Key Things to Consider When Choosing Campervan Lighting (Part 2)

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hey guys welcome back to the live stream tonight we're in part two of talking about camper van lighting and so what we

did yesterday is we talked about 16 amazing camper van lighting ideas so

if you missed that that topic is up on the the live stream section of our YouTube

channel and we're talking about this article on our website can prevent uh van

builderhq.com 16 amazing campervan lighting ideas

so like I just said we talked about this first section and I'm breaking this up into three section because it's kind of

long so over here today we're going to be talking about

key things to consider when choosing campervan lighting

and then we'll have this section here and we'll finish it up but yeah let's talk about some stuff to

consider when you are getting ready to install the campervan lighting

the first thing we want to talk about is purpose so that's kind of obvious you know what do you need it for

the examples that we gave in yesterday's stream our first particular applications so

it's uh once you put down on paper what you're going to need or how you're going to lay

your van out that will tell you what you're going to use it for so for example if you're

working in your kitchen Galley you know that type of light is going to work for that location if you're in the bed

getting ready to go to bed at the end of the evening or you want to sit down and read a book you

know some type of reading light is going to work and then think of casual settings too

so that stuff where it's uh maybe like strip lights or fairy lights where you

can you can dim them maybe you can change the color or you're wanting to kind of sit some type of mood

so depending on what that is that's your purpose so make sure you consider that

before you go out and just start buying lights to install on your van the next thing uh thing that we talked

about was brightness um

edit this real quick there we go

actually we didn't talk about this yesterday so it's a good thing we're bringing it up right now we talked about color temperature which we'll go back to

in just a second but brightness is is pretty important

um when you're actually working in a commercial environment say like a cubicle office area there's actual

lighting standards on how much uh how much lumens is uh healthy for a certain

work area so some offices adhere to that I'm sure that some are older don't

um but I found that out when I I used to work in a cubicle area um I thought that was pretty interesting

has to do with how many lights you know per square foot and then their output

but the same thing applies for any space that you're in so like the bedroom of your house you know or like a living

room but when you come to a van we just have two Little Numbers here

that might guide you in choosing that for the area so softer light is going to be a range

from about 230 to 440 lumens and then more intense light is going to be a thousand lumens now I think

yesterday we were talking about the uh the driving light bars from Baja Designs

and to give you an idea so say a thousand is is kind of bright for

a person to you know be in a certain area but when we talked about this light bar

and we went down to specifications

there we go

we have 28 000 lumens so just to give you the

scale of how insane these lights are uh that was kind of fun to go back to that

but if you go to Google you look up lumens scale you'll actually get a pretty cool

picture that I found and we're going to be going over like complex compact fluorescent light LED

and like your uh standard light bulb that's going to be like a Tungsten filament

so if you have no idea what this is it's pretty much the lumens is the amount of brightness

of a light so uh

and what we're comparing here over on the right is the wattage so the reason

that people enjoy LEDs so much is because look how much more energy

efficient it is for the same light output so standard

you know household bulb like let's just go for 60 watt that's pretty General 800 lumens

so that's a direct 60 watts of power consumption for this type of bulb yet if

you get a LED you're still going to get the 60 watt amount of light but then the amount of power that it

consumes is only 9 watts to produce the 60 watt brightness uh at about 800 lumens

so you can see it takes more wattage to increase the brightness of a light that makes sense

but it takes very little increase in wattage for led to get brighter

um we all know that kind of these standard bulbs are throwaways you know that light that always goes out in the bathroom or the kitchen

whereas an LED it's going to give you a long long service life

and then down here at the bottom we kind of have some contrast on uh savings so this would be you know

electrical say like cost to operate so you have you know like 30 more

efficient 75 and then up to 90 percent

and so that's how the Lumen scale kind of is explained right here

because when we talk in just a minute about LEDs CFL and standard you'll have a better idea of uh the benefits

so yesterday we talked about color temperature so color temperature for me is kind of like a pet peeve where

I want to make sure every light in the van is the right color temperature you should too because it's just going to

make your build look at that much more professional and we want to remember the Kelvin skill

so the Kelvin scale it's just uh search this again

I actually had it over here didn't I

so I'm gonna go to you want to put in

for light light bulbs or lighting let's just do light

there we go and so if you remember yesterday we had this scale where

the lower Kelvin number is going to be warmer so think of like Candlelight

4000 is going to be your incandescent so that's that tungsten filament which would be

this type of light like an incandescent bulb as you go up daylight indirect sun is

about 5000 K now these uh the video lights I use as

you guys see in the shop so they're calibrated to I think it's 5 600 Kelvin

and I match that with cameras and stuff like that and that way the lighting's equal

through what the camera's seeing versus what the light's outputting so if you are into photography or

videography you'll understand color temperature and it applies the same to light obviously

then 6000 anything above that 7000 Blue Sky you're gonna get it's

almost gonna look it's gonna be very cold blue um this one this picture right here

really overdoes it you can kind of see uh now obviously you know candle's not

red and lights aren't the bright white is uh not that bluish color but you can

kind of see the Spectrum

so remember warm light is about 2700k bright white about 5000 okay

and then daylight seven thousand uh but 7000 it's pretty pretty aggressive

so I'd stick to the 2700 to 5K now efficiency

so the chart we went to just a second ago uh

points to the different efficiencies of the different bulbs

I put a note right here for incandescent lights they're cheap but they're extremely hot

so if you have like an old uh like pickup truck or something some

type of car that was built like the 90s or 2000s if you remember the the touch lights in your car if you left it on you

can put your hand up there and the plastic was really really hot um so you can imagine

if you have that all in your van you know it's summertime you're trying to keep the van cool that's the little bits

of heat that are that are coming out in the van whereas an LED or a CFL would be

much cooler now when we talk about power supplies

if you put a A good rule of thumb when you're doing a van build is make sure you have a couple

of just dedicated USB Outlets so dedicated 12 volt Outlets

that are running direct off the battery system now make sure they're fused of course but you kind of want them spread

out throughout the van to where you can plug your phone in to recharge or you could plug in batteries to recharge or

even you know additional lighting some kind of something like that

um it makes it really convenient and not only that it's it's more efficient for

your system you could turn your inverter on in your van

and run an outlet that had a USB port on it but it's extremely inefficient

and the technical term for that would be parasitic loss

so I found this article and there was a quote here and it makes uh it's just a really quick

way for me to show you guys what that means so uh parasite loss it's the inefficiencies

that are created to um to convert the power from

for example DC to AC so there's work that has to be done to do that

so this was a general rule of thumb 15 of the maximum so for example if your

inverter is 2 000 Watts which is pretty typical you might lose 300 watts

with the inverter doing that work and the biggest thing is it doesn't

matter how much uh you're using the equipment just the just the inverter being on by itself is going

to draw Power and essentially you can do if it's on

every hour that's 300 watts every single hour that's that's being drained for your system

um now this is going to vary because there are very efficient

inverters there's very inefficient inverters we talked about the modifying

modified sine wave inverter versus the pure sine wave inverter

on one of our streams so there's different things but this just was a

cool sentence here to explain um that concept

uh installation difficulty so strip lights or fairy lights those were

extremely easy so if you remember we went up to strip lights these type of Lights they're usually

plug and play um

and actually I'm on the back up let's go to

light bars Channel lights

there we go so these lights are really in easy to install for example

you can buy this strip 16 bucks and you got a USB plug and a remote control

so if you have those Outlets spread throughout your van and you can actually build these Outlets into your cabinet so

with inside the cabinet so if you wanted to plug your phone in shut the cabinet and just leave it there that's a good

way to do it but you could actually have a port to plug this in so you if you wanted to add

on stuff later like under cabinet lighting or just interior cabinet lighting so that when you open the

cabinet up if you wanted like a particular color like red for example for looking at stuff at night time

um this would be a really really simple option

but installation difficulty strip lights again like I said if you plan for it super easy the fairy lights on the other

hand again those really popular but these are uh you can have these

there's a battery operated so you can just you know put up the right your van pop a

couple Double A's in and you're good to go

um we also talked about yesterday how recessed lighting can be a challenge to install it's really nice in the Long Haul

because it looks very professional it's recessed it takes up not a lot of you know

headspace and uh but it can be in channels to install because you got to use a hole saw you got a pre-plan for

the wiring all that stuff uh next we have quality

so Our advice spurge on the main lights so these can be lights that uh

are within like the top of your ceiling so those uh if you guys remember in Thomas's van we

had the uh the four LED strips so we put some money into getting the LEDs the

wiring the soldering iron soldering that circuit together the diffusion the aluminum diffusion channels

and so um it wasn't expensive but it also wasn't cheap you have to do all that work

but we splurged on that to get that look uh dialed in and then for the other stuff you know we

took the budget down a notch and we went with a just a light bar

so there was no wiring you know basically all I did was I cut and I just

spliced this uh into the electrical system and I may have not have mentioned this

yesterday but this uh cabinet lighting for a kitchen closet LED

make sure the reason I chose this is look at this price includes 12 volt adapter as long

as you see that you can nine times out of ten just cut these cut

the wire from this plug this household plug and then crimp the wires together

now you will have to check for polarity so you got to make sure you're positive and negative

are happy what I mean is if you connect sometime this stuff from

overseas the polarity is flip-flopped so if you go to wire negative to negative

and positive top positive the LED actually won't work in some cases so you'll actually need to flip it

uh but just be careful um if you have so for example in my shop so this

toolbox over here this is the electrical toolbox so all of my crimps fittings and

connections and voltage testers are in this box so what I do is I pick up

I have a spare two spare car batteries that just stay topped off and I'll test circuits that I build on

those two spare batteries first and make sure everything works and the

polarity is correct before I will put into a customer build

just as a double check

yeah so Spurgeon main lights you can take it down a notch on additional lighting

all right guys we're already on our second slide so this stream is going to go pretty quick tonight so if you have

any questions put those in the comments right now and I'll get to them and at the end of this slide

so the advantages of LED lighting besides their uh

Energy Efficiency which we talked about you can see we're just kind of

reiterating almost 90 more energy efficient than to produce traditional incandescent bulbs get some water here

and probably the number one thing of LEDs besides their efficiency is the long life you know you don't have

a Tungsten filament uh or gas inside the

bulb that's gonna you know play as a factor

and LEDs don't only save money on the electrical bill but they reduce cost because you're not

having to replace them all the time now there is a caveat between that because

when you're so this is good I like talking about this because I I think of uh new things

to talk about

I'm gonna put a question mark there so this is going to actually be something for a future topic but I'm going to

mention it now since we're talking about this so you can

interrupt the long life of an LED one way you can do it is by having a lithium

iron phosphate battery system now there's nothing bad about this high quality components are going to be able

to compensate for this range of voltage but if you buy cheaper components Maybe

like Amazon stuff you might have to get what's called a buck boost so

I'm just putting making notes for future videos all right so what is what the

heck is a buck boost um buck boost converter so we're gonna

go into

where's Amazon here we go

okay book boost converter here we go this is a pretty good example

so as a builder these are like the the weird um

things you come across to solve problems that potentially could arise in the future or stuff you're unsure of

sometimes uh the customer has their heart set on a certain item being put in a van so that

could be something they found on Amazon something from overseas something that may not have

the best quality but it's something they really want to have in their van it's

and it's an electrical component or device now what I'm mentioning here about

this lithium voltage so lithium batteries need a higher voltage state to charge

sometimes when they're fully charged this can affect certain components of I

don't want to say lower quality but may not be designed

uh to this spec so there's these devices called uh

DC to DC stabilizers buck boost converter um and what they do is

they will take a larger range so say everything from as low as 9 volts

all the way up to 36 volts so the input to this device

has a large range of power input but the output is a fixed voltage and

amperage so if you have a sensitive electronic that was only designed

for 12 volts 5 amps well just imagine you're charging your

lithium batteries and it's getting up to like 14

14.6 or whatever so your voltage it may not be 14.6 you

got line losses blah blah got it um but say it's around I don't know 13

or something like that but if a device that you have is rated for 12 volts 5 amps and it's

pretty specific on that it could be specific because it's a lower it's a cheaper cost to have more of a fixed

chip on there for that uh voltage current then having a more

expensive chip on that device where it can handle it um

so those devices that have the tendency to mess up

or that are low of lower quality if that flag that that red flag kind of goes up in my mind

I will put one of these buck boost converters in line for that to power

that device that way if the advanced charging is topping off or

something fluctuates where something's on and it you turn off and maybe you know both the voltage cuffs back up

unexpectedly this uh buck boost converter can do that

now there's uh different ones you can get you can get a 12 volt 5 amp 12 volt

3 amp 12 volt 10 amp 12 volt 20 amp and you see as the amperage goes up you

get a heat shield that comes with it um a lot of people actually use these and

uh where it was ah come on so some people use these when they have

maybe a 24 volt system and they want to come down for a USB outlet

to like a 12 volt 20 amp outlet so you would use a device like this

um so they're anywhere from the higher end if you're going more current the 46

bucks to the lower one was about 20 bucks for a 5 amp power output

yeah so just because the bulb is designed for

long life some there are other things that affect it when you're doing electrical

installs in the van all right I hope that was helpful

next we have high brightness and intensity so depending on your needs you can get LED lights ranging from as dim

as 300 lumens to whopping 5000 lumens um

or 28 000. uh

it's you get there's there's tons of them out there

again we talked about the low radiant heat so they're so efficient custom out amount

of energy that it uses and that's really going to

so you got high wattage here low wattage same output

uh durability they are more shock resistant to

vibrations as you guys can imagine if you had old school filament style bulb and you

banged it you know you broke that tungsten on the inside or uh if you ever

had fluorescent lights you know they're made out of glass they can break

and hey you're in a van this humble Road says it's a it's an

earthquake on the inside and a hurricane on the outside I think that's what he says

um exceptional color range so true you can get LEDs in every single color

that's why it's so cheap uh when you get

like these lights I mean you can get one strip that's going to give you a rainbow of colors and it's only like 15 bucks

and then if you just want to get a a particular just red LED or just blue you

can definitely do that um one thing I didn't mention in here

but make sure you get uh

just make sure to make a note about waterproof

waterproof or what was the other thing I was going to tell you guys

um or are dimmable

dimmability dimmability

dim ability is that a word this nope

can you dim

there you go can you dim the lights some electrical circuits are not are

lighting fixtures are not dimmable be very careful about purchasing LED lights

that are not dimmable I think it applies more to complex

fluorescent lights I think there's a dead there's a danger inherent and compact fluorescent light

let's just double check that I know this from the commercial world

compact

compact fluorescent lights uh has to do with the ballast compact

fluorescent light bulb

they mean Danger

yeah no a CFL that is not specifically designed for damage should not be using a dimmer uh the CFL May flicker or uh

I I know that some I know that there were uh fires so people would get these

CFL bulbs that were non-dimmable

and they would catch on fire because

uh remember we got Ohm's law

you guys remember this so the triangle so if if you lower the

voltage the current will increase so if you lower the power

it the the current's gonna boost and there's nothing to absorb that

I'll have to double check what I just said but I'm about 100 sure that that is accurate

and that's why these uh these guys kept caught on fire

because I was renovate renovating a warehouse and thankfully the the tubes the CFL tubes

that I bought already had the little circuitry in there to protect it but if I didn't and I left that light on and I

left the shop they could have caught on fire so all right going out of tangent here yeah

make sure you can dim them that they're a dimmable light and make sure if you're using on an

exterior part of your van that they're waterproof all right guys get those questions in

before we end the Stream uh last but not least is exceptional

color range my favorite thing to talk about um

you can get anything from like the warm 2700k to cool toads around 5000.

and this is just my little personal insert here I would just avoid anything over 7000k

it's very it's very blue light

yeah but um yeah there's gonna be a short stream tonight because we're just kind of breaking into part two of these

two things and then what we'll do is if you guys if we go over to

vanbuilderhq.com the 16 amazing camper van lighting ideas

post come on down our last part

is going to be this one so part three is going to be how to hardwire 12 volt lights in your camper

van so um we won't have a stream tomorrow

but next week uh I'll be traveling when I come back we're

going to be um prepping for this part three and

hopefully I can put together a basic circuit for you guys just a basic lining

van circuit and um that way we can show you a couple of these topics

so we'll show you how to uh you know what actually it's gonna be perfect

because Thomas's van is uh going to be coming back in so what we'll do is we'll just do a live stream on

how we do uh how we how we would wire in a new

circuit to his van so we talk about how we would uh let's

Zoom this in let's talk about this just for a second since this stream is going to be so short tonight

it's only been half an hour um

so we'll show you how we're going to switch off the electrical supply one thing that's extremely important

Zoom way more than that there you go

so one thing that's very important in Van remember

if you've wired your van correctly you should have a main disconnect for

your power system and you should have a dual pole breaker

for your solar coming in so dual pole and that it's connect disconnecting the

negative and the positive wire coming in from the solar

uh Thomas van is a great example because he has 350 watts of solar up top and

there's enough juice on a nice sunny day to where it'll still power the red Arc system uh computer interface so even if

you even if we shut off his whole entire van the light coming in the solar panel and coming through the system is enough to

just keep it as if nothing happened I mean literally still run the fridge

so first you need to make sure you disconnect both of them

remember solar panels are always on there is no turning off a solar panel I

actually have

so I actually have two pieces of cardboard that are cut out and these two pieces of

cardboard are used when I'm working on the van because the I have a very bright garage light

and sometimes if it turns on I still have a little bit of power that goes through the system so to be super safe

even when I'm working on it I covered the panels completely

um yeah so make sure everything is cut off safety first right

um so next find a power supply behind a main light fixture in the van

so for example we have two lights uh he wanted like a red

kind of glowing light for night time above the cabinet area and then we also had a light going to

his kitchen Galley so we have a power wire going and then

what we can do is since the light in his uh kitchen Galley is touch sensitive we can

provide Power to that circuit and we can Branch off and use it for the the other circuit as well

um so when you see this it says hook a

positive 14 gauge standard wire cable there's many different gauges so

um as far as this one goes you can be anything from a 22 gauge to a 14 gauge

um so essentially going to run the power uh run the wires through the walls up to the place you need pretty standard hook

up the lights in your circuit make sure that the positive cable is

fused and then that negative is going uh back to

I like to have it in it's going to go back to the negative terminal of the battery but then that is

grounded to the chassis of the van

but what I do is if I have a circuit I'm not cheating and just going from that

circuit to the chassis of the van and not going back to the battery I always complete the loop and go back physically

to the battery um and then number seven yep ground level negative cables like I

was talking about um here you go

I have didn't know I didn't change screens here I'm sorry I'm petting a German Shepherd

over here she's she's ready for the stream to end

um yeah so we're gonna I'm just kind of

diving into here since we've got a short stream

uh and these are just some specs that we've we've uh pull together

some rules of thumb on 10 to 28 lumens per square foot of lighting

where do you plug in lights for an awning on a camper in a perfect world you're going to want

this to be wired through your roof in a cable gland waterproofed and directly

into the awning itself however I understand that some people don't want

to do that maybe they already have like a manual awning and you could do the uh

um instead of interpret the power outlet as the USB outlet you know if you have a USB light

or like a waterproof rope light you could just plug it in when you have the door open

on a nice evening and uh and do it that way just plug it in and then before you want to close up

for the night unplug shut the door and good to go

so I do have a video on installing Puck lights so we'll put that together and we'll kind of walk that walk through

that in the future stream foreign what type of switches do you use to cut

the power to solar panels perfect that's exactly what I just talked about

um yeah you want to have that dual Pole

see if let me see if I can let's see if I can find that real quick

oh a new subscriber Rick welcome welcome to the live stream

let's see where is that two-pole breaker

double pull I'm trying to find the one that I bought

on Amazon there we go

all right this is just an example I'm not saying this is the exact one for your application

remember voltage all that stuff changes solar panels are all different they have

different uh base voltages depending on what company they're from uh the type of solar panel

all kinds of specs we need to talk about in a future stream right

but anyway this is a uh 250 volt

uh breaker for solar panels you'll notice up here in the picture we

have a negative side and a positive side so if you would think about it more in like a household uh situation you're

going to have just one of these you're not gonna so the reason that they designed these is

because if you can imagine if you ground the solar panels and then you just have a breaker on the positive

side well guess what it's it can backfeed potentially through

the other side so it's not completely cut off

um for example like if it's shorted on your roof and I'm just making this up but let's just say the positive wire like fell and

like somehow it was like on your roof and the breaker broke but now your

negative side is still connected to the inside of the van it would still complete the circuit

um and then they had these boxes uh so I think explore.life this is what

he was recommending in the beginning uh one of my subscribers said that he has

since updated to a different system I think so I haven't caught up with that that's

something I need to do um yep so that is the solar

okay where was I um the inverter

so the inverter is going to be permanently fused that'll be a permanently fused circuit

yeah the inverter will be permanently fused because you have so much current going through there

um so you're going to use a there's not really going to be a switch for that I guess uh

and putting this together I was coming from you have a main disconnect switch so

technically that is your switch to your inverter and your battery system all together

but if you drew it out on paper you're not going to disconnect the

batteries and then disconnect the inverter if that makes sense and then charge controller same thing

with a charge controller you're not going to have an individual disconnect for inverter for a charge controller and

batteries it's usually going to be one main disconnect for the batteries and then the batteries are going through

a fuse block uh like something like a

like a victron lynx distributor

so what's going to happen is the these these pathways are going to be your

quote unquote you know switches but they're going to be fused um so they'll they'll break the event of

a short but typically you would not

you would not be cutting power to your charge controller

it would be on a a fused circuit and it would be

it would only break in the event of the fault or short same thing with inverter

some inverters have uh the fuses built inside I want to say

is it bye by metallic

fuse

so sometimes a bi-metallic fuse I think is used was essentially if a circus overloaded

this piece of uh bimetallic this metal piece will change

so what it'll do is if it gets too hot it'll expand and it'll lift off these

contactors and it will uh kill the circuit

if you've got a Vitamix and you have tried to put way too much margarita mix

in there and it it's almost like it burns out if you let it cool down

uh it's just protecting itself it's kind of like a thermal fuse so this metal

will kind of grow I mean this is like microscopically but it'll grow and it'll

it'll kind of flex and then um a disconnect right here

and then as when it cools down it'll cool down and it'll reconnect the

circuit so don't quote me on that as far as inverters go but I'm pretty sure

the last inverter I used I used a kotek sp3000

see go tick bye

um reverse polarity fuse

so apparently it has a reverse polarity fuse something I guess I need to learn about

reverse polarity fuse huh

yep learn new things all the time

there you go first polarity fuses that could be a future live stream after I read up on it

um okay

oh PV isolator let's talk about that

I said we got a couple people on the chat if you guys have any questions it can literally be off topic because I'm

pretty much finishing up this slide here I'm just going through these last q a that we

have on our blog post and I'm showing you some we're kind of

getting into some solar stuff but if you have a question on any topic van related

put those in the chat so if you're doing this if you're doing

a solar if you're doing solar power and you need some type of Disconnect switch

there's all kinds of switches so you can use this style circuit breaker

um but if you have multiple panels that you're hooking up

you can use something like this I don't like this because

I mean every inch in a van every quarter inch you know

you need that you need it trust me you get a battery box in a tight space

and you go ahead and buy one of these big boxes it's only big because it's it's

convenient it has all your solar connectors um ip66 rated what is that

thank you um so ip66 is dust tight

and against strong Jets of water so it's not IP67

interesting but this is an isolator

so you could use this so say you have one two three four solar panels and the solar panels that you you bought let's

just say you're not comfortable cutting the solar wire or uh

like stripping it and then putting like a ferrule fitting on the end of it

if you're not comfortable with that you'd probably like to buy a box like this so that you're just everything's Plug and Play

um let me look up another isolator

so they look like that uh see here let's take out the DP

they can look like this so you got the

this coming in so this one actually comes with the

the yeah if you're doing DIY uh I don't

think you need to go this deep into it there's not that a real benefit

my opinion because what I do is

I'm just uh I'm using renergy panels and I'll just feed that uh

what I do is I buy their uh let's see

so I buy this kit right here it's a 200 watt

let's pull this up

so this thing's called R kit 200. foreign

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wiring and accessories

there you go okay so this is what I buy

come on there you go I know you guys probably want to see Nova

all right so here is the accessory and cable kit you can choose 100 200 400

watt module and these things come I just like it because

I like to modify these brackets so I'll drill and cut them up and do all kinds of stuff so it's just nice where

if I kind of get in custom mode and I want to modify these if I mess up I've got I just have extra so I just buy this

kit um these cables are nice because they're it's a very hard

plastic on the outside so they're kind of stiff but I like it on the roof of Vans because I can zip

tie it down to the railing and then I like this wire especially

because it's got the connectors the solar connectors up top but then it has bare pre stripped wire at the bottom

and what I do is I take this strip wire and I will uh

I'll take it and then I will

I'll plug it into this so I'll plug it into the I'll screw it down I'll put a feral on it and then

I'll crimp it down to these two

and if you guys don't know what Pharaoh is

so they make these really chunky ferals and what you'll do is you'll slide this

over and you'll crimp it down

so this wire so if you look you'll take it you'll slide it on here and then crimp

it down and then that would get it gives you a really solid connection to

uh to this to the top of to the top of that

foreign

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