Aptos Bifacial Solar Panels Are Installed, Results Are A Bit Shady | Ep 39 #svaguaazul #solarpanels

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so the solar panel's up and uh I tried
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to do some testing I did some testing of
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this one and both of them
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together but we're going to go into uh
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what theall look like and uh how we
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wired it and all that really cleaned up
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nice looks uh really decent so hopefully
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uh you like this uh these are the uh
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aptose
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panels and uh they do pretty good
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they're 440 watt red bifacial so they
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can get 550 okay so it's next week and
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uh we're going to install this bar I've
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got that already mounted up there I have
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my bar with the end on it and we're just
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going to mount kind of facing this way
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so on these ones you'll see it's kind of
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pushing the ones on the side are
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straight up and down this one will be
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the opposite direction so hopefully no
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wind catches it but let me get this
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drilled in and installed and see what it
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looks like okay we have that
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installed looking
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good should uh allow for push action so
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hopefully it doesn't take
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off um yeah steel strapped this down
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next big wins we get cuz I learned my
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lesson get these uh solar panels up and
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uh start pulling in some uh what so
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we're going to try to get these solar
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panels in place well we're going to get
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these solar panels in
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place and uh and kind of edge them up
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through
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here and then flip them around and then
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uh flip them
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in but uh yeah this looks like a
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challenge and we have my little lady
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helping and I just hope it's not too
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heavy for her because you will have to
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hold it up this high at this point I
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dropped this down but still pretty high
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okay I have the solar panels
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in that one is not quite
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down cuz we got a little goop so I'm
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might have to hold it up and grind at
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the same time I think I knocked my
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forehead but uh yeah our neighbor helped
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us and basically saved our butts because
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these are 55 lbs a little bit too much
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for my my wife to negotiate around this
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uh cockpit here but uh
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yeah and uh I currently have just one
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plugged in I'm going start getting some
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readings off of it while we're doing
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this just to have readings I'm getting
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the solar installed my babies's out
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there cleaning up all our stainless you
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got to wellow they didn't see the before
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and the wenches they were oxidized oh
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yeah these these wenches look they were
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heavily oxidized look at them
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wites but found out that barkeeper clean
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a
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desert yeah just takes that it's like
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this stuff right
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here M was right all up
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here A year later I figured this out do
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you know how long I've been trying to
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polish
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these and it was bar and I had it in my
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cupboard
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love and learn
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huh okay and uh I'm still working on
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this solar our uh solar Arch I'm have to
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do some grinding cuz where the welds are
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on the inside shouldn't have weld on the
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inside cuz uh I'm having to grind it out
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but they're almost all the way
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in that these These
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are 55 lbs each and they're they're fun
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to
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move okay guys so I'm getting these uh
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it's next day I'm getting these riveted
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in and almost made a huge blunder
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yesterday and so I was using this little
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block to help protect and it's kind of
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beveled on the edge not good
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so I found this piece of I guess it's
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teak in the
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trash and uh I'm going to takeing I've
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got it mounted so I don't have to hold
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it and uh
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yeah I'm going try to finish drilling
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these but uh I've got this solar panel
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over here it's the only one connected
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and so far it's hit uh 310 Watts it's a
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cloudy day and also the sun is being uh
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kind of blocked by uh Mast and things of
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our boat and other boats so it's I guess
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a good test cloudy day 310 Watts that
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would be 620 Watts with both solar yeah
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I did knock myself pretty good yesterday
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but uh yeah I'll get this drilled and uh
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I'll show you um about how I do that so
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hopefully this works better I got a
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drill this is a 3/4 I'm using 3/4 in
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rivets okay got my
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sunglasses these will add some safety
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okay that's
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done hopefully no damage to the slow
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Pell my wife was out here she'd be
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freaking
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out and I did tell my
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things is uh everything that goes in the
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ocean that's where it lives and I don't
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want this in the ocean plus it's got
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PL you no that's enough
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there's enough
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fell let's see where our wood looks
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like yeah I nicked it a few times
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there's that one got a little deeper
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though other in that pretty
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good
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and no damage to our panel now let's get
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some rivets I'm using this rivet gun
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I've got two size rivets I
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got half in and I got
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3/4 Going's see if/ in works
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here but
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uh
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also on these I've got
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uh washers that I've been printing on
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the top of them
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cuz uh I want the rivets to
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stay it's
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just a train with no uh cars on
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it yeah I don't know if y'all think uh
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rivets are a bad idea like I said we
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don't want this thing to come up that's
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why I'm doing uh rivets and washers
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on the washers is of course
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to keep uh cuz that when it pulls down
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it's not very big and these are the big
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head rivets on this side so they pull up
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very nice on this side but you don't
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have any uh big head on this side to
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cover a lot of space like the the Bob so
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these right here a little bit bigger
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than the head on this
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side there we go
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that is not coming up I don't know
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you're going to be testing that out or
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what but that's a looks like a fast boat
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right
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there like a
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sailboat yeah they're dropping that boat
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in the water now
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I got that thing
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fir nice and
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loud wow look all up off the bo
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okay there he
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goes this is as much as the race as
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we're going to
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see only took me about uh 4 hours to get
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all this riveted up got a drilled and 40
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rivets but these rivets I won't be
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scraping my head on them so that's a
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good thing and now we're going to do
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some testing had this one uh up all day
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running but also I'm going to have to
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figure out how I'm going to pin this
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wiring up so yesterday I was toying
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around and I think I'm just going to do
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this for now but I can put little screws
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in the holes of these uh uh rivets that
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I pr in see rivet rivet right there and
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uh use it to hold uh wire ties to tip my
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wiring but I've also got
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more
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wire and it's already got some mc4
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connectors on that but I'm going to have
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to cut it and I've got a bag of mc4 uh
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connectors and uh I'll show how I
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install these pretty simple but first
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I'm going to start measuring and tying
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things
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up okay my wife is in here cleaning all
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the Chrome in the boat and look at this
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Bel St steel the stainless steel look at
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that right I didn't know it was actually
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shiny
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yeah I thought it was just
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old but yeah there's a lot of things
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that have shined up in the boat and
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outside look at these look at these
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winches oh my
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gosh I can see my
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reflection that is that everything was
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going to be corroded and was going to
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look like an old boat in a few
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years but honestly it looked like this
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when we bought it except the winches the
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winches were really shiny yeah we we let
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go crap I didn't try to I just didn't
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have the right product I didn't think I
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did I kept trying to clean them but it
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kept getting
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corroded okay so now I'm going to make
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me uh some
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connectors and on
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these basically if you're making uh
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making jumper cables you just have to
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use a male and a female and inside the
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male
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is a female inside the female is a male
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don't get dirty on me so that's a female
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that goes inside of a
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mail and the mail is a
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pan so these merry
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up inside the
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connection to do this I'm going to start
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with the female
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first put that on there like that
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untwist it
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it opens
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up and then uh after that take a strip
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the sucker off it's pretty easy now
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there are better strippers in this
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but my bow everything rusts or D out
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here used to have them ones you just
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click and it's
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stripped so strip you off about that
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much get your crimping
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tool and you're going to load up this is
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the female connection use the male
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connection which is
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smaller load this up into your crimping
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tool now I I have this crippy tool
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that's
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uh all adjustment all adjusting
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so don't don't crimp the little teeth on
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the back cuz it won't go in
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correctly get started twist your
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wires make sure you have this on this is
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your seal your uh This Bites into the
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wire and your little screw
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on and let me retwist my wires cuz it's
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messy stick that in
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there like
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so it should look like that test your
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connection this is the female so get
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your
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female
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end there
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clicked and then you pull this up and it
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starts Biting Down on the
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cable the ones I got don't require the
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tool they just spin just tighten them up
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until there's no Gap okay finished up
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the wiring got it all cleaned up solar
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panels are right now have them both
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wired in so you look at this wiring
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basically I just put screws in the
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rivets all around and then I tucked our
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uh cable outside cables through that
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channel on both sides and now I'm coming
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here so this is a lot cleaner than
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before and once I get this cover on
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it'll look uh pretty good let me zoom
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out on that a little bit there you go so
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yeah let me get this cover on and show
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you what it looks like and that's what
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it looks like with the cover on looks a
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lot
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better and now I have some shade I
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messed with my
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shade but yeah still have our
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view okay so next day it
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rained and uh have to make some
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adjustments to the panels got to lower
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it on the back end made it too level and
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it was just pouring
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water uh basically uh more at the front
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at the back now sprayed it down got a
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little water on me but it's draining at
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the back now just have to cut this pipe
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now it's done got that last brace in
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we're making
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solar but what really doesn't help with
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power power in a
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marina is we have all these sailboats
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out here blocking and just blocking our
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sun and plus our angle is poor cuz the
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the wind direction would actually have
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us on a better angle with the sun even
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though our panels are flat and with our
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panels being flat that's why I also went
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with the bifacial because they're not
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optimized for capturing the sun
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especially the closer and closer we get
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to Winter the sun is way over over there
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so you'd want uh south facing panels to
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of course do better but we don't have
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that option here okay
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so here's our stats on the
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solar now you can tell it's been it's
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been crappy since we've had them up with
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solar poers up with one solar panel on
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the first day of solar that was when I
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was working under here and doing the
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install we got 1.4
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KW
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on the second trial of uh one
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solar we've got 1.4 KW the max w we made
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on solar was uh one panel was uh 400
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wats now Granite we have mast over here
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our angle cuz it's uh becoming fall is
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poor and our solar panel are flat so 400
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WTS for one panel that is pretty good
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especially in the
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conditions now with two solar panels I
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I've done this twice now the uh first uh
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time I tried this we got 3 Kow and that
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was with not making much power
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throughout the uh throughout the day it
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kind of dropped off at noon most
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everything here dropped off at noon and
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then and uh for today it's been raining
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and all that stuff it's about three
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we've got 1.5 Kow for two
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panels okay so my wife has been
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tolerating the solar install for quite a
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while her house has been in disarray
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I've had metal shards
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everywhere um it's been a mess but we we
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got it done and and uh I like the
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results you know if I was going to do
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this again with the frame I would have
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uh of course not had the inside of the
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frame welded so much cuz that was a bear
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to get in there and uh the power
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though compared to the uh old panals we
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had which were 375
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wat is uh better in low light conditions
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and cloudy we don't have enough victron
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uh um MPP
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t uh solar charger to actually meet the
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needs of this new solar panels so it has
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peaked out a few times but we have the U
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100x 50 which is 100 volts 50 amps with
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our panels if they Peak out everything
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that would be closer a 90 amps which
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we're not close
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to but uh yeah and look at this chrome
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or the stainless steel my wife has been
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cleaning on it and it's it's going to
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look gray
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again a lot to
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do but our boys coming out tomorrow
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we're uh glad we got all these projects
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done before he came
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out and uh yeah stay tuned she's uh
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she's preparing for a recipe here soon
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so can't wait to get that out to y'all
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and uh check out our old recipes they're
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all still good and uh every time I get
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one it's new to me I love it I eat it up
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they're not old
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no I don't just have them lying around
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the house you no but on our blog you can
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find all our recipes I think she's uh
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close to 300 recipes and
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then on our website we have recipe
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videos of course she actually started
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doing recipes before we actually
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restarted recording so some recipes
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don't have
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videos and some of the videos I did suck
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but uh naps out here the recipe is still
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good just cuz uh I didn't know how to do
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videos at that time recipe is still
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good and uh with that being eaten by
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nuts yeah it's
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cloudy poor went time to test the Sola
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