 Okay speed controller oh my gosh that's like the last thing isn't it I mean not counting floorboards and junk like that. Let's just see all my batteries doing you know what the amperage keeps going up and down I think that's because the batteries full so I've got two fully charged batteries that means oh I can use them pretty soon okay but I gotta get the speed yeah the speed controller connected and if I remember right I stuck the oh no I glued this shut with paint put the speed controller in here yeah there it is okay I did confirm this thing was functioning recently this is the battery positive I might want to fatter wire for that battery negative goes to here and then this stuff just nothing this is the motor the motor negative and I think this is the motor positive I'm definitely gonna need a longer wire than that and then okay I have to mount the switch somewhere accessible and the throttle somewhere accessible right I guess I should go check what size wires I'm gonna need this might be good enough maybe I guess I should draw out the little schematic and make sure I get all the wires in the right places too yeah that's what I'm looking for right it's got all the stuff okay there's the motor positive oh it connects right to the battery positive and the motor part I got about 50 amps going here could be up to 60 probably more like 50 though so six gauge wire should be fine that'll give me up to 5 meters 15 feet yeah the wires aren't gonna be any longer than that I don't think I don't know about that long maybe the max alright six gauge wire should be fine alright let me go through this step by step so it doesn't get confusing a lot of wires all over the place I want to mount this thing under here but raised up a little bit just in case there's any water in here and on the same thing where this goes I want to have like two copper strips one for all the positives and one for all the negatives no matter which side it goes on well I guess this can go on that side and then the positive and negatives can go on this side and the battery will be there and the battery positive and negatives can come into that the ones from the other battery can come into that and then the ones from here can come into that I mean I'm basically doing that so I don't end up with like a huge pile of stuff bolted on to the end of this battery so each battery will just have one wire coming off it and then we'll have okay so I need something to something that'll fit under here that will raise it up a little bit that's not the prettiest thing in the world but it will totally do the job this used to have some kind of mounting hardware stuff but I don't have it anymore so I'm left to you know it why don't I just zip tie around this entire thing it'll be totally fine yeah that's fine well it's kind of a silly way to attach it there but it'll work maybe I should put a second one here I want to waste it you know what I've had this bag of zip ties for like 10 years maybe we'll use them okay now what boy this goes to the battery positive which I need to get put up positive and a negative or a negative positive here I could use two strips of copper just mashed copper pipe or I could just put a big bolt and another big bolt and just stack everything on which is totally fine I'm just gonna do that all right I just need two holes one for a positive one for a negative and then get a pair of bolts and nuts that are like this size but longer yeah okay that seems like a lot of stuff for what I'm doing right now but I want to have a washer at the bottom and then above the bottom and above of that and then I want to put a nut so I can lock it in place and then one another washer and then I could put all my electrical crap oh no wait I also want a lock washer in there to keep some spring pressure on all the electrical contacts then finally at the top another washer and a nut okay oh crap I brought a lock nut oh I gotta switch that one well it seems silly to use so many nuts like to use a whole nut right on top of here just to hold the bolt in place and I'm gonna be losing all that space of the nut and everything so I cut a nut in half with a hacksaw yeah that's what I'm talking about there we go I could put all my electrical connectors and put another washer and a nut on top should be able to put lots of stuff on okay which is which I don't know there this one's positive okay that's good okay positive battery connection there negative battery connection goes from right here to there I need to make a wire nice fat wire from there okay right negative cable there very good get this in place dropping anything in the okay I think everything's connected correctly all my negatives here all my positives here I didn't have different colored six gauge wire so all my positive and negatives for a bunch of things are white so these ones are just what's it called permanent-markered black ends and black lines on them so those are the negatives and then the ones that are just plain white that's the positives okay that's everything that connects to the batteries if the batteries were backwards this would all be on fire right now so I think I got that right I think I can change connect my charge controller wires which are connected there and there I can go up and connect them yeah these guys I disconnected them from the thing while I was messing around you know I don't want to accidentally break the thing everything looks good so I can I'm gonna need both hands for this going all right I think I've got everything connected here even connected this up here steering wheel doesn't hit it very good and still have to mount this but everything good if I turn this oh let's take a look at that oh that's a good thing to hear and I don't have reverse connected yet do I know all right to connect reverse need to connect the wire from here to there and then from here to there it's just got a just has to crisscross so that so it's backwards oh yeah well let me figure out where this thing goes first where do I put this switch I have to put it in a place it's not gonna get smashed when I put that the piece in under here so like you know that holds no good anymore maybe we can put it back here or maybe just higher okay I think the switch goes back here and I just put some kind of little protective covering so maybe I have to stick my thumb up and then switch it that way if any water happens to get here rain or anything the switch will not get wet right I think that sounds good all right oh got it in there nice filing these two wires on the other side there nice okay now what protects it you come up with some kind of covering thing I also want to protect it from the other side just something put something like right here but on the other side so when I put my my metal thing here to protect this area I don't accidentally hit it alright switch I think I can just rivet this right in here to protect it look at that beauty this is just the end of a PVC pipe I cut it at an angle and then melted it with a candle to flare it out and they got reverse connected totally ready to drive except the tide is so low there's no way I can get the boat out right now end up my tools oh that is exciting this guy is totally ready to go and I am starving I better go make some food wonder when the tide will come up I might be able to pull it out for a quick test later today I don't know it's already afternoon I think it's like three so tomorrow morning the tide will be high so I parked that boat in a really shallow spot so a lot of the time it would be completely out of the water so it wouldn't grow barnacles on the bottom so if I'm gonna start driving it more now I may have to switch its parking spot with the other boat and you know what I need to go to town soon to get more food now that would be stupid to test drive it first test all the way to town and back now I need to drive it around here for like a week or two first to make sure like 90% chance everything works fine but you know we never know when there's gonna be some little bug or something I missed I don't know all right I gotta go get some food oh I need to jump in the ocean I'm all hot sweaty