2007 Renault Master Self-Build Conversion Campervan — Video Tour (Part 2 of 2)

Okay so on YouTube I've got a whole selection of how-to videos detailing instructions on all the bits of kit and considerations of the van. These YouTube videos we private just to the person who buys the van. Here is an example of one of them and it's just a quick look around the kitchen. So looking at the lower part of the kitchen then on the left-hand side of that cupboard there's a little red LED and basically that is a LED to warn you that the waste tank is nearly full.

If you have the discharge valve closed the tank will fill up and when it gets about 90% it's only I think only so like an 18 litre tank that'll warn you. Now if you can't carry on using the tank, the water doesn't back up into the sink it just is an overflow on the top so it'll flow onto the ground under the van. Of course it's nothing nasty that there but I don't think it's a great impression so that's why I put that alarm in so I knew when I was getting close. The silver button below that is a solenoid valve that turns the gas on and off.

You have to turn the gas on at the bottom, we'll look at gas separately, but that one there turns it on and off and because the the fridge is a all-electric compressor fridge the only time I put the gas on is when I'm cooking or when I want to heat up some water for showering or doing washing up. I generally leave the gas switched off on that control. Switching over to the right-hand side you see there's a red neon there and that basically indicates you've got the water heater turned on and plugged into electric hookup. There's provision from LEDs below that they're now redundant.

So looking at the upper part then, right at the very top there you've got a little clock there's a little button thing sticking out on a couple of leads you just use that to adjust the time. It fires up when the power to the kitchen unit is on and there's a little battery inside that clock that keeps the time so if it starts losing time when you turn the power off you need to sort that battery out. Below that you've got the switch panel, three switches on there, three long thin chrome switches. The one on the left is the en-suite, turns the lights on in the en-suite.

The one in the middle is the down low lighters that are actually mounted under these lockers you can see the aircraft lockers which illuminates the kitchen surfaces, the work surfaces in the hob, the kitchen, the sink etc. And the one on the right is the extractor unit for the extractor fan it's mounted in below that unit there so you can suck all the smellies out if you couldn't smelly food. And below that is the speed control for that extractor and when it's on full whack it's a bit of a hurricane blowing out through there and what you can do is just drop down, it's held up with magnets, drop down a little hood to increase the efficacy of that extractor unit.