In today's video, I'm gonna tell you about a van modification I made to my electrical
system, I'm gonna tell you about some of the organizational and interior
decorating things I've done inside the van, and yeah I had my first accident and
I'm gonna show you that maybe you can see it there's two spots on my van so
stick around this should be fun what is going on YouTube this is my last day in
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gonna talk about a mod I did to my electrical system some interior
decorating and storage things I did to the vehicle and then I'm gonna talk
about an accident I had I got two little dings on my RV which are driving me nuts
at some point I'm gonna get them fixed but I'll tell you this story
what happened and show you the dings okay first let's talk about the mod to
the electrical system I did if you're not familiar with the trovato it has the
volta pr3 system i have the national park edition so i have this souped-up
version of that pr3 system i have eleven thousand six hundred watts of power I
have a 58 volt alternator or as some people refer to it and under the hood
generator to charge my power pack while I'm driving or I can use an auto start
system or a manual start system when I'm camping somewhere the Volta system is a
48 volt system and it provides my coach 30 amps of power even when I'm not
plugged in so I can run everything I can run my air conditioner and microwave and
a blow dryer if I had any hair all at the same time a few months ago Volta
came out with a bluetooth module for this system
did this mod myself it's super easy so let's check that out so I have the Volta
power system and you can monitor it from this little screen right here but they
also have a Bluetooth module that you can install and monitor your Volta
system from your phone and get all kinds of really cool stats so I decided to
purchase that and today I'm going to install it the installation seems pretty
easy all I have to do is hook this into the Volta system with this so let's jump
right into it ok so the first thing we're gonna do is turn off the Volta
power system give it a couple seconds all right it's off and now we're going
to take off the panel it's just four Phillips head screws pull this out here
and we're going to unhook this one right here let's see if I can get that there
we go alright so the hardest part is done okay so you have this two prong
side and this one prong side this two prong side you can't really mess up
you're gonna hook this one into here you can't get it backwards because there's a
receiver ones ones a receiver all right and then this other one goes right back
in the back where the original one was so now you're hooked back up alright and
then finally this is the Bluetooth receiver you hook this in and there is
screws if you wanted to screw it on something and there's also this 3m tape
if you wanted to push it up against like the wall in here I'm just gonna shove it
in there it's not that big a deal
okay now we'll just throw the screws back on okay now comes the big test will
power it up and see if everything works
all right it came back on so mission accomplished now let's check the app
okay so this is pretty cool it shows my battery level what time it'll run out
and also shows my power flow so how much power is coming in or in this case how
much power is going out and then what my pack temp is so I know if it's getting
too hot or too cold okay so the next mod I made is just a little interior
decorating thing but I thought it was pretty cool it's in my kitchen so let's
go check that out all right so I'm gonna spruce up the
place by throwing some art on my kitchen wall here I recently ordered some
coasters from a company called exit 82 art in Austin Texas and when I got them
I was like man these are actually really cool I'm gonna use these on my wall as
decoration instead of as coasters to secure them to the wall I'm gonna use
this stuff called sticky putty this stuff is amazing I got it off Amazon
I'll put a link down below I use this stuff for just about everything not just
stick us up on the walls anything I have that sets on a surface that could move I
put this stuff on the bottom of it and it's worked amazing all right so now I'm
gonna throw some of that stuff on the back of each one of these coasters and
I'm gonna put them on the wall I'm probably overdoing it a little bit but
I'm gonna put the sticky putty on all four corners just to make sure it stays
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okay so now I'm gonna stick them on the wall and see how they look it's no this
is the most famous work by this artist so you know who it is like I said type
it down below we'll see who the artistic people
you can change
okay so there we go let's see how this looks like if you are to the next time
you're alright so I'm done with this little project not too bad if I do say
so myself I really really like it but tell me what you think down below is it
something that you would do or just not your style okay so now we're going to
talk about some of the organizational things I've done to the van specifically
to the back of the van here if you watched my video about my first 48 hours
in the van you'll know that I bought a black tank hose and aftermarket one and
I was just gonna use that instead of the one the vehicle came with I decided not
to bring that with me that's why the bag I was carrying it with is missing from
here I decided to go with the factory version because it has its own storage
compartment it's a little bit shorter than the one I bought but I'm gonna go
ahead and see if that one works so just a little tip don't buy anything until
you test out what you get it was probably pretty dumb of me to buy that
thing so first off I bought a few of those three amounts so you'll see
there's one there there's one there there's a special kind right there those
are really awesome they hold up to 7 pounds so the stuff I have attached to
him are fine one of the comments I got on my first 48 hour video is I should
have two hoses one for black water tank flush and one for fresh water fill so
that's what I did I went out and got two hoses this black one since it's black is
for the black water tank flush there's a 25 foot hose and then this blue one is
for freshwater tank fill I went on Amazon and bought these little rapid
things so I could just hang them from the 3m hooks the next thing you see
hanging here is my RV water filter so this big blue thing I got the big one
just last a little longer and I figured why not I have two things hook to that
water filter I have a pressure regulator so if the pressures too strong
it'll slow it down and it won't blow out any of my pipes in my RV and then I have
a little flexible hose so I don't mess up whatever I'm hooking it up to for
this I got another one of those 3m hooks that you can put something round in and
it works great I also put a little velcro here so it's velcro to the side
so it won't be bouncing around when I'm driving I also bought this little cap
here because if you don't have a cap like this this thing will leak all over
your van so I just throw this cap on here and it keeps it from linkit leaking
when it's hanging from here I also got a couple of hooks that you just stick to
the wall I'll probably get more permanent hooks but I wasn't exactly
sure where I was gonna hang these other two things so I wanted something
temporary so right now I have a little shovel hanging here I also threw some
velcro tape on here so when it's bouncing around when I'm driving it
doesn't make a ton of noise so the last thing I have here is this collapsible
bucket and when the door shut it doesn't Clank around too much I can't even hear
it so this is one of the organizational things I've done on the back of the van
I wasn't sure if people wanted to see this type of content so I figured I'd
test it out I've got a lot more organizational things that I've done
inside the van so if you want to see more organizational videos or you want
that a part of other videos just let me know down in the comments and I'll be
sure to include that in future videos alright finally the part you guys are
probably all waiting for my wreck and damage to my vehicle so here's what
happened I was driving down a side road in a neighborhood in a town where I
stopped to get gas the road was super narrow and there were a bunch of these
like basketball hoops you know those portable ones you can roll out into the
street as I was transiting down another big truck came at me from the other way
and there's no way we were both gonna fit on this narrow street so I kind of
veered over a little bit to stop and let him pass when I did that I didn't notice
one of those basketball hoops kind of hanging over so the basketball hoop area
hit the front of my vehicle I don't know if you can see it from here
let's see it's right around there and then it bounced back and then came and
hit my vehicle here scratched a little bit bounced back up and then hit my
little light there so three points of damage I'm not super concerned about the
light that's an easy fix I wish it just would have hit there most people don't
even notice it but it bothers me and at some point I'm gonna stop at an auto
repair shop where they can match the paint and fix it I'm a huge Dave Ramsey
fan and one of the things he talks about is the stupid tax so this is my stupid
tax I should have been paid more attention to my surroundings and now I'm
gonna pay for it to get this thing fixed so that's what happened with the wreck
nothing major nothing scary something really silly that was avoidable and
hopefully you can learn from my mistake if you get one of these rigs and not
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