Installing a SavvyVan 3.1

What is the same as a SavvyVan3

The 3.1 runs the same SavvyVan software as a SavvyVan3, so almost everything is done exactly as the SavvyVan3 installation guide describes:

• Mounting the touch screen, and the two cables between the screen and the board.
• Temperature sensors and the second voltage input.
• First startup, WiFi and updating.
• Every page of Installer Settings - tiles, logic rules, pairing add-ons, battery, tanks, heater, lights, the SavvyDot, app, display and gestures.

What follows is what a 3.1 adds, and it is all you need beyond that guide.

In the box

The same as a SavvyVan3, with the SavvyVan 3.1 in place of the control board: the 5-inch or 7-inch touch screen, the SavvyVan 3.1, the 2m HDMI and USB cables, and a temperature sensor and mount.

Mounting it

The SavvyVan 3.1 measures 139 x 233 x 24 mm. Mount it as you would a SavvyVan3’s control board - somewhere it can be reached and removed without taking the van apart, ventilated and away from heat - with one more thing to allow for: its eight emergency override switches are on top of the box, so leave them where somebody can get to them.

Power, and the power button

The SavvyVan 3.1 runs on 12V or 24V, and it needs no external fuses - every circuit is fused on the board.

It never starts by itself. Press its power button to start it:

• the first time it has power;
• whenever its supply has been removed - the van isolated, the battery disconnected - and has come back;
• after it has switched itself off because its supply fell to 10V, which it does to protect the battery.

Tell the owner this when you hand the van over. A dark screen after the power has been off is the button waiting to be pressed, not a fault.

Check it is a 3.1

In Installer Settings, open System Information. Hardware version reads 3.1. If it reads 3.0 on a 3.1 board, the unit has not been set up as a 3.1, and the Fuse Monitor, the fuse settings and the onboard lights will not appear - get in touch before you go further.

A fuse on every circuit

Each of the eight switched circuits runs through its own blade fuse on the board, so every circuit is protected there. It comes with its eight fuses fitted - four 10A, two 5A and two 2A. Check that each circuit’s fuse suits what it runs, change it if not, and never go above the circuit’s 10A. A holder left empty is a circuit that cannot switch anything on, and the panel reads it as a blown fuse: switch that circuit on and the Fuse Monitor opens by itself, with its row reading Blown.

Tell the panel which fuse is where

So the Fuse Monitor can show the right fuse beside each circuit, record each one:

1. Open Installer Settings → Tile Settings (the page is headed Tile Configuration).
2. Select a tile. Under the tiles is a row the SavvyVan3 does not have: Fuse Amp Rating:.
3. Choose the fuse fitted for that tile’s circuit - 1 A, 2 A, 3 A, 4 A, 5 A, 7.5 A or 10 A, or – for none set.
4. Repeat for each tile. The choices are kept when you leave the page.

The rating only decides which fuse the Fuse Monitor draws; it does not change what the circuit can carry. The fuse in the holder does that.

The Fuse Monitor

On a 3.1 the side menu has a Fuse Monitor entry, for the owner as much as for you. It opens over the main screen and lists the eight circuits by their tile names, each with its fuse and whether it is intact:

• OK, green - the fuse is intact, checked with its circuit on.
• Blown, red - the fuse has gone.
• Unknown, grey - the panel could not read it.
• Unused - beyond the number of tiles in use.

It checks that each fuse is intact rather than measuring the load. When the fuse on a circuit that is switched on blows, the screen wakes and the Fuse Monitor opens by itself over the main screen, with that row in red. The panel checks every few seconds, does not beep and puts nothing in Notifications. It opens once for each fuse: after Close, that fuse brings it back only once its circuit has been switched off and on again, or a new fuse has blown. A circuit that is switched off is never reported.

It checks a fuse with its circuit switched on, so when you have fitted and recorded the fuses, switch each circuit you use on with its load connected, open the monitor, and check its row reads OK.

Emergency overrides

There are eight override switches on top of the box, one for each circuit, so a circuit can still be switched on if the screen ever fails. An override switches a circuit on and cannot switch it off. Show the owner where they are, and tell them they are for when the screen is not working - not an everyday switch.

The onboard lights

The 3.1 board carries three indicator lights, which have nothing to do with the van’s own lighting. Installer Settings → Additional Settings → Onboard LEDs sets them: Off, White, Blue, or Wave - a slow fade from white to blue and back, which is how a new unit comes. They change as soon as you choose.

The lights show white from the moment the board has power until the software has started, whatever is set, and Wave holds white while the panel is busy

• starting up or updating - then fades again by itself. They do not react to anything else: not to faults, not to charging, and not to the screen going to sleep. If they should be dark, choose Off.

Troubleshooting

• The screen stays dark. Press the power button - the SavvyVan 3.1 waits for it whenever its power has been off, and after it has switched itself off at 10V. If it still does nothing, check the supply at the board.
• No Fuse Monitor in the side menu, and no Fuse Amp Rating row. Check Hardware version under System Information reads 3.1, and the software is 2.5.1 or later.
• The Fuse Monitor opened by itself. A fuse blew on a circuit that was switched on, or a circuit with an empty holder was switched on. Switch that circuit off, find out why the fuse blew, and fit a new one of the right rating before you switch it back on.
• Every row in the Fuse Monitor reads Unknown. The panel cannot read the fuses - get in touch.
• A circuit does nothing, and its fuse reads OK. Work through it as on a SavvyVan3: the tile, the wiring to the circuit, and what it powers.

Anything else is as the SavvyVan3 installation guide describes. Still stuck? Tell us what you are seeing, and send us the logs from the passcode screen - Get Help, then Send Logs.