Refillable LPG: Advice please

[bugcab]

I would also look at installing a lithium battery (and inverter) big enough to provide power to boil a kettle, or power an induction hob, which may reduce your gas usage - though of course if using gas for a hot drink, some if the excess energy produced will add to heating the van.

Will be adding between 270-400 ah of lithium and a Victron multi plus. Not sure this would be enough to power full time kettle and induction cooking but would supplement a low amp hookup and reduce gas dependency.

 

[bugcab]

We have that set up, the requirements are the the point where the hose from the bottle attaches has to be capped of when not in use so if the no return T piece fails you do not have an open end.

Can I ask how you cap it off in a way which allows easy on the road switch between both sources. Thanks.

 

[MisterB]

Will be adding between 270-400 ah of lithium and a Victron multi plus. Not sure this would be enough to power full time kettle and induction cooking but would supplement a low amp hookup and reduce gas dependency.

We've managed with a 300ah lithium and a 2kw inverter for over a week with solar not working but did a couple of hours driving each day (no B2B either). After a week we still had just under 50% battery. We only had one appliance working at any one time (due to the inverter limiting output) but used the kettle, induction hob and microwave whenever we wanted to. Lesson learnt for us is to get a bigger inverter and connect up solar properly. Not sure we need a B2B though I have a 30A sterling ready to fit if needed when we gat back.
The only gas we used was for the fridge, hot water and heating if we needed it.

Hopefully that will give you an insight into actual use. Looking back, the things I might change would be larger battery and the thing I would def change would be to a larger output inverter minimum 3kw/6kw - but that's only so we can use more than one appliance at a time !