hey everybody my name is sam and i'm angela and welcome to our channel welcome back to
the next video in our playlist of installing a multi-zone mini split in our mobile home it's a
lot of ends there in today's video we're going to take you through the electrical installation
and setting the outdoor unit let's go the first step for us on this actual legit
install is actually getting our power connected or ran to wherever our condenser is going to be which
is a unit that sits outside of the home so we have ourselves a lego box full of tools and everything
we have flashlights scissors tape don't tell mommy we took the scissors out of the kitchen
and we also have some special things as far as when we're going to cut into the underbelly of
the home and seal it back up first off is this spray adhesive i have not used this yet but my
research led me to that this is the best thing for re-gluing patches in mobile home underbellies
the other thing is this it's actually some of the original mobile homes underbelly synthetic
woven fabric stuff i have this for patching up any holes that are down there it's as easy as
cutting what you need spraying the adhesive and sticking it to it and it's supposed to work well
all right elijah has the gopro and a flashlight he's going to be filming all the work down there
underneath the house let's go ahead and go do this and get her over with all right elijah we're going
all the way to where the gray pipe goes up into the floor because that's where the power goes
into the panel and that's where we're going to look for a place
we have reached the point where the power comes from our outdoor meter base turns up and into
the floor i'm going to open this area up and reach my hand up there to see if i can find
the wire that runs from our furnace circuit over to where the electric furnace used to be
because that's the wire we're going to reuse and run out through the wall that way
all right i can see the wire is just about two feet up into the underbelly
i don't know if you guys can see it there's a gray wire back in there that is what we're after
here's the wire we need now we're going to pull
this out because this runs all the way where our furnace used to be
it's probably about a 300 worth of copper nowadays
there we go
angela is working on cutting the hole from outside in
through the wall of the underpinning or the basement of the house here
so while she does that i'm gonna go ahead and cut our patch fabric and start sealing up the
underbelly where all this stuff comes through all right we're going to get our spray glue
and let's read some instructions here okay
pretty much shaken back
all right it says to spray it wait a minute or so and then press it in place
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all right everybody it is all patched up closed up as good as we can get it this adhesive and
patch kit is awesome you know adhesive is strong whenever you accidentally pick up
mud clumps off the ground but it looks great it is totally sealed up i mean not 100 obviously i could
stick my finger in around the pipes and everything but that's so much better than what it was and is
great so here is our wire that we have run down i'm going to go along this conduit and i wish i
had some zip ties to zip tie it but i have duct tape so hey good old fashioned duct tape that's
good i'm going to tape it in place and we're going to work our way that way which is towards
the way we're going to install the mini split and run the wire out through the basement wall
yes all right that's it
well that was a lot of fun being under the house and doing all of that i guess it could have been
a lot worse but i'm glad it's over i will say this that patch fabric is awesome it is great
we have to get some more of that to finish all the other little bits and bobbins but
wow good stuff if you're looking to patch your mobile homes underbelly
i would highly recommend that i was obviously surprised at how well that works
you never know when you get something like that if it is going to work so true very true
so i got to say it was very helpful having you outside to just drill a hole it really
saved on my crawl around time you drilled the hole and i fetched the wire through
so thank you thank you with the under the house work done and the wire run outside we could then
go ahead and take the forms off of our concrete pad elijah is eager to help with that one so
we'll give them a hammer and let them go and then we go and start wiring up the service disconnect
box
these bread nails are pretty tough
people may not know what a service disconnect is so tell them what you've learned about service
disconnects and location it's kind of like a light switch that you can pull out the little fuse piece
in it and it will have no power going to it that way you don't have to go all the way to your fuse
box to turn it off or your breaker box or whatever to turn it off you can just pull that out and it
totally disconnects it it's really good if you need to work on something do wiring that type
thing yep it is a safety feature in most places it is required by law and it is yeah i would yeah
it's a requirement that i agree with it's nice to know that if i'm ever out there working on this
even if i flip a breaker inside the house i know no one's going to touch it because i'm right there
next to the fuse and i pulled it out so you do need to make sure that you space the hole coming
from underneath your house about 18 inches off the side of your unit to allow enough room for your
disconnect box as well as the whip which is the electrical cords coming out of the disconnect box
going to your outdoor unit having that allows you to replace the outdoor unit if you ever need to
it's not locked in with a rigid connection and gives you flexibility in the future
they do gravity that was a lot easier one perk to living on a hill
nice all right you said you have a handle on your end
yeah i don't so let's just spin it while it's still on the cardboard okay
i'm going to read through the quick startup guide just to get refreshed on the installation i've
been watching most every youtube video out there as far as how to install a multi-unit as well
as reading through the actual full installation manual and everything from the manufacturer as i
waited for today or to arrive so i would recommend doing the same but i'm gonna go ahead and brief
myself with a quick startup guide and then we'll continue on with the next steps all right well
let's say step one is do all the stuff inside step four is place the outside condenser unit
well we went backwards um hoses hoses step seven is to do the electrical work okay well going
backwards i guess we've done as much as we can now hey we have unboxed the condenser unit and set it
out here now it's time to go inside the house and actually mount our air handlers inside our rooms
and drill holes through our home
all right it's going to be a little bit of a cliffhanger or a teaser i'm sorry but i want
to go and stop this particular video right here we've had a lot of information in this and what
we're getting ready to do which is the indoor air handler installation is another big chunk of info
and we don't want to have you guys glazing over over an hour long video no we were very excited
to get this part done as we are very excited to get our units put in so we can enjoy some cooler
air in the house it has been like 87 88 degrees in the house even with fans going and everything so
even at 9 o'clock at night so we are very excited to get this in so please continue watching
if you're interested in it to see us continue this project if you have any comments leave them
below we'd love to read them otherwise we'll see you guys next time on the homestead see ya bye
most commonly you would probably tie into your existing meter base or
outdoor power unit for a mobile home power unit oh my gosh
oh stabbed my back already yeah that's good in today's video we're going to take you
through the full electrical portion portion are you getting irish i'm getting redneck
you