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all right guys welcome back to the live stream Tonight We are continuing on the
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floor install and uh the scope's kind of spreading because we
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are moving into electrical but it has to do completely with the floor because uh
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it's going in the floor we talked about uh why it's going to the floor on the last live stream
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um you know having to do with our adventure wagon insulation our bump out panels stuff like that kind of a few
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places to put the wires so right here we're going up this pillar
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where the door is because there is an adventure wagon panel that allows us to
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house all those cables that we need there however the thicker cables that
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are down here in the bottom these are the ones that are going to be the 120 volt
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uh household power that's going to be running the induction
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the microwave add-on if somebody wants to do that we
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have the space and the area for that or that space can be dedicated to the uh
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purple toilet it's kind of like a flex space so whatever you want to put in there it's going to have a plug so you can do
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it now it may look strange that we're using this heavy duty extension cable
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essentially but I really like it the reason I like it is for a couple reasons
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one it's 12 gauge so it is slightly
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oversized which makes it very safe we're going to talk about some specs on
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this in just a second we're going to go on the computer actually I have them right here but
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we'll we'll repeat them here in a second so this heavy duty cable is 12 gauge so
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that's a big deal so it's rated for 15 amps 125 volts
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and 1875 Watts so 1875 so we're going to remember that number 1875 when we get on
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the computer because if you look up induction stoves if you look up
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microwaves and if you look up water heaters
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we have high watt usage on those components so you don't want to use
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a cable that is not sized appropriately you want to be safe
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another reason that's nice is you're probably doing short runs with this hopefully so this one is 15 feet
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which is just perfect allow us to go to our 15 amp breaker
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but the last thing that I love about these is they have a built-in light so
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there's an indicator light built in the plug and this really helps out with troubleshooting so if you can imagine
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you're in a van and say you don't know that you tripped the breaker and you're trying to troubleshoot what's
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going on you come into the water heater and you
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look at the cable the lights off so that you know to go and check the breaker now
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yes you should check the breaker first but if you pop the breaker back on and you come back over the cable and the light's still off you know you have a
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different problem so what's nice is there's an indicator light that lets you know that there is power that this wire is live
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and uh I think it's a good feature
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so we have one cable for the hot water heater and this one is going to be kind of
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double duty we can use it if we put the induction stove in or we can use it if
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there was a microwave that's put in as well so this was going to go through the floor
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the next thing we're doing is we have two other wires that we talked about in a pass stream and that is this one so
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this is your mower traditional cable so this is 12 gauge as well but is a 12 3 wire it's
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the same thing but it's essentially like a flat flat wire I'll show you this one this is from West Marine it's Anchor
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Marine wire this one is going to be dedicated for the 120 volt Outlets so this is more of
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your standard wiring for an outlet so we're going to use this for the
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outlet that's down here in this foot well as well as Outlet that's going on top of the table
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so we're going to pretty much cable manage these we talked about these before but we're going to Cable manage
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them tonight so that's going to be the live stream uh we're really not going to do anything with the floor we're going to get these cables all run that way I
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can go ahead and tomorrow prep the four panels and do our last couple checks on them
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now one thing to remember as you do this process I have like these little pieces of tape that I put everywhere and it's
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just I can put notes on them let me know that that's something I need to go check on so I got one in the very back
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to make sure that I finalize the uh will the spare tire well I need to go
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ahead and handle that because I'm going to cover it with a piece of wood tomorrow and then we'll never be able to access that again
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you could if you wanted to you could draw a hole in it and re-access it but because we have oversized tires on this
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vehicle there's no way that you can fit a spare tire under the vehicle of the size that we've
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upgraded to all right so let's talk about the this
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extension wire because I think it's pretty a little unique
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so this is like a little mini electrical safety right here we're going to talk about
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uh let's see here I'm gonna go to Lowe's
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why why would I go anywhere else right and let's do uh 12 gauge
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extension cord
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so we have this uh utilitech Pro lighted right here so this is the one we're
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using and right here this is what you want to make sure it's UL listed
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it's 15 amp rated so if this is a
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12 gauge we can go to
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uh 12 gauge Max Amps
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so how many amps can 12 gauge take so it can actually take 20. so I'd like to see this number because
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the other wire is 20 and we did it on purpose so the wire is slightly oversized for safety
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but the breaker will still Trip at 15 amps that we're putting in
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uh let me show you that
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this is a breaker we're going to be connecting this to in a future live stream this is the blue C systems 15 amp
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four circuit breaker so these are just like you would have in a house so when it breaks
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it'll pop like that and what's nice is this is lighted to indicate what's on and off and then
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under here you can you can have lighted stickers so you can do
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Outlet one Outlet two microwave uh cooktop stuff like that
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now the back of this looks intimidating but don't worry we're going to go over that
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so that's the Blue Sea Systems and it's nice it's low profile it's not like those big boxes because uh
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you know we don't need to have that much 120 volt capacity in here
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if you had a standard RV you know you might be doing rooftop AC units that
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are 120 volts stuff like that so
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all right so we got 20 amps that's the cables that we're going to use now let's look up our hot water heater
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so we have a four gallon Bosch
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hot water heater
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so this one and you see how we have a 1440 element
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so when we're looking at this let's see I did not
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trying to get you a side by side here
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so when you're doing this DIY this is this is the number you want to make sure you're paying attention to
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so we have 1875 Watts so that's our Max that our cable can safely carry two or
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that it's rated for and then we have one of the items that we're going to be running it off of
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which is 1440. so make sure that what you're running is
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lower than the cable the power cable taking the power to the device
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and that might go without saying but you know if you're new to this and you're
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worried about electrical and you want to be safe it's good just to hear a double
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check that you know you check this number for the cable 1875.
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it's rated for 15 amps so that is our breaker that's what the
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breaker's rated for and we got up to 125 volts so this is all perfect
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and so we can safely run this hot water heater full bore
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next let's look at I'm gonna go away from the screen for a second and next we're going to go to
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Amazon and we're going to look up the induction stove
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so we're on Amazon and we're looking at induction stoves so the same wattage rule applies so for
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example see this I purchased it November um
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so this is the one that I use and if we see here we have 1800 watts
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so if we look at our cable we get 18.75. so we're still okay
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1800 watts now uh there were some questions that
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have been asked about induction burners and I know we're on the uh
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floor thing but I'm going to just kind of ad-lib here while I'm talking about electrical stuff because I think it's
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appropriate 1800 watts single burner
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if we go to induction stove and we type in um
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production stove dual burner
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so if we go in induction stove dual burner you may say hey a dual burner sounds
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cool maybe maybe I like making I'll do that this is let's see here
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so if you look at the power levels you're only going to get a Max of
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1800 watts so read what this is eight power level
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settings from 300 watts to 1800 watts on the left burner and then six power
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level settings from 300 watts to 1300 Watts on the right burner
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so here's here it is see this right here power sharing So when you buy if you want to have two
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burner tops I don't recommend it but if you want to have two
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just know that you can't create power from thin air so you're not going to be able to run
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two burners 1800 watts each so you can't have these you can't have
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the left one on high and then the right one on high if you do you're not going to get the full power out of them
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because you're only Supply you can only Supply it with so much power
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um so
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that might be good to know but what you can do is say you want to cook something and
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then you want to have something on a low power level on the right hand side just to keep it warm maybe something you
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already cooked first you know like I don't know vegetables or something like that and then you're cooking the main course over here on the left
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you could just run it at 300 and then uh have the other Watts on the
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other side to you know provide the cooking so it would be you know a maximum of something like
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what 1500 watts so just to let you guys know that
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um so I like the single burner just in my opinion it also has to do with your
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your cabinets your countertop space once you have the sink there maybe a
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outlet on top of your kitchen Galley and you have induction stove a space goes up
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very quickly or goes away very quickly all right and then last but not least
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let's go to talk about the microwave really quick so we're gonna go look up uh RV
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microwave
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and uh this is not sponsored by e-trailer or anything like that I can
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just get quick information from them but if you uh if you look you'll notice
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that the microwaves are usually rated below or like a thousand watts and below
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so this one's like 900 watts this one's 950 Watts this is a thousand this is 900
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9000 900 900 no thousand thousand so do you see you see what's going on here
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so the reason for that is Imagine now this does not apply for this van
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because this fan has a very robust power system you could put normal household
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microwave in there run that thing at 1800 watts no problem
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but if you think about uh let me talk to the camera here for a second
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if you think about uh say you're in a in the van
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and I'm just going to act like you know I'm in the kitchen here
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so we have a 3000 watt inverter so that inverter can
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provide 3000 Watts continuous now yes it can do a surge of you know uh higher
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than that for a moment's notice but you got 300 to work with so that's kind of like your
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uh that's that's your max number so we got three thousand so if we're making
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hot water at let's say 1500 watts then now we only
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have 1500 watts left from the inverter to give to our other devices so that's 1500 watts
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now keep in mind this is only one that's making hot water once it's made the hot water the element turns off you get that
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wattage back but let's say you hop in your van you're excited you're ready to cook dinner you turn on the hot water so
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you can uh you know clean dishes or something I don't know you got 1500 watts you've got 1500 watts
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left over so that 1500 watts is now going to be divided by the induction cooktop if you decide to
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use it at the same time and let's say you have the microwave too so what some people like to do is
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especially in RVs is they buy a microwave that has a lower
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wattage so it's going to take longer to cook the food but it doesn't put a high demand or a high load on the other
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components of the van so let's say
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you know hot water heater has been off for a little bit so maybe the element is not 1400 Watts it's now uh
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okay let me go my first example 1500 watts we got 1500 to spare so if we have
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the microwave on and it's a 900 watt microwave then for the induction we're
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going to have 600 watts left to cook now I actually use mine in the shop here
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and that might be enough to kind of get things going so think about it the
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amount of wattage your inverter needs to be and your electrical system is
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based on the the on-demand load of all the components in your van
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so if you want your van to kind of act like a house you're going to have to have a electrical system that can on demand
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provide Power to all those sources and then all those sources need to have
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limits to where they don't take over each other
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for example if you turn the hot water heater and then we you know bought a 1500 watt microwave we
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maxed out to 3000 and now we want to try to cook on our induction stove it's it's not going to work out
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so when you are wiring your van make sure you have one
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enough circuit to power those devices and if you notice when I talk about my
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wires and my breaker everything has its own path
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so in a house if you had four Breakers
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each of those Breakers might control multiple Outlets you might have two outlets and one breaker three on the
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other one you know one in the bathroom and then another one over here so you might have like six or seven Outlets or ten on four
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circuits so that doesn't work in the van because
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remember we're limited by the wattage of our inverter so now if we
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take and make them all individual each one is a dedicated run so when we
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run a plug to the microwave the only thing that's plugging into that socket is one microwave cable when we do a run
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for our induction the induction is the only thing in that circuit when we do our
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Outlets we're not going to have one outlet and then have uh multiple septic one
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Outlet breaker and then have multiple receptacles we're going to have only one per line
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so we have two boxes now those two boxes
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they might have two receptacles on them but just remember it doesn't matter if
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it has two four six eight twenty it's that circuit's only going to provide a
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fixed amount of current to that device
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so it's easy to make these think of them as individual units rather than like a
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household circuit where you have maybe multiple things that you can plug into one circuit
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but overall that's going to be limited by your breaker what your breaker's rated
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at so ours is right at 15 amps and so
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if you want to do the math on that
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that's the last thing I'll talk about then we're going to get back in the band so if we have 15 amps
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times
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see if I can pull up this calculator for you guys
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all right so I just randomly pulled this up no affiliation I just randomly pulled this up
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so we're talking about Ohm's law and
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I wish I could get rid of all this uh these advertisements all right that's the best I can do so
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Focus right here in the center so this is the formula for Ohm's law so
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this is this is how you figure out everything with power uh you may know Ohm's law as this
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triangle so V equals I times r
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so I know we're probably going back to school here but this is how you figure everything out in the van
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so our voltage let's say we have 120 volts and we have
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15 amps voltage amps voltage V
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amps a and hit calculate
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uh don't worry about ohms but the power is eighteen hundred
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Watts it's right there 1800 watts
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so that looks a lot very familiar to this right here
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you see 15 amps 125 volts 1875.
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so I just did 120 but if we go back and let's just change this to 125.
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and then let's say calculate 1875 so what does this extension cord
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say 1875. so this rating is
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pretty much Ohm's law in a nutshell right there
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so for example what would happen if
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uh our breaker was 10 amps
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you see our wattage goes down so your wire and your breaker these
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things are are what is controlling your power
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now typically uh so let's keep this at 15 because
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that's you know we've already bought the breaker this is what's stain and now when you hear stuff called
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voltage drops depending on the demand this number can
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change so sometimes the inverter may not always be putting out 125 let's say if it puts
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out 120. so now we get 1800 watts um
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but it can go as low as maybe you know 110 or 115 which uh that's not that's
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not good you want to make sure if you have a very good inverter it's going to give you a pretty stable voltage let's just go down
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to 115 and see what happens so you can see if our voltage lowers
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then our power also lowers so you guys can play around with this
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but um so let's check up let's say
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this is more like household power so let's say you have like 110 volts uh
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maybe a 10 amp breaker you see we got 1100 Watts
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so making sure that your inverter is putting out and it's also that it's a pure sine wave inverter
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we'll talk about that in a future video but if it makes good voltage
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you've selected 15 amps for your current load
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then you're going to get that maximum amount of power
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so that was kind of mini course and then we're kind of drifting off here but I thought that might be interesting to you guys if you have more questions or want
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something more in depth on this let me know but this Ohm's law
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is explaining how this rating is being
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given to a piece of electrical wire and
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anything you put in the van needs to pass this test before you connect it to your breaker
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uh let's see here so for example let's say we did a we used uh
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let's say we don't know what we're doing and somebody gave us a 14 gauge wire
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and let's see here 15 amps
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do that
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you know what we're going to save that for later so let's put the we're supposed to be
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putting the floor in okay one more thing I'm going to show you and then we'll get back to doing the wires
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so I needed to enlarge the uh the hole over here in the floor
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so right there in the bottom and
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because we have thicker wires coming through the hole so I needed to enlarge it and one thing that I like to do is you
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can buy these furniture these plastic little Furniture pieces and if you pop it out
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it creates this nice shroud that doesn't have a sharp edge
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so you can imagine this wood it's not sharp but it could kind of like saw on the wire and this is just like you would
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have in a desk I mean it is the thing you would have on a desk you know it has the little cover a little thing you can depress to uh you
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know pull the wires through and you can use it like this
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but here's a cap and then what we're going to do is that floor penetration once we get the flooring down we'll clean it up by
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putting this in here and then this is where our
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so you see how this gives you a nice professional opening and this way all those wires you see in
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the floor will come out through here into the fuse panel and it'll just look very nice
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professional finish so if you want to do that in your van I highly suggest it
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um it helps protect your wires but then also gives you a nice Pro appearance
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okay done with the presentations now we're going to get to work
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um cleaning up these wires
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and so I've already ran the two wires we just talked about so these guys are just kind of hanging
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out um I need to take a marker and I need to
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write on these we need to make sure that we don't disorganize these cables
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so this one I'm going to type in uh induction
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so that's induction and then
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if you had a label maker that would be amazing and this right here is hot water
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now we're going to cut this end off and we're going to uh put some wire ferrules on it we'll
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talk about that later and then we will professionally Mount that our
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screw that into the back of the breaker system so it's nice and safe so we have our hot water our induction
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slash microwave it's this is this is our our flexible cable we can do different
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options we've already ran our positive and negative wire our six
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gauge wire this is going to uh provide 12 volt power to our sub panel
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that's located underneath the kitchen galley that sub panel is going to run all of
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our 12 volt items we're not running any cable to the battery system here in the back
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the reason being is we won't we don't want multiple fuse panels
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we want our heavy duty fuses by the battery and then we want our
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more light duty something that would be easy access right here underneath our
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kitchen gallery uh and the idea is that this back panel
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right here is going to be able to unbolt and you can take care of everything you need to do
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um as far as replacing fuses and troubleshooting stuff and then this back
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here will be just all of our hardcore you know High amperage you know the 12 volt AC
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the inverter and then our two DC to DC Chargers
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okay next we're going to run some cable for our
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two outlets so we have a hundred feet of 12 3 wire
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I'm sorry yes 12-3
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I'm thinking of 12 2 because that's what we're going to run for our refrigerator
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and if you guys have any questions feel free to ask me in the chat you know throughout this whole entire live stream
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so this one we're going to write um at the right here we're going to write
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bottom this is our bottom Outlet
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and then I'm just going to make sure we give ourselves plenty of slack to work with
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and we're just gently placing it in here and you know this whole process
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just nice and easy don't put any stress on The Wire Don't Force It Kink it anything like that
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and then we're going to go through here in our power box is going to be located
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right here so we just need to give ourselves a little bit more uh slack so that we can
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the slack you want to give yourself it's not for later
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well I guess it's for later the slack you're giving yourself is so that uh you know the box is going to go right
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here so that's probably where you're going to cut it the slack is so you can prep The Wire
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get it into the box and then put it around it just makes it easier to
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install overall yeah so give yourself an extra you know foot
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so our box is going to be right here so I'm going to give us just an extra little bit
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let me get my pliers
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foreign
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and since we already cut our hole out underneath this panel we're going to start routing our cables
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through this hole because our next step is
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we're going to be gluing the floor down so this is the last chance to
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change anything with these cables
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oh
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foreign
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we're going to label it it's going to be our top Outlet
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the bottom one is for if we want to run our induction cooktop outside like if you need to run
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like a little air compressor like an inflator or you know you want to charge
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something the pop-up outlet that we're using that we talked about in the uh
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yesterday's live stream it also has two USB ports so you can charge your phone while you're outside
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uh it has a lot of functionality to it this one is wire number two
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and this is going to be the uh we're going to type we're going to say
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top box and this is for the kitchen galley
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let's do countertop
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so again same thing
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foreign
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[Applause]
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just a minute we're going to put some wire loom around these four
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wires and bundle them up so that they're nice and protected
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now this one we want to be a little bit a little bit longer than the other one because
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we're coming up the countertop height
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so for this one we're going to be coming up through the floor
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and then we're going to be coming so we're actually going to get our tape
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measure out
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you don't have to rush this take your time this is very important
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so our kitchen Galley is 36 inches high
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and our distance from The Edge so right here's where this piece of Orange A-frame member from the adventure wagon
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that is our offset so our electrical box is going to be mounted
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we got let's just say about two inches from there so right
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really close to that so we need to make sure that we
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a minimum come up 36 and over 20.
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so we'll just give us a little bit of extra they're going to come up hold our foot
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on it we got 36
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so we got 36 right there if you want to you could mark it
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again just take your time
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then we're gonna go we're going to go 20.
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I get 20.
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and then so that would be a perfect direct to the Box
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and since you know that's our last circuit to do I actually don't care about
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you know letting this thing have an additional 20 inches on it
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okay so you can see with my foot we're going to come up to the Box
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we're going to come over inside the kitchen galley then we're going to cut them over one
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last time to our right and then we have 20 inches right here to actually
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uh you know play with work with uh you know mess up on and wire into our
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box
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so I'm just going to measure it one more time so I can cut it right there
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is triple check it we'll go ahead and pull it through
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okay we're gonna come up we've got our first mark
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on our second Mark is right there so this is our first Mark second Mark
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and then our Slack so we got we have plenty of room the Box will be right here
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so on this one let's go ahead and label it number two
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kitchen counter
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this is number two the other one is number one
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this is bottom okay
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now
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before we glue the floor in tomorrow we got to make sure we support this area right here uh
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typical kitchen galleys and vans there's an area that's not supported under here
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in the Ford Transit because the step is so big so we'll need to uh we'll need to
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reinforce that
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okay we've got our 120 volt circuits all good to go
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so next we're going to talk about something I already ran while
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we were um
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after the stream yesterday so I took our 14 gauge
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12 volt wire and right here we have two of them
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so these two we've got one is for
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the USB Alice that we talked about running so we have two of the Quick Charge USB Outlets up here in the
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overhead storage cabinets that way if you're sleeping at night uh
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say you have a laptop you want to throw in there let it charge overnight or you have a cell phone you know that's
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what that's for the secondary reason we have that USB outlet it's going to power
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our detachable since these uh since the overhead storage is detachable
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you can take it out if you wanted to as part of the adventure wagon compatible overhead cabinets from
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Flatline vanco since we're they're going to be uh you
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can take them out then the LED light that's underneath them that I'm installing also needs to
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be able to be you know module or take in and go out so that USB port Port not
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only is there for your devices but it's also to provide Power for that light so that the light works
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the second wire right here that is our rear panel so the rear panel of the van
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I'll show it right here this is what we're actually going to be
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modifying later to accept the Dometic
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vent fan so this is our rear panel
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so the front panel that's bamboo from Adventure wagon it has four of
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these lumacoin lights and then the rear panel this one has two
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so we have a connection so we need power to run
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this panel obviously these lumacoin lights are pretty
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incredible they're very high end they had this aluminum machined ring
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that dissipates the heat because these lights are really cool
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so they have you can hold it down and it goes through different dimming Cycles
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but then what you can do is you can hold these buttons down and these lights will
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turn red so at night time you can have all the lights in your van set to red
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and it's pretty cool but this panel right here will be
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cutting out the hole for the air conditioning system
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so now we have our USB Outlets in our cabinets taken care of we have
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our wires pulled for our
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um let's see here our wires pulled for our
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rear lights we also yesterday pulled a wire for our
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front panel so the front four lights are off of this wire now our lights are coming down
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this uh pillar right here
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and then they'll be attached to our thing our fuse panel
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so we have that one let's see here this
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that's two the next thing we're going to do
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let's see what we're going to do here just thinking of my mind if I want to
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I think we're just going to Cable manage this in the floor right now um doesn't look like we have any questions in the chat
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remember guys feel free to uh ask away in the chat
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all right yep let's go ahead and get our wire loom and get that taken care of
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we picked up our electrical tape from Home Depot from Lowe's we're gonna have that
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now we got it
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foreign
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[Applause] so this wire loom is going to take us from this very
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right side over here and we're going to go to
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[Applause] see here
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take it to the back right there
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yeah probably right there so we'll just start in this back corner and those we'll just make our way over
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foreign
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so this doesn't get out of control I'm going to go ahead and take the electrical wire
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and my pre-wrap about every foot and a half or so on The Wire just doesn't go
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crazy because our space is limited we didn't want to cut too much of the floor
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around so we just did a one by one one inch by one inch space so we want to gather these wires
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together so that they are you know as efficiently bundled as
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possible so we're gonna have our two yellow ones on the bottom and the two white ones uh
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flat on top
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looks like it looks like we're gonna go every every foot here this stuff is
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12 gauge these wires are very chunky
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so now that we can just relax uh we can pull this away from the wall because we
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already know we've marked here you can even take a permanent marker and see right here where this foam is
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and just kind of Mark the wires and that way you can now
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just do this nice and easy and I'm actually going to sit down and do this
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and I actually meant to mark down there to where the outlet is going to be but it'll be all right
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so the idea behind this is kind of the the whole like Steve Jobs design where you're not ever going to see these wires
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underneath the floor but we need to make sure that this is done very nice and neat and organized
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um it's not just stuffed underneath the floor but by keeping it neat and organized
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when we put the wire wrap on it it's going to be very very easy
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a question might come up is if if you want to add to the system is this something that you could add to uh what
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we're doing right here no you'd have to actually add an additional breaker
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um for uh if you wanted more Outlets say they wanted an outlet in the back of the van
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you would need to add another uh a 120 volt breaker
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but that's the give and take in a van we're limiting ourselves to four circuits because
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I mean really we don't need that at the current moment the the need is not we don't need that much
1:00:05
circuits uh they're kind of useless but if you did say you have you wanted
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something an outlet in the back just for convenience
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uh where was I going with that oh yeah so we have the four circuit
1:00:24
breaker to simplify things we don't want to have this whole entire system to where
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there's like multiple um expansion so the reason those plastic
1:00:36
boxes and RVs are so huge is because I mean you can just you can add
1:00:41
you know four or six Breakers you just you can keep going but that's more if you wanted
1:00:47
to add like a secondary 120 volt AC or heck you're on
1:00:54
those rigs are you know plugged up to shore power so they have
1:01:00
uh you know an unlimited power technically you know they're pulling off almost like a household box to where
1:01:08
if they actually want to maybe we'll run like a little washing machine you know you can do that but
1:01:15
in a van we want to be limited because we don't want to we want to stop the complexity somewhere
1:01:20
so simplifying with four Outlets is plenty
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plus we don't have enough room for that box in our in this build
1:02:28
foreign live stream it'd be great to ask questions right now
1:02:34
because this is this is like a meaningless task
1:02:39
so I'm just literally taping wires I would love to be answering questions right now
1:02:44
if you guys had any
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also I think by doing a pull again um I'm just kind of choosing this time of night to live stream because I think
1:03:23
there's a lot of people on the west coast that are interested in the channel
1:03:28
so I'm trying to do a trying to get the east coast and the West Coast covered and it seems to be
1:03:34
the best time currently but they can definitely change if
1:03:40
you know love to hear suggestions on live streaming time
1:04:13
Okay so we've got this taken care of
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find out where we were stopping over here we're on the back side now
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foreign
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foreign
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[Applause]
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this Loom that I'm on here you guys can obviously see it's not covering the whole thing
1:08:48
so I all I need it to cover is I'm putting on the whole thing because I
1:08:54
have it but the main thing I wanted to cover is I need to cover the three-quarter side uh where the shower
1:09:00
pan is that's what I wanted to cover
1:09:08
I just wanted to buffer between the the steel shower pan and the cables
1:09:21
so with the current way that I have this ran the white the two white cables that we we put on here
1:09:28
those are the ones that I'm looking to uh protect the most
1:09:44
foreign
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all right guys about 15 minutes we're going to sign off here so if you have any questions before the live stream
1:11:13
ends let me know uh now would be a great time to
1:11:19
ask that before I head off
1:11:31
so you guys can kind of get the gist of what's Happening Here with the cables you got these cable managed
1:11:39
and then we are going to pop this right into here and uh
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we'll tape this wire so that when we put it into the floor single B
1:11:53
completely protected just like that and then we'll be able to put the floor
1:11:59
right on top of it so stay tuned for the next live stream
1:12:05
I'm going to handle this all first thing tomorrow got to get it on the floor
1:12:12
there's really no more runs that we're doing in the ceiling I mean really we've got everything we've got all our
1:12:18
communication cables for our panel up here we've got our USB power we've got our
1:12:24
lighting front and rear power we're going to run
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one more cable here
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actually two more
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I just dropped the other one but that's all right so we got two more here
1:12:48
um one is going to go underneath this one that is the wabasto
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uh it's gonna go on this back side
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that is double basto communication and Power all right so obaso communication and
1:13:08
Power right there and then
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on the top side we have the last cable which is our 12 volt power supply
1:13:21
for our energy hub
1:13:31
so can I get a chunk of cables here
1:13:39
to go on the floor all right yeah this is going to be that
1:13:46
main chunk we'll take care of that tomorrow morning
1:13:51
and then the good news is our adapter for their RTX 2000 AC unit came in so we've got
1:13:59
all those supplies we need to actually do the AC unit and uh you know these live streams it's just me
1:14:06
building you guys get to see everything kind of happen live but we will be making
1:14:12
videos for like dedicated install videos that are not me just kind of talking and
1:14:18
you know spending time with the van it'll be step by step I just like the live streams because it
1:14:25
gives you guys an opportunity if you have time come in the live stream chat you know ask questions while I'm
1:14:31
working it's a really good way to uh to learn how to build a band I think
1:14:38
so what else do we have left um oh if you noticed we are
1:14:45
repurposing the wheel wells the plastic ones from
1:14:53
Ford uh believe it or not this is pretty decent insulation on top of here so we've got
1:15:00
it kill matted and then we have this cover that's going to go over there and that's what we're going to use
1:15:08
we are so tight for space with the water tank in the hot water that uh
1:15:16
we'll stuff the inside of the water tank with a some 3M thinsulate but
1:15:23
the front part we couldn't build like a insulative structure so that's as good
1:15:28
as we're going to do on the back side however on the inside there's a chamber here and that will be fully
1:15:34
insulated it's just this little curve right here where the taper of the tank comes in we
1:15:41
needed to be right up against that so that's why we're utilizing this and these are really good to uh you know
1:15:49
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1:15:54
so we're going to do this and then we're gonna do the same thing over here keep it nice and low profile for a power
1:16:00
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