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The part of the build where everyone stalls

You have watched the videos and opened nine tabs, and every one of them contradicts the last. One says lithium is essential; the next says it is a waste of money. So you have bought nothing.

That is a reasonable response to conflicting advice about a purchase that costs real money and can, if you get it wrong, burn your van down. This book was written for exactly that stall.

Chapter 1 has you wire a working circuit today

Under 40 dollars, about an hour, no soldering and no experience: a 12 volt USB outlet that charges your phone from a battery you wired yourself. That circuit is the whole system in miniature. Once it works, the full build stops being mysterious.

What is inside

The amp-hour audit that tells you what your van actually uses, so you stop guessing at battery size
Lithium or AGM decided with your own numbers and 2026 prices, including the case where lithium is the wrong buy
Solar sized for the season you really travel in, with honest winter figures instead of summer marketing
Alternator charging done correctly, and why wiring lithium straight to a modern alternator destroys it
Wire gauge and fuses using the marine-grade practice serious builders follow, including the 7-inch protection rule
Full wiring walkthroughs for a 100Ah weekend build and a 300Ah full-time build
Whether you need an inverter at all, and why running a laptop through one wastes power twice
A plan for three cloudy days in November, made before November
The five-check fault method that finds most problems with a 25 dollar multimeter

Free: the wiring diagram pack

The Van Wiring Diagram Pack + 12V Sizing Worksheet. Printable labeled diagrams for both builds in the book, the amp-hour audit worksheet from Chapter 3, and the wire-gauge and fuse tables from Chapter 7 — sized for a clipboard in the van.

Open the wiring pack It is free and does not require a purchase or a review.

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Start with book 1

Book 1	Van Life for Beginners — choosing a van, conversion planning, water, kitchen, legal parking, working on the road. 4.7 stars.
Book 2	This book. The electrical deep dive readers of book 1 asked for.