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With virtually no laws and very little inspection for mobile and low voltage installations in North America, it can be hard to find someone to trust to get it done right. Lots of shops don’t have the training to do in depth installs and overlook a lot of safety points or cut corners, lots of self-employed “professionals” are literary thinkerers without any formal training, certification or insurance. It can be real hard to find someone to entrust your money, safety and property with.

I specialize in those installations, so if you’re willing to drive to Vancouver Island you’ll get the best service you can find by a long shot with one of the highest quality install available.

If that’s out of the question, I would look for the official Victron distributor in your area and ask them who they trust to do a proper installation and obviously double-check what the installer offers you. Sounds like you have a good understanding of what Victron products offers so you should be able to tell by how the installer describe his work and engineer his installation if that’s a good person to deal with. It goes both ways, but I always feel awkward taking deposits on jobs, because I want to make sure the client is 100% satisfied with the work performed before I collect payment. Beware of people asking for money upfront, especially if you don’t really know how good of a job they do. I fix a lot of work done by shops, manufacturers, John Doe, etc. A big shop doesn’t guarantee quality work, as lots of them are staffed with under trained, under paid, over worked techs and only trives due to the lack of local competition.

I don’t have a website, I don’t need the extra traffic as I’m mostly booked through references, but here’s my FB page, to give you an idea of what I do. Look for someone who takes pride in their work like I do.

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