so in a recent video i and alex used this kit that like kind of like lego for
batteries kit that we found online to make a diy lithium battery to soup up my
kids power wheels car you know those little ride on cars for kids that make
it make it go real fast and that project along with some really great positive
feedback that i got from the electrician and
engineering communities really made me feel like
why stop there i think we're ready for the big time
so as some of you know i recently got
myself a little car upgrade i went from my 2003 honda civic to a plug-in hybrid
2017 chevy volt and uh one of the things that you kind
of need when you have an electric car is an electric car charger
so today we will be installing
this 240 volt charger
is it 240 volt and yeah don't worry i'm not doing it by
myself this is brian he's an electrician he's going to help
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so step one is why i actually feel the need to install an electric charger by
the way this is this is charging land this is the corner of my garage where i
make sure there's nothing flammable because i have one of those old
hoverboards here and you just you you just never you just never know what
those so this is the the wall charger that's
included with the volt so it runs at 120 volt and it charges at i think a maximum
of about yeah there it is about 1400 watts which quite frankly is lots for a
plug-in hybrid if i had this running at full capacity i could easily charge it
up overnight but as some of you might remember from the
video where i talked about getting this car my intent is to do car reviews on an
ongoing basis moving forward so if i were charging up an actual full electric
car this would be painfully slow so um i
think the first question the audience is going to have for you is you're a real electrician right
like not like a like a Linus media group video host pretending to be an
electrician no okay good
um so then you helped me pick out this
particular this is a level two charger is that correct
yes and can you explain to our friends out there what the difference is between
a level one and a level two charger while i go ahead and open this baby up
basically it's just the amount of power that i can shovel into the car so you
know a level one charger like what you're using right now
plugging into 120 volt receptacle
you're only pulling about 1400 watts something like this
will run off a 30 amp circuit at 240 volts so theoretically you can charge
about four times faster cool and we went with one from uh siemens
it's uh it's a shame they didn't uh try that try that company name out in
english before they uh they went and they put it all over
everything
so uh this is my siemens verse eight
and why did we pick this one
frankly it's what the wholesaler had in stock
wow you really are a contractor
this was a little overkill for this application wasn't it
but a little bit kind of a nerd and so you were like well the difference is
only you know three dollars and you know this is better and i'm a nerd and i love
overkill i knew it no i just know where it's going and well
i can't drop anything on something in the ceiling so we interrupt this program
to bring you stunning footage of the damage
that dennis has done to my house there's the brand new hole in my ceiling
of my garage that we had not intended to put there can we pull this panel off so
we can show the bus bars sure okay let's do that
just don't touch the shiny i'm not gonna touch this
okay so our plan is i think
i think all the access holes are kind of in use here
oh wait nope i see one but this looks too big for it dang dang it you and
you're overkill brian that's what drills are for oh okay
all right so let's let's let's let's get a move on then this is it right
installing a armored cable with this you can either
go surfaced yeah in the garage that's weak this week
or yeah like you're originally talking you can run it through the attic space
yeah so that's what we're gonna do riley murdoch what if i told you
that not far from where you're standing one of your compatriots
fell through the ceiling it was a dark time i could have died
okay so you're gonna stick a screwdriver up yes okay can you see the screwdriver
hi there huh i i have you met my friend
mr pokey now you can poke something through a hole okay
can it be black and really thick i'm gonna say yes yeah
you are and properly sheathed it's ribbed for her pleasure oh my gosh
it's really long
that's good okay you've had enough have you
i mean basically the idea is that we might sell this place at some point and
i don't know which side whoever buys it would want their electric vehicle on so
i wanted it somewhere in the middle accessible enough that you could kind of
run it across the hood of this one or plug it into that one
so that that's basically the entire rationale so i just i just want it to be
i mean if a hobbit like me can reach it
then i figure anyone can reach it so i just wanted it to be somewhere where you
can get this down
somewhat easily pretty easily i can reach that pretty easily so let's go
let's go like right up onto the drop and then we'll just run our little board so
that we have something to screw the bottom into does that work
yep do you want to build it or do you want me to i can i can build things i
actually have wood as well if we need any other wood
you got wood my workshop is equipped with all kinds
of things like safety glasses
hearing protection a staple gun
come on you can't feel those can you
hey it may not be straight but it's 22 inches long right now so i think
okay yeah two perfectly 22 inch exactly the same
pieces of wood with very um perpendicular ends
oh yeah close enough
all right are you assuming i don't have screws i
have screws also i have a level i have
two i accidentally bought a second one when
i lost my first one you know what i'm using my level i'm not using any of your
tools anymore i'm going i'm going to get my drill
so are we aiming for approximately centered here i have screws i got my own
screws they are just as good as your screws
which screws bigger lines they are actually slightly shorter but not in a
way that matters it's not as thick either Linus
hold on let me see if i let me see if i have better screws just a sec
i'm gonna be right back with better screws
you know what you know what brian
fine you know the funny thing is no no no
whose screw is longer now bring yours back
length is the same Linus well then that's fine isn't it
okay are we just gonna kind of eyeball this like
wait a minute whoa why are these two pieces of wood very different lengths
hold on a minute here ah oh there's the other one
that was close would have been funny though
uh okay something like that yeah do you mind
no no it's mine
on my last vacation i completely reorganized the garage put in all the
shelving and all that kind of stuff and got it from
this entire side being completely consumed by all the things that are in
the overhead storage and shelving yeah um to well now being able to park two
cars in here so wait what was that word you used
vacation yeah well yeah no that well
that's how i vacation i i like work and organize no i i was
gonna say you take vacations
yeah it was nice actually okay
yes i can do one that's enough yeah the latter was a drag
factor goodies so that's all the the fun bits
inside and then yeah this uh this hinge does seem to come
right off but we need an allen key all right so now the part that i really
shouldn't do so yeah at this point basically what you
just kind of stick it in there
stick your conductors in there and kind of you know cable management a little
bit maybe a little something like like that
remember it's always cut towards your abdomen because if you're gonna
eviscerate yourself you make sure that it's like really graphic well actually you
have more control going towards i i i know i did make the mistake one
time with having my hand below where i cut ooh and did you slip i did
right through this finger ouch if you look carefully you can still see a line
going i don't have to look that carefully so you're going at an angle
there is that so we can kind of unwrap it no
no it's uh we're actually not going to have to unwrap it at all because once
you go far enough so then just kind of unthread it almost
and then just slides off bippity bop just like that eh oh very cool okay look
at me i'm doing electrician things wow wow
electricity okay and then this blue one i'll just
kind of well that that we're gonna actually tape
off oh okay tape the end up
sure and do you know you have like the little caps
i have the little caps oh
house electrical this one's uh this one's looking a little bear
oh no i swear i have them oh i haven't i have it i haven't had it i have caps
i got a cap here i just i want to get a nice little one here i got one no i got
it i want to put the cap on i want to put the cap on you can do with
the paddle oh he already had a cat i thought you you said you were gonna tape
it i was going to then you went cap hunting
so then i just grabbed one
you're having too much fun brian this clearly isn't real work not anymore no
this is way too entertaining okay okay
that looks not bad hey
and i sort of did it myself this is where
i actually stopped participating because i don't trust myself in there
yeah i got a nice clean cut there
the general idea i'm just bugging you you're doing a great job i'm so
supportive i feel like in a past life i was probably a brazilian
wow you know i also love being close to breasts you know that's another
indication
this has been patched before yep sure has
that's cool yep so it has this part so has this part so has this part
yep it's kind of a it's kind of a patchwork you know house
you ever considered just putting a new sheet of drywall on nope
oh maybe back with the hammer before he's
done yes you just won't use my hammer wow
disrespect
look how much better that hammer worked it's a nice hammer it's wood you know
wood craftsmanship i do have a fresh pack of blades too but
so do i i actually don't i'm just you know we
were comparing yeah food was more equipped and i got i got carried away there
okay
oh right you can't just like take it off no it's the metal part that just slides
off okay i got it i got it
oh wow it's so soft it's actually like really easy to cut
huh it looks tougher and more rigid than
and i guess it is yeah it's the armor that makes it hard right okay so i need
the hacksaw then yep
and then kind of that kind of angle yep yeah roughly a 45. are you okay so
you're not supposed to cut on the backstroke but you can still run it back and forth
you just want to make sure you stay well fairly level
oh level whoops i'm sliding all over the
place here are we you're twisting the other way
there it is there there you go and pull
okay there you go blackhead
so this is a bit different style of connector okay
so it's just one screw to do uh you know what hold on
is that solid enough yep cool going anywhere
tie in the bond yup sure uh proceed with the bond tying in
one side okay cool so okay so this blue one we're not going
to need so we'll just cap that and chuck it here or whatever out of the way
yep and then next we put the breaker in
so how these work this is actually an old-style breaker these are called
commanders yeah so if you look
on the back side of the bus part here yeah those there's a little kickouts yes
that goes right in there exactly cool okay so
this hooks on make sure the breaker's off because my fingers are on the lugs
so that hooks on and then these two screws
just tighten down into the bus bars yeah sure no problem
and is is is there a like is there a
reason that we haven't just turned this off while we do this part because that
would kill power to the entire house
so i mean that's what i do whenever i do
anything with the house wearing you just kill them yeah i just put my
i just put my head lamp on well because they're not very well labeled so i don't
know what exactly yeah i guess that's true
like when you don't know what you're doing yeah you know you just
play it safe but it seems fine so i
guess you're fine well because this like plastic and rubber are
insulators yeah so obviously you wouldn't want to touch this
slip and like get your hand all over it and like because i'm me so i you know
fair enough i'm gonna keep doing it the way i do it okay but again if you strip
too much we just nip a little off sure
they call me the nip king
i don't know about that pop it like it's hot
or neutrally ground ah
actually it looks like something in here is oh blown up a little bit
maybe a breaker tripping or something a little bit of flash
oh that's sexy
something exploded here okay let's put it back exactly the way it was
without any further investigation
pretty fancy
that's the coolest looking siemens i've ever seen
he's gonna do it
don't get run over now
oh wrong pedal there man
all right
yes
so my cats are both gone presumably dead
so the best thing i can do with their old
toys is make my little alignment thing here see that see that parking job see
how nailed that is so that means i can open my door up like this
and the sliding door the van and there will be about this much space
nice all right
so here we go unholster
bring one loop down you know what i'm probably going to do is like
just a little strapper we'll tie it yeah strap that in there or something i have
smaller straps if you want to pop and
pow it's charging oh i heard it kind of click on there too
look at it go
makes some noise there doesn't it this is really giving her may not be RGB but
it's g it's got the g part
so i wonder how long it's going to take to charge on this thing it actually takes more than overnight on the low
setting of the one that came in the box
and the reason i use that is because i've got my deep freeze plugged into the same circuit so i was worried that if
that kicked in and i was drawing 14 14 50 watts or whatever it was then it
would turn off both of them and if my food all spoiled that'd be a problem sorry i'm
like i'll just wait until i get the proper charger but this should charge
this puppy up in like i don't know probably not very much time
a few hours yeah cool
nice so that's pretty much it that was garage
tv installer time uh thank you brian for
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