Solar and lithium battery motorhome upgrade 

Excellent reasoning on the subject of upgrading to lithium battery.

One other thing. This video is a very different style that nobody else has commented on. You've added in many graphics and animations! I especially loved the one with hearts when you commented on the fire bomb being in the battery compartment under the bed!! 🎉😂🤣 Your typical brand of humour we all love and enjoy. I don't think you ever make a video that doesn't make us laugh or smile. That's so important in life.😅 Excellent work.

This is a really good, helpful and useful video Andrew and Jane. Thanks very much. The topic is just SO confusing.🙄 And I agree totally about the extra freedom the power storage gives you being able to avoid having to stay at expensive campsites in order to use ehu to charge up. Especially in the UK. I'm going to watch the follow up one about cost and value too. Nice work.👏 Much appreciated.

Thank you for that it has made my mind up it’s the way to go the benefits well outweigh the equivalent of the EV problem of range anxiety. We are selling up and going on the road this October full time after an early retirement and plan to travel everywhere around the uk and Europe. I knew it was the best way to go but couldn’t convince myself so thank you.

What battery set up would you need to run aircon? Spend a lot of time in southern Europe and aircon becomes a must have.

Hi Eurosully, quick question so great set up and makes sense ref the lithium upgrade and charger upgrades, I take it the beneift is simply it holds charge for longer, stores more power & chargers the battery quicker and your off grid for longer? I take it the 240v sockets are still on hook up only so nothing changes there. I seen on another video you have a Ecoflow unit for the the boss drying her hair off grid, thats the whole challenge for me, my wife has a main like the lion from the Wizard of Oz and cant dry naturally , so deffo need a hairdryer. :) How do you charge the ecoflow whilst off grid?

Nicely explained 👍

Taking all these notes down for when im ready to purchase a motor home, gonna make sure i have enough money left over to get any upgrades like this i may want done either during or after purchase

You were correct you can only use 50% of a lead acid safety with out damaging the battery a fellow motorhome friend is a electrical engineer even uses lithium batteries and solar at his home now . Thankfully when i change as i have said to you i want to ill save on installing lol

Waiting for the sun to come out? I thought you said you were in West Cumbria! Need more batteries.

If a lithium battery shorts out and goes into runaway. There is no putting it out. It will burn until it exhausts its fuel. IEE regs require brick houses to have the lithium external to the property for a reason. The fire brigade have no effective way of extinguishing a lithium fire. All they do is contain it and wait it out. My advice would be to fit a fire detector under the bed. And if you can enclose the battery on 5 sides with a steel cloche or a fully enclosed box to buy you some time to escape. Now, having said all that, these batteries are quite safe. But the fire risk is still there. This is the one area where lead batteries are better than lithium.

Hi Eurosully who supplied and fitted your extra solar panels pal? I have got a shopping list for batteries & victron chargers etc but not the panels as yet. As our van is the same age as your also a Avantgarde (196 model) I thought it would make sense to use the same installer (we are in Bolton)

Just as professional as channel 5 but much funnier. I’m surprised you haven’t made the switch to lithium earlier seeing you do so much off grid camping and don’t think you will regret it. From my own research I would have fitted exactly the same and may still do so but we still mainly stay on sites so cannot justify the cost to her who must be obeyed! Do you mind saying who fitted it all for you and would you recommend them? Keep up the great videos

Very interesting. We’re buying our first Motorhome next year and intend to be able to go off grid. Do yo think you’d add an inverter as well?

Really useful . We are getting our new swift mh next month . It only has a standard 100w panel . Am thinking after a few months of doing what you have done . In the meantime we have an echo flow delta 2 max with 440w solar panel to keep us ticking over . I was thinking of pricing up Solar versus buying another echo 2kwh battery which would then give us 4kwh of battery that could power the van

Great video. Can I ask who you used to install as we also live in the Northwest, thanks

Great watch but how much did it cost, ive been thinking about it but cant find anyone close to me to have a look. Thanks

Love this video would you share who fitted the system for you

Was it expensive

you missed out the most important thing, the cost?

Did you fit the solar and other suff your self ????