Thank you, I appreciate your feedback, my background is in a lot of areas, I am interested in sustainable technology and like to geek out on the details. I took a Photovoltaics course at the Solar Living Institute and they filled in a lot of the blanks I needed to design and install this system. I'll be posting more in depth videos soon. Thanks for watching!
That looks incredibly complicated, and is the perfect commercial for staying away from solar. Boxes and wires everywhere, and all you have are 6 little breakers. And one light.
It actually cost less than $17,000 in components. I sourced everything from local suppliers, Advance Power Redding has great prices for nor-cal. Otherwise, I do have solar experience and was trained at the solar living institute in Hopland, Ca. I dont recommend trying anything like this without experience. Thanks for watching.. more videos coming soon!
There needs to be only 1 neutral to ground bond, then it needs to be grounded to an installed grounding rod. I did this from the enclosure box and made the neutral bus bar the grounded neutral. Hope this helps...
The best non professional step by step solar installation I have seen. I was an electrician by trade and was wondering what your background was in? I am building a home next year and hopefully it will be off-grid.
It will be a stand alone off grid system. Yes the output wires of the inverter to the breaker/service panel. Im pretty sure hot neutral ground must be isolated to individual busbars, no neutral to ground.
Two independent 8 AWG connected to the main service entry panel with a dual 30A breaker that allows for both 120V and 240V output. Are you looking to size wires on your own system?
In that case, I would recommend wiring the inverter directly to the service panel through a breaker. It would be much better practice, save efficiency, and allow you to use the 2 inverter outlets for other things. What type of inverter is this? Does it allow two hot lines out, phased to allow 240V? Does the inverter have the outlets already wired in it's enclosure?
Yes I do have a thunder arrestor on my roof and the inverter has its own ground terminal. My grounding is such that the ground wire that comes from the cc goes into the inverter then to the the ground yet this still happens, my inverter still shuts off and shows short circuit during lightening/thunderstorm My thought is whether it is not proper to wire the cc and inverter together in the same system, or if they have be the cc and inverter should have separate grounding independent of each other or maybe the ts mppt grounding serves for both equipments
In the near future I plan on installing a small solar system to my garage to get my feet wet. I am really curious what the difference between hard wiring an inverter that is factory set up for it is vs simply running dual cords from the 2 inverter outlets to the panel would be. Just a neater/cleaner setup? Would you get the same performance from the latter? Also, could a qualified person remove the dual outlets from the inverter and set it up for hard wiring? questions galore I know.
Hey there, I am going to make a video with the wiring schematic for everyone to see exactly how it should be wired. The neutral is a not a hot line in this system, so maybe thats where you are confused.
Hey, Im glad you are interested in Solar. I have a few questions for you before I can answer.. Are referring to the wire connection between the inverter and the main service entry panel or "breaker box"? Or are you installing a stand-alone panel for just your solar power? Is this going to have batteries? Be very careful about wiring anything that provides energy to your service panel.
Well...now that is opposite of everything I have read. I have gathered that if the neutral bus bar was bonded to the ground bus bar it would backfeed into the inverter and burn it up. Also that only the ground bus and a ground wire from the negative of the battery bank should be ran to a grounding rod ???? There has to be a simple laymans diagram somewhere but I be darned if I can find one.
There are 18 panels connected which can produce 4100 watts of power per hour of peak sunlight on the array. So you would say the array size is 4.1kWh. Hope that clears it up for you. Thanks for watching!
I just posted a new in depth video explanation of the system components and grounding, included a schematic at the end. Check it out and Let me know what you think.
That would help a lot of us not so technical types immensely. Looking forward to it.
Thank you, I appreciate your feedback, my background is in a lot of areas, I am interested in sustainable technology and like to geek out on the details. I took a Photovoltaics course at the Solar Living Institute and they filled in a lot of the blanks I needed to design and install this system. I'll be posting more in depth videos soon. Thanks for watching!
Nice setup I have that same inverter its awesome.
Thanks man, I appreciate the good words!
That looks incredibly complicated, and is the perfect commercial for staying away from solar. Boxes and wires everywhere, and all you have are 6 little breakers. And one light.
It actually cost less than $17,000 in components. I sourced everything from local suppliers, Advance Power Redding has great prices for nor-cal. Otherwise, I do have solar experience and was trained at the solar living institute in Hopland, Ca. I dont recommend trying anything like this without experience.
Thanks for watching.. more videos coming soon!
There needs to be only 1 neutral to ground bond, then it needs to be grounded to an installed grounding rod. I did this from the enclosure box and made the neutral bus bar the grounded neutral.
Hope this helps...
The best non professional step by step solar installation I have seen. I was an electrician by trade and was wondering what your background was in? I am building a home next year and hopefully it will be off-grid.
It will be a stand alone off grid system. Yes the output wires of the inverter to the breaker/service panel. Im pretty sure hot neutral ground must be isolated to individual busbars, no neutral to ground.
Two independent 8 AWG connected to the main service entry panel with a dual 30A breaker that allows for both 120V and 240V output.
Are you looking to size wires on your own system?
so do you think that 28amp will charge your battery . or will b better to go 12v or 24v to get more amp to the battery to charge faster
Hello I was wondering how you system is holding up after 2 years? Hows the outback charge controller and batteries holding up?
In that case, I would recommend wiring the inverter directly to the service panel through a breaker. It would be much better practice, save efficiency, and allow you to use the 2 inverter outlets for other things. What type of inverter is this? Does it allow two hot lines out, phased to allow 240V? Does the inverter have the outlets already wired in it's enclosure?
Yes I do have a thunder arrestor on my roof and the inverter
has its own ground terminal. My grounding is such that the ground wire that
comes from the cc goes into the inverter
then to the the ground yet this still happens, my inverter still shuts off and
shows short circuit during lightening/thunderstorm My thought is whether it is
not proper to wire the cc and inverter together in the same system, or if they
have be the cc and inverter should have separate grounding independent of each
other or maybe the ts mppt grounding serves for both equipments
In the near future I plan on installing a small solar system to my garage to get my feet wet. I am really curious what the difference between hard wiring an inverter that is factory set up for it is vs simply running dual cords from the 2 inverter outlets to the panel would be. Just a neater/cleaner setup? Would you get the same performance from the latter? Also, could a qualified person remove the dual outlets from the inverter and set it up for hard wiring? questions galore I know.
Hey there, I am going to make a video with the wiring schematic for everyone to see exactly how it should be wired. The neutral is a not a hot line in this system, so maybe thats where you are confused.
can your system take care of all your home needs and more?
What gauge wire did you use from the inverter to the house breaker panel?
Hey, Im glad you are interested in Solar. I have a few questions for you before I can answer.. Are referring to the wire connection between the inverter and the main service entry panel or "breaker box"? Or are you installing a stand-alone panel for just your solar power? Is this going to have batteries? Be very careful about wiring anything that provides energy to your service panel.
Well...now that is opposite of everything I have read. I have gathered that if the neutral bus bar was bonded to the ground bus bar it would backfeed into the inverter and burn it up. Also that only the ground bus and a ground wire from the negative of the battery bank should be ran to a grounding rod ???? There has to be a simple laymans diagram somewhere but I be darned if I can find one.
Hi excellent video and setup! Can you tell me how much a system like this cost to setup?
Solar Power Videos what is the PV array size connected to the system ?? in terms of watts
There are 18 panels connected which can produce 4100 watts of power per hour of peak sunlight on the array. So you would say the array size is 4.1kWh.
Hope that clears it up for you. Thanks for watching!
I just posted a new in depth video explanation of the system components and grounding, included a schematic at the end. Check it out and Let me know what you think.
How can you charge controller be only 80amps capable if you have a 4000 watt system?
The inverter is inverting DC from his batteries not from the charge controller itself.
@@ekoms108 hi can you please help me on this matter also.... how can an 80A charge controller handle 18 panels? I do not understand this.
please help