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Using Anderson Connector to connect Nomadic Cooling X2 48V Air Conditioner EcoFlow System
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May 2, 2025
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hey everyone welcome back to the channel this week we are talking about the Anderson connector for connecting um the
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ecoflow system so we're going to hop in the van in just a minute uh I'm finishing the
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connections to the electrical connections to the nomatic X2 uh 48 volt rooftop AC that we're
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installing on John and Susan's van and so this one comes with the ecoflow cable
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obviously because we're using that kit however the ends of this cable we have to
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modify and um there's two different ways you can do this if you don't want to modify it I'm going to show you some
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options but I think modifying is going to be the easiest way due to the current selection
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on the internet um so all of this stuff is really new as far as the 48 volt AC
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options that we have so the first thing I'm going to show you is this photo and so this photo
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is uh it's an ecoflow power a battery cable where the ends have been cut off
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and prepped to have um a connector so rather if you are directly connecting
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this to a rooftop AC um or you're wanting to put a
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Anderson connector on it which that's what I'm doing today um you can buy this cable by
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itself um anybody that's carrying the ecoflow kit should have this Cable in stock it's called the ecoflow power kit
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48 volt cable it's funny cuz the connector actually says battery cable
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because it's basically just a battery cable that has the end cut off um so it's very simple it's a direct
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connection um so what we're going to do is uh we're going to take this we're
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going to put an end on it and we're going to put this
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uh plastic in this Anderson connector and what we want to do is make sure that
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we have the appropriate gauge wire so six gauge is the one we want to buy and
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this is only you know 10 bucks so it's very inexpensive
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but as far as how you crimp and connect this can be a little confusing so that's why I wanted to make hop on here before
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I got too far and teach you guys how to do that um yeah so we bought the six
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gauge Anderson plug and it's exactly the same for each size it kind of it's like a it's a
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mirrored thing so no matter what side you do it's going to be correct now how
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you push the pins in and what orientation they are that that's what I'm specifically going to show you in
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this video you may see interesting cables like this so if you've ever bought one
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to connect maybe like a winch on a truck or some type of electrical connector for
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a trailer that's typically what these are used for um but today we're going to
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take the end of it and we're going to clean it up as you can see in
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here and show you how to do that um I just found this before going
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live vanland actually makes this cable with an Anderson connector on the end
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already so if you didn't want to do that and whatever unit that you have on top of your roof that's a 48 volt unit
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already has an erson connector technically this would just be a plug-and play so they are selling that
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right now and they've just uh got a cable I've never seen this connector with these two
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screw holes so not really vouching for this but it looks like pretty close to
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what I'm using um except mine's directly from ecoflow this one has been this looks like a ecoflow
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adapter and a Anderson connector on the end but it's from vanland I think these guys are pretty reputable
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so yeah so you can buy that and they have it in 10 and 20ft
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lengths just depending on what you need um yeah actually let me I missed
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that let me go back and show you guys that there you go so vanland has this
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cable has a connector here has the Anderson connector here you can get 10
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ft 20 ft length all right let's hop in the van
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and let me show you what I'm doing with this connector I'll show you how I'm actually connecting it to the wire and
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we will have to modify the pneumatic cooling AC unit cable because it already
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has ring terminals on the um as you can see here there are two ring turbl
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positive and negative we have to cut that with the razor strip it back and then we'll put the Anderson connectors
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on there so top of the van uh let's get started with that and that's pretty much the live stream if you guys have any
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questions on this let me know and we can uh go from
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there all right all right let's make sure my mic's working there we
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go as soon as we get these crimped I'm going to bring in the uh top portion
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of the eof flow system I might as well put it in there now so I don't
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forget let's see if I can go grab it actually not ecoflow nomatic
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cooling
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so I'm going to show you this part and how this gets
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installed CU that is the goal for today is to get all that taken care
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of make sure I can see my phone
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here okay so we take these clamps off this is
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just was letting the wood glue set for these side
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pieces so we have our two cables and I've already crimped and did heat shrink
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on these and so the most important thing about an Anderson connector is the
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orientation of the positive and negative so what side that is and then there's
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this little uh fin that when you put it into the
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connector it Clips in and that's what holds it into
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place
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okay so I'll probably draw this out on the drawing pad because it's going to be slightly hard to see this on
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camera but what I've done is I've taken the connector and you can see these uh
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Square Parts at the bottom so these Square Parts at the bottom need to be flat and if you turn it around the
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rounded Parts need to be on top so if you having that
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orientation this pin this little clip that locks in needs
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to be on the bottom side and so inside here there's this metal fin that goes up and what you want
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to do is you're pushing this piece into the metal Fin and it's
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locking so as long as you have this down so this
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little uh what do I call this this little end is down and it can grab onto
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the piece of metal we're going to click in our first piece and hopefully you guys can can see this on
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camera so if we flip this over what I've done is I put two permanent marker dots
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on the top and then I take
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these pieces right here and I actually um put a a perent marker dot on top that
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way when I push it in I make sure it's a correct orientation and also when I take
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this and I use the hydraulic
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crimper that the orientation is right and I don't screw up and go you know
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cockeyed and then the most important part is making sure that this orientation is
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right so both crimps that you do are flat like that so that when it
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goes into the connector it stays that
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way if you mess up technically you could twist this and do that but I would
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suggest just get the cable relaxed and kind of find out where it naturally wants to sit and then go ahead
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and make your two
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crimps all right so here is our Anderson connector and see these little Clips or
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these little claws are down and then we've got our round part
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is on the top so just like that and you can see hopefully you guys
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can see but this first one is positive second one's negative so when we take this one we're just going to Loosely put
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the negative one in there so we'll put the positive in you can see this is how it's going
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in so that goes
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in not sure if that's going to be in Focus anyway so the first one's in so
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now let's go we'll go slow and the uh negative one so again the rounded Parts
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up top this little claws at the bottom and you can just push it in and then keep
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pushing and you he it click and now it's locked in so your positives on top negatives on
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bottom in this orientation and then you should see both of
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the those pieces um the metal comes out the top not the
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bottom okay so that's finished with this
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cable it looks okay on camera you guys have any questions we can get on the drawing pen I can show
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you a little bit more detailed but um I've got a lot of slack here so so I've got enough room to play with connecting
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this so now what I'm going to do
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is I'm getting ready to do my second
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connector and then you can see here how even though these are the same
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when we crimp our positive Connection in there see it's not going to go in like
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this so when you flip it it goes back to the right orientation so positives on
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top negatives on bottom and then we'll plug this in together and we'll be
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plugged in so next we're going to be careful and
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we're going to take a razor and we're just going to cut off you could technically just cut and
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strip back I just I don't want to remove any more wire than I have to
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for uh from the pneumatic cooling unit so because it is possible that I mess up
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and I just want to have enough room so I can fix it if I mess
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up
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okay so now I've exposed that whole entire piece so I've got some extra
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there
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for
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that's
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for
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for
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next we want to take our uh crimping our piece that we're going to crimp and we want
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to make a little Mark where we want to uh strip
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this now I would usually use this uh tool it's called
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jonard it's a circular wire stripper you guys have seen me use it in pretty much
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everything that I've done um from for some reason it's in the
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shop somewhere and I don't know where it's
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at so we're just going to do this one the old school
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way now what I found is these Anderson for
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six gauge they're really tight for six gauge so you got to make sure that you don't
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Fray this copper wire uh pretty much at all or it's just um almost impossible to get in
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here now this one actually this one was much easier this six gauge welding wire from Windy Nation um I feel like a six
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gauge with them they give you a little bit more copper than I guess whoever nomatic is
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using but we've just made it to where when we push it in we've got just a hair
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of copper showing at the top so that's good for that
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one
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so now I'm doing is I'm just visually thinking about where I want the pins to
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lay so look we're look like we're doing all
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right
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for
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yeah so when you're pulling this off depending on what wire you have just pull it straight off as much as much as
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you can try not to fray it at all just going to be making this uh connection easier for
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you okay so I get both of my wires here I'm just going to look at this and
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I need to make sure that when I crimp it that this claw Parts facing you guys
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on the
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camera
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now the funny part is this is actually the hardest part is just trying to hold up the uh hold up the
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crimper so I Tred to kind of
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pre load this as much as I
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can then I make sure that I get the wire seated
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for
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all right guys well that's very interesting so this is six gauge wire
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from this is the fun stuff about doing this stuff
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live
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so I think we're have to change our die to actually get that crimp in there so I'll be right
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back
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for
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so we're gonna have to go look up in the manual why this is not the same
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gauge
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for
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okay let's try this one more time
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for
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all right we're going to hop on the computer really quick and let's see why pneumatic coolings has
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a smaller wire
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for
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for
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for
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so that's interesting the wire from pneumatic for the 48 volt is
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10 gauge but the AC wire that's supplied from from
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ecoflow or the one that I the one that I got is
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definitely much larger anyway well that'll be interesting um yeah we got to get
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another crimp end to fix that so so we can't finish that live but um
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I'll finish it get it fixed and then but that's interesting that the ecoflow
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battery cable that is uh that you purchase
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to wire which you just saw that I'm using is a uh heavy dut heavy duty gauge it's
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more D it's it's a six gauge versus a 10
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um okay let me work on crimping that I might be able to do that live Let's uh
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let's just keep working working on
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it
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is as connection a good for you guys to find
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out if you're to do the
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um this is run into
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you're so I'm using to do this is my water
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CER
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for
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for
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so we got a really good Crim on here we to get
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that using Pro crier and I started at the 25 de and
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went 16 because you need to make sure that
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plug just a
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little little
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stuck
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what
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for
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back needs to be there just get a little
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stuck all right moving on to the next
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one before we move on next one just make sure
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orientation
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next
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one
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you're have to CRM this twice the first CRM is just boxing it up and the second one
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actually
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for
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as easy as
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the it's not a bad thing is oversized never obviously never
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over just edges
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weat now finished
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here this
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Heat
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e
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same things little claw pieces on the
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bottom
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so now let get a little Elric C
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up
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So Pro tip always cut your electrical tape
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flush don't rip it off and tear it do it
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flush then the finals
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just it's
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unv okay nice
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install now be able to plug that
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in disconnect it if we need to
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that now we'll come back we have some more stuff we're do
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wir next thing I want to talk about is something that thinking I might be able to Capt on video go to and
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get M8 volts and these all
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protrude through the ceiling so I
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we're going to have to get shorter ones
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orad I'm
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the
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me
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so I have a one in piece of aluminum that's be design to go from left to right this
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comes with a to this down but when you have a nice Lile roof like this
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we you're going to be able to you're not going to be able to use those so like I did on the
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I designed aluminum tub cut a c right and I the
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hole Andie
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go tubing and now the sare tubing is of
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these roof supports supports I'll CL it all down but before
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I do that make sure everything nice and aligned we'll do some RTV and US
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theit thetic X2 comes with own 14 by gas that's a peeling stick but as you guys
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can see here tempor
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temporarily we'll put that on there and
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then let it sit down on the BTS in ahead
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Andor it down that's
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finished I'm going to connect the wires put all
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the wires back up in the roof and then next
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we'll I'm G to do XPS blocking here or I think I might
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do actually small cans of spray may ask why I'm doing that seen a
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bunch of videos now only AC that I've installed is the RTX
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system throughline the intake is right
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here it is sucking from the inside of the roof
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number one I don't like that because we have I don't want this into AC I
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there everyone it's sucking up through this
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roof so I don't want doing that so I want to block off this whole entire area
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and seal it one for the intake purposes two because when this C air comes
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out the last thing you want to
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want to and the first place it's going to
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happen all that you're supplied
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with is this piece
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goes and so what happens isir ins comes here but the ceiling
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also
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I'm going to spray this tonight or do the XS phone block and glue it in after
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I do my aluminum then I'll
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foil that it's completely seal roof don't
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POS out of out you're to it so seal
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it'll know
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even um okay so that's going to be it for this live stream we're going to go get
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some bolts modify our pieces of
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aluminum
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window and aluminum sit come this down
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AC all right I'm back on the computer if you guys have any questions let me check in the
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comments I know it's an early stream today I don't think we had too many people watching but that's
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okay see there we
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go yes so note to self the
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uh pneumatic has 10 [Music] gauge and the gauge
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from the ecoflow battery
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cable what size is
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that yeah nobody's given the size anyway um that is it for today's
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live stream I hope you guys enjoyed it if you have any questions on this uh just check in with us later we'll be working on the AC unit getting it all
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finished up today and uh if we do have time we might do another live stream later on this afternoon after we do a
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trip to the store but again thank you guys so much for watching make sure you're subscribed give us a thumbs up if
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stream thank you again so much for watching and uh we'll see you on the
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