hey everybody eric here from nomadic fanatic how y'all doing i will be uploading this video
with some nomad internet link below if you need some mobile unlimited internet we are
working on the camper van vanna white today a little more projects i'll meet you to get
out of here guys but there's still so much to do i am busting my butt here at base camp now
would i rather be on the road absolutely but i'm plugged in i got air conditioning got
the house got the rv this is a great spot to do projects and projects there will be
dang she's looking good though so came back from the store
my dometic ceramic toilet has arrived do not tip fragile and they deliver it upside
down what's that oh what the heck oh no now i'm really worried come on ups oh my gosh
oh i guess we'll find out in a minute we're gonna start inside anyway though inside the van here
let's check her out so we're gonna get started today on some electronics
installation and modification here in the van maybe a lot of people can't relate to security
and electronics but believe it or not if you travel long enough even if you love the outdoors
there's gonna be days where it rains you gotta stay connected out there and we like a little
bit of entertainment even if it's just while you're eating you know to watch a nice show
this band did come with a console tv up there top like an actual tube style tv in 1997 it's
been removed and storage is has been added up there but i have been thinking long and hard
about where to install a tv and how to make that work in the van
let's see if we got a cold beverage in here we do we got a cold coke zero oh yeah
gotta stay hydrated it's another hot hot day in illinois not that i'm complaining but you look if
you look at the outgoing forecast for the next two weeks it's all 94 95 96 sunshine every single day
it's warm and humid though so if you were two people in a van you might do this differently but
it's just me and the kitties and this passenger seat swiveled around like this is my main spot i'm
gonna sit here right now all right we're sitting down and this included part of my planning here
as far as where to put the tv so whether i sit here at this seat where i'm at if i sit right
there or if i'm doing like cooking at the stove or even in the tub believe it or not i've considered
everything and the tv is going to go on this wall right here the tv i picked is an ac or
dc powered super sonic 15.6 inch tv probably the smallest tv i have ever considered in mobile life
but again we are living out of the van we're not living in the van and this one fits perfectly
where i want it to go it's also very lightweight but it is essentially going to go right there in
the corner like that a little bit of a tilt but actually i just got my custom awesome swivel
mount let me show you that well i wanted to show you but they put the shipping sticker right over
the picture and everything anyway this is from e-trailer and it's an extending swivel wall mount
that has a locking pin right though anyway let me just get installed for the first time since
i've been rving i picked a tv that is not a smart tv it's not so i won't be able to use
my remote and simply go to netflix and youtube and amazon prime and disney plus and hulu and all that
stuff because i wanted this specific tv that fit there it's very very low watts on ac it's like
16 watts but it runs on dc power so and it's very very lightweight and everything like that so to
fix that problem i simply got a fire stick device here that will play it'll basically turn any dumb
tv into a smart tv and you just plug this hdmi into the back of the tv and power it and then
you can watch all your stuff from any tv so i'm going to get i'm going to find the studs in here
and be careful because we got the microwave and fridge on the back side i'll work on this
uh swivel mount get it all installed and we'll see what this looks like all right check it out
got the swivel mount uh installed here it is super super secure this one that i got
on e-trailer is rated for uh 25 pounds tv with the vase amount here my tv weighs exactly 3.2
pounds you can lift it up with two fingers it's a very light tv this is going to be perfect
one of the cool things is it can you can tilt a little bit here and you can watch from the couch
the way i'm going to do it it can flip all the way around you can sit on the toilet you can take a
bath and sit in the bath and face the tv or again sit in my chair and watch tv so this is this is
gonna be really good let me get my vasa mount uh put in here and we'll see how it all looks
so this one baffled me for a moment um when you put the screws in here that fit into the back
of my tv here for whatever reason they only go in a little bit so you can see the thickness of this
right here we're not even close not even close to securing this there's lots and lots of play
so unfortunately i either need shorter screws which i don't have they didn't include any shorter
screws and we only have three washers in there i was thinking about just putting a bunch of washers
on each one of these on the back side so that it doesn't go too far so it just goes in that far but
i don't have any washers on hand so guess what i get to put everything away in the van once again
and drive to home depot again wouldn't it be awesome if i had my smart car
still in the shop still however they did order the fan so the fan is on the way for the radiator
uh just maybe another week before they can get it from texas and install it so it's a crazy delay on
the car all right just came back from i don't know how that got there i don't know where that even
came from i don't know anything about that just got back from lowe's and uh could not find any
shorter ones so what i did is i bought some nuts and lock washers basically i'm using those
as spacers instead so that now it should work should work let me try it out all right that did
the trick and i'm actually glad i went and got the locking washers too because that'll help with the
vibrations i'll tell you what guys this thing is sturdy it is not moving even when it's extended
like that but let's go ahead and see what this looks like it's a little stiff still too
but you go like that and then you pull this to lock it it's almost like they thought of
it and said well we're gonna have to like since it's in an rv we know people don't
want this to vibrate look at that it's solid it's not going to vibrate i did take this off
this thing was kind of dangling from there and i'm like yeah i don't think many people want to
hear that while you're driving so i'm not sure what that was for i'm not using it this is solid
i love it let me open it up again i just can't do it one-handed there put the camera on the tripod
so lift that out pull this out you can bring it all the way like that you can bring it all the
way over like this and like i said you can sit in the tub or sit on the toilet and watch tv
this is a wonderful universal mount for a small space i am really happy this thing is a little
expensive on a trailer i'm just letting you know the tv costs 54. the mount cost 125 on e-trailer
but there's nothing like it you go to walmart you are not getting this locking capability like this
for the road this is specifically for rvs and motion it is sturdy i love it let's hook it up
to the fire stick and see if we can get some youtube on there all right just waiting for
everything to fire back up had to download a few updates and install some new firmware
but we are getting really really close here to watching tv in the camper van come on
only bummer part is we tried to program the volume controls for fire tv to work for this supersonic
tv and it failed all six attempts so the volume on here doesn't work if you use the normal remote but
there we go got the right interface here all right let's look over to youtube here
fire up some old youtube it did also give me a warning that the usb power that i plugged
into the tv is not sufficient they want me to use this and plug into the wall but
as you can see it appears to be working okay even with the warning that the power is not sufficient
i guess maybe yes well let's see here nope there we go update in progress again we just did that
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here let's just start make sure it plays here yep working good where's the pause button just right
in the middle there we go tv i want to back up and sit in my seat here and see what this looks like
i can dig it i can dig it that's no 55 inch tv like i had in miranda at one time
but really really functional i love it i'm really happy with how this turned out man
all right and next project on the camper van as you can see some bnc cables there yeah guys
going to be installing basically the same exact camera security system that's on miranda
currently except these are upgraded to 5 megapixel cameras so we had two megapixel cameras on miranda
i'll show you those are the two megapixels and you can see how i had two facing each
direction this this version on the van is gonna be much simplified but yeah these are the five
megapixel cameras which are completely clouded and fogged up because it's so hot and humid here
but uh yeah all metal construction these are the highest quality cameras that'll run in my night
owl system so i'm going to go inside the van again and figure out where these are going to
go for full coverage i'm not a professional camera installer by any means but i've done
it on nearly every rig i've had but anyway don't do what i do blah blah blah i always
do everything wrong consult your professional you know the deal i did say don't do what i do or do
i'm gonna seal it up i'm gonna seal it up wait till the end of the video
tell you what that sucker is well insulated about an inch and a half of insulation in there
huh oh jeez jeez and after my pilot holes just tighten up these up by hand instead of the drill
so i don't strip it or have an accident but i figure it wouldn't hurt to test these cameras
first right so i'm going to do this little test run here and as you can see it looks like it's
working really really well these are good wide angle cameras really really happy with that
so that that's a good camera with the other system in miranda you couldn't plug the power in here and
take it the whole length back to the dvr i had to put the power from here directly into the wall
so i'm very very happy that we'll be able to run less lines in this one cool cool let me get one of
these installed wow i nailed it on the first try almost got a little bit of fine i mean you can
read the address on my house these you guys might not be able to tell but there is a huge difference
between 2 megapixels and 5 megapixels holy that's fantastic it comes with this tiny little see that
black thing right there that's what you do to lock it from spinning and vibrating and luckily the
other cameras i had i never had a problem with them jolting or moving around while traveling
as long as i had that little pin right there locked in so i'm getting close to locking it up
and then we're going to put silicone on the first batch here and then move on to the next camera
it's hot out here guys i'm so not used to working in the the heat and humidity i am usually quite
a bit farther north this time of year anyway i've got all of the cameras installed all around the rv
i like working inside the rv but not so much outside the rv i'm happy with it though we'll
just take a quick peek around the rv there's the rear one there's the side one here's the front
one that i started with i've got them all locked into position also there's one on the front in
the middle facing down this one on the side right there and lastly this guy right here staring at
us with no blind spots and i also sealed up this uh king rb media speaker all the way on the top
all the way on the sides looks really clean but not on the bottom that's just in case any water
sneaks somewhere it can still leak out the bottom i love this thing by the way if you guys aren't
hip to this stuff you can find these on ebay rv media by king search for these it's just two wires
you take out your old porch light you pop these guys in they are amplified bluetooth speakers
and a light underneath anybody can connect and you have you have music outside whenever
you want without having to hook anything up or plug anything in but let's take a peek at one
of these we'll go to this one because this is one of my better ones so yeah sealant all around most
of the top it stops right there just in case so water can come through on both sides if it needs
to right there but we are watertight and these are looking really really good very very solid
waterproof heat resistant for freeze resistant and uh yeah that's it for working outside today
i am i am done today we'll get back to it in the morning hopefully early enough and work on the
wiring but right now you already know what time it is guys and man thank goodness i was smart enough
to put this canopy like it is because this heated pool would not be nearly as nice if it
wasn't shaded i need to clean it what are we at 85 degrees that's just about perfect oh very relaxing
absolute freaking literally it's a little gold no it's not it's not bad not bad at all oh yeah good
day i so wish that i could share more with you but um about the future but i've been burned before in
this exact same circumstance so i know to keep it zipped up for a little bit longer here but i am
excited about the future here at base camp i have a plan for solar that is pretty much fail proof
right now really happy about that obviously you've also seen i've got the new penguin rooftop penguin
2 rooftop air conditioner to install on the roof the dometic toilet came in i still not open that
box to make sure it's not cracked inside and just a few more little things here and there other than
that we are just about ready to hit the road now terra bear you feeling any better cutie she's had
an upset tummy all day now jax has puked before but tara has puked three different times and it
was not hairball it was food her tummy is really upset and i don't know if she got into something
i have this broken slide out for right now just to clean up and she's been pulling out random stuff
like from underneath the slide that i've never seen before from the previous owners
but she's not feeling well and so we have decided i already called him my local
vet's gonna take her in the morning we're gonna do some blood tests and stuff and yeah we're gonna
find out if she's okay okay you worried about her too thanks for letting me know hopefully
she just got a stomach bug or something or ate something out of the kitchen sink that maybe
she wasn't supposed to or something i don't know but we're gonna go take her in at 8 a.m tomorrow
and remember i don't even have a bed at base camp in the house there's there's no bedroom there's
no bed to sleep on so for us it's either in miranda or in the camper van out front right
now we're just kind of back and forth it's just i don't have two sets of litter boxes and food
you know like the canned food and everything like that so we've pretty much still been sleeping
most of the time here in miranda while i'm getting the van ready i am going to continue to put video
videos out every two days guys so i hope you'll like that schedule right now i'll bet pretty much
every one of you watching my videos right now is probably out there having a better time than i
am you know out there in nature and camping and exploring stuff this is that time of year to do
that and here i am making videos from base camp building a camper van out but it is what it is
i'm going to keep popping these videos out every two days in case you're bored and want to follow
all these little updates so yeah thanks for watching guys we will see you next
time
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