Vintage Camper Electrical Rough In

[@successnsobriety]

I'm back!! Finally, I'm getting around to this part. You have been a life saver. I really can't tell you how much you've been a help to me completing my camper. Thanks again!

[@ProjectNineOaks]

Haha. Glad I could help. filming my journey in building so others can see what I did and learn from my mistakes or take ideas and make them your own. Good luck on your project. Great feeling when it's "done!"

[@concretetreg08]

I would use that old panel and pull the guts out. Use it as a j-box above the actual panel. That's where you would be able to branch the circuit

[@DavidBerquist334]

Your hole should be in the center of the studs that they're like an inch and a quarter from each side of the stud so a nail or a screw doesn't hit the wires or put a nail plate over the hole if it's close to the surface

[@farmerrick9660]

Great video, i was happy to see you addding the usb outlets also but your framing looks like 2x3 or even 2x4, my camper is all 2x2 framing :( not sure if i have any options

[@ProjectNineOaks]

The previous owner of this camper framed it with 2x4s, so I stuck with it. Maybe you could thicken an interior wall to have enough room for the USB outlets.

[@martinnunez9728]

Did you ever make the video explaining the wiring of the box? Also where do you ground to? The chassis?

[@ProjectNineOaks]

I don't think I made a video of the box itself. I did ground it all to the chassis. The camper had a large aluminum wire that is attached to the frame under the camper and it comes up into the walls to the box.

[@rodeisenbeisz6556]

Thank you so much.

[@ProjectNineOaks]

Glad it was helpful

[@canadiansparky64]

That has been quite the project, I am happy to see it is all coming together for you. Have you thought about adding an outlet for a microwave?

[@ProjectNineOaks]

Thank you for watching. I have another video in the works so stay tuned! I talked about a microwave but based on our needs and really only using this for camping trips, we are going without the microwave.

[@deirdre444]

I'm a little concerned. At minute 12:05 you mentioned running a 20 amp circuit but you're sending it through a 15 amp, 14 gauge, white wire. Should be a 20 amp, 12 gauge, yellow wire.

[@ProjectNineOaks]

Thank you for watching. I believe the color coded sheaths are somewhat recent standards. This is a 12 gauge wire I ran for both 15 and 20 amp runs. I think I had this roll for quite a while so maybe the standard wasn't set back then?

[@deirdre444]

​@@ProjectNineOaks At minute 3:15 you said "12 gauge wire" but at minute 3:21 you corrected your narration with a note on the screen that read "14 gauge." I did a little research and found that in 2001, the color coding of Romex became standardized (orange-10 gauge-30 amps, yellow-12 gauge-20 amps, white-14 gauge-15 amps). Do you think you may have had that wire for over 20 years? Maybe you have some scrap left over from the project so you can read the gauge notation on the wire? I ran yellow 12 gauge throughout my cabin build as a margin of safety even though I had no plans for any circuit to be higher than 15 amps.

[@ProjectNineOaks]

Thanks probably not 20 years. I think it was about 15 from when I built some other stuff. I'll have to open it up and recheck. Thanks for the comment. Worse case I think I can rerun the AC with the correct 12 gauge fairly easily

[@deirdre444]

@@ProjectNineOaks Yes, I'm sure you could and it would be the prudent thing to do for yours and your family's safety.

[@mrwhitefolk11b46]

I have about 3/4 of a roll left over from rewiring an old rent house several years ago that is 12ga and is white.

[@theresamealer6883]

I could have done without that background music. And to much unnecessary explanations about where he was outlet and why, or other non-electrical explanations. Then he fast forwarded through the actual running of the wire, without explaining about why needing slack or other wiring tips for dummies.