Small Cabinets Passenger Side

Climbing! Took the camper up to Vedauwoo 

Finished up the cabinet doors for the passenger side and installed them in the camper.  One of these is the electrical panel... super nice to close that out!

Front.  Turns out the cheap switches I got have the little key tab that keeps them oriented slightly inconsistently clocked... which is super lame.  So if you look close the three switches are not totally aligned.  Screen cover plastic to be removed once installed in vehicle.

One again... hardest part was poly finish... Athena is doing a lot of the work on this while I do electrical and other stuff.  Definitely getting better but we both don't quite know how to get a super nice finish.

Back.  Chain will keep it at 90deg when open on the electrical panel only.

I used female wire disconnect things on the meters, will add male ones on the other side. The inline switch for each should save a fraction of a Watt per meter.  I'm assuming that I'll want them all on initially, then as we get more comfortable with the system start turning them off more.  Also I have hopes of building a custom controller to telemeter and control all of this... but not really enough time now so that will need to wait.

Plywood edge with veneer stuff... looks good for a first try.

Since the doors are all plywood, we tried some veneer stripping for the visible edges to make it stain a bit nicer and look better.  Turned out way better than expected - only issue with the edges now is we need to figure out how to get the top coat smooth over the corner. Some painters tape along the under edge did a good job removing most drips but the side is still not as good a finish as it could be.

For all of these we just put top coat on the outer face and the edges, but not the inner face.  Made it easier, and also seems odd to semi-gloss the inside of a cabinet.

Electrical cabinet.

The electrical panel fit was a bit tight - I wanted this.. but did not account for extra height when you open the door due to angle.  It rubs some when opening.  I'm sort of OK with this as we don't plan to open this almost ever.  The other door fits wonderfully... so that is nice.

Still need to fill in screw holes and do some finishing touches.  End of cabinet is open... since the large storage area will close it out when we add that.  

Also hooked up the USB charger on the back benches - seems to work?  Final stuff to do in this area... the inverter remote button came with like a 15  foot cord or something.  I'm running it about 1 foot.  The extra is super lame.  Will want to order a shorter cable for this at some point (probably cheapest since I don't have the crimpers or terminals at home for RJ type connectors.)

And finally... gave another top coat to the gear cabinets, and mounted them to the truck.  While they were out took another picture of the upholstery since I didn't grab one before.

Cabinet backs.

We took the camper up to Vedauwoo for the weekend. Power system worked well, seemed like we didn't get under 90% or more with the fridge running the whole weekend.  We did set the fire alarm off while cooking inside since it was raining... so that was interesting.  Fan should be showing up soon I hope.

Athena cushing