 Alright, in this video we are going to get a tour of Badges Rig. Sorry if it's a little wind noise, there's nothing I can do about Mother Nature. I do have some very heavy-duty wind muffs on there. So Badge, take it away. What do we got? Hey, so this is a basic system. Like I'm not saying this is perfect, but we live 365 days a year in this trailer and this system powers everything except the air conditioner and the hot water tank. Yes, it does run the microwave. So okay, so what we got here is we got a Canadian Tire 3000 Watt inverter. Now you can get them from Schumacher or anything. They're all about the same. This is 3000 watts and it surges to 5000 and it works pretty good. Now up above in behind here you'll see four golf cart batteries. Those are golf cart batteries, not RV batteries. These are the black ones which are the Trojan commercial, which is the same battery. And there's a lead acid lithium-ion. Yeah, these are flooded. These are flooded lead acid. Yeah, these are lead acid batteries. Now the reason for that is because this is a pinnacle. Everything is either better or less. This is what it's set on. So these ones here, now you got to just give and take a bit, but they say that they'll last for 10 years. So I don't think it'll fall out. So how many amps? These are 100 amp golf cart batteries. And you have how many? Four of them. All right. So they're all tied together. Now the trick to them is you have to have them tied together in series and then you tie them together in parallel and the positive comes off one side and the negative comes off the other side. Don't put the positive negative on the same pack or the other set will go dead. Don't ask me why. That's just what happens. So positive off one set, negative off the other set. The negative is grounded to the truck because we will show you how it's charged when we're driving down the road. This here basically is the same setup that you would find in a coach because we have no room in the trailer for the batteries and all that so we put it all on the truck. And then when I pull both trailers I have sold them. So yeah, so you got four golf cart batteries and everything, the minimum cable is two on, right? For the tie the batteries to the charger. Now you see this blue one here, this blue wire here is the charge wire that's a four ought or sorry a fourth gauge four and it runs all the way to the front to the charging system. We'll show you that in a minute. To the isolator. Yep, to the isolated. So essentially the whole solar system is in the back of the pickup truck so you can swap out your two different trailers and have solar power anytime. Exactly. Cool. Okay, so these wires here now this is where the difference of opinion comes because in the United States, in the US they have bigger cables. In Canada, because everything we use is from cleaning the entire, we use these small cables. Do they work? Yes. Are they perfect? I don't know. All I know is that it works. And we have four panels on the roof which comes down to a charge controller from Coleman and this one here is not as fancy as some of the renegade stuff and all that because this one here only charges tells you voltage and current. It doesn't tell you how much you're using or none of that stuff so that's why it's in the back of the truck. This one here we can change it from lead acid to gel because you know you have to charge them different and then we have one extra one here which I have another 100 watt panel that I put down so basically I could have 500 watts charging this at any time. So if you just look up on the top there Jack you'll see the four panels are up there. Yep. These are all bolted together. These panels they're all the same they're about $380. You always wait for stuff to go on sale at Canadian Tire. They're $380 bucks from Canadian Tire for two. Now they don't come with a charge controller so that's the difference because some will say that it's 100 watt and it'll come with a charge controller which is 500 and some bucks and these are $380 you want to sell and you get two. That's why you don't come with a charge controller. The two back ones lift up. Okay so when you park in the sun you can lift them up and believe it or not it will bring it up about on a sunny day anywhere from 10 10 to 12 amps or yeah amps just by lifting them and aiming them at the sun. This truck is never in Alberta we get 18 hours of sun in the summertime. In the summertime we never ever charge these batteries. Ever. Never. The only way we'll ever charge them is if we get gray or rain for five or six days but you got to remember as soon as we start the truck they start charging so that's a bonus. This is a system here it's very simple and I'm going to cut out all the crap for you because people won't tell you this stuff so anyway this is the alternator this is the alternator coming in and this goes through two batteries. Now the reason you do this is because there's a diode in here and when you're killing your batteries in the back it won't kill your truck battery that's what that's designed for. This here is a 90 amp battery isolator. So that means for the person who doesn't know what an isolator is. A 90 amp alternator what it'll do is it'll let 90 amps go through without causing any problems right? So they have 90 and they have 120. I didn't think I needed 120. This one here usually when it's running will put 65 amps to the back so that's more than enough. So very simple terms this is a battery charger that runs off of the engine for the solar. That's exactly it. See now this one here that goes on the alternator to here you unhook the one that comes from the back it's right here it's taped up because that one comes from here to the battery. Now everybody says you just connect this your back battery up to a solenoid and turn it on. No that's not true because what you got is you got anywhere from 13 to 14 and a half volts going to this terminal and it goes to the weakest link right? Where if you got these batteries tied together like you would only get 13 and a half whatever. Now if this battery is full you might get a little bit but this way it's forcing it to the back battery. So that's why you use an isolator over a relay or if you put the relay on you got to make sure that this charge wire is set up the same way through an isolator because if the battery goes dead you have to be able to take the power from the alternator and put it to a dead battery and an isolator is the only way to do it. You can't do it with a relay sorry I know it's going to burst a whole bunch of bubbles but you can't do it. You have to have an isolator 13 in here 13 out here 13 out here this one's full 13 out here and none out here so it'll it'll do that it's got a it's got a diode and a diode is basically a gate you can go through but you can't go back. So what you're saying is it basically it charges one till it's full and then it goes to the other and charges that and then charges them both at the same time. It's self-controlled. Yeah self-controlled you can't do nothing it's just idiot proof is all it is right and all this blue wire is four gauge or four gauge and it runs right back to the batteries that's why you have to ground your solar batteries in the back because if you don't ground the solar batteries you put 12 volts to it where is it going to go it doesn't make a circuit. So you have to ground the solar batteries so it makes a circuit right so it goes in this it comes in this wire out this wire to the batteries into the frame it makes a big circuit right but if you don't have a circuit it won't charge that's why a lot of people have issues with their solar that it doesn't charge right we'll show you another trick on the back after but this this is the way to go the isolator now the biggest thing on an RV RV trailer is the batteries for the 12 volt now no they're not the same these are 12 volt for the trailer only this runs your heater and all your lights and everything and you know exactly what's going to happen the batteries are going to go well these are 12 volt or 6 volt golf cart batteries these two batteries will run the heater all night so that's why we put two sickles on here they're tied together and they're charged from the truck and they're charged from solar and by heater he means the fan for the propane heated heater see a lot of people don't use they use a little buddy i said well i bought a heater i want to use this arm thing so that's how you do it is it cheaper than buying a little buddy i didn't say that i just said it works better because the batteries are more than what the heater buddy's worth oh yeah okay so what this you'll see these you know somebody's gonna ask what this is for this is connected so i can connect the battery charger to it and while we're on the battery charges the only battery charger that you ever use is what they call a smart charger this is a canadian tire one but shoe mokker makes the same thing okay 15 amps max and this one here will tell you your capacity and it'll do it automatically or you can put it on 15 amps that is the most you ever charge your batteries 15 amps if you have to wait you have to wait do not because that's where you get batteries getting twisted panels or cells and all that stuff will go shorty so 15 amps that's it and then that's the only battery charger i have on me and i charge everything up with no problem and besides that you also use a little generator for backup this generator is now i'm not saying this is a perfect one i'm saying this thing works really good you can buy a lot that's all you i need that's all i need to keep this going if there's no daylight or sunlight so that's a 2001 inverter you can't hear it run you can part right beside the trailer now the trick to it is is that if you plug that in to your trailer and turn on because when you find out your solar you'll you've got to find out exactly what everything draws like the fridge draws 450 watts the charger draws 250 watts the televisions draws 100 watts so you have to know what that number is so you can charge accordingly right now i never use the generator to watch tv it's always run off the solar but anyway for this if i hook it to this trailer and it'll go into high speed because it'll charge about around the 1300 watts with the bridge going in the tv going on in the battery charger but if i hook this to the battery charger which i in turn hooked the batteries in the solar and i put 15 amps into the solar batteries i charge the batteries up solar now it's only 2000 watts the solar is 3000 watts so i can run the trailer more off solar than i can degenerate don't ask me why it's just the way it works and so what i do is i hook the battery charger to the solar charge up the solar batteries and then i hook the trailer through this cord which will show you and i turn on the battery charger in the inverter because are on the converter now the converter is just a row 120 and a row 12 with the battery charger that's all it is when i have this hooked to the truck i never hardly unhook it when we drive down the road so what i have is this blue row this blue cable here the blue cable comes across here to a one a 15 amp plug which goes into the converter and plugs in now it plugs in exactly the same spot hang on the audio is not going to get that but it's the same as this one here except this is 30 amp that went up front is only 15 now when you think about it you're going to say what the hell is he done 90% of the time these trailers run on less than 15 amps unless you got your microwave on in your air conditioner and the furnace and or the fireplace and all that they don't draw nothing they very little because the biggest thing that draws power is heater and that's 12 volt or your lights they're 12 volts so it's not a big deal most trailers are coming with a 15 amp plug now and that saves you a ton like that i never hardly ever use this plug anymore because it always plugs into the front okay if you see this cord here it goes up underneath here goes up and plugs into the inverter right there yes that gets away from the propane thing because everybody's scared about driving down the road in propane turn the thing on auto and it's uh it'll take power out of your solar but you're charging it anyway you're charging more than what it's using because it only uses like about seven and seven and a half amps or something going down the road so it's not a big deal so this trailer's always plugged in with this cord and then if i go to a campground and want to use the air conditioner i'll put the 30 amp on but i've never put it on yet for a long time so yeah that's basically the solar system i'm not saying it's perfect i'm not saying it's the greatest thing but it works for us and it's just just around the three thousand dollar mark which when you dimension solar people start starting at five and it works really good like we sat out in arizona from november till now and we were never plugged in so it must work and we make coffee in the morning al does her hair in the morning and we use the microwave for supper and we watch tv and it all works so you don't need a whole bunch you can never have enough solar but you don't need a whole bunch of solar all right now we're moving on into the interior so what do we have here this is a coffee press the jack give us that even more okay what we got here is a flagstaff w fkss which means it's got a front kitchen and two slides so we'll show you the slide now if you back up you'll see the kitchen this is probably one of the best kitchens on the planet for an rv you got everything right here stove microwave fringe the double sink and you've got the oven so you got lots of cupboard space tons of cupboard space all around all through here this one here is just huge right to the center and then you got this this is all corian the countertop shall corian and the stove is level with the counter which is kind of cool so yeah and then we have the living room now when you look at this and you look at the one the factor you're gonna say what are you okay so you know everybody changes stuff to make it worse for you right right here there was two stools they come out we put this in here this is the original table but if you got it this is made to go down and make a bed it wobbles this got a singer under it it don't wobble anymore we got rid of the wobble so my brother come up with this idea we didn't we wanted to make a living room which we got here with two chairs right so they've made it so you put the chairs here and look at the tv well how can you do that so what we did was there was a couch here we don't need it oh it went took the dinette that's my brother's idea billy's idea and slids of the wall pouch come here nice pouch is dead okay we got a fireplace which works pretty good it'll it'll work so good that it'll turn the heater off so you gotta wash when you're used to it's very lifelike very lifelike right well billy that's really lifelike okay so we got this big screen tv now this is hooked up the dvd player and it's hooked up to satellite if you want it we don't have satellite this is the stereo which has got you play your videos through here for your tv it's got sd cards usb you can do everything with this plus it's got bluetooth for music not for your phone but for music okay and then behind here we have the jeffy tech wi-fi repeater which we are two miles from rufus orgon and we just the boat had enough signal and this is uh we boost wilson we boost we got that too now what i did with that was i hooked that up to satellite so then i take the antenna and hook it to satellite covers galore every all the lighting in here is 12 volt everyone everyone's 12 volt this is the bathroom sink toilet now we change the toilet now a couple people ask about toilets and yes we change the angle on it and all you do is go to home depot where lows and they have a set of screws that screw in and you can move wherever you want this here we put a valve on here for when you're boondocking you can turn the water off because everything's controlled by water right this is the number one thing right here is uh shower head uh i gotta remember what name of it is now but that's shower head is cut your water oxygen thing right uh oxygen oxygen yeah oxygen yeah oxygen oxygenatics or something oxygenics oxygenics that's what is and of course this is the bedroom and if you notice it's got the two coffee tables on the side where we drink coffee for two hours in the morning and this is the whole slide goes out this is a closet this whole closet the bed goes underneath here and the good part about this trailer is when it's folded up the slides you can still get to the bathroom kitchen fridge everything that's why one of the reasons we bought it that's why it's like a lot of when you look into a trailer and you're living in it you want and especially on the road you want to make sure that you can get out the stuff when it's folded up because you're going down the road you want to put your food in it you put the you got to have it open up right you don't have to open up every time so yeah we only wanted the one mirror so we put a deck of the dog on it put this in here the bookcase but other than that we haven't done much here this is coming with with the tv it's all plumb satellite and it's hooked up to everything up front the dvd player and everything else central flooring heating 35 000 btu heater runs up the middle works pretty good too see we use our heater a lot of people don't use the heater because of propane and all that we use it we put the bigger batteries on the front to make up for so we can run it all night and we don't have a problem with the air conditioner is ducted air conditioning but we never use air conditioning so it's not a big deal but yeah that's it in a nutshell we love it we live in it 365 days a year so it's it's pretty nice