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Video for new subscribers to introduce you to our DIY Solar off grid system we built, easy to do.
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- čas přidán 9. 08. 2023
- Just wanted to do a video as an introduction to the new subscribers from when we started four years ago, not knowing anything about off grid, solar and fast forward four years to where we’re running our entire house and garage air conditioning, pool pump, pool heater, and much much more with Solar during day. We run house with battery bank overnight. Very easy to do. All DIY. Hope you enjoy the video and please check out our other videos, we have over 100 videos now. Please ask any questions . We usually reply very quickly. Please like share subscribe and hit the notification bell as well. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed week. See you in the next video.
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Thanks , hope all is well with you.
Wow the amount of money you shelled out you might as well get some more in there and cut ties all together with the grid. It's crazy how much we really need to be independent. Your situation is a great litmus for others because your needs are a lot higher then most people. I get the ac thing I live in Florida and run it 12 months a year. In the winter we run heat in the am then ac is back on in the afternoon. My hat is off to you truly an incredible set up.
Thank you for your comment, the best part is since I did this DIY, we spent $20,000 total over last 4 years and in December of 2023, the system will have paid itself off with just electric bill savings alone. This is only possible When you DIY. You don’t want to go on grid here. They raise your electric bill to almost $2000 a year even if you produce 100 percent of your own electricity and you can’t even break even selling back excess at 1/10 of what they charge you. Off grid is the only way to actually pay off system and produce free electricity for decades. Being off grid my electric bill is only around $1000 a year. The wife has not changed her usage habits since stating off grid solar and we are only electric at our house. 4 years ago we knew nothing about solar, electricity, heat pumps or mini splits, now we are doing videos showing what is possible with DIY off grid solar. We don’t use solar in winter for heating so we heat our pool to 87-89 degrees with solar, it’s a year round blessing. Thanks again for your comment and hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed weekend.
@@diy-solar-guy I so appreciate your input on your usage and system. We are only looking at a small 870sq.ft. remote home on a mountain... I will continue watching you videos and learning! Once the system is installed in the connex with the panels on the rooftop... I think we will be more than fine on our power storage in Absolyte GBS battery system. Great videos!! Love it!!
@@rongray4118 Thank you once again for your input. The one thing I forgot to mention about going on grid anywhere in the Nation is, if the grid goes down, your system will go down. That is for the safety of the linemen working on restoring power. If the grid is down, you can not be feeding power into the grid. It can hurt or kill the lineman. Some people go with a automatic isolator switch in case power goes down on grid. It will only supply your home and stop feeding into grid. I wind do this in my situation since I have no desire to go completely off grid when my usage now is so low. We rarely loose power where I live and it is nice in severe storm weather in the summertime. Hope you can get your cabin system going with no problems. I know we had a 10 price increase in electricity earlier this year and are scheduled for another 10 percent increase before end of 2023. The only electric provider out here just had a 30 percent increase in electricity. This off grid system supplying my largest loads year round with stabilize my electric cost. I eventually will add more batteries for overnight use. I know since I moved here in 2003, electricity cost have increased almost 5 fold with no end in stabilizing prices. This gives the homeowner security. It’s horrible for people out here paying as much as $1000 or more a month for air conditioning house in the summer. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend.
Noted your solar wakes up at 10 am…..try a vertical panels or solar fence…my power comes on at 6AM
I have too much shading going on from many different angles. My neighbor just planted very tall trees 3 years ago to the east of me which blocks me from getting full sun in the morning. Will be cutting down palm trees behind pool to use north wall in yard that faces south. Thanks for the suggestion.
Love it. New Subscriber here. Looks like you have a considerable investment. I live an hour away from Signature Solar And am ordering my Hybrid Solar Mini Split tomorrow. And hope to get the 15k off grid system later this year. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work.... Jeff
Welcome to the channel. You are so Blesses to live that close to Signature Solar. If I lived that close, I would be broke, lol. Great place to buy just about everything you need for solar weather on grid or off grid. I am hoping to pick up one of those mini splits in the near future. I have 5 installed already, One mini split yet to be installed in motor home, Paid $72 at Lowes in the clearance area. But will need 2 more for bedrooms upstairs. Thanks for your comment and hope you have a wonderful and blessed day.
How have you been
Good, just getting through this hot summer. How are you doing?
I have a 30kw system you can run all your panels on
I knew you would have everything needed. How are you doing?
Thanks for the video... Very helpful
Quick question... What's the cost between a diy or purchasing a power station to run ac? Thanks
A 5000 btu window ac will use around 500 to 600 watts at peak and around 5.5 amps. I ran the window ac with just a 2 kWh 150 ah LiFePO4 battery for about 3 hours, 2 of those batteries would get you close in parallel would get you close to 7-8 hours overnight. Maybe longer depending how well the room cooled down and how fast it cooled down outside at night. I would say you would need at least a 6kwh to 8kwh battery bank to run overnight. Then you would need to charge that battery bank up in the morning while still running and using power. Using solar panels to charge power station would take a long time since you are limited on how many watts or amps you can use to charge. A server rack battery can be charged back up at anywhere from 5 Ami’s to 100 amps using solar. I would say the only drawback with a power station would be how long it would take to recharge in morning while also running the window ac. Most power station are limited to lower amps and watts to recharge. Power station are good for an emergency to run small loads like led lights or a refrigerator for a short time but not designed to run day 600 watts continuously over 24 hours. They just don’t sell big enough units with a lot of kWh. Besides the power station would weigh a lot at 7 or 8 kWh. If you plan on running something temporary for a very short period of time during the day or night, you could maybe use a power station. If you are planning on using something for months at a time, you are better off using off grid solar and do it yourself if possible. Solar install on a house with professional installed is about 60 percent profit for them. DIY solar in back yard is very inexpensive to do with a very quick payback time just in saving on your electric bill.
@@diy-solar-guy thanks for replying! I really appreciate it! I'm just getting into this, and looking to start like you did powering a shed using it as an extra living space for the kids and guests, I'm in Florida. I wasn't initially thinking solar to run the AC, just power. But you have the wheels turning now.
Being new to this, what's the range in cost if I just wanted a system to run the AC?
Again, thanks for you time and willingness to share you knowledge!
@@wildgoose-media check out signature solar. They have mini splits that directly connect to outside unit if mini split. You can use solar during the day and grid power overnight. Or a power station at night. If you run mini split off solar during the day you can save 50 percent off electric bill if also running on grid at night. If you just need to cool shed during the day and will not use at night. Then this would be a good fit for you. You could talk to a sales person at signature solar and they could help you answering all your questions. Very very helpful for new people looking into solar. Using a mini split like this, you could eliminate a lot of cost. You would need solar panels and mini split. No battery bank needed if just running during the day. You could put an extension cord on mini split instead of hard wiring and plug in electrical socket when no solar is available. Some mini splits will use the solar you produce first and only use what is needed from grid. Example; you bring in 600 watts from solar in the morning but need 900 watts to run unit. The mini split would use the 600 watts from solar and only draw 300 watts from the grid. When the sun is producing all 900 watts the grid would no longer supply any watts at all. These are hybrid units. Some mini splits they sell require no specialty tools to install. No vacuum pump or gauges. This could eliminate your power station need and keep your cost to ac shed really low.
signaturesolar.com/eg4-hybrid-ac-dc-solar-air-conditioner-1-ton/. This is the link to hybrid 12,000 btu, 120 volt mini split.has mc4 connectors on outside unit to connect directly to solar panel array. Check it out. Hope this helps and hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed week
Very informative! Question:
If - and knowing all you guys have learned over the years - you had to build a complete new _Clean Sheet_ system, how would you design it now?
I'm in Vegas, with 12Kw of rooftop grid-tied Solar. I am considering an "off-Grid" HVAC mini-split for the upstairs rooms. This would include 2 18000 BTU Multi-Zone (2 zone each) units and an additional 7Kw of dedicated Solar panels.
Perhaps a video on if you had to create your solution from scratch, _Including_ a design diagram would be very interesting! Thanks!
Thanks for your comment, honestly I have not found anything as well built and as affordable as the Growatt 12kw inverter. If I started over I would use the same 12kw Growatt and the same battery bank I have now. But 35.7 kWh. I gave 3 heat pumps that only that Growatt will start. Mini splits don’t need the low frequency inverters and you can use many many options for inverter. I only have used panels on my system, $25 - $40 for the poly solar panels each and I paid $80 for some mono solar panels 4 years ago. Now I can get on sale around $50 each used. Hope this helps. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
@@diy-solar-guy Whoa! *_35.7 kWh of batteries??_* This isn't trivial. But obviously important. Why?
Hi, you have to have enough battery bank to get through the night when it is extremely hot out here over 110 degrees day after day and overnight temps staying in 90’s or over 100 degrees. But honestly I only need that for one month a year so I think I will stay with what I have and just use and extra $100 in grid power once a year. These EG4 LiFePO4 batteries are $1700-$1800 each and $250 or more for shipping. If you live off grid and can not use grid power overnight, I would suggest the 35.7 kWh battery bank to get through the extreme hot summers out here in AZ. Today the high will be 106 degrees, I will be able to run my air conditioning completely on solar in daytime and use my battery bank overnight. Not using any grid power to air conditioner the entire house for 24 hours and garage from 9 am to 7 pm so my bedrooms above garage stay nice and cool all day and night. Hope this answers your question, hope you have a wonderful and truly blessed week
@@diy-solar-guy Thanks. For giggles I found an EG4-LifePower4 30.72kWh battery kit (6 Server Rack Batteries With Pre-Assembled Enclosed Rack) for about $8500 + shipping. The Growatt 12K Inverter is about $2200. 16 490W (Heliene Solar) panels (New) are about $3100. About $16K all-in. Now will guesstimate the other parts, and try and come up with an ROI. Thanks again!
@@shotelco you are correct, that price sounds right.
I am subscribed but not receiving updates... loving your channel!
Thank you for subscribing and welcome to my channel. Not sure why you are not receiving updates. There is a so much the average person can do with off grid solar DIY. It really is quite easy to set up especially with CZcams videos showing step by step on most everything. I knew nothing about any of this 4 years ago so it is easy to pick up. Now I show what you can run with solar, you can run a lot. Check out my other videos to see everything we run with off grid solar and how we save over $5000 a year on electric bill. Hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed weekend
What’s missing is how many panels are connected….fixed….tracking….your panels with all that heat must have reduced capacity…
You must spend your waking hours just inside….like the planet of the apes…under ground
It’s been a brutal summer out here in Phoenix AZ breaking records hot number of day’s averaging over 100 degrees in 24 hour period. That’s hot. Also I have had 2 cancers for last 10 years that have made it miserable to go outside when over 100 degrees. I can’t get anything done outside in the summer out here after 8-9 am. My system is paid off and working well for me. Most summers out here are not as bad as this last year.
Sorry to hear about your sensitivity to heat
My heart med or psoriases meds react when it gets hot on south facing hillsides…so I try to pick early or late….we are 17 yrs off grid fruit farming
We use fixed as well as tracked panels but our new fence panels adds hours to our mix.@@diy-solar-guy
@offgridmangogrower thank you, I’m sorry about your meds having a reaction as well. Very nice being off grid for 17 years. Not sure I would go completely off grid with 2 cancers but I am content with a small electric bill each month and being retired. Thank you again for your kind words.
You don't have natural gas at all what do u do in the winter time ?
We have central ducted electric heat pumps that air condition in a summer and heat in the winter. I also installed 6 mini split heat inverter pumps in house and garage that can do the same thing but the 12,000 btu heat pumps can only cool or heat 600 square feet. Mini splits are extremely efficient compared to central heat pumps. 2 mini splits can heat or cool the same open space as a 4 ton central ac using less than half the watts and is extremely quite compared to load heat pump. I have new central heat pumps, I can hear when they start up and are running inside the house. With the mini splits, you can not hear the outside unit inside at all. Mini splits are so quite. If I ran my 2 mini splits downstairs on the grid instead of my 4 ton central ac, my electricity for air conditioning that space would be cut in half or more. You can see in my videos what I am talking about with the noise and where I placed mini splits. How you have a wonderful and blessed Sunday
@diy-solar-guy ohh ok what about ur hot water tank is that electric to ?
@@diysolaradventures7894 yep, electric hot water heater is a smart learning that learns your times you use hot water and adjust only heats 10-15 before you usually will take a shower, run dishwasher or run washing machine using hot water. It barely uses and electricity at all, that is still on grid power 100 percent of time. My electric bill is so cheap I don’t need to run that on solar.
@diy-solar-guy that is sweet one day can u make a video on ur hot water 💧 heater just for kicks so I can get a real understanding on the dif types our here.
@@diysolaradventures7894 will try to do, bought at Home Depot a few years back. Was normally $1000, got on clearance brand new still in box when changing out models for under $300 at the time.
What are your plans for the EG4 500V MPPT on the wall but not wired? Are you going to set them up in split phase?
That is just a charge controller that can put out up to 100 amps and can input 5500 watts. I am having palm trees cut down in my back yard to allow me to install a solar array facing the the south for the winter time. I will use that with any of my 3 inverters connecting to the battery bank. Using Anderson 175 amp quick disconnect connectors. My pergola along north of house will get no sun in the winter so I can use EG4 charge controller to keep batteries charged while using inverter to run loads. Only need that charge controller in the winter time from October until March. Thanks fir the question and hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed week and weekend