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hello now this video is good be about
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how I made my first portable solar array
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I sold it for $1000 it doesn't have many
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safety features but it does have a mix
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sky-blue 60 amp MPPT solar charge
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controller a pure sine wave inverter
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thousand watt 2000 watt peak 2 kilowatt
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hour battery bank of a GM's
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you know absorbed glass mat they're
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sealed their spill proof you can pick
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him in the house much safer than the
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old-school golf cart type batteries what
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else I'm using all equipment from China
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but it's so much less expensive it's so
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inexpensive like 1/2 to 1/4 the price of
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comparable equipment I've been using it
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for over a year and nothing has ever
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failed me yet and now I'm so confident
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about it I'm selling portable solar
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units and that's what this video is
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gonna be about
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[Music]
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so get their keen energy going yet this
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is a portable solar array that I made
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for a customer this one costs a thousand
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dollars I'm charging him a thousand
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dollars it's on a dolly he weighs about
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200 pounds it's two kilowatt hours with
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a thousand watt pure sine wave inverter
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a make sky blue 60 amp solar charge
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controller so it can be upgraded you can
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add a lot more panels and batteries if
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you chose with the two kilowatt AGM
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batteries it can run about five or six
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hundred watt panels this particular
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customer is only requesting two but he
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can always add more the that make sky
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blue will will handle a lot of solar
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panels this is wired in parallel 12 volt
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so it's restricted to about 800 watt
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panels at 12 volt but if you jump up
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your battery voltage that MPPT blue sky
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makes sky blue solar charge controller
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will put out two thousand eight hundred
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watts at 48 volts so anyway the the
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cables to the to the solar array just
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snap on snap off so you can wheel it
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wheel the dolly around and then carry
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your panels to where you need to go this
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might be the wave of the future for you
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people you want to go camping and
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InStyle and have your plasma TV this is
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how you do it
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here's another view I laid it down you
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could run it like this if you wanted to
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I'm gonna put a little roof up there
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that covers the inverter and solar
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charge controller in case it starts
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raining when you're out there
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don't let it get wet those panels up yet
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why not
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they're the portable solar kit has found
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this new home it's a taco stand it runs
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a refrigerator some lights a blender
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which got put away and we'll be out here
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next week to get the panels on a solar
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tracking device most important Clean
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Energy do it and here we are back at the
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the Solar taco stand by out-and-about
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treehouse Resort in Tacoma Oregon and I
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are here I don't know if you can see me
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any excuse to get on the bike I'm going
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to be doing a little bit of work on a
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portable solar array running a GM
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deep-cycle battery bank two kilowatts
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with a blue sky make sky blue solar
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charge controller and a thousand watt
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two thousand peak pure sine wave
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inverter
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beautiful taco stand the the portable
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solar array is running this refrigerator
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some lights a blender for margaritas his
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gas stove and everything over there he's
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not running anything electrical yet
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hopefully I can convince him to go
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electric sooner or later and here's the
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device two kilowatts of the AGM the UB
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UPG Universal AGM those are 35 amp hours
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each six of them with a make sky blue
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that just went into float mode the
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little refrigerator only pulls about 50
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watts when it's on 750 peak and but this
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Chinese pure sine wave inverter the
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batteries are constantly kept full with
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only two solar panels hooked to it in
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parallel
the the battery bank is reading
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at 13 volts it's reading completely full
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on the inverter here I don't know if you
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could read that but just a little check
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i brought my my voltmeter to find out i
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got my ground down there it's a 12 volt
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battery bank and let's see how accurate
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that
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twelve point nine eight two point nine
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look at that
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so the inverter is reading almost
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identical to the voltmeter so
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everything's perfect
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the batteries are totally full the
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system is working perfect for them
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hello I wanted to give a little example
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of what this this little unit can do
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here with two kilowatt hours of 12 I
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mean to call hours of batteries and a 12
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volt battery bank system thousand watt
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inverter 2000 watt peak it's got the
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refrigerator and the Bose stereo hooked
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up to it and I'm gonna plug a little
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standard drill into it and just just to
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show you how convenient this is it
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doesn't have any impact on anything so
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you get a unit like this you can start
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building your home you know your solar
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panels out there the next thing I'll use
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is the saber saw but I gotta untangle it
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okay now now I'm going to try this saber
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saw it's plugged in to the the inverter
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right there and so your standard Bosch
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neighbor saw it does not impact anything
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else you can maybe see the voltage
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change on the inverter right there you
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see the voltage drop
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and then it'll quickly compensate so
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very very handy to have affordable solar
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array no matter what you're trying to do
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including work well this is the bare
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minimum you know for a two kilowatt
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1,000 watt with with two thousand watt
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peak pure sine wave inverter this makes
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sky blue is a 60 amp capable of two
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thousand eight hundred watts of solar
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panels at 48 volts only about 700 at at
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12 with a 12 volt battery bank but it's
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missing a couple features that I highly
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recommend because a lot people don't
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want to spend the money on it and you
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know I don't do this for free
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but between the battery ground and the
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inverter right in here I've been
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recommending for him to get a shunt with
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a multimeter and what that'll do is
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it'll accurately read the voltage she
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doesn't have to rely on the inverter
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it'll also give him a watt meter he'll
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know exactly how much power he's pulling
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he won't have to guess and plug in a
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little electronic tester you know into
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the actual faceplate of the of the
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inverter and it also keeps track of your
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total kilowatt hours used so it gives
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you an idea of you know how much per
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month you've been drawing so that that
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would go right here and it pulls off of
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your negative leg and I have one in my
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house but that would upgrade this system
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because then at a glance he would know
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exactly what his battery is at without
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having to you know compare what the what
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the inverter is saying
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even though this this inverter is
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actually reading much more accurate than
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the one I have at home mom there should
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also be a fuse box
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but between where the solar panels come
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in we should have a quick-acting inline
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fuse to be perfect and if there was a
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lightning strike or somebody's stuck a
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shovel into the wires and there was a
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direct short there is nothing protecting
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this unit and it's only you know $130
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unit but that would suck and if you had
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an inline fuse there properly it's a
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proper amp is for your action you know
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however many panels you have hooked up
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to it that would protect this unit
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that's really critical coming out of the
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make sky blue into the battery bank if
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you follow these lines that going into
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the pause on the positive side that
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should also have an inline fuse so if
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there's anything gets crossed or
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something Bad's happening over there
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it's not transferring to the battery or
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vice versa if there's a spike down here
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something gets arced it doesn't go back
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up into your inverter I mean your solar
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charge controller and blow it up so fuse
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box I mean the break yeah quick acting
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fuse in quick acting fuse out and then a
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shunt with a multimeter voltage wattage
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amperes everything between the negative
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of the battery bank and the inverter
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would optimize this system and make it
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very safe and then the final detail I
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would want to add is a shutoff for the
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PV just a little switch you could just
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flick and just turn off the PV so if
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he's gonna be away for a week and his
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batteries are full and he doesn't wanna
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leave things out and on he could
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actually shut the TV off and maybe even
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the shut off for your make sky blue the
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inverters come with the switch but those
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things would make it a optimal totally
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you know perfect system which you know
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we'll probably add at a later date solar
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Dan checking out
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I said stop stop these are the two solar
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panels that he has running his taco
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stand
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they're just eBay Chinese poly
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crystalline 100 watts each 12 volt I had
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put an extension onto the onto his his
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wires I thought he wanted 15 feet but it
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turns out 150 temporarily because this
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might end up being a permanent unit for
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his his home and his mobile but anyway
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unclips in two spots so he can either
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use 15 feet or about 45 50 feet with
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those clips there the important thing to
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remember is these are running in
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parallel I did that because of all the
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shade it's been proven that shade panels
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produce better running in parallel than
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they do in series when you're operating
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in the shade so that means a tremendous
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draw on this 10 gauge line and then I
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have them right there they go two into
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one so it's like they're acting like a
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combiner box and then the last 15 feet
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is 110 gauge so we're looking at maybe a
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5 percent loss but you know voltage drop
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or wattage drop before it gets to the
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actual unit right over there deep in the
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forest but it's taco stand
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so if he needed more power
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I would reroute them all in series and
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we add a couple panels to it and put it
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on a seesaw pivoting solar tracker with
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actual anchors until the solar panels
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are never sitting on the ground that is
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a big no-no I if I catch people that I
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sell stuff to having on the ground
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I do not back the product you've got to
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get them off the ground don't have them
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sitting there it's so easy to just build
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like a seesaw or something up at 30 30
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inches off the ground so they're not
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being stepped on tripped over you don't
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have to manually handle it jerk the
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wires around all the time
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you know a little bit more permanent
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people ask me all the time why I
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recommend 12 volt specially for these
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portable units or anybody beginning
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their solar array I just want to express
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that it's it's so much safer animal
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safety child safety I mean you got a
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baby or toddler running around the house
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you got 12 volt battery bank almost
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nothing can happen if metal hearts
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between the positive and negative oh
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well themselves to try to weld it to the
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terminal or something but nobody can get
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shopping and that is the primary reason
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safety a 12-volt system is almost
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harmless they try to tell you the amps
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it'll kill you but that's people who
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don't know electricity without voltage
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to make it through your skin the amps
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can never get in and stop your heart you
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start running 36 48 you know 60 volt
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systems now a little bit of moisture you
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know it'll it can get through the skins
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resist the resistance of your skin and
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then it only takes a single amp to stop
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your heart so 12 volt for safety and
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much less fire hazard and all these
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other things as well I mentioned that
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make sky blue running in parallel
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in just elaborate when you're in a shady
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environment I mean look where we are and
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he's got the solar panels rolling out
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there and in the field he still has to
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deal with shade parallel hookups
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actually allow each panel to run
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independently if you hook them in series
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if even one panel gets one cell shaded
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it will cripple anything in that series
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so remember that if you got a small
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little system and you're just scraping a
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little bit of Sun you know out of a
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shady wooded area like here parallel
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there's gonna give you the biggest bang
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for your buck because they each act
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independently they don't hinder each
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other like they do in serious oh one
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more thing I'm gonna walk over there one
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last look what you can do with a simple
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little portable solar array out in the
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woods he's got his Bose speakers light
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systems refrigerator blender and cooking
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with gas which really irks me but we
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need a much bigger battery bank and
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inverter to run electric here he's got
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his blender and stuff where is it well
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he has a blender for making mix drinks
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and it's all possible out in the middle
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of forest because of a tiny little
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portable array on a dolly I'll make one
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for you contact me leave an email and if
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you like this subscribed please then
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more people learn how to do it on their
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own awesome
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oh and this unit only cost about $1200
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complete I buy all the parts put it all
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together but you have to furnish the
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dolly here I am it out and about
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it's a treehouse resort if you look
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behind me over there you see a tree
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house
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right here anyway I helped build these
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things I'm trying to convince the owner
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mr.
Garnier to go clean energy go solar
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that'd be some good work for me huh
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anyway this is what's going on in cave
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junction Oregon to kill MA and this is
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called out being about bed and breakfast
