Black Friday: Deals & What Have You Bought or Buying?

I was hoping vamoose rails might have been on black friday. Or Reimo, but not seen anything online yet
Look at Stitches and Steel
Or
Everything is 20% off the advertised price plus you get a free bag, stickers and magazine for each order
 
Look at Stitches and Steel
Or
Everything is 20% off the advertised price plus you get a free bag, stickers and magazine for each order
It looks good but I like the front section which guides rainwater onto the windscreen. But you are right £140 after discount but then add on the ends
 
It looks good but I like the front section which guides rainwater onto the windscreen. But you are right £140 after discount but then add on the ends
They both come with end caps but the front cap isn’t the long pointed one. Only additional bit to purchase is the sealant.
 
A number of offers of additional discounts on the Anker Solix range of power packs and solar panels at Costco:


Examples (not all offers):

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That BLUETTI Elite 100 V2 1024Wh 1800W is very tempting. £359 from Bluetti ebay + possible 15% cashback via Quidco.

I could run it down stream & charged from my lithium leisure battery & replace my gas completely?
I've got the AC180 (90Ah) Bluetti and the onboard 230AH Lithium, we still take a 907 cylinder out for cadac cooking and kettle boils, It would only need the grey rainy weather from Busfest 2024 to completely deplete all available power from the batteries! We ended up with Renogy 220 watt suitcase panels as well to restock the Bluetti.
Keep portable gas availability is my advice!
Great price on the Bluetti though! Wonderful gear.
 
I've got the AC180 (90Ah) Bluetti and the onboard 230AH Lithium, we still take a 907 cylinder out for cadac cooking and kettle boils, It would only need the grey rainy weather from Busfest 2024 to completely deplete all available power from the batteries! We ended up with a Renogy 220 watt suitcase panels as well to restock the Bluetti.
Keep portable gas availability is my advice!
Great price on the Bluetti though! Wonderful gear.
Thank you. Its of interest to me as have no sense of smell (hereditary) so happy to lose the gas, even though have used gas for 30 years of campervans.

I have a 160ah battery and this summer have only had to revert to gas a couple of times. Thats with a defective roof panel and 100w folding panel using induction hob & airfryer. Its normally just me in the van, dont use hook up and tend to stay somewhere 2-3 nights max. Its very tempting.
 
Thank you. Its of interest to me as have no sense of smell (hereditary) so happy to lose the gas, even though have used gas for 30 years of campervans.

I have a 160ah battery and this summer have only had to revert to gas a couple of times. Thats with a defective roof panel and 100w folding panel using induction hob & airfryer. Its normally just me in the van, dont use hook up and tend to stay somewhere 2-3 nights max. Its very tempting.
In fairness if I didn't go with the Mrs I think I could manage without gas! Her and her tea consumption!
The latest purchase of the Joolca Nomad ensures we need gas for the foreseeable! I'm just glad I fill the 907's myself... Always taking a full 907 out takes the stress away.
 
That BLUETTI Elite 100 V2 1024Wh 1800W is very tempting. £359 from Bluetti ebay + possible 15% cashback via Quidco.

I could run it down stream & charged from my lithium leisure battery & replace my gas completely?
The challenge will be recharge time with most power pack approaches - most folks who go whole hog gas replacement tend to use large fixed LiFePo for this reason.

Assuming you run it to 80% stated capacity (you never want to run them to cutoff and this also accounts for some inverter losses) you're likely to see just under half an hour runtime at full 1800w.

To recharge you are going to have to buy additional cables - either the offical car charging cable (limits your rate usually to around 100w) or an additional solar charging cable (assuming you want to keep to one in the box for actual solar charging use) - using the solar cable should make it charge at full solar rate, the trick is to wire it through a suitable fuse to your leisure battery and that should give you around 250w. Roughly that means 30 minutes of 240v requires 10 hours of charging (official car cable) or 4 hours (adapted solar cable)

I note you have a distinct and very valid reason for wanting to do this, if your use case is occasional use in between EHU points it's likely to work and you have good options in an induction hob and airfrier.

My only thought, and I'm a fan of Bluetti and have 2 of them, for around the same money you can get the equivalent rated EcoFlow Delta 3 via Costco at a really good price - it's a bit more but the EcoFlow has much more flexibility to do useful things in the house like programme it charge on cheap overnight rates and run appliacnes in the day - and that may mean you get more use out of it away from the van as well or if it doesn't work out. The Bluetti App is neat, but at this price point for that brand it's essentially all manual control. In the EcoFlow case I think you get the car cable bundled and the solar cable is extra - but the battery expansion port also offers the future option of expansion batteries or a dedicated vehcial fast charger.

I've been very tempted by both, and I think if I pulled the trigger I'd go EcoFlow this time, just don't quite have the kit fund right now sadly.
 
The challenge will be recharge time with most power pack approaches - most folks who go whole hog gas replacement tend to use large fixed LiFePo for this reason.

Assuming you run it to 80% stated capacity (you never want to run them to cutoff and this also accounts for some inverter losses) you're likely to see just under half an hour runtime at full 1800w.

To recharge you are going to have to buy additional cables - either the offical car charging cable (limits your rate usually to around 100w) or an additional solar charging cable (assuming you want to keep to one in the box for actual solar charging use) - using the solar cable should make it charge at full solar rate, the trick is to wire it through a suitable fuse to your leisure battery and that should give you around 250w. Roughly that means 30 minutes of 240v requires 10 hours of charging (official car cable) or 4 hours (adapted solar cable)

I note you have a distinct and very valid reason for wanting to do this, if your use case is occasional use in between EHU points it's likely to work and you have good options in an induction hob and airfrier.

My only thought, and I'm a fan of Bluetti and have 2 of them, for around the same money you can get the equivalent rated EcoFlow Delta 3 via Costco at a really good price - it's a bit more but the EcoFlow has much more flexibility to do useful things in the house like programme it charge on cheap overnight rates and run appliacnes in the day - and that may mean you get more use out of it away from the van as well or if it doesn't work out. The Bluetti App is neat, but at this price point for that brand it's essentially all manual control. In the EcoFlow case I think you get the car cable bundled and the solar cable is extra - but the battery expansion port also offers the future option of expansion batteries or a dedicated vehcial fast charger.

I've been very tempted by both, and I think if I pulled the trigger I'd go EcoFlow this time, just don't quite have the kit fund right now sadly.
Thanks, some good thoughts there.

I think the energy & power will be sufficient to do a meal on its own (50-60ah). It can then sit there and slow charge off the Roamer 160. Would need to think about how power it. Maybe all through the LB or maybe a cutover to direct solar straight to it to use the internal MPPT. I have an Orion XS on my Alternator, dont want to add any further load (2013 T5.1).

When I bought the Roamer I never planned to remove the gas, but experience is I am so very close to not needing it now.

The Ecoflow is too tall for either possible cupboard.

As always BF weekend is wrestling need v want against the marketing barrage, but think this may be a good enough deal to do it.
 
Had me worried for a minute, thought it was November already and I'd somehow missed the year.
 
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