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May 3, 2025
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[Music]
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hey everyone welcome back to the channel
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we are working on this uh for conol line
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conversion
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van and um yeah we've got a bunch of
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things that we're going to uh do to it
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uh we're basically getting it working
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properly so let's jump in and just go
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ahead and tell you what's going on so we
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got a fora conol Line This is
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a uh I guess we call it like a DIY
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install so the customer she bought this
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van from somebody that had already done
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this work to the van so they put a bed
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in it
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um they put some power system
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uh there's a rooftop AC unit and uh
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actually let me just zoom the camera
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back here so you guys can get a
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good picture of all this let me back
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up here we
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go
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okay
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perfect okay so what we have here
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is we've got a bed with two
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struts so uh this customer found me
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online they're local they're only about
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20 minute drive away from my shop
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there's two things that were broken
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these two gas uh shock struts uh gas
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shocks um they're broken they didn't
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work anymore so I replaced them this is
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in the last video that was on the
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channel and then the door lock mechanism
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was broken on the passenger side so I
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replaced that um so she was happy with
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with the work and she was excited to get
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some other things working in her van we
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talked about this power system
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and in this uh van so here here's the
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bed so just goes up and
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down very simple just DIY construction
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so anybody can do something like
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this so we did all those
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repairs um but in this van there's two
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things in here there's a uh rooftop AC
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unit which is 110 volt unit and then
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back here in the back we have a high
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sense 120 volt fridge and there are two
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outlets that are uh 120 volt now the
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only way that the AC can run is if she
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is plugged into a
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campground so if she's not plugged into
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a campground she can't run the AC and if
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also if she's not plugged in Campground
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there's not enough power to supply the
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the inverter to get the fridge running
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so really unless she's plugged in
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nothing really uh will run there is a
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lead acid battery back here that we're
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going to open up and I'm going to show
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you what it
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is um
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and I don't recommend that you install a
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battery like this uh if you have a
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lithium battery those are sealed if you
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have a sealed AGM that's good this one
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is not so this is a Le acid
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battery and what the previous owner has
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done is tried to or whoever installed
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this they put this box here with a vent
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line to vent out any of the gases
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outside the van but these seals are worn
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out um so it's not the safest thing so I
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kind of pointed that out and said hey
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you
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know
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uh she wanted the fridge to actually
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run so she could use it without being
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plugged in that's very obvious that's
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what we do here um and this one doesn't
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provide enough power plus I just pointed
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out that it's not the safest way to do
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this so what we're going to put putting
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in here is
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a uh believe it or not we're going to do
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a Le time battery if you guys watch uh
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will prowe DIY solar
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Channel um he does a lot of battery
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reviews and cuts the batteries open open
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checks for low temperature
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disconnect operation and stuff like that
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so we've got a lead time battery that
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we're going to be putting in here um and
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the amp hours see this one
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is uh I think it's uh 230 amp hours 230
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amp hours so this should easily run the
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fridge for uh a
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weekend on top of that we are installing
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a new inverter
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charger so the inverter charger is a
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200000 watt Renegy inverter
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charger um now I put a 3,000 watt
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inverter charger
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in uh one of the vans that I sold the
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glacier
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build and then this one
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is uh it's not a 3,000 it's a
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2,000 and I did that cuz the 3,000
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weighs a lot it's like almost 70
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lb um but it's more of a space issue in
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this van so this one's a little bit more
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compact but what we need is we need the
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inverter uh
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charger because when she's plugged into
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Shore power I want it to charge the
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lithium
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battery she does have a solenoid
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activated
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charger um um but what we want to do
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is we want to use the uh the plug to
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charge
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it uh
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because uh we just we want to get away
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from the uh engine charging just in this
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particular application because
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[Music]
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um that's what we want to do all right
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next we are going to come down here and
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we're going to modify the uh this
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breaker panel so we're going to rewire
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it into the inverter charger so that way
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when we have the
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battery uh when it's not
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connected we
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can turn on the inverter run it off the
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battery and then this will be our we'll
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keep this distribution box we won't have
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to actually take this out
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um for example oh yeah let me backpedal
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just a little bit we are going to be
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doing DCd DC
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charging and so we're going to be doing
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this Renegy 30
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amp uh DC todc charger and what's cool
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about this one is this one has an auto
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sense for the 12volt line so
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um that way we don't have to do an
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ignition
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line uh so we'll verify that that works
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with this one uh I know it works with
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the 50 amp version this is the 30 amp
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version they're pretty pretty much the
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same thing uh but we're going to be
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using this because it's just a nice
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all-in-one solution and in the event
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that she actually wants to upgrade to a
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solar panel or have solar panel
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capabilities this has a built-in mppt
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solar charge
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controller so connecting this to the
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engine so that the solenoid
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operated
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uh six gauge wire come to the back then
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this will convert it to the lithium
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battery charging profile it'll charge
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the battery this is for when she's
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plugged into Shore
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power uh the inverted charger portion of
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this the charger portion
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will charge the battery so we got those
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two charging
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options when this is on she'll be able
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to run the air conditioning she'll be
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able to run the
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fridge and
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um yeah that's that's the plan so this
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box is going to go
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here and this lithium battery we're
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going to try to fit it right here I've
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already measured before I ordered it so
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we should be good on that and then we
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will have to go and put the inverter
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underneath the bed it will take away a
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little bit of storage uh but that's what
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we got to do to make it work so this
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video is essentially just going to be uh
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disassembling the van and getting it
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ready to accept all these new
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toys so um yeah so we're going to get
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started taking stuff
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apart um when I first inspected this the
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plug coming out of
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the side of the van uh it looks a little
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dangerous so I'm going to talk to her
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about that um I'm probably going to be
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putting a new Shore power plug in
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because the it whoever installed this uh
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they took a knife and cut all
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the
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um like sheathing around the uh the
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rubber around the cord and so the cord
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has been
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cut and it just keeps
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uh uh let me double check the YouTube
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real quick it whoever installed this
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signal took a knife and cut all hold
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on all
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right what's going on with this
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camera camera is okay why do we have no
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signal
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hey
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Rod welcome back I'm doing some uh
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technical difficulties here my camera is
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not working so stick with me guys let me
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figure out what the heck is going on
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here
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okay hold on it's G to go off for just a
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second well I might have to restart the
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Stream
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hm
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what is going on over
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here let's see we don't need that let's
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take that
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out what is this what is this
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okay let's take this out
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all right guys I'm going to fix the
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camera I'm going to come back on we'll
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see you in just a second
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