Lighting · SavvyLights

Every light, dimmed and named

Eight dimmable channels with names you choose - Kitchen, Bed, Awning - and scenes you set once and recall with a tap. Around 100 metres of traditional LED's in total, more than most vans will ever hold.

£120 including VAT

You will need: A SavvyVan3 panel. Everything the add-on needs in software is already on the panel.

The SavvyVan3 LED controller screen showing eight named lighting circuits with up and down dimmer arrows, and scene buttons for Cooking, Party and Sleep

What it does

  • Eight channels, ten steps each

    Five channels at 2A and three at 5A, 15A across the board - enough for roughly 100 metres of traditional LED. Every channel dims in ten steps with a soft fade rather than a jolt.

  • Name the circuits

    Call them what you call them. The screen shows Kitchen, Bed and Awning rather than 1, 2 and 3, and tells you what is on at a glance.

  • Scenes, set in seconds

    Get the levels how you want them, then press and hold a scene for three seconds until it beeps. That is the whole process. Cooking, evening, packing up in the dark - one tap each.

The SavvyLights driver - a black module with eight fused output channels along the front edge and two heavy supply terminals on top

The numbers

Channels 8, each with a 10-step dimmer
Current 5 × 2A and 3 × 5A, 15A total across the board
Capacity Around 100 m of traditional LED
Its own draw 0.08A at 12V with nothing lit
Connection Wireless to the panel

Fitting it

How hard
Straightforward
How long
An hour, plus however long the lights themselves take

The driver needs a 12V feed and your light circuits landed on its output terminals. The firmware is already on your panel - nothing to install.

What else you will need

  • A 12V feed to power the driver
  • Your lighting circuits landed on its output terminals, up to eight of them
  • 12V LED lighting without a driver of its own - anything with built-in electronics can only go on and off

Not compatible with SavvyVan Lite v2.1 panels. Worth knowing now rather than after it arrives.

Your lights already work without this

The panel switches lights on and off on its own. Any of its eight circuits can drive a lighting circuit, named however you like, from the day it is fitted. If on and off is all you are after, you do not need SavvyLights - and we would rather say so now than after you have spent.

What the module adds is everything in between:

  • Dimming, ten steps a channel, fading rather than jolting.
  • Scenes. Set the room how you want it, hold a scene for three seconds, and bring the whole thing back with one tap afterwards.
  • Eight lighting circuits of its own, which is the part people work out late. Run your lights through the panel’s own switches and you use them up; put them on SavvyLights and you get all eight back for the fridge, the pump and whatever else.

If you have a SavvyVan Lite

SavvyLights needs a SavvyVan3 panel. It cannot pair with a SavvyVan Lite v2.1 - that is a generation gap rather than a fault, and no setting will bridge it.

The instructions, before you buy

Every guide we write is published - read it first and decide whether it looks like your kind of afternoon.

Not sure whether it fits your van? Ask us. There is no such thing as a daft question here - half of ours started the same way.

  • ECE R10.9 EMC Tested

    Tested for electromagnetic compatibility to the UN vehicle standard - so it plays nicely with everything else in your van.

  • Made in Britain

    Designed and built in Yorkshire, using UK components wherever we can.

  • NCC Approved Supplier

    Recognised by the National Caravan Council, the trade body for the UK leisure vehicle industry.

  • Motorhome Matt Approved

    Independently reviewed and approved by one of the best-known voices in UK van life.

  • FSB member

    Members of the Federation of Small Businesses - because that is exactly what we are.

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