Kitchen Part 2 - Propane and a Stove

(Mostly just some pictures - see details of the electrical, propane, and water systems here-which-will-exist-soon for more info)

Kitchens!  Part 2.  So everything fit into the camper after initial build (see Part 1).  Propane is mounted externally on the back of the truck, so with the kitchen frame in the camper, we cut out an opening thru the side paneling opposite the external propane box to let us cut needed holes (one for propane, and one for an electrical feed to power the propane cutoff valve.)

Fiberglass!

The external propane box houses a high pressure cutoff valve, a regulator, and some copper tubing for getting everything lined up all nice. We can open and close the valve from inside the camper, and minimize the amount of propane risk inside the living area.

Bits and pieces of the external propane system... should probably do a writeup on that at some point.

The other main part of installing the kitchen was connecting up electrical, and plumbing.  I'll put together a page detailing those systems in a bit as well.

Sadness is working in a hot dark camper on a system that is more complicated than it needed to be but which you designed...

Yellow wires coming in from the side are one 120V feed for the outlets on lower right, and one 12V for the rest of the kitchen items.

Not toooo bad?  All the fiddly bits upper right are the two LED pushbuttons for propane and water pump.

And tada! its installed - ish.  Top needs to be nailed down, which will flush up that overlap.

Kitchen Part 1 - Cabinet Frame and a Sink

We started on the kitchen (well a long time ago... but just getting around posting now...)!  Based around a simple 2 burner stove and sink combo.  Propane is mounted external so it just gets piped in and no need for a propane box.  Water storage is a 7 gal under the cabinet, where a pump, fuse box (for the kitchen area, on a feed from the main battery area), and the furnace sit.

Cutting out some holes for the sink and stove.

The left side of the cabinet has some controls and outlets in it - 120VAC is wired from the inverter in the electrical cabinet on the other side.  There is also a pushbutton for turning on propane, the water pump, and another USB outlet for charging stuff.  Buttons are color coded! Red LED for propane, BLUE for water. Oooo neat.

Fitting up stuff before putting it together/in the truck.  Looks... OK?

The sink above is actually under mounted, but fitted it up on top before actually mounting it.  We went with a Kraus KHU101-14... seemed big enough?  Stove is a Ramblewood GC2-37P which left enough room for the furnace underneath.

Building a kitchen in the living room at Christmas was fun... 

Kitchen fit up just fine in the truck once we carried it out - so we brought it back in to stained and finished.  Part 2... installing it for reals... up next.

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