Run your window AC with just 2 solar panels when sun shines. Easy DIY project you can do in one day.
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- Super easy to Construct and run a window AC all day long saving a lot in electric cost and staying cool. See Links below. This is just the basic wiring and more components can be added to make it safer such as a breaker between battery and inverter. You make the system as safe as you want adding more safeguards. We tell you what you will need to construct a system & where to buy the components & how much they cost. Building system can be used pretty much anywhere you have sunshine and hot days. Can find most if not all these components in most countries throughout the world. Diy solar projects with Pappa. Below are some products in the video and some of the other products I have used. I also listed links to upgrade to a mini split with Lithium Iron Phosphate batteries since there was a lot of interest in the comments to do that. We are an affiliate with SanTan solar and Signature Solar. We receive a small portion of sale when you click on the links below and purchase something. This helps our channel to grow and test more components and share the results with you. Thank you for watching our videos. Please Like, Share, Subscribe and hit notification bell as well. We respond to comments usually in the same day, usually within hours of comments or questions. Please check out our other 100+ videos.
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This is the way to go in a grid down situation. The 5000 btu is spot on. The smaller btu AC can keep a room cool/cold in the event the grid shuts down for whatever period of time, ie. no need to cool the house down, just keep a room comfortable and the fridge going for whatever reason, food or medical. We are inching closer to this where the power is out not for days, but maybe weeks. Well done and thanks for showing this. I'll be incorporating these ideas in my grid down plans.
Thank you, just trying to show basic set up so those who no nothing about solar can understand just how easy it is to build your own off grid solar for whatever reason they have. You are correct, don’t need to cool whole house in an emergency. But you might want to check out my other videos where I am air conditioning my entire 2 story house and garage with solar. I use batteries at night to run 3 1/2 ton ac unit upstairs. My house and garage are about 3000 square feet. I also run my pool pump 24 hours a day on solar and heat my pool in winter using only solar. Check out my other videos, I’m sure you will find it interesting how much I use solar. 4 years ago, I did not know anything about electric, hvac, mini splits or off grid solar, but I learned and installed everything over 4 years and everything will be paid off though electric cost savings by the end of 2023. Thank for your input.
@@diy-solar-guyare tne solar panels 12v or whats the ocv
Solar panels are 39v dc pv output
We have been down for two/three weeks after Hurricanes. I can run our house without ac on batteries. I have a small duel fuel champion generator to top off our batteries when running ac. I use an ecoflow max 2. My panels were pricey though. Wish we had the hookup on used panels. Need two more waterproof panels.
@@jolieb9138 very nice set up. Thanks for your input.
Finally someone set out too simplify this stuff for everyone else instead of the tech talk that leaves you confused . Real nice job ,jeep the videos coming ,your helping us diy'ers in getting our stuff set up simply.
Let me know if you have questions, I can help. This video was a simple set up explanation but if you check out my other videos you will see what components are used to heat and cool entire house upstairs, downstairs and even my garage as well as running freezers , fridges, lights, pool pumps 24 hours a day on solar and even heating my 15,000 galling in ground pool to 86-89 degrees. Just bought new bi facial 400-500 watt mono solar panels and showing comparison to used 250 watt poly panels. Upload g a new video on comparison today. Thanks for your wonderful comment and hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed 2024
@@diy-solar-guy i do need help, just a little i have a place outside of the valley, im setting up and need to have ac
@@martinstanley1231 They have mini split that are direct connect from solar panels that do not need an inverter or battery bank to run during the day. But your time running without a battery bank will be reduced down. You can also connect to grid power to run overnight when there is no sun or on cloudy days. Those cost around $1200 plus freight. You can get at Signature Solar. Should be a link in the video for signature solar. DIY solar power with Will Prouse I think has a video of how to install that hybrid do it yourself mini split. Several people on CZcams have made install videos for those mini splits. It will be much more efficient than a window only use about 2 times the watts. Run on solar in day and grid power at night. Cute electric cost in half. I just looked at what I’m paying for electric per kWh and it is almost $.18 for every 1000 watts I use. Ac is my most expensive electric cost by far. With a hybrid mini split you only need to buy mini split, around 1500-2000 watts of solar panels, solar wire 10 gauge and a few mc4 connectors and crimping tool. Going the other route you would have to buy a lot of separate components plus what is mentioned above. These mini splits once they reach set temp will only use 300-600 watts and maybe down to 100 watts at night as where the window ac will use 500-550 watts 7-24. Hope this helps. Look into those mini splits. 12,000 btu 120v input grid.
@@diy-solar-guy 8:00 I thought you said don’t keep it in the motor home. Isn’t that a fire hazard as stated
@@youtubedeletesmychannels2329 I would have solar panels disconnected and secured inside with a blanket over panels so no light could hit solar panels from inside motor home. I would just be transported until I get to camp site, then bring out of motor home and set up and connect to solar off grid system.
F8nally! A straight forward, easy to follow video! Idk why all these people think you need to throw out word salad to explain something. So annoying
Thank you. I appreciate your comment. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed weekend
Thank you for explaining the whole process for us that are new to solar and electrical stuff! I’m a new sub now. Glad I found you!
Thank you for watching and subscribing. Please don’t hesitate to ask questions, answers are FREE, lol. If I can help you understand better, let me know. I hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed week
Wow, thank you. I really appreciate your video. I've been trying to understand solar energy for a long time. This is as simply explained as it gets.
Thank you, that is what I was trying to do. Explain how easy it is to set up solar off grid. All DIY. Hope you enjoy watching the other videos. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend
This is what I've been looking for... being able to set up just an AC system that runs on solar panels. Thank you for a very detailed explanation, awesome... when I do this, I most likely keep the battery secured in a wooden case outside the window and just run the wire going to the charge controller (?). Anyway, thanks for sharing this and I think you're good so you gave me no choice but to subscribe hahaha! I'll be checking your other videos later... thanks again...
Thank you for your input, hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend
If you do try to replicate this setup, make sure that you don't plan on the AC unit lasting long. As it runs lower and lower on voltage, you're going to smoke the compressor motor
@@blanksender7808 Inverters have a low voltage cutoff when battery gets to 12.1V just shuts down the AC power it won't lower the AC output below 120V.
That is correct.
With this temperature this be a good investment to cool off at least a room on your house. Well done and thanks for sharing this idea.
I actual built this set up 4 years ago and use in my shed for almost 2 years. Now I completely air condition my 2 story house 7/24 with off grid solar with the actual central ac or I can use 6 mini splits I installed in house and garage. All with off grid solar in day and 25.5 kWh EG4 LiFePO4 battery bank overnight. I run pool pump 24 hours a day along with 3 freezers, a fridge and lights out side. It’s been 4 years since I started playing with solar and now my entire system will be completely paid off from just savings in electric bill alone by December of 2023. Thanks for your comment and hope you have a truly wonderful and very blessed weekend
on summer this idea was on my head .im glad to see this is possible
Simple and easy. This is just the basic set up of components. Adding more solar and better batteries will make the system better. If it gets cloudy out, you will drain battery quickly. Keep that in mind..but I was able to use this set up in an in closed shed all day to keep the inverters for solar cool. I eventually expanded on this and now run my main house heat pumps that are 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton for my upstairs and downstairs to heat and cool 100 percent of the time using only solar in day and LiFePO4 battery bank at night. We also heat/ cool garage, run freezers 24/7, run pool pump 24/7 and even heat our pool in winter months when we don’t need to cool or heat house. Check out our other videos to see what you can do with off grid solar.
Thanks for explaining all this, I’ve been trying to learn how to do something like this to run a chest freezer, and your explanations make it seem a lot less overwhelming.
Make sure you can expand your system. Once you start seeing what is possible with solar, more than likely you will keep expanding to run more appliances with solar
@@diy-solar-guy Understandable. Despite the added cost, My plan is to set up separate systems for each new appliance I want to bring online, that way a single failure does not disable every appliance. (This means batteries, charge controllers, and inverters for each system, ie lights, refrigeration, freezers, and air conditioning.)
@@Vikingwerk i actually have 4 separate independent systems and back up inverters in case one craps out on me. I’m like NASA, I have back ups of back ups, lol. The all in one inverters I talk about in my other videos are very good and stable. They are meant to last 10-25 years. LiFePO4 batteries are expensive but really dropping in price but give you great overnight run time on your solar system. Check out my other videos and see all the things you never thought you could run on solar. I know people who build off grid systems and use a transfer switch to stop using grid and only use off grid power, but never feeding into grid. They run their whole house 100 percent only using solar in day and battery bank at night. I use off grid now to run 100 percent of the time air conditioning in my 2 starts house with 3 car garage air conditioned as well. I spend $0 on ac cost now with it being 113 degrees during day and 85 degrees at night. I also run my pool pump and when cold pool heaters along with 3 chest freezers and s fridge, outside lights. I have an option to use my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton heat pump ac units on house or the 6 mini splits I installed in house and garage. Check out my other videos to see how much you can actually do with off grid solar.
a 12v/24v dc chest freezer would be best. I do this with 2 x 100watt panels in series with a MPPT controller.
@@JosephMBoyer very nice, great ideal. Solar can be very easy if you know the basics. Thanks for your comment. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
Try adding an additional capacitor to the a/c unit and it will lower the surge when the compressor comes on and help keep your battery charged. Also keep in mind that a modified sine wave inverter is not really good for running electric motors a better inverter will increase efficiency as well. Hope this helps you out.
I appreciate your input. This is just a simple example and explanation of running ac on solar. Just so people have the basic understanding of how solar works. I actually run my central ac upstairs and downstairs 24 hours a day on solar in day and lithium iron phosphate battery bank at night., I also air condition my garage in the day as well using off grid solar. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
The battery access a capacitor to take up a lot of the surge in a lot of the newer infect all the newer air conditioners use a much more efficient coolant and they have a surge capacitor inside them so they don't hit your home grid or your inverter as much as they used to. But a very good point.
@benca- can recommend which capacitor to add and how to add it? I would like to try this for a garage a/c unit and power by solar. Perhaps you can make a CZcams video and how to add it? Thanks.
@@markgriff9265 I have not worked with capacitors at all. I will have to research them.
@@markgriff9265 you best bet would be to get a “hard start kit” from your local hvac supply store. It is a big capacitor that hooks up between the power wires to the compressor just like the standard one that is currently in all A/C units you would keep the stock one installed and just add the hard start capacitor in parallel with it. Hope this helps.
Thank you for this video, really helpful for someone like me without enough knowledge when it comes to solar panel setup.
You are so very welcome. I do videos to help those with little or no knowledge of off grid solar.
Great set up---Actually going to set up similar when I get back to Florida...
Have fun working on it and feel free to improve upon basic components. We now run our entire 2 story house and garage with solar power in day and battery bank at night upstairs. Reducing our electric usage by over 80 percent. See our other videos.
The higher SEER units work REALLY well for this sort of thing, enabling a larger unit for the same effective power draw compared to older less efficient models.
You are so correct.
True I got a 14000 btu inverter portable a/c and it uses less watts than some older 80000 Btu regular portable a/c I really want to make something like this…..I have about 3 NSB-AGM31A north start agm batteries do you think those batteries would do well ????
@@dieseldawg7132 AGM batteries will work great in the day but won’t work at night. Not enough power storage like lithium iron phosphate batteries. Adding more solar panels will help with continuous running when scattered clouds block the sun. The more you improve upon the basic set up, the longer and better it will run all day. I actually improved a lot on this in the last 4 years and now run my entire house air conditioning with solar in day and battery bank at night. Mini splits are great paired with solar. They are really efficient and use less than half the power a central ac unit uses. Check out my newer videos where I show this in my videos. I also installed 6 mini splits in my house before I figured out how to run central ac units with solar. Both work well and I often run upstairs central ac and 2 mini splits downstairs. Hope you enjoy the other videos. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend
Thanks for the video.
Electrical engineer here, you could use a soft start ac capacitor in order to reduce that starting current draw tremendously, because it seems your old ac does not come with one.
I actually use a soft start for my 3 1/2 ton, 4ton heat pump ac units on house to air condition my house with only solar and heat in winter as well. I used a soft start on my 127,000 btu pool heater heat pump that heat my pool to 87-89 degrees in the winter all with only solar off grid. Thanks for your input. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed day
Crackhead here, you're right.
That's a nice little project. I am living off-grid and need to find a simple way to run my air -c (living in Arizona) independently from my house panels. Thank You for posting.
You are welcome. I have other videos showing 12,000 btu mini splits running off solar as well. I have 6 mini splits installed in my house. 2 upstairs, 2 downstairs and 2 in garage. I also just installed a 12,000 btu 120volt mini split in my 23 foot motor home. Just making a video today of the solar array and off grid inverter as well as battery bank I will use while camping off grid. Should have video posted today or tomorrow, depending on when CZcams is done checking video for copyright. Thanks for your input and hope you have a wonderful and blessed New Year in 2024
exactly what I was looking for and I sent to a friend hoping he dose this also. thanks. really easy to understand than you so much
You are so welcome, glad you found it easy to understand. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024
Get a little Mr Cool Inverter AC unit or a a Mr Cool or Diaken Window Inverter AC Unit and no surge to worry about. Great setup for summer or after a hurricane here in FL takes down all of the power lines for a week or more.
I will check into that, thanks.
Need to mount the charge controller vertically so convection air currents draw cooler air in the bottom as heat is released out the top. It would also help to use some washers to stand it off from the board a little(1/4 to 1/2 inch) to improve the cooling a bit.
This is just a simple example of the basic components in a off grid solar system. I would never run this system with it laying on the floor. It was just to show at components. This was actually installed in a shed for 2 years and ran everyday without fail. Fast forward 4 years and I now run my 2 central heat pumps in my 2 story house and 2 mini splits in 3 car garage with just solar in day and the house I run on battery bank overnight. I run my pool pump 24 hours a day on only solar and battery bank, we also heat our pool with solar in the winter as well. Check out other videos showing this and more. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
Your videos are incredibly insightful and engaging. Keep up the fantastic work!
Thank you. That is the whole purpose of me doing videos is to help explain off grid solar to others. To show how easy it is. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely Blessed 2024.
I watched a few Will Prowse videos and youtube has now recommended your video to me.
Very nice, thank you for sharing that with me. I like watching his videos. He is very good at explaining about components with solar. Very talented young man. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.
you did a really neat solar DIY set up. I have a Harbor Freight Inverter the only problem is it made my 5000 BTU A/C make a humming noise because it wasn't a Pure Sign Wave. But it did run my A/C esp. on startup. Now for an Inverter I'm using a Bestek 1000 watt Pure Sign wave inverter, and no more humming from the A/C. If you want to run the A/C inside without any worries of the battery exploding. There are plenty of Mini Lithium batteries out there that dont take up much space, and safe to use indoors. To keep your charge controller cool you can buy a small fan that plugs into the USB of the inverter. I keep one on my NOCO 5 Amp battery charger all the time.
Very nice, thanks for your input. Great tips to improve basic system.
They make AC units with built in inverters.
@@r3dhorse those industrial ones?
@@r3dhorse you need the inverter to change from dc to ac to run ac . What ac are you talking about. Could you share with us the website they sell such units. Thank you.
@@diy-solar-guy He's talking about inverter mini-splits and the new units, like LG dual inverter window units. They still require A/C power but the compressor and fan slowly ramps up to speed instead of the massive surge required to start compressors and fans in traditional units. You can use a much smaller generator or a smaller inverter to start the inverter air conditioners.
one of the advantages of solar is the panels shade the roof where they are mounted, and that lowers your room temps too.
I use that concept on my pergolas in the back yard so it stays cool underneath when 100+ degrees out.
Why mount them to the roof??? Then you have to park in the sun... Park camper in the SHADE and run cables out to the solar panels in the SUN,,,SOUNDS BETTER TO ME but to each his own
@@shanepowell5115 that’s a good idea
Agree. I experimented with ply sheeting on the garden office when my son said was too hot to work in. Made a huge difference. I'm now putting solar on .
Unless you have no yard you really don't want to attach the panels to your roof. The expanse and the penetrations in the roof and all the other issues make that a non-starter for the homebuilder. Instead the thing to do is to prop them against your house or tie them directly to the ground with some steaks or build a small patio cover and use the panels as the roofing. This is so much easier to do for the homebuilder whereas trying to put things on your roof is extremely dangerous and can compromise your roof and is only should be done for the by the professional. Also keep in mind many HOAs and many jurisdictions will really come after you for inspections if they see new panels on your roof even if they're not tied to the grid. But if you put panels out leaning against the side of your house or directly on the ground or on some little shed or some little thing you built over a patio then you're much less likely to get harassed.
I love the basic premise of using the solar when it's available. And when that sun is cooking, keeping you cool is useful. You can only store so much in a reasonable sized battery, so this is a practical application. I like the DIY notion, keep it simple, keep it cost effective. The motor home use is a great place for innovation. I've thought that attic roof fans might be a similar idea of using it when you need it, for cooling again. But also the idea of keeping it simple, local, self contained, compared to the concept of big 20 solar panels on the roof thing. You see this put in place in things like outdoor lighting powered by built in little solar panels.
Thank you for for comment, I actually don’t have any solar panel’s on my roof. I have 54-250 watt solar panels on my 7 pergolas in back yard. We live in Phoenix AZ and it gets hot here, 112-118 this last month I also have 12 solar panels on top of 2 sheds and but 2 solar arrays that have 8-330 watts solar panels and 24-250 watt solar panels. All while maintaining a beautiful back yard with a solar powered heated swimming pool in the winter. We are now air conditioning and heating our house 7/24 375 days a year with solar in the day and LiFePO4 batteries at night. I used this simple set up in my solar shed when I first started and air condition the shed during the day for 2 years before moving my inverters and batteries in garage. The ac worked well but I upgraded it to 4 solar panels and added 3 more batteries, rainy and even party cloudy days will keep the ac from running if you don’t improve or upgrade on this simple example. This simple example works only wen sun is shining with no clouds, battery is only to keep a constant voltage to ac, not for storage to run without sunshine. Lead acid batteries can not run a ac by it self with no solar for more than 1/2 hour at most. You need lithium iron phosphate battery to run overnight or on cloudy days. I started with this simple set up 4 years ago and now save over $5000 a year on electric bill. Hope you look at some of my other videos to see what is possible with off grid solar that is 100 percent DIY. I make the videos to share with others for free what I accomplished. I have a lot of fun building solar off grid projects. Hope you had a truly wonderful and extremely blessed week.
Buy a Deye solar inverter. It can run your gadgets from solar. it has high efficiency.
@@xXAbdulBaqiXx I actually was showing this system from when I started out 4 years ago. At that point I was just starting to explore solar off grid. Now I run my entire house and garage with solar and battery bank. I even heat my pool with a 127,000 all electric pool heat pump heater in the winter. Thank you for your input. That is a good idea. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
Good job with a simple setup! 👍👍
Thank you so much.
Have you considered adding a "soft start module" - it will reduce the surge amps significantly - not sure if they make one for a window unit but they make them for all types of HVAC units.
I installed a soft start on my 3 1/2 ton, 4 ton central ac and on my 127,000 btu pol heat pump heater. That wound definitely help reduce battery discharge at start up of compressor and keep battery charged longer. I believe you can get one the plugs in inverter and you plug ac into that. Thanks for the question. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend
@@diy-solar-guy Can you install a ultra/super capacitor to help with leveling out spikes/drops? or does that cause issues?
@desertlightning7335 I have never messed around with super capacitors so I don’t know, sorry. Hope you find the answer, maybe a viewer might respond with the answer. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend
I don't think super capacitors would help unless you had like an undersized battery that couldn't put out enough power for the surge but at that point you should probably just get another battery and have the extra capacity and a soft start would be good especially if you had other loads and it might not start it and the inverter would probably like it too but until recently the only real soft start I had seen was real expensive I forgot how much buy I saw another company like Eaton or something selling one for like $150 which isn't cheap but I think that was like half or more than the competitor was
@@james10739 I installed 3 soft starts on a 3 1/2 ton, a 4 ton and a 12.7 ton heat pumps. They worked great. Cost $250 each soft start. If you are going to buy a soft start, you might as well just buy a mini split inverter and call it a day. Can find mini splits for $500. Mini split can cool and heat and 4 times the area of a 5000 btu window ac unit. Just a thought.
11:42 on the clock he said that hot air falls and cool air rises, which is not true, but the opposite, sometimes we say things backwards, and we don't realize it , this is a common problem we have.,😆 We do get glitches from time to time, Brain farts, occasionally , Now I know I put those keys right there.
Great video 👍
Yeah that was a brain fart, pain killers from the 2 incurable cancers I have been going through fir 10 years. Makes my speech get all disconbobulated, lol. Thank you for your kind words in making this mistake. Unfortunately once posted on CZcams I can not make changes to video so you and about 100 other people caught that out of 82,000 views. Good job. Thanks again for your input. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed day.
@@diy-solar-guy You to.
Great video with detailed info.so a dummie like me can put together.Great job and a great diy video.Thanks so much dude.Jez from East Tennessee.
Glad you liked the video, our other videos are way beyond this simple explanation and running huge loads on solar now night and day. Check out the other videos, I think you will like everything possible with off grid solar and that fact it is all DIY. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.
Nice job! Excellent explanation so anyone can get themselves set up, thank you.
Thank you. That was my point, to show how simple off grid solar is to do. Just the basics but now there are even better components that will allow you to run ac longer. technology for solar is rapid with new products almost weekly. Hope you enjoy my other videos on expanding on this and now 100 percent of my heating and air conditioning for 2 story home, garage and motor home is off grid solar. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024
That's so cool! I've got a tiny house in S. Alabama that I only use about 4 to 6 weeks a year & have been planning to install a mini split in it for several years, for multiple reasons. They are a lot more quiet than a window banger, they heat as well as cool, are more efficient & would eliminate the need for a dehumidifier( extremely humid in S. AL). Unfortunately, from what I've researched, it's illegal to be totally off the grid in AL. At my age, it doesn't make sense to try to go totally solar anyway, as even when I'm there for 2 or 3 weeks, with the A/C running 24/7, using my 240v instant water heater & 240v well pump, my electric bill has never been over $60 & runs under $40 when I'm not there, wit h the only thing drawing power is my dehumidifier & motion detector security lights. Plus I could set all the equipment up in the pump house which is only 4' behind the tiny house, which would probably generate enough heat to keep my pipes from freezing. Now, all I need is to find someone smart enough to set it all up for me 🤣I understand grid electricity well enough, but not so much on the solar stuff. Thanks a lot for sharing this. BTW, since the inverter has the USB low voltage output, couldn't you hook up a 24v electronics fan to assist in keeping the charge controller cool or am I over thinking this? Again, very cool!
Hi, the inverter is 120 volts and the USB is for charging phones, This is a modified sign wave inverter and I would get a pure sign wave inverter instead to charge phones, computers, any electronics. You could run a small tv and dvd instead of window ac. You could make this solar power unit something where you could make it portable. Take window ac out when not at tini house and store solar panels along with battery disconected from system. Lead acid Battery needs to be charged every month or 2 to stay charged. You could use a 12 volt server rack battery that is 5.1 kw hours that coud run ac overnight but would need a few more solar panels to charge battery back up and run ac during the day. you would deplete battery overnight running ac maybe to 20 to 60 percent state of charge. When using a 120 volt inverter suplied by a 12 volt battery you would need either a 120 volt fan or a small USB fan. I do not know the the voltage of the USB port is. By the way, I am on grid and use only about $1200 a year in grid power but save abput $4500-$5000 a year in electric bill using off grid solar on house. I have to run wire from main whole house heat pump ac or mini split or pool pump or pool heater, etc to connect in breaker panel that goes to off grid inverter that is connetected to battery bank. My house is almost 2500 sf and we only have electric as our only source of power, no natural gas. System has paid it self off by electric bill savings alone since we started installing off grid solar a little over 3 years ago. You just have to research and watch a lot of videos on connecting solar or mini splits heat pumps to solar power system. But it really is easy to do once you have a solid understanding of how a solar power system is connected together and how it works. you can buy small systems that come with everything you need to set up a small solar power system that either comes with or without a battery. Thanks for the input and hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend.
@@diy-solar-guy I have 3 solar generators & 3 panels that we got for power outages & such. I also have a solar battery maintainer for my side by side in AL that has worked great for 4 years. Nothing worse than driving 600 miles & having a dead battery on my favorite toy. I take 2 of the generators with me to AL when I go, just in case, have had a few outages down there over the years. Also comes in handy when I need power away from the cabin & not enough extension cord. But from your design, I don't want something to keep it at a normal comfort zone, just to keep it below 100 & above freezing. I drain the water lines before I leave, but have damaged a couple Keurig's from their waterlines freezing. I still have some work to do before I install my split coil as I don't have enough headroom as I only have 7' ceilings & wall space is at a premium. Thanks for the in-depth explanation on your system & have a nice weekend yourself.
@@newbutt Nice system. It is kind of tight in a Tiny homes, I know what you mean, I’m still debating on where to put mini split inside unit in 23 foot motor home. Sounds like you have a nice setup for your place.
You are welcome
If you want to nullify or reduce your bill, use microinverters. They are directly plugged on each (or a pair) solar pannel and fedd the AC by a regular outlet. They are not dangerous because the micro inverter only kick in if they receive the main AC, so unplugged there is no power on the outlet, and in case of main AC cut, they will not send power on the line.
Brilliant project, I’ve been looking for a cost effective way to keep my addition cooled off in the hot Oklahoma Summer time with direct afternoon sunlight. So far I’ve just used black out curtains and foil in the windows. About to upgrade to foam insulation boards on the windows and this would be a nice bonus to add too. Do you think a deep cycle lithium battery would be more effective than a lead acid battery? I’ve never done any solar projects before so IDK what type of batteries are preferred.
Lithium Iron phosphate batteries are far more efficient than Agm deep cycle battery.I will be installing 2 different types of ac in my motor home, a window ac and a mini split with direct input from solar panels with no need for inverter or battery. But can be wired to use grid power at night time. Stay tuned for those videos. AGM lead acid deep cycle batteries will get you through the day while sun is out but are pretty much worthless for running ac or mini split overnight. You will kill the battery draining it in the middle of the night and greatly reduce the life of the battery as where LiFePO4 batteries can go down as low as 80 percent drain on battery and last over 10 years and more. You can find solar kits for a very reasonable price now as compared to 5 years ago that pretty much include everything with or without battery bank. Check out my videos on mini split ac units and how efficient they are. Mini split heat pumps start around $500 and up. They can last 7-10 years if installed for and maintained properly over the years and will pay for themselves in a year or two. They cool and heat down to 30 degrees. For $500 you can cool a 500 square foot area. You can direct wire a or put 10 gauge cord on to plug in. Higher efficiency seer lower the cost to run and keep running. I will be getting some new mini splits that are extremely DIY friendly that do not require a vacuum pump or gauges to install. Stay tuned. Hope you have s wonderful and blessed weekend
Thanks for the demonstration! I really want a small set up for my shop and sun room! Thanks!
You are welcome. This is just a simple set to show how solar works. I have gone way beyond this and now air condition my upstairs and downstairs of our house with only solar in the day and battery bank overnight. We also air condition our garage all day long with only solar, we don’t run on batteries overnight in garage but could if needed to. We installed 6 mini splits in our house and can use those instead of central ac units, we can run all these with solar and easily switch back to grid if needed to work on system. We even heat our 15,000 gallon pool in the winter to 87-89 degrees when water temp without heating would be in the 40’s. We figured out how to accomplish this all watching videos on CZcams. Now we show how we accomplished this , all DIY. Next we are going to install a mini split in our motor home, mini split will use around half the watts to 1/3 watts a roof ac will use. Same thing in your house. I can run 2 mini splits to cool 1200 square feet and use 1/2 the watts that a 4 ton central ac would use. Mini splits are great with solar for that reason and I bought my 12,000 btu(1 ton) mini splits for $500-$600 each and installed all of them myself. 4 years ago we did not know anything about solar, mini splits, central ac or electrical. Now we can run our heat and air conditioning 7/24 365 days a year and save over $5000 on electric bill, which has paid back our investment every year for last 4 years. In December of 2023 we will have recouped our investment completely through saving on electric bill and will be producing FREE electricity for the next 20-25 years. It’s pretty easy now but I had to start with no knowledge of any of this. Now I share how we accomplished this in my videos and what we are able to do with solar throughout the year. Hope you enjoy the other videos and hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed week
@@diy-solar-guy Thanks again and I could use some blessings thank you!
Great show. This is very enlightening
Thank you. I do the videos to help others see just how easy it is to do off grid solar and like me, you don’t need any experience to DIY. I watched videos to grasp the basics and then once I had the basics down, I started getting bolder to try to use solar where others had not thought was possible. So I share what I know with others so if they want to do solar, you can at least see what is possible. Thank you for your gracious input. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed day.
One small note, that many building codes and also mfg installation instructions require a certain amount of clearance above / around the A/C for new installs.
Nevertheless, the fact that this can power an AC is quite amazing. Unfortunately, our HOA won't allow window units... and our central unit would need a LOT more panels. But I do think it is a great idea.
I am actually running my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ac units with solar and a LiFePO4 25.5 kWh battery bank overnight. Check out my other videos on what else I run with only solar power. I run my central ac 7/24 with solar. You will be amazed. Thank you for your input. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed day
Central Air would presumably benefit from the addition of a "soft start" as well?
@@vwbustube I have a soft start on my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton central heat pump ac
Duh! Put in a small mini split
@@cruz47144 I installed 6 mini splits in my house, 2 upstairs, 2 downstairs and 2 in garage. I also have my upstairs and downstairs central ac’s as well. All can run off solar and battery bank, I can air condition my house 24 hours a day with just solar in day and 25.5 kWh EG4 LiFePO4 battery bank overnight. I really like mini splits, they use 1/2 the power of central ac units. Thanks for suggesting but I already did it.
Greatest tip for any DIY solar installers.
1. Always go 1-2 gages over the manufacturer recommended wire.
2. When mounting or installing use a fire resistance/proof/retardant material between the electronics used (I recommend wielders blankets) they are relatively cheap, can handle any direct fire/heat up to 1800 degrees. In any case of fire the blankets will give you time to react and even prevent spread of fire.
3. Keep them in well ventilated areas (most manufacturers recommend 1 ft space in all directions excluding the mounted surface).
4. When in doubt contact an electrician.
Thanks for your wonderful input. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed day.
Or you can use the NEC wire gauge standards and avoid the higher costs of excessive gauge wire. NEC 315 and its sub paragraphs.
Thank you so much for your input. We and other viewers appreciate it. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
@@billkraemer4710
Yes but the standards do not protect against lightning strikes and surge flows caused by them.
🏖️Your video is the BEST📌 video. Simple and easy to comprehend. I am going to buy these components, and get prepared for the hurricane season.(electricity is the first thing we lose) Thank you so very much!
Welcome to the channel and thank you so much for taking the time to comment. I am so glad you found it simple to follow along. That is my whole point of sharing with other that are just starting out with off grid solar. We actually air condition our house and garage with only solar and battery bank. I am actually in the middle of filming installing a mini split in my 23 foot motor home so we can go camping year round and have ac and heat with probably less than 1000 watts in solar panels. I ran this set up for two years when I first started 4 years ago and knew nothing about solar, now I can run anything in my house and yard using solar off grid. Out in AZ it is not worth it to go on grid. Basically double the price of system. Now in December will be 4 years and our system will have paid itself off in just electric bill savings. We actually use more electric now that we can produce it ourselves. It is nice heating our pool to 87-89 degrees in the winter using solar and an electric pool heater heat pump that uses 7500-8500 watts while running. Electric bill will be $50-$60 in winter and we will have a heated pool and heat in our house. It a good day every day here with off grid solar. Hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed weekend
This is beautiful and I thank you truly.
Thank you so much. All DIY. Enjoy the other videos I have.
To get more bang for your buck get one of the newer inverter AC units which throttles current to the compressor which does not need to run full speed all the time. Midea makes a nice U shape 8k btu and it will probably use the same amount of power as the 5k if not less.
Another thing to watch for with modified sine wave is anything with an AC motor will not run as efficiently and builds up waste heat which can cut the lifespan down. Sometimes you will hear the fan is not running as fast as it should or buzzes some.
Thank you so much for your input.
I have the 10k and 12k Midea’s and I’m guessing after seeing my first power bill since I installed them that the 12k pulls equivalent to an older standard 5k. These things are great. Got the 10k on Amazon a few months ago, then I was fortunate to get in on the sale of the 12k’s at Costco for $100 less than I paid for the smaller 10k on Amazon.
@@mainmanmustard very nice. Hope it reduces your electric bill a lot. Thanks for input.
@@mainmanmustard you will like how much you can save on electric bill. I cooled my house from 7am to 5 pm 7 days a week using only solar and AGM battery bank and cut my electric bill by 65 percent first year using mini splits. I use 2 downstairs or my 4 ton heat pump to air condition in the day and run my 3 1/2 ton upstairs 7/24 all on solar now. I spend $0 on air conditioning in Phoenix AZ. Lady moth averaged 113 in day and 85-90 at night. Never used the grid for air conditioning. 2450 square foot 2story house. All the solar in completely off grid. Hope that inspires you. Thanks for your comment and check out my videos on all I do with off grid solar. I think you will like it. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend
@@mainmanmustard I just ordered the Rovsun 12k 115volt mini split for my RV to replace the power hungry Coleman beast. From what i understand Midea is the manufacturer of most of these rebranded mini splits so I expect stellar performance lol
Thank you' Great video!' you made it look easy for a novice solar diy person!' 👍
I knew nothing about solar 4 years ago, so I have learned and share In layman terms to help others understand what you can do with off grid solar, check out my other videos, I now pay $0 for air conditioning my house 2450 square feet and 3 car garage. It has been 110-117 degrees out in day here and 85-92 degrees overnight lows by 6 am with temp still at 110 degrees when sun goes down at 8 pm. I now show how I do this and run pool pump 7/24 365 days a year. Thanks for you comment and hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend
Excellent diy instuctions for the beginners!
Thank you for your input. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
You might want to add another panel for reserve for cloudy days. This set up also will not provide enough power to run the AC at night only during the day when it is hotest.
You are correct, this is just a simple example of how to run ac from solar power. You can expand and improve this system in so many ways. Check out my videos on completely air conditioning my 2450 square foot two story house and 3 car garage with solar in day and battery bank at night. Hoe you enjoy.
11:40 "cool air rises and hot air drops"
Don't you mean the other way around?
It looks like a good setup and I was thinking about this but how long would it takes for it to pay itself off with all of the parts in your video? The marine battery is $98. The AC is about $200. What about the rest?
Thanks
Depends on where you are trying to use ac unit. Charge controller is around$100-$130, used solar panels I picked up for $35 each, bought 13. Inverter is around $130 for 2000 watt. You can find pure sign wave for a little more. By the way you are correct, I had it backwards on air rising or dropping, I used this setup in my shed where I started doing solar to keep my other off grid all in one inverters cool. It worked great as long as you have full sun on solar panels. This is a basic set up. I could use a 24v all in one MPP 120v inverter and connect 2400 watts in solar panels and run 3 of these window ac units during the day from around 9am to 5pm. These 5000 btu window ac units only use around 500 watts. The time for payoff really depends on where you use it to reduce electric bill or if you have a room that is hotter than the rest in the summer. I bought 2 window ac units, one was $129 and the other was $149, both 5000 btu. If you are looking for something to really help reduce electricity bill, look into 12,000 btu mini splits. They will use around 1000-1200 watts when you first turn on but once room reaches temp say 78 degrees , the watts used will drop below 500 watts per hour and that size mini split can be used to cool up to 600 square feet. I use 2-12,000 btu mini splits downstairs in summer when it is 113 out today and my downstairs is 73 degrees. That payoff time can be a year to 2 years to for savings on electric bill. That same 2400 watt, 24v dc all in one Mpp inverter could be used to run both mini splits. I have a lot of videos on using mini split to cool and heat my house. Might want to check out those videos if you are thinking of investing in solar. I buy used 250 watt solar panels located for around $30-$40 each. You would need 10 of those 250 watt panels. Hope this helps.
@@diy-solar-guy You are an expert in this. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and your great video. I paid attention to your entire video and watched it twice. Thanks
@@_-_-.-_-_ you are so welcome. I love sharing what I learned so others that are willing to do DIY can have see it is possible. It is supper easy to install. I am now at the point where I run my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton whole house heat pump ac units on just solar 24 hours a day. Just passed my first 30 days of only using solar to air condition my house entire house and 3 car garage with just solar in day and LiFePO4 batteries at night. Been over 119 degrees in day and 85 at night last 30 days. Check out that video as well. I saved over $700 on my electric bill last month. I keep my hours at 68-70 degrees in the day and 74-78 at night. I have over 100 videos now on solar. Gets some popcorn and watch what you can do with solar. Not one solar panel is on roof of house and all my solar is completely off grid. Which means I had to run wire to everything I want to run from inverters in garage.
Wish you were in Reno-Sparks, Nevada! I am putting together an ABSOLYTE GBS 48 volt battery bank together... came out of a telecommunications system up on a mountaintop... planning on using it on our offgrid, modified Earthship style home. Great Video!! We need something like this in our 40' Jayco LOFT!!
I am working on installing solar on my motor home and installing a mini split so we can camp year round using only solar but have a propane back generator if clouds roll in. Let me know how your project comes turns out. Sounds like a lot of fun DIY with that battery. Hope you have a wonderful and very blessed weekend
Thank you for a great video show the solar system on your house.
You are so welcome. I figured out most of it and just want to share so others can do the same. Just need to know what you need to start and what components you will probably need. It took me a long time to actually start off grid because there was not much info out there at the time and products were really expensive and did not do much. And you needed a lot more stuff than now. Now it pretty much almost plug and play on most components. Very easy to install if you see others systems and how they did it. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed week
To save the battery and prolonging the run time I used a Ultracapacitor in parallel with the battery that way when the compressor kicks in the caps act as a shock absorber preventing the battery from a huge dip in voltage also less strain on your inverter since it has plenty of quick amps to kick that compressor on. How long can you run on just one battery and those two solar Panels on a sunny day?
From around 9-5 so 8 hours
The system is not sustainable, the battery will be destroyed very quickly.
@@montanadan2524 I used these cheap wallmart batteries in my shed running this window ac for 2 years. I had between 2 and 4 batteries in parallel over the 2 years. You can not let these batteries go below 12volts. I ran from 9am-5pm every day. But the batteries were inside shed where it kept temp below 65 degrees. I super insulated the shed on all 4 walls and roof so when I turned off at 5pm , it was still under 70 degrees when sun went down. I would be better to use 2 batteries to make 24 volt system. That charge controller is auto sensing and will know if you connect 24 volt battery bank. If you use 24 volt battery bank you can use 4- solar panels of 250-330 watts each. Then you definitely will not have a problem keeping unit running on high all day long from 9am-5pm. I opened the shed several times a day with both doors open to expel and gases from batteries as they were being charged and never had a problem. This was just a simple set up to show you can run ac on solar. I actually just posted a video of running my whole house 2450 square feet and 3 car garage totaling around 3000 square feet, i air conditioning all of it fir the first month with solar during the day and 25.5 kWh battery bank at night. 24 hours a day I run my upstairs 3 1/2 ton upstairs heat pump to air condition. I spent $0 on air conditioning my entire house and garage for last 30 days. I also now in the winter can run my electric pool heat pump pool heater that is 127,000 btu and use 7000-8000 watts while running or 186 dc amps to run. Check out all I do on off grid solar. Not one solar panel is on my roof. Thanks for your input and hope you have a wonderful and blessed day.
@@diy-solar-guy so how many batteries did you use two, four, or the one you have shown? One battery like you have shown in your video is doomed.
@@montanadan2524 I started with one battery but realized on semi partial cloudy days that was not enough, so I added a second battery in parallel, after a year I added 2 more 12volt batteries because I wanted to run outside lights overnight and needed at least 4 12volt batteries to so that. Lead acid and agm are not the best battery to use if you want to run all day. LiFePO4 batteries are much better and can even get you through the night if you calculate watts needed. This was just an example of what you can do with solar. Check out my latest video where I am now running my whole house and garage on solar in day and house upstairs at night. I spent $0 last month in air conditioning cost. It has been around 113 in day and 85 degrees at night. This is the amazing things you can do with off grid solar. I also run my pool pump 24 hours a day and my 2 electric pool heaters in the winter to keep pool temp in high 80’s thanks for your input. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed day.
Thanks for the video, I will do this with my window unit, this way I dont need to waste so much electricity cooling the whole house, only my home office.
Improve upon this simple example of solar running ac. It is very easy to do. If you live in an area that gets a lot of clouds daily or a lot of rain you will have to increase solar by 3 to 5 times to keep up with shading issues from weather alone. This example only works if you have full sun all day with no rain, clouds or shading. You could try using an all in one inverter, but those are usually 24 volts systems and can be expanded in the future. One thing I notice is when people start seeing what is possible with solar, they can’t stop improving system. I now run 100 percent of my air conditioning in 2 story house and garage with off grid solar. Check out my other videos to see what is possible with solar. My biggest mistake at first was using a small system like this only to realize I wanted to do so much more with solar. My electric bill in Phoenix AZ is only a little over $1000 for the entire year. Last 2 months temps in day have been 112-117 in day and 90 degrees or more overnight lows. Our average is 103 for 24 hour period for 2 months now. My garage has ac and is around 78 degrees in day because I have 3 bedrooms above garage and rooms use to be so hot from heat in garage in being 110-135 degrees. Now rooms are cool 24 hours a day with a cool gay and stays cool when we pull in hot car. Thank you for your comment and hope you see what is possible with off grid solar in my other videos, we run pool year round 24 hours a day with solar only and heat pool in winter to 87-89 degrees even when reps dip into 30’s and 40’s overnight. Hope you have a wonderful and truly blessed weekend
Thanks for this video. What I need now is to see how you connect everything together. What needs to be hooked up first.
Your battery is the last thing to connect. Your solar panels in the sun will be producing watts so might want to cover solar panels with tarp or something while connecting to system. All other components does not matter. Your will get a spark at battery terminal when you connect inverter to battery. The capacitor in inverter is being charged when you touch battery terminal with cable from inverter. You can avoid this using a resistor. That is a separate video for you to watch to see proper way to charge capacitor in inverter while connecting to battery. There are many great videos out on CZcams that show connecting all components, just need to search for them. Will Prouse on CZcams has some great videos on basic set up of solar off grid system set up. Hope this helps. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.
@@diy-solar-guyThank you
Good job, very good job and very good description. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Thank you so much. We actually started with this small window ac and now run our 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton upstairs and downstairs heat pups to heat and cool our house every day year round with only using solar in day and battery bank at night. We also run our pool pump 24 hours a day as well as eat our pool to 89 degrees in March while neighbors pool water temp is in the 40’s water temp. We run 3 freezer as a fridge 24 hours a day as well. All this is off grid and stated with that little 5000 btu window ac unit. Hope you enjoy watching the other videos on how we are able to do all this and what components we needed to achieve this. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024
Nice! Thanks for taking the time to experiment and educate me.. This is beautiful and I thank you truly..
You are so welcome, hope you enjoy all my videos, this is all diy and I had absolutely no experience 4 years ago. We now air condition our entire house and 3 car garage with just solar. We run our upstairs ac 7/24 solar and battery overnight. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
just buy a hybrid solar inverter and this will work much better.
@@xXAbdulBaqiXx this was just an example of what I used when I started with off grid solar 4 years ago. I now run my entire house and garage air conditioning with solar and heat my pool in the winter. I use massive and heavy off grid low frequency inverters that can start very large loads. Check out my other videos showing this. Thank you and hope you have a blessed week
Thank you sir for explaining things so well to us so as to we understand
You are so very welcome
Love it !!!
Thank you, it is easy to explain when you show the components needed. But this is just a basic bare bones system. You really need to add more safety components and improve on this basic system. I did and now I completely 100 percent of the time air condition and heat my 2450 sq ft house 365 days a year as well as the same in my 3 car garage. That is not easy to do when it is 115-118 degrees out in the summer. We also heat our pool starting in March when water temp can be in low 40 degrees range , we heat up to 86-89 degrees water temp and now run our pool pump 24 hours a day, 365 days a week. All of it started with just setting up this little basic system in our solar shed for 2 years. Our electric bill is less than $1200 a year now and our solar off grid system has paid for itself in just the first 4 years. Thank you so much for your comment and we hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.
Thank you for your video. Blessings to you.
Thank you so much. Same to you
Looks like a great setup for her needs.
It is. Need to bring the motor home and try in driveway with deep cycle battery, then with Lithium Iron Phosphate battery. I can run the Ac unit with lithium iron phosphate at night but could not run with deep cycle battery at night. Can’t wait to go camping and use overnight. Thanks for your input.
@@diy-solar-guy Yeah, LiFePO4 is nice.
One world.... AWESOME.
Thanks, check out my videos on air conditioning my house in Phoenix AZ off grid spending $0 on air conditioning when it is 113 degrees outside in day and 90 degrees overnight low. 2 story house 2450 square feet and air condition garage all day long with solar during the day. We run our pool pump 365 days a year using only solar and heat our pool in winter to 87-89 degrees. Off grid solar can do a lot. Check out my other videos, I run 6 mini splits we installed in house as well and can run on solar in day and 25.5 kWh battery bank at night. Thanks for your comment and hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
Excellent demo!
Thank you, I appreciate that. Very basic bare bones video of how off grid solar works. Fast forward 4 years and I now run my 2 central heat pumps to air condition my 2 story house all day with off grid solar and use a EG4 25.5 kWh LiFePO4 battery bank to run ac overnight. We also air condition our garage all day to 78 degrees. We live in Phoenix AZ where we just set a new all time record of average temp for 24 hours being 103 for last 2 months, do it is really hot out here. Check out how we went from running a 5000 btu window ac with off grid solar to running all our ac day and night. I think you will find it interesting. Our June 2023 electric bill was only $101.00. Thanks for your input and I hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed weekend
Interesting project! I have a shed this might work for.
Check out my Part 2 video where I show how to upgrade and improve system. This was just a simple example of how to use solar to run ac. It can and should be improved upon depending on your area, such as if you have cloudy days often, that will make it hard to do solar unless you add more solar panels and batteries to make up for decreased power production with shading from clouds, trees, house, buildings, etc… we now run our entire 2 story house on only solar in day and Battery bank at night, we also air condition our garage all day long using solar to keep at 78 degrees while 115 degrees outside in day. Check out videos to see what is possible with off grid solar and just how easy it is to DIY. Thanks for your comment and hope you have a truly wonderful and very blessed day
Wow how useful. I wish I wasn’t renting so I can those mini splits instead of using a two swamp coolers in our town home.
Thank you for you input. I hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed week
dang, thank you so much!!!
You so are so welcome. Hope you have a truly blessed 2024
Nice project. Thanks for sharing!
You are so welcome. This is just a very basic look at a simple solar power system. I actually completely air condition my 2 story house and 3 car garage with only solar in the day and 25.5 EG4 LiFePO4 battery bank overnight. Check out my other videos to see what I used and how I accomplished this all off grid solar and DIY. Hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed week
@@diy-solar-guy I was wondering if you would mind giving your opinion on a project I've been considering. I haven't tinkered with solar power yet, but I'm very interested. I'm also very conservative and I don't like the idea of using batteries with solar due to their high expense and limited life. I purchased a couple of basic solar panels to play around with and would like to connect them to my main breaker to offset my power consumption during the day. I realize this isn't going to make much difference on my power bill, but I think it would be a good way to introduce myself to solar.
@@Ed-ym4tu hi, you have to get permits and inspections before you can try to connect to main breaker. A lot of equipment is needed. City would have to inspect and utility company would have to inspect what you are trying to connect. You need to do a lot of research before trying to install solar. Talk to a solar installer who would give you a free quote on installing solar and ask about all the components needed to accomplish this. I personally would never install on grid solar at my house. It is so expensive that you would never break even. Solar power is dangerous and can injure you or cause a fire if you do not understand how it works. I do off grid solar that is not connected to my grid at all. Completely separate and independent. There are so many videos out there explaining on grid solar and what is involved and off grid solar and what is involved that you should start there before even considering trying to connect a solar panel to anything. Educate yourself before tackling solar power. It can be easy to install off grid solar with the technology available today with all the latest components but you need to understand how everything works and the danger involved if trying to install DIY off grid solar. If you tried to connect to your grid, with the new meters on the homes today , the utility company could tell as soon as you connected and could easy get you fines or worse. Please get the knowledge for free from watching videos from so many people with CZcams channels that can explain and. Even show how to connect components safely and correctly. I learned for years and investigated all my options and what components to buy before ever connecting anything together. Will Prouse is a great resource on CZcams, he does an excellent job explaining solar and how to connect all the components safely and correctly. You can easily learn very quickly watching his videos. I show what I have done with solar but I don’t do a lot of videos showing step by step with installing individual solar components. Hope this helps you to do more research before anything else and I hope you are successful in your future solar projects. Hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed week
@@diy-solar-guy ok, thanks for taking the time to reply. I'll take your advice and not explore that.
Awesome video just what I was looking for
Thank you, I hope you check out my other videos showing how we air condition our 2 story house for $0 last month when temp was 113 degrees in day and 90 degrees overnight low. Our house is 2450 square feet, 2 story and we also air condition our 3 car garage from 6 am to 6 pm. We run our pool pump 7/24 all with off grid solar power. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week.
@@diy-solar-guy I'll take a look at those
I appreciate the video and your setup. You have an inexpensive functional system.
A mini-split is a great option. Be sure to get one with inverter technology.
Mobile platforms have much thinner insulation. You may consider a larger unit for that much area.
A minor issue is the modified sine wave inverter.
They are fine if you are just running a motor, but they are less efficient and can damage some electronic devices.
Most modern A/C units have electronic controls. Efficiency is King in solar setups.
For the last 2 years, I had a 5000 BTU in my insulated Pet Palace Solar Shed (8x12). ~600W max
It really would struggle when the temp got to 95 and above. I keep the inside temp about 75.
The solar equipment generates a fair amount of heat in Summer and Winter along with the pets.
My equipment is listed near the bottom of this post.
Initially I had a 8000 BTU portable A/C ~ 5500 BTU effective. It was a decent unit, but took up a lot of space.
It sucked a lot of juice, had a drain hose(generated distilled water as a byproduct of cooling),
was loud and had trouble keeping us cool when the temp soared over 100F.
A friend now uses it in his bedroom. He adjusts his main A/C temp up a few degrees for over night.
He also uses the distilled water for his plants. Waste not want not.
My 5K BTU generally cooled well until the outside temp gets above 90-95.
It can keep the shed about 10 degree cooler than outside temp.
When it was 110F outside, it was 99F inside. The dog went looking for shade outside.
This year, I got an LG 8000 BTU window unit with built in soft start and dual scroll inverter and it is much quieter.
The LG is little pricey compared to cheap window units, but well worth it. It also has wifi and app, I don't use.
Standard power consumption is much less than the 5000 BTU. When it kicks in full, it pulls 50% more, but keeps us cool.
I am an electrical engineer and am happy to answer general questions about Solar.
Although I have the technical background to understand solar, consumer equipment available changes frequently.
I would go a different route if starting new today.
*** Solar equip: 24V nominal system.
2 banks of 3 - 320W Renogy solar panels. One bank faces morning sun and the other faces evening sun.
Dual EPever BN-4215 40A MPPTs (one for each bank). Typically provides 25-30A of charge current.
1 Giandel 4000W pure sine wave inverter. I recommend only PSW inverters for running electronic loads.
14KW 8S2P LFP battery with JK 200A BMS with 2A active balance and Heltec 5A active balancer.
My experience is I really need the active balancer for the large LFP batteries.
If you get preassembled server rack batteries, active balance isn't an issue.
This system powers not only the A/C but a minifridge, microwave and computer with 50" screen.
I spend a lot of time in the dog house lol! The dog and 2 cats generate considerable heat also.
One can stay comfortable down to 40F outside before needing heat.
I have a bathroom heater set to 60F for Winter.
When below 20, I have propane as a supplement. It is set to 45F.
Generators:
I have a Westinghouse i2200/ 1700 gas generator to charge the battery directly.
I have a Westinghouse i4500/ 3700 gas generator. I don't use it much as it uses more gas.
I have 2 - 30A 24V chargers, but only run 1 from "Lil' Genny".
The smaller generator only runs about 4 hours typically,
I can load it up and confidently put the pets to bed.
The larger unit can run all night, > 12 hours which I needed when I had the 8000 BTU portable.
Thank you for taking the time to share all that wonderful information. This is just a simple example of the system I used in my solar shed for 2 years, I used this basic bare bones system 4 years ago. Now 4 year later I am running my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton central heat pumps to air condition and heat my 2 story 2450 square foot house with off grid solar in day and 25.5kwh EG4 LiFePO4 battery bank overnight. I also installed 6 mini splits. 2 upstairs, 2 downstairs and 2 in the garage. I can run a combination of the the central and mini splits day or night. I cool my 3 car garage in the day because there are 3 bedrooms, a bathroom and a loft above the garage. Without AC in garage, it’s gets up to 140 degrees when pulling in 2 hot cars here in Phoenix AZ. We use a lot less power at night when garage is at 78 degrees. Our electric I’ll in June 2023 was only $101, we set new records with average daily 24 hour temp going from 98 degrees to 103 degrees. It was hot and we spent $0 on air conditioning in June2023. We run our pool pump 7/24 365 days a year and even heat our 15000 gallon in ground pool to 87-89 degrees in the winter with a 17,000 btu heat pump pool heater and a 127,000 btu heat pump pool heater, that pool heater uses 7500-8500 watts when running. I had to install soft starts on my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton heat pumps for house and also a soft start on my 127,00 btu pool heater. I only have electric at my house. No other power Source such as natural gas or propane. Check out my other videos on how I was able to a accomplish with no experience 4 years ago. I learned as I went along. Don’t have all the terminology down completely yet and because of the 2 incurable cancers I was diagnosed with and dealing with for last 10 years, I sometimes have the words come out wrong from my mouth due to prescription pain killers and other meds. So I apologize in advance if you watch my other videos. I have a viral video where I said hot air drops and and cool air rises. It just came out wrong and I did not catch in editing before I uploaded video. I know hot air rises and cool air drops but meds effect my speech, sorry. Once again thank you for All the valuable information. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed week.
I had a similar issue on my 10x16 shed using a 5000 btu ac. could not keep up with heat gain until I added corrugated metal panels on top of the existing roof which reflect heat and the wave pattern allows airflow underneath. made a substantial difference. I use and inline temp controller comes on at 79.7 and turns off at 77.3. pretty comfortable for the animals.
Wow Thank you for all they valuable info and taking the time to share. I actually installed 6 mini splits in my house and garage. I can run all those on my solar system during the day and 3 mini splits at night on LiFePO4 battery bank. I can now also run my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton ducted central heat pumps that were installed in the house when built. They use around 6500-7500 watts when both running at same time. I can also run a combination of both, usually the 3 1/2 ton upstairs and the 2 mini splits downstairs all using off grid solar. I run the 3 1/2 ton central upstairs ac 24 hours a day on solar and battery bank. In the winter when I don’t use mini splits or central ac that much, I run my 127,000 btu electric pool heater heat pump to heat pool to 87-89 degrees. Pool water in the winter out here is usually in the high 40’s to high 50’s in December, January, February and March. That beast of a pool heater uses 7500 to 8500 watts while running and can heat a 15,000 gallon pool water 2-3 degrees per hour. This was an example of what I used 4 years ago Whalen I first started out and knew nothing about off grid solar and how to use it. We have come a long way since that. Now in December, our entire solar power off grid system will have paid itself off in savings. Next January we will be producing FREE electricity from now on. Hope my viewers and subscribers can use the info you provided to help them in some way. I appreciate your input, check out our other videos showing all we do and how we do it with solar. It has make a huge difference in our lives. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed week.
This is awesome...thanks for sharing
You are welcome. Actually I am now air conditioning my entire house with solar and battery bank. Check out my other videos. Last month in June in Phoenix AZ I spent $0 on air conditioning my house 24 hours a day and $0 for air conditioning my garage from sun up to sun down. Hope you enjoy the videos. Thanks for your input and hope you have a wonderful and blessed weekend
Thanks!
You are welcome. Hope you have a blessed day
Very interesting. Seems like I have always been interested in solar, wind, etc, but ... life! Just a note, and you may know this - solar panels will work better where they have some kind of cooling airflow over the front and back surfaces, rather than that hot pavement. I realize the arrangement was just for the video, but...I’m also surprised by the number of folk who are not aware.
Thanks for sharing! Best wishes and good travels!
You are correct, the solar panels in the video were laying on the ground just to be able to show Everything needed to complete the system. If you watch my other videos I use pergolas so the air flow is really great. Solar panels are 8 feet off the ground. I also built 2 solar arrays that are almost 6 feet above the ground that allows great air flow. I was diagnosed with 2 incurable cancers in 2016 but a actually started in 2013 before it was diagnosed. I can not do much in a day. What might take you a day to do could take me a week(s). So I started actually with this system in a 4x8 shed with 2 solar panels mounted on top the shed. Over 4 years I kept learning just watching videos about solar, hvac and electrical. Over 4 years, I expanded my solar system and installed 6 mini split heat pumps, 2 upstairs, 2 downstairs and 2 in garage. 3 bedrooms and a loft are above garage and garage makes those rooms really hot. Garage in Phoenix AZ can get az hit as outside and if you pull a hot car that has been outside and driven fir 29-30 minutes, that garage can get over 130 degrees or more. Now my garage is 78 degrees in the day. We use only off grid solar to air condition our entire house all day long with solar while sun is shining and upstairs at night with a 25.5 kWh EG4 LiFePO4 battery bank. We save over $700 a month in electric bill in summer for up to 6 months. We also run our pool pump 7/24 365 days a year using only solar in day and LiGePO4 batteries. We run 3 freezers, a fridge, outdoor lighting all day and overnight on off grid solar. We heat our 15,000 gallon pool to 87-89 degrees in the winter out here using solar off grid. We installed everything ourselves and actually have 3 separate independent systems that had reduced our electric I’ll by over 80 percent for the year. All DIY just buying used solar panels, refurbished Growatt low frequency off grid inverters that can start and run our 3 1/2 ton, 4 ton central air conditioners that use a lot of power and that pool heat pump that is 12.7 ton that use to cost me $10-$15 a day in winter to run. We are only electric at our house. Now we pay nothing for air conditioning in house and garage and we pay nothing for heating pool in winter and can cool it down if too hot in summer with that pool heater/cooler. Everything we did is DIY with no plans to follow, just imagination and learning. I made this video to help people understand the very basics for solar and used an window ac to show you can run it producing your own power. I actually ran this in that shed for 2 years every day from 8-9 am to 5-6 pm. Just to keep inverter and charge controller(s). I added more batteries and more charge controllers then when I was producing more power, I installed my first 12,000 btu 110 volt mini split in garage. Then just kept learning and adding more and more components working my way up to the system I have today. Check out some of my other videos if you are interested in DIY solar off grid. Thanks for your comment and hope you have a wonderful and very blessed weekend
Effective and simple. Very nice! I think I'd consider a pair of batteries because that's quite a load on just one, but otherwise you've put together a good, practical system.
This is just the bare bones basic system, the more you improve, the better system you will have. I encourage you to improve upon it. I did and now 100 percent of my ac and heat is run by solar upstairs, downstairs and in my garage. I also run my pool pump and pool heater. I run many more things 100 percent totally off grid solar. Hope you enjoy my other videos and how it accomplished this. Hope you have e a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.
Sun goes down ac goes off, test how much battery power to run ac at night. Great video
At 500 watts, to run for 10 hours overnight you would use 5000 watts or 5 kWh. I would say you would need at least 8-10 kWh LifePO4 battery bank. 2-5kwh server rack batteries in parallel would do the trick. I’m going to use 2-5kwh server rack LiFePO4 batteries in my motor home to run my 12,000 mini split overnight. Thanks for your input. Very much appreciated. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed New Year.
I love the way you simplify this. Great job & I love that you used basic language & parts. Just an FYI though, hot air rises & cold air drops.
Sorry, going through cancers and meds mess with the way it comes out of my mouth sometimes. Did not catch before uploading. I apologize. Please forgive me. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024
Nothing to apologize for. Its easy to get tounge tied or say things backwards when your trying to say it for a camera. I wish you the best on your treatments & may you be blessed with a speedy & full recovery.
Awesome Video Thanks Man 👍
You are very welcome, glad you liked it. Just sharing what I did with off grid solar so others can do something similar.
You should be a physics professor, this was so easy to follow!
Thank you so much, I appreciate that input from you. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed weekend
I thought about doing something like this many times. I've had the knowledge to do it but just not the motivation because I already have a grid tie solar system. I thought it would still be neat to keep one room colder because I get hot so easily and my girlfriend doesn't like to be cold. I do also have a small off-grid system but it's not sufficient for an A/C. From time to time, I think about upgrading that off-grid system and doing something like this 😄
Very easy to do, I buy all my solar panels locally for $25-$35 each so I can use as many as I need to run what I need to. I actually run my whole house ac upstairs, downstairs and in 3 cat garage with only solar in day upstairs with LiFePO4 batteries at night. Check out some of my other videos for other ideas around the house, thanks for your comment, hope you have a wonderful and blessed day
Wow I can make such a nice tool shed and dog house with that set up
There you go, I used this set up in my solar shed for 2 years to keep all the components cool during the day. It worked great. Thanks for your input. Hope you have a wonderful blessed day
Very neat idea!
Thank you, I off grid solar to now air condition my entire 2 story house and garage using off grid solar. I can air condition house 7/24 with solar in day and battery bank at night. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
Cool fact: did you know that if you just have your roof painted white, it will do all the work for you to keep the temperature down automatically because white roofs reflects a lot of sunlight heat back to space compared to a darker coloured roof leading the inside of your home temperatures cooler and outside too 👍. Great video by the way 👌.
Thank you for your suggestion, unfortunately we live in a association and can not paint our roofs so that is not an option for most in the west that live in associations. Hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed 2024
Yeah I’m liking that
Pretty cool to run an ac with very little solar. It’s even better now running my whole house ac with solar and battery bank. Come a long way since I used that window ac.
That's a nice DIY system, well done for the home owner. I would only add that its possible to purchase a "Hybrid" inverter that automatically switches to the utiity grid when the battery becomes exhausted can't keep up. Truly to have an AC or minisplit and a few solar panels, panel 4 kw battery and hybrid inverter to power it all for a home would be great, save hundreds of dollars a year. However, it would take five or six years to pay for it all with electricity savings.
Actually if you see my latest video I am now 100 percent solar and battery bank for my air conditioning. I spent $0 last month on air conditioning even though it is 113 degrees in day and 85 degrees at night. My house is 2450 square feet and I even air condition my garage all day with solar. My pool pump is 7/24 run by solar and battery bank. I also heat my pool to 89 degrees in the winter using solar and 2 different pool heaters that are electric. Check out my other videos to see everything possible with off grid solar. Thanks for your input.
Hey friend, just a suggestion, if you have a local welding supply shop, go get you some 0 or 0/2 welding wire for power cables. it is a little pricey (about $3 a foot in my area) but it will carry your amp load. we use it for big car stereo installs. you can get up to 0/4 gauge.. i running 0/3 in my truck pushing around 7500 watts of amps.
Thanks so much for your input. I will check into that.
nice inside wood b different but truly nice way to go wood b less stress enclosed NICE
Thank you. We actually run our upstairs, downstairs and garage ac and heating 100 percent of the time using only solar. A total of 3000 square feet of space. We also run our pool pump and heat our pool with only solar. Check out our other videos showing all this and what components we used and where to buy. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024
This is awesome content so cool thank you break through yes!
Glad you liked it. This is just the basics of how solar works and can be used. Check out my other videos on using mini splits inverter heat pumps to cool upstairs, downstairs and garage in my house. I also use my central air conditioning to cool and heat house using only solar power from solar panels in the day and lithium iron phosphate battery bank at night. We spent $0 on air conditioning cost last month in Phoenix where we are breaking records for extreme heat wave. It is pretty cool with how much you can use solar to run all the things in your house but off grid. Everything I run with off grid solar is completely off grid. No solar panels on my roof of house. All in back yard. Hope you enjoy the other videos. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
Thanks I need it that
You are very welcome. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed day
You could do a very efficient 12000 btu mini split 400 watts!
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@@diy-solar-guy good afternoon Mister solar guy LOL. If to complete this project I need to get a battery and the panel's starting with a fresh battery you would recommend the deep cycle marine or a lifepo4 100 amp hour? My wife is disabled and this is exactly what I would like to do because she runs her AC around the clock. I guess I would like you to get sitter if there's no sun at night how many batteries would it take to run that 48 hours or 10 hours until the sun comes up the next morning
@@mrobvious1100 LiFePO4 battery is the best way to run ac 7/24. I have a lot of videos that shows using 120v mini splits which are much more efficient than window ac unit. I run my entire house and garage on only solar air conditioning now. I spend $0 on air conditioning now. House and garage is around 3000 square feet. Temps last 30 days have been 113 in day and 85 at night. Watch my other videos to see what mini splits I use and how well they cool house and garage as well as running my 3 1/3 ton and 4 ton heat pumps to air condition and heat my house. All with solar during the day and LiFePO4 batteries at night. I also have links in video of where I purchase products to run ac my whole house. Hope this helps to understand what you would need to supplement your ac using solar and to reduce electric bill as well. I to am permanently disabled and have to keep my house cold because of the 2 incurable cancers I have battled for last 10 years. I did all this in videos over the period of 4 years a little at a time every couple of days till I got to where I am today with my off grid system. I didn’t around $5000 a year each year for last 4 years and my system will be 100 percent paid back at the end of this year if 2023. Hope you enjoy the other videos and hope they en-suite you to use solar to run air conditioning.
@@diy-solar-guy great info. I have a two-story Colonial single-family about 100 years old. First floor is 30 x 30 second floor about 30 x 30. Three bedrooms upstairs with a bathroom first floor living room dining room kitchen vent a bathroom and then a bedroom. I'm guessing I would need two for the walls upstairs and 3 for the first floor. How many batteries do you need to power the air conditioning at night. Of course this takes in consideration multas most of the units will not be running except the one we sleep in because our kids have grown up and are in the military. We would only run the AC upstairs if guests come over
@@diy-solar-guy one other quick thought since I kind of understand the old-fashioned air-conditioning systems that use returns how did these wall-mounted systems suck the heat out of the top of the room? And I'm guessing each unit has to have a drain that goes outside the house
Great video
Thank you. This was just a simple video to run a window ac with least amount of components, check out mi others videos on all solar air conditioning in my house and garage. I now spend $0 on air conditioning
Very good presentation and information
Thank you, I appreciate it. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
Sweet!
Thank you
great video
Thank you. I’m glad you enjoyed the video. Just wanted to show what off grid solar can do and it is getting easier with all the new inverters coming out.
Very cool....I have 500W (2×250 panels) with that same charge controller, two batteries in parallel, runs my fridge, lights, and can run my laptop etc. I have a 400W pure sine inverter (can surge to 800) that I think I'll try just as an experiment to see what's what. I was going to buy a generator, which would make my rig completely off grid but if this works...yeah, I could save 700.00....Great video, thanks for sharing !!
I started with this simple set up then after 2 years added a 24 volt 2400 watt off grid all in one pure sign wave inverter and ran 3 chest freezers, a 24 cf fridge/freezer combo, lights and my pool pump at 1000 rpm 24 hours a day. Then after another year I went to 3 separate 48 volt off grid all in one inverters. See my videos on how I did this and what components I used. Cut my electric bill from over $5000 a year to little over $1000 a year and all my system components will be completely paid for with saving in December of 2023. Free electricity next year and after. Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhh. Glad you liked the video, check out my other videos on running almost everything in my house with off grid electric. By the way, everything I run, I had to run separate wires from inverter to appliance and hard wire or add outlet to plug into. Nothing I gave us tied to my grid in any way.
awesome video thanks man
Thank you for your input. This is just a simple example of basic solar. I actual now am able to run my 2 central ac to cool and heat my house 7/24 with solar in the day and 25.5 kWh EG4 Lithium Iron phosphate battery bank to run all night long. I also installed 6 mini splits, 2 upstairs, 2 downstairs and 2 in the garage. 2 Mini splits use about half of the watts of one central ac unit. We are now able to heat our pool in the winter when the normal water temp is in the 40’s, we can heat pool to 78-89 degrees. All this is from off grid solar. I am amazed at all I was able to run with solar every day 365 days a year. Hope you enjoy my other videos and I show what is possible with DIY off grid solar.
I love it 🐶🤠🐶👍
Thank you, just the bare bones basic components needed to run ac. Check out my other videos. I now run my 3 1/2 ton, 4 ton whole house heat pumps to air condition and heat our 2 story 2450 square foot house along with a 18,000 btu mini split in garage. I can get my house and garage down to 65 degrees when it is 110 out in the summer here in AZ. We now spend $0 on heating and cooling our house and 3 car garage and also run our pool pumps 7 days a week 24 hours a day with off grid solar. We even heat our pool. My neighbors pool is 56 degrees, mine is 86 degrees right now. Hope you enjoy learning what we use off grid solar for in our videos. Thanks for your comment, hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.
@@diy-solar-guy I just moved off grid on February 1st in Atlantic Canada. It's been rough but I can now power my fridge, brew coffee, and use light electronics. I made it through a week of straight rain before needing to charge my 300ah with the generator. Hardest part is just getting set up
@MaritimeUnprepared you are absolutely correct, I knew nothing about hvac, off grid solar, mini splits 4 years ago. I started watching videos on CZcams and learned a lot. But there were some things I wanted to run with off grid solar and could not find any videos on subjects so I started our channel and not show what is possibly with off grid solar. It is nice reducing my bill down over 85 percent. I now have a back up set of everything appliance in house in garage. If power goes out or becomes to expensive, we are ready to go completely off grid. It is a nice feeling knowing you can power everything you need. Thanks for sharing with us. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024. Congrats on your solar off grid system.
This was so good!!!!
Thank you. Hope it help in understanding a small part of what off grid solar can do. I have a new video where I am complaining running my air conditioning 24 hours a day only using solar and battery bank at night. I spent $0 last month on air conditioning my house who’s is 2 stories and 2450 square feet and cooling my garage during the day. I have over 100 videos about off grid solar and all that you can do with it. Please check out my other videos. I think you will like those even more.
@@diy-solar-guy you have no idea! I just bought a 1990 Coleman pop-up and I’ve been trying to figure out how to make it solar and run either the air that’s in it or I’ll get a smaller air conditioner. He would not believe how many people keep telling me it can’t be done. That no solar will run an air conditioner. I am in Florida so Air Condition is important. Thanks bunches.
@@CLacy you are welcome. Might want to look into flexible solar panels that only weigh about 2-4 lbs. can be mounted on top of camper or pop up with camper double sided stick on tape. So you do not have to drill holes. I am looking into that for my motor home as well. Thank you for your input. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed day
thanks :)
You are very welcome
Awesome Video. Hats off!
11:40 "Cool air rises Hot air drops" WRONG, you have it Backwards. Heat Rises Cold Falls.
Think of a block of dry ice, when it boils off, does the nitro gas rise or stay on the floor?
Then add a 5-2-1 start kit (hard start kit) *reduces 50+% of the LRA , Then poss. run a 10-12k BTU/HR AC on that set up.
Sorry, I did not catch before I uploaded video. I have to take prescriptions for the 2 cancers I am going through and every once and I while it comes out of my mouth totally backwards and I don’t catch before uploading. So sorry, I apologize. In the positive side, I went on to run my 3 1/2 to upstairs and 4 ton downstairs and 18,000 btu in garage all off solar 365 days a year. 7/24 using off grid solar in the day and 51.2 volt, 35.5kWh LiFePO4 battery bank overnight. We spend $0 on heating and cooling a year. We also run our pool pump 24 hours a day 365 days a year and heat our 15,000 gallon in ground pool to 86-89 degrees starting in March and going through November. All off grid solar, and our entire system has paid for itself in just 4 years. Once again , sorry for saying it backwards and not catching it. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.
@@diy-solar-guy No worries Brother. Love how you did house w/ full mini splits. * much higher SEER ratings. Super cool on making your own electric too. Keep up the Good Fight, keep being/thinking positive bc God is on your side.
@@user-xk5so7wb2t Amen, been in remission for 6+ years and did not do chemotherapy or bone marrow transplant as they said that was my only option to get into remission. I trusted in God through his Son Jesus that he heals those who believe. I believe and have seen God heal 53 people through the laying on of hands and prayer using me as a vessel of Faith to mix with their Faith. Thank you for your kind words. Hope you truly are Blessed this year by God.
cool air does not rise... hot air does not drop... much the opposite. I am sure it was just a minor slip and you meant the opposite. Thank you for the video. Great content.
Sorry, it was a mistake I did not catch.
Awesome video. I've been building a off grid power station in my truck camper 2 Lifepo4 batteries in parallel, 2000watt pure sine wave inverter, 60amp Makeskyblue Solar charge controller. I only have enough room on top for 2 200w panels but was thinking about making it so I can hook up some panels on the ground to add to it. Maybe 400w panels will be enough for the 12v roof top ac I was thinking about getting. It looks like they are very efficient.
I’m going to install some solar on the roof of my motor home and bring along a ground mount solar array to have 4 solar panels on ground mount and 2 solar panels on the roof. Looking at using the new Bifacial 400 watt to 500 watt back side gain. For a total of 7-400 watt solar panels. I can run my 12,000 btu, 120 volt min split. Only need 1200 watts at max and down to 300 watts at minimum. Already installed mini split in motor home and run on shore power or propane generator.
I'm going to look at this video a few times so it can sink in. I'm not that great at electrical. But I have a detached garage and made a back room in it with a window to do my hobbies. I'm trying to find a way to run a window unit using solar through those expensive HOT Houston Texas months!
You should improve upon this system. This is just the bare bones basic. Adding more solar will improve how long you can run ac. Using an all in one inverter will allow you to add more solar. When it is cloudy, you will decrease run time considerably. I live where this over 320 sunny days a year. Take all this into consideration when trying to build a system. Hope this helps. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024
I am curious if the fold up solar panels are on par with these panels.. they certainly would be a lot easier to move around, store, etc when not in use.
The flexible panels are less watts, not as efficient. You would probably need 2-3 times the same space with flexible compared to these mono panels. I have fold up panels for a lithium iron phosphate portable power supply and the panels are only 100 watts each. You can run off 2-330 watt mono panels but if you add another 330 watt panel you just greatly improved the length of time running on high all day with sun out. The charge controller will have to be large enough to handle more panels. My charge controller in video is old school and can only handle 2-330 watt panels. If you add a lithium iron phosphate battery that is 5kw or more you could run ac overnight.
I've never been so dizzy after watching a youtube video. but an informative video you got here.
I actually am running my entire house air conditioning for my 2 story 2450 sq ft house 7/24 with just solar in day and 25.5 EG4 LiFePO4 battery bank. I also air condition my 3 car garage which is around 600 sq feel during the daytime with only solar off grid power. Check out some of my other videos to see how much stuff you can run with off grid solar power. Thanks for you input and hope you have a wonderful and blessed day.
Good info brother. Thank you❤
You are so welcome, hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
Thank you, Amen and you and yours too.
OMG - I think you are in to something here. Off-grid powered A/C.
I need to do this to my detached garage, which has its own power.
Running A/C in summer is the biggest electrical consumer - getting that off my bill would be huge.
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Check out my other videos, that is exactly what I did. I run my upstairs, downstairs and garage on solar in day and upstairs in house at night. Last night the power went out and we did not worry, we were already using LiFePO4 battery bank and stayed cool all night. Ac kept running. Hope you have a wonderful and blessed week
I dig it.
Thank you so much. Check out my other videos on completely running my ac with only solar and battery bank overnight.
Very nice! However my experience with everstart battery wasn’t good. It died after a few charges. Solved the problem by ordering a lithium ion battery off Amazon.
Lithium iron phosphate battery is the best way to go. I was just Doing a simple example of running ac on solar, although I ran this system in my solar shed for over 2 years to keep inverters and batteries cool during summer heat out here in Phoenix AZ
Really nice explanation
Thank you. I glad you enjoyed. For someone just beginning it is a lot to take in. But very easy to master and do DIY. This video is just a intro. I actually air condition my entire house and garage completely with just solar and LiFePO4 battery now even with it being 113 degrees in the day and overnight low of 90 degrees. I spent $0 on air conditioning my house last month in Phoenix AZ. Hope you enjoy videos on how I accomplish this all off grid solar.
On ODU u should put an covering to provide shade on ODU to save it from direct sunlight that will also save lot electricity and cool it much faster.
Thank you for your input. I appreciate it.