Escape the caravan parks.
Stay where there’s no power
and no other people.
No booking. No neighbours two metres away. No hunting for a powered site at four in the afternoon. A motorhome that carries its own power pulls up where the view is and simply stays there.
- Stay a week, not a night. Battery sized to how long you want to disappear for, not to what the factory thought was enough.
- Arrive with a full battery. On a Ducato, Sprinter or Iveco the alternator has to be set up properly, or a four hour drive puts almost nothing in.
- Run what you actually want. Aircon, microwave, coffee machine. Built big enough and you live the same way you do at home.
- Never stranded. The starting battery is kept apart from the house side, so nothing you run inside can leave you unable to drive out.
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📞 Call us on 0403 542 754Struggling to stay off grid?
Fifty seconds inside a motorhome build at our Morayfield workshop: the battery, the 800 watts of solar, the charging and the monitoring that let you park at a spot like this one and stay put.
- Lithium sized to how long you want to disappear
- 800 watts of solar on the roof
- Charging from the alternator and from 240V
- Clear monitoring, so you always know where you stand
Your alternator probably isn't charging the house battery.
If your motorhome is built on a newer Ducato, Sprinter or Iveco, the chassis has a smart alternator. It varies its voltage to save fuel, and it drops that voltage the moment the starting battery is happy — which is usually within a few minutes of setting off.
What that means on the road
You drive four hours expecting the house battery to fill up, and it barely moves. The old-style relay that used to work fine on a 2008 chassis simply cannot do the job on a modern one, because there's no longer a steady 14 volts sitting there to pass through.
What it needs instead
A DC-DC charger that takes whatever the alternator is doing and turns it into a proper charge profile for your house battery. Sized to the battery, wired with cable heavy enough to carry it, and set up so it never touches your starting battery.
Protecting what starts the engine
In a caravan the starting battery lives in the tow vehicle, well away from the fridge and the lights. In a motorhome it's all one vehicle. Anything that runs the house side flat must be physically unable to touch the battery that starts you. That separation is designed in, not hoped for.
Older rigs and bus conversions
Pre-2010 chassis usually have a conventional alternator, which is simpler but often undersized for lithium. Bus conversions bring their own questions, including whether the system should be 24 volt. Both are straightforward once someone actually looks at what's there.
Three sources. All three have to work to stay out there.
A caravan can get away with weak charging, because there is always a powered site to fall back on. That fallback is exactly what you are trying to escape. Every one of these has to pull its weight.
Solar on the roof
Your only source while you're parked up. Motorhome roofs are crowded, so the design matters more than the panel count — we lay it out around the hatches, vents and aircon that are already there, and split it across regulators where shade makes that worth doing.
The alternator while you drive
This is the one that's usually broken or missing. Done properly it means a travel day is also a charging day, and you arrive at the next free camp with a full battery instead of a half-empty one.
240V when you have it
For the nights you do end up on a powered site, or at home in the driveway before a trip. A decent charger fills the battery overnight rather than trickling at it for two days.
This is what it actually looks like.
Not stock photos. One real motorhome build at our Morayfield workshop, start to finish.
Anyone can fit the same gear.
It's how it goes in that decides how it runs.
Motorhomes are tighter than caravans. Cable runs are longer, the spaces are smaller, and there is far less room to fix a shortcut later. What happens between the components is what you're actually paying for.
We replace the cabling. Every time.
When we fit a product, the associated cable and connectors get replaced. Long runs from the engine bay to the house battery lose real power if the cable is undersized, and that loss is exactly what makes a system feel disappointing.
Electric hydraulic crimpers
Every high current joint made with proper hydraulic tooling, not hand crimps. In a motorhome those joints often sit behind a wall you can't easily open again, so they need to be right the first time.
Our own qualified auto electricians
Not subbied out. The team that quotes the job builds it and is still here when you ring twelve months later from somewhere in the middle of the country.
Fused, labelled and documented
Every circuit protected and marked. When you're a long way from home and something stops working, a labelled board is the difference between a ten minute fix and a ruined week.
Same rig. Same panels.
Very different trip.
Two motorhomes, same solar on the roof, same battery underneath. One had the charging and cabling done properly when the system went in. The other kept what was already there, because that quote came in cheaper.
Arrives full, stays full
Three hours on the highway puts a serious charge in before she's even parked. The solar tops it off by mid afternoon. A week at a free camp is just a week at a free camp, and the generator stays in the locker.
Hunting for a powered site by Wednesday
The drive puts almost nothing in because the smart alternator drops its voltage. The solar starts every morning from further behind. By the third day it's a choice between the generator or booking a van park.
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 rig comes back once a year for a maintenance check. Like servicing a vehicle, rather than waiting for it to break.
We build it
Fitted, tested and walked through with you before you drive out, so you know what every switch does and what the numbers on the panel mean.
Annual maintenance check
Bring it 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.
Cover carries on
Do that and the workmanship warranty keeps running. The people who built your system have eyes on it every year, before you head off again.
Questions we get every week
Pick the spot.
Stay as long as you like.
Four questions is all it takes. Our team will come back with what makes sense for your rig and what it costs, with no pressure either way.