today we're doing something a little different jackery sponsored this video where we're
going to be outfitting colin's dad's boat with about as much tech as we can
cram into it and hopefully we're approaching at the right angle here
because i can't freaking see where i'm going ladies and gentlemen hey how you
all doing guys hey a continuity error we're pretending it's still in the box
we're gonna have some fun today ladies and gentlemen
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step one is to get the entertainment system going you can see we've got a
nice lounging sort of i don't know chezz
bed is this a bed yup this is a dad it's a bunker and we're gonna put a tv on it
so this is a nice picture so this is the boat my dad used to be a chef on and uh
it's called the hotel still around when i was born he was working on this boat
and they hopped him in a Floatplane and flew into the airport well the thing
about when you mount something on a boat is it seems like you do it in such a way
as to such if there's waves it doesn't i can see it
i guess the idea is we've got this full range mount so you can either lounge in
the bed and watch or uh pull it over oh
you gotta wrong way what
so the idea then i need to keep trucking on this wiring otherwise it's not going
to get done i'm going to be working on getting the jackery actually ready to
plug in so we're going to be taking this chunker extension cord we're going
to snip the end off of it and we're going to run it down into the cabin
below the floor and back to where the house wiring is where we're going to
connect it to a rotary switch so this is the front bridge and
there's some random wiring kicking around here but
critically there's a hole that goes down to by the steering wheel down below and
that's where this guy is going to go and hopefully it'll just go right through
there we go okay that was easy where i'm laying now is
where the jackery will be bolted down and then uh we'll have 12 volt power to
recharge it coming from this port that i put in not too long ago and now we're
going to fish it down we're going to open up this deck and i'm going to straddle the big diesel motor i'm going
to run it under the deck and into where the house wiring comes in and that's
where the majority of this work is going to take place because there's already outlets and 120 everywhere in the boat
it's just a matter of getting the power from the jackery up there down into here
oh this is gonna take a while slightly awkward thing for compact space-saving
living arrangements um small tvs don't really exist anymore but that's okay
because thankfully monitors do so we've got a ur 2855 28 inch monitor here it's
an ips type monitor it's got support for HDR it's got an HDMI input so we'll be
able to use it with our apple tv and all that good stuff and of course critically
it has a vasa compatible mount on the back i'm good don't worry i see the
cable well that's just light right in my eye
i'm standing on the valve covers of a
lovely ford diesel motor now i get to get comfortable again
get in there
at least it's not 46 degrees
this is a ac rotary switch so we have three inputs and an off circuit so that
means we're going to have the jackery as one of our inputs and then you can switch it to another input and that'll
be running off shore power and then the third input is just there because buying
the two position switch was more expensive than buying the three position switch i mean really this went way
easier than i thought it was going to go but you know mark my words it's now
going to be two hours of fiddling we've already got one thing that might bonus
here though colin uh there are several standards for the
vase amount in terms of spacing and the back of this monitor is kind of
stylistically curved uh there might be spacers in the uh in the hardware
spacers all right yeah check the the beautifully laid out hardware kit that
comes in those kanto mounts collins all into kanto now that they give his friend
and his dad uh free mounts absolute
kanto shell over here all right that's on i don't know about you colin but i'm
making some pretty good pride wow oh boy that's some samsung quality right there
maximum sag unfortunately our mounting kit only
comes with big old chungus wood screws because they assume you're going to do
something sensible like screw into a stud but we don't have a stud
we just have this quarter inch wooden panel here so we had to go digging
through collins what do you call this a bag of prayers some break of dreams bag of
dreams to find some nuts and bolts and we did
right against the window oh yeah cause you're gonna walk past it and stuff hey
okay okay do you want to mark it i would like to
okay yeah so that is like an inch from the center bar we're not going to worry
too much about it being level because realistically all it takes is me to
shift my body weight and we're gonna move it about four or
five degrees anyway so what's the deal you mentioned your
dad was a chef on a boat before so what do you guys do like fish or like well
that's that's a plan so we have rod holders sitting up top here and chart
holders cool but we haven't actually taken the boat out really we took it
down the down the way once for five minutes and then back and then had lunch
oh so you just got it we just got it it took nine months to get it here because
we were purchasing it during covid oh cool so that's where that's why you guys
have been putting like so much work into it lately well yeah summer's here we
want to go do things we're going to be checked out by the end
of this video that's the dream on it goes
hold on let's just yeah you don't really
need that you want to pull it out
comes out a little something like that ah
oh yeah
in true call and fashion we'll be mounting the apple tv using free php
am i just yellowing this collin just no rules no rules okay make our own
rolls here is that cable management cut your mustard colin oh eight plus all
right it's in there i'm ready to go plug it in i don't see the fire extinguisher so one
should give you shore power that
so the wiring is done but shore power isn't working for some reason i don't
know if i flubbed a wire i don't think i did so we're going to plug in the jackery and then we're going to see if
that turns on the monitor for my next project while calling diagnosis what's
going on with the power switch that hopefully works is to put these polk
speakers up on the back deck here or excuse me the uh stern deck stern deck
yes are these uh weather sealed columns yeah they're weatherproof and they're
saltwater resistant the screw will go through
this wall has seen some things okay this boat is 50 years old
all wood man this would be a fun kind of project
where's my dad's boat this is one small thing we may not have
foreseen this uh appears to have a bit of a
clearance issue with this speaker majig can you fix it yes i can fix it look at
you go all right colin the good news is that
the bracket's on are you applying there's bad news uh the bad news is that
there are now extra holes in the wall well uh that's what bondo's for sweet
the problem we're having is we've validated the power is getting through
the switch but validated the switch functions validated the switch functions
and we're connected to short power i can see the voltage i can see it come across the switch but we're not getting any
power to the outlets why are you not running so that's what we're diagnosing
now the dud ac power switch ended up being human error cullen found a little
jumper that had fallen out of the first switch so with that fixed what can i
hook up next uh i did the speaker you wanna do the mount the subwoofer okay i
found your subwoofer okay
oh this is our plan for the video today yeah that's all the stuff we had to do
well now i don't have to keep asking colin what to do next
and you wanted it in the very corner seat is that right i think like in the
wall between the two seats
i heard the shopback come on i think it's working now that we've got
power we can fire up our monitor and uh
hopefully set up the apple tv we're good we're done as much capacity as the
jackery has though obviously we're going to need to charge it so that
is where these come in we've got not one not two not three
but four of these jackery solar generators and
these are good for about 200 watts each yeah so total that's 800 watts which is
more than enough to run everything that would like normally be running on the
boat so we're pulling in wow it's still climbing at
275 watts with uh two panels our draw right now with the
apple tv and the actual monitor is 294
watts okay so that speaker is definitely working now these guys are not going no
they're not plugged in yet but base
we're moored right now no turn up
we're actually kind of getting there so right now two panels will run
indefinitely the entertainment system indefinitely well is the fridge running now too yes oh compressor's going yeah
and we're now at 743 watts i'm checking out the solar
panels on the top look brandon's in the video for a change we totally could get
more up here feasibly with two more panels we'd be fully running this boat
and then some wow well here let's try it so the trick is if i fall
jump hard hey
i'm good i got this yes
did you see the end flop out over sorry about that
well whatever the cloth might think about it the frame seems okay
i am completely expendable
it's not like if i die everyone's out of work or anything we are inputting 500
watts 500 watts from the solar panels yes we are charging it'll be fully
charged in two and a half hours that is
sick while running everything that is awesome on the tech side of things the
m1 12.9 inch ipad pro is both the navigation and media hub when you're
steering from the cabin it resides in a 12 inch RAM mounts tablet mount above
the helm keeping everything within ARM's reach from here you can flip through
charts and navionics view wind and weather information with windy and
control media or even watch a movie call and load it up with ipad os 15 beta 2 as
well to take advantage of the improved multitasking capabilities there's no
networking on the boat so an iphone is used as a wireless hotspot whenever it's
needed but that doesn't come up that often because the ipad and the apple tv
under the cabinet here can airplay without it
now the existing stereo didn't work but some new wires to the six and a half
inch kenwood speakers fixed that and i made these speakers
i think that looks pretty darn good so we're gonna get this whole boat and
span and uh we'll get Linus to give you a tour of the boat
a week of naggy little details later and the jackery install is finally complete
a custom bimini cover is being designed by north sales to hold three or four of
the solar saga 200 panels for a peak output of between 600 and 800 watts all
off the grid running all the tech on the boat that's the fridge freezer apple tv
and monitor power draw is around 360
watts that actually leaves us with a surplus of power that is until we add
the hot water tank to the mix with that we actually hit the maximum of 1500
watts that we can get out of a single socket on the jackery now the jackfruit
can output more it just needs to go through multiple outlets so fiddler has
come from being a tired trawler to a tech cruiser all thanks to jackery's
solar system so she'll be able to motor around to her heart's content with ample
power to run all day and all night and even more importantly she'll do so
silently no generator noise just nice
quiet sunshine juice
which is a big plus for neighboring boaters or noise sensitive activities this was a
huge build that took a ton of evenings and a lot of weekend work by colin and
his dad gerald so i'd like to thank them for their effort
thank them for their effort how did that end up in the script they're working on their boat i guess they did offer to
give me a ride though so that's cool oh and of course i've gotta thank zachary
again for sponsoring this video