Not much notable progress today so here is a picture of dogs hoping they will get some moose fajita scraps.
After working out this morning I went to the electrical supply store to pick their brains about how I was planning to wire my AC circuits. I’m learning a lot about the electrical design of these systems, but there is still so much DIY that I want to make sure I’m doing it correctly.
The real issue for my design is that I have a single wire (actually three wires) coming out of the inverter. I have three separate AC circuits (most people would say that doesn’t make a ton of sense for a small van, but the wires are already there so that’s what I’m going with) and three circuit breakers. That means I need to distribute my one wire coming out of the inverter into three wires. I *think* the way to do this is to use a bus bar for each wire, but I haven’t really seen a picture of anyone doing this. A bus bar is just a piece of metal with multiple screws/studs where you can bring in one wire and then feed out multiple wires. A regular house circuit panel has those bus bars integrated into the box, but those are huge and it would be a real PITA to put that in the van. Anyway, I ended up ordering the pieces to string it together, but then I found a more expensive but complete solution. So, Â after figuring it all out, I canceled the piecemeal order and just bought the pre-made panel. If I’m going to overbuild the whole system and the AC circuits, I might as well just get the fancy panel already made.
After I worked on that for a while, Sara and I accepted an offer on our house with all the contingencies satisfied. That will be a relief. We had a couple deals fall through but it looks like this one will stick! We get to come visit our NH peeps one last time in the next couple weeks when we come back to clean out the house. Anyone want to help us move furniture into storage? We will provide the alcohol!
In the late afternoon Sara and I fully mounted the refrigerator and microwave cabinets. We screwed the microwave cabinet to the refrigerator cabinet and screwed the refrigerator cabinet to the floor. I guess we are committed because those things sure as hell aren’t coming out now! We also plugged in the refrigerator and screwed it into the refrigerator cabinet. This is the first whole cabinet that is permanently installed!
This evening, we futzed around with various small projects. I put our first drawer face on a drawer. It is mostly glued on so I clamped it nice and tight.
Sara has continued working on her dog food drawer, but she doesn’t like me watching so I took this picture and left.
