 Welcome back to the channel y'all. This is my Opus off-road camber and it'll go just about anywhere my truck can go But it's not willing to stay out there in the woods as long as I can so we're gonna fix that today This camber comes with three AGM batteries and it has three 100 watt solar panels But when you got overcast weather and the family running every kind of device It just doesn't have the power the easiest and best solution to this is to add some lithium So that's exactly what we're gonna do today, and if you guys are interested in adding lithium to your RV your boat Whatever stay tuned. I've got a promo code that's gonna save you some money I've got a buddy down the street. He's rewired his camper before and he's gonna make sure we don't electrocute ourselves So let's head over to his workshop and get to work All right, this is Lance many of you know Lance for my fishing videos, but We actually used to be college roommates, so we got to know each other Yeah, when you used to bass fish and then you then you went all steamboat Honestly, I don't think I'll ever go back to bass fishing. I like truckers so much. It's okay. It's okay to each his own I like to dabble. I mean I'm trout dabbler first and very important step Cut the power off and also disconnect these solar panels because those those puppies the way it is right now There's no manual shut off for the solar. It's gonna pull power into the batteries Have power in those wires even if I've got the the master power off right now So we're going to switch that up actually don't want to electrocute my friend Lance today He's probably gonna be digging in those wires more than I am so I'm gonna climb up on the roof And we're gonna disconnect the panels proper footwear probably be needed, but Going crocs Little middle-aged jump Why are you breathing so loud? All right, so we got three one hundred watt solar panels up here and This is Where all that power is coming in from comes through here, and then it goes down into the solar controller I'm just gonna disconnect it right here. It's metal pliers shove it in there The plastic part, you know, it's looking at right things are already it's starting on like weather crack It's just hard to get in there Now we need to go check to make sure we're not getting any power Just a double check is this the only wires going in the in the camper? Yes, that's the only wires everything Everything is coming right here, and then coming here. Yes. All right. All right this man funny some videos right here You're supposed to step on the propane, I know I couldn't see it I missed it That was Really bad now that our power is off step two is going to be to remove the batteries Just to make sure we're not getting any Power here. I've got mr. Wizard. He's still blinking, but He's he's connected directly to the batteries Yeah Here we go Your back hurt yet. Yeah, this is part that scares me too. I Hate messing around with boat batteries and any kind of batteries where you got a wrench and you're Trying to play in operation You ever play that game in your kid? Yeah, I mean that's basically what you're doing Yeah, you can take the ground off and then it would the ground going to the chassis right there I've taken the ground off It's a pretty tight little space. I know yours is tighter, but Getting these 45 pound 55 pound batteries, whatever they are out of here. Now those things are probably like 80 pounds. Yeah You're gonna probably save Half the weight or dump away 100 pounds probably I mean in my boat. I took three of them out and replace it with one Now you can eat more donuts You're regretting your decision to help me right now No, I'm just doing like I do every product. I just stare at think You need a beer. This is normally a good time for beer. It's kind of early though. It's Friday. It's like 9 30 Yeah, this is a very interesting bus bar because Everyone I've looked at every diagram video. I've seen they don't look like that Australians don't know what's going on man. Hey, man. There's probably some Australia's watches this video Yeah, I'm too bad. I well, I don't think opus uses that bus bar anymore They don't yeah, they started rewiring them differently. So let's pull those barriers out get in their lands Give me two at a time and let's see Get in here with the legs I think it's honestly better if I get one handed and then I get a hand on the ground here What I just don't want to damage these things Got it Okay, folks, we have taken out the AGM's the next step is to take out the charger So this is the charger it came with we're basically replacing it with the exact same thing just a lithium capable Charger it's the same model. It's gonna go in the same spot. We're having to trace the wires right now To the control box here Is that the proper turn lance transfer switch transfer switch? Pardon my stupidity. All this game is now is literally Tracing back all these wires. We're gonna disconnect them. We got these old You know old twisty cap fun hat things We're gonna take those off and actually replace them With the I don't know why they didn't use those like they did use them in the rest of the transfer Yeah, that is weird. Well, that's a that's a faulty. That's a lance has taken photos of this This is smart. This is what you should do if you ever dig it in your boat or Camper or whatever I recommend going with these I think they're called waggos They're just like a snap connectors versus these because when you're driving down the road You're basically creating an earthquake and these will rattle loose you're creating earthquakes. Yeah, kind of tires you Well, it just everything vibrates basically understand and they could this great This is a ground or alive it comes loose things won't work And it's happened in my camp right when I first got it and I immediately switched over to these snap connectors Which are a lot easier to work with to yeah, they do look easier to work with so We're gonna take those off and then replace them With the the waggles Sounds good. I think it's tasty waggo waggo. I think they are wagyu. I think they are waggo waggo Gio right? Waggo waggo. Yeah, I don't know waggo wagyu. It's something like that. I don't know. It's disconnect Yeah, I can I can use this um Fist hood You might adjust it my gosh Yeah, give me some more power. Don't you know how to use a drill? I just want to look stupid as I can I want to let everybody know if I can do this you can do it. I'm just gonna have a buddy named Lance All right These little Party hats. You're coming off Dude come look at this What So the transfer switch Which is decently heavy oh the screw just fell out just got that off. Yeah, the screws just fell out Nothing on this side nothing on the ground but some like caulking One screw was holding this look at this. Oh my god, dude. Yeah, and this is an off-road vehicle Yeah, we're gonna have to reinforce that for sure I thought I thought this was like joined right here. It was this screw just fell out some ground right there Look at that screw. It's like a quarter of an inch screw. This is an opportunity to kind of fix some of these things This is An off-road camper. It's supposed to be an off-road camper and We've taken it down on logging roads down off-road trails And a lot of this stuff has rattled out This this opus It has been it's overbuilt on the bottom and it is underbuilt in a lot of areas like little things like that Little screws connections latches that I mean they just don't last. It's incredible so opus Got to step up the game on the finishing aspect of it a lot of bass boats are like that too They're very well built on the outside the whole connection everything the finishing Yeah, and like one year you got screws coming out of the console and all that stuff So so we're gonna go ahead and uh reinforce that since that has a lot of weight That's a weight bearing wall The other issues I've had with this thing is the uh the the carbon monoxide detector goes off In the summer months when it's hot when the campers close down And it's always powered so we're we're going to rewire that into our new bus bar The way it was wired before quite honestly, too It was it was not wired in the best way to get the most out of the power and charging Uh the most effective way to do it. So we're going to show you how to do that right now We need to show what a real bus bar looks like. Well, I got it That is shoddy That is shoddy and it's confusing So we're going to switch to literally a red bus bar. Yes You know everything positive going there in a black bus bar. Our only problem is having enough length All right, so we're going to probably take the 1000 watt inverter move it over about two or three inches because we gained the room here And then we'll probably put our positive and then our negative at like a 45 And these wires that we can't add link to I think they will they'll make it And I think we'll be fine All right, y'all star the show right here, this is what is going to transform the camper Into stand out there for a couple days to stand out there Pretty much as long as I want so that is the lithium battery. These are pro guide. These are deep cycles These are ones I would put in my boat as well I put a little bit different one in my boat. I had a 36 volt one battery This is three 12 volt batteries and we're going to wire them In uh in parallel. It's 12 volts, but we're getting 300 amps and we'll be able to use all of them With agms. You're only able to use half the batteries Uh potential and then once you get that below that 50 you start damaging the battery So these are awesome batteries. Uh, you can go to pro guide's website. I'll link it down below and you can save 15 Off their batteries with free shipping use code lfg. That's a huge guy. So if you want to power your boat Power your camper power your golf cart whatever with lithiums and their agms You can use code lfg and save huge there So let's uh, let's wire these babies up put them in parallel put them in parallel and this is literally going to Either just the camper to an unstoppable level heartbeat right here, baby This is the heart heartbeat. It's shame. They're so they're so pretty Because they're going to be going below the deck of the camper And i'll probably never have to mess with them ever These lithiums they last a long time. I think it's like seven eight years before you have to start replacing them. So That's uh dramatically more life thousands of cycles thousands Of cycles and the biggest thing with the camper is You know I go are we going these trips and we're using the power and then we get back home We charge the batteries and then what does it do? It just it just sits there and then it's terrible for agms agms like to be charged up go down they like to be in you know A cycle of charging and discharging these I can charge them up. I set them at the hq giving hq It sits there for three months. I go back to my camper. I'm still at a hundred percent That's the amazing part about lithiums. So let's plug them in. Let's get that heartbeat pumping I mean you really want a good connection here and that my friends is a good connection Look at that. This is this is going to be beautiful. This is almost like artwork at this at this time Compared to what was going on in there before this is how it should have come The only thing you got worried about is overflowing that toilet. Yeah. Well, yeah, we're gonna we'll have we'll solve that problem We go to colorado We're gonna get another cassette there Why get a shovel I'd say get a shovel That works out of camp Here honey, here's a shovel number six basically Go grab me the hydraulic press and you got to put number six Dies in it. Does that make sense? What are you doing? I feel like I'm giving surgery to this thing Folks We've opened up a whole new can worms I I thought everything was like back there. No, there's there's a whole another there's a whole another brain Just found a whole other brain in here And we're trying to figure out where the solar wires Are transitioning from out of the solar controller to The power back there to the batteries like how is where the wires where it charges up the batteries This is a huge Thing that we have to get right as usual What you think is going to be like a four-hour project is an all-day event So for the one person watching this that has an opus or maybe wants to get one I'm going to fill you all in on the inner workings So there's two main fuses in the back and I was always confused Of what they're really connecting to and I think we figured it out here So this is the solar controller right here We've got these the brown and the blue coming from the roof The red and black is connected on to the controller and then it feeds down into here And goes into this little transformer off of that transformer Comes a thicker gauge They put seven seven gauge black and red wires coming off of that That runs down underneath and then comes out over on this side and connects To the bus bar back here and then the red connects on to the fuse So instead of having like a normal little dc fuse panel That's got a bunch of little fuses in it. We've got this transformer thing A bunch of wires coming off of it with one big fuse back here what we've decided to do Is take our new solar controller And install that Under here i'm going to actually going to install that behind the wood so you won't even see this thing ever but This is going to bluetooth To a app and we'll be able to see the networkings Of that plus the shunt This is going to be the the real The calculator basically i'm seeing what is coming in and what is going out This is a huge step up from what i had before which was basically on this panel And i would just look at the percentage it went from zero to a hundred And you know when you got below 50 it was not good, but it's just not a very accurate reading now with the lithium I'm probably not going to have to worry about this Anyway, but it is nice to see like on a sunny day. Oh, this is how much is coming in Or on a cloudy day. This is how much i'm i'm using and this is how many days I could really last out here if the conditions stayed as they currently are So i'm going to work on installing the solar controller over here Lance is going to work on the the bus bars and the master Uh control panel We're going to have a main power switch and this is going to Cut off the power so whenever i'm uh Storing it or whenever we just need to completely shut off everything We'll be able to flip that switch right there in the middle all pretty like and shut her down It's got done doing the uh bus bar positive and negative I hooked up the inverter again. We still have to screw the inverter into the wall Um, but everything that was like hanging here is now connected with uh solid connections We have to screw the uh Fuses back but everything else is Connected all we have to do is put the charge controller back on Put the uh transfer switch back up Hook the batteries up the batteries up and we're technically back to where we were Yep, and then we can add on the cutoff the shunt and your the shunt's going to be a big deal Where i'm at right now my little corner Oh, we're adding the cutoff for the solar Take that off there and you guys can kind of see That's just a switch for the audio Speakers going in and out and so what I did was I added a uh basically a A switch that runs in between the power to the solar Which uh is right here is blue and this brown And brown is hot I think Going up to the panels And we're looking up to the solar controller Black and red cut some more wire added this switch And then we're we're going to mount that Right here all all we need to do is just uh screw down the solar controller here And we'll be in business Ozzie and neggy We are officially Hooked up with a cutoff switch on our solar Okay, so we need to go negative on the left side Yeah, I would just put them in there for now. We've got to play around with it Negative on the left side. You have to put it back there and see what it looks like last one Fuses over quite a bit so Big moment I honestly I like the way that they have multiple terminals because It's going to make it like streamlined And then so when you put three batteries like this or multiple batteries You want the positive coming off one side and then you want the negative coming off the other side It's like one big battery. Yes. Yeah, if you do both on one battery They won't drain as equal and you probably ruin the life of it or and charging wise to correct We got positive negative. Yep. Yep. We have our shunt that measured everything We need to go get the uh the dc expansion panel Put that somewhere we put on the ground or put over here And then all we got to do now is measure The two gauge wire to this and to that This will have the negative. This will have positive going through it And you ideally want to have them roughly the same length um for energy flow And you don't get any resistant explain the shunt to everyone because I think this would be something cool to put on a Bass boat as well. Yeah, absolutely. Um so the shunt is a Electrical device it's bluetooth goes to the app and it measures current in and out and gives you an accurate percentage versus Looking at a battery monitor and rv and pushing a button and it's got four little lights and it goes half Right. It's just a made-up number basically of a voltage This says hey, you took in a hundred percent current While you were charging at home And it measures the current going out And so, uh, it's it's very accurate very accurate. We'll be able to tell what's going in what's going out with that device right there Yeah, so like you were on a bass boat and you're six hours into it. You can be like Oh, I got 50 left. I'm good to go Yeah, or man, I could fish two days. I'll correct if I'm using, you know, and they're not just going slow fish a little grass line It's not expensive like 160 bucks 50 bucks. Yeah, it's not crazy. By the way the full I'm gonna say the total price I'm redoing all this is About $4,000. Oh, yeah, all the all the electronics that I've bought Um, you know including the batteries everything is going to be about that So most I see so many people upgrading their campers to to lithium and solar makes so much sense But one day y'all bass boats are going to be solar back deck lithium You just never stop. You just keep going google squad.com All your electrical engineering organization needs Yeah, that baby on there Now fun part Master power engage It's go time, baby It's time to test the power my guy plug into again Flip that master power dude Turn on the light switch or light There we go. You can't turn on the you can't turn on the AC. Here we go Is it gonna work? I'm so nervous. Is it gonna work? Oh wait. I have to turn on the lights for here, right? I'm gonna turn that fuse power on. Let's see. Here we go. Here we go You have power over there? Nope No power No power Uh-oh The your main your main fuses. All right. You ready? All right. Yeah. Got the main fuses on main fuses are on well Back up fuses. Yep big boy here. Well. These are fuses. This is your cutoff. You ready? Yeah, big, okay But turn it on power on I'm nervous power over here Come on, baby Yeah Oh, wait. No cutoff. What happened is it cut off? Oh, no, there it goes. There it goes We have power It's saying make sure everything works 13.1 volts Lights, okay. We got lights. You want to try the inverter? Do you have anything here that would plug in? Big moments. Is this on? Yeah, it's on Big moments Plugging that in you gotta turn the inverter on. I know I'm gonna make sure this is on I think it's off. Okay inverter going on I see green lights Fan is on And then you can't hear it. It's not very dramatic But it's working. There it goes. Oh, yeah, buddy Inverter's happening We have power What's the shunt saying? Do we have shunt logs? You do but you got to go in there your settings your settings haven't been messed up or meant or Your settings haven't done. Yeah, right. Yeah We're pulling 4.3 amps. Yeah But you're gonna want to go by watts on everything. It's the easiest thing to remember. We'll get all this dialed in Yeah, baby Let's go All right, we're going up We're going up here to connect the solar back Oh, no the knee the knee Oh goodness the knee Back in this is a big moment right here Big moment Well, bam We are pulling zero to point one amps right now in the shade The Victron is working. We're Bluetoothing inside of that thing. I will I will know exactly what is going on When I'm out there in the woods now I think we're done. We're putting on the finishing touches right now All right chickens are out Little Ben is eating A campfire marshmallow. Mr. Penny It's pretty fired up. Emmy is getting her marshmallow and we have A dude doing carpentry here only I'm gonna turn this off Hopefully we'll have a big game on there someday. Probably not where we camp, but I've been messing around With the camper all morning guys. So tidying things up I've labeled everything. I want to give you guys a walkthrough and just review everything that we've done And I've been trying to just run everything on the camper right now to really get a test on on the power Drain those batteries down a little bit And I'm going to turn that solar power on even though we've got clouds And I just want to see how much we are getting What the difference is and and really get like a calibration and then we'll charge things back up reset We'll we'll do another calibration for the shunt And then the the camper will know the shunt will know where all the batteries are at full And that way we can get an accurate reading. I think the only thing that you guys Didn't see us install last night was this little 12 volt usb Right there So that is run underneath the drawers Um, the big thing that we installed right here That we can add to For the 12 volt dc Is this little panel these little lights light up when the fuse Uh goes out And so we've got one new usb outlet onto that and we also have put the Uh carbon monoxide Alarm on here. So that is right here You guys can see it's on right now So when this thing is sitting I've got the master power turned off Um, I won't have to hear that beeping anymore. So this is master power Um coming directly off the first negative is the shunt And then the shunt is wired directly to the battery on the far end positive We have our uh positive bus bar here. We have our negative bus bar underneath Before this was all just one Weird panel. I didn't really understand it. It was one bus bar Everything was going in there. Now you can clearly see what's positive. What's negative The batteries and the terminals are cleaned up Dramatically really clean power with the multiple terminal terminals um We we installed the charger which was there before it just wasn't lithium Um capable so we charged a lithium Capable charger in there And we finally have figured out these these little fuses over here, which I have labeled So kind of important this goes to the the seven pin on the truck And that is going to uh, if I if I hit this I can, uh Basically keep the truck plugged up if I don't it's going to pull power from from the truck Um, and that will do a very tiny trickle charge why I'm driving with that on This over here is our front fuse panel for dc So if I if I cut this off right now all the lights will shut off in the camper The only thing that I don't know what it goes to Is this little inline fuse right here I have turned on everything And pulled this fuse out, and I don't know what it goes to I thought it went to the pump It doesn't go to the pump. I have no idea what it goes to it is At this point a mystery so let's go into Smart solar right now Okay, I'm gonna leave this right here where you guys can see it and then I'm gonna cut this on So we can both see it together Let there be voltage Wabaham all right We are bringing in two one two watts right now with the overcast Five 10 11 12 Okay, bringing in point five amps. What do we got here? Come on Give me some juice flow But it is overcast so we're really not getting anything. Let's go back To our smart shunt because the heater just kicked on And we're going to see So we're pulling 3.6 amps and we're bringing in 0.7 amps. So you guys can do the math That's uh, not a very sustainable Situation at this point with with overcast, but we have so much juice in the batteries It's really not going to matter and you can see here. It says my time remaining at this current Um current pull is going to be three days 14 hours. So basically four days Um, if we ran this thing continuously like that with the current amps coming in But add some sunny days. We're going to be going out there. We're going to be staying out there a lot longer It's almost like we're at a campsite right now. I know You're camping we are camping and he wakes up every morning. She goes hey, we're camping today. We are family ready We can go camping Uh non-stop. We don't have to be looking at it every 10 minutes going. Okay, honey. You got to cut that off Please don't run this because we're not going to have enough power for tomorrow We're not going to have that situation anymore. So Shout out to my buddy Lance for helping me wire this thing up He's got some other wiring type videos on his his channel Smash that like button for family camping subscribe right here if you want to see more awesome adventures In this big old thing the silver bullet and everything outdoors and I'll see you guys back in it on the next one