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it's about noon and there's 4 100 watt
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panels in my oak tree house it's really
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high up there about 70 feet and there
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are another 4 panels about 80 feet 90
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feet up in my Douglas fir they're both
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on the double dual access trackers but
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I'm using ropes turning them manually
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right now I don't want to climb up there
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anyhow let's see how they're producing
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on a cheap make sky blue 60 amp MPPT
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charger okay something funny I just
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turned off the camera and plugged in my
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hot water heater and the voltage jumped
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up what was happening was my batteries
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are full see now it's it's 700 male
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bones in here you see now it's hanging
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out at 7:54 out of 800 max and it's only
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12 noon this is more like its its
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production like I said it will get over
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800 but that is some serious output for
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a hundred and seventy dollar unit and
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eight 100 watt solar panels this is my
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water boiler and it's plugged into a
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thousand watt of pure sine wave inverter
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anyhow if your batteries are full of
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course they stopped charging they have
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built-in regulators and keep things at
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optimal so I had to take some out to let
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it put more in basically that hot water
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boiler is running off solar right now
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the batteries aren't being depleted at
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all with any system it's really
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important to have a voltmeter wah meter
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my batteries are full and having a
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problem dispersing the energy it's a
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shame to have a bunch of solar and they
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not use the power a good MPP charger
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won't let your batteries overcharge
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they'll go and float
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but you're wasting all that input so
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huge battery banks are actually really
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beneficial anyhow notice the voltage
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just hanging around near full twelve
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point five six that's with that heater
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on plugged into the inverter and those
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two little heaters on I don't know if
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you can see the little light look what
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happens when I turn off the murder they
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all quit that's just to prove to you
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that I'm running three heaters off a
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thousand watt inverter now they all
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coming back on how long the inverter is
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telling me it's pulling off twelve point
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two volts but the battery pack says
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otherwise it's saying it is really
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really full despite the fact that it's
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pulling nearly six hundred Watts right
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now through this inverter and that's
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because we have over six hundred Watts
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coming in so you see when you have solar
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you have to use it or it just stops your
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output so that's why I run heaters and
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all in my computers and things like that
