10-year warranty big company that they would help you and they don't do anything for you
so here we are with a
what how much is this battery worth? like ten thousand dollars
10,000 dollars
with a damaged ten thousand dollar battery
I'm andrea, that's alejo
and those are bears ozzy and Echo
we left the corporate world in miami to become digital nomads and chase the wind kiteboarding
join us as we sail and adventure in our dream home, Hakuna
what's up guys so it is another day here in miami and today is the official
microphone
official microphone
no what is the day today?
today is the day
of the day
baby the last day that we're here
it is the last day that we're here in miami
and we're very excited because yesterday at night we got the results of our covid test
thank god we tested negative for the exams
so we have three days to leave florida and make it to the bahamas
and so that's what we're leaving tomorrow so what you guys didn't know is that we were praying
the last couple of days because my family we had been with my staying with my family and my sister
tested positive for covid uh
thank god because there was a storm the day there was a storm we had to head to the boat
we left my parents house and that day my parents and my sister they caught the
covid thing, they got the virus and so we were saved by the storm um
thank god they're all okay um they're just quarantining and stuff
so what we're doing is that we're going to just prepare we already sent the paperwork for the for the dogs
we are going to just buy all the groceries and all the fresh stuff
and the things that goes in the freezer and refrigerator and stuff
and we'll be ready to go we'll be going to the boat today
and we'll be filling our tanks and that's it we'll be ready to go anything after that captain no
we're so ready to go
we're so ready we're going to the Bahamas
where are we sir
we're at sams
a lot of fruit a lot of veggies a lot of avocado
why are we buying so much stuff
we're provisioning for three months
we're going to the jungle
excuse me anything you have to say a lot of food
all right guys so we just made it back on the boat and we're bringing all the things in
from shore we've already done five different trips and i'll show you all the things that we have just
all over the boat clothes groceries food more food i don't know we're gonna fit all this it
only gets more messy inside food and we're still missing a few trips so i don't know it feels like
a lot but hopefully fingers crossed we'll get the paperwork for the dogs in time and maybe we'll be
able to leave tomorrow but we'll see how it goes hopefully we're able to get it done we still have
to go and put some diesel on the boat and that's about it we'll keep working we'll keep working
it's been uh not a bad day but a pretty bad day to say the least uh
okay what's happening right now
so we woke up yeah we were gonna go get some breakfast with andreas aunt yeah
and then we turn on the generator to turn on this ac for the dogs
and then all of a sudden boom
the battery is not working
so the battery died, completely messed up uh
we've contacted installers the manufacturer anything you can think of
and nobody wants to help us
this is an lg chem resu battery that was installed and purchased in Europe
and because it was purchased in europe, they don't want to service it here in the united states
they don't have that model here, they don't know how to service it
nobody can help us
we're pretty helpless right now
and
we're pretty stuck we're pretty uh sad uh
we were frustrated we hadn't recorded the entire day
it's 5 00 p.m and we hadn't recorded the entire day because we were
having... we were pretty angry we were a little frustrated just trying to call trying to
figure things out we were supposed to leave to the bahamas today
obviously we can't leave because not having a lithium battery means
our refrigerators are not working our freezer's not working
water maker forget it, washer forget it
anything that needs electricity
our cook top our oven, anything in the boat doesn't work
so right now we are packing up to go back to
alejo's parents house and so that our the all the food and all the provisioning that we did
yesterday doesn't just go bad and get rotten in here because obviously at some point the freezer
is just going to unfreeze and so we're gonna take it to a freezer in his parents house so that all
the food doesn't go bad
so all of the moving that we did yesterday
two trucks full of food two trucks full of two cars trucks because they're big uh
all the way here going back there another 40 minutes to drive back there
and oh god it's been hard because we already saw ourselves just
going in bikinis and tanning in the bahamas and going in the beautiful blue water
and it's not happening anymore and to say the least and we also had to send our pet permit
and we sent it to we went to fedex dropped it off on wednesday today is friday it was supposed to
be overnighted so they should have received it on thursday we paid 60 dollars for it and they
didn't receive it uh something happened with fedex and they won't be delivering it until
monday so there's no way we're going to the bahamas anymore so we just wanted to share that
it's a little frustrating guys i'll show you where was that we're taking obviously the big freezer
the second freezer all the food um obviously we're taking the dogs too
and that's what's happening it's not a good day but but whatever you gotta do what you gotta do
are you angry?
yes very very angry
can you tell me before you start doing everything you're going to do how do you feel
bad we were so close i can even smell the bahamas
i know we even got to taste the water of the bahamas
now look at this water look at this water we're stuck with this water
and so now we're taking all the food we did yesterday another trip
you see there's two cars over there those are the two cars that we drove yesterday
and now we're going all the way back again so
bye baby
so guys so we left on friday because of the battery
we went to my parents house now it's monday
today at 4 00 a.m we called germany to see if they were going to replace the battery by warranty
they told us most likely that they're not gonna replace the battery
so i've been calling like a lot of companies of batteries we're gonna give it another try to turn
on the battery charge it if not we're gonna take it off the boat take it somewhere have a charge
see if it works if not we'll just have to buy another battery hopefully not to see it
we had been waiting the entire weekend for this
and we tried turning on the battery alejo and he got here
he tried turning it on and it trips it keeps tripping it keeps turning off as he said lg won't
um you know lg in the united states they say that they don't make this model so they can't
do any warranty on it uh it's installed in a boat they can't do anything because it shouldn't be
installed on a boat
the ones in europe don't want to help us either
and so you would think lg being an international company
being the company that you know 10-year warranty big company
that they would help you and they don't do anything for you
so here we are with uh what how much is this battery worth
like ten thousand dollars
with a damaged ten thousand dollar warrant i'm sorry battery
so yeah sucks oh you're gonna try to unplug all the cables yeah okay see if that works yes we
have also tried calling all the installers in the U.S. we tried the people that we spoke to
the people that we spoke to in europe this morning we called that we woke up at 4 a.m
to be in the time of germany and see if they would give us any help in terms of like maybe
giving us a troubleshooting guide or something like that they don't have any help at all like
there's barely nothing you can do when a lithium battery is not balanced and one of the cells like
basically you know one of the cells could be with i don't know
maybe 10% or 00% charge
while the other ones are at 30 percent well
so that creates like that unbalance since that's the reason why
it's not working and it's just when the battery when we want to charge the battery or discharge
the bms automatically just sends a signal to the inverter to just
to shut it off because it won't charge and the battery itself just trips so
obviously this caught us by surprise and obviously we were very frustrated and we
kind of still are especially because of the warranty of lg and we don't have ten
thousand dollars to spend right now in a battery we don't have that money and so
i don't know we're feeling pretty bummed about yeah that's the word bumped
bumped about this because what are you gonna do doesn't seem like there's much you can do
okay so my very strong husband was just able to take out the two batteries
this is the - this is the like the extension and this is the main battery and so this thing is
super heavy like i don't know more than 100 pounds
right like 200 or something so it's super heavy but
um we took it out what are we going to do baby what's the plan we're going to take it to a place
called eMarine and they're going to put it on a battery charger see if
they can balance the cells yeah and then they're gonna check out the batteries if they can fix it
and if not we have to buy a new battery
you got this baby you got this
and now the small one
and we're going to see if someone fixes this for us crossing our fingers
what's up guys so uh we haven't solved anything with the battery but
it's really windy today until we came back to the bone
for a kite session and alejo is paddling right now i
ah we haven't touched a kite we haven't we haven't gone kiting
in over five months since we were in beaufort in north carolina before hurricane season so we are
excited i don't know if we remember how to kite board but we're excited
we need a little bit of a break we need uh to lift our spirits
a little bit so we're gonna do that by kiting and so yeah pretty excited i know he's almost at the
boat
one of the other things that we haven't told you guys about that we did today
was that we met one of our patrons patrick and patrick is the owner of
this awesome product the barnacle buster and we had already used this product and we didn't know
patrick was one of our patrons it was a great surprise to meet patrick we use it all the time
and we also use the sewer cleaner if you guys have seen one of our videos where our
black water tank got stuck and it was really disgusting and alejo had to go in the water
and try to get all the poop out of the boat that's pretty bad so this is going to avoid us we're not
going to have to do that ever again so thank you patrick we appreciate it
anything you have to say
what what do you have to say
nothing we're going to kite we're going to kite
oh excuse me can i see your shirt oh looking good can i see the back oh captain what's up
i love it it's one of those soft shirts like dri-fit shirts where can they get it it's like
dry fit dry shirt you can find it on our website people going to our website
what's our website like livinghakuna.com forward slash shop whatever she's said