cabinet and using the bad weather to do some soldering on the battery management system and programming. The necessary balancing for the LiFeYPo4 cells and the protection against under voltage is all controlled by an Arduino Nano board and shown on display with the voltage of all 4 single cells, the total voltage, the actual balancing voltage (as I use different charging sources the software detects the source and goes for the right balancing threshold). To protect against under voltage the software checks each cell for the lowest voltage, i programmed two levels - at 2.9V the fridge is cut off and the rest (lights, USB outlets etc.) follows under 2.6V.



bye Werner

 

[locrwln]

Any updates?
.
Jack

 

[rhodos]

due to much overtime @job not much done on the camper - finished the software for the Arduino, soldered the circuit boards and tested the setup, balancing works very well. To be flexible regarding the balancing voltage I added a variable resistor and modified the software so I can now easy adjust the balancing voltage between 3-4 Volt with a screwdriver.

Some more pictures:

LiFeYPO4 Block, 4 cells 100A/h



Balancer board



Arduino board



Electro cabinet

 

[locrwln]

That's quite the update. Thank you,
.
Jack

 

[rhodos]

today we got the camper out of the garage and put it with the help of my neighbor and his tractor onto the Ranger to bring it up into the barn for further build. I had to free the garage before first snow for our daily drivers.







looks like it fit perfect onto the Ranger

 

[Brewdiak]

Nice! Had to feel good to see it in the truck, I love those big moments in a build

 

[pappawheely]

Nice truck to go with the camper.

 

[rhodos]

just some little work on the electro cabinet, did some CAD/CAM and milled the panel and a stainless steel piece for the switches:






milling and engraving the switch panel



result



final panel with solar/batterie computer, water tank level display, balancer display, switches and USB/12V outlet and voltmeter

to all expo members a merry Christmas and a good 2018

Werner

 

[rhodos]

last weekend was the first test ride with the camper to our summer meeting of the Unimog forum, all worked well and as expected - solar produced more juice than the equipment needed, truck handles well with the box - here some eye candy:










interior is not yet finisher but bed and fridge is ok for a weekend trip.

bye Werner

 

[sg1]

Wow. Congratulations. What is the weight?

 

[rhodos]

no clue - will drive to a scale when complete finished, my best guess is 1400 lb with water and some stuff - Euro Ranger can legally load 2200 lb