welcome back to steve rob reviews today i'm going to have an exciting kind of a video
a video where i'm going to do some electrical hookups here and uh you know you ever heard
that saying don't do as i uh do do as i say well in this particular video a little bit of a twist
on that don't do as i'm doing and don't listen to anything i say because because it's completely um
unorthodox kind of electrical wiring and it doesn't match any building codes
and uh yeah i would say i can't recommend it but for me i think it's perfectly safe you take a look
and you let me know what you think but i'm going to wire up this couple of breakers in this box
i'll show you everything and let's go over take a look and i'll show you what i got going on here
i'm going to start off right here we're going to need this soldering iron and this is just
to clean the soldering tip and then we got some rosin core solder
and we got two breakers and this is the panel right here and uh this is all going to be for
my power inverter my new power inverter i got and i'll show you that in a second but uh here i've
got four these are just like i guess you'd call them uh power chords 15 amp power chords and uh
i'll show you them i need four of them and here we go with the uh these are just strain reliefs you
know you can use a different type of connections that go to your box and some wire connectors
and i need that warning label and we're going to use this board
so i'll bring it back when i got this all tore apart we'll start putting this together and you're
probably never going to see anything like this again on youtube but uh let's get to it right now
okay we're back and i'm just going to show you right here is just soldering the end of this wire
and then i'll explain the reason why i'm doing this so i'm just going to solder this wire on here
you don't want to have gobs of solder on or anything like that
just want enough just to have it wick all the way along
you don't want any blobs just like that okay what you're looking at right there
is the breaker the one side of the breaker so you would put your one hot wire there and then on the
other side well it goes in here and i have that attached i'll show you a closer look of it later
but the whole idea behind this is the way i've done this is i'm going to put this wire in first
before i actually install the breaker so as you can see there all i'm doing is i'm just i got the
front wires in here and i got the ground and the neutral wire just like that and i'm going to bring
in another cable from the other side here and the one conductor will go down here which would be the
black or the hot wire and the other one is right here so all i'm really doing
is just putting two extension cords together more or less you know the the ground and the
neutral to the ground in the neutral here and then just using this breaker as your safety in between
just splicing in the hot wire so i'll show you what the extension cord looks like next and what
i'm going to do with these two wires and all i've done so far is just strip back the extension cord
to the length that i need and the one that i soldered well this is it right here
and all i did was took the casing off from here so i'm going to put it in here like this
and these two wires will go here and this one here will go to the breaker
so let's get to that next and if you've ever used these before these are just strain reliefs so as
you put the cable through and i'll put the cable through here when you put the cable through like
this i'll just take it out here i'll give you a good look in the box after up close but you put
the cable through like this and you just bring it through until it just comes through here
and then when you start winding this down on the side it just tightens up right here
so i'll bring you back in the next part and i'll show you what i'm doing
well as you can see i got the breaker all screwed in there and it's a lot easier to
tighten it up rather than being inside the unit i find and you just hook it into the bottom here
there's only one way you can put this in anyways you hook it into the bottom and it just presses
down and it's easy as that so what i'm going to do is i'm going to straighten out these
wires but the next step i'm going to show you is what i do with this part right here which is the
electrical wires so i'm going to show you something that i do and what i do
is i solder them so what i'm going to do is just come over here and just solder them up i mean
it doesn't take much to solder them and you know they're not going to come apart
now remember all this fuse box is all made so that it uses solid wires in the first place
so that's why you have to actually solder the wires that go to the breakers because they're
not meant for stranded wire and this whole project that i'm building here well it's kind of like i
said in the beginning kind of unorthodox but for my purpose it's going to work right and i'm going
to show you at the end here exactly how this all fits together and the reason why i'm doing this
so yeah soldering them together i think is a lot better than just
putting a mark connector on so what i'm going to do i'll bring you back i'll show you the mark
connectors on and i always like to tape them up as well well everything is done and i mounted
it on a board and as you can see here is my inverter so i would have the two lines
going out and these are six foot cords and they're both good for 15 amps or 1850 watts
and as you could see both these cords come down to the bottom i'll take the panel off here
and if we take a look inside so this would be one side here this would be the other side here
so the black wires match the black wires at the top
and the rest are all put with the mark connector and i showed you that and i soldered them
and of course comes along so the top will go over and plug in here
so the reason why i put this on here is because if you were to not turn the power inverter off
these here when you unplug them would have power going to them so i'll show you up at my camp
probably going to go up there maybe the next video and i'm going to install this
but this is where the hazard comes in you should never have a plug like this that could have the
you're supposed to actually have the female part of this
and not the male part now the way i've designed my camp is everything is plug and play so this
will plug into one side of the receptacle this will go to the other side of the receptacle
the split in between the receptacle is two separate 15 amps so i took the center blade out
and this is going to power half of the cabin this powers the other half so i can run two separate
15 amp circuits and that's pretty much it right there so what i'll do next is i'll
explain a bit more here just hold on a second well i thought i'd answer some questions ahead of time
this is the uh the power cord i got and a lot of people are going to wonder you know
like you could have just bought some you know extension cord wire and put some ends on yourself
well you know what i paid seven dollars for these and you know the plugs are already molded on
you know how much easier is this so you can just imagine how easy this is going to install at my
camp all i have to do is just put the the two conductors on the back positive and the negative
put these two extension cords in these two go into the wall and i've drilled already two holes here
just to mount it now you'll see the spot well i actually left if you've been following the channel
i left a little stub like this much because i knew i was going to do this in the future
and i'll explain a little bit more into detail how this all operates and like i say this part here
yeah you really don't want to fool around with this kind of stuff but of course
this is only for me what i do i don't recommend anybody else doing this because it could be
very dangerous if somebody were to pull this on the wall well these two conductors they're live
right so you got to be careful what you're doing and this is only for me and what i do at my place
and of course i put a warning label on it and you know what there's nobody else going to touch this
stuff right except for me so i'm going to install it all i'm going to explain a little bit more
about the whole system you know the battery cables the breaker
the actual inverter unit itself how it pairs to my
my solar array that i have my battery bank it all comes together and yeah you really have to have a
lot a little bit of experimentation in the past to know what your capabilities are and for me at
my cabin i'll show you the breakdown of exactly how i've got it designed and i have duplicate
sources of electricity i've got my generator and then i have my power inverter system
and it's uh it's quite interesting and i'm going to show you that coming up real soon so thanks
for joining me here today if you haven't seen this channel before you're welcome to subscribe
follow along and maybe you could pick something up from this that you didn't learn before
you know about uh alternative type of doing things and it's entirely up to you
whether you know you want to follow along like something that i've done which i can't recommend
because i know that this is not to code and you know what it's it's highly hazardous if
you don't know what you're doing right so the best thing to do is consult a professional
there's lots of professionals i have some great professionals on my channel they're
electricians electrical engineers and i'd be curious to hear your comments what you think
about this type of a setup and i'll show you the complete setup in the next video hopefully
so these guys come back again if you haven't seen this channel before you're welcome to subscribe
and find some interesting things on youtube to watch and for me i find this interesting cheers
you