Brupeg's Marine Electrical Upgrade Begins - Ep.359

[@darrenjohnson4482]

the flexi water hoses worry me even thou they are stainless I have seen them rust and burst. As this is going though the electric cabinet I would be leaning towards hard lines. Water and electrics never a good outcome for the electrics. Good to hear the count is back as you were putting the door on

[@johnharman5440]

That was a really great episode. My dad told me that a man that never fucked up never did anything.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Ain’t that the truth! Thanks very much John

[@Bullshit1011]

So true

[@Bullshit1011]

You guys are work horses, ❤

[@oyou812]

The usual organized disaster look before everything comes together. Looking good 👍

[@toomasnelson4561]

looking back it must be frustrating to have to redo all this, looking forward it will be just so much better.

[@Kevin_Ridenour]

The patience, perseverance, and just plain hard work you all exhibit every day is inspiring, and keeps me coming back.

[@dennisash7221]

If you are going to make offest or wooden surfaces I suggest don't glue them on, it's just a nightmare taking them off in the future. Mount them with bolts or studs you weld onto the steel plates. In this way they are easily replaced in the future. Yup electrical stuff costs a flipping fortune, at least you have the right stuff now. Keep the episodes coming I am loving watching them as you guys tackle each problem getting closer to final launch day

[@FISHERMANPADDY]

A Multitool with a flat blade will make short work of all that sika and splinters stuck to the wall next time 😊

[@ismzaxxon]

Glad you are mentioning paint product names, as I am repainting steel on a yacht at the moment.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Yeah we use Jotun on pretty much everything as its cheap, good quality and available where we are. We used to use a lot more Wattyl but the supplier has now moved so its harder for us to get now.

[@ismzaxxon]

@@ProjectBrupeg Wattyl paint... I didnt know that worked on marine. I am on the Sunshine coast.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Depends on what you buy. Wattyl do epoxy and polyurethane two packs which are just as good as Jotun. Distributor is based in Hervey Bay so it’s a pain to go and buy that versus Jotun in town. Both similar price and long lasting

[@billblack3093]

Thanks!

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Thank you so much Bill

[@o0Hotiron0o]

A true electric boogie........ all the best !

[@billgoodman2794]

You guys work so hard

[@propylaeen]

Dane and Jess it seems it must be total bliss having you around, you are so welcoming and caring and at the same time relaxed and cool. There are not much YT couples around on boats I guess it would be great to do a Færøerne, Svalbard, Island trip together :-)

[@stco2426]

Great and frantic work. Loads of fab work here and you must be so pleased to be tackling these giant projects. Also glad you didn't paint yourselves into a corner with that PU. Shout out for managing to film (and edit) all this, too. Brill work, team Brupeg.

[@NeutronModulator]

Great video Dame ! Off grid power is a real interest of mine. I actually freaked when you said the old Victron gear was getting tossed. Considering the BlueSolar Design & Build quality, the smoke-letting🔥should have been contained and possibly repairable. (As backups ?)

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Might have been fixable but we don’t have the knowledge or skills onboard to be able to do that and a mountain of other projects we need to finish

[@aserta]

This is a big step towards a proper sea worthy Brupy. Awesome to the max!

[@Dave_1966]

Whooohooooo it’s started 😊🎉❤

[@brianrydzeski6108]

Another excellent video. My Dad always said "Life's too short to figure out everything on your own -- ask knowledgeable people to help you." Jess & Dame, you indeed find the right help, and also innovate on your own. I enjoy watching. Cheers.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Thanks for sharing!

[@robdeaton9910]

Demo work is always such a great feeling 😊. Then the satisfaction of rebuilding new things. 😊

[@dcallan812]

Great to see the electrical upgrades started. great video 2x👍

[@102roly]

Brilliant to see you're now moving forward with the new electrics, cracking effort. 👏👏

[@billmeldrum2509]

Looks like you guys are making good progress. 🇨🇦

[@Sircraig7963]

G'day Crew, Great the genset will soon be wired in & then up n running ( thanks to Detrick for his skills). I just loathe using the jason pistol/ needle gun, i can still hear my ears ringing, so enjoy that one Damo. But, finalising the electrical system is a crutial part of Brupeg being ready for sea . Soon you will be working up the boat doing your sea trials . There's light at the end of the tunnel, not long now guys. Respect....!

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Thanks Craig. It sure feels like we are really close to sea trials

[@fowletm1992]

I don't know if there's anything over east there but in Perth we have Alt tech, they do new off grid systems to homes and they take old amd damaged gear and fix it up and sell it to people like me, a farmer and a 4x4 guy, Iv got a charge controller that was struck by lightning and is inly working half capacity, but it's more than enough to run my GPS base station, amd it was cheap

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Nice. There may be something but I’m not aware of any place that does that. Sounds awesome though

[@mySeaPrince_]

I hope you weigh in the cable bits at the scrapyard and any thick wire strip the plastic and weigh in as pure copper which is about £5 a kilo in UK all the others are lower than a £1.. but do check local prices. Motors, Aluminium, Cast iron, Stainless, Lead Acid Batteries, are some other categories.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Huh that’s a good point. Will check that out, thanks

[@mySeaPrince_]

@@ProjectBrupeg I left a reply but not here.... Get full lists of things wanted by several scrap yards.

[@Bob-bo8ik]

Never leave anyone alone in a confined space.

[@ThePaulv12]

Well this episode was the 'meat' we've been waiting for. I understand the preliminaries must be performed to get here but I do enjoy the payoff episodes I must say.

[@jossmaxwell00]

I can feel a buzz in the air from all the new electrics. Need sunglasses from respendant electrics hole might be good ? Working like mad people to get the job done in limited time. Phew! you guys will be knacked, but it will be worth it.

[@jamesngahere4179]

..shout out.. you 2...Dame.. and yr wahine Jess..too much girl..when th' going gets a bit..you gotta be there..in spades💪 she gotchu bro🫶🫵🇳🇿

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Chur cuz

[@jonathanworthing6278]

Is there any clean cabins, there seems to be tool and stuff everywhere.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Yip, but most of the boat is involved with the job. It gets messy sometimes.

[@martinbowers852]

breaks my heart to see you tear apart all that work that you did, i feel for you guys. the price of simple wire is outrageous, i just bought a tiny roll of #10 automotive wire here in Canada 26 dollars, i said to the clerk you guys are #$^(@$% stealing from me. take care guys

[@angelineroberts8339]

I’m so glad you were able to switch to victron inverters, can’t recommend them enough and we recently upgraded to lithium batteries cause our other batteries only lasted half the time that they were supposed to

[@BugeyeBob-zt6ne]

I definitely appreciate you folks including the "Well that didn't work out" parts of your videos. If others pay attention you are saving them thousands of dollars in lessons they don't have to learn for themselves. Thanks and I look forward to future episodes!

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Thanks very much. We often get criticised for not getting it right the first time, but we’ve never met anyone that always gets it right first time so we feel this is more honest which is always our preference

[@robm.4512]

@@ProjectBrupeg I’ll second that with pleasure and from first hand experience. Having served as Chief Eng. on a new-build superyacht or three, I can assure anyone who feels the need to criticise that the very best of pro’s don’t always get it right first time every time. Keeps a fella learning though and, in my working life, with the added pressure of having owner or guests aboard it made for a few far too interesting on-the-fly solutions, on occasion. My introduction to the gentle art of being a full time Eng. afloat was the Chief giving me a tour of the vessel’s systems, that finished with his summary of what was expected of the Engineering crew. It went something like, “look here kiddo, everything on a boat is fighting everything else for a place to be and wherever it is that compromise will inevitably make at least half of it a pain in the arse to access. It’s the packaging and cost-benefit problem from hell.” “The yard will have got 95% of the systems perfect, the other 5% is where they ran out of ideas or budget and that’ll always be where our problems reside.” “The trick that we have to pull off without fail is that the Engineering crew should always be like a swan’s feet… Even when something’s approaching a crisis of non-operability we should remain fundamentally invisible and certainly should never give away the fact that we’re thrashing away like demons to keep her moving serenely along.” “That is the way to a happy skipper and a happy skipper is a wonderful and generous thing!” Being owners, skipper, crew, engineer and yard specialists all rolled into just a pair of people and some willing helpers is a tough set of tricks to pull off and get everything right first time, it’s inevitably an iterative process and stuff will happen. Doing it on camera, for all the world to see and being straightforward and honest about the cock-ups is refreshing to anyone who actually fully understands the snags that are inevitable, even on the best funded projects. Hats off to you for sticking to the honest side in telling the story of Brupeg’s rebirth. 😎👍🍻

[@dennisash7221]

I know only too well about screwing things up and doing it all over again only to find out there was a better way, that's why I enjoy watching you so much, you are not afraid to show us everything. You guys are doing a stunning job, looking forward to seeing you out on the water 😊

[@jdellis6511]

Damian, I like the Count impersonations you do. You got to do the Count to No. 5, once. All in Mate.

[@BuggsK100RS]

YAY better late then never!! Or have you moved days from Sunday Evenings (UK) to Tuesdays

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Nope. Just running late this week

[@jeffwisemiller3590]

Amazing how fast real estate disappears when thing start to get put together. AC on top, DC on bottom since closer to batteries & all in one square area. I put 600' of 12/3 in a 45' boat so I know how fast you can spend $$$ on a boat.

[@kinggeorgeiii6410]

Nice video. Enjoy watching the work.

[@VideoShowMeHow]

Loving this part of the build, that little room is going to be a work of art 👌#bluearmy 😁

[@ProjectBrupeg]

We think so too! Thanks very much

[@benshke]

I would be glad if you wanna get rid of the old broken victron gear

[@kirkyorg7654]

cool

[@Mr19chuck49]

😊😊😊

[@president2]

Love it so much keep it up as always 💘

[@jamarie1972]

Great video Guy’s All the very best to you from us in England

[@caben7057]

Oh shit. AC left DC right

[@caben7057]

AC / DC. AC right bank DC left bank

[@bultacogil]

Shit mate I feel dizzy watching all the stuff you're doing. It must be a really exciting time for you to be finalising such an important part of the boats operating system. Great job as always.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

It feels amazing to be finally after ten years in a position to do it right and in a few weeks have a fully functioning boat

[@ronme68]

Well you are in Australia I would think power should be Ac and then Dc.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

And if we do it wrong enough we will be thunder struck?

[@tas32engineering]

Electrician should give good guidance.

[@fstopza]

Fun game: How many kilos of paint are stuck to Brupeg?

[@ProjectBrupeg]

We worked this out a few years back and at that time it was close to 700 litres that we have put on her. Its maybe another 200 or so now

[@WaterfrontJustin]

No shore power system on brupeg that just pulls straight AC in and distributes it?

[@WaterfrontJustin]

You kept mentioning inverters every time you mentioned AC current so made me curious.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Currently no but the transfer switches that allow us to do that have just arrived so it’s in the future plans

[@bobuncle8704]

This is going to be some serious install.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Agreed. There is some flippin amazing gear to be fitted

[@clydedecker765]

Unwrapping three spider webs just so you can bring in one spiders new girlfriend and make room for her new eggs, right? Then put back new webs all round. Make room for the new babies while you're at it. Gee. No worries. Lets get a bigger hammer. And some new paint. Gonna need a lot to make her look nice.🤣🤣🤣

[@thomaslomax8769]

What do you do with all the stuff that you have taken of the boat ?

[@ProjectBrupeg]

The inverters have been scrapped, the three old lithiums we will keep but not sure what to do with yet. The old victron charge controllers have gone in the bin. The cerbo we have kept but might sell donate to someone the wiring and cerbo screen we will reuse much of it.

[@aserta]

@@ProjectBrupeg Old bats ... maybe backup power for a specific system? if they come up good, there's no reason to scrap them.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

We have two good ones and one with a dead BMS but good cells. So we’ll replace the BMS and have three good spares for something. Was thinking two in a dinghy and electric outboard and one could well be a UPS for something

[@brynyard]

I really HATE needle guns. Not because they don't work, oh no. I hate them because I (and some others) spent an entire summer hammering rust of a trawler (quite a bit bigger than Brupeg), completely oblivious to the existence of needle guns. And then, a few years later I learned about this magnificent device and that the guy that hired us for the job didn't want to spend extra money on equipment! Just to add insult to injury, this was a research vessel with a fairly substantial government grant, so he wasn't saving anyone any money anyway.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Yip. The right tool can turn a shit job into a slightly less crap job that’s for sure. Sand blasting if possible would have knocked this patch over in about 3mins.

[@rolandtb3]

Busy days. Hope Jess wears her protective head covering in tight spaces. Back to work.

[@heathwellsNZ]

"Wall of shame" - bit harsh I reckon!

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Wall of expensive lessons...?

[@heathwellsNZ]

@@ProjectBrupeg LOL - wall of gained experience? (from memory, watching the video of when it happened... it still shouldn't have happened... should it? At the time, with that was on hand... still shouldn't have had such a sad end)

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Both sparkies said they should’ve turned themselves off however manual says to have a switch which we didn’t have so it’s bad luck but also bad design on our part

[@williambox6664]

When you started the show you were shy didn't talk to match Now you repeat yourself over and over end of the lot less work just the thought

[@davidbadion7917]

Seems you're always chasing rust. Too bad you couldn't get BRUPEG e-coated or hot dip galvanized...LOL

[@rolfgubner4056]

If you want to sell the old "dumb" inverters I am interested. Let me know what you want for them.

[@ProjectBrupeg]

Rolf they were completely dead mate. One got sprayed with water and the other stopped holding any settings. They were junk, so we have scrapped them

[@rolfgubner4056]

@@ProjectBrupeg thank you - would have been a way to help recovering some costs. But yeah, you don't retire anything that still has some life left in it 😂. You are the master of recycling! I think, it's one of the reasons I enjoy watching your content!