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Off-Grid Power System Final Review | Part 1
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May 3, 2025
Off-Grid Power System Final Review | Part 1
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all right guys welcome back to the shop
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we are going down the final punch list
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for Brian and
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Robin's Adventure van built by Odyssey
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custom vans so I'll be in the camera in
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one second let me shut the door over
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here all right we are
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putting the panels on the power system
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for the final time um that's what we're
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doing right now uh if you guys have any
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questions feel free to ask them as we uh
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do this live stream
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today
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um yeah really
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exciting
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uh went through
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and did a second or third run I guess of
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the uh the heater um you know since I've
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installed it it's been hot outside I
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really haven't had to to use it but I
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just ran it for about a half an hour um
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it's primed it's ready to go
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uh putting it in the back here I've got
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a bunch of considerations I've talked
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about them in some other live
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streams rotate this a little bit
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there we
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go uh one of those is if you're going to
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put this in the back of the van just had
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the consideration to have a couple
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inches on the top sides back pretty
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obvious um there's actually a piece a
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diamond plate aluminum diamond plate
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here and that's like a heat shield for
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the
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batteries um but everything's tested you
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know nothing gets hot over here if
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you're wondering having this in kind of
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like a confined space if you just allow
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adequate adequate room in the front back
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and sides nice intake um should be good
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to
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go
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um let's see
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here so what we're we're doing is we are
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putting
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in I picked it up and now I just
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put it
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away there we
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go uh also part of this live stream is
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to it's a reference for Brian and Robin
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if they ever need to take this panel off
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to access this area
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so back here you have your AC wiring
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everything's labeled as far as what
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everything is um this whole cable is
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designed to go back behind the
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heater um and then what I'm doing now
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this is the
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only uh tricky part here is because it's
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in this tight space the one thing we
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have to do
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is uh we have to take this heater tube
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off
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in order to get this panel
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on and in the future what I would have
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done is made the uh pull out drawer
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slide tray
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here um from Flatline vanco I would have
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made
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it able to be disconnect from the floor
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so you could actually take the whole
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entire thing
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out um so when I did John and Susan's
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van if they ever decide to upgrade to
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the uh
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flatl vanco pull out
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tray then they can
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uh when they bring it by the shop we'll
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do that option just so
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it's a little bit of a uh easier
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install yeah but I've been doing these
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short live streams because uh not only
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just showing you
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guys you know for the customer um for
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you guys but also you've been asking a
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lot of really good questions and I have
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a van build uh course that's coming out
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October
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1st and I'm really you know I've got a
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lot of stuff to teach you guys um that
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I've
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learned over the last couple years but
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the questions that you've been asking
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have been um they've been great really
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really good questions you know stuff
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that I don't really think
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that you guys would ask um so I
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appreciate those questions so yeah
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throughout this whole live stream if you
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guys have any
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questions um 100% uh just make sure you
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ask me in the chat and I will answer
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that the chat should be working today I
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know one of the live streams that
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stopped working for some
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reason
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but that is good
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okay so yeah all you have to do is come
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over here attach the
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hose um and then once you do
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that it's pretty straightforward is how
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it goes on so you'll have these 8020 uh
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roll in te- nuts is what they're called
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and then all you got to do is take
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your uh button
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head
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screws they're 5/16th Dash
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18 so if you if you're messing around
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with this you kind of goof and you lose
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it um they're really easy to find on
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Amazon uh not so sure
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about Lowe's or anything like
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that um because they need to be
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stainless that's that's important that
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they're stainless
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yeah but we have those right
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there now once a year you might want to
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come by and just check
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these um I don't locktite them because I
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I've talked about lock type a lot in my
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videos especially with like stainless
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steel Hardware if it's something you're
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not going to come back to or something
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like these overhead cabinets I do use
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Loctite on those um that's the stuff
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that I'm going of talking about that you
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I would recommend that you put locktite
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on but other than that anything else I I
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just pass on
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that um okay next step so that panel
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goes in just like that the next step is
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we just bolt in our little AC
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panel our AC panel breaker is uh who's
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on the stream two
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people so our AC panel breaker uh we do
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have to pull it out because we need it
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to
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um yeah this Loosely come
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out and
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then just making sure that we've
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got everything behind there where it
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needs to
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be
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for for
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so once the cables go in there you just
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want to make sure
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that they are pulled up out of the way
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and then once that's all done will check
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your
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connections and everything in here is
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pretty set there's nothing you can
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really change about it uh one thing
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is the 12volt power supply for the just
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to back light this that's the only thing
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that kind of gets
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unplugged for
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okay so once I got that in I'm just
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going to go and double
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check it's only three bolts it's pretty
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easy to take on and off it's
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just more making sure that the cables
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are
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up and out of the
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way okay looks perfect
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and then we just got four wood screws
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that hold this
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uh AC breaker in so this AC breaker we
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just got four simple circuits we got the
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Main
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outlets it's labeled as main cabin
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outlets and then you got the galley
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Outlets so the main cabin outlets and
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the galley Outlets those are the outlets
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on
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the bottom of the sliding door on the
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outside and
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the top of the kitchen
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Galley and you get your water heater uh
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then you got your
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microwave and you can keep all these on
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all the time cuz microwave
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switched um I mean the heater water
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heater switch the microwave you know
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stays on and these Outlets you can keep
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on but if you ever wanted to make sure
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that these are off you just hit the
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breaker off and it'll stay off um
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there's some decorative little pieces
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here I just snap
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on um just to make it look
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nice and so that's pretty much pretty
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much it for this panel so this side is
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all
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done and then this panel over here this
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is the fancy panel um I'll move the
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camera around so you guys can
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see it get put
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in there you
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go um see what I wanted to do
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here just wanted to neaten up
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the
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labeling yeah so I just remembered over
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here I'm actually going to keep this
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panel off
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um because I need to
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uh see
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here I'll still need these up so these
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are the labels for the fuse panel right
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here
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so it's important
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that you know you
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know what fuses are for
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what so this first one that's close
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closest to the inside the van this is
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our second
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alternator so it goes by the brand ws500
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this a wake speed
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500
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um and this is the control 12vt so this
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is
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the
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uh this is what is regulating that power
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coming out
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of the alternator
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itself
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okay so you got that sticker right
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here so that lets us know what this one
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is and the next one we have is
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this is a 12volt sense
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wire uh it's a 12volt sense wire circuit
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for all the 12vt senses so you got your
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dedic
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uh you got your dedic RTX 2000 sense
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wire you've got
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your uh Renegy sense wires so two of
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them um and then you've got
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uh your other uh your sense wire for
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your so one sense here one sense here s
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for the RTX
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2000 and then we've got the uh sense for
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the victron shunt and then uh the wake
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speed regulator is sensed
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on the victron shun itself
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and then the
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uh trying to do this all off my
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head um the wakes speit has its own
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scent there's two tiny screws on the
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victron shunt not the main bolts that
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hold these wires but the small screws
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that's sensing the voltage in and out
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and then there's also a negative
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terminal on the battery for a sense
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positive on the positive
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side and then there is a wire that goes
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on the negative terminal for temperature
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sensing for the wave speed regulator
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itself so all that is controlled by this
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two amp circuit it's a very little
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amperage because it doesn't do any work
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it's
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just it's just for the uh the circuitry
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to see voltage it's not running anything
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so um yeah so two amp is pretty much all
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you want uh there's a dedicated fuse for
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the this red LED just complet it's just
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for looks so this is completely
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just for looks so that it looks
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cool that's this next
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one um and then
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finally we have our 110 AC breaker LED
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so that wire that I plugged in over here
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that breaker LED is over here uh it's I
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call it the breaker LED because when you
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plug it in it lights up but it also uh
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Powers the the circuit board that is
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within the AC
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breaker so that is independent and that
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is on this
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last section right here
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okay so you have this right here
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um didn't really want to put this here I
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wanted it to be in some paper but if
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you're in the middle of nowhere doing an
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adventure if you can quickly reference
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this to this uh it's just this a better
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way to go
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um yeah so I'm going to leave all this
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stuff in the van cuz we're actually
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going to take it
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outside we've done all of our pressure
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testing for the water system we've done
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our leak test uh we got our batteries
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topped off um we got our Electronics all
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set up
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um getting ready to test the hot water
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heater
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switch but um I'm not going to turn the
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inverter on because we're going to take
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this outside and just take it for a lap
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around and uh
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test out the wake
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speed
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um so that should be fun so yeah we're
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just going to cleaning up stuff in the
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van
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so we don't have all this stuff in here
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cuz we're pretty much done working on
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the
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van let's see if we got any questions in
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the
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chat Southern mofo you demand appreciate
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it
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um yeah I'm trying to think there's
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anything else I'll give you guys a tour
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here in a little bit but uh yeah I just
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wanted to cover that panel back there
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just to have it online for Brian and
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Robin if they ever need to take that off
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and I'm not
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available so yeah we're going to take
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this up on the road
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and test it out I going to wash it and
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then I'm going to bring it back inside
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and I'm going to
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finish this right
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here so this is all completely done um
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the only thing I'm doing over here is
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this panel I'm cutting a slit out so
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that the blue LEDs will be
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powered uh when the system gets
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primed and I've got this disconnected so
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um yeah we're not going to connect it
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until
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we get it taped up and all that good
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stuff but I'm keeping this here in case
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I have I need I need to modify this so
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last night if you watched The Late Night
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Live stream this got all put together um
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everything under here is ready to go all
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the plumbing so this is this is done um
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the only thing left is to get this back
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panel on and so the whole water systems
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ready to go I've already got uh you know
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we've had this overnight for two days
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now and you know we're I'm happy with uh
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there's no leaks
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so I would say of course there's no
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leaks but you never know you want to be
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triple triple
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sure mainly because it's almost
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impossible to unless you take those
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panels off to actually see for leaks
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look for this
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um here let me give you a little quick
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inside tour um and then I will hop off
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here so this
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Outlet this is this is a new
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addition so nice open and close I did
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have to modify underneath here this
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button was sticking but it's not
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working um sink's been tested good to go
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all I need to do is just adjust this
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line
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buttons
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in this area is taken care of we got our
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pullout
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step um yeah so the only thing left over
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here let's uh bolt this
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down really quick and take this thing
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for a spin and we'll see you guys in the
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next live stream
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