This update on my caravan build is coming a bit late. I'm very sorry but sometimes I'm just bad at getting round to things. But, better late than never right!
I'm afraid this project has sort of stalled. I'd really like to get back into it and I think about it a lot but I just don't seem to be able to find the time. That said I have occasionally managed to do a few things. And here they are.
Despite my best efforts the front window was leaking a lot, so I made this cover out of sheet metal and then screwed and siliconed a piece of flexible rubber over the top edge. Where did I get the rubber from? Oh just a piece of old bicycle inner tubing.
The two black things are a jacking point. There's one jacking point on each side and one on the rear.
Here is one of the jacks I made out of salvaged steel materials.
It bolts onto the black things I mentioned earlier.
Then I use a ratchet strap to lift the caravan up so the trailer can slide underneath.
Another thing I did that I guess is actually a pretty big and important thing was running the wires. It's all 12 volt wiring, I'm not going to use any 240 volt wiring. That's just for safety. There will be 240v power however, but that will be achieved with regular power boards and extension cables and such. Mostly the power that will be used in the caravan will be 12v. This will be the lighting and several 12v power outlets for things like charging phones and batteries and other 12v accessories. There'll also be an inverter running off the battery for when there's no mains power available so that there will still be 240v power, however it will be fairly low wattage, so it won't be as powerful as mains power.
That's it for now. Hopefully the next update will be out soon.
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