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Installing a Breaker Box and Inverter in Tiny House * Skoolie Conversion * Gus The Struggle Bus
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- čas přidán 13. 08. 2024
- In this video, we show you how we installed our breaker box and inverter. It was a little tricky at first but if we can do it so can you.
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0:00 - 1:00 Intro and previous video!
1:01 - 3:03 Our inverter
3:04 - 5:55 Mounting inverter
5:56 - 7:50 Mounting breaker box
7:51 - 14:31 Re-doing terminal crimps
14:32 - 27:13 Hooking up breaker box
27:14 - 34:42 Hooking up inverter!
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A couple of things. First you need to use grommets on all of your wires going into your breaker box. Secondly your primary wires going to your Victron, you need to fully seat your wires so that no gap of bare wire is exposed, you risk creating an arc between your positive and neutral wires.
Yep agreed , go back and do that Paco
will do!
Grommets or ferrules?
Paco I could not be more proud. That my friend had to be so nerve racking. Never the less you took on the challenge and concord it.
🖐 high five.
Thank you so much!! It took a lot but we managed!
I've been watching you guys since the beginning (and 1 1/2 years into my own conversion!), and as you were standing in the hallway and I am looking at those clean lines of your walls attaching to the ceiling I thought to myself...DAMN you're doing such a good job!!
Thank you so much!!! We sit back and notice things like that in the videos we make all the time so it is so awesome that you noticed too!! Thank you and keep pushing on your build, you got this!
Thanks man I learned a lot watching this video because you took your time to show how it all goes together when other videos just don't show all the steps and they run their mouths at 200 mph ps keep your crimping tool on the bus so you don't have to walk back and forth to the garage haha 😉
I am so glad to hear that, thank you so much!
Paco, well done for taking the advice and re-doing those connections. As for your breakers, that is the sum each circuit can take. Your appliances should be fused correctly for what they need and if they do draw more, the fuse will go first. Be mindful of what you are plugging in so you don't trip your breaker.
thank you so much! that actually makes a lot of sense thanks for clearing that up 😀
I was soooo worried for you both, with the hurricane Laura hitting Texas but as I can see you’re posting a video, I’m happy to see you was safe.
That is so nice of you to think of us, we only got a little rain so we got lucky!
Nice job but follow David Greeley’s. Add robber grommets to the holes in the breaker box.... vibration will cut though the wire insulation and clean up the wires in the converter box.... the bare wires are too close together and will arc. You can simply add heat shrink tubing or shorten the exposed wire.... otherwise, great job installing your first electrical box!!!!!
thank you so much! we will def. add the grommets to the breaker box. thanks again.
Loving you guys videos keep them coming! Just make sure on those wires that you get them pushed all the way into the terminal, or seated, because those bare copper wires can arc and cause fires and or explosions. You two kids are doing great , Meredith has quite the humor some of her facial expressions leave me in stitches! I love it!
lol Meredith is definitely the funny bone out of the two of us. and yes there are a lot of little things here and there that we need to work on to perfect the electrical system and this is one of them! thank you for the tip!!
Hey, thank you for the video. This is exactly what I needed to know to setup our off grid cabin.
So glad you like it!
Again doing it with the right gear, Victron is awesome.
You know it!! Thank you!!
Nice work, I understand you do not have much space in a bus. But one thing to be mindful of when working with electrical hardware. "Organized space", your electrical closet is very cramped and hard to work in. In the future give yourself a layout that is a little more open. Mount all the items to one wall if possible, so two hands can be used effectively and safely. Plus it allows you to see the whole picture, and you are not working between electrical devices and wiring. Trouble shooting and maintenance tasks will be much easier.
You are doing great, fun times. The best thing of all, you did it yourself, you gained knowledge, and you can be proud of that.
Remember this: Seek Knowledge & Adventure today, Because tomorrow never comes.
Thank you! Yeah we make sure to follow all the recommended space and work the best with what we have the best we can!
You have exactly the same set up as we do on the boat , Victron multiplus is top notch 👍
That is awesome!! Thank you so much!
Well done Bro
Thank you!
I have so much respect for you guys for doing this on your own, I dont have the patience to learn it and I'm way to afraid to do the electrical! Also, excellent, detailed video, as always. Thank you, it is appreciated.
Thank you so much! It definitely took multiple hours of learning and relearning and researching and making sure that we understood what we were doing. But it feels really good to be able to understand the system itself in case something comes up in the future.
@@GustheStruggleBus I agree, and will def be there, watching and learning... while someone else does it...lol. good job
I just finished building a '56 Chevy and one of my favorite things I found is Liquid electrical tape. The stuff is awesome!
Hey now that is so cool!! I have never heard of it, we will have to look into it, thank you!
Great video, thank you for taking the time and effort to show what, how and why you did what you did.
So glad you like it!
Holy smokes - You did your research alright! This stuff is not simple. Brian has been researching solar & electric set up stuff for MONTHS now, and it makes me nappy... LOL don't blame my homegirl Meredith for tapping out of this one! Haha no doubt Paco missed you out there gf! Gotta help a guy out when he is running around losing tools! Brian says "Thank you, this is the video he has been waiting for! You finally connected the dots on how the system works that no one else has shown on their channel!"
Way to go! It is soooo exciting to see you have power! Your excitement made the whole video! Thanks for sharing guys! Really well explained! Great filming! Editing! LOL the heavy metal sequence! So goood! We are grateful you did this one ahead of us! We'll be using our call a friend pass when we get to ours! Jajajajaja
Big love from Canada - E+B
Thank you!! Yeah my brain basically just shuts off lol! So glad we could finally help you guys with something haha! We are not pros but I guess if you do enough research on anything you can figure it out!
Paco great job as usual! I’ve been researching like hell too and this looks great! I think you’re past this point now, but Brian @beadventurepartners maybe you can use the info, There’s another channel here called @allaboutrvs that has a great informative video about this stuff.
Check out @AllAboutRVs channel for a great video about this stuff too!
Taylor Pepper very cool! We’ll check out that channel! Thanks!
Just realized there’s more than one, All About RVs channel. The one with spaces in the name and a black and white icon. Cheers.
Looks great
Thank you!
nice job, super complex, much more complex then my setup, but damn it's impressive
Thank you so much!
Paco. Looks good however you need to add a cable clamp to the wires that go from your inverter and into your breaker box. If you leave it as is the breaker box in time will rub through the wires.
we have gotten this tip a couple of times now and will definitely go back and add this. thank you!
first time watching ... good job.. i am doing the same set up now..almost the same exact equipment and batts..
Ohh that's awesome! Let me know how it goes
Great job Paco!
Thank you!!
Thank you💗 I am trying to do the floor plan around the electrical. I am trying to use every appliance possible😅 fridge, ac/heater combo, washer dryer combo, and a few small kitchen appliances like a microwave or blender😅
You can do it! Just do your research and take your time!
G'day Paco that was beyond me it looked very complicated to me but I know that Victron are very good equipment, it wouldn't been easy or comfortable I working in that humidity. Your wiring is nice and neat well done again and it was nice to let Meridith sleep, this was a very good video for anyone who is about to do the same. Take care you two and I look forward to your next instalment, kind regards John Tasmania Australia
Working in this heat and humidity is not easy my friend! But hopefully it will start to cool off soon! Thank you so much for your support and watching from so far!!!
Dude, thank you for showing the way you connected the line to both poles in the breaker. I was confused why there weren't two line outs from the Victron for that. Thought maybe I was suppose to use a single-pole breaker.
Of course! No problem
I'm an actual electrician and I gotta say your breaker box work is fuckin spooky. It's your thing i guess
Probably! If you have any tips for others watching feel free to drop them below!
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The big cable crimper will work much better mounted on the corner "leg" part of the workbench where it is solid. Might be able to put it in your vise to hold it while crimping. Great job, really like your videos!
It worked great! Thank you!
For real paco You do your best. And its coming good
Thank you so much!
You have been a great help I wish there was a way that I can speak to you on the phone because I have a couple of questions
Aw thank you so much! I try to answer any questions I can
this is so very helpful!! thank you guys.
Of course Kevin, so glad we could help!!
Hi Paco, a 3000 watt Victron Multiplus will only put out 25 amps AC (3000w /120volts = 25 amps) to the breaker panel. On the other hand it will be pulling 250 amps on the battery side (3000w/12 volts=250amps). Good work though, I'm going to try this with my 48v Victron Quattro.
I hope it was helpful, that explanation makes sense
✌️❤️🐶🙏... ty for sharing very helpful... ❤️ your video’s.
Thank you very much!
Great Paco
Thank you!
Good job 👏🏼
Thank you Debra!
What I've learned is the hard way is connecting all from battery to battery killed the battery in order from the 1st battery on red\+ going down so what I did different was connect all batteries to shunt drowning power from middle lug seams to be doing much better
I have seen some people do this. we felt like we had to it this way because of the space.
Don't forget to add a grommet to protect the wires going from the victron into your electrical box because vibration could cause the black white or green wire to rub on the surface of the Box hole
Yes! We will make sure to do that thank you!!
Love your videos. The only audio I have is the music after Paco’s introduction. Hard to follow. Am I missing something?
Oh No! I am so sorry about that, I will look into what might have happened
@@GustheStruggleBus thanks! There are a few more also. I’ve watched all of them up until this point. Lol. I didn’t pay it much attention as I could pretty much follow along. I can go back through and let you know which ones are doing that. I found it odd since others commented on the video. Thanks for looking into it. Your videos are inspiring.
This was helpful! Thank you!
Of course! We are so glad it made sense and can help in any way!
Thanks for the video, we are in the process of designing our electrical system. Any idea when you guys will do a shoreline/alternator video? That’s the part I don’t understand completely. What was the main resources you guys used for help?
Hey! That is awesome I hope it is going well, I know this stuff can get overwhelming and complicated. We do plan on adding a shore line and hooking it up to the alternator as well but we have not gotten that far yet! But we will do a in-depth video once we do!
could you just run the live/earth/neutral wires directly of the inverter onto cable straight into mobile home fuse box already there please? so can just plug in appliance to sockets in there or what you need to do? Have to say very good instructions so far easiest to follow learned more here watching your video that cpl nights hr's on others!
I guess you could do that, this is what worked best for our set up. Thank you so much and we are so glad that it made sense!
What size wire (AWG) did you use from the inverter to the 60amp fuse, please? Thank you. Very helpful instructions!
Let me check
What size wire did you do ? Doing this same thing now and putting two 4guage wires isn’t fitting. Just 1 4 gauge wire fits
Looking good Paco. I am doing a similar sized setup with the main box having only one 110 vac leg from the inverter feeding both load lugs from a breaker. But I will connect the hot lugs at their large connectors as bridging at the double pole 60 amp may pull more power than you want up to 120 amps in theory which might exceed the inverter AC out spec? I will feed only 1 pole and that will limit at lower amps.
hmm im having a bit trouble understanding lol.
@@GustheStruggleBus it looks like you have connected it in such a way that each side of 110 vac breakers could pull up to 60 amps for a total of 120 amps of theoretical maximum load on the Inverter. I would leave only one 60 amp breaker connected to the Inverter and bridge the two sides of the box with a little length of heavy maybe 4 awg black coated cable by screwing the cable into the big lugs at the top of the hot bars. That will limit maximum draw to 60 amps. Of course if the Inverter ac out can handle 120 amp output and the wire from the Inverter is large enough gauge for 120 amps then this wouldn't matter.
If this doesn't make sense email me allmomomosthome@gmail.com and I'll send you my cell number
Awesome job! Question about the grounding wire. Do you have it going through the roof, electrical closet, and floor right to the chassis? What gauge wire did you use for the grounding wire? Thanks again! Without your videos I would be lost
Great question! We have one ground wire that goes from the combiner box to the metal pipe that supports the deck. Than we have our negative bus bar that is grounded through the floor into the chassis of the bus. The batteries, the inverter, DC fuse box and the solar controller are all grounded to the negative bus bar, which is grounded to the chassis.
I hope this answers your question. If not just message us again 😁
@@GustheStruggleBus thanks!
Hi i was wondering why you need a fuse box? I thought the inverter had built in protection? Hopefully i don’t sound to dumb i’m just a cook😂 Great video regardless btw
Hey! Thank you so much, I am not 100% sure but I think the amount of power going through it is why. Better safe than sorry!
I know absolutely very little about electric but have a question. Where is the breaker box getting it’s ground
we connected the ground bar to the inverter via the green wire. The inverter is than connected to the negative bus bar which is then grounded to the chassis of the bus
Question please: Did you insert two stranded wires into the same double pole circuit breaker (lower hole) then "jump" it the the other hole on the double pole circuit breaker? Thank you!
I will see if I can find you!
let me know if you find out
I'm kinda confused how you got two green lights with your tester because I didn't see you ground ur your AC ground busbar or ur inverter.
Hey! if you watch the videos before we do the grounding first
Where are you guys. Did you finish the bus???
Hey! I am posting finished photos on the instagram now :)
You should have ran one side of the 60 amp barker to the AC out one of the inverter and the other side of the 60 amp barker to the AC out two of the inverter. Instead of jumping it like you did If you don't you could overload the AC Out One of your inverter!...
I never thought about this. I will have to look into that. thank you!
@@GustheStruggleBus did you end up doing anything different with this or did you keep it the same after your research? You guys are helping me hammer out a solid
Electrical plan before I even buy my bus so keep up the awesome work!
If you wire the breaker that way you do it it's going to be called a hundred and 120 amp circuit
Ok that makes sense, thank you so much!
Link for the breaker box & AC wire you used? Thanks 🙏
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Where is your shore power connection?
Shore power was added later and it was mounted on the side by the outdoor shower and wired under the bus and up into the closet!
I'm embarrassed to say it took me more than a minute to realize my (also a Square D Homeline box) didn't have a grounding bar. I've done small projects with electricity, but never installed a new box before my bus. I had seven copper lines coming in and didn't remember what I was supposed to do with them. This was about two weeks ago. Too bad I didn't see this first lol!
Aw man I'm so sorry! Yeah it really threw me off and took me a while to figure out!
Could you explain the 60 amp fuse a bit more? I’m a bit stump on understanding why you only need 60 amps coming in? Or put a link to where you found this info anything you could do would be awesome!
Because the inverter is only a 3000 watt inverter with a surge of 6000 watts, meaning the most power the inverter could ever put out is 50 amps at 6000 watts. A bigger breaker is pointless and the wires you'd need for the bigger breaker probably won't fit in the inverter.
Yes that is how I would explain it thank you
Why didnt you just run the grounds to the bar behind the 60 amp. breaker??
This also could have been an option but full contact with the main part of the bus is what we went with
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Thank you! We will look into that !
Question; Why not use the second AC out on the inverter for the other half of the 60amp breaker?
We decided to start with one
Calder how do you do this would I just connect ac out 1 to one 60 amp fuse and another to the other 60 amp fuse? Do I run another neutral for ac out 2 to the neutral spot on the breaker box ?