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Off-Grid Power System Final Review | Part 2
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May 3, 2025
Off-Grid Power System Final Review | Part 2
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once again welcome back to the countdown
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stream of getting the van delivered to
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Brian and Robin they're on their way
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they'll be here
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tomorrow and uh yeah I'm just making
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these little mini live videos because
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I'm covering some stuff to where um it's
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crunch time so I'm not going to film and
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then like refilm so I'm just going to do
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it live while I'm in the moment um but
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that way I can kind of tell you guys
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what's happening as I put stuff together
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the last uh live stream today we talked
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about the heater down there um is and
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also we talked
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about uh like the heat shield for on top
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of the Webasto we talked about the AC
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breaker um and then we talked a little
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bit about the wake
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speed okay by the way I just did a test
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run with the wak speed regulator and the
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nation's second alternator it is
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unbelievable it it blew my mind so I
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cranked up the engine and you know
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everything's running smooth no
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vibrations the belts and everything are
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really nice um I started looking at the
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reny M1 and it's showing me a real time
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of the current charging on the system
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and it went to like 140 amps 150 180 200
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220 240 250 then it went up to 260 and
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it peaked out at 268 amps charging at
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idle
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and blew my mind so if you're thinking
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about getting a nation's alternator for
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your second alternator uh I would say
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100% go ahead and do it maybe just make
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it your main charging component of your
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van throw an extra solar panel on top um
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and that's it I mean the the the DC to
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DC stuff uh I understand why I use that
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in the past um but I don't know how I
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uh now it's it's it's really challenging
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to put the uh second alternator in it is
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very challenging it is expensive but man
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having a 2
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268 amp charge rate for your van is
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insane um that's pretty much 2 and a
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half lithium batteries fully charged
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from 0% every hour uh so just
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incredible um yeah that was awesome this
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see
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that and
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uh yeah so if you're thinking about
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getting it go ahead and get it as
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hilarious the uh this the two Ries here
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uh they have a red light on the uh
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alternator and essentially um it's not
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using it for the alternator which is
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funny because the uh it doesn't need it
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so yeah the alternator would have
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to shut off off or do something like
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that for these to even work now these
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are the mppp solar charge controller so
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they are
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still uh they still have
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their
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um
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usefulness uh so yeah but pretty
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much Brian and
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Robin have a killer charging system I'm
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talking perfect off system 600 amp
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hours
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batteries
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268 amps at idle
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charging
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um uh then it did ramp down to 170 amps
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and I think that was a thermal
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throttling because I mean uh that's a
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lot of current to push and if the van is
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sitting still not moving um you know
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that the alternator is not going to cool
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down as much as it would like on the
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highway or whatnot so it throttled it
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did everything it was supposed to do and
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I'm pretty excited about that now over
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here let's talk about this we just put
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their final covers on our two combo
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units so if we didn't have the Dual
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alternator alternators in this band
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these two units would we take over the
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DC to DC charging so the DC to DC side
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probably won't ever get used because the
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current from the alternator is
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overcoming these
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two
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um the other thing is uh let's see what
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else I was saying um but the mppt on
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both of these we got the two 100 wat
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panels are here the 1 140 is over here
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so it's split again redundancy we got
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the vron vron linkx distributor this is
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taking care of our air conditioner unit
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our dual DC todc Chargers um as well as
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our
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uh uh
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inverter over here we have a 100 amp
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terminal fuse this terminal fuse is used
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for the sub panel underneath the sink
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100 amp service to the rest of the
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electronics in the van and then we have
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a mini panel here of just four fuses so
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these four fuses we talked about earlier
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the first one to the right is the wake
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speed regulator itself it's rated at 15
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amps we have a 12volt sense wire circuit
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so all the 12vt senses that are in the
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van uh the 12vt sents for the AC the DC
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to DC combo Chargers um and two other
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additional items uh are here and it's
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just a 2 Amp Fuse back up one more we
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got the LED light which is just
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completely for looks just to look cool
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that's a 5 amp fuse and then our last
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one is our 110 AC breaker
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LED and we got a 15 amp in for the um
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for that circuit over here on the very
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right this right here is a thermally
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controlled uh exhaust fan so it kicks on
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at 80° and then um cools down the rest
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you can change this if you want to
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change it to a higher temperature uh but
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the the temperature sensor is at the bot
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bottom of the inverter so when the
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inverter starts to warm up this is going
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to start to circulate air into the
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system so that is that uh batteries are
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topped off fully charged so now we get
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to
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install the
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uh one of the pieces I'm proud of which
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is it's becoming a signature piece on
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Odyssey custom vans um we didn't uh
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so for
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uh the van for
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uh uh the other van build that we did we
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didn't do this because um the style
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wasn't there for this panel but if you
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guys have seen this before this is a
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like etched glass plexiglass acrylic
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screen
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um and I'm going to clean it really
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quick before we put everything back
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together
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a nice microfiber here
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easy
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okay all right so this is going to close
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this up and then we're going to move on
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to other parts of the van
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missing two bolts I have to go get some
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more so let's wipe these off while we're
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at
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it everything looks really
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nice this will complete our power system
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h
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now like I said
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again every couple of months you just
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want to come over and check
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these just to make sure well I need to
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take this out I need to find a I need an
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extra screw
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you guys have questions ask away in the
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chat
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okay so this left side of the van over
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here is complete everything's working um
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so we're going to move over to the right
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hand side and uh start
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to do a little Cable Management over
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there so one last thing over here is I'm
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going to cut a a mat for this drawer
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slide so I'm going to cut out a custom
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mat it's not I mean it's not crazy it's
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just a mat that I got size it lows
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but it'll keep this tray from getting
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scratched
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up this tray is a matte finish it's a
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powder coated matte finish and matte
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powder coated finishes you know kind of
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get dirty
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quickly and we'll cut a little piece of
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carpet in here and we'll kind of end it
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for that
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if you guys are hopping on just uh if
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you have any questions feel free to ask
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for
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now tomorrow we're going to do the full
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it won't be live but we're doing the
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full van tour
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tomorrow so do first first thing in the
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morning and then as soon as that video
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is done we're going to give
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uh Bri and Robin a call and then they
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can
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come and we'll start the process of
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actually going over their van all the
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features
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um that's another reason I just I record
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so much video is they ever want if I'm
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not available and they want
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to you know learn about something about
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their van that we didn't
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cover or that we covered and it's a
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little more detailed then they can just
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uh hop on the YouTube and do that
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thing okay so here's the pull out drawer
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slide uh I already know that the length
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of this drawer is
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5T and the
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width uh so we got 17 and 3/4 in so I'll
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be right back with
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that little p
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okay
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for for
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all right guys we going to be here for
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one more minute this just a super quick
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video so if you have any questions let
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me
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know can you ever feed too much power
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into the batteries from the alternator
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so uh you can't um because you have a
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wake speed regulator so that whole that
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box is what is handling the flow of
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power um and it's relying on the volt
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Vol of the
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batteries um the wake speed regulator
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itself is programmed so when you get it
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from nation's alternator they
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program uh and size it to how many
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batteries you have or what your amp
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hours is of your
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system so this one has a tag it says
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Renegy 600 ah which is amp
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hours and so that's designed so that um
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the Box
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knows how much to charge when to stop
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charging all that good
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stuff uh as a backup the batteries
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themselves have something called a BMS
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and a lot of you guys know what that
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means it stands for battery battery
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management system and so the
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BMS is internal to each individual
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battery and it is there to make sure
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that the batteries
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don't uh
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overcharge uh over
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discharge um that also they
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also incorporate the making sure they
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don't charge below
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freezing find my scissors
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scissors
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go we
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got figure how much I got to take off of
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here
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15 take out 15 and a
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half all right not sure why that was
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at so live stream messed up a little bit
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um yeah quick overview of this we're
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going to finish this up and then in a
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little bit this next part part will be
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finished and we'll go over that uh
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putting the final covers on it and then
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the last video of the night will be over
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here on the kitchen gallery and we'll be
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doing some uh wire organization and
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stuff like that and uh yeah be finished
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up stay tuned for future live streams
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