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Hi Rick, I’ve been watching a series of videos on YouTube about a bloke in Wales that installed a small hydroelectric generator fed from a small stream. He was basically generating 1kw an hour and running it through a charge controller charge a large bank of batteries. It didn’t half make me...

Your system sounds great Rick, better than filling the bank balances of the fat cats. We have worked out that the majority of the time we are using pretty much all the lecky our panels generate but thankfully our tariff also pays us for each unit we use that we have generated. Only downside is...

It’s an old school radio suppressor, don’t think they worked back in the day.

Hi Rick, that’s not something that I had thought about either. To be fair the tv I run from the inverter was a hand me down from the mother in law and with money being spent on other things it’s pretty far down on the priorities for a good while longer. Now the van is comfortable and perfectly...

Hi Rick thanks for the reply yes all fine up here thanks. I think it’s best to treat as a caravan and connect to earth. Not often we have hook up but I’ve got the bits so I’ve fitted for now. Yes I agree the inverter is best kept separate, it’s only a small inverter so only gets used for a tv...

Sorry guys not Terrano related but my camper related. I’m fitting a mains kit to the camper project. What are peoples opinions on earthing the body of the vehicle to the mains kit. Out there on internet land there’s different advice for earthing to the vehicle or not. My first thoughts were to...

Eyup Zippy, hope you’re well. I’ve still got Rustics old Mav and the green project truck but thats in a sorry state at the moment. I concentrate my time on the camper these days.

As long as you and Mags are OK for water that’s the main thing Rick, personally I think it was stupid to privatise utility’s like water. I’m guessing a shareholder in a far off land won’t give two hoots about people in this country being under water restrictions as long as they see a return in...

It sounds great to be off grid Rick but worrying about the spring drying up if you don’t have any other water source. Mind you that log store looks Australian, it’s upside down:lol I thought about you yesterday and wished my setup was like yours. We have the cable layers digging up the roads...

Sorry to hear that Banshee, I’m sure you can bring it back to life if anyone can. My project truck is still languishing at the bottom of our drive. Unfortunately my son volunteered to repair it when it failed MOT. Going to have to have a conversation and goodness knows how I’ll probably have to...

Did you ever have any doubts though Rick, it’s bound to pass with you looking after it.

That looks the business Rick :thumb2

Have you managed to resurrect Terrance yet Banshee, remember you were always tinkering with Terrance and others too.

Careful Rick, I’m sure some snowflake interfering tin pot authorities that we seem to have in abundance in our country will take a dim view of that. Great idea though

Ahh yes the midgies:lol yes on our last visit up there they were just coming out to play for the summer, they infest pretty much all of the countryside in the UK but they do seem particularly keen in Scotland. Solar in vans is always a compromise often the grime that collects and usually not the...

Kilt Rock Kilt Rock was stunning even though the weather wasn’t that day.

Coral Beach This is coral beach on Skye, totally stunning and amazingly clear sea.

My Collection Here’s my little collection, I definitely like the peated single malts and the Torabhaig is quite a collectible as it’s a very new distillery.

There’s been a lot of changes since we first bought the van as a plain panel van back in 2019, how the world has changed since then and of course so has the cost of vans so just for once we bought a vehicle at the right time. It’s been a very costly journey but well worth while, I doubt the van...

Well thought I’d give you all a look at the camper project, there’s been definite progress in the last 12 months. We’ve had several trips away including two trips to Scotland and Skye for most of the time, we drove the infamous Bealach na Ba otherwise known as Apple Cross Pass. We have fallen in...