Upgrading our Solar Arrays | Checking off the Jobs
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- Upgrading our Solar Arrays | Checking off the Jobs
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Thanks for sharing 👍. Maintenance and up keep of property is time consuming. Plus you two are a hard working team. Excellent skills, diligent work. It certainly is true, 'Teamwork Makes the Dream Work'. Blessings and prayers to you both for all things that you consider dear to you heart ❤ ☝🙏🙌
Thank you so much ☺️
I appreciate how well thought out your layouts are. Precision at it's best!! Glad you are back.
Cheers Doug
So nice to see the little jobs getting done.
We should have made a list a lot sooner
Hi Ian, if your led light switch is only single pole try replacing it with a double pole switch to isolate the neutral as well as the live.
That was my first thought but I only run a single live down to the switch - I woudl have to run the neutral as well which is a pain.
One more thing to try - rotate the plug 180° in its socket on your power bank
Huh, missed this one. Back in the jungle site 🙂
I also can't resist the cente aisle in Lidl. I've bought all sorts of things I never knew I didn't need, but they are there just in case. I do use most of them, eventually..
It is a perfect set up - Julie goes shopping and I peruse the centre aisle....... marketing genius 🤣
Still need to complete the wood ship lap on the wall in the machinery lean to, including infill below the window visible in the solar panels instal.
It’s minor I know but if I was a OCD neighbour who had to look at that, it would drive me nuts. 😜😂😂
These are Nº1 and Nº8 on the list....don't worry. 😀
Amazing to see the list getting ticked off! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉. Ian, you need some volleyball knee pads! 😂😂😂. Thank you both! Great job!
It was a little hot on that roof.
So happy to have found your channel. We’re about to buy a property near Saint-Girons in the Pyrenees as well. Seems you do a lot of the same projects we have in mind. I’ll be binge watching your videos.
Thanks for watching - We will be in St Girons on Tuesday - riding through on our way to Massat for the night.
@@HomesteadingUncontained how cool, we’re bound to run into each other at some point once we move in the region next summer. Until then I will learn from the hard work you’ve put into your property
Hi Ian, I saw somebody suggest a bypass capacitor and that should address the LED ghosting problem you are having. You could also consider using a dimmer with a neutral capacity but pricey. Great idea doing all the little unfinished jobs before you start the main house otherwise, they will never get done. if Julie is still having problems with slugs and snails wet a piece of wood and lay it in the garden, check it each day and collect them from underneath and feed them to the chooks. My dad did it for years until he adopted 2 blue tongue lizards who did the job for him. Following and liking from Australia.
I think I will worry less when I have full power in the workshop - I was just surprised at how much power was being drawn from the Ecoflow each day even when we are not there.
Great work knocking things off that long list!!! For the LED lights I would look for a light that has an integrated power supply but if you absolutely don’t want to change the lights out I have heard that you could add a snubber circuit (I have no idea what that actually is but I believe it’s just adding a resistor somewhere into the circuit) to reduce or eliminate the glow from phantom voltage.
I may be worry about it for nothing, but with limited battery storage at the moment it always concerns me.
Just reading some of the comments on the glowing leds. Not sure if u can couple enough current inductively to make them glow. But for mains leds on the power rail inside the led there is a resistive path across the power rail in the region of 1 meg this discharges the caps on the power rail to cut out the glow. If you light glow for a short time after disconnecting the power but then go out it could be these are not fitted.
They are reasonably cheap units - just not seen it before but think it is quite common. Probably worry for nothing.
Your building/system is very well built. When you screw the osb to the studs watch out for the modern self tapping screws penetrating the nail plates. The better screws are really good at going through most anything. Of course I found the nail plate covering a water line and made the perfect leak. Solar panels are supposed to be able to support a man (technically a firefighter) standing on a panel. When you get all the panels connected it will be interesting to see how much power you generate on a cloudy day. You might be surprised how much you get.
Yes, it would just be my luck to screw right through them. The single panel I have active at the moment will draw around 200watts on a cloudy day (550w panel). Which I am happy with. So if all 6 do that, it would be over a kilowatt which should replenish the batteries in no time.
Hello Ian an Julie 👋👍👍
Good morning!
Great video as always - LED Lights Ghosting? Install a bypass capacitor
So this would just go across the live and neutral - I will look into it. Cheers
I am learning about solar slowly. We had it puton our house 12 years ago but now we have an electric car and need more power.
I will install a car charger onto the system - but will only have a max 3kw in the first instance.
One possible reason for the glowing LEDs is inductive coupling. If your electrical wire to your light fixture is running along side a hot wire, there is a possibility of electron coupling. It does not take much to slightly turn on the LEDs. On the other hand, it is a very small amount of current that you will lose.
It is all switch power up there - nothing really big in the garage just yet.
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very funny that Ian stood on the lower side of that tracker while installing the panels…
I was hoping she would raise her arms a little 🤣
Good to have you back, I was disappointed to hear in your last video that your house will not be based on containers. May I ask why you have changed your plans, although I shall continue to watch build?
It would mean building an inner and outer frame around the container - just seems silly doing all of that and hiding the container - so I want to do something else like a container barn or similar.
Please in the future when you use a grinder, put the glasses on, just takes one sliver to enter the eye.
Speaking from experience, I am blind in one eye now.
All led lights wich do not light up if switched off do have a small resistor in its circuit, shortcircuting the 'fantom' pick up - resulting into drawing more 'fantom' current than your present lights
so it would be worse to put something in to stop this. Once I get 'proper' power in the workshop I will not worry about it.
@@HomesteadingUncontained the copper wires running to the lights do act as antenna's and pick up magnetic radiation (possibly from parrallel energized wires) the amount of energy lost this way is only measurable with sophisticated professional ecuipment.
Regard the phantom light as conformation everything still works ok.
Don't worry about the parasitic current drawn by the LED light, it will be three fifths of sod all and will have zero effect on your battery.
It will be less of a worry when I have proper power in there too 😀
Pour le panneau LED, probablement une résistance de décharge mal calibré en function d'un condensateur assez efficient ;) Donc meilleur lissage du courant versus lumière qui semble clignoté au niveau de la vidéo.
Lorsque le garage sera pleinement alimenté, je ne m'en préoccuperai plus à l'avenir. Juste avec l'ecoflow, j'étais inquiet qu'il décharge la batterie plus qu'il ne le devrait. 😬
Anemometer 😁
easy for you to say 🤣
Hi ian an Julie I have 4 solar sun trackers each with 4 solar . So I just have ordered 2 more trackers as I am finding they are much better output each solar panel is 550 w each . I have 8800w in total on the trackers and I have found out they are 24% more efficient than the other panels that are on t the roofs of buildings that are fixed so I can store more power and in much quicker time. I did exactly like you fit top an bottom angle bars to stiffen them up and have went through 2 winters in Highlands of Scotland with some very powerful storms and no damage all my trackers are quite wind protection not sure out in wide open area think wind would twist them
I am really happy with this unit - I have told my son to get at leat one as the efficiency like you said it much higher.
Yes I know it will require you to pull the light apart but
Does it have a capacitor inside to accelerate start up ?
You have how many LED's ? which require how many volts to start up but how many volts does it use when it is running ? I know P./A about things like this so I am sure someone will ascertain the real reason
I think I am worry about nothing - according to most it will draw negligible current - once I get full power in the workshop it will not be an issue for sure. 👍🏻
your leds are lighting because of capacitively induced phantom voltage on the lines
i am surprised that you say it is causing a measurable draw on your power bank; i would have expected that to be negligible
do you have the option to use a double pole switch, switching both live and neutral going to the lights? that would fix it
Might be just, I think it is, as I have limited battery at the moment . It may be all in my head 🤣
Why not leave the indoor jobs for days when it's raining then
We are still in our work season so all these smaller internal jobs can be fitted in around the day job and we don't have to do a lot of prep and tidy up each time we leave the site. Plus it has been too warm to work outside lately......