Direct sunlight is needed, or preferred at least to get the most power generated.

Direct sunlight in winter is less useful as it is less intense due to the angle in incidence. Same as why it's colder in winter than summer. Earth tilting away from the sun rather than towards the sun. Same light beams spread further. You obviously also get less hours of daylight in winter, but that's got nothing to do with the intensity of the light.

Still generate some whilst cloudy, just nothing like a clear sunny day.

Exciting.... What's awaiting us

Could be an accessory to make your van even camper.

nothing good. Just some spammer saying "Nice!" and having a link signature to some women's clinic in India. Bo-ring!

Surely you are depriving all the Indian women lurkers a valuable tip?  (wrong)

Panel seems to be doing a reasonable job. Done some tests with lights on for 8-10 hours and fairly happy.
Started the insulation process over the last couple of evenings. Kinda just winging it, hopefully it won't be too rubbish.

Will post some work in progress photos later.

Massively increased speed timelapse of some floor insulation going in



Insulation in - next step is to carpet and ply line again

      

This looks Mars-ready.

mobile weed farm :D

About time I posted an update

Did some carpet lining
 





Bought some wood, cut a frame



Built the frame



Bought some more wood, made the surfaces



Started to tidy up some electrics



Bought an airbed - which fits very well


 

Can the airbed be inflated and deflated without getting out of the van?

If it's like all the other airbeds I've ever tried, it auto-deflates at 2 am.

Easy solution to that: buy an Australian one. Then it'll deflate 6 hours later, right when you want it to...

Good question. I think possibly yeah, but it could be difficult.
Sitting in the driver's seat I can collapse the end passenger seat which gives access to the back. Could then fold the other seats, unfold the bed extension then get inflating. There's a van ignition 12v socket at the back of the van to use

Why the wooden platform?

[sorry, meant this for Ant, not 'all']

Storage and to bring the bed height up to the height of the front seats when folded, that then allows me to fold another piece over the seats to extend the bed length. I wouldn't fit otherwise (6ft 2/188cm).

Eventually I will turn the storage in to some drawer units to put out at the back. When the doors are open

When you gonna road-test it?

I drive it everyday, but do need to take it out for a night soon. Weather has been awful lately, hoping for a crisp winter weekend soon.