well welcome back to Steve Robb reviews and part two of me hooking up a solar panel with a 12 volt
battery and putting it into the side of a special box that I'm gonna fabricate a bit here and I want
to show you something first so part one will be in the description box below if you want to check
that out first but this is the wiring harness here and I'll get you to take a look at that rate right
there if it'll focus in on there okay so this is good for three amps now my particular trail
cam says it needs two amps so this is fine so you have to find out your own hardware first and look
at your own specifications this is strictly an experiment on my part I've never done this before
to me it seems logical I really can't see why not but you know a lot of these specific trail cams
have a solar panel hookup kit that you can buy you know you get the battery you get the solar panels
just plug and play and that's it but I'm trying something little bit different here and you'll
have to use your own caution on what you want to do but this is the harness here and I'm going to
take you over to the to the box that I got and I'll explain a little bit of what I got planned
and it's a lot different than you've ever seen before on YouTube I imagine I'm not even too sure
if this is going to work strictly experimental but I can adjust it after if I want to make it
work if it doesn't work so let's get to it right now take you off the tripod and take a little
bit of a tour what I got planned well I'll start off here of course you're going to need lots of
hardware you know on all your different connectors and that kind of stuff and the crimping tool and I
always use dielectric grease so this one here is a permanent one that I've done and I've added the
inline fuse for it and I fill this this the only one that's been done so far but I'll actually fill
these full of dielectric grease because you know what's going to happen corrosion to get
in there for sure so this is the box I'm planning on using I've got some lumber beside it and let's
just take a look yes this is it right here and here's the battery and here's the trail cam here
guys you know I'm gonna mount this sideways you know everybody you see them like this I really
can't see why it's all digital there's no moving parts so I'm gonna put it in here like this and
the whole idea of this box is it's going to be out of the weather it's gonna be there all year
round and all I have to do now is I have to cut out here so let's get to that next and let's see
how I can rig this up okay this is it right here now I don't know if you're going to see them lines
but I've got it all scribed out and I'm gonna use my favorite tool this is a trade here the little
Rotozip bit on the end there no fuse guys ever seen any of these before but yeah they're terrific
for this particular type of job doesn't got to be fancy I'm not fancy we're gonna cut this thing out
we'll see how we do let's get to it right now okay let's go let's fire this baby up and get er done
all on our
there we go boy that was pretty wild one okay guys that's a dangerous sucker in it okay I'm
gonna take this I'm gonna see if I can fold it back inside I'm gonna add a couple of pieces of
wood I'll bring you back when I got more done okay you guys ready for this this is it right
here guys don't get much better than that I'm gonna get you an overhead shot here I'm gonna
put everything in there and show you how it all went together and yeah that's pretty much
it if you take a look on the back here I put a little spot here where I can feed the cable
in for the solar panel and it's just a matter using some rivets and some screws and guys I
spent an hour on this you know it's not that hard and if you're wondering how I bent the
plastic all I did was get a straightedge clamped it got my heat gun heated it up and it just bent
over very easily you just hold it until it cools down a bit what I like to do is have
a wet rag so after I bent to the shape I want get my wet rag wipe it down once that's it it
freezes rate and spot so that's what I pretty well did and I used my little dremel tool here
with a little sandpaper dish just to buzz around I mean it's going on in the bush right so okay so
I'll give you an overhead shot of this I'll put it all together for you these guys let me know
what you think okay here we go guys you got the birds eyes you just as I do all I did was just
take some of this bungee cord stuff that I make for making bungee cords out of this is just a
piece of vinyl material here I got to rip it in the back here and that's pretty well lit so for
the battery just put the battery on like this and you just guys can see that hole down there
all the way down in here yeah that's the hole that goes for the power from the solar panel so this is
come on now get over there okay must be this way I got this tight there we go there we go
and hope you can see there that that uh see if I get a better light here for you yeah see the
hole down there yeah that's not covered up at all or anything and the batteries in there nice and
snug now what do we do with the trail cam here now if you take a look at the trail cam you could see
how it was built to go to go around a tree and here's the spot here where the power cord comes
in from the battery directly to the trail cam so I just made this a little bit of a jig in here you
can see it's nothing fancy it's just a piece of wood with a slot in it and this just fits right
in here in that slot and it stays in that slot so I just take this little piece and now remember I'm
not taking this in and out everyday or anything so you just take this little piece here yeah and guys
that's all it is right there now I gotta adjust it just for the width where it's gonna go and that's
it great and if I can wrestle that thing in there right there and that's how it's going to sit no I
think that's okay now of course I got to put all my wiring in here and everything and my connector
is gonna go from here and the wires gonna go in there so I want to take this out I just pull this
out and the wires will come with it so I can open it up so what do you guys think okay we just guys
think this is it right here guys and that'll just stay in there like that and around the back I'll
have the cord that goes in for the solar panel and for the solar panel you got the alligator clips
well I'm not going to use them and I'm just going to feed the two wires inside and then put the
connectors on like I showed in in the last part I don't know wouldn't use guys think of this because
you know what that's not going up if you want to know what this is this is a pretend I guess 50
caliber ammo box I bought from Princess Otto and yeah this was like 10 bucks on sale and I think
this is just ideal now of course I am NOT putting that in a tree right this is going to be on the
ground and in part three I'm going to actually show the stand that I'm going to have and how the
solar panel is going to be incorporated and it's going to be all mocked up we're gonna finish this
baby up and then all I'm gonna do is just bring this up to my camp and I've got a permanent spot
that I want to put it in and that's pretty well it you guys let me know because have you ever seen a
trail cam mounted sideways I haven't seen it don't know if it works not too sure but I'm willing to
try almost anything guys so thanks for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel
before you're welcome to subscribe stay tuned for part three gonna start cutting some wood
putting that solar panel on there and you're going to see how this all went together Cheers
you