funflair
LIFE MEMBER
A few observations after being away in the Palace for 12 days over Christmas and New Year, not a jolly really but parked on Mother in laws drive and keeping her on the straight and narrow 
We were plugged into electric and Alde heating on so lovely and toasty and I have to say that the Alde load monitor is a great addition to the Buttner inverter/charger with mains compensation, I just set the load monitor to 10A and as soon as it sees the electric kettle or hair dryer it just cuts the heating back, I set the load on the Inverter charger to 6A so the Alde could still run at 1kw with the kettle microwave or anything else on, microwave and coffee machine pulls 270A from the Lithium batteries
After 9 days I had to put some water on as we only started at about 75% of a 360 litre tank, after 12 days we still had capacity in the grey and black waste tanks so quite a relaxing time really with next to no servicing jobs, lucky really as it was that close to the hedge I couldn't get at the lockers anyway.
Despite it being cold we only had condensation on the windscreen the first day, after that I had the kitchen vent open a touch and of course the bedroom windows on trickle, leaving a 6 inch gap at the top of the front blind seemed to circulate warm air from the Alde heating vents in the dashboard.
This is the first time we have used the van in cold weather and I have to say that it performed very well
We were plugged into electric and Alde heating on so lovely and toasty and I have to say that the Alde load monitor is a great addition to the Buttner inverter/charger with mains compensation, I just set the load monitor to 10A and as soon as it sees the electric kettle or hair dryer it just cuts the heating back, I set the load on the Inverter charger to 6A so the Alde could still run at 1kw with the kettle microwave or anything else on, microwave and coffee machine pulls 270A from the Lithium batteries
After 9 days I had to put some water on as we only started at about 75% of a 360 litre tank, after 12 days we still had capacity in the grey and black waste tanks so quite a relaxing time really with next to no servicing jobs, lucky really as it was that close to the hedge I couldn't get at the lockers anyway.
Despite it being cold we only had condensation on the windscreen the first day, after that I had the kitchen vent open a touch and of course the bedroom windows on trickle, leaving a 6 inch gap at the top of the front blind seemed to circulate warm air from the Alde heating vents in the dashboard.
This is the first time we have used the van in cold weather and I have to say that it performed very well
big coffee machins
so we should be well covered for all eventualities.
