DIY drawer system build! (now i know why they are so expensive)

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Hey everyone, this is my second attempt at building my own drawer storage system in the back of my 80 series Land Cruiser. i waited until i was most of the way done to post just incase it came out bad Ha! im happy to answer questions about what where or how, but here's the basics:
Frame is 20/20 extruded aluminum, all material and hardware came from Amazon
Drawers are made of 3/4" plywood (in hindsight i probably could have done 1/2" plywood came from home depot
Drawer Slides all came from Vevor
Fridge from ironman 4x4
Victron system some came from Amazon, some came from InvertersRus (their customer service is great btw)
Victron system includes BMS a smart MPPT solar charger, smart shunt, smart battery protect, multiplus inverter chzarger, a cerbo gx with touch 50, a smart switch dc4, and the 100ah lifepo4 smart battery
At this point the beginning is going to be a big photo dump, just to catch up and i will continue to update as i complete this project.
 

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I was able to find some 6mm wide led rope light and flush mounted it above each drawer in the extrusion, these lights are controlled by the DC4 smart switch via the touch 50 screen. The DC4 plugs into the cerbo gx using an rj45 cable and requires zero configuring or setup. Simply supply it with the rj45 network cable and a positive and negative power connection, and it will automatically populate on the touch 50 screen.
 

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