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[Music]
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hey guys welcome to the live stream we
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are working on John and Susan's van
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today getting really close to delivery
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day so all we have to do is uh um
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actually let's hop in the van and I will
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go through a checklist
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here all right let me get my camera
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working
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first yeah so we're working uh on the
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build got a couple more things left um
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what we're picking up from today is
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we've filled the whole entire water tank
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up and we've done um I've let it it's at
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the very top and it's been sitting for a
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little over 24 hours so no leaks on the
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bottom end uh now water tanks are not
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pressurized so typically you're not
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testing to make sure that they hold
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pressure
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um but just in case I went ahead and uh
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pressurized it just to see if uh John
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and Susan are filling it up with a city
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water pressure I didn't want any of the
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seals to leak if they did accidentally
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put that pressure on there and uh at the
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very top vent fitting we have like a
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little bit of a weep uh uh leak so that
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is just a very small drip um that
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fitting I think think we can do one or
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two more turns so I'm going to redo that
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fitting and retest um but we need to
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knock that out uh that's an easy fix but
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today we're going to pause on that and
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we're going to move on to finishing up
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the um electrical enclosure and give me
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one
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second my camera is being weird give me
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one
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second there we
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go so what we're going to be doing today
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is uh
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finally organizing all these cables
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we've already got a plan uh of attack as
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far as how we're going to organize
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everything so the first thing that I did
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uh was make sure
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that um all the electrical systems were
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working and
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uh hold on one second I think the stream
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is choppy John and Susan are filling it
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up with the city water pressure I didn't
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want any of the seals to leak if they
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did put that pressure on
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there anyway we'll keep going so we're
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going to move on to the back of the van
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here
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and uh went through all of the
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electrical
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wiring uh tested all the circuits so we
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got the lighting we've got the 12volt
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reading lights uh we've been using Shore
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power a bunch so we've been actually um
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guess the camera's over here uh we've
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been Shore power charging so we've had
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three full Shore power charging Cycles
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on the van so we've taken it all the way
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down to 10% three times and fully
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charged it up and uh it it charges uh
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very quickly um again this is the first
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48 volt system that I've used and uh it
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it just seems to charge much faster than
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a 12vt system so uh yes still learning
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about that but as far as plugging it in
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as soon as you plug it in the system
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takes over uh you don't have to do many
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settings you can go into the menu and
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you can set how many amps you wanted to
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pull from the household Outlet so if you
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don't want it to pull 15 amps uh and
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you're running something else on that
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outlet um you can move it down to 10
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amps so that's what I did and it still
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charges very fast uh it's 10 amps now
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you can make it more if you have a
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different circuit but 15 amps is the max
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that I would want this system to be uh
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that the plug that I have for them to
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use to charge
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uh so we went through all the wires uh
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we checked everything I mean everything
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is working fine so the
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main uh box is this one right here so
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this is the main uh fuse panel and
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breaker system so the breakers over here
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are for the
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110volt and over here on the right hand
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side is the 12vt uh fused connections so
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I've already been playing around with
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this connected all this I even used the
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wireless controls so you can use them
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with with the ecoflow app or on the
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touchcreen and the first six circuits
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are controllable that way so we're going
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to make sure that we put uh the interior
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lights um and then all of the reading
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lights and then um we'll have one more
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circuit um I'm trying to think what we
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might put on that not
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sure but we've got options so this box
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is going to if you can imagine let me
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get some pieces of wood in here so you
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can see uh
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this is a very simple enclosure this
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just going to be a nice low profile
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enclosure over here so here's the wheel
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well and essentially what we're going to
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do is we're going to come in here um
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we're going to do the same you know 2x4
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construction we've been doing with the
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the water system and then we're going to
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come off of this we're going to build up
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a box over this wheel well so we're
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going to make sure that we use our sound
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deadening uh we'll do our havlock wool
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in here to
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insulate um but what nice is we'll have
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this cavity here so that these wires
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from the interior of the van can start
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to come
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through and then we can organize these
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other cables now we have the ecoflow
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system uh turned off um and the only
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Quirk that I've found out so far with
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the ecoflow system is there's a certain
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startup sequence and shutdown sequence
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that makes it happy so if you don't
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follow that um it's going to take care
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of of itself and protect itself uh
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so don't start using this system like
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you already know what you're doing you
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need to uh do everything step by step uh
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it just has a bunch of redundant safety
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features so it won't turn this box on
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unless it sees that everything else is
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good to go for
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example uh when you turn the system on
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for the first time and this is just my
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experience you need to turn on the AC
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system first then the DC system
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and then once those two lights are on uh
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then you can actually turn off the AC
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system um not sure why that's the the
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order of operations that's just what I
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found to not have the DC system
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automatically shut off on you uh it's
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wanting to to see that startup sequence
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in just my experience so once you got
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the AC system running um if you're not
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using it then you can turn it off keep
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the DC system running
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and just let that go um but what's most
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important about this system uh that it
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doesn't like is it wants anything that's
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drawing power or giving it power to be
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turned off before the system is fully
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shut down so if you have uh if you're
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getting ready to shut this system down
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either you want into storage or you just
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don't want the system to be on at all
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what you're going to have to do it's
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really easy it's just you know um it's
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kind of a quirk uh what you want to do
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is go to the the DC uh go to the panel
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and then you're going to make sure that
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any circuits are off so you want to turn
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all your light switches off you want to
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turn off your water pump so all 12 volts
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circuits off at the source and then
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you're going to want to turn all your AC
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systems off so you know don't leave a
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water heater running and then shut this
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system off so you want all the power to
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be shut off switch wise then you're
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going to come over here and then you're
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going to make sure that all your input
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power is disconnected so the shore power
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you're going to make sure you want that
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unplugged if you are unplugged then
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you're going to want to come over and um
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you're going to want to unplug the solar
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because solar is always on so you're
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going to want to unplug the solar and uh
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now again you're not doing this every
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day this is if you're taking the van
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parking it for storage or you're not
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going to be using the van for a long
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time you want to shut the system down
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this is not a daily task this is
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only for storage but you're going to
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unplug the uh the
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solar and then you're going to want to
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unplug the alternator uh ports so no
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power is going in all the circuits have
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been turned off and then as soon as that
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is done then you can hold down the
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button wait for the lights to show up
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and then all of a sudden the lights will
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fade and then as soon as the lights have
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fad ated the system is off and then you
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can go ahead and plug unplug the uh the
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battery
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cable so hopefully that helps some
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people that have been having these uh DC
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issues uh I'm going to put in even
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though uh I've resolved it and it you
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know it hasn't happened before since I'm
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doing that sequence um I'm still going
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to put a help ticket in just so I can uh
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record this um
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just to have that on record so if
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anything happens down the road you know
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it's noted in in our
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account um so moving on let me make sure
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I get my phone with me in case you guys
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have any
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questions for storage but you're going
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to unplug the uh the solar see the
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internet's kind of slow today I see my
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stream
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is a little jittery um
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see I'm GNA go turn this off over here
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turn this computer
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[Music]
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off yeah but anything like that you're
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just going to want to make sure that you
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uh you know tell whoever you bought it
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from about
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that that would be my recommendation
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okay let's head back to the
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van so we're multitasking today I'm
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actually got the uh kitchen gy panel
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that is finalized and is being painted
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but getting back to this uh Power
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System let me change the lighting up
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here so what we're going to be doing
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is uh these cords are going to be
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exposed it's just the way the system is
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designed so we want to do this in a neat
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you know design focused way so what
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we're going to be doing is over here on
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the right I'm
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organizing uh the shore power cable
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the solar input cable and I'll just give
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you an idea
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of what this is going to look
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like so essentially we're going to have
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a simple Box covering that I mean that's
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kind of straightforward it's just a box
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so we'll have the you know 2x4 coming
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this way going this way one coming over
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here and one over here so we've got a
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nice structure and then we'll size the
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height so we'll pretty much
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have go get some 2x4 pieces
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so what we're going to have
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is I have a piece coming in like
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this and so this a Prett pretty much be
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our base
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height and then we'll have our box like
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that and then we'll
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probably um and I'm just doing this for
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ease of install that's pretty much what
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this
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is uh so we'll either do
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this and then up here uh we need this as
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you guys can see how much cable we have
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we need the room back here to actually
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uh house everything so I know it kind of
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looks a little Overkill that we're
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building so big but we need that we need
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the space so we're going to build this
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box out there's a nice cover plate that
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goes on here and then that way we're out
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just about where our you know behind
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where our battery box
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is um but what I'm going to do right
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now I just turned the camera on so you
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guys can kind of see how I'm organizing
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everything but the plugs so we'll have
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each one of these plugs for this is the
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AC in so this goes down here and so the
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plugs what we're going to do is we're
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going to plug them
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in and I've got everything disconnected
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but these plugs they snap in really easy
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so this is actually going to come behind
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here like this and then we'll have two
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really nice uh cable ties and they're
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going to be bolted into the back panel
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