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May 2, 2025
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thank you hey everyone welcome to the next part of the live stream tonight we're going to
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work a little bit on the wiring so what we're going to do is uh this
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kind of part two for the day we did a live stream about an hour ago and we were talking about this
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so we talked about what we did earlier which was we cut a path
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into the foam right here so we needed to the rear of the van is was just not able
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to hold the amount of wires we needed and we've we lost both of our additional
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pass that we could have used one because right here this is where the shower pan goes in the
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van and you see this van seam right here so that is a channel that can be used
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just by default to run wires underneath the van however that's the first place you can
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go we can't use that because the shower pan is going there the next place that you can go is right
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about I think it's right about right here challenge with that is we have the
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heater in the pathway right there so we decided
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um I'm sorry not the heater we had this the end of the pull out drawer it was
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perfectly where the pull out drawer bolts ended was right where our next opportunity to
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have a under the floor path for wires was so couldn't use that one
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so we use the rear of the van and the rear of the van was able to take care of all of our control wires for our wabasto
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heater our victron battery management um
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and our renergy one system so all those communication wires went
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there so if you run out of room you gotta cut
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into the foam that's what we did I thought since um you guys are doing
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your own van or if you're watching this and you are doing your own van uh this is a perfect opportunity to show
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you that even though you got a plan you got everything laid out um there's just one part that you're
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going to need to modify and it's okay it's okay to cut through something that you already had pre-planned because I'm
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doing it right now so I just want to show you this is live we've been doing this every single night sometimes two times a night
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so you guys you get to see things how they they come up and so this is this is
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real van building right here we needed to make arrangements to add four more wires
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and we're doing that right here tomorrow I've got to go to the store and
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I've got to pick up two wires that I do not have with me tonight so this is a 14
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gauge wire with the the receptacle built on the end of it
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we talked within the past live stream that receptacle with n is going to be
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used for our water heater and for the flex space area which can
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either hold like a microwave or be used as the power if you want to do an built-in induction stove
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the other two items that we're going to be doing are these pop-up I'm going to
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pull them up here from Amazon and I just got these I've been looking
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around uh pretty extensively for these pop-up Outlets
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if you okay let's go look at a computer and let me try to
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get this on my face just a little bit there we go
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so if we look on the computer this is the outlet that I'm talking about and for some reason oh so I'm gonna
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change my there we go
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so this one is a great price 45 bucks some might say this is high but check
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this out if we go to uh let's see here
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if you go to pop-up floor outlet box and let me go back here if we search for
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this
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if you type in water resistant box which is what I was trying to go for
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you there's this one and it's 305 dollars for this pop-up
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electrical box um which is pretty crazy
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uh so this is waterproof but I wanted something that was you know water resistant because we're not going to
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have something like a complete downpour on it and that is where I sell these on Amazon
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so I didn't get this brand I got a different brand
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because I don't like how this is kind of like an oval shaped I wanted more of a square shape
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so this one let's see here
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so I went with that one that I just showed you where'd it go
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this one so this one's nice it's got square angles it's nickel finish
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it's got a nice circular button it doesn't have like a little plastic one even though it's a weird name brand
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everything else looks really good this is typically used for like kitchen
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counters so it does have a foam gasket right there
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and I think it'll be suitable for I want to have it as the top of the kitchen Galley so that you can pop this up you
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can put your induction stove stuff like that and you can use this there and then also
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you can use it for the outside of the van and the way I'm going to mount it is
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it'll be facing down that way when you pop it out it'll have like a little hood and that'll protect it from you know
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like say it's just misting outside and you're trying to you know unplug everything before you get back in the van it would be protected
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what was really cool is I'm getting the one that's 15 amp with a USB outlet
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um I did not want it to be tamper resistant but I think the options only allow you
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to do 15 amp USB or the uh so I went with the USB outlet
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so that you could you know run the induction stove charger phone at the same time so there's two of these in the
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van so we've got our two receptacle plugs plugins built in which is it's
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essentially an extension cord that's for the water heater and the microwave
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location or the flex space I'm calling it and then we're going to have two of these
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boxes one on top of the kitchen Galley one outside at the bottom like the foot
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foot step in the for the van okay so I got those two coming on the
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way some other stuff that is electrical that is electrical item
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I'm stumbling to my words the working on this really trying to stick to this timeline has just worn me out so I
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appreciate everybody that's uh sticking with me on the live stream all the nice comments support I need I
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need all of it um
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let's see here there's a couple other things
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yeah let me take my orders
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uh the next thing I got is I went in since we're talking about electrical cables I know this is not electrical
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cable but I got these one foot cables for the renergy smart batteries
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so there's a link output port and we're going to need to link each battery together so that's how they all
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talk to each other and then there's one main Uplink that goes to the uh
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this will go to the main hub and then that will allow us to uh
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communicate with the the main renergy one system
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there's really not a lot of information about the the smart batteries so hopefully I can do a tutorial and help
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you guys out but I've ordered a bunch of one foot cables and then a two foot cable for the renergy Hub
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and then we got a couple other things here um we are going to try a solar panel that I
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haven't tried before but I think it's got excellent ratings
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I have heard a couple of channels talk about new power with a
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this panel is going to perfectly fit between the max fan and the Dometic RTX
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2000 AC unit it is very challenging to find a solar panel
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that can maximize the real estate on the roof
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that is not a 100 watt panel because two 100 won't fit that so this
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is perfect it's 220 Watts so when we get finished with this
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project up there where this stuff comes in we will have 420 Watts we're doing
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two 100 watt renergy panels and the front they're going to be
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flanking the uh to the left and the right of the max Fin and then the behind the max fan and in
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between the Dometic is going to be this uh 220 watt panel and the specific dimensions which are
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perfect 56.69 inches wide I guess tall technically and then 30
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inches wide so our Dimensions we have 58 inches wide
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that's how much room we have to work with and then we have 32 inches I'm sorry 58 inches tall 32 inches wide
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so this is going to be excellent
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and I think that is about it for our electrical stuff now we're just going to dive right into this video get working
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here
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all right let's do it so come on into the van actually we are
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going to work on uh we're pulling wire essentially so
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let's go back to this let's go back to this photo real quick
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all right so let's talk about this photo this is what we did in the previous video so we cut this
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so I just talked about that and now what we're going to do is we're going to start pulling wire
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we're going to do the RTX 2000 wire pull because I've already got that set up
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I'll talk to you about that we're going to do the um two 120 volt pools for that the wire
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that we have and then we'll see if we have time to do the ones for the USB ports
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and if you guys had any questions you know make sure you put those in the comments below and I'll be happy to
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answer them but let's go ahead since we are let's see here
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get the camera going we're going to back up a little bit so if you guys have ever used uh fishing
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wire or fishing cable to fish something through
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that's what we're using right now fish tape hahaha oh man
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let me tell that I am sleep to private this moment
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okay so let's change our lighting really quick there we go
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okay so this is the cable that comes with the Dometic RTX 2000
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so if you have the 12 volt you're going to have this thicker one if you have the 24 if you're running off of 24 volts
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there's a different cable it's much skinnier at the top of this cable I was able to
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there's a special connector
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so it looks like this right here
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and so you can depress both pins the pin here and a pin here on the inside
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you can use like a piece of wire or some tool this is the tool that I used just like a
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little Precision screwdriver and I depressed the pins in here
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and then it un clicked it and came out this uh so the challenge that I'm running with right now is I'm trying to
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get um I think my challenges are definitely
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going to benefit you guys if you're in a DIY build because the eventual acting is actually making
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it very challenging to wire anything over the roof I have very little space
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to run the wires because of the A-frame structure that's riveted in the van
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the second issue is by the way I love Adventure wagon and I would I'm going to
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continue to to use this as much as I can but now that I know all of these when you rivet the yellow
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steel pieces into the van you close up a lot of access holes in the van
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especially in the back there's there's one big opening here and one big opening here for the door hinges
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not the door hinges what is that for
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it's an opening these two openings right here you have access to run and pull
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wire just as you do in the top so when you rivet these still pieces in
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they blank those off and they cut them off and they also cut off ones here so you're kind of limited to now where
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you can run wire that's why we're doing everything in the floor
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now if you want to do you know like a one or two USB wire runs
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okay you can probably do that because the the channels right here that are
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upholstered they're at such an angle to where they have about a half inch by half inch opening and you can run wire
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behind here uh it's actually a good thing because then you have accessibility if you wanted to pull that
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off do maintenance maybe replace or pull something else so with that being said I attempted to
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take this cable and it's thin enough to go behind that
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piece of here I'll just get a piece
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so this is the upholstered panel and so all this does
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as it goes in place right here so it cleans all that
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up the channel right there as you guys can see this part right here
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the van actually goes here and kind of goes up so this is there's a void right
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here about half inch by half inch void so I attempted to put the wire in there
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and zip tie it and it would not allow me to actually come in and close in this back section
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that's where the L truck goes and l-track holds all these panels in place so if you can't get it in place and have
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the L truck to hold it then you have to think of something else so I went to plan B
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Plan B is we are taking uh
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our fish tape and we are going to pull the medic RTX 2000 wire
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down through the van there's a lot of sharp corners
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so they actually Supply you with this material
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and I know we get into Dometic RTX 2000 territory as far as install goes don't worry we're
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going to cover that in depth in its own video and you may feel that we are drifting
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from the floor but what's happening is the electrical and the floor are meeting
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in real time as the floors going in it's creating issues with the uh the wiring because
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um of what we have going on and uh
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the idea that we could do a lot of stuff in the walls and
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now that's not so much and the fact that our shower pan
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are pull out drawer slide and the back of our van have all been taken up
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and we can't use that space to uh run wire so what we're going to do right now is
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we already have our fish tape right here it's going up through the van
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and up through this cavity and it's actually pretty easy you just
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put it straight up through there and just keep moving it around if you have somebody to help you it's easy
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because you don't have to stretch down but then you basically just get the tape uh it comes out here and then you're
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ready to wrap it so what we're going to do is we're going to take this and I'm going to get some
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electrical tape and I hope I have some of this drawer
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because I did not plan on actually
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planning on doing the floor but the electrical is saying it needs
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help right now so let me get some electrical tape and then we're going to go ahead and wrap it
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with the wire loom tape it up and we're going to attempt to
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pull it through the van um actually I just went by
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another piece of wire loom that may fit it that's smaller
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so I think I'm going to try that all right don't go anywhere I'm going to be right
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back I'm just grabbing some electrical tape
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that's over here hopefully
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rotate all right
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okay we're gonna use uh I'm gonna get some green tape
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all right so I found another in my electrical drawer I found some more wire
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loom this is what they give you from
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to medic this is what I have so
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you see the size difference so I'm gonna try
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oh yeah this is way better yeah the one Dometic gives you is is not
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is too big that would not work because the hole that you have to put it
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through is you don't really get that much room okay let's
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see here so we're just going to start up here
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and we can slide this uh if we need to
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see if that's gonna actually
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let's just see what the Dometic looks like on here though while we're at it so they do provide it
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all right I take that back it's going to provide more protection and it crimps down so we're okay
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so let's go ahead and just put this on [Applause] and we're gonna get ready to fish it through the van
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[Applause]
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now this doesn't have to be in the exact location that you need it right now if you've never used wire loom you can
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slide it so you can I can slide it up and down
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the wire that's going through the hole first if something happens to it it's okay
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but the wire that's being covered up is the wire [Applause]
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you don't want to mess up
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is they give you a ton they give you a ton of wire way way more than we need
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thank you
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foreign
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and then what we're going to do is when we get finished we're putting it on here I'm going to tape it at one end
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and so that way it doesn't slide off
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the method I'm using is if you take it and you kind of push it like that it'll open itself up
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in a perfect world this small wire will be on the opposite side of the seam but it this thing keeps turning on me
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thank you
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[Applause]
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all right that was fun okay so we have this here
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and that looks pretty good so since we have so much extra
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let's actually bring this up before we finalize it because this up
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here is actually pretty abrasive
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[Applause]
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I'm not sure if we're gonna smush this in here
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okay I'm gonna have to do something else up there so I'm gonna find another way to protect the wire I have some felt
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uh some Automotive felt that goes around the wire and that should keep it protected it's a very thick wire so
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[Applause]
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uh how much actually I'm gonna try let's try to get this up here if I can
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[Applause]
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foreign [Applause]
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so this part is difficult because you actually have to push up on the roof
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in order to squeeze this past
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[Applause] we're sake of the live stream I'm gonna work on that off camera
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let's go ahead and pull this wire down
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so you see they give you tons of cable so first thing we did is we taped the
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ends of the wire here so they don't catch on anything and then we're further going to tape
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this to our fish tape which is essentially a steel wire
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that comes out of the wall and then we want to wrap the wire a
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bunch of times around here not the wire we want to tape them together
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really well so we can make them one and then we can just pull them straight to the wall
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it's going to be interesting this is the first time I will have done this without electrical tape I have no idea
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why I ran out in my electrical box but
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yeah we'll definitely need some more for electrical tape for when we get to wiring this stuff for
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real okay
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and then you just kind of want to make it like a little nose on the end of it so it just kind of goes down smoothly
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but who knows green tape might actually work so we're going to take it and we're
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going to start feeding it through our hole
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and then we'll take our tape at the bottom and that's what we're going to actually
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use to pull the wire through the van and I'm kind of just using gently using
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my foot to get it started since I'm so low here
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and you want to feed it more through the top then you're kind of like pulling down through the bottom
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um and then when it starts coming in you can start taking up your Slack
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on the fish tape and I've done this much Benny time so
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if this looks like I did it really easy is because I don't know I've installed a lot of
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flat screen TVs
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so that's it so now the wire is through the wall [Music] and the challenging part now is now we
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got to see will our protected wire actually make it through
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the good news is I'm not seeing any gouges in The Wire
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uh as I look at the wrong wire
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on there you guys it is it's late a little bit
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nothing nothing there's not that bad
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all right here we go before we do that let's make sure we tape this end
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and green tape will be okay
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we want to tape this end shut and it's doing the same purpose as our fish tape
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where we want to make a little nose on it so it doesn't get caught and pulled off
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so there we go all right
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and this is going to come through the wall completely so we have plenty of cable to work with
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all right let's see how well this works can we make it through the hole
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it's very tight here [Applause]
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all right answer is yes [Applause]
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but just barely
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okay actually I need my Slack
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too far down there we go all right
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all right easy right
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because if you guys know me this top thing is bothering the heck out of me
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Adventure wagon you can take you can unbolt this and take it out the problem is I've
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already preset where it's supposed to be tight
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and I have to take this whole entire l-track out and the A-frame member here
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just to loosen it enough to get it down to get the wire through so
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I think if I
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we're gonna leave that for a different time we're going to leave that until we do the AC all right so we got our we got this up
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here so let's just call it a win for our AC line
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I'm going to take a couple of zip ties and we're just going to hold this back just so it doesn't flop around while we're working on other things in the van
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but the good news is if you want to put your Dometic RTX 2000 power wire
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through the wall um you can
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there's enough room and the stuff that they give you to do it with
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you'll be okay all right and that'll be another challenge to see how well this actually
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fits up here because there's a panel that goes up here uh and then the other fun thing we'll
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have to start dealing with is this section
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we're going to need to figure out how to upholster it because the kit only allows us to cover
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the Ford factory wire it doesn't it's not made for it's not designed to
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handle this big bulge right here but it's okay we will
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take care of that when we need to um the convenient thing is this cable is going to go bam right here
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to its the power system uh it's the shortest run you could ask for
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you know all of this cable right here is going to be unnecessary not used so we can cut it off we're not going to
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do it now but we'll do it later so I'm going to
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I'm just gonna leave all this right here and we're gonna Zoom the camera in
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we're going to come to our next part where we need to uh
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we're going to pull some USB wire not USB wire the power wire we're going
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to use to connect our USBS over there
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all right just to show you what we did with this camera
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so you guys can see this is the part of the roof I said we have the
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challenge we have this cross member right here the wires by themselves will fit through it fine
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but this protective jacket we put on here it's not letting it go all the way through so
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what we're going to do is probably off camera I will just correct that
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but the opening we used was right here so in the Ford in the adventure wagging
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kit when you relocate this forward wire and you bring it it's like right here
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and you have to bring it up that hole right there is the one we went through so we came through here
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and we put it through this hole that shares the forward wire there's a forward wire right beside that we went
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through it then we went down to this channel
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and then we came out right there and so that will come out there and
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we'll plug directly into our power system later we'll actually be mounting a Shore
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power plug right there and yeah this is just all the steps
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we need to take to start knocking this van out uh let's see if I can get this level
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and locked in all right so we're going to be working right there inside the van
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actually hold on we need to work
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up here let me back up
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sorry guys I'm trying not to make you seasick right there
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we go let's fix our lighting and we'll get back to work
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okay I think it looks pretty good
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yep all right let's do that
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okay so next up we have our we'll have our wire coming uh through the floor and over here
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but there's another wire that we're going to use and we're going to take we're going to do one option that I
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think would help you guys in your wiring progress
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is utilizing the ability to feed it around the max fan
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so what I've found to be very helpful to me is where this Max fin is there's a
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shroud and we did this in Thomas's van so I there's a Gap a channel back here
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it's about maybe an inch and a half by an inch by an inch and a half High
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and we can stuff a bunch of wires but what's nice is we can access this by
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taking the vent hood of the vent shroud off so if we ever need to do maintenance
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we don't have to go through our floor that's going to be permanently put in we can go through and and change up these
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cables so because our 2s our USB port for the overhead cabinet charging capability and
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light system is up on top we're actually going to go
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on top so we need to actually take this
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panel off
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so that we can access it
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so this panel
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holds this panel
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okay now that gives us access to this back side here
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so this is probably going to fall off that's okay all right so right now what we're doing
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is we're coming through here so this Main
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a piece of the van here we have a cover
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just like this there's another there's another one of these that goes there and that's where
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we're going to hide our cable run
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so we're gonna go ahead and get we're gonna go into our 14 two wires
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and I think I have one that's already off of the spool so let's use that one first
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okay so 14 2 this is our thinner gauge wire
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14 I believe is gauges up to 15 amps so this will provide us power
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for two of our fast charging USB Outlets
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it's just important to say fast charging because you need that amperage
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so the circuit will uh or fuse the circuit at 10 amps
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because we need that amperage to be able to charge Quick Charge devices a normal USB outlet
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is going to throttle you and you know we're building a high-tech van here we
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don't need to be throttled for our USB charging
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and so what I'm doing is uh let me move the camera
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but you guys could see that
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so we're coming up through here going above our Venture wagon frame and
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then we're just just stuffing it in and see it comes comes right out here where the fan is
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let me get some more cable foreign
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goes in there you don't have to do it but if
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it'll make things easier as I wrap it around this other one
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there you go
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so this the USB wire up here this is the only one that's not going to be going in our floor
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but since we're talking about it might as well talk about it
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if you can't get the wire here you can turn it upside down like that and then put it back in
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and then sometimes it'll yeah boom
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you just try different tricks like that if you ever get stuck running a wire it's not going where you want it to
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so this one again we're going to utilize the this wire tray that Adventure wagon has
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incorporated the Ford wire harness
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the four wire harness this is used for the tail lights blinkers stuff like that
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cargo lights and we're going to use it as well
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and if I hadn't mentioned before I'll probably repeat myself but Marine wire is what you want to use
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because it's got that extra piece of rubber on the outside or sheet sheeting
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yeah and that is a hassle to un get all these Kinks out of it but you want to do it
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because if I need to pull this further in I don't want it wrapping and coiling up
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like that when I'm doing my wire run this typically happens at the end of a roll which this is so
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okay we need this one to go back there to the back so I have a panel
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there's a panel right here that I took off and just so you guys know what we're doing with this
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we have two uh upper cabinets so they're from Flatline vanco
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and they bolt into the L track they're Adventure wagon compatible part
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and they bolt into l-track but for the look of the van we have these really nice lumacoin lights we
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have one two three four five six uh they are bright
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they're individually controlled though and they do convert to Red for night
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time so you can turn the walls are red but I like to have a little bit more
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light in the van um you'll you can't believe
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you can't have enough light in the vanity because that's what I'm saying so I had these two four foot LEDs that are
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motion activated so when you want them on you just wave your hand underneath the upper cabinet
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and they'll come on over here or if you're over here with this kitchen Galley you just wave your hand it comes
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on you can hold your hand and it'll dim and then you can hold it again and it'll
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go back bright and it just gives you more light over here
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so that's what this is going to power so we need to make sure that this has
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the ability to reach all the way over here and we need a little bit of excess so that we can
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just make sure we got enough wiring here and this is where zip ties come in
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don't worry this is going to be temporary and then you can uh you know cut it and then when you're
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ready to do your permanent wire you can just redo it it's just really here to
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hold it but we're going to make use of this uh
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so right here this this is the wire tray so for the top piece we're going to use
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that we're just going to kind of I'll do a couple zip ties
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so I know these are probably going to be permanent holding spots for it because I've just done this before
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so there we go we got that stuff it in here
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then we'll do one more right here
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okay so I'm happy with that that's probably
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just going to be its permanent location you got plenty of slack right there to mess around with if you need to we don't
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really have to go back over here and this is just going to lay down now remember to use my method of either
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using a little bit of the thin kill mat to Tar kind of like a tar paper it down
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or use tape um tastes not going to hurt anything but
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the tape is going to help it stay put down and not rattling if you go over bumps
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all right I'm going to come over here let's put another zip tie
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a little hack is if you're trying to wire something take the end of the zip tie and bend it
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over so it makes like an L shape and you can kind of like needle it through the uh
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the holes and the sheet metal of the van and it'll help you
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it'll just help you get it through the sheet metal because it's it's weird
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okay so now we're getting back to
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something that's more relevant to the Floor video
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so over here we've got our path that we've been working on
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and then we have our wire so I'm trying to see
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my network cable and this other cable where we need them underneath this foam
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however you need to cut some of the foam away
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be very careful not with the razor because it's sharp but don't cut a wire
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a hidden wire
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that you've already hidden underneath the van you'll be very very
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upset okay so now I think we can
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there we go so now we can run the wires over here
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perfect
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so now that we have the floor in right now we're just doing cable management
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and we're just triple checking everything because once we have the
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actual floor down we're not going to be able to double check these wires
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now you by no means do you have to do this how I'm doing it the only reason the wires
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are like this if you guys didn't listen to the other live streams where I talked about it the
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reason I'm doing this is because my priority is other components so the flip and fold seat the shower pan the bracing
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for the pulled out tray uh making sure that the floor doesn't Buckle in the back
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that's my priority wherever the wires need to go to make it to their home then
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they're going to have to take some other path because this is it's like this area is already spoken
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for type of thing so all right now we have
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we got a network cable and our victron communication cable right here
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so they got a place to go this is all loose because this area
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right here is going to have that uh
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that upholstered piece cover it so we're just keeping everything loose
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and the reason I'm taking you through this detailed process is you're seeing it live we deal with problems and come
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up with Solutions uh you can spend you know a thousand hours
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uh on a computer with SketchUp or some engineering software and like get this
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really laid out but for me it's actually more enjoyable just to do it step by step
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because you know over the process I've changed my mind on the kitchen Galley placement
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and taking into consideration this is a spec build so this is for the business
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the shop it's not a customer's van yet but it is designed in a layout
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in which um it's a lot people are looking for the additional two people to be seated the
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additional cargo space the shower be able to shower inside the van
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but everything else is kind of you know trial and error as far as
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how to set it up and that should get you guys really excited
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about your own personal build you know it does not have to be perfect in the first go
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I said in the last live stream that you know these were the materials we're working with it's foam wood and glue so it's
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just simple stuff so if you tear it up you can fix it it's not the end of the world
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but what I'm doing right now is I need to now we need to have this uh to be able
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to wire over come through and get to our
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fuse panel so I think what we're going to have to do
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is we're going to come through here and then make another cut out to go
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across across here pretty sure that's what we're going to do
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I'm going to look to see if I can come on this outside now I don't have room all right so we're just going to come
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straight down here uh we're actually going to come through the middle
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because there is a
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there's a loop in the adventure wagon kit that is for a cargo tie down but
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we're going to repurpose that as a wire run for a wire run
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and be careful of the wires that you have underneath this
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and so I did I cut like a triangle so this one I didn't actually go all the
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way through and uh we're gonna see if that works if not we'll just cut it all the way
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through uh but this one we just got to be extremely careful because
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this is our our main power wires are underneath here
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that run to our sub panel and we just need to make sure that we do not
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Nick them
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[Music] okay
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so now we'll take our wire
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I'm going to put it through our little wire run that we have down here which goes underneath our floor
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and what's cool about locating this hole right by the kitchen Galley is you can make you can use the step to run all
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your wires down into the step finish your floor and then take them and go up through your floor
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so you can run your wires and put the floor in at the same time foreign
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stuff up and out of the way until we get to uh
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let's get the panels and stuff on
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what's nice is Adventure wagon has a complete upholstered panel and we'll be able to mock up where we have these
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openings on the back and then we'll know where to actually locate all of our our cables the renergy one screen
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and other components
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foreign
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and give yourself a bunch of slack as you go up just in case you have to move it through
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uh or change it up so we're going to leave it just like that
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um let me bring it right down through here
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and then we're just going to leave this slack down here there's not much of the wire left
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do you guys kind of here can I hear all that squeaking that's why we want to use tape now this
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is again
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we're uh just doing this temporary to hold it hold it back do you you do want to have some type of
1:03:52
uh something to hold it and keep it from moving around whether that's like a felt lined Automotive like wire wrap or
1:03:59
something just so it doesn't has the potential for noise okay the USB for the that side is
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finished um we may run another USB here
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but we're gonna see how are we doing on live stream so far
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so the last part I'll do is we're getting it's getting pretty
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late here we're just going to talk about the uh 12 3 wire
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foreign I'm going to show you where it's going
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to go and silver here
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so we're going to take this wire now remember we need two of these and then we're going to do two 14 gauge
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wires and we're going to run them uh so two of The Twelve to three
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those two will go to our pop-up Outlets and then the other two 14 gauge one's
1:05:37
going to go to our hot water heater and then one the other one's going to go to our
1:05:43
auxiliary plug and the flex space of the kitchen galley
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so now that we have this wear out we can make sure that you know
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we can fit you know two in the floor here and it looks like we can
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so I'm just going to put this here a lot of extra room
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we'll come back behind the heater come around here
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and then we're just going to make sure we laid this down flat we'll make the decision uh
1:06:27
next week if uh well tomorrow if we're going to put some wire loom
1:06:32
around it if we do it'll be this so we'll take we'll take this that we
1:06:38
didn't use and yep so we're going to be using this
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we'll put both of the flat 12 3 and then we'll put the 14 to 14
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gauge and this we'll put it down we'll wrap it in felt around the outside not all the way just
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so it doesn't move around this will protect it from the shower pan tray as well as any abrasion and we'll
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be good to go so this will just come around here
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and then what this will do is this will also come up through this hole here
1:07:14
and serve our electrical boxes uh so that part's gonna get really exciting so once
1:07:20
the floor is kind of the boring part once we get all this wired and put in here when should we get the kitchen
1:07:25
galleys in and we actually started hooking up the electrical component it's going to get really it'll be really fun to uh
1:07:31
to see this thing uh kind of take shape but yeah that's what we're gonna do I'm
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gonna stop this for tonight and um we'll pick up tomorrow
1:07:44
with uh finishing up this wiring so what I'll do is I'm going to finish the wiring
1:07:51
ahead of the live stream get everything tidied up in the floor because I got to go to Lowe's and get two more wires
1:07:57
I'll get that checked off I'll get everything wrapped wire wrapped ready to go uh the floor all cleaned up
1:08:06
and then these panels have to be painted they need to paint be painted dried
1:08:14
and as soon as they're dry we can uh glue them down
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then we'll do that overnight and then even though we wanted to do the lawn seal tomorrow that's probably going
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to look Tuesday looks looks like we're gonna be doing that Tuesday
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so yeah if you guys have made it this long into The Stream I really appreciate it I want to thank everybody for
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uh and um yeah it is late so
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appreciate everybody watching keep keep uh keep checking out the live streams we're gonna get this band done
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and it's gonna be really exciting so until then we'll see you guys in the next live stream
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