Yet another week without a lot of visible progress to show you, but all of our various shippers, USPS, FedEx and UPS were certainly busy as the pallets full of boxes with more and more the equipment we’ve ordered for transforming Lance into our new home on wheels continued to arrive here at our workshop/home in Klamath Falls. 

I won’t be able to install it all right away but we are hoping to move down to Nevada at the end of December and so we are trying to maximize the benefit of having no sales tax for the remainder of our time here in Oregon.  With the amount of equipment required to build a full self sufficient XRV, this really starts to add up to a significant savings and given the size of those bills, we take all the help we can get!
Here is the most recent set of pallets that arrived on Friday. 
These two pallets are from Current Connected with four 420 Watt solar panels on the Left and then the Victron inverter/chargers, MPPT controllers and EG4 batteries on the Right.  These are a bit fragile but they all arrived in perfect condition.
I unboxed one of the EG4 12V 400Ah server rack batteries to check them out a bit closer and to get the exact dimensions so I can complete the XAL eXtruded ALuminium racks I’ve installed in Lance.  There are three of these monster batteries that I’ll wire up in parallel to create our 12V 1200Ah House Battery bank which gives us a whopping 15.4kW of overall capacity.  Even though we have gone mostly electric with all our systems other than diesel for our heating, our daily requirement will be much less than this but I’ve gone to this capacity so that we can stay remote for weeks at a time even with long periods of cloudy days with low solar output.
These two Amazon boxes contain the new sink and induction cooktop for our new Galley aka Kitchen in Lance.
This is the Empava 120V 1800 Watt two burner induction cooktop that Christine chose.  It will be built into the countertop but can also be removed and taken outside to create our outdoor kitchen in hotter weather.  Christine set this up here in the house and made dinner with it two nights ago and she gives it an enthusiastic two thumbs up!  We both much prefer induction cooking after our experiences with it on Mobius.
This is the 28 inch dual SS sink.  It is a generous 245mm/10” deep as we both prefer big deep sinks.
This one has some great features that extend its usefulness such as this wooden cutting board and a strainer that slide back and forth in the groove you can see at the top and bottom. 
There is also a drying rack for dishes that rolls up out of the way when not needed.
While there isn’t too much visible progress I can show you it isn’t for lack of hours and I have been busy with Fusion 360 working through the details in the 3D models I’m building for this project.
Here is a quick screen grab that I hope helps you visualize the interior layout.  Double sink in the Drivers Side Galley countertop up top and the induction cooktop on the Passenger Side. 
Dinette is at the rear with lift bed above added in and then the Fridge/Freezer and AirCon in the PS front corner on the far Right here with the shower in the center and the Head on the Left behind the partially open red door.
The one bit of visible progress I can show you from this week is that I installed this finished vinyl flooring that I showed you last week. 

Pretty straightforward process; peeled off the protective plastic layer with the blue arrows and then starting laying down the 8 inch wide click-lock planks.
It is not the recommended practice, but I’ve decided to install this finished flooring first and then put in the framing for all the cabinetry as this will create a much cleaner install of the XAL eXtruded ALuminium framing.  We used this same type of industrial grade LVT planking in Möbius and were eXtremely happy with it so we stayed with what we know works. 
We are thinking of using a darker wood for the cabinetry, Cherry or Walnut and so wanted to keep the floor a lighter colour.  If you look closely (click to expand any photo) you can see there is a wee bit of wood grain in this flooring which also provides a very safe non-slip surface that cleans up very well and is impervious to any spills or dropping of heavy objects.  Also very “dog friendly”!

Razz and Zoe have been eXtremely busy as well as you can see from this shot of what is at my feet as I type!
And that wraps up another week and ………. unbelievably ……… another month! 

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Ciao for now amigos!