Off-grid caravan upgrades · Morayfield workshop · Local mobile service available
Solar · Lithium · Charging

Escape the caravan parks.
Stay where there’s no power
and no other people.

No booking. No neighbours two metres away. No packing up on day two because the battery has had it. We upgrade what you already own until the van holds its own power — whether that's one panel and a battery, or the lot.

  • Stay a week, not a night. Battery and solar sized to how long you want to disappear for, not to what the factory thought was enough.
  • Any van, any age. Pop-top, hybrid, full-size, Troopy or camper. Start with solar now and add the battery next year if you like.
  • Run what you actually want. Fridge, kettle, aircon. Built big enough and you stop rationing power at nine at night.
  • Victron experts. Plus Redarc and Enerdrive, fitted by our own caravan auto electricians.
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20+
Years
7,000+
Vehicles
5.0★
Rating
730+
Google reviews
Where the power comes from

Three parts. Most vans are short on at least one.

You do not have to do all three at once, and plenty of people don't. What matters is that whatever we fit now still makes sense when you add the rest later.

Solar on the roof

Where your power comes from while you're parked. The panel count matters far less than how it's wired and what it's wired into.

  • Panels sized to your roof and your shade
  • Split across two regulators where it's worth doing, so one shaded string doesn't drag the other down
  • New cable to the roof, not the factory wiring
  • Mounts and sealing done to last on a corrugated road

Battery under it

Where the power sits until you need it. This is what decides whether you get two nights or two weeks.

  • Lithium sized to how you actually camp
  • Custom Lithium, Provolt, Invicta and Lifetek, with warranties from 7 to 10 years
  • Fused, mounted and labelled properly
  • Clear visual monitoring, so you can see what's going in and out at a glance

Charging into it

How the battery fills back up. Most vans we see are losing more here than anywhere else.

  • DC-DC charging off the tow vehicle while you drive
  • 240V charging for when you're on site
  • Heavy cable and proper crimps between all of it
  • Inverter if you want the kettle, the toaster or the aircon
Why two identical quotes aren't

Anyone can fit the same gear.
It's how it goes in that decides how it runs.

The brand on the box is the easy part. What separates a system that holds up from one that disappoints is everything between the components, and that's the part you can't see on a quote.

We replace the cabling. Every time.

When we fit a product, the associated cable and connectors get replaced. Running new gear through old undersized wiring is how you end up with a system that never quite fills. A cheaper quote is usually cheaper for a reason, and this is normally it.

Electric hydraulic crimpers

Every high current joint is made with proper hydraulic tooling, not hand crimps. A bad crimp doesn't fail on the day. It heats up quietly for two years and then lets go at a free camp.

Our own qualified auto electricians

Not subbied out. The same team that quotes the job builds it and is still here when you ring in twelve months later with a question.

Fused, labelled and documented

Every circuit protected and marked, so the next person who opens that cupboard — including us — knows exactly what they're looking at.

Compare the pair

Same van. Same panels.
Very different day.

Two caravans, same solar on the roof, same battery underneath. One had the cabling to the roof replaced when the solar went on. The other kept what the factory put in, because that quote came in cheaper.

✓ Cabling replaced

Full battery by lunchtime

The panels put in what they're rated to. By the middle of the day the battery is full and the rest of the afternoon is free charging. He runs what he likes that night and starts tomorrow full again.

✗ Factory cabling kept

Still short at nine at night

The same panels lose a chunk of what they make on the way down to the battery. It never quite gets to full, so every night starts a little behind, and by the third day he's watching the numbers instead of the fire.

After the job is done

Our workmanship warranty doesn't run out.

Most workmanship warranties run for a set period and then they're finished. Ours keeps going, as long as the van comes back once a year for a maintenance check. Like servicing a car, rather than waiting for it to break.

STEP 01

We build it

Fitted, tested and walked through with you before you drive out, so you know what every switch does.

STEP 02 · $199

Annual maintenance check

Bring the van back once a year. We go over all our work, tighten every nut, bolt and terminal, check the solar panel mounting, load any new software updates and make sure the system is good for another twelve months.

STEP 03

Cover carries on

Do that and the workmanship warranty keeps running. The people who built your system have eyes on it every year.

Every nut, bolt and terminal tightened Solar mounting inspected Software updates loaded Full system test $199
Caravan solar and battery upgrades

Questions we get every week

There's no honest single answer, because it depends on what's already in the van, what you want to run and how long you want to sit off grid. Adding a couple of panels to a van that already has a decent battery is a very different job to a full rebuild. Send the form through and our team will price your van specifically, at no cost.
Usually, yes, and we'd rather do that than sell you things you don't need. If your existing battery or regulator is still good we'll build around it. Where something genuinely isn't up to the job we'll tell you why before you spend anything.
It comes down to what you run and for how long. A fridge, lights and phones is a modest system. Add an induction cooktop or an aircon overnight and the numbers change a lot. That's what the questions on this page are for, and it's the first thing our team will talk through with you.
You can, with enough battery, enough solar and an inverter sized for the start-up load. It's one of the biggest things you can ask of a system, so it needs to be designed in from the start rather than bolted on later. Tell us on the form and we'll size it properly.
Plenty of people do. The important thing is that stage one is built with stage two in mind, so the cable, fusing and mounting already suit where you're heading. Done that way, adding the next piece is straightforward. Done badly, you pay twice.
Smaller upgrades are often a single day. A full off-grid build is normally a few days. We'll give you a firm window with the quote so you can plan around it, and we don't start extra work without talking to you first.
We're Victron experts, and we also fit Redarc and Enerdrive. Batteries come from Custom Lithium, Provolt, Invicta and Lifetek, with warranties from 7 up to 10 years depending on the brand. Which one suits you depends on the space in the van and how hard you're going to work it.
Our workshop is at 2/71 Boreas Drive, Morayfield, on Brisbane's northside, open Monday to Friday. Local mobile service is available for smaller jobs. Full off-grid builds are done at the workshop, where the tooling and the test gear are.
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