In July 2011 I purchased an Explorer Campers Lawson Off Road camper trailer. I purchased it second hand but it was only 11 & 1/2 months old.

Here are the pics from when I got it..

I've since upgraded the batteries and electronics and purchased extra canvas to complete the annex walls.

The trailer came with a single 100AH Remco AGM battery which was good for a few days powering the lights and fridge, but I can go for longer so I upgraded to dual Remco 100ah batteries, a Victon Battery Monitor, CTek Dual 250S charger and a Jaycar Pure Sine Wave Inverter - which unfortunatly never gets used.. I might give it the flick. I also have a 120w folding solar panel kit (ebay) and I can now run my CF40 fridge, all my lights, phone charges etc for almost indefinate periods of time - as long as I get mostly sunny days :-)

Ive doubled the number of cig lighter sockets at the rear of the trailer and added an anderson plug for the fridge. Now I can charge everyones phone, run the fridge and some lights all at the same time.

On the side of the front box I installed the Victron monitor and a solar panel input socket (Hella)

Nice work. Love the power mod. Can never have enough.

Hi Dave, Do the AGM batteries need any sort of ventillation or are they fully sealed??

Fully Sealed

Mine AGM is in a fully sealed tool box. Nice camper trailer.

Nice camper love the power area looks a treat

I really need to do these mods to our trailler!

Foo

nice camper & i like what you've done with all that extra power sockets & charger.

How do you find the dc to dc charger?

Bloody awsome, when combined with the victron battery monitor... Thou, if I had my time over again I would get the full blown redarc BMS - http://redarc.com.au...nagement-system which can be had for under a grand now on ebay.. When you add up the cost of the victron (~~250) the ctek Dual 250 (~$270) and then a 240v battery charger its not quite as high as the BMS, but the BMS would be a more elegant solution.

I also have a BCDC 1220 in my car which charges the 2nd battery in the car. All works perfectly.

How do you find the drifta draws/kitchen?

I was thinking about getting one made up to replace my home made draws.. the drifter ones look good and are not over priced.

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The drifta kitchen is fantastic - Cant speak highly enough of it.

The pull out draw is also brillent however if I was starting from scratch I would prefer that the trailer had a slide out draw INSIDE the trailer for clothes and a smaller slide out draw at the rear of the trailer with a smaller draw.

Sometimes pulling the draw all the way out to get the stuff right at the back is a pain because it pulls out right up against the bench. Honestly thou, if your trailer is allready built and you want a draw solution the drifta is the go.