 All right, what is this mess of gobbledygook I've got here? Here are my solar panels up here. They're in pairs They're 12 of them. So there'll be Six pairs of solar panels. I mean six negative leads coming out of there six positive leads coming out of there the Okay, there's one glass solar panel that has a higher voltage that's paired with another one of the other ones That's going to be used to charge the batteries because it has a high enough voltage to charge the batteries So the two leads from that then the positive and the negative will go to the charge controller And then leads from the charge controller will come out to the batteries And then from the batteries, you know the motor thingy gets powered Okay, so all these other five leads what are they doing? The five negatives are going to go through diodes and I have some diodes and then they're just going to go into a joinerizer a negative bus Let's call it a joinerizer. So this will just These will just hop in with the negatives on this side and go to the battery but though those won't usually do anything because The positive leads from all those solar panels That are not charging the batteries Are going to have switches So I can turn them off and on so they're not always connected to the battery now these Shouldn't be high enough voltage to overcharge the battery Which is why I have that other the glass solar panel in there, but just in case I'm still going to disconnect them when I'm not using the motor okay, so the positives from that come to a bunch of switches that come into All the pluses together, which you know will go to the battery But more importantly will go to the motor thingy and I could actually put a diode in here To make sure this doesn't go backwards But that would have to be a pretty serious diode because there's gonna be a lot of electricity going through there So yeah, forget it doesn't matter This won't be enough voltage to screw up the batteries. So it should be fine and I'll have a A volt meter in here just connected in that'll tell me the voltage, you know, you know pay attention to a little bit Okay, so that's Everything I'm doing I think okay This is you're gonna be a chunk of copper pipe with some holes drilled in it so I can attach wires So you can put some stainless bulbs in and attach what bunch of wires together I'll make probably a plastic thing to attach all these diodes Just so they're not flopping around And then I need to make five switches I might as well make six switches. I can put a switch on this or on this Just you know so I can disconnect it if For whatever reason I need to All right six switches a Copper thing with some holes in it and something to attach the diodes to okay Here are the diodes diodes are one-way streets for electricity to prevent the electricity from going the wrong direction They're pretty heavy-duty ones. I got them I don't remember some I searched online for surplus Diodes it took a while, but I kept my eyes out and I found these for a bucket piece All right five diode inputs and one other one, okay I've got my five diodes to go here one there to there and then the input from the charge controller That can come in to this hole And then the big out this one will have lots of power put it right in the middle So all the electricity has the shortest distance travel from everything and then one hole for a rivet to mount this somewhere All right, that's good. Now. This is just a smushed piece of copper pipe Okay, we've got all my diodes coming in boy. That looks like something fancy something important I'm like 90% sure those are aiming the right way the arrow points at the negative and then electricity can flow Right. All right, so this covers all this mess Now five switches six switches I Got dark all of a sudden. I think there's a storm of brewing outside. Oh, yeah, that's a storm. All right Losing my light good Okay, five more of those five more of those The leftover piece of fiberglass for something from something all these contacts here are this thing here It's like the the joiner either so these are all connected with a Piece of flatten pipe that goes down the whole thing and then one wire will come off that and go to the batteries and the motor and stuff now I Could connect the electricity the out at the end But that means all the electricity from all these are going to go through it. That's going to be like 60 amps however, if I connect the The outgoing wire in the middle Half the electricity goes through this side half the electricity goes to this side. So it's only 30 amps at most right here All right. Now this other side is going to be all these different wires coming in So before I can attach these Whoo good-looking switches. I Need to attach wires to them So this piece of flatten wire here raised this up a little bit So I'll do the same thing over here raise this up a little bit with a piece of flattened wire or flatten pipe That has wire coming into it So I already have all the wires that are going to be coming into here on the boat I'll strip the ends stick them in pieces of wire like this crimp them closed flatten the end Drill a hole through it put it under there screw it in and Bob's your uncle and mom's your name or whatever. I don't know All right, this line here Marks the size of the box out there How do I want to arrange everything? I think that's it got all my diodes back there charge controller switches Positive battery ends over here and negatives over there and a little bit extra space for lunch This needs something to mount it and this needs something to mount it That needs a hole cut under it now Maybe I can just put it in like that if I need to adjust anything. Yeah There's enough space to tip it up And this is the entrance right here. All right, that's okay I don't think I even need to mount it. You can just sit there This thing I'm not gonna worry about yet. I'll just put it there. It's not gonna move around much with a few wires attached I've now got one One, two, three, forty eight volt batteries and they're all currently reading fifty one point seven volts Nice big fat four gauge wire to go to the motor I do have some fatter wires over there. However, four gauge is bigger than the connectors They have on the motor Okay, I think I have everything Worked out enough that I can go put it in the battery box. I connected all the wires. I won't be able to reach Very easily. Okay, I think yeah All right, I'm gonna start moving stuff Several hours later Everything's in there Nothing's on fire This is a good sign I have everything connected except for the motor. I think I should before I do that though. I should Just organize the wires a little bit, you know tie them up and stuff Make sure they're not just flapping around Everything's electrically connected. But yeah, I want to put some cable ties and stuff in there I've got some packing garbage And I think this will be good above the batteries so they don't get heat from the Heat from above because there's a solar panel above the batteries and then Sun will hit that so it'll get hot And this will keep the heat from getting down to the batteries Now I just want to check that everything's doing what it's supposed to do All right, where's it? I want to check that this is actually charging We've got a positive contact on the batteries there Now this is the out for the motor which is connected to the main negative bus, so that should give me the right 52.3 volts Let me turn off the solar panels 52.1 Turn it back on 52.3 Okay, it looks like it's working. If I disconnect this the voltage should go down slightly Yep I connect the solar panels to the charging. This should go slightly back up. Okay Looks like it's charging And again, nothing is on fire or melting Feel any heat anywhere. Everything looks right little charge controller light is blinking correctly I don't know. I might be good Oh great. I'm getting peed on. I guess I should put a bit of silicone up there Make the water goes the right way instead of inside or go outside So come back in an hour and check it again. The voltage should be higher and still nothing should be on fire I didn't end up attaching my main negative Ariser here. This is where all the negatives come in and connect Because it's got so many wires connected to it doesn't really move anywhere move it up and down a little bit That's about it. All right solar panels do your charging for a while Love these solar panels Got them from Solbion these guys here. Oh It's a good thing I check everything Because it turns out I put the wires on one of these solar panels backwards Doesn't work so well So the negative was the positive and the positive and was the negative So when I went back there and tested all the individual switches Everything was showing up with the right voltage except for one which was negative the right voltage So I figured out which one it was and yeah, I totally plugged it in backwards it's easy to fix so just Cut one wire put it where the other one was and then splice the other one. So basically just Chris Chris crossed them Everything looks good now So yeah, I think I'm about ready to connect the motor to this thing. I've even got my motor connector down here