Caravan and Motorhome Electrics - Colyn Rivers Book

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Great book - will really help you to understand 12volt electrics and systems

Caravan and Motorhome Electrics covers every aspect of designing, installing and fault finding of the electrics in fifth wheel and conventional caravans, camper trailers and motor homes.

The book explains how things work, and what they do (not what vendors claim they do). It shows how to dramatically improve charging performance, successfully install solar, and reduce energy draw of electric (especially) three-way fridges.

Essentially it provides solutions proven to work, not suggestions that may just work.

Review Quotes:

"Collyn Rivers has done it again! - if you need to know anything about motorhome electrics, then this book is for you...Collyn must be, without doubt, the foremost authority in Australia on this subject."
The Wanderer (Campervan and Motorhome Club of Australia Ltd)
Caravan and Motorhome Electrics has been primarily written for owners and builders and bridges the gap between the auto-electrical and alternative energy disciplines.
It explains basic electrics, an overview of batteries, lighting, appliances, fridges, water pumps, air-conditioning, circuit breakers, inverters, fuses and solar systems among a wealth of other information. It explains the energy draw of typical RV items, defines voltages and the installation of 12 and 24 volt wiring, charging, generators, energy monitoring, and answers many frequently asked questions.
The content for both conventional and fifth wheel 'vans has been expanded. Both books are brilliantly illustrated with technical drawings and sharp colour photographs. They are written in clear English and it is difficult to find any aspect not fully explained.
Peter Poat. The Weekend West Australian.

Table of Contents:

This book's intent
Acknowledgments
CHAPTER 1 - Terminology
CHAPTER 2 - Basic Electrics
CHAPTER 3 - Overview of an RV's electrical needs
CHAPTER 4 - Providing the power
CHAPTER 5 - Scaling the power required
CHAPTER 6 - Installing safety and legality
CHAPTER 7 - Installing 12/24 volt wiring
CHAPTER 8 - Mains-voltage wiring
CHAPTER 9 - Batteries (general)
CHAPTER 10 - Installing batteries
CHAPTER 11 - Battery charging (general)
CHAPTER 12 - Battery charging (alternators)
CHAPTER 13 - dc-dc alternator charging
CHAPTER 14 - Installing a dc-dc alternator charger
CHAPTER 15 - Variable voltage alternator charging
CHAPTER 16 - Inverters
CHAPTER 17 - Installing an inverter
CHAPTER 18 - Generators
CHAPTER 19 - Installing a generator
CHAPTER 20 - Wind power generators
CHAPTER 21 - Fuel cells
CHAPTER 22 - Solar energy
CHAPTER 23 - Installing solar modules
CHAPTER 24 - Solar regulators
CHAPTER 25 - Installing solar regulators
CHAPTER 26 - Energy monitoring
CHAPTER 27 - Installing energy monitors
CHAPTER 28 - Lighting
CHAPTER 29 - Water
CHAPTER 30 - Electric toilets
CHAPTER 31 - Refrigerators
CHAPTER 32 - Installing and optimising fridges
CHAPTER 33 - Television
CHAPTER 34 - Communications
CHAPTER 35 - Electrical and radio interference
CHAPTER 36 - Lightning protection
CHAPTER 37 - Caravan specific issues
CHAPTER 38 - Example systems

Publisher Marketing:

Caravan and Motorhome Electrics is the totally rewritten successor of the original globally selling Motorhome Electrics. The book's content now also covers every aspect of designing, installing and fault finding of the electrics in fifth wheel and conventional caravans and camper trailers.
The book explains how things work, and what they do (not what vendors claim they do). It shows how to dramatically improve charging performance, successfully install solar, and reduce energy draw of electric (especially) three-way fridges.

Essentially it provides solutions proven to work, not suggestions that may work.

The author shows how the ongoing move fully voltage controlled alternators necessitates dc-dc alternator charging. And that, post 2016, regulations are likely to limit or even preclude alternator charging with new vehicles. It covers the solutions in depth: i.e. solar, plus fuel cell's 24/7 power generation (light and compact yet silent and non-polluting (and now existing in LPG form), needing only a small battery for peak loads.

As with all Collyn's books, the content is thoroughly researched, technically accurate, yet in plain English, plus explanatory illustrations, many of the author's own vehicles.

The author's background includes automobile research, electronics and large scale magazine publishing (including founding the world's largest electronics magazine). He was technical editor of Australia's The Bulletin magazine in the 1980s - and has supplied Tech Notes to The Wanderer for a now 14 years.

Contributor Bio: Rivers, Collyn
Originally trained as an RAF ground radar engineer, Collyn Rivers spent a brief time with de Havilland designing power systems for guided missiles, before becoming a test engineer at the Vauxhall/Bedford Motors Research Test Centre. He migrated to Australia in 1963, where he designed and built scientific measuring equipment. In 1971, Collyn Rivers founded what, by 1976, became the world's largest-circulation electronics publication, Electronics Today International. From 1982 to 1990 he was technology editor of The Bulletin and also Australian Business magazines and in 1999 started two companies: Caravan and Motorhome Books, and Successful Solar Books (now RVBooks and SolarBooks). Anyone who has been an electronics enthusiast over the past 30 years or so will be well aware of Collyn Rivers. He was the founding editor of Electronics Today International (ETI) magazine which went on to have a number of very successful editions in the UK and elsewhere, as well as being very successful in Australia. Silicon Chip Magazine

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