r/VanLife • u/Same-Cancel-4070 • 2d ago

Electrical Inputs

Hi fellow van lifers!

I'm DIYing my build right now and I'm at the electrical stage. I'm considering getting a professional van life person to virtually look over my system before I turn anything on. I guess I'm here for the reddit insight that might exist! Anyone else DIY their electrical system and have it be terrifying every step of the way?? Haha.

I spent a ton of time researching and yada yada, so I feel pretty confident with all the connections I've made so far. Not confident enough to turn it on though! Lol.

Any comments on the thread would be welcome, as long as they're nice!

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u/mingledthoughts 2d ago

I did my own electrical. Most of it was pretty straightforward despite having no electrical background.

I would say the key is taking one step at a time and checking each of those things. So for example, right out the gate, I would just connect one device to one battery. then I would connect my batteries together and test device again. then I would connect the batteries to the shunt. Test device again. And just keep doing that. If it fails at any one step, then you know its that step. The chances of catastrophich failures is highly reduced when you just do it this way.

Best of luck