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back up here everybody's doing well hope you guys are
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enjoying the floor install series um I'm going to slow down just a little
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bit I'll explain why this series will be going step by step
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and we've been on schedule uh more on my schedule of what I want to do for this
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build and what that's done is I think there's a couple things that I need to
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address uh for the DIY somebody that is doing their van build and discuss some
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of the things that I've kind of already worked on but haven't mentioned to you guys as I'm doing this process and one
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big thing is electrical so electrical
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is technically not part of a Florin install however as you can see here
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it's directly it's directly related because we are
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dealing with wires everywhere because there's a couple ways that you can do a
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van build you can run the wires under the floor like I'm doing or you can do floor and
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walls or the ceiling or something like that um Thomas's van we did the ceiling because
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there's an easy way to access that and the amount of wires that we had would
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not run under the floor there's no way we had no room so in this video today we are going to
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talk about wire runs we're going to talk about where you can put it in a Ford Transit front back middle roof walls
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we're going to show you how to do stuff that's complicated like this which is the the uh Dometic RTX 2000 it's not that
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complicated but when you try to go through wall cavities in a van with sheet metal you can get a little hairy
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so we're going to go over that we're also going to go through
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um modifying the foam in the floor before you put the final wood down in case you
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needed to add an additional run which I need to and just some other things like that so
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we're still talking about the floor process because we're going to be working directly on the floor
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uh but that's what we're going to cover in this video if you guys haven't been watching this
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series we're putting a flooring system in a Ford Transit this is a Ford Transit
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High roof it's a 148 not non-extended so
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just the regular 148 and the flooring system that we have in here
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uh we used AVC rig we use their fluorine templates so
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they're paper templates that allow you to cut out your own material save a bit of money on the floor
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for me it wasn't necessarily the budget for the van it was because I was modifying the floor so heavily that I
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did not want to buy a full flooring system and you know
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cut out 30 percent of it I'm gonna go run and grab one of those paper templates just while I'm thinking
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about it that way I can show you guys what I'm talking about but we're installing the floor we're
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doing the insulation anything you need to make sure the floor is nice and even we're talking about the
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um stuff as far as the adhesive what we're using
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things to consider as you do the process and then eventually we're going to get to where we actually install the lawn
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seal flooring so we're doing the coin style flooring
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so if you've ever if you guys have ever seen engineering drawings or blueprints uh that's essentially what this is so
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they use a plotter to print this out which is just essentially a big printer
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I got to be careful because my tape is getting caught I want to reuse
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this but you can see here
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and there's no affiliation I'm just giving you guys some really good information
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you see right here so we got ABC rig we've got this template
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so you can see it's a full piece of paper that is designed to go on the floor
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and you trace out everything it actually has
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uh some Trace outs over here on the left for if you wanted to put uh
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cutouts for seats it's like the forward seating system
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and this is probably really loud so let me just get rid of this
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anyway this is the template kit uh you can see how there's edges that you can
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uh it's mapped out around different parts of the van so you got a front a middle and a rear
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section and maybe we'll put one of these templates over the uh
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piece of wood when we take it out here in just a little bit show you guys a better example
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but anyway what we're going to do today is go through the electrical
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so we've already done the rear of the van we've taken care of our sub panel
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over here in the kitchen galley and what we're going to do today is take
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out this middle floor panel by the diesel heater not diesel heater
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the gasoline will basto and we're going to make a notch through the floor right here
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and then we're going to
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through the floor here and then we're going to come Notch out the back side here of the shower pan and then come
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back over here and then round the quarter and then have it come through our already pre-drilled
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hole where all our wires are coming through we're gonna be adding a couple uh wires
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what we're going to be adding is we're going to be adding we have one outlet that is a waterproof outlet that
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goes outside the van not outside the van but on the outside
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of the kitchen Galley so it's inside the van when you shut the door but it's on the outside that is so that you can you're able to
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um use a induction stove
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turn this light up let's go dark in the back here
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there we go so back here we're going to
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the outlet down there is going to be where the step up in the van is above that we'll
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have like a lagoon table mount and then that'll be the outside so you can use your induction cooktop outside
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and cook um inside we'll have one more on the
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kitchen and that one is a pretty cool so both of them are the pop-up Style
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not the tower kind but these are like 45 degree pop-ups and they're very nice they're very nice
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so we'll I just ordered them the other day so they should be here pretty soon they have two outlets
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they're rated for 15 amps but they also have two USB ports so it was just nice
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and convenient to have that now you will have to have the inverter on for those to operate obviously so if you're okay
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with uh that just being on when you're charging
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your phone for example that's good the other way we have charging this van is
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we have USB Outlets those will be just 12 volts and we'll have one over here by the flip
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and fold seat so passengers can charge their phone while everybody's riding in the van
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we're going to have two additional up top and those two are so if you want to
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store anything inside the upper cabinets but you want to also have the ability to
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charge something so like maybe a foam brick or a laptop or something like that you can stow it up there and also plug
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it in to be charged so it's nice and convenient and then over here we'll have one
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um in case you guys want to uh maybe charge something at night time so you
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know by the bedside so all that wiring has to be
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uh all the paths have to be created so all the engineering has already been done as far as the gauges we're going to
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be using how many outlets we needed to buy the 120 volt breaker from Blue Sea
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Systems that's going to control all that then we have our more
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I guess you would call meaty components so we got our hot water heater and we have a connection for a microwave so
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over here on the right side I haven't talked about this but this kitchen Galley has an opening
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and I'm calling it the flex space so you can pretty much design it to have
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whatever you want in there it's actually sized for a isotherm Cruise 65 drawer fridge so that's the
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profile that's what the hole is designed for um since we have the cruise 130 over
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here which is much bigger we're not using another fridge but I
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mean you could have two fridges in your van if you wanted to but this side over here is a it's more
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going to be leaning towards your storage for your uh
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portable toilet or storage for you know additional pots of pans or just kind of
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anything you want it's just a big opening that is flexible to whatever customer decides to purchase the van
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so that's over here but we need to make sure that if somebody actually wanted to for example put a microwave in it
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that we have a outlet that we can use to wire that
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so that is going to take up so if we go look at our 120 volt breaker
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we have our hot water heater that's going to take up one of those Outlets we'll have our
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microwave which will take up another one I'm calling it the microwave because it's just we have to map out an outlet
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and that's the spot it's going and then the second then we have two more which are our two 15 amp pop-up
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Outlets the one that's for the kitchen Galley and the one that's for the outside
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and uh that's really just convenience anytime that I'm in my van and I go traveling
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and I go hang out with my friends uh you know I'm the one that kind of brings the kitchen the coffee maker the espresso
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machine if you guys have seen my van review so I've got I've got all that stuff and
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uh I always cook outside I do have a countertop inside but you
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know it's fun to cook outside you know you don't have to worry about the fumes or anything like that
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um and it's just it's enjoyable so having that outlet outside
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right where the induction stove is it's gonna be really nice
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so now that we have that all taken care of uh let's go to the next step which is
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um let's talk about our wire that we're going to be using
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I'm gonna move this back just a little bit
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thank you okay
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so the the floor went in really well um if you guys can see I'm actually going to be sitting on
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it as opposed to not saying like it was yesterday
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all right let's pull this down a little bit
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okay we've got three spools of wire here that we're going to be using
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uh they're 100 feet each which doesn't really mean anything you just make sure that we have enough wire we don't run
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out and we have three different sizes so we have our we'll start with the smallest
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gauge first which is our 14 2 wire so this is Marine
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I can't talk tonight been a fun week
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um this Marine wire you guys can see
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it's kind of double coated so you have this outside jacket and these dual inside jackets so it's really resilient
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to getting nicked or tear you know uh having a any type of abrasion to it
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the 14 gauge wire is going to be used for all of our USB outlets and it's a
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little Overkill but um there may be some locations where you
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can take this and then you can actually uh run two USBS off of it we're maxing this
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out at 15 amps and so that would run
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there's about it's about five amps to charge a MacBook
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so we need if we have for example if one of these lines runs two
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USB Outlets the fast charge ones that's 10 amps with a 15 amp fuse that's kind
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of what you want to do so no more than two of those fast charging per
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run so we'll probably run one to the left side of the van
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so we have our uh our two USB ports and then we'll run one to the other side of
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the van for our other two so that's how this is going to be run and we'll be running this tonight
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through that uh wire trough or whatever you want to call it
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cut out in the floor we need a path for it so that's one of the wires that's
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going to go in that path next we have our next wire that's going
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in there it's a 12 2. so our 12 to wire which is 12 gauge
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same design same style Marine wire it's going to be supplying the voltage
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to the fridge so we need to make sure that the fridge is getting enough juice and
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um I think we uh the the circuit needs 15 amps
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and we're going to fuse it at it's supposed to be fused at 15 amps so
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the fridge doesn't really use that much maybe like 10 to 12 but we're oversizing it to 12 gauge because of just what I
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ran into with Thomas's van I don't want any nuisance uh
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faults with the fridge even though we use the appropriate wiring for the manual the length was too
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long so one way that you can help yourself is if you're unsure
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if your wire is too long you can just uh
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go up a size in The Wire now you should be doing the math you should measure how
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long your wire is going in your van so that you're taking care of any voltage drops that are happening between
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the source and wherever the device is picking up the current
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but if you're worried that you're going to have too much of a voltage drop
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going up in the wire size is going to help that and we already talked about
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that but if you guys didn't see that I'm going to talk about for about two seconds let me just put up here on the computer
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so we talked about this in the last stream maybe two streams ago
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but if you go to Blue C systems.com and you just or you just you can just
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Google this uh circuit diagram
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I see what was my okay my query was Blue C systems wire size so I did that
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in Google this chart came up and I clicked on this chart so this chart is going to give you everything you need to know about
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picking the appropriate wire size also for the distance so for example
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if you have a 20 amp circuit
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and it's non-critical which means it can withstand the device can withstand a 10
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voltage drop or fluctuation zero to so 20 feet would
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be your max for a 20 amp um circuit using 14 gauge wire if you
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needed to use more like 12 gauge for example
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I'm sorry if you need to go further so if you need to go from 20 feet to 30 feet let me zoom in
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so if you needed to go from 20 feet to 30 feet
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notice how you need to go from a 14 gauge to a 12 gauge
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so this is what you need to use so this is part of the DIY where you
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need to do your homework and these are the charts that I use this is what you should use so that you do it right
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um it's not going to hurt anything going up in wire size it's only going to hurt your budget
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because the uh the heavier gauge is just cost more
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but that's usually where people mess up is they try to save money with the electrical and um
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the last place I would ever try to save money is in the wiring I might have like a cheaper component or
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something like that but just just do not do it do not skimp out on wiring
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um this y see this 12-2 wire that I bought
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it was expensive it's you know probably a hundred and fifty hundred to 170 dollars for a
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hundred feet but this is the correct application the
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correct tool for the job and we're going to be safe okay that's for the fridge so we got USB
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ports we got the fridge next is the big one which is twelve
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three and twelve three the three designates three wires so this
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is where we're going to have our three wires for our 120 volt power
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so this thicker uh so this wire is carrying the 120 volts so it's not 12 volts we're not using
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this for 12 volts this is what's going to connect to our Blue C systems breaker and this is what is going to power our
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two outlets uh it's also going to power
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the microwave outlet and it's going to power the
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hot water Outlet now one thing I do for the microwave and
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the hot water is I actually wire in
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where is my example I wire in a
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it's essentially an extension cord for that outlet
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so where can I find this
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okay this is not the example I want to use but it's pretty close
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so you can buy these pre uh they're not pre-wired they're unwired
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is that a thing uh forget this end I'm just going to show you an example so you can get these cables that already
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have these ends exposed like that and so for example this one is
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a gauge so this is a 14 gauge wire so this 14 gauge wire this is
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essentially an extension cord but the reason I like using these is because this stuff is tough as Nails
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this outer jacket is very tough it's an essentially extension cord
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but it's extremely tough the inside are also jacketed and it's
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stranded wire this is 14 gauge
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so we're going to go there over here I'm going to type in 14 gauge 120 volt Max Amps
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we'll go over here and so a 14 gauge cable is rated for 15 amps
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so if we go back up here so we can use that for 15 amp circuits
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which are only going to take out 15 amps which is the hot water heater and the microwave for example
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but the cool thing is check this out the 12 gauge
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can do 20 amps uh
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so what I like about that is the 12 gauge is what I'm going to use for
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the outlets so just for example if there's two things plugged in the outlets
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you know safety wise um it's still going to be still going to be
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the breaker is still going to be 15 amps but the wire going to it can handle 20 amps
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all right let's keep going here go back
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okay so we have all our stuff here so what we're going to do is we're going to take the middle floor out and we're
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going to go ahead and cut out our paths so that we can run what we need to with
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the three wire we're going to run or give our space for the two wire
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12 and the two wire 14 gauge and so we will re-zoom the camera back
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in and take care of that
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so what got me thinking about doing this little change up in the flooring video is I was messing with the Dometic cable
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and I was noticing that you know this cable was not going to go
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in the location that I wanted it to go in and there's a couple other cables I
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wanted to uh change up as well so I said you know what
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if I'm having to do this you guys may be doing it as well and I don't want I didn't want it to be something I skipped
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over all right we're going to come in to the van
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all right there we go should be pretty good
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the good news is the uh what we did yesterday worked out really well this floor is perfectly level in the back
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and we were trying to that's something we were trying to achieve yesterday when we were gluing everything
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down
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and before I take this panel out I need to trace by this heater over here because I need
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to cut out while we're cutting out foam we need to cut out the excess that
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was needed to be removed yesterday from the gas heater
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so one thing I'm going to do really quick I made a couple notes on this piece of
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wood and stuff that I need to additionally cut out so I'm going to take a piece of green tape I marked over
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here where I want to cut out a little bit of room for this Truss
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from uh Adventure wagon over here on this left side as well I have the wood is too
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close because it shifted about an eighth of an inch to the right and what else did I want to check on
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so that's pretty good so you can use tape to Mark and keep track of things so you don't forget them
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because sometimes when you're working in a van you'll have a moment of distraction you'll work on something else and you'll
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forget something that may be critical to where if you glue the floor down it's gonna be really hard to get back to
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it which is exactly my case all right so over here
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are here is just temporarily put in here so let's go ahead and just
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take it out and just sit it over here
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and we're just going to trace out this foam
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and we're going to make sure we cut that out before we put the floor back in
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and then I'm also going to make a Mark here as this is our new
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our new lining up our new uh alignment points for the back
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and also when we take this up we'll be able to see our work from yesterday to see how that aluminum glued down
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this piece of aluminum looks really good that's what we worked on yesterday so it's perfect it's in place it's not
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going anywhere back here remember we are not finished with these
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these right here need to be uh
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they need to be taken out and glued but we won't do that until we are completely
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sure we've got Oliver wiring uh where we need it to be I'm just going to take my marker and we
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always want to make alignment marks so that when you take something out
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you're not losing where it was referenced to
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and when you do those marks this I'm just making this stuff up but you kind of want to do it at an angle so nobody
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told me that but the angle makes sure that you're not
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you know putting it in the wrong way so we'll just do two here
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and then two here
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okay and that way when we put these back in we can we'll know if they're misaligned
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or not and then we'll label this one front
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and this one back
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and then we'll do this one as driver this one is passenger
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well this is your driver
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okay let's take these out because we remember we couldn't metal we
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need to do Rust preventative uh
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we have our Square here and this is going to help us find where we want to cut our
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our Channel so that we can intersect over here
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so what I'm doing is there's going to be a new path from the back of this heater area it's
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going to come right through here it's going to come straight over this section behind the shower be will
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be cut out and then it's going to come straight over here and then go straight down here
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to access our our hole right here
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if you're thinking well Nick that would have been a lot easier if you did that earlier
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that's right but it's kind of a one-off floor
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um in the future I want to standardize a little bit more but this was kind of an
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experiment with doing all these different components and the supports for the pull out tray and I really like
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it but next time what I'd probably do is just uh I would do the
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ABC rig floor so I can just glue it in quickly and then I'd go back and
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uh possibly cut out where I needed to
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um since I kind of already know the method that I would use
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but at the same time I kind of like this because I can be really detailed with my wire stuff it just takes a little bit
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longer okay let's go ahead and get some tools
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to cut and we're going to use a piece of
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aluminum as our reference because we just we're just going to make this slot one inch wide
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so I'm going to finish tracing it out and then I'll keep on going
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and also if you guys have any questions you guys know the drill you can ask anything in the chat
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so I'll make sure I cut on the outside of that
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foreign
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worried that you've messed up and you can't change something
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because you you can you can just change it
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it's just foaming wood at the end of the day and glue that's all it is it's nothing
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nothing crazy
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foreign
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multi-tool and it's Extremely Loud the Mozzy tool is the that's the cheat sheet
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we're not going to be using
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we won't be using the razor on this one I'm gonna knock this out pretty quick so we can keep on going
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so once again if you guys have any questions let me know let me get my knee pad
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okay we're gonna be muted for just a minute
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and we're going to cut this out and then I'll show you what it looks like
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one thing to note over here I do have cables that are running through here so I need to
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need to do some type of visual Q to let me know not to
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cut through go through the cables so I'm going to put a piece of tape right here
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and I'm going to write stop
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I'm not joking guys don't be proud when you're doing you know work because
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uh you'll have to redo it if you if you're like that
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all right let's uh we're gonna go we're gonna be muted here just for a second
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so give it we'll be right back
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okay we're back we're gonna finish this spot over here in a second I'm just gonna get my Razor I'm going to start cutting out this foam
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razor and the Chisel that we used last time
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so what this is doing is if we did somehow in the future
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or the customer in the future did want to come in and rewire something
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the fridge and the kitchen Galley are bolted into the walls so technically you can
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remove them remove the shower pan and then you'll have access to this wire here and then
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you can open the box and gain access to the wiring going to uh
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the uh breaker and then right here I'm going to create a curve so
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technically you could fish a another wire in there in here up through the
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kitchen galley so this does give a little bit of maintenance ability
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if you're doing your van DIY you definitely want to have access the way I'm doing it
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you have access I say technically because there's a little bit of work to get to
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the wires it's not super easy the one thing you definitely want to
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have access to are your Breakers fuses that is essential
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man this adhesive is so good
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you guys can see this is like this is the fun part it's almost like testing the product
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this is how hard it would be to remove the floor
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if you had to all right
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we're also going to do is we're going to take some wire loom
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and we're going to wrap all the wires in that Loom that way
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we don't have to worry about it interacting with the shower pan or the
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trough or anything like that it's nice and protected it gets any vibration or movement
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and if you guys are watching and let's just say maybe you're renovating an RV or something like that
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pretty much the same steps that I'm taking here can be translated into
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you know renovation so say you're needed to add something to an existing
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system you would probably be going through these steps anyway to run a new wire
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uh somewhere that it just wasn't possible before
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for the future guys I will work on some better camera angles I know this is not
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the best for teaching but this is kind of what we got right now
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in a couple weeks I'm looking into streaming 4K
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I figured out how to do it and uh the business internet that I have right now can support it
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so just a matter of getting the right Hardware
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foreign
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1080p 60 frames right now
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foreign
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foreign
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foreign
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peel Marine is it's so good it's excellent it's great
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adhesion all right so that's all finished now we're just going to chip away this section over here
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we're going to clean this up and then we're going to come back we'll do our
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rust preventative for our three sections here and then we'll get to uh measuring some
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wire out
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and just be very careful if you guys are using a chisel like I am
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foreign I'm interested to see what the comments will be later on this method
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but
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foreign
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foreign
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there may be some questions asked you know why don't I just do it through the walls
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the issue is when you do the bump outs for the adventure wagon
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there really is no room left over to run the wires to the walls because after you
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rivet all the rails in place you cover up a lot of the X access to
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any of the traditional places that you would run a wire
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so plus it's it's I think it's a waste to
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we are going to be running wires through the ceiling for those USB Outlets but
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this 120 volt lines for over 120 volt accessories that it is
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the cables are just too thick to uh because we have to run four of
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them
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so 12 volt steps fine because we'll probably run the 12 volt stuff over the ceiling and into the cabinets
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but we still need this uh we still need this right here
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because I like everything's so low profile like really up against the wall as tight as can be the battery compartment very
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nice and tight to create a lot of openness in the van
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because I notice when I see a lot of Vans they even though they have a good design they
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seem very uh closed off in the back so these these side compartments are
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really high now that's okay if you're using that to be part of your bed system that makes sense
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so my goal with this build is to uh
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it's really the utility of this van so the ability to you know take the take the bed system
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out if you need to call Furniture you know put a motorcycle on here if you
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wanted to mountain bikes just a lot of a lot of cargo area
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so you don't take away from the uh the cargo
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part of the van all right it's the place where I had to
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be extremely careful so see how I do
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I'm just scoring the top so just the top
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foreign
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I've got access to our power wires now so I can now see
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where I'm cutting
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all right put you guys on mute because I'm good to cut this back side right here
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okay
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okay perfect we made it to our side over here so now we can just move
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our power wire out of the way we're going to clean up these edges on
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the foam
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all right so we're going to go ahead and clean this up we'll vacuum this out
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do a rust preventative and then we will be done with this so we just basically made
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a path from here across the back of our shower pan over and up through here for our wire runs
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so while I'm vacuuming it out I'm going to mute it here for a second
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okay guys we're back we are getting our gloves on so we can get our rust
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preventative
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it's extensionally it's a essentially the
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Krylon Fusion
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he could use any uh paints you wanted for it but I like I
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think this stuff works really well I've used it a bunch
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now he's got to find the can that I was using
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foreign
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foreign
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[Music]
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foreign just for rest preventative is uh just
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put it in a plastic cup be careful what cup you put it in some of the plastic cups will melt
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so be careful on that one
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yeah we're just going to go front to back here and get all the spots that we
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cut up with the razor I'm gonna get them nice and uh taking care of
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the cool thing is this stuff dries extremely fast
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if you're inside it dries fast when you're inside
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foreign
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and then I'll uh we'll look at it on the computer
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make sure we didn't get any more gouges around here
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okay that looks good now let's check out this section
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that one's good right here
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well that was uh really fast so it's gonna take a little longer than that
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all right let's go ahead and put our paint up keep going
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okay guys I'm gonna go and put some stuff away real quick I'll be right back
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I am muted thank you
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okay where was I unmute where was I not muted at
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all right let me back up so what we're talking about here is we are talking about the floor layout and where where
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the wires are running so we have wires running over here we've
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cut out these two notches for our pull out tray and this last one that we cut out this
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is going to give us access to our four 120 volt wires that are going to come up
1:21:59
through the floor here for our kitchen galley now two things that we can do we can
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either uh and this is what I want to get your
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guys opinion on we can do the built-in induction stove and that
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saves us a drawer so that you can put like pots and pans in it and then you have a silverware drawer
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and a pots and pans drawer and you still have the flex space open for like your toilet or some other storage or
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you lose that bottom drawer that becomes where you put your induction stove we
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don't mount it uh and that outlet kind of gets freed up
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so what I'm going to do right now is I'm not permanently mounting the induction stove
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so you can take it inside or outside and keep it in the drawer when you're not using it but we're going to have a wire there
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for multiple uses that's the one that can be for the microwave the permanent induction so that's that one wire that's
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the 14 gauge then the second 14 gauge is going to come through here down and I'm going to
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feed it um up under the floor onto this side and
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that is going to be used for the hot water heater
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so that's going to provide Power for that the reason we want the plug-in style is because if you have an
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induction stove you're going to have a residential plug on the end of it if you have a microwave you're going to have a residential plug on the end of it if you
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have the hot water heater it's going to have a residential plug on the end of it and it's just convenient so in the
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future if something happens you need to replace it um
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it just plugs right in but you're also not cutting out a hole building an electrical box getting an electrical
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receptacle face plate all that stuff it's just a simple plug-in at the end of
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the day it does not have to be that complicated
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so if we look at this what we've done is all this black paint here this is
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what we did rough spring preventative because now the metal that was covered
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in a in our adhesive is now exposed so since it's exposed we need to paint over
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it it's extremely unlikely that this would ever rust but guess what it's just a little bit of paint gives
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you a good peace of mind and you never have to worry about again once you do it so we painted that
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this section was just only the lattice as you can see
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so that's the only thing supporting that but then this back side we did do a
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couple pieces there these pieces don't really they're not a structural have to be
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glued in we'll put glue on them just so they don't squeak
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because any time that you have this metal and this foam
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it has a potential to squeak so on this back side and the other side you want to make sure you coat it in just a little
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bit of that Marine adhesive so that when it dries it doesn't squeak
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um oh this is cool you can actually see what we did worked on yesterday so this is a piece of the aluminum that
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we notched out for the floor so we have one here and then we have another one
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here and we're gonna shemales we're going to countersink a hole sheet metal screw with a pan head
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um let's see uh let's see if I can find that part because I actually need to buy
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it so pan head
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screws lows
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okay these it's called Uh I don't know this is what it looks like
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and see how it has a flat head
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so it's flat where's the 360 View
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there you go yeah so it's flat so basically you countersink this bottom part
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and then it's flat when you screw it in and these are one inch which is perfect
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um
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I don't maybe you need an inch and let's see
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I'll measure with the calipers one thing you want to be careful of when you get sheet metal screws is on a sheet metal
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screw you have this end and this end is what you know Taps into the metal to begin the third to the hole
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essentially like a little mini drill bit but this back part here even though this is an inch long it
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doesn't engage until after this quarter inch tip so technically
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we only have quarter inch of threads that are going to be grabbing the aluminum which might be okay so
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we'll do a test because remember when this goes into the wood it's going
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to have a half inch for the wood and then whatever threads are left or what's going to go in the aluminum so you may
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need to get a longer screw or we we may need to get a longer screw
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so we got to think about that um
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let's see what else here is there anything else I wanted to show you
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okay I'm going to uh let this paint dry
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we're gonna take a quick break it's eight o'clock Eastern Standard Time
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um we'll be back in an hour for the nine
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o'clock stream so just take a little break
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I need a middle Break um and what I'm going to do in that meantime is
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I'm gonna grab something to eat and then I'm going to actually get my paint stuff
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out to prep because even though we do the stream at nine going over the we're going to go
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over the wire links I I need to uh after that stream late
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tonight I need to paint these pieces of wood so I need to do that I need to do that off camera so that tomorrow we have a
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shot at actually putting in the lawn sill floor even if it's in the afternoon
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um to keep on going so stick with us come back when we have
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this next live stream later tonight bring your questions I'm looking forward to chat with everybody tonight
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