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video I'm gonna see how I can get by cuz my power is supposed to be out for like 4 to 6 hours I'm gonna see if I can still manage to get internet and play around at some UPS's inside and beyond that I'm probably just gonna do like chores so thanks for joining me today and stick around to see what my day is like as my electrical panel gets upgraded so I don't really show my backyard too much because there's not really a whole lot going on out here last year I did a shittiest vlog ever where I I mowed the lawn and I'm gonna have to do that again soon but don't worry I'm not gonna make a video about it this time but here's the back of my house the solar panels are all gonna go up here on the back and that's going to be facing where the Sun comes in so that's an ideal location for those and then over here is of course the electrical panel and as you can maybe tell this thing is like super old that's a hundred a hundred amp panel so they're gonna upgrade it to a 200 amp modern panel that's compatible with solar and everything like that originally the plan was to do a sub panel off of this one but since I want to do some further work in the house I wanted the upgrade though so I could do some dedicated runs into the garage for power and we're hopefully gonna redo the kitchen kinda thing to see that's gonna get swapped out they're gonna need to cut a hole in this wall this over here is actually the fiber connection size fiber to the homes is originally was Verizon but now it's actually handled by frontier and I'm gonna see if that will still work if I can power the modem inside the house I might still be able to get internet even if the power is out so do a little experiment there and for anyone who's in an apartment or somewhere where you have power outages I have had the experience before where as long as you can power the modem you may still be able to get internet which may or may not be useful for you know look in here has come to say hello Hado they're a big boy and you're still groggy he just woke up encounter my first setback of the day first I couldn't find my my GoPro I'm here before I like to use this for time lapses so hoping to set up a time-lapse of the process today did find it but unfortunately it seems as though the battery is just completely dead totally did a good job planning ahead today so I must see how much of a charge I can get on this before they show up to turn the power off got a fair amount of clutter going on out here but it's ok we're in between projects time to start shutting down non-essential computers well I pretty much got to shut down all the computers art depent there's already sleeping all right so for now because I need to get this set up I ran a bit of extension cord out here just to keep it plugged in make sure it's still charging while I'm waiting for the power to get shut off all right SD card is installed got 64 gigs on there which is plenty for a lengthy time lapse and as long as I can keep this thing powered you should be able to capture this whole thing I should also ask the installers if I can film them first before doing anything but at least I'll be ready the trick for getting a good time lapse of course is making sure the shot set up before hints so GoPro app is key for that to make sure I can line everything up also it's got a wide-angle thing and a narrow angle thing and oh look it's working and I definitely want the narrow angle for this wide would be way too wide all right video photo 8 where's the flip one photo every two seconds the medium angle and I had to change the rotation back second actually see what it's seeing and since it's right setup now I was I actually had it mounted upside down last time I used it so I had flipped the display but there we go this is functional which is good and just finishing things off with the bit of a sandbag at the bottom to hold things down and make sure it stays steady OSHA compliance and all of course and the time-lapse rig is set up now he approves what do you think of the time-lapse Regnery he's not interested at all I have good news they've arrived work has begun and we got approval for me to record them doing a time-lapse so right now the dogs are inside and they just gathering stuff out here preparing the work area look a ladder it's amazing no he's very mad that she's not able to join this everyone is here okay so work is underway but I wanted to do like an unboxing up of my new breaker panel here this 200 amp panel from Eaton look how much bigger it is it's glorious that's where the electrons go and then we lift up here and we can see look we got a master a master switch we can actually with one switch turn off the power to the whole house very convenient thing that before I was forced to work with a bunch of different breakers assume there's other stuff going on in here but since I have no idea what I'm doing I'm just gonna be the look yes they're gonna relocate the this is the fiber box this is where the fiber to the home comes in and Wow apparently this should be sealed at the bottom to prevent like lentils lots of lots of deadly creatures from making a home inside there how many did I know like I'm getting an arachnophobia vibe there's probably an actually King spider at the back it's gonna jump out it's my new copper the power has now been turned off they're removing the my old box my old main panel and I've come inside just to make sure I tried to prepare to make sure everything that needed to be turned off is turned off but I do hear the beeping of my UPS is warning me that hey there's no power this is why everyone should have a UPS power goes out EPS stays on and down here we can see a readout of how much estimated time is remaining based on the loads we got good couple hours worth but granted has just got one computer connected to it on standby right now I don't want to pull this out of here and see if I can mess around with it he has inspecting the gear you approve here yep he approves you guys helping Johnny here is feeling playful give me in Belarus Patrick's god bless you god bless you Oh what are you doing here boy what are you doing I'm turning over for belly rubs yes okay those are good belly rubs rip old electrical panel we hardly knew ye you served us well electrical panel from Paul's house born January 1964 died April 20 18 nomine Patri fili spiritus sancti amen heroes doing some inspection work at the midday points crews over here having some Jimmy jams and the main electrical panel has been removed now we have the guts of the house hanging out vital on fails it's all fascinating okay I move back inside so I could test my theory I took my UPS here moved it over to the family room nowt here of course is where the htpc is as well as the verizon frontier fiber node connection right there so just move this over here turned it on and I have plugged into the back the connection to the actual Verizon router guy over there and then I plugged in this power strip and the power strip has power for like the Verizon router here as well as my secondary router that's daisy-chained off of it a couple other things have plugged into that but the main things I needed with a Verizon and this one which has my Wi-Fi on it fortunately the you Wi-Fi booted up properly I have connected to it and I'm going to run a speed test right now and show you guys if I'm still getting my full speed connection I believe I am although honestly I'm supposed to be getting a hundred up and a hundred down we're gonna up that upload speed yeah yeah and they have it according to the Google speed test I've got 83 down and a hundred and fourteen up the downs a little disappointing but that still at least proves that I actually have a functional working router fiber connection even though the power to the rest of my home is out so the lesson to be learned here which I learned in my apartment a while back but any of you guys who suffer from power outages this isn't always going to work because it depends on whether the power is out too like the local connection point that you are connecting to and that kind of thing but very often you have a power outage in your home but if you can get power to your modem to your router and have some wireless battery operated device to connect with you still can't which is pretty cool and useful if you just want to you know play around on the internet while the power is out but also much more useful and helpful if you maybe are in an emergency situation where you desperately need access to information or connectivity maybe maybe I'd save someone's life just now probably not see how things are going outside okay guys the test the crew is just left and I'm gonna quickly go over their work done it's not completely dead and I know the power while I dinosaur yet but the electrical main panel has been upgraded and some of the interesting things you learn going through something like this is that your house that was built you know 40 50 years ago 50 plus years ago is no longer to code so like this pole up on top is now much taller the old pole was shorter than that by the way the utility Southern California Edison in my case is gonna need to come when all of this is done and do an inspection before they sign off and everything and at that point I guess they're gonna replace some of these connectors up there so those are just temporary so that I still have power until next week when the power wall gets installed so the first thing they did was relocate the FiOS box and fortunately this rear portion of that actually had a big coil of fiber-optic cable in there which is very useful that gave them enough length to move it down here and give them a little bit more room to work with then up here we have three boxes and then this bottom box here is just to connect our box for all of them inside the main panel we have the main on/off switch so I can turn the whole system on or off which is cool I've got a couple breakers in here 30 amp which is going to go for the AC and then 100 amp which actually passes over here into the sub camp this sub panel here everything that's connected to this will be backed up by the power wall so on here I got a bunch of 20 amp and a few 30 amp breakers in there so that's cool if I only have a 30 amp breaker for our oven which was wired up in kind of a weird fashion before but then finally we have this third box here and this box is actually specifically for the power wall I understand it actually has Wi-Fi and a 3G connectivity built into it so that you can always have in control for your power wall even if your Wi-Fi goes down so I don't know much about that box there but then everything is of course connected underneath then there's still a little bit of stucco missing there but they're gonna patch that all up once that final installation happens but guys that's all for this video so on behalf of Hiro and myself and Noorie who have been here all day I want to say a big thank you to the Tesla installers Jonathan Johnny Yuri and Corrib they were here all day they did an amazing job and they were all really nice guys so I learned a little bit by asking a few questions along the way but I'm still not quite to the level of a licensed electrician anyway guys more on this project coming probably in another couple weeks cuz I got a week till the powerwall and the solar goes in but for now I hit the thumbs up button if you enjoyed this video thank you very much for watching and we'll see you guys next time