 This is one of the speed controllers that I took out of the boat that used to be in it. The other one was sitting right there. I was kind of curious to see if it still worked so I put it in the boat. I had some old lead acid batteries in my house hanging around and after doing some testing these four turned out to be the ones in the best shape. These ones are like really dead. So I connected four batteries directly to one of the solar panels so it doesn't have a charge controller right now it's just charging directly from the solar panels we're just fine as long as I you know pay attention I think it would uh but I'll keep an eye on it and make sure they don't overcharge whatever fine. Regardless I've got a really crappy power supply right now which means I can test my speed controller this might be a really boring video if this thing doesn't work and I'm about 90% sure I've got everything connected right I went online and looked up the the diagram for this it looks like a mess but it's not as complicated as it looks okay let's put the throttle in because I put it I attached the speed controller to the last contacts on the switch so yeah this thing should be connected now and here's the throttle and this little switch if I turn it on there should be a click oh oh it sounds like this switch is kind of crappy come on switch okay oh no okay I need to replace that switch obviously but it's working at the moment I've got a little green light there and if I turn this oh my gosh it's working I know you can't see it but obviously you can hear the noise all right I can turn this with one hand yeah there's the propeller down there I can go nice and slow a little faster don't spin well I don't think I could go full speed very long because these batteries were basically dead when I plugged them in a couple hours ago and there hasn't even been that much sun I'll have to check them with my voltage meter I don't know maybe maybe I have an extra charge controller I can put in here temporarily I guess it would be worth doing maybe I don't know mostly I just wanted to test the speed controller so that I can decide if I want to use it or not and I guess since it since it works and I've got it I might as well use it so I do have another speed control idea that just uses like giant resistors to get in the way of the current you know kind of like a little toy would work and the giant resistors are just heating elements and I've mentioned this before they're they're on my Amazon wish list and I've been thinking about getting them but maybe I'll hold off if this speed controller thing is functional which it appears to be which is kind of impressive because it's been it's been sitting in the boat for years unused while I was working on my house and it's got rust on it and stuff but totally functional so I think I'm gonna use it uh that way when I get the lithium iron phosphate batteries that are coming I can plug it into that and to connect all this junk I just like used whatever wires were around and I've got wires like strung across here going to the ceiling and stuff and these are all it's just all over the place I'll do a much better wiring job when I'm not just doing a test and I'm not sure where to put this it's got to be somewhere I don't know maybe it goes right up in here somewhere so it's easy to reach with all the rest of the controls well obviously yeah all right you guys put the put the switch all the way to forward toward me yeah all the way up I'll just put it all the way up go do it is it all the way all the way push it all the way up all right that's good now I just replaced the switch on this thing on my speed controller and it appeared to be the only piece that was having a problem so yeah a little green lights on good and then here silly baby if you turn the knob you should make the motor turn on turn this pretty cool okay now turn it back turn it off yeah okay so it appears this whole thing is totally functional when you put it in the water you want to you want to know the sound it makes when I put it in the water well I think we're going to save that for when we can really drive the boat what I want to do now is maybe figure out where the speed controller goes probably under here although I might just wait till I get the batteries because I'm not sure how big these batteries are regardless I want to get all these boat batteries off the boat and get all this junk that was on the boat before and you know basically clean off the boat get my boots out of there and stuff and the extra wires that are here yeah totally clean off the boat so I can paint it and uh how are we going to paint it blue and white tiger stripes is that right or what do you think blue and white tiger stripes yeah yeah you think I should do some dark well I do have some glow in the dark powder I don't use it all though yeah I need to clean up all this stuff wait I'm we're gonna take all this stuff off the boat in a minute anyway oh we could be really careful of that wire there I'm gonna disconnect it in a minute anyway but yeah let's let's get everything off the boat that's not totally a piece of the boat and I'm not going to paint today because it's overcast and it might rain but supposedly tomorrow it's supposed to be a sunny day and then it's supposed to be a sunny week next week so if not tomorrow pretty soon I should be able to paint the boat so I put what oh yeah I put bigger fins on yeah if you guys pedal now um it's it's a lot harder to pedal because there's bigger fins pushing on the water now I did that yesterday I think two days ago I don't know yesterday anyway yeah I want to get everything off the boat that's not totally part of the boat oh I still have to cut off this stupid steering thing anyway get everything off the boat and maybe clean up a bit of the paint a bit of sanding scrape off any flaking paint just get it ready to paint and also the tops of these things these little posts here I want to trim off the tops of those a little just just so they're even other than that yeah I just want to get everything off the boat all my stuff oh yeah here's my here's my roller I guess I don't need to kick that off the boat because it's gonna be to paint the boat all right little tiger man you're hired you know what I'm gonna leave these four batteries connected for a while because they're charging and they may still be kind of usable I mean they're they're pretty old and not holding a lot of charge but you know I could put them in a in a little cabin or something on their own and I wouldn't have to worry about the batteries getting wrecked and they have enough energy to you know run a computer and some lights or something okay here's another silly question what if we replace this entire section here with the floor and a steam engine yeah you know how steam engine works we uh you do you know how they work because you're smart and read a lot we get wood and stick it in the steam engine start up a big fire and then we can have a propeller or a shaft that goes out the back through that hole down there and to a propeller and it can we can run the boat on on wood which would be kind of cool anyway we're not doing that right now well I guess I should get a before paint shot because I may just get inspired and do it real quick yeah why do I have like four different paint jobs on this thing I also want to paint the roof I was thinking about putting a big adventure builder symbol up there oh my gosh I am so excited no serious I am I was cleaning up the boat and I found this bucket of pulleys I totally forgot where I put them I've been kind of wondering where they went for years so I can replace the pulleys at the back that lift the motor and these things are cool how do they make pulleys with those do you have to like add the metal part on pulleys are great yeah I need to replace a few of these