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How to wire a Blue Sea Systems 360 Panel 1210 AC Distribution Panel
May 2, 2025
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the go live is in about 10 seconds and
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we'll
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start there we go hey guys welcome back
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to the shop we are working on the shop
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build right now we are fixing it up for
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the show for peace love and vans and
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today we're specifically talking about
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the electrical so we've worked on all
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the 12volt accessories so they're all
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ready to go but the last thing we need
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to do is our four
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breaker uh 120 volt breaker system so
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we're using that for we're using Blue C
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systems we're using their 360 panel
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systems and today we're going to be
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talking about how to wire the 1210 model
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now the 1210 model is uh pretty
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challenging because if you've gone
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online and you tried to wire the 1210
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panel model uh the instructions are
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pretty vague it's pretty Universal with
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the instruction booklet that you get
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with it and it doesn't really explain
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the uh bus bar
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and the ground and AC uh neutral side
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that you have to hook all together
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that's completely left out so if this is
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all Greek to you don't worry I'm going
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to explain the whole entire thing we're
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going to hop over here to the table
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really quick and we're going
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to uh go through the process of
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connecting a 120 volt breaker to your uh
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camper van so if you've seen this before
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this is the unit that we're talking
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about so this is the 1210 120 volt AC
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breaker uh it gives you uh 4 15 amp
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Breakers and you can use them for if
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you're using a air air conditioning
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system so if you have a 12volt air
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conditioning system this is what uh you
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might see something like this in your
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van or RV for that matter some people
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watching this actually may have one of
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these in their
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RV um you've got a breaker for
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appliances uh for refriger
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refrigerator so think of this as the
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refrigerator that is running off of
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household power and then like TV stereo
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for us we're going to come over here and
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use this uh sticker kit and so something
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that's more common that we're going to
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be using is something uh on the lines of
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outlets so we're going to have two of
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these outlets in our van so where are
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they going to go on this setup then
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we're going to have a microwave plugged
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into it
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and then we're going to have a water
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heater so water heater microwave and
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then two of these
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Outlets they're going to be controlled
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by this 120 volt breaker and this
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breaker is over here on my right hand
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side and I'm going to put this uh camera
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on the
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tripod and I'm going to
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explain what everything is right here so
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this photo is the front so that's how
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you actually turn it off turn it on
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whenever the breaker pops so just like
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your household panel in your
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home
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now on this side we
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have the this is the schematics for how
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to wire everything up and on this left
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hand side uh we have everything's
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missing over here so the part that's
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missing is this right here it's this uh
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these two bus bars that come with the
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kit so they're in a little plastic bag
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separate to this and a lot of people
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don't actually know what to do with them
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so what we're going to do is we're going
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to show you how this is all laid
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out and how this is all going to come
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together um because it looks pretty wild
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when you look at it it's not a simple
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plug-and playay uh although when you get
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it to this point it'll be that way so
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after you watch this video you'll know
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how to actually hook this up properly
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and
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um I think it's a good system to use
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because it it's a very very low profile
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and it's a very very
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clean 12 volt breaker panel uh a lot of
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the panels that are in
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RVs or Camper vans uh they're a big
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plastic box they're kind of clunky they
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take up a bunch of space um this takes
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up very little space when we're finished
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explaining this we'll flip it over and
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I'll show you what the other side looks
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like other than a
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picture but let's start start off with
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uh how is a 120 volt breaker working in
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your van specifically so the first thing
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that's happening is you're probably
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going to have an inverter that is
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supplying the uh 110 or 120 volt power
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to your
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van and so that 110 120 volt power
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coming into your van is going to come in
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through a pretty heavy gauge cable it's
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probably going to be an eight gauge or a
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10 gauge cable coming from your Inver
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inverter and from there you're going to
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have
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your your hot wire which is the black
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wire you're going to have your neutral
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which is your white and then you're
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going to have your ground which is your
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green and these three are going to be
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what is going to go and Supply the power
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to the breaker uh before it goes across
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the breaker and then supplies the power
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to your actual device so the protection
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from a breaker comes in between where
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your power is coming in so the AC hot
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side which is the black wire so where
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it's coming in to where these yellow uh
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ter ring terminals that I have here
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they're actually bringing it to the
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device so I'll pull all this away and
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then I'll go step by
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step so here's your breaker here is your
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where all your AC neutral wires are
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going to be put together and then over
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here on the left are going to be where
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all your ground wires go
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um and I'll explain how that works as
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well so from your inverter you're going
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to have this black
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wire and then the second wire is going
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to be
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your white which is your neutral and
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then the ground is going to come over
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here so if you can see where I have the
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uh the red caps these red caps are going
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to be what I crimp onto the inverter
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cable now this is just for demo purposes
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right now I'm actually going to take
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this apart a little bit when I get in
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the band to finish it up but this is how
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our power is coming to
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in so just imagine that these three
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plugs are actually
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um being
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used okay so next that we have these
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three
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connected we need to actually connect
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the unit itself so that is the 1210
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unit you have a 12volt side this unit
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and that is to operate these led
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indicators right here so these led
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indicators are going to tell you uh
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green if it's on and then uh it'll
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indicate which one is tripped
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so this two 12vt lines the positive and
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negative they're going to supply the
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light the back light behind here so this
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is the panel and then here's your
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stickers so you can imagine once you put
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your stickers on there you're going to
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have uh a backlight so that you can read
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this in the dark if you need to get to
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it um plus it just looks pretty
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cool but you need to supply this
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breaker uh 12 volts for those lights so
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this top wire up here is going to be
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your 12vt positive and then your
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negative and you can double dip on this
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wire by by uh oversizing it so I have a
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12 gauge wire going to this and that's
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going to allow me to take my ground so
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this uh AC ground
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wire and it's going to allow me to not
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only ground it to this bar but also this
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is going to go to my uh ground for my
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van itself so that way I can just can
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neatly put all my grounds here so this
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is the ground for the LED this is the
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ground for the
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AC and then this is the uh ground that
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actually goes to the ground of the van
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so all those three are put together on
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this this is our ground uh they call
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it they call it a safety ground but you
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can actually see this is not depicted in
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this picture and that's why a lot of
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YouTube videos online are uh complaining
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that it doesn't have that information so
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I'm giving you all that information so
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this video is pretty much five or six
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YouTube videos all crammed into one
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video so this is where all your grounds
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are going to go Powers the LED grounds
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the breaker system itself and then this
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is that negative for the uh the lights
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on the panel so that's your 12vt side so
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let's get back to the 110 or 120 volt
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side so once you have the 12 done now
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you're going to connect your hot wire
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here like we were talking about so
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that's your black
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wire and then the white neutral is going
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to go on this bus bar here into this red
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one and then the ground's going to come
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over here so you can see that all of
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these uh grounds are going to the
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ground
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now you can actually go and find the
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wires that you need to actually have a
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uh breaker for so for our scenario what
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we're doing is we need we need
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a microwave breaker we need a water
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heater breaker and then we're going to
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do uh we've got Ford cabin outlets and
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then we've got uh rear cabin Outlets
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let's see if that's a sticker on here
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so essentially there's a bunch of
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stickers you get to pick what you want
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but you peel these off and they go on
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here and so each one of those
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corresponds to whatever breaker circuit
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that you
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have so once you've identified where
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your wires are now you can actually take
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the wires from
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your uh receptical or whatever it is so
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just imagine that this wire is connected
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to
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this so this first circuit for example
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is going to be my circuit that I need to
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connect to get power from my outlet so
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I'm simply going to take the hot wire
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and that is getting connected to
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here uh by the way this is
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important the stud that you're looking
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for to be able to put all these yellow
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ones this is the is what you want so you
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want the 810 stud is not the gauge of
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the wire the 810 stud is
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the screw that
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is uh is the eyelet so that's
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the that's the circle part that actually
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it's the diameter of this circle so that
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allows it to actually screw into here
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neatly get a good
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connection so all the yellow ones are
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this
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810 and then all of
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the red ones these are kind of hard to
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find most autobo stores or auto part
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stores or they all stop at 10 gauge and
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that wire that I have is actually eight
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gauge you may have a 10 gauge wire uh I
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oversized it um for my 3,000 watt
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inverter so I kind of oversized almost
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all the
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wires um what's nice about that is if
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you do want to add multiple circuits so
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say you had one outlet and maybe you
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wanted to add another one you have a
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little bit of of room but again that's
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based on how many amps your breaker is
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this one's 15 amps so that limits us to
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only one Outlet per circuit to be
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safe so the red ones are this
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eight with a quarter inch ring and then
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the yellow ones
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are they are a 12 to 10 gauge capable
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ring terminal with an 8 to 10
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stud or screw it' be an easier way to
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explain
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it so so once you have the black wire
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here for the breaker your next one
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coming in is going to be your AC neutral
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or your white wire and so all of those
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are going to be combined onto
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this and so that is all together now we
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do not have a gr we do not have a ground
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over here so our grounds are separate
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from our AC
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neutral so this is the three parts of
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your wire so this is the hot
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side this is your neutral and then the
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last one is going to be your
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ground okay and then what we're going to
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do is just
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uh repeat for each one so we'll have our
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two outlets the next one down will be
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our microwave and then next one down
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will be our water
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heater and that's pretty much it that's
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usually all I have in a van
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um it's it's a very simple basic circuit
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doesn't get complicated um these two
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outlets break into basically four so you
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have four
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plugs uh and you're only limited by you
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know how much current you can provide to
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them in this
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one each one of these is 15 amps so
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pretty much it'll just be just like your
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household
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Outlet so once those are all connected
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um that's that's pretty much it so the
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you're going to have three wires at the
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end of the day coming into this box
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you're going to have your inverter
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supplied by your wire coming power from
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your
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inverter you're going to need your
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12volt wire that's going to carry 12vt
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power to the Circuit for the breaker
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itself and then you're going to have
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whatever you're using over here as your
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receptacle or whatnot now there's this
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one very skinny wire right
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here there's a skinny white wire and
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they're wanting you to connect this to
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the AC neutral and so what this wire is
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is it's picking up
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um
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this uh whatever it's going through here
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so this is actually what connects it to
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the circuit board for the breaker so if
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you didn't have this little sense wire
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I'm calling it
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then you know this breaker would not
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know what's happening over here uh for
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if it had a
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fault and so that's it you know one two
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three for your components um so now I'm
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going to take this off the tripod and
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then we'll go into the van and talk a
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little bit more about where this is and
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where it's what it's
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supplying but that's for the 1210 Bluey
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systems breaker uh let's take this all
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off the table and then we'll show I'll
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show you the other side so you can
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actually get
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a actually see what it looks like other
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than a print out I was trying to figure
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out how to do this live and not be on
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the
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computer um so we'll pick this board up
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and if you guys want to know what this
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uh shiny stuff is that's actually a
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protective heat coating so it's actually
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what they put on the under side of a
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vehicle to protect from exhaust heat so
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on the left hand side of this we have a
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blocked off chamber for the uh W basto
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so I just wanted to have pretty much the
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ultimate
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protection um and then this uh
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electrical is a away there's
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a space between this and the heater so
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it doesn't get hot and then if we flip
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this
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around this is our finished panel that
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actually goes in the van so we have our
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heat coming out here is our finish panel
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and then over here is where this breaker
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panel goes and there's a bunch of pieces
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to this so you have this piece that
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bolts on that is what you actually put
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your stickers on and then see right here
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this is just like a normal household
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breaker in this panel we'll do a quick
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inside the van so we've got all the
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panels pulled off of our power
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system so this panel is actually going
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right there where those wires are these
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are coming
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out and and tomorrow what we're going to
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do is we're going to connect all these
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wires so each one of these is 12
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gauge the two yellow one is for the
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microwave one is for the hot water
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heater and then
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our
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marine
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uh 123 wire this one is going to go for
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the top box of the kitchen countertop so
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that outlet and then this is a bottom
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Outlet so I'll show you where those are
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the heater is right
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there and we've already gotten all the
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wires they already ran so we've got our
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12vt for the water pump we've got our
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110 for the hot water heater and then
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we've actually got a cargo light that
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we're putting in
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there so we'll have some cargo light
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shining
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over um but once that's done there's
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nothing else to do in here I'm just kind
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to have this really
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cool red light and if you guys saw some
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previous live streams you'll know what
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that's
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for but let's hop over here and I'll
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show you the last part of this live
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stream if you guys have any questions
18:47
put those in the chat but uh ignore this
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nest of wires this is just all extra
18:53
length um we're going to consolidate
18:56
that before uh we go to the
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trip but just to show you we're gonna do
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the same thing this is pretty much the
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same layout as a John and Susan's van so
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what John and Susan are going to have is
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they're going to have a
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upper Outlet that's up here so that they
19:16
can access it to work on their induction
19:17
stove I mean cook on their induction
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stove that type of thing so this one
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goes up here so that's why this one is
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longer and then down here and this uh
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foot well where we have the ABC
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rig step system this is going to hold
19:37
our electrical box for the other outlets
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the other Outlet will go right here and
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I've already mapped it out to where we
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have a lagoon table Mount so the Box
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will go right here so that this
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uh this changing height back and forth
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doesn't interrupt the box and then we
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have this ran so our top Outlet our
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bottom Outlet and then this
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one as you can
20:02
see uh it says induction stove but it's
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really going to be a microwave um but
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this is pretty cool if you can find
20:09
these 12 gauge heavyduty extension cords
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um I like to use these because they're
20:16
really good for
20:17
troubleshooting because of a microwave
20:19
and a hot water heater typically have a
20:20
residential style plug on the end what
20:23
this does is this has a built-in LED
20:25
light so when you turn on the circuit
20:28
this glow is either green or orange
20:30
depending on the heavy duty cable you
20:33
find but not only is this really a nice
20:36
heavy duty cable it's not going to get
20:38
cut or scraped but you have this light
20:41
so when the circuit's on and this light
20:43
is on you know that this has power going
20:46
to it so it's not a guess if there's
20:48
something happening between the uh back
20:52
there where the battery system is where
20:54
the breaker is and then where this plug
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is you can just quickly identify that
20:58
the lights on it's got power um and then
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we have the same thing for the uh hot
21:04
water heater that you can't can't see
21:06
over
21:08
there um yeah but that is pretty much it
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for uh this live stream just a quick
21:15
live stream to go over the uh
21:18
1210 360 system from Bluey systems so
21:23
it's not a sponsor video it's just this
21:26
thing is an awesome piece of equip
21:29
and I really like to use it
21:32
however this uh is really hard to
21:35
understand for most people um even
21:38
myself until I had to watch a bunch of
21:39
videos and then you know read about it
21:42
and installed in Thomas's van which is
21:44
Marine one but after doing all that hope
21:47
this video helps um guys if you are not
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subscribed to Van bid HQ make sure you
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guys are subscribed and definitely check
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out the new van HQ website so we've
21:57
reent revamp the website we've got all
21:59
the blog post on there uh tons of
22:02
information on how to do your DIY camper
22:05
van build lots of information and one of
22:08
the best pieces of information is the
22:10
DIY van build cheat sheet if you don't
22:12
know what that is that is a free cheat
22:14
sheet that I made for you guys
22:16
completely free and it is an Excel sheet
22:18
of the last three years of all of my
22:20
Amazon purchases uh it's organized from
22:23
all the categories that I use so
22:26
Electrical uh fittings
22:28
um solar panels stuff like that so check
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out van Builder hq.com and then within
22:35
the page there'll be a link to click on
22:37
the DIY van build cheat sheet I think
22:39
it'll really help you out with your DIY
22:40
van build especially if you're having a
22:42
hard time looking for parts and you want
22:43
to know what I actually use in the shop
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those are the parts that I've actually
22:47
bought over the past three years it's
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about 250 uh items on that list so
22:53
there's a bunch of selection a lot of
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Renegy components solar panels
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uh uh different types of connectors uh
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the tool section is really valuable so
23:04
it's all the weird tools that I use um
23:06
these tools are not too weird but we've
23:09
got uh some crimpers we've got some wire
23:14
strippers uh this tool right here is one
23:17
of my favorite for stripping
23:19
wires um just a bunch of stuff like that
23:22
and uh yeah check it out the DIY van
23:25
build cheat sheet it's on Van van
23:27
Builder hq.com and guys uh don't forget
23:31
to check out uh peace love and van so
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that is an event we're going to in Dade
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City Florida it's right outside of Dade
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City Florida we're going there at the
23:39
end of this week so we're going to be
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doing some live streams if we got some
23:42
good sales service from there uh look
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forward to showing you guys all the
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awesome vendors the really cool Vans
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there's probably going to be let's see
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this year almost probably 400 Vans at
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this event it is a huge event uh it's
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already been sold out uh Friday tickets
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have all been sold out um actually
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Saturday tickets are sold out I think
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Friday's tickets are available for day
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passes and then Sunday tickets are
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available but yeah check it out
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pecans.com um that's the event that
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we're going to be taking this van 2o so
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I got to get back to work here but if
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you guys have any questions put those in
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the comment section below I'll be happy
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to answer it in a future video and until
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next time we'll see you guys on the next
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live
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