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Ford Transit Electrical Connections Under Driver Seat (Update)
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May 2, 2025
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all right hey guys we're live we are on the iPhone here because that means I got something important to tell you um I've
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got a couple more products that came in we are I'm redoing the power system under the driver's seat because I wasn't happy with the way the cables went in
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and I ordered this product off Amazon so I'll show you what it
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is so I got two things uh I have a terminal fuse block and this one is a dual
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terminal fuse block so we'll look at that inside the van um then we got an additional 75 amp fuse so that's part
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one of this live stream this quick stream over here on this side we've got
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our new wire tap for our
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uh let me set the phone down here
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so this is our new wire tap for the wolf box so this is that very special one
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that's actually instead of two pins uh it's actually three pins so we've already installed this underneath the
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dash the wolf box is working great so when we turn the key on the wolf box comes on when we turn the key off it
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automatically shuts down so it's sensing the accessory wire uh just like we wanted to uh I just
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bought these just in case um again this stuff just cost a couple bucks I think this was eight bucks for two and this
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was maybe five or six or something like that for a whole
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pack um the next thing I bought I'm not going to be using this but I bought this just in case I got a little
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creative uh this thing is by a company called uh New
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Concepts and it has an it's an awesome battery terminal for for a uh the low
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profile design batteries so these right here allow you to add an additional
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battery terminal Mount so that you can do a you know stereo speak uh like a amp
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in the back for Subs you can have these terminals on the side uh and then one of these terminals you can use for the AMP
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one of these terminals you can convert to a uh stud and that allows you to not
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have to cut your original battery wires so let's hop over to the van and
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uh let me show you uh what we're working on over
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here so this is the battery and see how
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there's this pocket so this pocket right here is a lowprofile Mount so that um part that I just showed
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you would go right here nice and flush on the battery terminal you'd clamp it down and then you'd have a extra stud
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that comes out here and that's how you would take this and mount it to your
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battery um that way you don't have to uh for example there's not really a place for me to Mount wires if I wanted to
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mount let's just say some add additional accessory wire to this uh it just it
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just really wouldn't work so um
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yeah so that's how what that kit does all right so where was I not happy in my
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install well the back of the wires here it just it just didn't hold second let me turn the heat
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off that heat messes up with the
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audio there we go hold on I know I'm taking you guys for a road trip
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here all right so what I did was I took these are the two ecoflow wires and they
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were sticking out the back it just I just wasn't happy with it so I redid it
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this is the 60 amp that we talked about in the last live stream so I just want
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to let you know that we're not using this and what we've done is I have CAU over here and if you
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guys can see we now have a dual terminal terminal stud I guess is what
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it's called little wild and then we have two 75
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amp terminal fuses there so they're both 75 amp for our six gauge
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wire um and then this is right on our bus bar of our customer connection
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point and so uh this one goes directly
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to the Ford battery so that's this is the Ford um positive it's pretty obvious
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then this is the negative and then the negative mounts to
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the negative uh stud right here so right
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there and then over here um this is kind of how we got it set up so the P the power coming in so
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this goes to that um Fus panel underneath the
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dash so while we're over here maybe you can see it but
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way see if we can get in there so back up in there is the F where
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that wires are where the wires are coming that is for the fuses so that why
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that's why this all had to come out because it's extremely hard to get into there unless you take all this plastic
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out to get into uh where we needed to tap those wires so right there where the top red
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wire and the bottom red wire come out that is what we used to communicate with
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our wolf box and then the other thing I didn't uh mention yesterday was this so this is
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our wolf box control module for the power coming in and you see this this
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thing is all the way up to here and then we've got this all the way in the pillar
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coming up and then we've got
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uh sneak that wire up there so this is our uh handsfree audio
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for the Dyan but underneath this uh headliner
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we've got all of our cables neatly hidden on the wolf box so we're going to be cleaning that up here and the goal
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that today just this first part of the day is to get the whole front of the van poked back together because we've got
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this all upholstered we don't need to do anything up here um so we want to get the swivel seats in so the whole front
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of the van will be done today and then we can get back to the back of the
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van but um I know I'm like jumping all
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over the place here that was the power that we needed to come on when the van was on and off that's a rear view mirror
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that we mounted it works excellent um the wolf boxes it's an
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awesome unit so when it comes on you can just swipe left you can see the front being recorded you can swipe again you
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can see the rear camera and if you swipe a third time you'll have the front camera on the left and then the rear
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camera on the left live and it's just really really cool
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um so that is what what where all this came
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so uh much more challenging than I had anticipated and uh it's really just how
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uh you know Ford has their stuff placed for example the dynaman I had to take
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apart the whole entire right side of the dash for the sync 3 unit module to be connected to this to access the rear
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camera same with the wolf box um now I say it's complicated but this
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is the right way to do it this way you're not pulling wires and doing some weird uh weird wiring um in a van if you
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just uh think about not cutting the manufacturer wire as much as possible
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and then being creative not to do that so for example even though this was limited here and the wires came out just
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right here I we only have like maybe 12 in of extra it's in a spot to where
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we don't have to worry about it pro install dynan Pro so it's all going to
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work nice and well for a long time which brings me back to the beginning of this where we're talking
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about the ecoflow the ecoflow I was using this customer connection point and these the
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wires were kind of like spiderwebbed out here and it just didn't look good so what I'm doing now is I have
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modified the uh this cap right here so this is the cover and so I've cut this
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Notch out and so what that's going to do is that's going to allow me to come over here and I still have my uh
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positive terminals protected with his cover but the notch allows me to when I
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put this cover on allows me to not chew up my ecoflow wires as they come through
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the battery compartment so right there so now those can mount up here and I know it doesn't
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look like it right now but trying to do this one-handed um and I may go out to that
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permanent marker mark where I did but anyway that's just so this is not being chewed up the battery box these wires
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will come around and then they're going to loop back around and this is the this is the cool part I wanted to show you so
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let me get my camera set down here give me one
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second
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here we go go down a little bit
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more okay so right there hopefully that won't move
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okay perfect all right so that's actually a very good vantage point for
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the for this system hold on second I'm trying to get
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this thing to not fall over got this new DJI osmo and uh
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according to live stream you guys really like the iPhone as opposed to the whole uh very nice live stream live
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stream live stream rig um okay so here is the box you can
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see obviously this doesn't cut the wires off but now here's the fancy part so
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what I did is I neatly cut out this V and I just did that with a multi-tool
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but now I can take my two positive wires so the white one is my alternator
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2 or alternator 1 input for the ecoflow and this one is my alternator 2
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input and so what I'm going to do is I'm going to take those I'm going to pop them up into
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here and so now my ground and or my negative and positive are
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separated and then since this is coming through what I can do is now I can put
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this on my two terminal studs and we're okay from Ford as far as
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using this tab over here because they have that fused for their customer connection point at 175 amps and we've
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got uh 50 amps that we're going to be um
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fused 90 is going to be usable so we're only going to be using
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90 all right so I'm just going to go ahead and fully install this while you guys are
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watching this live but when you're doing a terminal fuse and I have an example over
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here this is a single so you want nothing on here except the stud then you
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want to put your terminal fuse on and then that makes contact with this bottom ring and then when you're finished then
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you'll actually take your washer uh your lead and put it on then you put your washer lock washer kind of go from
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there so we're just going to put our two washers on
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here we got two two lock washers and I've already
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torqued that down so that's good to go and we'll take these
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two now I'm completely making this next part up but uh one thing just in in mind that I
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think is good about this scenario is that we have our incoming charge from
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our alternators and then from this is where the battery connects so if I would have
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done it like uh I had done before
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um this thing would be grabbing the whole entire 90 amps plus it would be
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dealing with the amperage that needs to be used to charge the battery so I think
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this is a better setup because this is staying independent to just charging the battery and then this or we're getting
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that juice from the alternator and we're kind of not technically bypassing the
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battery because the battery is going to assist uh in
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somewhat in in some way to provide current but I just think the flow of
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electricity is is bad is better this way so put a comment if you're a pro
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electrician and you'd like to comment on my little idea there but I think it's
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uh I think it's uh legit
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um okay so next what we're going to do is
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we are going to come over here and we're just going to tighten these
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down just want to make sure that our wires are nice and straight and they're
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not kind of veering off coming on top of each
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other okay so that's good good now we can put
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our cap on here now we have increased the height pretty dramatically but when
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I dry tested this it looked like we were able to still put this cover on
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so let's uh let's see if that's still
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true all right so now the plan here is
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to um and I'm actually going to put a little bit of wire loom around
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that um we just we just don't want want things chafing in there nobody
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likes chafing so I'm just going to put a little bit of
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uh wire Lumin around those wires and so I've knocked down all the
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sharp Parts but you know can't hurt to do
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this either even though we're filming from the phone um if you guys have a question you can just definitely put it
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in the chat so I'd love to love to hear that let's see if anybody's in the chat nope
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okay got a wire loom on one side let's get it on the other
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side
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and I want the opening to be on the bottom because if anything is going to rub it's going to be on the
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top okay so now the tricky part to get
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everything to fit comfortably in
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here
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okay now that uh terminal is pushing up just a
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little bit but we're snapped in here um earlier I had thought
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that this had Clips on the inside it just didn't it was just the way that it clipped
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in but now that we have that um that's where I want it that looks
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good happy with that now we can take our
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wires and we can figure out what this is going to look like with the battery box um installed back in
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here so let me move the camera back just a little bit we should be able
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to get a good get a good angle of this
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yeah this phone's actually working out very
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well so one second let me get this
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down
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all right that'll do for right now so let's get this
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battery
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so if you do uh decide to use this setup that I'm using you're going to need to put this piece of plastic on the side
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you need to put that on there first
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um yeah this plastic over here you need to put that on first so you can actually
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protect the wires going [Music] into uh the side
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here
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need to cut we're actually going to need to cut this uh piece of plastic right here so this
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will actually pop into
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place so let me do that real
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quick move the camera so for the iPhone I don't know
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how to actually turn down the volume but we are going
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to oh hey John welcome to the live stream all right I move the camera over
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here because this is going to be crazy loud there's a picture of my
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coffee [Music]
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[Applause]
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[Music]
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oh
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all right so what I did is there is that plastic tab right there so this needs to be
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flush and so now this goes on I've also modified this plastic again and I cut
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this uh plastic ring off and
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uh yeah John I think people like like daytime hours too so I've been trying to do these streams a little bit earlier it
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seems to work out pretty good um so I have so this modification
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that I made uh what I do is actually need
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to I'm going to be we need to put a little bit of
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uh thread lock on
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there
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and then we're going to put the nut okay um because this thing if I
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didn't do what I just showed you right here this thing rattles like crazy
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and we build nice Vans here we don't need
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rattling no rattles
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okay so let's just
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get and working onehanded is almost
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impossible okay you don't want to do it too much but now with that modification this thing is solid it does not it
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doesn't move and uh yeah that's the that is the
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whole the whole point there
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um actually I'm going to go back I'm going to do the B I'm going to modify the bottom one too just to have this
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pulled in and then this cap this is a decorative cap so this decorative cap
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actually goes over this and that'll clean everything up in the wires will go out the back okay
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let's get back to what we were working on here so we now have our two negative
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wires and so what we're going to do with them is we're going to um we're going to take the original
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cable where did they where did they
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go okay this is our original cable that we spliced and crimped
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yesterday and then all we're going to do is extend these like we did yesterday we're going
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to do it independently we're going to heat shrink and then we're going to connect it to the battery so we should
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only need maybe like a foot and a half run um and then we'll put some wire loom
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on this just so that we don't have any chafing
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but the whole point of this live stream was so that you guys can
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see um by being able to to put our our ecoflow
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cables let's see here if I can get doing this one-handed so give me one
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second
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see
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so the point of this
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was I wanted this uh the floor is going to cover the wire but it's not going to cover
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it all the way so for example the floor is going to cover the
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wire here so what I want this to look because
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everybody's going to see this area right here that's why it's upholstered really nice this is all this is why we cleaned
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this all up yesterday um so if you have anybody in the
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van this is where they're going to be you know hanging out see your van for
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the first time and so what I want is I want this right
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here so even though this is taking a bunch of extra time I want it
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to there we go look at that so
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now see where's that cap there so now for example when I put this
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cap on
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I'll probably heat these wires up a little bit they're a little stiff cuz they're not really warmed
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up but now we'll do
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that we put our decorative cover on and you can see this is
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uh the floor will come up to here and this will just be a very nice clean all you'll see is that braided cable and
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that's it you won't see this red yellow heat shrink tape type of thing that we
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had going on earlier um which I just I I just didn't like the way it
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looked and uh yeah that's pretty much what I wanted to show in this live stream is just how you can do a little
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bit extra effort make some modifications and really clean up
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uh something that you know you're going to be walking in the van and you're going to possibly see this area uh now
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it's also true somebody may never ever notice this and but for me I just want
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it to look the best that it can look um and when we combine that with
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our cover right
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here
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you get a really better idea of how that's going to look and uh
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yeah so that is about it guys I'm going to uh go ahead and put the battery back
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in I'll remake these Terminals and then later this
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afternoon let's see what our goal is for later this this
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afternoon definitely get the whole entire interior put back
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together and then this afternoon we're going to hop on um we have we have very little left to
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do up on the roof so what we need to do is the max
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fan is just going to pop in there it's ready to go four screws um and that's pretty much it uh I
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did did mention that I was going to do the lap cyant so we'll do the lap
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cyant um we can put the fan on and then we
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need to drill two holes in the back right there for the solar so all the
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solar is ready it just needs to be plugged in together zip tied and ran
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down the back um we have to wait to put in the no
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itic AC right there because uh we need to build a
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interior um how do I explain
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this so for the uh for the rooftop AC
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you in this type of uh the pneumatic cooling situation you actually have to create a
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box around the uh like a chamber so that the air can go in and then the air can
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come out um so there's going to be like a little there's a baffle piece that you put in the middle and then that'll allow
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you to uh let's see I don't have the screen here let's go into the let's
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go on the van I'll show you so what we'll have to do is we'll
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put our support member here and our support member here that's that's that aluminum piece that we talked about in
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the previous live stream and then we're going to have to take our poly ISO or
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XPS sorry foam and then we'll make this little box and it's just like a little AC box
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and so the air can go in one side and there's a diverter and then the cold air can come out the other side so you have
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the intake diverter and then the exhaust which is in this case the conditioned
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air um also if you guys missed out on yesterday's live stream we installed our
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ecoflow AC input so that's what it looks like on the back so we don't really care what
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the sealant looks like we just want to make sure that it's sealed up really well what we do care about is what it
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looks like on the outside of the van so this is our shore power so it is a 30
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amp Shore power plug um and but one thing you want to do
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if you have this type of setup is you want to get a 15 amp
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converter SL surge protector and that's going to allow you to plug into this but
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then plug it straight into your household power um you're only going to get 15 amps of charging
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but uh it's just more convenient Because unless you're going to do a dedicated 30 amp you know like almost
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like a dryer connection at your house um this is what you're going to want to get
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because friends and family are going to have this readily available if you go travel and hang out with them um you
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know gas station or you know some emergency location you could actually
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use this to to to top off but yeah check out that live stream
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we go through the whole entire install talk about all the products um that we have on there and uh
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yeah we go over that whole thing all right guys hope you enjoyed this uh quick live stream um taking care of some
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electrical checking off the list and moving on with this uh Ford Transit van conversion if you guys are not
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subscribed get subscribed to the channel give us a thumbs up click that notification Bell because I go live
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randomly throughout the day and I don't want you guys to miss out on a video or a chance to ask a question live um when
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we do this on the phone we got the live chat down here as well as on the computer if we're not live uh put a
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question or a comment in one of the videos and I'd love to answer it on a future video um awesome John glad you
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got to watch this one for a bit and uh yeah guys we will see you on the next live stream
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