My Westfalia has a built-in shore power, inverter, and battery charger / converter system described over at www.sittser.com.

I think I need to update the site.? Kevin - the baby that appears in some of the pictures - is now 9 years old!? Plus, since I made the site the van's been totaled in an accident and then restored, which ought to be worth a page or two.

Steven Sittser

-----Original Message-----
From: Stephen Grisanti <bike2vcu@YAHOO.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Tue, 19 Jun 2007 11:37 am
Subject: Re: Using Shore Power in the Westy was Quality Inverters

>And I can't remember the last time I used the outlet
>down by the floor, next to the rear seat.

It's handy for a low profile night light for a quick
check to see if the shore power works.

Stephen

--- Loren Busch <starwagen@GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> While this subject is up, I'd like to second
> Dennis's comments, DON"T try to
> run that inverter into the Westy 110 wiring!!
>
> But, for using shore power, I found an easy way to
> access and still keep
> from tripping over cords strung across the floor and
> all over.  I took a
> power strip, like we all use at the work bench or
> behind the desk, that rats
> nest that feeds all the computer related 'stuff',
> and plugged it into the
> unused 110 VAC outlet in the wall outlet box under
> the sink.  For those that
> missed it, the 110 VAC from outside the van comes to
> two outlets, the one
> down by the floor where the breaker is and another
> buried under the sink
> down inside the cabinet.  That's where the Dometic
> 'fridge plugs in and
> get's it's 110 VAC.  Anyway, there is plenty of
> clearance at the back edge
> of the cabinet, toward the driver seat, to run the
> cord from the power strip
> back inside the cabinet and into the unused outlet.
> Then I mounted the
> powerstrip near the top of the sink cabinet (in my
> case I used double backed
> tape, has held for over five years so far) behind
> the drivers seat.  Now,
> when in a campground that has power, I have outlets
> for battery chargers,
> cell phone chargers, laptops, TV sets, etc. AND they
> are all up forward, out
> of the way NO WIRES TO TRIP OVER!  I leave this
> setup in place all the time,
> out of the way, but there when needed.  And I can't
> remember the last time I
> used the outlet down by the floor, next to the rear
> seat.

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