WEBVTT

1
00:00:01.320 --> 00:00:01.560
<v Speaker 1>Question.

2
00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:06.879
<v Speaker 2>This might be the heaviest battery I've ever had, but

3
00:00:07.759 --> 00:00:09.599
<v Speaker 2>it's the largest battery I've ever had too.

4
00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:10.679
<v Speaker 1>This is an.

5
00:00:10.560 --> 00:00:16.559
<v Speaker 2>EPOCH lithium iron phosphate four hundred and sixty amp hour

6
00:00:16.679 --> 00:00:21.079
<v Speaker 2>battery four hundred and sixty ampowers. It's got a Victron

7
00:00:21.160 --> 00:00:25.640
<v Speaker 2>system built into it for monitoring and managing the BMS,

8
00:00:25.679 --> 00:00:28.359
<v Speaker 2>and it's got these canvas ports on the side of it.

9
00:00:28.679 --> 00:00:34.479
<v Speaker 2>The canbas CANbus is a controller area network bus. It's

10
00:00:34.479 --> 00:00:36.799
<v Speaker 2>a port on the EPAC batteries that is used for

11
00:00:36.799 --> 00:00:40.560
<v Speaker 2>communication between the battery management system, the BMS, and external

12
00:00:40.600 --> 00:00:44.640
<v Speaker 2>devices like inverters, chargers, or monitoring systems. It allows the

13
00:00:44.640 --> 00:00:47.359
<v Speaker 2>battery to transmit data such as the state of charge,

14
00:00:47.439 --> 00:00:51.880
<v Speaker 2>sc voltage, current, temperature, and other critical parameters in real time,

15
00:00:51.920 --> 00:00:57.439
<v Speaker 2>facilitating in real time, facilitating better integration with compatible systems,

16
00:00:57.479 --> 00:01:02.840
<v Speaker 2>particularly like Victron, which often use canvas communications. In summary,

17
00:01:02.960 --> 00:01:06.799
<v Speaker 2>Victron components work well with EPOCH batteries to provide efficient

18
00:01:06.959 --> 00:01:12.640
<v Speaker 2>power conversion, detailed monitoring, smart management, and more safe operations.

19
00:01:13.040 --> 00:01:14.879
<v Speaker 2>This is the system that's gonna go in the back

20
00:01:14.920 --> 00:01:17.959
<v Speaker 2>of my truck. We're gonna install this today. This has

21
00:01:18.040 --> 00:01:19.920
<v Speaker 2>kind of been a long time coming. I've been working

22
00:01:19.959 --> 00:01:22.519
<v Speaker 2>on this for about I don't know, month and a half,

23
00:01:22.599 --> 00:01:24.359
<v Speaker 2>maybe two months, something like that, but I got delayed

24
00:01:24.400 --> 00:01:26.560
<v Speaker 2>a bunch because of travel out of town and also

25
00:01:26.599 --> 00:01:29.840
<v Speaker 2>because of weather. If it's out here and it's thirty degrees,

26
00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:31.359
<v Speaker 2>I don't feel like working on it. And if it's

27
00:01:31.359 --> 00:01:33.159
<v Speaker 2>out here and it's raining, I can't work on it.

28
00:01:33.359 --> 00:01:37.159
<v Speaker 2>But this is where the Epoch four hundred and sixty

29
00:01:37.159 --> 00:01:40.239
<v Speaker 2>empower batteries going. It's going in here. This box here

30
00:01:40.400 --> 00:01:44.120
<v Speaker 2>is a box made by Douha now Doha. While they're

31
00:01:44.159 --> 00:01:47.959
<v Speaker 2>not real popular, I've been using this box for a while.

32
00:01:48.079 --> 00:01:50.519
<v Speaker 2>I was using it with a three hundred empower battery

33
00:01:50.760 --> 00:01:51.519
<v Speaker 2>which is right.

34
00:01:52.920 --> 00:01:55.040
<v Speaker 1>There. It's buried right now.

35
00:01:55.159 --> 00:01:57.599
<v Speaker 2>But they make Doha makes boxes that they called hump

36
00:01:57.599 --> 00:02:01.280
<v Speaker 2>store boxes and they go over the hump. They mount

37
00:02:01.319 --> 00:02:03.000
<v Speaker 2>to the rail to the side rail of the truck

38
00:02:03.040 --> 00:02:05.920
<v Speaker 2>and they go over the hump of the wheelwell hump

39
00:02:06.400 --> 00:02:08.000
<v Speaker 2>and then they sit there and you can access them

40
00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:08.719
<v Speaker 2>from the outside.

41
00:02:08.840 --> 00:02:12.199
<v Speaker 1>Come around here and open the lid, that kind of thing.

42
00:02:13.000 --> 00:02:16.439
<v Speaker 2>But those boxes were not the correct dimensions for the

43
00:02:16.439 --> 00:02:18.240
<v Speaker 2>battery I had. That's what I wanted. I wanted to

44
00:02:18.319 --> 00:02:20.000
<v Speaker 2>use that, so they were up and out of way.

45
00:02:20.039 --> 00:02:24.639
<v Speaker 2>This was before installed the deck slide here. I've got

46
00:02:25.120 --> 00:02:29.199
<v Speaker 2>this rack and the decked and a few other things.

47
00:02:29.199 --> 00:02:29.639
<v Speaker 1>This ice COO.

48
00:02:29.759 --> 00:02:32.719
<v Speaker 2>I've got videos about that on my unplugged channel. But

49
00:02:32.759 --> 00:02:34.960
<v Speaker 2>today we're talking about the battery system that's going to

50
00:02:35.039 --> 00:02:36.599
<v Speaker 2>run all of the things in the back of the

51
00:02:36.639 --> 00:02:39.840
<v Speaker 2>truck and it's going to enable me to have a

52
00:02:39.879 --> 00:02:42.719
<v Speaker 2>completely mobile off grid communications vehicle.

53
00:02:43.520 --> 00:02:45.960
<v Speaker 1>So this is going through real quick.

54
00:02:46.000 --> 00:02:49.479
<v Speaker 2>Here. This is a red Arc DC to DC controller.

55
00:02:49.800 --> 00:02:54.120
<v Speaker 2>This connects to It runs one positive lead to my

56
00:02:54.560 --> 00:02:56.759
<v Speaker 2>starter battery in the truck, my main battery in the truck,

57
00:02:57.159 --> 00:02:59.120
<v Speaker 2>and then it comes back here and it connects to

58
00:02:59.120 --> 00:03:03.159
<v Speaker 2>several different places and it will charge my secondary battery

59
00:03:03.199 --> 00:03:05.599
<v Speaker 2>that's going to go in here when the truck is running.

60
00:03:05.719 --> 00:03:08.719
<v Speaker 2>It also has a forty amp it's a forty amp charger.

61
00:03:08.719 --> 00:03:12.000
<v Speaker 2>It also has a built in MPPT solar charge controller,

62
00:03:12.400 --> 00:03:15.560
<v Speaker 2>so I can charge this charge my battery through this

63
00:03:15.800 --> 00:03:18.479
<v Speaker 2>via solar or via just the engine running in the truck.

64
00:03:19.240 --> 00:03:23.879
<v Speaker 2>This is the Victron links shunt, which operates as a shunt.

65
00:03:23.919 --> 00:03:27.120
<v Speaker 2>This is basically where the secondary battery gets connected to

66
00:03:27.240 --> 00:03:30.199
<v Speaker 2>right here, and this is the links distributor which acts

67
00:03:30.240 --> 00:03:32.759
<v Speaker 2>as a bus bar, both the positive and negative bus

68
00:03:32.759 --> 00:03:36.800
<v Speaker 2>bar for the system. So let me take these cases,

69
00:03:37.039 --> 00:03:39.439
<v Speaker 2>and of course I have my rig Runner four thousand

70
00:03:39.439 --> 00:03:41.800
<v Speaker 2>and five right there as well. Now this will run,

71
00:03:42.080 --> 00:03:43.800
<v Speaker 2>so my ice code fridge will plug in here. And

72
00:03:43.800 --> 00:03:46.719
<v Speaker 2>then this one comes to an external port here. One

73
00:03:46.759 --> 00:03:48.680
<v Speaker 2>of these is the solar input and one of these

74
00:03:48.840 --> 00:03:50.719
<v Speaker 2>is the is just an extra port that I can

75
00:03:50.719 --> 00:03:53.199
<v Speaker 2>plug in something external if I want to. I chose

76
00:03:53.199 --> 00:03:56.759
<v Speaker 2>these SAE connectors because they are waterproof and they have

77
00:03:56.800 --> 00:03:59.240
<v Speaker 2>this cover over them, so that's what that's for. And

78
00:03:59.280 --> 00:04:01.879
<v Speaker 2>then this is the power coming in from the links

79
00:04:01.879 --> 00:04:05.599
<v Speaker 2>distributor to the rig Runner. And let's take the covers

80
00:04:05.639 --> 00:04:06.879
<v Speaker 2>off of here and I'll show you guys what this

81
00:04:06.919 --> 00:04:09.960
<v Speaker 2>looks like. This is the shunt and the distributor with

82
00:04:10.039 --> 00:04:13.800
<v Speaker 2>the removable covers taken off. These just unbolt. There's a

83
00:04:13.840 --> 00:04:17.439
<v Speaker 2>Phillip said screw on either end. Just unbolting, lift off

84
00:04:17.480 --> 00:04:21.360
<v Speaker 2>really cleanly, really easily. This is a two hundred amp

85
00:04:21.560 --> 00:04:25.360
<v Speaker 2>fuse that connects the external battery to the rest of

86
00:04:25.399 --> 00:04:27.399
<v Speaker 2>the system over here. So there's the two hundred amp

87
00:04:27.439 --> 00:04:30.600
<v Speaker 2>fuze there and then these are individually fused. This and

88
00:04:30.639 --> 00:04:33.639
<v Speaker 2>I believe these are fifty amp fuses, is what these

89
00:04:33.639 --> 00:04:39.519
<v Speaker 2>are here. So we've got four fuse circuits fifty times

90
00:04:39.600 --> 00:04:42.040
<v Speaker 2>forwards two hundred. That's why this is a two hundred here.

91
00:04:42.399 --> 00:04:44.600
<v Speaker 2>Now this is a four hundred and sixty amp system,

92
00:04:45.079 --> 00:04:47.800
<v Speaker 2>and the rig runner itself has forty amp fuses in it,

93
00:04:48.199 --> 00:04:50.800
<v Speaker 2>so there's multiple fuses running through the system. I'm not

94
00:04:50.800 --> 00:04:53.199
<v Speaker 2>really worried about it much happening to it. And there's

95
00:04:53.240 --> 00:04:55.600
<v Speaker 2>no way I'm going to be pulling two hundred amps

96
00:04:55.600 --> 00:04:57.920
<v Speaker 2>through this all at one time, even if everything was running,

97
00:04:58.240 --> 00:05:01.000
<v Speaker 2>because these fifty amp fuses are not gonna victron fuses.

98
00:05:01.040 --> 00:05:03.560
<v Speaker 2>You can get them in I think thirty forty fifty,

99
00:05:03.639 --> 00:05:05.120
<v Speaker 2>one hundred, two hundred amps. You can get them in

100
00:05:05.120 --> 00:05:06.839
<v Speaker 2>all kinds of sizes there. They might come as low

101
00:05:06.839 --> 00:05:08.680
<v Speaker 2>as twenty five amps. I don't remember, but you know,

102
00:05:08.680 --> 00:05:10.639
<v Speaker 2>if I'm keyed down on HF for an extended period

103
00:05:10.639 --> 00:05:12.519
<v Speaker 2>of time, maybe with FT eight or something, I might

104
00:05:12.519 --> 00:05:15.480
<v Speaker 2>be pulling twenty five or thirty amps. So I need

105
00:05:15.519 --> 00:05:18.000
<v Speaker 2>something that is at least that big. And of course

106
00:05:18.040 --> 00:05:19.800
<v Speaker 2>you could put these different sizes if you want to,

107
00:05:20.240 --> 00:05:23.639
<v Speaker 2>but this is the line coming off the rig runner

108
00:05:23.680 --> 00:05:26.680
<v Speaker 2>powering the rig runner going in here. You've got a

109
00:05:26.720 --> 00:05:30.959
<v Speaker 2>positive line there and this is fused to the positive

110
00:05:31.120 --> 00:05:36.040
<v Speaker 2>bus bar that runs to the shunt and to the

111
00:05:36.079 --> 00:05:39.000
<v Speaker 2>external battery underneath this, which I'm not gonna pull that

112
00:05:39.000 --> 00:05:41.319
<v Speaker 2>one up, but I'll pull this one up here. Underneath

113
00:05:41.360 --> 00:05:44.120
<v Speaker 2>this is where the negative bus bar connects to. So

114
00:05:44.160 --> 00:05:46.480
<v Speaker 2>you've got your positive bus bar, your negative bus bar

115
00:05:46.519 --> 00:05:48.199
<v Speaker 2>on the bottom. This goes over the top of it,

116
00:05:48.680 --> 00:05:50.879
<v Speaker 2>which is what this part is right here, and your

117
00:05:51.360 --> 00:05:54.439
<v Speaker 2>positive connection goes here. I don't have anything in this

118
00:05:54.480 --> 00:05:57.079
<v Speaker 2>spot because I only have three connections right now. So

119
00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:59.639
<v Speaker 2>this is the rig runner. This is going to be

120
00:05:59.639 --> 00:06:01.800
<v Speaker 2>the rig run, the second rig runner that have mounted

121
00:06:01.800 --> 00:06:03.920
<v Speaker 2>behind the seat in my truck which runs on my radios.

122
00:06:04.519 --> 00:06:08.399
<v Speaker 2>And this right here is the red arc DC to

123
00:06:08.480 --> 00:06:10.800
<v Speaker 2>d C charger. So I've got all of these running

124
00:06:10.839 --> 00:06:15.920
<v Speaker 2>through the links distributor and they will be read by

125
00:06:15.920 --> 00:06:17.839
<v Speaker 2>the link shunt, so I'll be able to monitor everything

126
00:06:17.879 --> 00:06:20.759
<v Speaker 2>coming into and going out of the battery. And if

127
00:06:20.800 --> 00:06:23.120
<v Speaker 2>I want to, you say, see how these these come

128
00:06:23.160 --> 00:06:25.199
<v Speaker 2>as two separate pieces, and you take the bolts off

129
00:06:25.439 --> 00:06:27.600
<v Speaker 2>and you connect them right there. You can connect a

130
00:06:27.680 --> 00:06:29.759
<v Speaker 2>second one of these right here and it would be

131
00:06:29.759 --> 00:06:31.480
<v Speaker 2>that much longer. In fact, you can connect these kind

132
00:06:31.519 --> 00:06:36.480
<v Speaker 2>of indefinitely. These links distributors have ports on both sides

133
00:06:36.480 --> 00:06:38.680
<v Speaker 2>to connect to one another, so you can daisy chain them,

134
00:06:39.040 --> 00:06:41.120
<v Speaker 2>you know, for as long as a long as you want,

135
00:06:41.160 --> 00:06:44.040
<v Speaker 2>as much room as you have. And probably what I

136
00:06:44.720 --> 00:06:47.240
<v Speaker 2>might do in the future is expand this. I wasn't

137
00:06:47.279 --> 00:06:50.879
<v Speaker 2>able to find an actual box that was this is

138
00:06:50.920 --> 00:06:53.360
<v Speaker 2>the best box I could find. Now. This box works fine,

139
00:06:53.560 --> 00:06:55.480
<v Speaker 2>but it's obviously limited in space, and you'll see that

140
00:06:55.560 --> 00:06:59.120
<v Speaker 2>when the video when I get everything installed. But I

141
00:06:59.120 --> 00:07:02.399
<v Speaker 2>wouldn't mind finding a box this, maybe a little bit

142
00:07:02.439 --> 00:07:04.240
<v Speaker 2>taller or something like that, with a little bit more room,

143
00:07:04.279 --> 00:07:06.639
<v Speaker 2>so I could eventually add a second links distributor and

144
00:07:06.680 --> 00:07:08.759
<v Speaker 2>put a few more things on it. But for now,

145
00:07:09.240 --> 00:07:12.399
<v Speaker 2>this is gonna be enough. It's gonna run everything we've got.

146
00:07:13.240 --> 00:07:15.680
<v Speaker 2>It's gonna run my entire rig runner in the truck,

147
00:07:16.160 --> 00:07:19.639
<v Speaker 2>and it's gonna retire. It's gonna run everything in the back,

148
00:07:20.000 --> 00:07:24.199
<v Speaker 2>which is the which is the ice coat, fridge, and

149
00:07:24.319 --> 00:07:26.079
<v Speaker 2>the starlink and several other things.

150
00:07:26.199 --> 00:07:27.759
<v Speaker 1>So let's put all this together.

151
00:07:34.720 --> 00:07:37.800
<v Speaker 2>The first part of that video was about three months ago.

152
00:07:38.720 --> 00:07:40.879
<v Speaker 2>It was towards the end of December. Part one of

153
00:07:40.879 --> 00:07:44.079
<v Speaker 2>the video was about a month before that November. Part

154
00:07:44.079 --> 00:07:46.160
<v Speaker 2>two of the video that you saw where I went

155
00:07:46.199 --> 00:07:50.319
<v Speaker 2>through the Victron stuff, was in late December. In January,

156
00:07:50.600 --> 00:07:53.319
<v Speaker 2>I put everything together that you saw there, and I

157
00:07:53.399 --> 00:07:56.519
<v Speaker 2>let it run for about, I don't know, a couple

158
00:07:56.560 --> 00:07:59.759
<v Speaker 2>of weeks on this battery. Now, this battery worked fine. Obviously,

159
00:07:59.839 --> 00:08:02.560
<v Speaker 2>it's one hundre damp power. It is not going to

160
00:08:02.680 --> 00:08:04.240
<v Speaker 2>last as long as the other one. But I wanted

161
00:08:04.240 --> 00:08:06.480
<v Speaker 2>to put it together because that four to sixty is

162
00:08:06.480 --> 00:08:07.800
<v Speaker 2>so heavy.

163
00:08:07.920 --> 00:08:08.879
<v Speaker 1>I didn't want to put it all.

164
00:08:08.759 --> 00:08:10.759
<v Speaker 2>Together and then drive it around for a while and

165
00:08:11.319 --> 00:08:13.480
<v Speaker 2>be like something I didn't hook up something right or

166
00:08:13.519 --> 00:08:16.000
<v Speaker 2>something's not working correctly, and have to plug that sucker.

167
00:08:15.680 --> 00:08:18.040
<v Speaker 1>Out of there again. I'll show you how I mounted

168
00:08:18.079 --> 00:08:18.519
<v Speaker 1>it in there.

169
00:08:18.959 --> 00:08:21.360
<v Speaker 2>But I ran it on that and that battery would

170
00:08:21.399 --> 00:08:26.399
<v Speaker 2>last almost two days running my entire system. Now, when

171
00:08:26.439 --> 00:08:28.519
<v Speaker 2>the truck is idle like it is now, it's not

172
00:08:28.759 --> 00:08:32.559
<v Speaker 2>beaconing APRS. There is a radio one in there on received,

173
00:08:32.559 --> 00:08:36.039
<v Speaker 2>but I'm not transmitting obviously. And the temperatures outside over

174
00:08:36.080 --> 00:08:38.360
<v Speaker 2>the last two or three months have been fairly cool

175
00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:41.399
<v Speaker 2>to cold. We had a couple of fifteen degree days

176
00:08:41.440 --> 00:08:44.000
<v Speaker 2>in February, so the fridge doesn't work that the fridge

177
00:08:44.039 --> 00:08:45.879
<v Speaker 2>is plugged up twenty four to seven, but the fridge

178
00:08:45.879 --> 00:08:48.360
<v Speaker 2>isn't working that hard because the ambient temperature outside is

179
00:08:48.399 --> 00:08:51.320
<v Speaker 2>not that high, so that battery would last it for

180
00:08:51.399 --> 00:08:55.200
<v Speaker 2>about two days, but about a week before Orlandohimkash of

181
00:08:55.240 --> 00:08:58.879
<v Speaker 2>twenty twenty four, which was not quite a month ago

182
00:08:58.919 --> 00:09:01.000
<v Speaker 2>at the time of this recording, the time of this

183
00:09:01.120 --> 00:09:03.879
<v Speaker 2>last piece, right here, I put in my four hundred

184
00:09:03.879 --> 00:09:05.519
<v Speaker 2>and sixty AM power battery and let me tell you

185
00:09:05.600 --> 00:09:08.200
<v Speaker 2>guys something. I can't kill this thing.

186
00:09:09.720 --> 00:09:11.919
<v Speaker 1>I can't kill it. I will drive the.

187
00:09:11.879 --> 00:09:15.519
<v Speaker 2>Truck and it's at one hundred percent because that red

188
00:09:15.639 --> 00:09:16.080
<v Speaker 2>art thing.

189
00:09:16.039 --> 00:09:18.080
<v Speaker 1>Keeps it topped off pretty well.

190
00:09:18.320 --> 00:09:20.559
<v Speaker 2>So that red art piece keeps it topped off pretty

191
00:09:20.559 --> 00:09:25.240
<v Speaker 2>well while it's running. And again, it hadn't really gotten

192
00:09:25.279 --> 00:09:26.879
<v Speaker 2>hot yet. And I'm gonna be interested to see how

193
00:09:26.919 --> 00:09:30.000
<v Speaker 2>it performs this coming summer when it's you know, ninety

194
00:09:30.039 --> 00:09:32.759
<v Speaker 2>five hundred hundred and five degrees outside in Texas and

195
00:09:32.799 --> 00:09:35.519
<v Speaker 2>the fridge raider is gone is having to run a

196
00:09:35.600 --> 00:09:38.720
<v Speaker 2>little bit more often than it is running. Right now,

197
00:09:38.759 --> 00:09:41.480
<v Speaker 2>I've got this in here as a as kind of

198
00:09:41.559 --> 00:09:45.559
<v Speaker 2>like a brace to keep it from falling over. Just

199
00:09:45.159 --> 00:09:48.159
<v Speaker 2>this is this is temporary. This is not one hundred

200
00:09:48.159 --> 00:09:51.000
<v Speaker 2>percent done yet, but it's it's done. It's been I've

201
00:09:51.039 --> 00:09:52.720
<v Speaker 2>been running it like this for about a month. You

202
00:09:52.759 --> 00:09:54.840
<v Speaker 2>see that I put some l brackets in here to

203
00:09:54.919 --> 00:09:57.279
<v Speaker 2>keep the battery from sliding back or sliding this way.

204
00:09:57.320 --> 00:10:00.200
<v Speaker 2>There's another one down there. So that's the whole thing.

205
00:10:00.240 --> 00:10:02.320
<v Speaker 2>That's the four hundred and sixty amp hour. And every

206
00:10:02.399 --> 00:10:04.840
<v Speaker 2>time I parked the truck, I parked the truck for

207
00:10:05.799 --> 00:10:10.039
<v Speaker 2>let's see, I arrived in Orlando on Wednesday. We went

208
00:10:10.080 --> 00:10:13.519
<v Speaker 2>to Poda on Thursday, and I parked the truck Thursday night,

209
00:10:13.559 --> 00:10:16.960
<v Speaker 2>and I don't think I moved the truck until Sunday.

210
00:10:17.720 --> 00:10:18.639
<v Speaker 1>I might have moved it.

211
00:10:18.679 --> 00:10:20.919
<v Speaker 2>I might have started it and kind of parked it

212
00:10:20.960 --> 00:10:23.519
<v Speaker 2>somewhere else, but I don't think I left the park

213
00:10:23.919 --> 00:10:27.679
<v Speaker 2>all day Friday Saturday until Sunday. So I let it

214
00:10:28.440 --> 00:10:33.480
<v Speaker 2>sit for about four days. We got back on Thursday afternoon.

215
00:10:33.799 --> 00:10:36.720
<v Speaker 2>Thursday to Friday Friday is Saturday Saturday to Sunday, about

216
00:10:36.720 --> 00:10:40.480
<v Speaker 2>three days, like three days. And the battery was like above,

217
00:10:40.480 --> 00:10:42.679
<v Speaker 2>it as like eighty one or eighty two percent. And

218
00:10:42.759 --> 00:10:44.440
<v Speaker 2>of course as soon as I start the truck up

219
00:10:44.480 --> 00:10:46.960
<v Speaker 2>and start driving home, it charges back up forty amps

220
00:10:46.960 --> 00:10:49.639
<v Speaker 2>per hour. You know, it'll charge the entire battery in

221
00:10:49.679 --> 00:10:52.399
<v Speaker 2>about ten hours, about about eleven hours, a little bit

222
00:10:52.440 --> 00:10:54.679
<v Speaker 2>less than twelve hours. I say, if I could do math,

223
00:10:55.039 --> 00:10:57.279
<v Speaker 2>I would have said twelve hours, a little bit less

224
00:10:57.279 --> 00:11:01.480
<v Speaker 2>than twelve hours. Forty amps an hour times twelve is

225
00:11:01.840 --> 00:11:02.960
<v Speaker 2>four hundred and eighty.

226
00:11:03.879 --> 00:11:06.519
<v Speaker 1>So and then it's a four hundred and sixty Empire battery.

227
00:11:06.679 --> 00:11:10.360
<v Speaker 2>But I've had this running since again, that was almost

228
00:11:10.360 --> 00:11:13.000
<v Speaker 2>not quite a month ago. I've had this running since then.

229
00:11:13.440 --> 00:11:15.360
<v Speaker 2>I don't drive my truck every day. I work from

230
00:11:15.399 --> 00:11:16.360
<v Speaker 2>home making videos.

231
00:11:16.360 --> 00:11:18.480
<v Speaker 1>That's what I do. You guys know that. And so

232
00:11:18.519 --> 00:11:20.679
<v Speaker 1>I'll come out here to the truck after it's.

233
00:11:20.480 --> 00:11:22.679
<v Speaker 2>Been sitting for a couple of days and the batteries

234
00:11:22.720 --> 00:11:24.679
<v Speaker 2>at like ninety five percent, okay.

235
00:11:24.720 --> 00:11:26.279
<v Speaker 1>I had the truck in the shop.

236
00:11:26.480 --> 00:11:28.600
<v Speaker 2>Before I drove it to Ohio to pick up my

237
00:11:28.720 --> 00:11:33.720
<v Speaker 2>new travel trailer last week. And the truck was in

238
00:11:33.759 --> 00:11:36.600
<v Speaker 2>the shop they were replacing the fuel pump. It sat

239
00:11:36.639 --> 00:11:38.399
<v Speaker 2>there for two days before they ever looked at it.

240
00:11:38.559 --> 00:11:40.840
<v Speaker 2>They pulled it into the bay, took the gas tank out,

241
00:11:40.960 --> 00:11:43.080
<v Speaker 2>replaced the fuel pump, put it back in, drove it up.

242
00:11:43.159 --> 00:11:44.960
<v Speaker 2>They drove it up the road down and back again.

243
00:11:45.000 --> 00:11:47.519
<v Speaker 2>They drove it like maybe five maybe four or five miles,

244
00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:50.799
<v Speaker 2>so it wasn't running that long. And I come back

245
00:11:50.840 --> 00:11:52.440
<v Speaker 2>to pick it up like three days later, and the

246
00:11:52.480 --> 00:11:59.120
<v Speaker 2>batteries at like ninety two percent, so.

247
00:11:57.039 --> 00:11:58.799
<v Speaker 1>So it charged up a little bit while it was running.

248
00:11:58.840 --> 00:12:00.720
<v Speaker 2>But I mean, like the free I ran for like

249
00:12:00.759 --> 00:12:04.000
<v Speaker 2>four days without the truck started at all. And again

250
00:12:04.080 --> 00:12:07.360
<v Speaker 2>it's not that hot outside, so further testing this season

251
00:12:07.399 --> 00:12:12.720
<v Speaker 2>will see. But my god, this battery is freaking rad

252
00:12:12.960 --> 00:12:16.039
<v Speaker 2>It is freaking awesome. I tried to do a capacity

253
00:12:16.080 --> 00:12:18.799
<v Speaker 2>test on the West Mountain Radio software and for whatever reason,

254
00:12:19.080 --> 00:12:22.399
<v Speaker 2>the way the battery is built, one of the guys

255
00:12:22.399 --> 00:12:24.200
<v Speaker 2>at EPOK explained it to me. It was kind of

256
00:12:24.240 --> 00:12:26.480
<v Speaker 2>over my head, but just the way the battery is built,

257
00:12:26.519 --> 00:12:29.279
<v Speaker 2>it just the West Mountain Radio software won't read it correctly,

258
00:12:29.639 --> 00:12:32.600
<v Speaker 2>so I can't get a real capacity test on it.

259
00:12:33.000 --> 00:12:36.879
<v Speaker 2>But let me tell you something, working real world, actual

260
00:12:36.960 --> 00:12:41.240
<v Speaker 2>hands on and doing the thing, it's awesome.

261
00:12:41.360 --> 00:12:44.159
<v Speaker 1>I just I absolutely love it. So I'm gonna show you.

262
00:12:44.120 --> 00:12:46.600
<v Speaker 2>What the app looks like now the next part of

263
00:12:46.720 --> 00:12:49.960
<v Speaker 2>this build. So everything that's in the box now is

264
00:12:49.960 --> 00:12:51.919
<v Speaker 2>the battery and all of the Victron stuff I showed

265
00:12:51.919 --> 00:12:54.879
<v Speaker 2>you before. Apparently Victron doesn't put Bluetooth in some of

266
00:12:54.919 --> 00:12:58.799
<v Speaker 2>their devices. I thought I thought Victron all had Bluetooth devices,

267
00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:01.960
<v Speaker 2>or at least that link show. I thought it had Bluetooth. Apparently,

268
00:13:02.279 --> 00:13:04.159
<v Speaker 2>the link Shun I got it's like three hundred bucks.

269
00:13:04.200 --> 00:13:07.000
<v Speaker 2>They make a Bluetooth version it's like eleven hundred bucks.

270
00:13:08.360 --> 00:13:10.320
<v Speaker 1>So I didn't go that route.

271
00:13:10.360 --> 00:13:13.759
<v Speaker 2>But there is a thing called a SERBOGX that they

272
00:13:13.799 --> 00:13:15.159
<v Speaker 2>make that I picked up recently.

273
00:13:15.159 --> 00:13:16.399
<v Speaker 1>I'm gonna add it to the system.

274
00:13:16.759 --> 00:13:18.720
<v Speaker 2>Not only does it have Bluetooth, it also has an

275
00:13:18.759 --> 00:13:21.039
<v Speaker 2>Internet connection, and as you guys know, my truck has

276
00:13:21.080 --> 00:13:23.039
<v Speaker 2>Wi Fi full time WiFi. In fact, I'm about to

277
00:13:23.039 --> 00:13:24.840
<v Speaker 2>put Starlink in the truck.

278
00:13:25.480 --> 00:13:27.159
<v Speaker 1>I've just been waiting on to get a new.

279
00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:29.799
<v Speaker 2>Mount for Starlink to put it in the truck. But

280
00:13:30.039 --> 00:13:34.440
<v Speaker 2>so anyway, either way, it has full time Internet in

281
00:13:34.480 --> 00:13:38.039
<v Speaker 2>the truck, and the SERBOGX will not only connect via Bluetooth,

282
00:13:38.039 --> 00:13:39.519
<v Speaker 2>so I'll be able to monitor it a little bit.

283
00:13:39.399 --> 00:13:41.240
<v Speaker 1>Better, but it will.

284
00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:43.759
<v Speaker 2>It will upload to the Victron cloud, so I'll be

285
00:13:43.759 --> 00:13:46.320
<v Speaker 2>able to log in to the Victron cloud and look

286
00:13:46.320 --> 00:13:48.960
<v Speaker 2>at my truck from anywhere where I have an Internet connection.

287
00:13:49.279 --> 00:13:51.759
<v Speaker 2>So this is what the app for EPOC. This is

288
00:13:51.799 --> 00:13:54.200
<v Speaker 2>the Epoch app, not the Victron app. I'm gonna be

289
00:13:54.279 --> 00:13:57.559
<v Speaker 2>running the Victron app soon. I might take the SERBOGX

290
00:13:57.559 --> 00:13:58.919
<v Speaker 2>has a monitor you can add to it.

291
00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:01.480
<v Speaker 1>That's HDUM. I might put that there and let it

292
00:14:01.559 --> 00:14:02.080
<v Speaker 1>run full time.

293
00:14:02.120 --> 00:14:04.960
<v Speaker 2>I don't know yet, maybe maybe not here, but here's

294
00:14:04.960 --> 00:14:07.200
<v Speaker 2>the Epoch app. I don't like the one thing I

295
00:14:07.240 --> 00:14:11.000
<v Speaker 2>don't like about this app. It does not turn horizontal.

296
00:14:11.200 --> 00:14:13.639
<v Speaker 2>It stays vertical. I email the guys at EPOK about this.

297
00:14:13.679 --> 00:14:15.320
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, guys, can you update your app so that

298
00:14:15.360 --> 00:14:17.919
<v Speaker 2>it you know, you can look at it on a tablet.

299
00:14:17.960 --> 00:14:21.120
<v Speaker 2>That's not vertical because I keep my tablet right here

300
00:14:21.120 --> 00:14:23.960
<v Speaker 2>in horizontal fashion, but you could see right there the

301
00:14:23.960 --> 00:14:26.960
<v Speaker 2>batteries at ninety nine percent thirteen point.

302
00:14:26.960 --> 00:14:27.759
<v Speaker 1>I'll turn the camera.

303
00:14:27.799 --> 00:14:31.879
<v Speaker 2>How's that so you guys can see that better? Thirteen

304
00:14:31.919 --> 00:14:36.000
<v Speaker 2>point three volts zero point zero amps are being drawn

305
00:14:36.080 --> 00:14:38.679
<v Speaker 2>from it right now, which means the refrigerator's not running

306
00:14:39.000 --> 00:14:40.840
<v Speaker 2>and the engine's not running, which obviously the engine is

307
00:14:40.840 --> 00:14:43.440
<v Speaker 2>not running, and it's at four hundred and forty seven

308
00:14:43.440 --> 00:14:46.240
<v Speaker 2>out of four hundred and sixty amps. And that's that's

309
00:14:46.279 --> 00:14:49.600
<v Speaker 2>how I've been monitoring it since I don't have my

310
00:14:49.679 --> 00:14:53.039
<v Speaker 2>Victron Bluetooth set up yet. But that is the next step.

311
00:14:53.480 --> 00:14:55.799
<v Speaker 2>And like I said, I just I can't seem to

312
00:14:55.919 --> 00:15:00.000
<v Speaker 2>kill this battery. So special shout out to Epoch Battery.

313
00:15:00.120 --> 00:15:01.799
<v Speaker 2>I had them on a livestream a couple of months ago.

314
00:15:01.840 --> 00:15:04.120
<v Speaker 2>They make a fantastic product. I've got one of This

315
00:15:04.159 --> 00:15:05.879
<v Speaker 2>is a four hundred and sixty empower. Like I said,

316
00:15:06.039 --> 00:15:08.639
<v Speaker 2>I've got one of their three hundred empower batteries. I've

317
00:15:08.679 --> 00:15:11.480
<v Speaker 2>done a little bit of testing on that. We're gonna

318
00:15:11.480 --> 00:15:16.559
<v Speaker 2>finish that up soon. Awesome, awesome, very rough, very durable,

319
00:15:16.720 --> 00:15:22.440
<v Speaker 2>very outdoors rough country batteries. And we're gonna see how

320
00:15:22.519 --> 00:15:27.000
<v Speaker 2>it lasts the summer in Texas. My last battery last

321
00:15:27.080 --> 00:15:28.799
<v Speaker 2>the summer Texas is fine. In fact, you know what

322
00:15:28.960 --> 00:15:33.440
<v Speaker 2>something I forgot during one of those fifteen degree days.

323
00:15:33.440 --> 00:15:35.279
<v Speaker 2>I woke up in the morning fifteen degrees outside a

324
00:15:35.279 --> 00:15:39.240
<v Speaker 2>couple like during the middle of February, shortly after hammcasion,

325
00:15:39.639 --> 00:15:41.879
<v Speaker 2>I came out to the truck and I started my truck.

326
00:15:42.000 --> 00:15:43.840
<v Speaker 2>My truck doesn't like to run when it's when it's

327
00:15:43.840 --> 00:15:45.840
<v Speaker 2>cold any more than I like to run when it's cold.

328
00:15:46.519 --> 00:15:48.519
<v Speaker 2>And the truck started just fine. And I turn on

329
00:15:48.559 --> 00:15:51.480
<v Speaker 2>this app and the batteries that like, I don't know,

330
00:15:51.600 --> 00:15:54.039
<v Speaker 2>maybe ninety four to ninety five percent something like that.

331
00:15:54.120 --> 00:15:58.600
<v Speaker 2>And I look at the monitor and there's zero amps

332
00:15:59.159 --> 00:16:03.360
<v Speaker 2>coming into the back, so it has low temperature cut off.

333
00:16:03.519 --> 00:16:06.399
<v Speaker 2>Low temperature charging cut off. So when the battery is cold,

334
00:16:06.720 --> 00:16:09.240
<v Speaker 2>it wouldn't allow the red arc charger to charge it

335
00:16:09.519 --> 00:16:12.480
<v Speaker 2>to save from because it's fifteen degrees out. Well, it's

336
00:16:12.480 --> 00:16:14.799
<v Speaker 2>fifteen degrees outside. I don't know what the temperature of

337
00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:18.879
<v Speaker 2>the battery was, but it does say a temperature on

338
00:16:18.960 --> 00:16:19.679
<v Speaker 2>this app here.

339
00:16:19.720 --> 00:16:22.000
<v Speaker 1>Boun't remember what it was, so low temperature cut off

340
00:16:22.000 --> 00:16:22.759
<v Speaker 1>on top of all that.

341
00:16:22.919 --> 00:16:26.159
<v Speaker 2>So thank you to Epoch Batteries for sending this to me.

342
00:16:26.279 --> 00:16:29.000
<v Speaker 2>I really enjoy this battery. We will make some more

343
00:16:29.080 --> 00:16:32.039
<v Speaker 2>videos with it later. I will put any coupon codes

344
00:16:32.080 --> 00:16:34.840
<v Speaker 2>that they have in the description of this video below.

345
00:16:34.879 --> 00:16:36.960
<v Speaker 2>You guys go check them out if you want just

346
00:16:37.000 --> 00:16:41.759
<v Speaker 2>a very durable long lasting, just excellent, excellent quality battery.

347
00:16:41.879 --> 00:16:44.360
<v Speaker 2>Go check them out link in the description below. Seventy

348
00:16:44.360 --> 00:16:45.200
<v Speaker 2>three and thanks for watching that