So by this stage I will have a leisure battery wired into my electrical system. It powers all required accessories and will not drain the driving battery when it runs out of juice. It can be charged by driving or by plugging into the onboard charger. At the moment getting mains power into the van entails running a power cord in through the window. Cheap, not very tidy and not great when it rains. The next step is to sort out a mains hookup.
I need to look further into this when the time comes but in a nutshell it seems you get a socket attached to the body of the van - preferably under the van so as to not cut into the paintwork. The outside mains plugs into this. This gets passed into some safety circuitry and then connected into the internal wiring of the van. In this way you can power everything and charge everything simply by plugging the van itself into the mains.
At this stage it would probably become sensible to put a ZIG panel into the mix. This is an LCD readout showing the state of all the electrics in the van. It would be built into the side panels somewhere.
A HUGE thanks to the members of the Brick yard forum for their help figuring all this out, especially EnergySolutions, McGuyver, T5-KTM, ECB and Acijai!
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