Bushtracker optional equipment list

  • Full ensuite, which includes the following:
    • Hot water service, we use the best, with an outside service door and 23-litre capacity storage tank plus the quick recovery feature.
    • Thetford Cassette toilet, the European model with the locking outside service door water tight and dust proof, it is just the best available, sealed and hygienic from the interior of the van, and fully serviced from the outside with a removable cassette. It is the best.
    • The Marine Grade Flojet pump, of course, and an extra 82-litre water tank for two total.
    • Internal showers, built by a boat hull builder, not the cheaper materials like some others use.
    • Also 2 x watertight doors and linen locker accessible from the ensuite, we build the best possible.

 

·         Electronic remote control ignition on the hot water service so you don’t have to go outside in bad weather to light the pilot. 

  • 12” commercial brakes instead of the normal caravan brakes. It is not only a performance problem with the normal caravan brakes, it is a maintenance problem. The Outback people hate normal 10” caravan brakes, as on the corrugation the magnet wears severely on the actuating arm until it wears through and falls off into the drum ruining the lot. Our 12” brakes outperform on both accounts. And these are a two piece hub-drum to take bigger bearings, bigger axle shaft, and bigger brakes.
     
  • United Nations grade compressor drive fridge-freezer systems instead of the caravan refrigeration which struggles in the tropics and most of our clients do not care for. We use the leader in the industry, Danfoss compressor, front controls, and an interior light. If you see it you will recognise it as the best – 140 litre, 190 litre with a 50 litre freezer on top or 220 litre.
  • Potable and non-potable water systems, a split water system with separate locking water fillers, separate tanks, separate pumps and taps, to use a local source of water for the water you waste which is about 98%. This allows you to renew that water on a weekly basis from any local source, while conserving your drinking water for a long time.
     
  • We give out a second tank with a complete ensuite. Extra tank comes with stoneguards, separate fillers, separate vents and taps and drains, plumbed into manifold selection. We would suggest three tanks total as a minimum, you don’t have to run around with them all full, but can use them as needed.
     
  • Or the complete water sterilisation system for independence … according to your needs. This system is a high – pressure system to fill your tanks with purified and sterilised water as needed. It involves pre-filtration with a high-pressure pump and a reusable ceramic cleanable filter plus a second high-pressure carbon filter for chemicals like trace pesticides or herbicides and then 2700-angstrom ultra-violet in a stainless housed sterilisation unit.
     
  • A complete solar system for sure, engineered to deliver the level of independence that you may require. We use high grade Japanese solar panels (Kyocera – highest rated by industry standards in Australia) in various sizes to match your power needs, wired to van and vehicle to use the surplus for charging the two vehicle if you have an additional fridge in it. Most do carry one for day trips and to bring home groceries. Our solar systems are designed to help make you independent in the bush for your power needs.

    There are cheaper panels that we can use that would save about 5% in cost, but have a heat dissipation problem you can see in their technical data sheets that causes a larger percentage fall off in the power curve in hot weather. We can talk to you about that if you like, but cheaper is not always cost efficient, and this is a good example.
     
  • A user friendly solar regulator, the big ones come with monitoring system and digital readout with five second delay from 1) Battery voltage 2) Array current (which is solar input) and 3) Total load current. It does an automatic 5 second scan of each continuously, plus a full featured automatic regulated battery charging system and disconnect system, as well as a battery condition continuous led display. Top quality gear for the Bush.
     
  • Air conditioning, we use all three major types, but one has performed the best in the Bush, it is not the cheapest but has always outperformed the others for durability.
     
  • Awnings, you can have out pick from all three major brands, but our favourite comes ready made to add walls on, with full zippers and closure flaps, cones stock with storm rafters, and can take much higher wind than the others.
     
  • Inverters, we have five sizes, from the cheap synthetic square wave units to high grade professional sinewave units with automatic switching to all outlets of you can as your needs dictate. Some people want to run computers of satellite down links for the Internet, or microwaves and TVs.
     
  • We have three levels of batteries from the normal Australian deep cycle batteries up to the higher level maintenance free batteries. The most cost effective is the AGM Absorbed Glass Matt battery that is a sealed long life solar block, up to the high end German gel-cell solar block which is a ten year design life higher efficiency battery. We are one of the rare groups that actually have the engineering education to design solar and power systems to suit your needs rather than just sell you gear.
     
  • Rangehoods, a real one with external venting, and light. Maybe unnecessary if we get you into the right layout style with a window on one side and maybe the door on the other.
     
  • Battery charging systems, we offer a fully electronic automatic battery charger, but we also offer larger chargers to condense down the charging time and dual mode chargers to increase battery life. It may be worth considering for the advantage of being able to plug in for a short time at a station or pub or roadhouse in longer periods of bad weather, instead of all night on a mains power source.
     

You can get into other exotics that my be unnecessary or might appeal to you. You have to see some of it here, things like outside showers in locking hatches, cargo doors for external storage, screen rooms, and other lifestyle amenities which can be geared up to suit your own individual needs. For a full options list with pricing, please contact us.