- Today, we're doing something a little different.
Jackery sponsored this video
where we're going to be outfitting Colin's dad's boat
with about as much tech as we can cram into it.
And hopefully we're approaching at the right angle here.
Cause I can't freaking see where I'm going
ladies and gentlemen.
Hey, how y'all doing guys?
Hey, a continuity error.
We're pretending it's still in the box.
We're going to have some fun today, ladies and gentlemen.
- Step one is to get the entertainment system going.
You can see we've got a nice lounging sort of, I don't know,
shares bed? Is this a bed?
- Yup.
It's a bunk.
- And we're going to put a TV on it.
So this is a nice picture.
- So this is the boat my dad used to be a chef on.
And it's got a haul tie. Still around.
When I was born, he was working on this boat
and they hopped him in a floatplane
and flew him to the airport.
- Well, the thing about when you mount something
on a boat is, seems like you do it in such a way
as to such if there's waves that doesn't.
And I guess the idea is we've got this full range mount,
so you can either lounge in the bed and watch.
Or pull it up.
- You got the wrong way.
- So the idea, then
- [Colin] I need to keep trucking on this wiring
otherwise it's not gonna get done.
I'm going to be working on getting the Jackery,
actually ready to plug in.
So we're going to be taking this chunk or extension cord.
We're going to snip the end off of it.
And we're going to run it down into the cabin
below the floor and back to where the house wiring is,
where we're going to connect it to a rotary switch.
So this is the front bridge and there's some random wire
kicking around here,
but critically there's a hole that goes down to by the
steering wheel down below.
And that's where this guy's going to go.
And hopefully it'll just go right through.
Oh, there we go.
Okay. That was easy.
Where I'm laying now is where the Jackery
will be bolted down, and then we'll have 12 volt power
to recharge it coming from this port
that I put in not too long ago.
And now we're going to fish it down.
We're going to open up this deck and I'm going to straddle
the big diesel motor.
I'm gonna run it under the deck and into
where the house wiring comes in.
And that's where the majority of this work
is going to take place.
Cause there's already outlets and 120 everywhere
in the boat. It's just a matter of getting the power
from the Jackery up there, down into here.
This is going to take awhile.
- Slightly awkward thing for compact space
saving living arrangements.
Small TVs don't really exist anymore,
but that's okay because thankfully monitors do.
So we've got a U28R55, 28 inch monitor here.
It's an IPS type monitor, it's got support for HDR,
it's got an HTMI input, so we'll be able to use it
with our Apple TV and all that good stuff.
And of course critically, it has a VESA compatible mount
on the back.
I'm good, don't worry.
- I see the cable.
That's just light rit in my eye.
Standing on the valve covers of it.
Lovely Ford diesel motor.
Now I get to get comfortable again.
That's just not 46 degrees.
This is the AC rotary switch, so we have three inputs
and a off circuit.
So that means we're going to have the Jackery
as one of our inputs.
And then you can switch it to another input and that'll be
running off shore power.
And then the third input is just there because
buying the two position switch was more expensive than
buying the three position switch.
I mean, really this went way easier than
I thought it was gonna go.
But you know, mark my words, it's not gonna be
two hours of fiddling.
- We've already got one thing
that might bonus here though, Colin.
There are several standards for the VASE amount in terms of
spacing and the back of this monitor is kind of
stylistically curved.
- There might be spacers in the hardware.
- Spacers. All right.
- Yeah, check the beautifully laid out hardware kit
that comes in those Kanto mounts.
- Colin's all into Kanto now that they give his friend
and his dad are free mounts.
- [Colin] Absolute Kanto show over here.
- All right. That's on.
Don't know about you Colin, but I'm making
some pretty good prog, wow.
- [Colin] Oh boy.
- That's some Samsung quality right there.
- [Colin] Maximum sag.
- Unfortunately, our mounting kit only comes with
big old chunk of wood screws cause they assume
you're going to do something sensible, like screw
into a stud, but we don't have a stud.
We just have this quarter-inch wooden panel here.
So we had to go digging through Colin's
What do you call this?
A bag of prayers? - [Colin] A bag of dreams.
- Bag of dreams to find some nuts and bolts.
And we did.
Right against the window?
Oh yeah, cause you've got to walk past it and stuff, hey?
Okay.
- [Colin] Okay. Do you want to mark it?
- I would like to.
- Yeah. So that is like an inch from the center bar.
- We're not going to worry too much about it
being leveled because realistically all it takes is
me to shift my body weight.
We're going to move at about four or five degrees anyway.
So what's the deal? You've mentioned your dad was a chef
on a boat before, so what do you guys do? Like fish or like.
- Well, that's the plan.
So we have rod holder sitting up top here and chart holders.
But we haven't actually taken the boat out really.
We took it down the down the way once for five minutes and
then back, and then had lunch.
- Oh, so you just got it.
- [Colin] We just got it. It took nine months
to get it here cause we were purchasing it during COVID.
- Oh, cool. So that's why you guys have been putting
so much work into it lately.
- We want to go do things.
- Oh, right. We're going to be tacked out
by the end of this video.
- [Colin] That's the dream.
- On it goes.
Hold on. Let's just, yeah.
You don't really need that.
Do you want to pull it out?
Comes out a little, something like that.
Ah.
Oh yeah.
Now in true Colin fashion, we'll be mounting
the Apple TV using
Am I just yoloing this, Colin?
- [Colin] Yep.
- There's no rules?
- [Colin] No rules. Make our own rules here.
- [Linus] Is that cable management cut your mustard, Colin?
- [Colin] Oh, A plus.
- [Linus] All right, it's in there.
- [Colin] I'm ready to go plug it in.
- [Linus] I don't see the fire extinguisher.
- [Colin] So one should give you shore power.
- There.
- So the wiring's done, but shore power,
isn't working for some reason.
I don't know if I flubbed the wire. I don't think I did.
So we're going to plug in the Jackery
and then we're going to see if that turns on the monitor.
- For my next project while calling diagnosis,
what's going on with the power switch that hopefully works
is to put these Polk speakers up on the back deck here.
Oh, excuse me, the stern deck. Yes.
Are these weather sealed, Colin?
- [Colin] Yeah, they're weatherproof
and they're salt water resistant.
The screw will go through.
- This wall has seen some things, okay?
This boat is 50 years old. All wood.
Man, this would be a fun kind of project.
Where is my dad's boat?
This is one small thing we may not have foreseen.
This appears to have a bit of a clearance issue
with this speaker, majig. - [Colin] Can you fix it?
- Yes, I can fix it. We'll get you go.
All right Colin, the good news is that the brackets on.
- [Colin] Are you applying those bad news?
- The Bad news is that there are no extra holes in the wall.
- That's what Bondo's for.
- [Linus] Sweet.
- The problem we're having is we've validated the power
is getting through the switch.
- Validated the switch functions.
- Validated the switch functions and we're connected
to shore power, I can see the voltage,
I can see it come across the switch,
but we're not getting any power to the outlets.
Why are you not running?
So that's what we're diagnosing now.
- [Linus] The dud AC power switch ended up
being human error.
Colin found a little jumper that've fallen out
of the first switch. So with that fixed,
what can I hook up next? I did the speakers only.
- You wanna do the mount the subwoofer?
- Okay. I found your subwoofer.
Oh, this is our plan for the video today.
- [Colin] Yeah, that's all the stuff we had to do.
- Well, now I don't have to keep asking Colin
what to do next.
And you wanted it in the very corner seat. Is that right?
- [Colin] I think like in the wall between the two seats.
I heard the shock back, come on.
- I think it's working.
Now that we've got power, we can fire up our monitor
and hopefully set up the Apple TV.
And we're good, we're done.
As much capacity as the Jackery has though
obviously we're going to need to charge it.
So that is where these come in. We've got not one, not two,
not three, but four of these Jackery solar generators.
And these are good for about 200 volts each?
- Yeah, so total that's 800 watts,
which is more than enough to run everything that would
normally be running on a boat.
So we're pulling in. Wow, it's still climbing, 275 Watts
with the two panels.
Our draw right now with the Apple TV
and the actual monitor is 294 Watts.
- Okay. So that speaker's definitely working.
Now these guys are not going?
- [Colin] No, they're not plugged in yet.
But base.
- We're moored right now.
- No, turn up.
- We're actually kind of getting there.
- So right now two panels will run
the entertainment system indefinitely.
- Well is the fridge running now too?
- Yes.
- [Linus] Compressor's going.
- Yep.
And we're now at 723 Watts.
- [Linus] I'm checking out the solar panels over the top.
Look, Brandon's in the video for a change.
We totally could get more up here.
- Feasibly with two more panels would be fully running
this boat and then done.
- Well here let's try it. So the trick is if I fall,
jump hard, hey?
I'm good. I got this.
Yes.
- [Colin] Did you see the end flop out over?
- Sorry about that.
Well, whatever the cloth might think about it,
the frame seems okay.
- I am completely expendable.
- It's not like if I die,
everyone's out of work or anything.
- We are inputting 500 watts,
- 500 watts from the solar panels?
- Yes, we are charging. It'll be fully charged
in two and a half hours.
- That is sick.
- [Colin] While running everything
- [Linus] That is awesome.
On the tech side of things, the M1 12.9 inch iPad pro
is both the navigation and media hub.
When you're steering from the cabin, it resides
in a 12 inch RAM mounts tablet mount above the helm,
keeping everything within arms reach.
From here, you can flip through charts and Avionyx,
the wind and weather information with windy
and controlled media, or even watch a movie.
Colin loaded up with iPad iOS 15 Beta 2 as well
to take advantage of the improved multi-tasking
capabilities.
There's no networking on the boat, so an iPhone is used
as a wireless hotspot whenever it's needed,
but that doesn't come up that often cause the iPad
and the Apple TV under the cabinet here
can airplay without it.
Now the existing stereo didn't work,
but some new wires to the 6.5 inch Kenwood speakers
fixed that.
- And I made these speakers.
I think that looks pretty darn good.
So we're going to get this whole boat spick and span,
and we'll get Linus to give you a tour to the boat.
- [Linus] A week of naggy little details later,
and the Jackery install is finally complete.
A customed Bimini covers being designed by north sails
to hold three or four of the SolarSaga 200W panels
for a peak output of between 600 and 800 Watts
all off the grid.
Running all tech on the boat, that's the fridge, freezer,
Apple TV and monitor, power draw is around 360 watts.
That actually leaves us with a surplus of power.
That is until we add the hot water tank to the mix.
With that, we actually hit the maximum of 1500 watts
that we can get out of a single socket on the Jackery.
Now the Jackery can output more, it just needs to go through
multiple outlets.
So Fiddler has come from being a tired trawler
to a tech cruiser, all thanks to Jackery Solar System.
So she'll be able to motor around to her heart's content
with ample power to run all day and all night.
And even more importantly, she'll do so silently.
No generator noise, just nice, quiet sunshine juice.
Which is a big plus for neighboring boaters
or noise sensitive activities.
This was a huge build that took a ton of evenings
and a lot of weekend work by calling in his dad, Gerald.
So I'd like to thank them for their effort.
Wait a minute, thank them for their effort?
How did that end up in the script?
They're working on their boat.
I guess they did offer to give me a ride though.
So that's cool. Oh, and of course I've got to thank Jackery
again for sponsoring this video.