Weboost detailed install | Winnebago Revel
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- Опубликовано: 9 фев 2025
- this is not the standard install of the weboost in a Winnebago Revel. I am not using the provided clamps, I am not putting the booster in the upper cabinet...but see for yourself and let me know what you think
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Want to thank you for taking the time to make this great tutorial. I successfully installed the Weboost today with your instructions. I love your idea of using the cable gland, looks like a professional installed it. Looks so good! I couldn't replicate your "nut holder" lol. So I placed the nut on a small piece of cardboard using 3M VHB tape to hold it, poked a hole through the cardboard and attached a string and did exactly what you did and it worked! Thanks for the help!
Your videos are amazing!! Never stop uploading you upgrades to your van because they’re amazing!!
This was a fabulous install video! Would recommend to anyone with a Revel looking to add a WeBoost. Thank you!
Wish you would of had a supply list. Great video. Thank you.
thank you. What supplies? I don't think I was using anything that is in any way special. if you have questions about a particular part or tool, let me know and I share the details.
Great video as I have come to expect from you! thanks so much.....
I'll be referencing this video soon when we put ours in. Thanks!
Thank you for this very helpful video!
Nicely done, thank you. Cheers!
Great install! Finished the roof exactly like you described. Questions about which wires you connected from the switch connector at 14:12 (bought the same one from AZN) to; (a) the red cable going from panel to switch at 14:38, and (b) from the other red cable going from switch to socket at 14:47. Thank you!
thanks Chad. How you connect the switch depends on when you want the switch LED to be on. It can be always on or it can be on when the device is off or - and that is how I think it makes the most sense - it will be on when the device is on. My red wire at 14:38 is the input into the switch and is connected to the green cable of the switch socket. it is always hot (+12V). the switch socket's blue wire is the 'output' of the switch. with the switch in the off position, the blue wire is also off (no power). with the switch in the on position, the blue wire is hot (+12V), this is the wire you need to connect to the WeBoost. with this, you can switch the WeBoost on and off. Now for the LED. it turns on when +12V is put on the switch socket's red wire. If you want it on when the switch is on then you need to connect the red wire to the blue wire. this basically puts the LED and the Weboost in parallel, they are now both controlled with the switch. And because the circuit for the LED needs to be closed (=the LED also needs minus), you need to connect the switch socket's black wire to minus (ground). Hope that makes sense....
@@orange13 Excellent. Thank you so much for the fast and thorough reply.
Love your videos. Watched many of your videos. You are probably one of the most ingenius person I know. Love that you don’t take the easy way in all your projects…Now to the question. What size hole did you drill for the weatherproof wire feed adapter. I know the adapter itself is an 1/2 inch but that’s for the wire feed diameter. What size hole bit did you use?
thank you. I have a set of these cable glands and I think for the one I used in this video, I drilled a 3/4" hole. But please don't do that on you van based on this comment. What I always do in these situations is drilling a test hole into a piece of similar plastic and then see how good it fits. I also deburr the holes which - depending on the type of plastic - can make the hole slightly bigger (in softer materials). And always remember: it is way easier to make a small hole bigger than making a hole that is too big smaller 🙂
@@orange13 great advice I will do that... I also sprayed couple of coats of black paint on the cable glands hoping it will help with the plastic that is exposed to the weather especially the sun. If you did it over again would you drill in a different area of the box like on the side where you can protect it from the sun or attached a flat piece of material on the rack or the box to cover the adapter gland?
@@Will-sc9no yes, that's a good callout. UV damage to plastic is not to be under- estimated. the cable glands I was using are made from Nylon 66, not a super UV- resistant material, despite rated 'weatherproof' and for 'outdoors'. A coat of paint or a treating it with something like 303 (aka Sunscreen for plastic) might be a good idea. I would still mount the gland in the back of the box where it is better protected from wind-driven rain while the van is moving.
@@orange13 Very smart, didn't think about the wind and dust from mounting on the side or front of the box. Glad I asked you before drilling. You are a wealth of knowledge my friend.
@@orange13 Where did you get the T-nuts? I came back from Home Depot and wasn't able to find it. Maybe I didn't look hard enough.
Where did you get the sticker you put around the push button on/ off switch?
I made it with my vinyl cutter. if you have access to a Silhouette cutter (common in the scrapbook community) I can email you the cut file. or if you send me your address, I mail a cut version to you. my contact details are in the about section here in RUclips
Great videos, thanks for sharing
GREAT video! Extremely clean, well thought out installation. I would love to know the specifications of the T-nuts and the push button switch?
hey jonathan, thank you.
this is the switch: amzn.to/3mCXz7V
and these are the T-nuts, I used M8x16mm: amzn.to/3EdTM6K
@@orange13 Thank you!!
Hello, are you please with the we-boost? I have watched the video which is excellent. I am thinking about doing the same thing.
thank you. For what it is, I like it. I have been in many locations where I had a very faint cellphone signal outside the van and nothing inside. or even nothing outside at ground level but a bit of signal 10ft up in the air. in those situations, the WeBoost reliably provided a signal inside the van. However, I have also been in many locations where no cell phone signal was available at all (or not from my carrier) so the WeBoost had nothing it could amplify. So the WeBoost can certainly help in a lot of situations but it cannot guarantee a signal everywhere.
Great videos and insight. Nice work. Is there a reason to place the antenna for the Weboost at the back of the van versus installing it next to the roof port and reducing the additional wiring?
yes. I talked to Weboost and they told me the cable cannot be shortened. the Weboost's FCC approval includes the 25ft cable and a shorter one would void this approval. Also, to avoid any feedback loops (the other antenna picking up the amplified signal from the inside antenna), distance between the 2 antennas should be as much as possible. the rear right corner of the van is the farthest away from the inside antenna on the bench seat table.
Preparing an install inspired by your layout (under seat) adding a Wilson panel as the internal transmit from WIlson. Please advise as to where I can secure the wifi decal, the install looks factory and I am hoping to do a similar one. Keep up with the videos, after seeing your other videos I am about to dress the wiring like you have,!
thanks. I cut the decal with my cameo vinyl cutter
Wait so the ground cable from the fuse panel (@15:00) is soldered to two cables? (black from switch and black from 12V) so one cable should split into two (i dont see such a connection at @15:27)?
hmmm...yes, the black (ground) runs up to the switch, this is just for the LED backlight of the switch, it needs, ground, too, and it also runs to the cigarette lighter socket. might be hard to see in the 15:27 shot but it is there.
@@orange13 Thank you again for these videos, following along and want to be sure about how you connected to ground bar on the fuse panel? While I have the same open fuses on the positive side (stock Revel config), all the screws are taken on the ground bar. Did you just open up one of the screws and double up one of the wires?
@@jasondelorme9034 hi Jason, yes, that's right. I just added the new ground cable alongside an existing one, on the same terminal screw. After I installed the WeBoost, I added a few more items that are wired into the fuse panel so I actually had to repeat the process a few more times. just make sure you are tighten the screws enough so the wires make good contact and won't slide out but don't over tighten them as this might cause the individual wire strands to break.
Amazing! Happy New Year and thank you so much @orange13 for the quick reply! I looked for a tip jar on the video and I can't find one... I've seen this on other videos, would love to leave a tip. These videos are so good and helpful!
Well Done! you covered what i was thinking so much about on How-to the Cable Gland Nuts >
Are the Gland nuts one size fits all? and link source would be appreciated? Thnks so much for doing this, you do things professionally and meticulously.
thank you Al.
I bought this set from Amazon: amzn.to/3mh5reS . it has these glands in several different sizes and the nuts have different sizes as well.
Be sure to use UV resistant zip ties, otherwise you will need to replace them after 6 months.
yes, thank you. I am using these black wire ties that are rated 'UV resistent' Recently I also picked up some stainless steel zip ties, they are for sure UV resistent.
Thanks for the excellent video. I've ordered mine and will be doing the same! The push button switches I can find but would you mind sharing where you found the wifi sticker? That makes the install look like it came from the factory!
thank you Michael. i actually designed and cut the sticker myself with a Silhouette Cameo. If you want to email me your address (my email address can be found in the 'about' page here of my RUclips channel) , I'll send you one...
Excellent video! May I ask where you bought optional 12v power supply with cigarette lighter and light socket? I could not find that through Weboost.
thank you. I bought everything from Amazon. here is a link to the 12V DC/DC power supply amzn.to/368oa7u and one for the socket: amzn.to/3qlyEY7
@@orange13 Thanks you sir!
Any update on new best inside placement for internal antenna?
sorry for the late reply. I still haven't mounted it permanently. it is sitting on the table and with its rubber base, doesn't even move that much during driving.
Excellent Job! (Good German Engineering!) Is your drone that fast? Or did you ramp up the video??
some of the shots might have been ramped up :-)
Do you offer a kit with these parts/tools you have assembled? Great work!
thank you. No, I do all of this as a hobby with no commercial interest. All parts I used came from Amazon. The nut holder thing I made from a piece of plastic (from an old window blinds) and a nail. And the shelf the booster sits on is made from a scrap piece of plywood and a threaded rod. all leftover pieces i found in my garage.
Just wanted to say I've now had 2 boosters go bad. Wondering if it's getting too hot under the seat. Might also be from that switch. IDK any way you could DM me?
@TheFirstMikeJones Weboost isn't very specific about the booster install location. it just says 'find a location' and many people put it behind a cabinet or other confined space. I think the space under the bench seat is much better in terms of ventilation than most other places. Did yours die in the winter when the heater was running and the Weboost was on? it gets warm under the bench seat when the heater is on but even then, with the big passive cooler that the Weboost is, I don't think this would cause a lot of problems. after all, the Weboost draws only about 1.8A which is less than 25W. even if all of this would be used to generate heat, it should be easy to dissipate even in a warm environment with that massive cooler. Did Weboost replace them under warranty? did they say they overheating is what broke them? Maybe you can put a remote thermometer (think BBQ meat thermometer) on the heatsink and watch it in different conditions? Running on its own, with the Revel's heater on, ... perhaps that can give you some clues?
The switch is a passive element, well, it is of course active since can switch but it doesn't do anything else, and it is the original 12V power supply from Weboost. Unless you switch it in excessively (like every few seconds for hours and hours), I cannot see how it would to any harm.
In one of your videos I saw that you have the outside antenna mounted in the same location I installed mine. with the inside antenna on the table, this should provide sufficient distance between the 2 to avoid any feedback loops. and even if, the WeBoost protect itself from that.
I’m on my 3rd box. All covered by warranty. I’m just going to put it op in the cabinet and use the cigarette plug. If you’re ever in Bastrop, come on by. Gallery Films
@@TheFirstMikeJones will do. I'm in Bastrop (State Park) all the time.
What size t-bolts did you use and where did you get them? Thank you…
sorry for the late reply: M8x16 from Amazon: www.amazon.com/gp/product/B08ZXH71R1/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1&pldnSite=1
Thanks @orange13!
Where did you get the sticker for the panel?
sorry for the late reply. I cut it with a Silhouette Cameo Vinyl cutter
@@orange13 got it, we spoke vie winnebago forum and you sent me some. Thanks again.
Cotton fields !