SavvyVan3
The brain of your van
Eight switched circuits, battery voltage and temperature out of the box - then add water, full battery monitoring, heating, levelling or dimmable lighting as you want them. One screen either way, and it keeps gaining features over the air after it is fitted.
On its own
- Eight switched circuits, 10A each, named by you - latching, or momentary for an awning motor or an electric step
- Eight battery makes read directly - a measured percentage and every cell in the pack, no shunt, if yours is one of them
- Battery voltage, a second dial for the starter battery, and inside and outside temperatures
- Rules that run without you - at a time of day, when a tile is switched, or when a temperature or a voltage crosses a figure: switch a circuit, beep, or put a message on the screen
- A Victron SmartSolar charger and a Clayton Power LPS2, read directly, and a Kartt diesel heater, run directly - if you have one
- Sheds circuits before the battery is flat - a voltage cut-off you set once, on vans that read the battery through the panel's own sensor
- Water heating - one switch, the heater's own probe, and its own controls on screen
- Clock, weather and updates over WiFi
- Starlink, if you already have it
- The phone app - battery, tanks, gas, levelling and temperatures on your phone, free. Control is SavvyVan Pro
- Your colours and your icons - every tile named and pictured, and the last 25 alerts kept
With a module added
- Tank levels - fresh, grey, black and gas
- True state of charge - or free, if your battery reports itself
- Heating, and dimming and scenes
- Levelling - which wheel to lift, and by how much
- A second screen - a SavvyDot, with up to five of your controls on it
From £400 including VAT
Security updates until at least . How we handle security
Email me when an option is back
We will send you one email as soon as you can order it here, and that is all.
Very limited edition
The mirrored screen
The 7-inch SavvyVan3 screen, behind a mirror. Switched off, it is a mirror on the wall - a proper one, good enough to get ready with. Switch it on and the panel shows straight through it. A very limited edition, with only a small number made: choose it as your screen when you buy, while they last.
Try it
Have a go on our live version here in your browser
This is a working SavvyVan3, running in your browser. Tap the tiles to switch circuits, open the battery, set the heater. Everything responds to everything else - switch the hob on and watch the amps climb and the time remaining fall.
Turn your phone sideways
The panel is a wide screen, so it needs a wide window. Turn your phone on its side and you can use this one.
A demonstration rather than the panel itself - the real SavvyVan3 may look and behave differently. Everything here runs in your browser, nothing is sent anywhere, and the van and its details are invented.
Pick a colour
Things worth trying
Replacing an existing panel?
Drop-in versions, already wired for your system
If your van has a Sargent or CBE unit, there is a version of SavvyVan3 that plugs straight into the loom you already have. No rewiring, no adapters, no cutting.
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Sargent EC155
Plug & play version
From £415
Read the wiring guide →Email me when an option is back
We will send you one email as soon as you can order it here, and that is all.
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CBE PC180 / PC210
Plug & play version
From £415
Read the wiring guide →Email me when an option is back
We will send you one email as soon as you can order it here, and that is all.
Running something else? Check the integration guides - we work with Sargent, CBE, Propex, Autoterm, Fogstar, LithiumPro and more.
For trade only
SavvyVan 3.1
The SavvyVan control board with a fuse on each of its eight switched circuits, and a Fuse Monitor on the screen that shows which one has gone. It runs the same software as SavvyVan3, with the same screens, add-ons and phone app. SavvyVan 3.1 is sold to trade accounts only, so it is bought through our trade page rather than here. Converting your own van? The SavvyVan3 above is the one for you.
See it working
Five minutes on what the panel actually does, rather than what a spec table says it does.
What it controls
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Power
With a SavvyShunt: state of charge for lithium, AGM and lead acid, live draw and 30 days of history. With a Fogstar, Roamer, LithiumPro, Teconnex, Skyenergi, TN Power, Titan or Koven battery it reads them directly - no shunt needed, and it can show you what each cell inside is doing. It reads a Clayton Power LPS2 as battery, charger and inverter in one and switches its inverter, and shows what a Victron SmartSolar charger is making - both with no module of ours. On its own, the panel shows battery voltage - and a second dial for the starter battery, if you wire one in.
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Water
With SavvyTanks: up to three tanks - fresh, grey and black - plus underslung LPG, with gas solenoid control built in.
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Heating
With the Propex or Autoterm module, or a Kartt diesel heater, which needs no module: schedules, timers and fault information in plain English.
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Lighting
The eight built-in switches turn lighting circuits on and off. With SavvyLights, those become eight dimmable channels - five at 2A, three at 5A - with saveable scenes.
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Levelling
With SavvyStance: how the van is sitting on two axes, up to 20°, and which wheel to lift and by how much. It is a one-off calibration - level the van by hand once, then tell the panel how far apart your wheels are.
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Automation
Logic rules switch things for you: when a tile is switched, or a temperature or a voltage crosses a figure you choose, the panel switches a tile. With SavvyTanks a rule can watch a tank level and switch its relays; with SavvyLights it can put a light or a scene on.
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A second screen
With a SavvyDot: up to five of your controls - tiles, tanks, lights and scenes, the heater, the battery - on a small round touch screen wherever you want them, fixed in place or on a charging plate you lift it off.
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Water heating
No module: one of the eight switches drives the heater’s external relay and its probe goes into the panel’s temperature terminals, which turns that tile into a thermostat with its own controls. Set up under Tile Configuration.
Specification
| Screen | 5" or 7" HD capacitive touch, 1.2 mm profile |
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| Processor | 1GHz quad-core 64-bit ARM Cortex-A53 |
| Memory | 512MB SDRAM |
| Wireless | 2.4GHz 802.11 b/g/n networking, plus low-energy wireless for add-ons |
| Switches | 8 × 10A, positive or negative switching, latching or momentary |
| System voltage | 12V and 24V systems, up to 30V |
| Operating temperature | −20°C to +60°C |
| Voltage inputs | Two - the leisure battery, plus an optional second dial for the starter battery |
| Screen to board | Up to 2m apart |
| Updates | Over the air, over WiFi |
| Security updates | Until at least 31 December 2029 |
What’s in the box
- 5" or 7" capacitive touch screen
- Control board
- 2m HDMI and USB cables
- Temperature sensor and mount
Screen and control board mount separately, up to 2m apart, so the display goes where it looks right rather than where the wiring happens to be.
Automation
If this, then that
Set a rule once and let the van look after itself. When the van gets cold, put the tank heater on. At half six on a weekday, if it is chilly, warm the van up. When a waste tank is nearly full, beep and say so. On its own, a rule watches a tile, a temperature, a voltage or the clock, and switches a tile, beeps or puts a message on the screen; the battery's charge needs a SavvyShunt or a battery the panel reads directly, tanks need SavvyTanks, the heater needs one of our heater modules, the gas needs either, and lights and scenes need SavvyLights. No coding, and it needs panel software 2.5.1.
For converters
Put your name on it
Trade customers can ship SavvyVan3 with their own logo on the screen and a business page built in - a permanent business card in every conversion you sell.
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ECE R10.6 EMC Tested
Tested for electromagnetic compatibility to the UN vehicle standard - so it plays nicely with everything else in your van.
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Made in Britain
Designed and built in Yorkshire, using UK components wherever we can.
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NCC Approved Supplier
Recognised by the National Caravan Council, the trade body for the UK leisure vehicle industry.
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Motorhome Matt Approved
Independently reviewed and approved by one of the best-known voices in UK van life.
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FSB member
Members of the Federation of Small Businesses - because that is exactly what we are.