good morning guys
Wayne's driving us into town here in
quartzite to get a few supplies for the
solar install job today and the town
looks a little different then you might
see it in its hustle and bustle of like
RTR times it's dead in fact many of the
stores that we were visiting are already
closed for the season they'll reopen in
November they just shut up shop and wait
for it to get a little less hot I guess
anyway this is a quiet times and it's
cash only
almost everything in quartzite is cash
and only got to go find out ATM so I can
get my stuff what's going on everybody
good afternoon to you coming to you from
the deserts of Arizona here in quartzite
and I got a magnet to commemorate my
stay here in quartz a little camel on it
as I previewed in my last video Miranda
here is getting ready to get solar a
massive solar kit put on an RV pepper
Wayne's doing the work and today's
project we got pulled the fridge out
because the wires from the roof are
going to go through the fridge vent so
we're not drilling any more holes into
the roof they got to come down the edge
and tap into the stuff going on down
here the batteries and the inverter and
the charge controller and all that stuff
so fridge got to come out
Wayne's prepping that up on the roof
above us getting ready to drop the wires
down and figure this out the panels are
all wired up on the roof they are all
mounted with VHB tape and metal screws
metal wood screws we just need to seal
it with some dye corn later let's go up
on the roof and I'll show you what it
looks like use my trusty aluminum
ladder here oh yeah there we go guys
320 watts 320 watts another 320 and
another 320 Watts twelve hundred and
eighty watts of solar on the roof
oh and Wayne already tested the voltage
coming down raw from the panel's right
now is about seventy five volts coming
in from this 1280 watts and from
everything all the research that I've
done so far these panels should be
bringing in close to 80 or 90 amps once
it goes through the charge controller
and gets messed around to the actual
battery bank we are probably going to
see 80 or 90 amps on a sunny day even
here in March but all summer long which
I don't care how you do the math I'm
gonna be able to run one air conditioner
roof air conditioner all day in the
summer time off of solar probably not at
night very long I probably won't even
try it at night but while we're
producing the power and it's still
sending some to the battery we're gonna
be running an air conditioner
essentially off of the Sun not even on
the batteries because the batteries
should just stay at a hundred percent
you know I'm not able to use up all of
that so really exciting and he's making
them look all pretty not doing any
redneck fixes this time like tape and
cords but all mc4 connectors safely
secured underneath Here I am running the
generator right now for a couple hours
with air conditioning but basically just
to charge the two deep-cycle batteries
that are currently in Miranda because
that's the only way we have to power
stuff out here right now until this
system is installed that's why it was so
important to get here to get all the
supplies from northern Arizona wind and
Sun and to have Wayne install it here
before he probably moves on from the
area too so there is one hardware store
in town remaining open for this desert
heat coming it's about 88 degrees today
here in quartzite so a little warm
it's just the making it making it work
man it's gonna be high I'm gonna be
happy to running running everything off
a solar but that waiting get back to
work
not as bad as it looks this is the cost
of doing it the right way okay at the
empty up fridge remove the fridge slide
the fridge out so that Wayne could
evaluate the opening here because
there's the roof part we got to get rid
of that mesh to bring the wires down
it's going to tack it against the wall
so it's away from the fridge and then
somewhere in here we need to put a
display so trying to decide whether it's
going to be here put it here the fridge
does produce some heat so yeah we've got
some things to think about in the
meantime just cleaning out the space and
cleaning off the top of the fridge here
and I'm going to clean the flue well we
got it out - guess what we're just about
ready to put this back together just
want to show you how good Wayne did put
that flush right at eye level for me
they're looking all good inside he's got
all of the wires coming down all nicely
put aside in the corner out of the way
of the fridge completely and then down
here before the gas line he's gone back
inside if we were dropping back down
between this false floor and the bottom
floor everything looks clean we're gonna
put the fridge back in and hook it up
and then he's gonna be working outside
for a little bit looks really good and
clean a lot better than any wire job you
guys have ever seen me you working hard
or hardly working Jax you helping oh
really man you're cute as a tooth though
that's for sure alright you enjoyed my
seat okay I'm glad that swivels around
so you can see me and keep an eye on dad
yeah all right man
hey guys yeah that's right Wayne so
working on into the night here in
quartzite right now he's doing the part
where it's like really tricky to get all
the buses and fuses and breakers and the
wires make sure they have room to go
where they want to go I'm admit to make
it look good I think that's the I think
that's the main part there so I
appreciate his hard work he's really
good at this kind of stuff that's not
that I don't have the patience to do it
it's just I don't know how to make it
look good like I just don't have that
that that I don't have that ability I
never have so it's worth it for me he's
ahe's a great electrician mechanic and
he's helped a lot of people in the RV
community I am seriously looking
word to boondocking cutting the cord
again and enjoying things like this like
the desert look how beautiful this is
with the silhouette of the saguaro cacti
everywhere out here no it's nice it's
pretty it's kind of beautiful in a way
and it has finally dipped under 80
degrees here this evening it had been
warm so anyway this is day three might
be a couple more days out here I'll show
you the progress tomorrow morning when
it when it's lighter and show you how
everything's going in this compartment
well good late afternoon everybody it's
the next day on a cloudy overcast day
here in Quartzsite Arizona and Wayne has
been at it here working back on the DC
side of the inverter friend Robert
stopped by over here hanging out with us
drinking drinking some barley pops with
us and I'll show you what Wayne's got
going on now I want to interrupt him too
much but on the DC side he's built the
jumpers in here with the batteries
picked telling them to gather he's got
the battery shunt down here we got this
terminal up here with this guy called
fuse the fuse itself and big wires
everywhere everything's looking and
clean being put away and just finished
at the last touches of well transferring
the old DC system over here and what I
mean by that is my old batteries were in
here and they were not direct
replacements with the battleborn
lithium's they were actually bigger than
24 groups so I could only fit one in
here and there was just no reason to do
that so that's why we decided to bring
all three batteries in the same port
here and now Wayne is working on back
there with those grommets bringing the
wires that were over here you got the
alternator charge wire you got the stuff
that goes to the converter box and a
bunch of wires everything is being
diverted over then this space will be
changed over into something different it
won't have any batteries anymore it'll
just be for storage but Wayne's making
sure he's got all the right wiring and
battery connections and everything
figured out and then I'm gonna have two
extra old deep-cycle lead-acid batteries
there to give away to somebody else so
right now the DC in the RV is turned off
or this so that he can reroute
everything to this cubby hole and then
the last part after that is going to be
hittin this up with the fuse box
converter in there to power all the
outlets but in order to do that we have
to run thick cable to the box and back
because it's going to be a pass-through
system down here so that it goes through
solar first and then the generator or
Shore power and more on that later oh
and then up on the roof we still need to
tack down the panel's they have been
secured but we got some dye core to put
over the screw holes and all the cable
ties that are holding to the roof
and then we should be finishing up here
pretty soon so I think my next video I
will just show the finished product here
from the desert we shall see how it goes
but let's see let's give a little water
update as I mentioned I had bumped that
water issue I was having video - - a
live video just to kind of generate some
feedback and I really appreciate
everybody chiming in um the most common
thing people were saying was just capped
those two vents the leak while you're
driving and you can't do that guys I I
know it sounds like a good idea
you know just cap your league but the
water tank is designed to have that
pressure so that in order to pump water
from your water holding tank you have to
have something open on another end to
allow air to come through so and while
you're driving especially when you're
going up mountains and elevation and
stuff like that you especially don't
want to have that a closed system you
can rupture it and the tank can collapse
as you're driving over the mountains so
it's definitely not a good idea to cap
your water tank vents and drive with
them capped that's a terrible idea
but thank you for trying yeah and then a
lot of the rest of the people are
basically saying put in a one-way valve
on the on that you know which I get it
because a one-way valve will allow the
water to still flow out so that when I'm
full when I when I have filled the water
tank full the water Wilkes will flow out
and I'll know it's full but it can't go
back the other way the problem is
remember what I just said about that
water tank and eating air to come in you
can't have a one-way valve because you
need air to be sucked in the opposite
way through this same port vent vent so
that the water pump can pump otherwise
you turn on your water pump and try to
use the sink it can't even pull water
out of your tank because you have capped
it on the other side where you've put in
a one-way valve so I guess it's a little
trickier than it seems but I will say
that based on a couple people's
suggestions and Wayne and I put in our
heads together we have come up with a
solution that I have not done yet
because I can't order parts because all
the stores and Quartzsite are closed for
the season until October but the plan is
still to reroute both been separately
under the chassis
along the frame we'll come to the back
once we get past the floor line this
hollow fiberglass cap right here there
is room to put in a 90 degree elbow or
40 45 degree elbow come up a few feet
and then create one of these and that
means that guaranteed this spot up here
will always be higher than the water
tank can ever be that's below the
surface here meaning we can both vent
and we have an overflow that will spray
water out when I have acquired and made
that tank full of water so that's where
we're at and that's the only real fix
that's going to work that I know is
gonna work and then you know
scientifically it'll definitely work so
I'm gonna work on that soon but but
we're not going to be doing that project
here in the desert because all of the
services here in the desert are closing
up for the years as I mentioned there's
one hardware store open until I think
April 15th otherwise it kind of turns
into a ghost town here in the desert
because not a whole lot of people stay
out here when it's 120 degrees I guess
imagine that including me so Angela and
I and rezian Jax will be hitting the
road soon I will give you one more
update before we leave or as we're
leaving just because Wayne's doing an
awesome job and I'm really glad I hired
him to do this job instead of somebody
else cuz he's doing awesome but anyway
guys have a good night we'll see you
here in a couple days okay
