Caravan & Motorhome Electrics: The Complete Guide

Caravan & Motorhome Electrics: The Complete Guide

by Collyn Rivers
Caravan & Motorhome Electrics: The Complete Guide

Caravan & Motorhome Electrics: The Complete Guide

by Collyn Rivers

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Overview

Caravan & Motorhome Electrics is the totally rewritten successor of the original globally selling Motorhome Electrics. The book's content now also covers every aspect of designing, installing and fault finding of the electrics in fifth wheel and conventional caravans and camper trailers.

The book explains how things work, and what they do (not what vendors claim they do). It shows how to dramatically improve charging performance, successfully install solar, and reduce energy draw of electric (especially) three-way fridges.

Essentially it provides solutions proven to work, not suggestions that may work.

The author shows how the ongoing move fully voltage controlled alternators necessitates dc-dc alternator charging. And that, post 2016, regulations are likely to limit or even preclude alternator charging with new vehicles. It covers the solutions in depth: i.e. solar, plus fuel cell's 24/7 power generation (light and compact yet silent and non-polluting (and now existing in LPG form), needing only a small battery for peak loads.

As with all Collyn's books, the content is thoroughly researched, technically accurate, yet in plain English, plus explanatory illustrations, many of the author's own vehicles.

The author's background includes automobile research, electronics and large scale magazine publishing (including founding the world's largest electronics magazine). He was technical editor of Australia's The Bulletin magazine in the 1980s - and has supplied Tech Notes to The Wanderer for a now 14 years.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780648319085
Publisher: RV Books
Publication date: 04/29/2020
Pages: 198
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.42(d)

About the Author

Originally trained as an RAF ground radar engineer, Collyn Rivers spent a brief time with de Havilland designing power systems for guided missiles, before becoming a test engineer at the Vauxhall/Bedford Motors Research Test Centre.
 He migrated to Australia in 1963, where he designed and built scientific measuring equipment. In 1971, Collyn Rivers founded what, by 1976, became the world's largest-circulation electronics publication, Electronics Today International.
 From 1982 to 1990 he was technology editor of The Bulletin and also Australian Business magazines and in 1999 started two companies: Caravan and Motorhome Books, and Successful Solar Books (now RVBooks and SolarBooks). "Anyone who has been an electronics enthusiast over the past 30 years or so will be well aware of Collyn Rivers. He was the founding editor of "Electronics Today International" (ETI) magazine which went on to have a number of very successful editions in the UK and elsewhere, as well as being very successful in Australia." Silicon Chip Magazine

Table of Contents

  • This book's intent
  • Acknowledgments
  • CHAPTER 1 - Terminology
  • CHAPTER 2 - Basic Electrics
  • CHAPTER 3 - Overview of an RV's electrical needs
  • CHAPTER 4 - Providing the power
  • CHAPTER 5 - Scaling the power required
  • CHAPTER 6 - Installing safety and legality
  • CHAPTER 7 - Installing 12/24 volt wiring
  • CHAPTER 8 - Mains-voltage wiring
  • CHAPTER 9 - Batteries (general)
  • CHAPTER 10 - Installing batteries
  • CHAPTER 11 - Battery charging (general)
  • CHAPTER 12 - Battery charging (alternators)
  • CHAPTER 13 - dc-dc alternator charging
  • CHAPTER 14 - Installing a dc-dc alternator charger
  • CHAPTER 15 - Variable voltage alternator charging
  • CHAPTER 16 - Inverters
  • CHAPTER 17 - Installing an inverter
  • CHAPTER 18 - Generators
  • CHAPTER 19 - Installing a generator
  • CHAPTER 20 - Wind power generators
  • CHAPTER 21 - Fuel cells
  • CHAPTER 22 - Solar energy
  • CHAPTER 23 - Installing solar modules
  • CHAPTER 24 - Solar regulators
  • CHAPTER 25 - Installing solar regulators
  • CHAPTER 26 - Energy monitoring
  • CHAPTER 27 - Installing energy monitors
  • CHAPTER 28 - Lighting
  • CHAPTER 29 - Water
  • CHAPTER 30 - Electric toilets
  • CHAPTER 31 - Refrigerators
  • CHAPTER 32 - Installing & optimising fridges
  • CHAPTER 33 - Television
  • CHAPTER 34 - Communications
  • CHAPTER 35 - Electrical & radio interference
  • CHAPTER 36 - Lightning protection
  • CHAPTER 37 - Caravan specific issues
  • CHAPTER 38 - Example systems
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