How to: DIY Wedge Camper

Yep! 655W bifacial panel. Been an idea of mine for a few years now but finally found the right panel that fits between the roof rails.

Just a tent on the roof. Because the van is insulated, sometimes it’s still too hot inside to sleep.

 

Nice .. how much power are you getting from it on that mount style? How much light passes through? Are you backing the back side with anything?

Lots of questions heh.

 

Don’t have much info as I’m still building it out (including an electrical system) but I’ll probably be running metal strips along the inside of the panel so the tent covers can be removable. Compared to my last flat panel, i’m expecting 25% increase in solar power when tilted and maybe 5-10% increase from the bifacial.

 

That's neat. Are you trying to make an RTT -esk camper on top of your sprinter, or just pop up solar? Would be neat to see it, also in socal

 

RTT for sure!

 

What is the width of the open where the red arrow is?

 

I believe it is 22 inches. first posts states the tent sides are 100 inches, and the sleeping platform is 50x78.

 

21"

 

Where’s everyone sourcing the triangular extrusion?

 

From 80/20. That three hole version needs to be CNCd, it just comes as a plain triangular piece.

 

Thanks a simple hand mill can get that done

 

Thats likely true. It's not terribly complex.

 

What is the maximum span for the 6mm aluminum honeycomb paneling?

 

Hi All, long time listener first time caller.

learned a ton reading this thread a couple times over, designed a wedge for my tundra based roughly off a Drifter but with insights from many in this thread.



About to make the rear door and really want to replicate the latch/lock setup I had on a previous Snugtop. Single rotary (1/4 turn) center latch that was wired up to key fob. Anyone tried doing this? Looking at Southco’s catalog it seems like they may have the components but really hard to figure out and calling them hasn’t yielded any insights.

Thanks in advance!

 

Looks great!

 

Aww you found em! i hadnt had time to go through em and find em. Man i miss that truck.

 

The way i made them they just stopped against each other, also the shocks i put on made them/everything stay up. I also eventually put some copper washers on the bolts and you could tighten the bolts so they had resistance. Never had an issue with them.

 

This was all after using it for a year. Man i miss that truck..
But the new project is this 4wc...

 

what camper do you have on the f150?

 

A few years back i built a tacoma for a buddy of mine - Recently he got into an unfortunate accident. Wrecked the Tacoma, i am helping him part out the truck and i bought the 4wc off him. Its 4wc - Eagle. It has a little bit of damage but not to bad. Nothing thats not fixable. I will be fixing it and using it on my f150.
We stripped the truck and camper down and sold a bunch of stuff, already. Matter of fact got a few things left i should list here on TW.