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May 2, 2025
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hey everyone welcome back to the live stream tonight and I've gotten to a point where
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I need to come back Circle back and start doing cable management and if you
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guys are doing your own van build and cable managing is something that you just don't want to deal with this might
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help you so you can see that I have a lot of stuff that's disorganized at the moment needs to be cleaned up so I'm
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going to go through that process uh but there's also a lot of fun things that we're going to be doing I finished uh
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building the acrylic panel for our battery box back here and it looks awesome I've already
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put in the LED strip uh just temporarily temporarily just see what it looks like
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um I wonder if I can just turn the light off real quick and then you guys can just see what it might look
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like uh but it's really cool so when you have that etch glass in
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there it just absorbs that light uh especially when you have that led firing straight down and it illuminates
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everything really cool it's subtle but it's uh makes a big impact now we're just doing it on the back side
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the forward side where the heater and the other batteries are that is going to be um closed off because not only that
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but we have um on that side we have uh our breaker that's going to
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be installed so let me pick that up just so you can see that too that's going to be coming up in a future live
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stream uh it is a blue SE systems uh 120 volt AC breaker so it looks
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something like this it's very compact I really like to use it because typically you're not going to have more than four
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circuits so you say you have uh you've got your microwave uh you might have two
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outlets and then you have uh some other connection like your hot water heater
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for example and these are really cool they're just super easy to turn on and turn off they have individual labels
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that are back lit uh so you get like a whole book of you know microwave uh Ford
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Outlet even refrigerator or something like that so you can put those here you get indicator lights it's just a simple
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breaker now this is actually going to go forward uh right underneath the battery
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into the rear of the heater box area and don't worry we're going to have uh
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everything shielded in there and yeah just nice and neat so this will be in a
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future item but just check this out cuz this is a a really cool component nice
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low profile if you're looking for a low profile uh 120
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volt breaker all right so the next thing we're going to work on
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is uh let's talk about our thermostatic
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switch so I'm going hop on the computer so you get can see a zoomed in view of
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this I'm going clean all my tabs up here all
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right so this is the part that we're talking about and guess what it is on the DIY
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van build cheat sheet so it's under electrical if you guys are wondering what the DIY van build cheat sheet is
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it's a curated list of over 250 items that I've personally put together and it's completely free so you
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got this list it's good for getting started if you don't know where to start with Van products and you want to look
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at a list that's actually been vetted by somebody especially a builder so this is stuff that I've all bought from Amazon
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most of the stuff has came in the shop either gone into a build or is awaiting a build and it's all on that sheet it's
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organized it's easy to find like up here in the rightand corner I just typed temp
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te M and boom the first thing to show up was this temperature sensor so this list
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has that part on it that's how you look it up and then this is what we're talking about but if you want to get
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this list completely free go to Van Builder hq.com click the link in the description below and you can sign up
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for this and it'll be delivered right to your inbox really think it's going to help you out on your DIY van build so let's
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check out this part it's $1.99 super cheap and what this is is a 12vt digital
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thermostat and and this is going to allow us to monitor uh
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temperature now you can use this for anything temperature inside the van you
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know any type of compartment where you're concerned about something getting too hot and you need an exhaust fan to
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turn on our particular use case is we're going to be using this to turn on uh two
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mini exhaust fans to pull the heat out of the uh offgrade Power System that's
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specifically exhausted by the 3000 watt pure sine wave inverter now it's gonna
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be drawing in fresh air from the top of the box and going out the vent in the bottom and this orientation has to be
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this way because that's how Renegy uh suggests that you mount the inverter so
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technically we wouldn't want to mount it upside down but in this case we are mounting it according to the uh
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specifications so we need a little bit extra help to when it does get um when it's used being used for a very long
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time we can pull that excess heat out uh what I did in an earlier live stream is
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I actually covered this uh entire system
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power system with a cardboard and then did a test of this fan and this test fan
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actually brought our internal temperature of the battery box down 20° and it was perfect so it's right in the
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spec of uh what Renegy wants for the inverter not to go over and it actually does a
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really good job just managing the temperature so we're good to go only thing we have to do now is actually
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install it so this unit if you're looking at it uh there's four uh post here where you're going to
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put in a positive wire on the first one uh we'll uh do a jumper cable in the
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middle between these two and then this final one is our ground lead which all the ground wires we will connect to and
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that's how we're going to use it we got these three individual switches here and what they're going to do is you have a
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designated value up top which is your um
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uh I have to look and see which one is actually the temperature but one's a specified temperature and then the other
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one is the temperature you would uh that you're monitoring live so you
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have a live temperature and then the temperature you would like it to turn on or off at so that's how this is set up uh you
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will need to come in and pay attention to the wiring schematics for this because there's different ways that you
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can wire this depending on your needs um I use this for example to
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control a uh AC Infinity system on uh the Marine One van build and I use that
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to run an intake and exhaust van for the same type of situation we have a tight space where we need to exhaust uh hot
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air and this thing uh does great job um it's been in Thomas's van
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for almost I guess a year year and a half maybe um and it is uh yeah the shop
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the van was in the shop just to uh work on a couple things and it came off and on no
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problem so nice simple board and this is what we're going to be using so that is
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the product let's hop back on over here and check out what's it to the next steps with
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this so what we have here is we've got
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um we've got our intake or we got our exhaust fans right over here and these
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are two uh I forgot the size of these um but
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they're essentially computer exhaust fans and you want to look around find out first off the footprint what you're
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working with two the noise there's different versions of these uh there's
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some that are designed differently they're Extremely Loud they're more for like server rack fans and uh you
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definitely don't want to use that um so this is what you want to
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use so we're going to cook this up uh this will be the first thing we do
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because this is something that I haven't worked on so we're going to take this we've got
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four wires here and we're going to use a uh wo connector and we're going to use a
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six position connector so we can have uh two red
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wires and actually I wonder if I have any four
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position I think we're using six cuz uh we need to get some more of these on
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order but yeah we're going to connect this uh we're going to do some jumper
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cable and wires over here we're going to get this working we're going to set it to it desired temperature and then we
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are going to uh test it we may or may not get to testing in this video um
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because I'm going try to run through a couple things if you guys have any questions during this live stream feel free to ask them at any
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time and uh yeah so let's go ahead and get started we're using uh a clein tool
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this is a161 this thing is my favorite so it's a
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really easy way to strip these wires uh in a neat way if you guys have
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ever used wo connectors there's actually an indicator on the side and it tells
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you how much of the wire to actually uh you know
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remove so I just put it on here I take my fingernail and I kind of press in
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where that is so I get a good amount of cable in here but I don't do too
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much uh because you don't want to do too much you might mess
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up so if you guys don't know uh we recently
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have a new build that's going to be in the shop uh the other van that you guys
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had always seen in the uh in the background as we were working on this van uh that van has sold and a new uh
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project is going to be um put together on that one so right now we are uh on a
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strict timeline to get this van knocked out because uh I'm actively ordering
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parts for the van and the first part came in today so uh
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we got our Webasto um it's like STC
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2000 so we just got that in so it's the first thing so yeah
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things are starting to happen quickly um so my goal is to before Thanksgiving is
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to get all this cable manage put together bolted second panel top panel
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and then manage this uh air coming in and out down here uh what's nice about wo connector
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connectors is that as you're using them you can plug you plug the wire in you
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can unplug it and it makes trouble shooting and setting up the circuit uh
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really effortless it helps you from not wasting a bunch of crimps and you know cutting
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wires where you shouldn't be for example if we had to hard crimp all these connectors and then test it and then it
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wasn't the right connection for some reason we messed up you're going to start CH chopping this whole entire
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thing down and uh yeah you're going to start to waste a lot of stuff uh I'm
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going to tilt the camera down just a little bit so you guys can
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see just a little bit better
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once again we do have the uh we've got the chat going so if you guys have any questions feel free to
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uh free to check it
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out
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so this connector has a temperature probe uh right here
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and this temperature probe is just going to go down in the bottom underneath this
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uh vent fan and this is what is going to sense our uh the current temperature of what's
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all what's underneath here and it's going to send the
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signal what's first off is going to monitor it to make sure that either needs to come on or turn off and then
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besides that um it'll turn it on at the at the desired point
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all right so we got our fans connected next thing we need to do is we are getting some
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cable uh this these cables are some USB scrap cable that I had uh I was trying
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to cheat and make a USB plug-in cable that was 12vt and the internal wiring in
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here there's some type of resistor or something like that uh and it will only
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let you allow five volts to come through and I guess that's to protect the USB circuit but uh it's kind of kind of
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weird but we're going to use
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this this scrap wire so we're just going to cut our USB port off because we don't
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need it we're going to come through [Music] and wire this up to our system what's
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nice about these wire strippers is watch this you can quickly uh strip the outer
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jacket and then like I said before with the wo connectors you can come in here
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and do your fingernail find out the size and you quickly come
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in get the right uh amount stripped off the wire really quick
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and all you got to do is Twist the ends and you're good to
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go all right so what we want to do is I'm putting the wire here and I want it
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to go to the controller on this side so right where this Bend is is where I want
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the uh wire remove but I want to cut the wire right
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here
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so this Bend is where I want to strip it so I'm just going to come in
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here let's see I want to do that actually probably I'll come
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up might do a little bit shorter because this one's going to actually connect to the the device uh right there
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so if this one is connecting to the device uh what I'm going to do is I'm
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going to get my wire feral kit cuz these terminals right here work really well
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well if you get a wire
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feral
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there you
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go so this kit is also on the cheat sheet so a wire feral kit it's the most Pro way to do the
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wiring in your van so you see you got a bunch of different connectors bunch of different gauges uh just whatever you do don't
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drop this because there's hundreds there's actually what like a thousand pieces in
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here uh so what we're going to do is we're going to first we need to uh check
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out our wire GA gauge so we got 18 gauge and then right here red is for our 18
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gauge wire um and this is going to tell
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us this way we can look at this and find out how
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much um how much we actually want to take off
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of the wire and again I just Ed my fingernail
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to show me where I want to cut it's the E easiest
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method okay I'm go back a little bit
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on and like I said we will have to make a jumper for this circuit and it's just really
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easy so one thing if you're doing a DIY build and you want to have some type of
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way of organizing the mesal wires that you have in your van is make sure you take a bunch of pictures take take a
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bunch of pictures put them into Google photos and what's cool is Google photos will actually recognize this as a
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circuit board and so you can just type in circuit it'll search for the image and then you can pull up whatever you
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did back in the day so that you don't have to you know worry that you've you
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figured figured out forgot how you where you put something crimp something another thing we're going to
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talk about in this live stream tonight is labeling your wires so that's part of the cable management
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uh now this is for a future uh owner so I'm labeling it so that they know what
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to look for but you want to do it for yourself as well you don't want to have a mess of wires and each one not be
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labeled because if something ever happens a wire melts imagine you messed
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up and like two wires crossed or something and they both melted but you have no idea where they came
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from uh if you label it it makes troubleshooting that much easier
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because you may not always be in a perfect place to troubleshoot your your power system you could be completely off
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grid you can be out um you know at some park somewhere or
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something like that you're not always going to be in the driveway where you can take your time and and troubleshoot
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it so make sure that you label everything and uh I mean make the labeling long just you know 12vt wire
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goes to refrigerator uh and that this is the end of the wire so that you know that kind
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of where it goes I try to simplify this for the future owner so what I do is I have my
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main system here and all my hard wirring so all the stuff that's hardwired such as the inverter you know solar uh all
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the big Mega fuses all the 80 amp fuses 60 amp uh 300 amp for the
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inverter you know the DC todc Chargers stuff that's hardwired and that's extremely rare that a fuse is going to
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blow all gets into here and then I have a 100 amp
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output uh that goes all the way to the uh kitchen Galley and underneath the
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kitchen Galley is your subpanel for all the 12vt in the van it's much easier to
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open that door underneath the sink take the cover off and troubleshoot some fuses then to unbolt the power system to
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get to things so think about that when you're designing your your power system all right so right here see we
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have our wire ferals so it's a nice and neat professional job we've got our two wires
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over here that are going to go to our
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corresponding fan
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connections okay and so that will be our power to our fan connection so
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technically we only needed three uh these right here these two are going to be what provides the power either on or
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off so I'm going to go in here and I'm going to check my
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drawing uh where'd it go
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circuit okay here we go um yeah so we have our power wire and
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then all of our grounds and then we have a jumper so we've got this the first position is going to be
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our power power supply so we need
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a Precision screwdriver to open up this first first piece going to put in our
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positive wire and again the ferals just make this super
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easy uh be careful sometimes the feral tip is really long and this positive wire is
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exposed and that can create a short so what I do is I'm going to pull this out I'm going to remember how much extra was
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on there and then I'm going to come over here and I'm just going to snip off that
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extra bit so now when I go and I put the wire back
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in you just keep snipping until you get
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the appropriate depth that you want to safely you know not have the risk of
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short circuiting this all right and then what we're going
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to do is just give a nice tug make sure it looks feels good all right the second thing we're
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going to do is we're going to uh we're going to wait to put our
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we're going to go ahead and do our jump jper um and then we'll come back to that
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let's see what we had trying to trying to go back in time
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here to make sure I might have to go back on the
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computer okay so there other positive was on the jumper
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side so what this is telling me is I need to make I need to make that jumper
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wire so we're just going
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to first we're going to take this we're going to strip this
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off okay GES some expose exposes us some wire piece of 18 gauge
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wire uh we're going to come in here and strip
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this now depending on your circuit I know I said wire ferals are the best but
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it is possible that I may have to eat my words because sometimes I need to fit two wires in the same on the same connection
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and it's just not possible the feral just gets in the way so so
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um one of these sides is going to have a feral because this the jumper side and
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then the other side I'm not going to put a feral because I need to uh stuff two
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wires in there and then I need to twist them so sometimes you have to do
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that when I first did this thermostatic switch I thought it was really complicated I was kind of worried cuz
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you know as a builder I want to sleep at night I want to make sure that this circuit is going to
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work uh when it needs to and after you know going through the
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drawing and kind of Designing it and messing with it a little bit uh it
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was actually it's really straightforward um it's funny how some things are you get overwhelmed by but when you
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get done it's just like oh that was no problem all right we got our jumper so
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next step is we need to get our power
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wire okay let's see make sure I'm doing this so I want always want to take a
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bunch of
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pictures so that's power out that's power in so the
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jumper so we're going to go to the computer just to double check that this part that I'm looking at is
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power in so let's jump over here let's go to
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the this chart
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and jumper right here so this bottom right
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section this is what we're looking at I'm trying to uh see if I can zoom in as
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much as I can so we have a positive going to the fan so this is what's operating so we
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connected the fan so we did that did a good job there we've got the jumper so
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this jumper is here the VCC is our 12volt power supply so here's our 12vt
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power supply so just think of this this is your battery and we've got a positive negative so the power coming in is going
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to go into that one which is the third one the first one is powered to the fan
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second one is jumped to the third one and then the third one is the power
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coming in and then other one is just negative so we're good let's keep going uh let me change
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the camera
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okay so where were we we need our power coming
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in okay so we did that all right so the power coming in
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I'm going to steal that from the red LED so that was more for show so
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you guys could see how cool this
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was but now um so the way I do this if you're
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wondering we might go back to this later in the Stream but uh the channel of the 820 up here is open and you can stuff
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with the adhesive uh on the back and you can stuff the LED up there and it's just it's really incognito looks super
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cool so now I'm going to go up to a predetermined circuit I have up here
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which is a 5 amp circuit I'm going to disconnect it and now the light's
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off and so now I know that this uh wire that I have here that's my power
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supply this one will now be my power supply for the
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uh this vent this uh ventilation fan so I'm going to go ahead
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and uh neatly bring this wire
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down make sure we got some really nice Cable Management down here uh it's a really tight space in
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here as you guys if you've been following the build you guys know this is super tight
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but what we wanted to do is maximize our
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um you know everything in the van we wanted to make sure it could uh have as much room it wouldn't have a
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lot of dead dead space it's being unused
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uh I see a lot of vans that have really big open battery boxes and I
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don't think that's a bad idea but uh there's just a lot of unused
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space okay so we got this coming down we can zip tie that
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there and just come of better
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okay so now we have our power input so this is our power input
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cable and so now what I got to make sure I do is uh so I'm wiring this for real
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it's not like a this is not a demo uh for the the van but
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uh so what I'm doing here is I'm going in and
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I need to make sure that when I finish this I can put the unit back in here because I actually want to mount it
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right here just like that so I I want to mount it and uh so you can see it
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through the plexiglass you can see the temperature that it's turning on and off so I need to make sure that
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everything is coming through this uh this window over
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here all right so we your power [Music]
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in oh another thing uh while I'm messing with this board because this board is so
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cheap there's it's not mounted to anything so all the uh terminals are back here are exposed so you can easily short circuit
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that uh if you're not too
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careful all right give me one second guys I'll be right back I'm just going to
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uh get a pair of
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scissors
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and we're going to take this electrical tape and we're going to make a little bit of an insulator on the back of this
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uh board because it is not
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insulated
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or something like that which I'm actually going to do you can just leave this on there
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um that's what I'm going to do I just need to be careful because I have this metal rear trim piece and I don't want
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it to
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contact
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for
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okay so we got our board
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and we're moving to our power supply okay for this power supply we are
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going to put ferals on here so I think we're 18 yeah
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okay
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for
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so now we got to see if the power uh Power supplying this can fit in here
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with [Music] the uh extra wire because if you
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remember we had we didn't have that much room in here so
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so let's go ahead and put our jumper wire we'll stuff it in there first and then we'll put the uh the one with a
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feral in
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there
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I did the same thing for the two negative wires I don't know if those will fit in there
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we'll try it if it doesn't work we're going to have to trim trim these
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off
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I'm going to go ahead and just turn the bottom one off just to make things
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easier all we got some more people in the Stream if you guys are just joining what we're doing is we are wiring in a
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thermostatic uh thermostatic L controlled switch for our exhaust fan on our power system and this is going to
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help regulate the temperature inside this box uh this stuff up in here so we're
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doing this switch first uh we got this custom circuit board right here that we bought off of Amazon and this is going
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to control the fan when it turns on and off via the temperature from a temperature sensor on the
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inside then we're going to hook up uh we had a LED strip going for our frosted
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panel over here so we finished this up the other day so this is our custom
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etched glass panel that's going to cover the power system that way you can look at the power system and
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uh you know just it this looks cool right now what I'm doing is I'm
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just connecting the last wire here and we'll actually be able to test
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this uh let's see here just got to make sure that I got
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enough in enough in here for the uh the ground
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lead my only issue is is the very tight
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circuit the chat is open for questions so if you guys have any questions van related van build related uh happy
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to answer them for you tonight so you guys can just put that in the
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chat okay we've got everything connected that we need to have connected in
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here there a fuse circuit up there we got our control board so
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now uh yeah just going to send we're going to send power to this and
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see see if it works let's do
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it there's no off and on switch so this is going to be permanently
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on okay the good news is nothing melted we've got
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our uh temperature probe in there it's measuring that
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71 60 70
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80 so what I did is I cycled through and at 80° it's now turning on the fans are
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turning on so I mean it's pretty cool it's a uh you can see now if I do a
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micro adjustment on the left
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79 78 77 76 75 74 3 2
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[Music] 1 turns off so very nice um yeah this thing works
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excellent
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so I think this is backwards turns off when it gets to
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70
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see I forgot how I do this
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last
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70
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I want this to turn on when it gets
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to see
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here all right so that's 70
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right 72 so I'm G to pull a sensor out and put it between my fingers and we're going to try to heat this
47:24
Up's see
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set right so let's go and look on the computer figure out how we set the other
47:45
one all right let's see if this can make sense
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here
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okay it's in low temp right now so we need to we need we need number two we
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need number two
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setting
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P four five hot cold so it was it was on heating so
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it was acting like this is a heater but we need this to be a cooler so we set it
48:51
hit the set button and then we changed it to a cooler so now
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uh it's 75 it's set at 72 so if we put the temperature probe in
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front of the fans and we let it cool the probe
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down we're at
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74 how hot is it in here 73 that's not going to work all right let's
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set this to let me Heat this back up I'm going to change it to
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74° okay we that's something we can achieve so right now my hands made this 80° so we're going to put the uh sensor
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over here on the fan and we're going to let the fan cool this
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down to below 74 so as soon as this hits 74
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it should turn
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off all right 74.9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 there we
50:34
go pretty cool so we'll take this temperature
50:39
probe and we will put it underneath that area where the fan is on
50:45
the inverter and we're just sitting it in there because the fan on the inverter is
50:52
very strong so this is going to pick up that heat no problem
50:58
um and actually what I'll do let's see
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here we could plug in Shore power for a
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demo uh but I think what I want to do is I want to move on to the
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other the other wires here okay so that is this if you guys
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wanted to do this temperature probe pretty much how you set it up it is that is that
51:28
simple um okay next what we're going to do is we are going to clean up this wire
51:36
over here so what we need to do is start to
51:41
uh move the get these away so we can label them the first thing that we're going to
51:46
label is we have these two wires so these two what we did is we pulled
51:53
them and they are
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our there are wires for our DC todc Chargers so we have this first
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one this is number one then this is number two back here in
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the bag so this is number one so we're going to pull this out
52:21
we're going to put a label right here and then we're going to wrap it up so in this power system we've got two DC
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todc
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Chargers so this is going to be blue that's uh this will
52:48
be DC space d
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c CH HG dcddc charger
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one and then b t for Bluetooth and then we're just going to
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hit
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print okay we're just going to wrap this around the end of the wire and now we know what this wire
53:31
does and so we're going to clean these wires up we'll wrap them zip time and they're all going to hang out right here
53:37
in this space back here between the battery and the inverter um and I'm not cutting them
53:45
down to size just in case something happens in the future and this needs to
53:50
be uh chopped up or accessed or something like that
53:57
um because it's not going to hurt anything being long everything's covered up can't see anything all right so
54:03
that's our first one and we got our second one and so what these cables are doing
54:11
is these are the Bluetooth communication this is how we're using the Renegy M1
54:18
controller and this is uh controlling that so I'm gonna
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move up a little bit so that my head is actually in the frame CU
54:31
I know that looks
54:54
weird yes we're just going to label the wires grab some zip ties we'll mark off
55:00
everything that we need to and then we'll come into the
55:07
LED for the power system itself because what I want to do that is
55:12
I want to cut it to size I want to set up the circuit for it so what I also
55:17
have uh that you guys haven't seen is I have a mini I know we call like a mini
55:23
sub panel but they on the back side of here you have these uh four circuit
55:30
they're like a terminal post fuse
55:35
breaker and what's really nice about that is if you need a mini
55:41
circuit uh right beside your battery
55:46
system it's perfect it's exactly what you need so right here um I forgot the name
55:54
of it but essentially here I'll take this off
56:00
but look it's just a a four fuse circuit that mounts to your terminal post on
56:07
your battery and what I'm using it for is we have a 12vt SN lead that needs to come
56:14
down from the dedic RTX 2000 so that's up here and it's
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fused uh the next thing we have fused is going to be our
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uh Power for the what we're using this for
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um uh we got our volted sens senses for the two DC todc Chargers that's how they
56:44
monitor their internal charging for the Renegy um so when it's charging the
56:50
batteries that's how it tells you know what state of charge the batteries
56:58
all right so let's uh let's see what we had all right let's go ahead and print
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this one out and if you guys have any questions on you know Power Systems while we're
57:10
back here it's a perfect time to ask those
57:18
questions but yeah I'm on a time crunch right now with this build so I'm kind of doing double dipping here we're doing a
57:25
live stream but also we're doing we're filming content for uh the final video that we'll have for this van
57:32
where we have all the time lapse of the build and then we have a nice video where we're going through the systems
57:39
and you know normal van build
57:50
Montage okay so now where we have DC to DC Charger 2 blue
57:55
Bluetooth DC to DC charger one all right the next two that we have
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over here is this is
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our
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uh because we're using the Renegy M1 system I wanted to put in and it doesn't come with a shunt because when you use
58:36
these smart lithium iron phosphate batteries that are actually all networked together so all six batteries are networked together and they uh
58:43
communicate directly to the M1 controller for all the state of charge so there's no shunt in this battery
58:49
system so just for my pce of mind and monitoring purposes to see how close ly
58:55
uh it measures the battery I put in a victron um battery monitor so this is
59:01
the bmv-712 Smart Bluetooth battery monitor uh what's nice
59:07
you can just plug this in and then you can put it back behind here with all your cables and you'll just pull up
59:13
victron app on your phone and you won't have to ever see this screen you'll just be able to see the state of charge this this whole thing will be hidden uh back
59:21
here in the back so we're just stuff that back there um making our way we've got this
59:30
next cable which is are 12vt sents for the
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dedic RTX and as soon as I put the new label on here I can take away this uh piece of
59:42
painters tape that's got the label on it right
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now all right so we got some dedic
1:00:26
uh we're just going to call it 12vt
1:00:53
wire
1:01:02
like I said earlier you're going to be really happy that you did this that you went through and labeled
1:01:08
everything because say something happens and you know late at
1:01:13
night open up your power system and you just want to get straight to the
1:01:19
problem if everything is nice neatly labeled you can find it
1:01:25
and if it's something simple just knock it out all right so this is our dedic RTX
1:01:34
wire uh we're going to keep this zip tie going to trim it
1:01:43
off all right we are knocking this out got our DC to DC's labeled our 12vt for the
1:01:51
dedic next we're going to move into are two synth wires so we got one
1:02:00
here and we got one here so these are the ones that I did
1:02:07
not get a chance to uh
1:02:16
identify okay so this one this one is
1:02:22
our number two
1:02:28
so let's go ahead and get this one labeled
1:02:35
up so this is
1:02:40
D DC DC
1:02:47
2 12 volt
1:02:53
cents
1:02:59
so this is the cable that's monitoring how the
1:03:07
uh DC todc charger is charging the
1:03:23
batteries and the labeling does not have to be perfect perfect location it just needs
1:03:30
to be there so that when you go to put all this together or we go to it's mainly
1:03:44
troubleshooting so now we know this is DC to dc1 just go ahead and print change make
1:03:50
that little change hit print
1:04:07
and we're going to reprint that because we ran out
1:04:14
of I knew it was going to run out
1:04:23
so
1:05:53
for
1:06:01
I know for some of you guys this is like watching paint dry which is probably
1:06:12
accurate I guess this is more behind the scenes stuff about organization um but yeah I
1:06:19
just wanted to show you how to do it and
1:06:25
it's important all right so that's all good
1:06:32
so there's one more this one right
1:06:43
here that goes to all right so this
1:06:53
one okay this one is our victron
1:07:00
BMV 12vt power 12 volt cense so
1:07:11
victron vron
1:07:22
shunt Victor sh 12 volt C it's our last
1:07:30
one after this we'll move on to the really cool red
1:07:36
LED that lights up the etched
1:07:43
glass and so we will yeah we'll do that and my goal is
1:07:50
to before we end this connect this switch
1:07:56
yeah it's going to be a long stream tonight
1:08:13
but it's like behind the scenes in The Odyssey custom van
1:08:20
shop I think it's cold too so if you guys have never seen what goes on into a you know a build this is a this is a
1:08:27
live example of all the work that it takes to make sure everything
1:08:33
is uh connected correctly
1:08:39
safe um all that good stuff all right so let me get some zip
1:08:44
ties and we want to get a flush cut trimming
1:08:50
tool for our for what we're working with
1:08:57
here all right we got our zip
1:09:02
ties flush cut trim tool is nice because we make sure that we
1:09:08
don't um have those really sharp
1:09:22
edges
1:09:36
see if I put it over
1:09:47
here cut there they
1:09:52
go any questions I don't see any questions in the chat it's late I know it's
1:10:02
late all right so there we go with
1:10:08
that let's go ahead and tighten this other zip tie
1:10:22
up and like I said we've got a space down in here uh that we're going to drop
1:10:28
these we're going to keep them loose so that just like this if you had an issue you and come through cut the zip ties
1:10:34
off uh you can find your wire you're not having to take the whole system apart to
1:10:40
find it it's organized it's got a label on
1:10:46
it perfect so this one is the closest wire that we have so we're going to put
1:10:51
this down in here first
1:11:10
okay next step we are going to
1:11:18
take okay we got these three wires next step we got our electron shot power
1:11:25
supply which is not a big cable that one's going to go through
1:11:30
there really
1:11:52
easy all right so for visual purposes on
1:11:58
this these uh bunch of wires here we're going to zip tie them
1:12:04
to the dedic RTX main power
1:12:10
cable and that's just going to allow us to keep everything nice and
1:12:22
neat
1:12:55
whatever you do don't make sure you don't you don't cut any of the wires that you just
1:13:03
organized that would be really
1:13:09
bad all right so next we have this
1:13:22
one
1:13:47
so this was our DC to DC
1:13:53
number one 12vt sense cut off that
1:14:00
excess all right sender right down
1:14:05
there next one coming in is we've
1:14:22
got
1:15:07
okay so this one is
1:15:13
next this is our dcdc 2 12v
1:15:22
cents
1:15:31
I'm really excited that this is happening so you guys are seeing this live this is this is it there's once
1:15:37
these get cable managed and these two panels go on we're never setting foot back over
1:15:44
here uh hopefully nobody will be going back
1:15:49
in here that's why we got the cool cool view right there um I'm GNA
1:15:56
actually put another zip tie on
1:16:03
here I always like I want to make sure that anything I put in here there's not a way for it to
1:16:11
Rattle that's that's very
1:16:16
annoying check my microphone
1:16:22
level 50% so we got plenty of time right so there's our next
1:16:31
one and one thing I'm being very
1:16:36
uh sure about is that we keep this uh we got a ventilation Port over here for
1:16:43
our um inverter and we just want to make sure
1:16:52
that the wires are not directly over
1:17:03
it okay keep on going here this is
1:17:10
our so now we're pulling in see what we got here this is
1:17:22
our
1:17:33
so we need to bundle these
1:17:41
separately all right so our victron is going to go
1:17:47
inside do another zip tie on it
1:19:51
for
1:20:21
for
1:20:51
that
1:22:56
so now what we're doing is we are connecting the power supply for the U
1:23:03
red LED backlight that's going to be in the power system so now we're getting to the cool
1:23:12
stuff uh hopefully I have some more
1:23:21
fuses
1:23:32
guess we could check the fuse drawer that's usually where they
1:23:38
are [Music] and see what we
1:23:51
got awesome we got one oh it's
1:24:10
blown so we need one of those we need a ring
1:24:15
terminal so right now let see that one that one's good
1:24:23
oh here we
1:24:31
go a five amp fuses are for some reason they're the hardest ones
1:24:38
to keep in the shop I guess it's CU I use them a lot all right so what we're going to do
1:24:45
is we're going to disconnect the thermostatic fan that we hooked up earlier and I will come back
1:24:53
and redo
1:25:10
that so now right now we're doing is we have a terminal fuse block it's got four
1:25:16
positions in it one is our dedic RTX 2012 volt Supply
1:25:23
the second one is our victron smart shunt Supply and then now our third one
1:25:28
is going to be what we use to connect this wire which will be our power
1:25:34
for our switch for our red LED light it's going to be super cool this switch
1:25:39
when you turn it on it's going to be located right here on the top of the battery box and if you want to have that
1:25:46
red glowing to you know show off your power system or you just like the glow at night time you can just quickly turn
1:25:52
it off and on right here this switch will be mounted into the top we'll have
1:25:57
a ventilation uh port for the inverter and then out here early in the live
1:26:03
stream we tested our fan we set it to uh 80° another live stream we'll go through
1:26:10
and we'll actually we'll test it we'll hook up shore power we'll deplete the batteries we'll get this thing really hot and we'll we'll make sure that
1:26:18
everything is uh working the way it's supposed to too
1:26:23
all right next up we have our ring terminals these are number
1:26:28
10 uh for 18 to 22 gauge we're working with an 18 gauge cable so we're going to
1:26:34
need two for our so we're going to need one for our negative one for our
1:26:42
positive when we get to this guy we are going to let our wo
1:26:50
connectors do the management all the managing there so what we want to do here is we
1:26:56
need to strip this wire enough so that our ground lead can go all the way to the ground
1:27:03
over here uh but our positive comes out and
1:27:09
can connect to the positive so what I usually do is I just measure it by hand
1:27:16
here I mark it and then I'm going to take the clle tool this is a
1:27:22
[Music] 11061 this thing is amazing I love it
1:27:28
check it out you can strip the wire so you can pull it
1:27:35
off without stripping the inside so let's just see all right that looks
1:27:42
[Music] good question is see positive
1:27:51
negative H might have to do this a different
1:28:04
way that's our fuse positive in okay this will this will be fine all right so
1:28:10
if you have trouble pulling this off because that makes that makes sense that you would
1:28:15
all you got to do is just take these pliers and just kind of start working at
1:28:21
this it makes it so easy to strip the outer cable
1:28:35
off check that out all right so now we have enough for our ground lead so this
1:28:41
we need to go ahead and strip and go ahead and put a lug on
1:28:51
it let's put this in here CRP it
1:29:10
down so we got our ground and then our
1:29:20
positive going to make the positive much shorter because I don't want
1:29:27
it million miles long and come through
1:29:35
and do that and put our other terminal on
1:29:50
it
1:29:57
okay so now we have our two wires so let's carefully hop up in here connect
1:30:02
to our [Music] negative um now I'm being very
1:30:08
careful circuit is not on yet we got our fuse out but we are working with live
1:30:14
power I'm not going to turn the whole system off and back on because um there's no reason to do that for me
1:30:23
you might want to do that for you
1:30:29
so all right I'm going to use this last be very careful when you have these terminal uh terminals back here because
1:30:37
what you want to do is not drop this screw it at this point in the build process it would be impossible to
1:30:43
recover the screw it would be a very very bad day so I'm just going to take my time
1:30:50
and make sure I get it back on
1:31:15
here okay we're going to feed our wire underneath the terminals and we are
1:31:23
going to end it right
1:31:33
here and just to be safe I'm going to strip this
1:31:42
back let see how much I want to do
1:31:47
that strip this back and this is good practice if you guys are
1:31:54
doing this is just even though it's not connected just put a little piece of electrical tape on
1:32:06
there and you'll be happy just like that there you go now we don't have to worry about anything we can cook this up and
1:32:12
it'll be impossible to short the
1:32:20
circuit
1:33:21
uh what's cool about 8020 is you can actually use the rail on the inside to do Cable Management so what I'm doing is
1:33:29
I'm actually on the opposite side of this channel I'm F pulling the wire down so now this wire is going to come out
1:33:35
and hide over here so when my plexiglass is here I don't see any wires hanging down um because I'm really want to show
1:33:42
off the power system and all the cool wires and I don't want you know anything hanging down and in the
1:33:48
way so right up here I'm just going to put a piece of tape and that's going to hold the wire
1:33:57
in uh we can come back later and clean all that up um we just need to start we need to
1:34:04
get working on making sure that the circuit uh Works operates
1:34:20
correctly
1:34:28
so here's our switch we'll need to take this out to put it into the uh the wood
1:34:33
obviously but for right now we're just going to pop that in
1:34:38
there um and then we're going to uh yeah let pop it in
1:34:45
there make sure it's turned off got a little set of instructions so we can make
1:34:53
sure what we want to do with this switch is we want the LED off when the switch
1:34:58
is off we want the LED to turn red when the switch is on circuit on when switch
1:35:04
is on circuit off when switches off so we'll read that and we'll figure out what we need to do to make that
1:35:11
happen um let me check my audio you guys let me know if my audio is not doing
1:35:20
well kind of back back and forth all right first up we
1:35:48
need so the one and two is the incoming
1:35:53
power so we got I have to look at
1:36:00
this right so one and
1:36:20
two
1:36:27
so picture two is what we
1:36:34
want so power so positive and negative okay so this is our power wires
1:36:41
that's
1:36:49
easy two and
1:37:20
three
1:37:44
blue and red are positive these two are
1:37:50
positive so let's just do this one step at a
1:38:03
time so we're using wo connectors to connect all
1:38:11
this I need to get some smaller ones okay so these
1:38:20
two
1:38:50
so all right so this is positive
1:38:58
in then we've got our positive let's get
1:39:04
a get our negative
1:39:20
going
1:39:35
okay so now we have our positive negative negative coming into the circuit so that's
1:39:41
handled so next we
1:39:47
need so this yellow wire doesn't do anything
1:40:01
the blue is to the
1:40:06
device negative goes to Black okay well let's try it
1:40:12
out so neg blue goes to device blue is
1:40:17
positive yeah Blue's positive
1:40:23
all right blue is positive to the device so we got our LEDs in here we've
1:40:28
got our positive and then we've got our
1:40:39
negative negative is going to go to this way
1:40:49
go okay let's put a fuse in and hopefully
1:40:56
it doesn't blow all
1:41:02
right okay so it's wired wrong but that's okay because we want this to
1:41:09
be the LED to be off and then when we press
1:41:14
it well we might leave it like that so you can find the
1:41:23
LED at nighttime um if the new owner doesn't
1:41:29
like this and it's like this is annoying it's too bright uh we can have it turn
1:41:34
off so there's I mean there's different options so right now we'll just we're going to probably leave it
1:41:40
on because I think it's going to look really
1:41:46
cool um let's just see what we need to what do we need to do to make it turn
1:41:56
off the normal state is the LED light is on so we want the normal
1:42:04
State normal State the LED light is off so to do
1:42:19
that okay so I think we just switch the
1:42:28
blues let's see here so this
1:42:36
blue take our fuse out so this blue and this
1:42:49
blue
1:43:17
three is power three is power in two is now device so three is power
1:43:30
n three is power
1:43:39
in oops three is power
1:43:49
in
1:44:08
this goes to the
1:44:19
device
1:44:24
this one in four goes to the device okay this one and
1:44:49
four
1:44:57
all right let's try it it's off now we want to turn it it's
1:45:04
on there we go so we're going to leave it like that so now normally it's normally off when it's off when you turn
1:45:11
it on the red light turns on let you know that it's on which you probably already know but this is really cool
1:45:17
with these switches you can you know you can get them to do that um
1:45:22
um yeah so that is uh what it looks like again guys this is
1:45:29
the panel that'll be going on this acrylic panel with the etched glass Odyssey custom Vans logo looks really
1:45:36
cool and then when you want to show off the power system you'll just have a little switch up here you'll turn it on
1:45:43
it'll make everything glow and it'll turn it off uh we'll get on to this system over
1:45:49
here as soon as is finished the system on this side will have the same switch up here but instead of turning on lights
1:45:55
to illuminate the uh like this we have two this will
1:46:00
be two switches one will be to will be blue it'll illuminate illuminate the
1:46:05
tank and you'll have a gauge to see how much water's in there then you click the other button and it'll be a white button
1:46:12
so one will be a blue LED ring one will be a white the white is a cargo light so
1:46:18
we've got these really cool mini LED cargo
1:46:23
lights um and they'll light up the cargo area so you can see kind of what's going on
1:46:31
there but it is uh it is time to call it the night it is late guys if you are
1:46:37
still watching thank you so much for joining me um make sure you guys check out the DIY vild cheat sheet that is in
1:46:43
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1:47:06
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builds this list is completely free super awesome again DIY van build
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cheat sheet you can find it on Van Builder hq.com or you can click on the link in the description below last but
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not least let's check out Odyssey custom vans and where is my website there we go
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so Odyssey custom vans if you guys are looking for a professional van build check out Odyssey custom vans first
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we're going to go over the van that we're actually looking at right now which is this Ford Transit High roof
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all-wheel drive that we're working on the power system if you want to do a quick tour we took
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this van to Adventure van Expo to show it off and here's a quick walk through down here is all the items in
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the list about uh what's included in the van all the power system water all that
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good stuff and we got some photos just to hold you over until we do the detailed video about this van
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build here's some photos to check out what is included in this van
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again if you guys want to contact me here's my email address and my contact phone number the best way to contact me
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to inquire about this currently for sale van or the vans that are currently for
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sale on our website you can click here this is a link to my calendar you can go
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ahead and click on a date pick a time that's best for you and we can hop on a phone call talk about the current vans
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that are for sale or that we have for sale if this one has already sold on the left side if you guys are interested in
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doing a custom build yourself or doing a custom build with Odyssey custom bands
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this a little quick rundown of how to prep for our phone consultation before you guys set up a phone call so just a
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quick little instructions here you can click on the date and do the same thing select a time uh to
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schedule uh we always have um uh future build slots that are open usually uh in
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the next year so if you want to go ahead and get on that list go ahead and schedule a time to chat
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with me and we'll let you know what openings we have available for a buildout other than that I want to thank
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you guys so much for checking out this live stream tonight um hope it was helpful with all the wiring and managing
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everything um and if you have any questions put those in the comments below uh click that subscribe button
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click that like button um and if you uh have any uh let's see here ideas for
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future videos I always like to ask that question put those in the comments as well I read the comments I'd love to see
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if you guys have uh any questions that haven't been answered we can put that in the future live stream but until then we
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will see you guys on the next live [Music]
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