Voltech panels have arrived. The junction boxes on the top of each panel do not protrude nearly as much as we were expecting. So we have 6 x 100 watt panels to fix to the roof.
It's been about 3 weeks since the last visit and most of the work has been with wiring etc and so visually there has been no great leap forward like our last visit. Summary:
The alloy trim to finish off the front and rear vertical edges have been laser cut and will now be sent off for powder coating. Normally there would have been a cover strip glued over the wall corners to finish off but we have decided to enlarge these and make a feature of them - still trying to get away from the "freezer truck" look. The trim along the lower edges - not shown - will be in hammertone while these vertical pieces and the roof edging will be straight black.
While the truck is being built, friends are wending their way through Asia. Temperatures of 43C are making life uncomfortable and a fan is essential. There is thought that heat from the fridge is possibly also adding to the internal temperature. While the roof up has lots of windows, with the roof closed temperatures are building up. Vents????? Anyway we have started with a Sirocco fan at the end of the bed. Reviews seem to be good and we had already heard of these fans when looking at caravans. They have a timer and the gimbal arrangement means it can be turned in almost any direction and if necesary folded back against the wall. There are 12v and suction mount versions.
Features
So . . . white cabin and shiny white fibreglass box on the rear = nice freezer truck.
We have been trying to think of features and colour to take the edge off or break that impression. The rear bar is hammertone and there will be aluminium extrusion to cap all the joins and of course along the roof edge. So now we have a white fibreglass box with aluminium edging. We don't have any opportunity to colour the fibreglass panel itself so the most that can happen in that area is stickers or vinyl wrapping. Having considered painting of the cabin to give some colour but of course also equals cost, we have retreated to simply having a black and white truck and to make it obvious that black is a trim colour as opposed to a colour that happens to be associated with a truck eg black tyres, black plastic mud guard. So the lower trim - including around wheel arches will be the hammertone finish leading back to the rear bar (the bull bar will also be hammertone when we get to it) . The vertical trim and the edge of the roof will be powdercoated black. Trying to get some picture of how it will look . . . The rear wheel carrier has returned from the shop having been finished in hammertone - crane attached.
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