so the panels have arrived we've got three 100 watt panels and we're trying
the Flex panels which is super exciting because they're super durable I've seen
videos on YouTube people like dropping cement blocks on them they're super
light there's no gonna be no air drag so we're
gonna test those out and we will let you know what we think of them what do you
think Bob you said cool give me a bend
awesomely you can spray down to maybe we'll get yeah maybe we'll get a shot of
bob square dancing
what's up guys good morning what an amazing day I'm actually skateboarding
over to a marine shop to grab some extra parts we need to attach our panels onto
our roof I'm just kidding I don't actually say probably I was watching a
youtube video the guy kept saying ruff what is that ruff thing roof yeah that's
an electric skateboard I'll take the subway because it's further than 14
kilometers so my range wouldn't take me home
so I'll take three stops here and then skate to the shop come back onto the
subway and then go back to the office
yeah you're welcome about your skateboard to turn a bomb so
I got what I needed but I way overpaid for coulda got on
Amazon for like a hundred bucks it's guy charged me 160 but I really wanted to do
the install that kind of sucks but is what it is how does it blog credit
process hey how you doing we're wondering where you got to look what I
got it's Christmas morning and what I got
poo-goh power charge controller that looks exciting you got some paperwork
you basically know what you're doing or not I have no idea what I'm doing but it
looks really organized got a couple of black or a black cable a red cable some
clamps will fuse thing a couple of plastic bags and look at those flex
panels over there I got em set up today is solar day we are super excited and
we're actually working with go power so go power is a canadian-based company I
kind of stumbled upon them just by doing a little bit of research they kind of
walked me through how to build my complete set up which I found super
helpful and we are getting everything basically through them so they have
distributors all across Canada and then they ship to the distributor and then at
distributorships at 2:00 so it's very reasonable they've got a footprint in
the States as well so check them out chickadee check them out we are super
excited we're doing 300 watts of solar flexible solar look at these things I'm
obviously not a professional with electronics and with off-grid systems
I'm still learning so to have an online and a person that you can actually get
on the phone and chat to about is invaluable hey Batman
well you're looking for a belly Robi it's been a while since we've been in
the Batmobile so the first step is to punch a hole through the van we did that
successfully it's a little tricky to find out where you want the exact hole
but until these panels you can actually walk on so what we're thinking is we're
gonna put like a little piece of wood that fits in there cuz I'm not sure you
can walk on it when it's like that I feel like you might break it but if
there's a piece of wood that brings that groove up then you will be able to walk
because it'll be flat at least just along this section all the cabling will
be cleaned up along the side and then we're going to use like marine adhesive
along the ribs to dab along there which will hold them down and then we're using
this crazy water sealant tape around the edges so we don't get any wind
underneath it's nice to be back working on the van blue along the ribs and now
we just place
and then you can walk on here
beauty
hey the paint departments open panels are looking good I just have to say my
dad was very very smart and thinking about that walkway because it would have
been very difficult to access that back so the fact that we've got that little
those pieces of wood there that bring that up so you can walk along it you can
just walk along this one little section makes it so key to be able to get back
here and work and then turn around and you can walk along this one section so
what I've got is my dad giving me exact strips of internal internal and internal
on tape and turn the bond tape this stuff is like waterproof it's like gooey
it's it's supposed to be good for like a hundred years so I've got them ripping
meet specific sized strips that I'll be running in the on the edges of each
panel I'll try and show you what I'm doing but it's very hard to film and
balance and fill in and balance and the nice part of this tape and you can kind
of just press it into itself and it does a really good job of sticking and making
a complete seal we've got our power cables positive and negative coming
through a nice plastic grommet so those guys there I'm gonna pull those through
I'm not gonna use too much extra slack but maybe like you know three feet there
and then I'm just loving working with this tape so I think I'm going to just
cover that entire area with the tape make sure it's totally sealed and
waterproof on this little number what is that
beautiful girl contraption so we took an old crate that we've used for our
business and Damons built it so we can store all of our electronics as they're
charging and hopefully I can put some plants here so basically it's gonna go
you might think hey that looks a little chunky yeah cuz I think the same thing
but essentially it's gonna be awesome because right now all of our electronics
sit here they exploded in this area Chargers everything so this is going to
be laptop one Chargers coming out laptop two Chargers coming out camera battery
yeah hey Charlie Chapman I'm going back up
want to show you if you didn't fully see like what this tape is so it's like
really kind of like almost like glue like an adhesive and look if you try and
peel it up like it's not going anywhere it's like almost impossible to feel even
if you peel it up you're getting like there's just no way water is getting
through there so you can see even all around here I did this I covered all the
screw holes and then down and around the fan too we've got our positive and
negatives coming from the roof this is the go power 30 amp solar controller so
that's gonna be mounted there we've got some light switches mounted there the
best Barty 2 is going to be mounted there and we're just going to try and
finish mounting everything so we can do the rest of the tiny group gotta run
them along the wall feed them through here
it's our charge controller so we're gonna have a solar panel positive solar
panel negative and so we're gonna place those hook it into there and then with
the leftover cabling they gave us a huge amount of cable you're gonna come out of
you where it says battery positive negative and you're gonna run that
behind the wall into the batteries go Power recommends a inline fuse between
on the positive cable between the charge controller and the battery banks so it's
a 30 amp fuse so basically what you do is you just cut the positive line and
then you're gonna cut this and you're just gonna lock join they even provide
like connectors and heat shrink and you're just going to
so you've got a fuse in between the line
yeah you guys were a little confused but basically it was just the positive line
I said if there were I know someone's watching that life what did he just do
why is the fuse in there I mean like why did they have that there great question
Bob so all a fuse does is a little bit extra protection so if there is a short
or if there's a surge of power meaning like a spike of energy it won't like
energy is very hot when it runs through cable so if there's a surge if there's
an overwhelming amount it could melt the wire so instead a fuse would limit how
much energy goes through the fuse and it would pop the fuse and disconnect the
circuit so the next step is we're gonna take our positives and negatives that
we've split and we're gonna go into our charge controller go power even gives
you like a little slice amount that they would like by the way I just want I just
one second I just wanted to show you Amon is not trained properly as far as
cleaning up his work area before he starts another project he's
multi-talented guy but he's a bit of an Einstein when it comes to stuff like
this but all geniuses are this is the part where you want to make sure you put
the wire in the right hole very important a narrow long pole passed
solar panel negative before we go any further
b.o.b wants to clean up the mess and then we're gonna start the
tongue-and-groove and maybe finish that sexy little area
let's clean
hey ray I just got a quick question for you no problem
very helpful staff here at goal our
parking curb chisel I have to say that was a little bit smoother than I thought
boom boo-boom boo-boom boo-boom and now we need one more that will join
up hey what are you doing coming in there with that ginger hi buddy what was
that oh shit my dad's chiseling out those little
pieces and I just heard him swear I caught him on phone I swear so hard
because you better not put that in the vlog unfortunately I'm not gonna put it
in the blog but yeah that was super funny well like they said buddy third
time's a charm
if we're not gonna lie and tell you this is easy guys this is one of the most
challenging parts of the bill is getting that right but damn it looks good
there's my housing on that that's gonna be flush mounted this wires gonna be a
little bit shorter that's gonna be flush very very happy with how the control
center is looking are you stoked ro I'm stoked to get those two pieces in yeah
once again want to thank dope power for hooking everything up and being an
incredible company and resource and we will see you in the next vlog where we
cook the rest of the entire system up batteries inverters chargers positive
negative cables we've decided to get to 6 volt batteries we're gonna hook that
up in serious I'll teach you how to do all that very exciting stuff this is
coming together we're almost done super stoked I'll see if Beck wants to
say goodbye to you too once I oh sure how did today go I know you think really
yeah yeah this is this looks amazing expect event we're coming next week yeah