it's a great reminder i think it helps to be a stoic you know you
take care of the things that you uh have control over and pretty much ignore the ones you don't and
it just takes the insurance guys a long time to do their work you know make phone calls talk to
each other and that sort of thing but i can take care of myself today going for a walk
ah that explains it that's how the deer get through the fence they came down here and it's
like all sudden they're on the other side of the fence they know where the holes are
maybe shot don't see a bullet hole we just died life is short circle of life
oh that's a nice buck there's the girl he's chasing
that was lovely you know i don't know what it is those guys are building over there but it
is a monstrosity they've got to be proud of that must be going down the river it's just too big to
move down the road all right well today's job is to see if we can get that scuba compressor to run
using the generator and a soft start because it doesn't work with just
generator let me show you that first make sure the generator is off turn off everything that
is not needed uh the power outlet box for this generator is down there it has a 220 plug on
it this is the cable that brings the power up to the boat this is basically our auxiliary plug here
we can plug whatever we want to in here to supply the boat with ac you might call that shore power
except we probably will never use shore power i mean we got a 10k generator an ak generator and 5k
of solar panels up top so we don't need short power so with that we start this beast up
turn off the inverter and turn on the
generator compressor
at the breaker
well apparently this device uses electricity and i can be electrocuted by that you know and
they wonder why nobody reads the warnings anymore it uses 24 volt dc to power it unfortunately i
got 27.3 volts in there a little particular in the manual about really needs to be 24.
we're going to risk it anyway and it's interesting they have this mark strange it was uh it has a 24
volt and then zero volt and that's actually how they're identifying the negative the next one
says common but that's for the d1 and d2 those are switches for turning it uh on and off uh
remotely i guess so i'm thinking just plugging this in we'll get it to start
yep there it is the light came on it's got a little lcd screen there and everything
i just need to tell it i'm single phase mode here it is
i don't want to change that single phase oh yeah application default
you can tell it that you're running a compressor so it'll guess at the settings it should have
auto application setup here's what we want auto setup agitator compressor one compressor one
reciprocating yeah i want compressor one okay i start off 40 of the power and they're gonna run
it at that for 15 seconds or else they're going to ramp up i don't know we'll see the next thing
i do is wire the motor in and put this gadget between the switch and the motor now so there
there's our two face actually they don't call it two phase they call it 220 because this is a phase
of 110 that's the phase of 110 they call it 220. i don't get it because when you add the third wire
then they start calling it three phase so it's single phase 220 ah i think it was like you know
you got one wire it's got one face and there was this electricity is going up and down it's cycling
it's alternating ac current you got two of them you got two face okay why they call it 220 i have
no idea it was a bad idea and then you had that third leg and you got three face all of them are
and this one's just a little out of sync from these two um i've also heard
heard it called a wild leg i kind of like that name that there is our single phase 220
now we got to take it out of this side and run it back over to the motor okay all right so the wires
that are going to the motor are now going into here and they're coming out here and going back
to the motor and i even hooked up a ground wire i don't think that's necessary but i have a youtube
channel and mom's probably watching uh my 24 volt is hooked up and i did test that if you power it
down it doesn't forget it's setting so that's all good verify again all non-essential stuff is off
and it is generators off let's go ahead and turn the inverter off start up the generator
here one
this would normally start it but i don't think it will
yeah nothing but it's on now we started down here
my
okay so i don't think that's gonna work but there is this idea
i could change the size of that pulley back in there and reduce it down
and that would make this motor do less work all right 18 and a half inches on that flywheel
and about seven and a half on this one it would also mean that the flywheel the compressor turns
slower so it would fill the scuba tank slower but heck i could take a scuba tank being filled in 20
minutes instead of 10 it's better than nothing and especially if it runs off the generator without
a soft starter so maybe that's the next step well that's it for me today let me know what you think
got an idea here that'd be happy to know thanks and send us your photos of what
you've been working on and remember don't sweat the things you can't change doesn't help you any
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