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thank you [Music]
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thank you
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check two one two there we go some audio okay this live stream is to
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we got a bunch of questions during that video um that just
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published which is the off-grid campervan power system layout so we had two questions and I'm gonna
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wait just a minute so if you guys have uh any questions go ahead and hop into
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the chat and we'll answer them I'm gonna go back to the video and try to pick up the questions that were asked we have
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one from Nick and then one from Daniel so let me go find them so I hope you guys are gonna
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come in because uh the video ended on the premiere and I was trying to answer
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those questions and uh cut off before I could paste the answers for you guys
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um let's see here Daniel had a question about 300 amps
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um so Daniel if you hop back in here maybe we can um answer that question and
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then Nick had a question on the Blue Sea Systems fuse panel so I'm gonna go ahead and drop a link to that product
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um
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somebody's silent here just for a minute guys um just give me one second
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here just for a minute guys
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foreign
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get that one saved
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so what I'm doing right now is I'm pulling up the the van Builder uh the the DIY van build cheat sheet and I'm
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picking up one of the products that Nick was had a question on uh during the video so we just did a
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video talking about a power system layout in your van kind of how to arrange everything
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um where everything needs to be as far as uh you know location make sure there's
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enough room for everything to be wired up enough room for you know cable runs
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stuff like that so one question that was asked was uh what company do I use for
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the fuse block so this is going to be like the remote fuse block that goes uh
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somewhere else in the van that way you don't have to wire everything to The Battery area you can actually move it to
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a separate area and then distribute it from there
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so all the products that I use in the van for USB Outlets
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um like a cigarette lighter like 12 volt stuff like that even the 110 volt AC circuits are blue C
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systems really good product very high quality they're all used in the Marine
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industry and if we go over here I'm just going to
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let me find this link
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all right Peter so you got a question
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so Peter where were you asking the question about 300 amps being incorrect or was that Daniel that might have been
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Daniel um all right so let's see what question you have I'm planning on putting in a
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3000 watt energy inverter charger with two 200 amp lithium batteries
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uh from Amazon starting out with only Shore power
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do you know of a good diagram that shows wire size and fuse size okay so we can we can look
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that up while we're working here um so I just mentioned Blue C systems
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so I'm just gonna have to hop on Amazon really quick I'll add this link in for
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uh for Nick Lucy's system this is the uh
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you guys can see I'm over here
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all right how about that there we go I'm back I'm back foreign
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I can redo this I had the uh I had a lapel microphone when we were all working on the system back here for the
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last week's live stream so now I'm back on this big microphone um so the audio should be back let me
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check my phone here there we go okay we're back
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okay
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all right should be back now
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okay here we go we're gonna go to all right so Nick this is the blue sea
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system blade fuse block what's important about this is it comes with a cover so it comes with this
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plastic cover that goes over it and uh the other thing you want to make sure
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it has is it make sure it has a negative Mountain location
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so on these uh let's see here
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so in these boxes you have uh you have a negative terminal up here
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at the top I don't know if I can zoom in on this no I can't so you have a negative terminal terminal
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up top and then you're going to have a positive terminal at the bottom sometimes for
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whatever reason these only come with a positive terminal you want the negative terminal so you can just run the two
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wires to this unit and use it as a kind of a hub for everything so all your
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small amp or low amperage appliances um or Electronics you know anything less
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than 15 amp like 15 20 amps um this thing I get oh I can get skit
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um is 100 amps Max per block 30 amps per circuit
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so technically you could do uh like 330 amps and a 10 amp
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but typically they're going to be much less they're going to be in like the 1510 you know amp range
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but I really like this one this one is uh not on the list I will I will add
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this um where am I okay let's get back to Peter's question
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so he he's using the renergie 300 watt inverter
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so if you go to renergy it's a website
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they'll tell you this in the manual but I'm going to actually show you where
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it's at in the manual because it might be hard to find so if we go to inverters and he has the inverter charger so we
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get the 3000 watt here
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so we get the 3000 watt and yeah let me know if you guys can hear me still I can
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hear it on my uh my phone over here monitoring it so just give me a thumbs up if you guys
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can hear me but we have the 300 3000 watt uh
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inverter so renergies kind of change their site usually you can just scroll down and find it right here but what they've done
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is if you scroll down this menu pops up here and so when the
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where the menu is you want to click on downloads uh then you want to click on manual book
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uh so when you click on the manual book let me zoom in here [Music] um
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you're going to scroll down let me zoom out here I'll Zoom back in a second
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I'm going to scroll down and you're going to go to [Music]
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uh
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okay so you're gonna go to page 13. so page 13
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what we have is the model so you find your model so for example Peter you've
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got 3000 Watts uh the recommended fusing is 300 amp
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fuse and the recommended wire sizing so this is the wires coming from the battery
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so if you directly wire the battery to the inverter
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than the 300 amp fuse is what would be in the middle well
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it doesn't have to be perfectly in the middle um but the four out is going to be this
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size uh now with renergy stuff
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um I like renergy we talk about on the Channel all the time I always triple check this so I always kind of get like
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a second and third opinion you should do this uh with anything in
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the van industry um so what I do first is
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let's do [Music] um 4 ought
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wire Max Amps okay now you can do this for anything
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it doesn't have to be this uh I need this to be zoomed in
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there we go so forward welding cable carries 310
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amps so there we go there's our there's our
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first or our second opinion so get ready you've got this one let's get one more so the next one I like to go to
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is we're going to go to uh blue
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C systems uh this is Gage let's see your wire
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gauge chart
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and then you're going to click on images and then there's this chart right here
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and let's click on this one all right so this thing is really cool
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so I actually have I don't know where I put it but I have one of these that's printed and
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laminated in the shop and it's just you know just a quick reference some of these I have memorized
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but I always refer to this before actually cut and crimp even though I've done it a bunch of times
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so what you're going to do is in a van the length of the wire is not
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that critical as far as a voltage drop goes however I have to walk back what I just
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said because on Thomas's van and this is one of those things when uh if
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you do everything by the book there's there's kind of one more thing that might be sensitive to a certain
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product so for example uh we put a vitra frigo drawer fridge in his van
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and it was only consuming uh
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actually now I gotta forget but the amount of amps that it was consuming I measured it
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and I sized the wire to the amount of amps uh I oversized it a little higher than
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the amp that it was consuming just like a typical electrical circuit what happened with the fridge is
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every now and then there was like an intermittent um error and it was a voltage error it was saying
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low voltage but I was one I measured the the batteries and we still have like
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13.1.4 volts and so it didn't make any sense and I said wait a minute let's look at
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the fridge and let's see the voltage drop uh the voltage rep the fridge was around
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12.8 and when the van got hot and everything was on under load it was dipping past
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that uh threshold that the refrigerator was happy at
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so I went and I retraced the wire run because we had wired so much stuff in
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his van um and this happened to be the longest run because we had to go
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we had to go from the passenger side of the van we had to run it all the way down the passenger side we had run it up
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the wall we went across the wall and then down to the kitchen Galley so where
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the kitchen Galley sink was that was where all the other wires terminated however we still need
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to go to the bottom of the van towards the driver's seat
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back and then up so that added almost another 10 feet
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so believe it or not that additional 10 feet did make a difference just a hair of a
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difference in the circuitry to make the fridge maybe once a month have a error
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so what I did is I I pulled it out we went back to the manual we translated
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the manual because the manual was uh uh see what what is the vitri grow
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let's see here I'm looking it up on the computer real quick
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I think Ava's Italian I think it was Italian I think it's an Italian fridge anyway so I went through and I googled
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translated the Italian side of the manual not the English version and on
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the Italian side of the manual uh it has uh it had a
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a current rating for the fridge uh
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see what was the current rating it was something like 30 or 40 amps for a 12 volt fridge and I just it I
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could never on my uh uh 12 volt uh what am I trying to say
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okay so on this guy right this is what I use to test on my circuits and find out the voltage draw just to
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make sure everything's within spec so I use my voltmeter on it and
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the blip of Surge from the compressor turning on because it's not a soft start
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compressor that the slightest blip did a voltage Spike
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and it was enough to in the just instant create error on the circuit board it was enough to run
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the fridge no problem because the original it used it was very very efficient fridge however I had to I uh re-up size the
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wire gauge to uh what did I use 10 gauge I think I went
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to 10 gauge uh and every all the problems went away everything got fixed it hasn't had a
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problem since so long story short
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are long story long the reason that I first said
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feet doesn't really the length the wire length doesn't really matter in a van is because a van is you know it's no more
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than like 20 feet long that you're going to use of a cable however in a particular situation with a
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particular manufacturer and sensitive Electronics yes it can make a difference
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so the length circuit length over here does make a difference in those very
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rare cases all right so moving on find out how long how far away your wire
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is going to take from the unit to the battery okay that's going to be your feet
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and as long as you're between 0 and 20 you can use this Top Line right here
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so 0 to 20 if we are going to consume
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um and you see how this runs out at 200
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amps uh so Peter stay with me here
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so the 200 amps we've got a 2 ought cage wire
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but when we go when we look up online we have found let's get where's other
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we go and search R4 we know we have 310 amps so you can kind of understand that
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of where this goes now wire gauging is very confusing
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um you kind of have to think backwards on this so the higher the number
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the thinner The Wire and the lower the number the thicker The
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Wire so we have all this down here
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for example and the video that if you guys watch that that I just uploaded we have a 50
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amp DC to DC charger so for 50 amps we're going to use a six gauge wire
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and the 50 amp you can see is safe up until about 70 and then you need to
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go up to a four gauge the number goes down but the wire size
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goes up and then it continues where it gets weird is once you get from four two to
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one it turns into [Music] uh one Ott so like the o or zero two watt
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three hot four hot and those are real big thick cables I'm gonna pick one up
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all right so let me go back to here
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so this is six gauge and this is two Ott so you can see
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you can see the difference so for example this is going to come from my alternator
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of the van well technically from the battery terminals of the engine batteries
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but this one is what I'm going to use to connect my uh
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12 volt 100 amp hour batteries together is this one a two Watt
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um but going from your
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so for example we're going to connect that to the uh
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so let's see if I can finish up Peter's question here
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so it says you need a 4 ought cable for 300 amps
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yeah so the four odd is gonna we're gonna take that from
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uh the like Lynx distributor for example so we'll go from the batteries to the
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lynx distributor and from the links distributor to the inverter and then what's nice about the lynx
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distributor is this 300 amp fuse right here we can put in the lynx distributor
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uh because if you look the lynx distributor up and I'm gonna I'm gonna draw this here
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in a second I'll draw this out
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so the lynx distributor
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I forgot the Amp Max that's what I'm looking up
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ah let me type it up here see links
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yeah thousand amps a thousand so you can have four 250 or you can you can spread
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it out um so Peter for example that box that I showed in the video this one
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what you would have is going across here so you'd have your batteries coming in on this first front
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side and then you would use a mega fuse coming across this and it would be a 300
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amp rated fuse and then you would go to your inverter so that's that's where I would put
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um but that all right that was a long answer um
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hopefully that helped I can also draw it if you would like me
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to
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uh let me see if I can find an image
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all right I'm just referencing this do not this is not an example of mine
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um okay that's not a good example let's not look at that
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yeah I might draw I might draw it because these are these are a little over complicated
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so let's draw go to the drawing pen
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oh I get crank it up here
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so I believe um yep I'll do a drawing so Peter asked what size wire from the shore power plug
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to the inverter charger and do I need a fuse in there so there's a couple ways
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to answer that um Shore power plug you have different
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ratings so there's like 15 amps 30 amps 50 amps and it depends on
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this box right here so this is uh the inverter charger that's going in the van uh Peter you probably have like the blue
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one this is the new gray one uh there's nothing the only difference is this one has a integrated Bluetooth inside
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uh so there's a setting on the panel and but I will draw that I will I will do a
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drawing here in just a second um there is
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okay let's go back to renergy there is a
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see if I can find it so there's this digital panel right here and you're able to
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uh I'm gonna explain the concept of this this is the first time I've used the
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renergy inverter charger so I haven't gone in to do the settings but I've I've read enough to understand
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what I need to look to change in order to size my wires when I get
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there so I'm gonna explain to you how I'm proposing to do it and then hopefully by
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next week I can actually show you how I did it
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so there's these there's a screen that you're gonna that's gonna come on on the unit and you want to find where it you are
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adjusting the Shore power incoming
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amperage because it's adjustable
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so it's like Shore power amperage configuration something like that let me just
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see if I can search this so you can do control F on some PDF documents
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and then uh you can search the PDF so I just did
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Ctrl F attempting sure so this little wave means Shore power is
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connected so we're going to keep pressing enter um
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this inverter charger will automatically switch from when it senses Shore power
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to be charging from it but we want to figure out how to
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set Shore power
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it's gonna be one second this may I may find it now or I may find it later
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fix it there's a there's a way for us to control how much amperage is going
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uh is what is what's being used so again long story short you want to size The
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Wire of your Shore power outlet that goes and connects to the inverter charger to
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handle what you're anticipating using so if you're going to plug it into your house and you're only going to use a 15 amp or
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a 10 amp outlet you know size it for 15 amps
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um but sizing it higher is not going to hurt anything uh you don't want to undersize it so you don't want to size
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it for 10 amps and then use it for 30 amps very dangerous don't do that
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now uh don't quote me on this but I believe there is like a bi-metal
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overload uh fuse inside the inverter charger
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so that if it gets uh too much it'll it'll disconnect itself but you can all
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you can always add a inline fuse
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uh okay let's see if I can find this really quick here
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see surge
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okay where is this thing
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okay I'm gonna go the drawing
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all right we should be back we should be back yeah I was on the lapel mic last week so
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I turned all my settings to Lapel so we should be back again we should we should have audio
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I can see it on my side so yeah just give me a thumbs up when you when you guys hear it
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okay here we go foreign so we got the inverter charger
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uh we've got so let's do Shore power over here
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okay so the short power is going to be line
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neutral and ground so you're gonna have three wires
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and then this needs to be rated
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to your uh what you're going to have 15 30
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50. so let's just go to renergy let's just see
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let's just see what the max amperage is
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okay so over here what we're looking at is on renergies uh page we're going to talk about AC
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wiring and they have a little diagram here showing that there is the output
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the AC output so this AC output
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so I'm gonna do this in red
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oh my colors
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hold on a second I don't know why it's this messing up I mean technical difficulties today
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come on
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it's gonna be red no
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no all right one second I'm gonna exit out of this this thing's messed up
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see they're my colors but when I Let Go it makes them disappear
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all right this is
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all right guys we're just gonna have to use black all right so with this side we have AC
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this is uh input so this has AC input and then this side
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is AC output
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I don't know why I'm using the Slash
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okay this is not perfect but it's just more illustration
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so we'll do little arrows here so you guys can kind of see where the how the power is flowing
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and so this you know think of this as like your
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household plug over here okay
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and this is going the power is going in so this is the flows going this way
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your outside your AC output from the inverter charger is going to go to a
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box so this box there's two different kinds of boxes so
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this is your AC panel this is not 12 volt yet we're not we're only talking about AC here
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so mute this
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Blue Sea Systems 110
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volt breaker
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and we want this right here so this is the one that I use
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policy systems 120 volt AC4 position it's very compact if you've got breakers
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like this they're kind of like the ones in your house uh hold on hold on I know you're not still on the screen
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Stay With Me so this is what it looks like it has Breakers okay
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and then what you're going to do is let me
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search image
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uh we're going to keep this simple because this is technically
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complex
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um I can't get some software here to so I can help you guys zoom in on these images
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uh let me just save this image
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there we go perfect okay cool cool check it out
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all right so this right here is this
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okay this right here
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so you have your microwave your outlet your water heater maybe another Outlet
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um this is like your house
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Main breaker okay
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so over here on the left you've got this is 10 this is like a
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plug that plugs in your house so this is Shore power it doesn't matter if it's 15 amp 30 amp or 50 amp this is like
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plug-in extension cord into your home or like the RV Park
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the ratings are what is specific to what your inverter charger can change it's
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also specific to the gauge of wire that you're going to size to get the power from the RV camp
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or your home into the inverter charger safely so once it's in the inverter charger
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and it turns into charger mode um hold on a second I'm leaving you I'm
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leaving you guys astray we're gonna have AC output and then
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we're going to have
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12 volt output okay
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and that 12 volt output is going to go to
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stay with me guys I'm 12 volt output is going to go to
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your
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this is going to go to your 12 volt fuse panel so kind of this is what Nick was looking
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at earlier so these are like your blade fuses
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you know Max maybe like 10 to 30 amp
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so you have two you have your colors over here
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he wasn't doing that
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anyway so you have your 12 volt fuse panel
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and then you have your AC output
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you got your AC breaker okay I know these are not different colors
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but this one right here hopefully you guys can understand that this right here is
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just AC only so Mains power you know 110
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120 and then down here this is 12 volt power so you have two different runs
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yeah these are great questions guys they're great because I see where this can get
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very confusing um
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all right let me give me one second I'm gonna try to fix
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this because I need the colors to help teach you guys this this thing up
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here I don't know if you can see my my
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this color thing I drag it and I need these colors right there when I Let Go it resets everything
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um hold on give me two seconds
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this is crazy I have to make up my own colors again
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technology is supposed to be easy right this is ridiculous
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there we go maybe those are better colors anyway okay I need to erase the 12 volt thing because this is getting very confusing
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all right I'm making this confusing okay
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here we go here we go here we go this
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is okay
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there we go okay here we go
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so the arrows designate the direction of the power coming in
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so your 110 120 volt side of your inverter charger this side is not
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charging your batteries okay it's not
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this is only operating through the breaker
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uh your 110 Outlets
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we're going to get to the 12 volt here in a second
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foreign
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stay with me we're doing good here okay so this side right here remember
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110 the inverter is taking power from Shore and it's directly going
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through the inverter charger just straight okay
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nothing's being converted all right boom
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the next thing so let's get rid of this the next PATH is the charger
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part of it the charger part
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so there really needs to be like a slash here inverter slash charger
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I think inverter charger is confusing it's an inverter and it's a charger but the charger
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is on the 12 volt side okay
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so what's happening there is we have uh we've got a negative
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and we've got a positive it's connected
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and you can kind of think of inside here
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there's a part that is the charger so it's like a DC to DC charger but what
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it's doing is taking the shore power and it's converting it
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to 12 volts not technically 12 you know it's it's enough to charge it's a higher you know
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like maybe 14.6 to charge a lithium battery and then that is going into
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so let's see let's see so like on the links so that you'll see this later when I actually do
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this in real life but this right here
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um if you guys are if you watch the video there's fuses in here
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so it's inside here think of uh you've got four fuses
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big chunky Mega fuses right so you get like the 300 amp for your
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inverter you've got maybe the 80 amp for your air conditioner so let's just say this one is the 300
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um
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so let's say like this is the 300 come on pin
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see this one is the 300 amp fuse let's just say like this is the 80
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amp fuse for the air conditioning
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and then here you have uh
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these two wires are coming off of I hope this does not confuse everybody
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but these are being connected to
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the lynx distributor the reason I put the two terminals over here is because
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okay here I really I'm gonna make sure I simplify this
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okay you've got the negative side of the lynx distributor and remember Lynx distributor is nothing
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fancy it's just a big old bus bar that happens to allow you to put fuses across
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of it you know for convenience because you technically could have
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just two bus bars a negative and a positive one and then have
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you know one two three four like one two three four you know
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branched out fuses so what's happening is right here
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there is a post all right it's got a bolt on it and we get a post over here it's got a bolt on
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it and we're connecting the inverter uh
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two um actually back up
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stick with me guys this is uh this is hard when I don't have it pre-done
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I'm laying this out so that you guys can reference this like forever so I need to make sure I do it right
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so down here in the bottom you need to make sure you have a negative
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uh this is your ground so this is your uh
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Ground Post so let's say right here this is our Ground Post at the van
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and so what we have this is we'll do next we're making this one negative
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so this wire is negative and this top one is positive and I'll show you why I did I flipped that
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I did it so that I can show you that a
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coming off of here we are going and we are connecting to
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our our negative ground
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okay so that's our ground so the inverter is coming to ground you got the leaks distributor coming to
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ground and then what we're going to have next is we're going to have our
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batteries over here
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we're just going to do one battery so we don't get confused so we have our negative terminal
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we've got our positive okay
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all right you guys give me give me a thumbs up here if this is a this is working
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but this is helping I'm going to keep going
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if you're wondering what the uh this little black circle is that is
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like a terminal post uh but if that word freaks you out just
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ignore it until we're done
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okay let me get my face out of the way
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okay oh brain dump here okay this is the battery
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so what we're doing is the battery comes in
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and these are just post so all this is is uh I mounted here but I'm showing you
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this so that you can kind of see how it's connected so it doesn't look
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too crazy and so examp for example when the AC
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from the shore Powers coming in the inverter charger
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so kind of forget the word inverter um well no don't forget the word
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inverter the inverter part is is when we're
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taking the 12 volts and we're inverting it we're taking 12 volts and stepping it
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up to 120 volts to run our appliances okay
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so when we're running off of the battery system only and not sure
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power just the battery the battery is only supplying 12 volts now I know
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technically it's 14.1 or 13.7 I know that we're just going to say 12 volts just to be
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simplified so the battery is 12 volts
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okay just for example purposes so 12 volts is coming in
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okay we're not don't okay
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don't think about this right now like don't think about that
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so 12 volts is coming in when we turn our inverter on we take the
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12 volts and the inverter is going to step it up to 120 to power the stuff in our van
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now let's say we're at an RV park or at home we need to charge the batteries
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foreign so what we do is we plug it in to shore power
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there's a switch inside that changes over and turns it into the charger mode
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and now it takes the one 20 or 110 you know 120 let's just keep it at 120 volts it takes that and it
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steps it down to the 12 volt and yes I know it's technically the
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charging voltage so let's say 14.6 for lithium and it comes down and it goes
1:00:25
right here to this post or wherever you're at and it then it goes to the battery and begins to charge it
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so give me thumbs up if that makes sense
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so once I see a thumbs up or it's helping we'll move on to the last part
1:00:45
which is how this gets distributed to through the distributor to other things
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all right so why I hear feedback I'm going to use the green color to show one more time how it works
1:01:10
so we plug it in comes in the inverter charger and if it's 110 20 that we're
1:01:16
using and we're not charging the batteries we're just going to go straight through here boom we're going to you know make some popcorn in the
1:01:22
microwave all right boom straight through but
1:01:29
um when it's charging the batteries we're going to come through and we're going to convert it
1:01:35
charge the batteries when we're not the last part is when we're not hooked
1:01:40
up to shore power so this is when this is off we're going to take power from the batteries
1:01:46
we're going to step it up and make popcorn that way so
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that's pretty much uh what it does the this part
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is how you are managing and keeping safe your other charging sources
1:02:07
so right here I could have my inputs for
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my uh my fused inputs for my DC to DC
1:02:20
and from my mppt sort of like my solar
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and I can have them fused here and so even though I'm coming out here
1:02:34
I can still go in uh because it's just the way
1:02:39
electricity works um so I can still charge my batteries
1:02:45
this way through my charger but not only can I this is the wild
1:02:51
thing about electricity so I can still charge while discharging
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okay it's it's a wild so that's I completely understand when it gets confusing
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and you're really worried about you know blowing something up but
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um remember if you have it fused at the end of the day it is 12 volts you
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know you're not on the 12 volt side you're not working with high voltage necessarily but
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on the AC side AC side you are
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so um that is dangerous so the 12 volt you know you do have high current if you're
1:03:37
working on the inverter side like up to 300 amps for example AC side you don't have the current it's
1:03:44
the high voltage that's dangerous and let's hop back over here to this one
1:03:50
drawing and then I will take more questions so go ahead and get those questions going
1:03:57
um I'll probably end this here in just a few minutes uh but over here on the computer
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this right here so we didn't talk about this so this right here is
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this so this is the wiring
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so we might do this in a future video but this is the schematic for your
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AC side
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so you have your ground over here that's going to be the same as the 12 volt circuit
1:04:33
which that can be confusing and then you're going to have your your neutral over here
1:04:39
and then you're going to have your hot up here your line coming in and once you have those three connected
1:04:46
then blue c is going to give you these three screw these four screws and each one of those is going to be the Hot Leg
1:04:52
for each of the AC loads but that might be for a different video
1:04:57
I know this is getting a little heavy right now um but yeah happy to talk about this we got to
1:05:04
do it in the van hook it up anyway so it'll be in a future video to show you how to do it safely
1:05:10
okay but yeah that's pretty good segue from the uh the video that that launched this afternoon
1:05:17
um see who else we got watching here yep so Peter
1:05:25
I'm glad that helped
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all right so let's see what else here
1:05:41
I think that's about it do I have anything to show you guys
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all right I will uh stand here for about couple more minutes and see if any
1:06:02
questions come through I'll do my little Spiel here
1:06:09
um if you guys haven't checked out if there's anybody new that's watching uh we have a
1:06:16
van Builder cheat sheet and I talk about this a lot because I really think it can help anybody
1:06:22
um if you go to Van builderhq.com you can sign up for it you may be asking what is this what's the van build cheat
1:06:28
sheet it's essentially an Excel sheet that I put together over 250 curated items that I've put in vans so for
1:06:35
example we were just talking about the renergy 12 volt DC to DC charger
1:06:42
so boom right here we've got the link to Amazon for that charger we've got all of
1:06:47
the fuses so remember I was talking about blue c system Mega fuses so I've got a link to the Lucy system Mega fuse
1:06:55
in the document and the most important thing other than the Fasteners and insulation Roofing
1:07:02
solar as the tool section so tools are very helpful all the stuff here all the crimping uh
1:07:09
heat shrink and hydraulic crimpers are all here that I use to build the vans
1:07:14
so when you get to that point and you've already gone through your whole circuit you got everything ready to go and Rick
1:07:20
getting ready to make the wires you need to strip crimp them and then heat shrink them all that stuff is on this list
1:07:27
so you guys can just click away and it is the stuff I'm using the shop right now so the tools on there are the stuff
1:07:34
that I'm using so if you think it's going to be helpful for you which I really think it'll really help you out especially if you
1:07:40
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1:07:46
want to waste money on searching around for tools maybe buying the wrong thing and you want to save time it's all in one place on the
1:07:54
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1:08:00
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1:08:05
and you guys can click on it and download the sheet all you gotta do is completely free 100 free just put your
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1:08:16
you want to with it but when you go back to it I will be updating this throughout
1:08:21
the year some more products will come on here for example um Nick earlier we were talking to him
1:08:28
and he was looking for a fuse panel so one of these blue sea system fuse panels
1:08:34
there's a new one that I like I didn't put it on here so I'm going to go in here I'm going to update the list
1:08:40
but yeah DIY van build cheat sheet click on that link I really think it's going to help
1:08:46
you guys out and I appreciate you uh watching the live stream
1:08:51
um asking the questions uh definitely here to help you guys out with your DIY build or
1:08:58
um really anything you know uh van related we're uh we're building that you know
1:09:04
power system out it's everything's looking really good um probably next week is when I'll
1:09:10
actually start cutting the wires I need to measure a couple things I need to get some more uh like 10 and 12 gauge
1:09:18
um wire for the other circuits uh because it's getting exciting once I got everything laid out and I know where my
1:09:24
wire runs are on the floor after doing all those cutting for the shower and the flip and fold seat
1:09:30
we're actually going to get to a point where we can take the floor out prep it paint it for the epoxy and then put the
1:09:38
lawn seal on it it's really going to start to look like something but we still need to cut up the hole for
1:09:44
the shore power and have the trunk this comes down for the Dometic RTX 2000 air
1:09:51
conditioner so that should be coming maybe becoming at the end of this week
1:09:56
um the air conditioning unit uh yeah things are gonna happen quick it's gonna be exciting so you guys
1:10:02
actually see it unfold so get your questions ready uh to ask as we go along in this journey and I really appreciate
1:10:09
everybody watching the live stream checking out the uh the video that we just published today about off-grid
1:10:14
Power Systems kind of how to help you guys design your layout where to put the batteries where to put the inverter
1:10:19
charger um and it's really how I did it uh you know there's multiple ways you can do it
1:10:25
but if you want to do it how I did it these videos should help you out as well as
1:10:32
uh yeah some of the cheat sheet stuff to uh help with the parts but that is going to do it for our live
1:10:39
stream tonight again thank you guys so much for subscribing checking out the channel checking out the video that just
1:10:45
launched today and I look forward to more comments and questions in the future and we'll see you again on a
1:10:51
future live stream oh one more hold on
1:10:57
uh let's see one more item I'm looking for is a heavy duty door straw door
1:11:03
slide uh bottom mount all right Peter let's do it
1:11:08
really quick so
1:11:13
bottom mount drawer slides let's go find one really quick
1:11:37
so let's hop over here to Amazon so these drawer slides everybody knows
1:11:43
that these These are the kind of the side but you were looking at the bottom mount
1:11:49
and I can understand why because the bottom is going to make it a little bit easier to mount however
1:11:54
those are kind of tricky to find let's see if this might be something close
1:12:11
um I'm we're kind of impressed with this stuff on uh you uh Amazon
1:12:18
let me click off let me click on my face let me see which one I ordered recently
1:12:24
because the company was very very good quality so let's try to stick with the same company
1:12:30
okay so I just ordered this company it's uh
1:12:35
you know it's some crazy name um let's see let me share it
1:12:42
okay okay now this is not the bottom mount but since we're live here let me show
1:12:49
you what it looks like
1:12:59
so this is the 500 pound version and this is the I'm using the 18 inch version of this
1:13:06
so this thing is Beefy but this 500 pounds uh it's extremely Overkill I just
1:13:11
got it because um I'm using this so that you can slide out the toilet so this guy
1:13:20
and you can use it while sitting on the drawer slides so
1:13:26
it'll withstand 500 pounds you want to make sure that you get the Locking version so the Locking version
1:13:32
has this tab okay and so when you push down on this tab it unlocks this channel
1:13:39
and then when you get to the end it clicks you can kind of see
1:13:48
so it'll lock in three different positions so right here is locked
1:13:54
and when it opens there's a click
1:14:00
right there you go so that's that's locked out at full
1:14:05
extension and then you come back in
1:14:10
now it's not locked it'll come out but see watch it'll stop right right here
1:14:20
and then it'll then you push it in and it locks back in actually it's two positions I thought was three
1:14:27
this guy is Beefy
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okay that is the like side mount
1:14:39
um but you want to make sure you have it with the lock and then you can click on here hold on a
1:14:45
second there we go you can click on here make sure it's with lock and then up here you have the
1:14:51
different links uh but I this brand this weird aoli
1:14:57
aloe Shang store uh the quality from what I bought is good
1:15:04
now for the mounting that you wanted um like this
1:15:12
I do not know of one that has that high weight rating so I'm not sure
1:15:19
if I were you if you are you've been using 80 20 or something like that if you can make your own
1:15:26
side to mount it to that would be my that would be the way I go
1:15:33
find something you can mount it too
1:15:40
I'm gonna look real quick uh before I get off the Stream
1:15:57
yeah because they are drawer slides they are meant to be you know and like it mounted to a drawer
1:16:03
style fashion so
1:16:08
I know what you're wanting to look for I just
1:16:13
it's something that um
1:16:20
may be difficult to find
1:16:25
so here's this one but it's not a lot it's not locking
1:16:30
um
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all right let me change my search so let's go under mount
1:16:54
yeah the undermount is gonna be hard um especially to get locking
1:16:59
uh so see if you know you don't have to get 500 pounds like you just said uh like a 260 pound that that's gonna work
1:17:06
perfect for you no no problem at all um
1:17:11
it really just depends on what you're doing uh but my go-to is to make sure it's a
1:17:18
locking drawer slide and you want full extension locking because what will
1:17:24
happen is if you don't get full extension then your drawer shelf or whatever you're using is only going to come out
1:17:30
you know halfway or something like that
1:17:35
um so you want to measure the back of the shelf or drawer wherever
1:17:40
you want that to come out to that is your that's the distance of the number
1:17:58
all right all right guys it is almost 11 o'clock
1:18:03
Eastern Standard time so I'm gonna sign off if you guys have any more questions related to this put that in the comment
1:18:11
section below and uh be happy to answer that in a future video um I think we got like four more
1:18:16
questions that came up uh on the comments for the channel so I'll work through those see which ones I can
1:18:23
answer um I'll do that tomorrow and then um yeah hopefully this was an
1:18:29
unplanned live stream but it was very useful we got a lot of questions a lot of participation
1:18:34
um uh oh yeah Nick actually mentioned that a
1:18:41
byc has a chart all right we're gonna go back we'll we'll go back over that later
1:18:47
in a different stream gotta hop off here um yeah so it's possible that the power
1:18:53
system I may have the 80 20 cut and maybe we'll do a live stream on where I get with that but uh
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