@@phillies4100_mainsite is there a way that one could connect a battery charger to the inverter to recharge the battery , so in a sense that it would be somewhat, `self-charging', i guess one could state ?
Is it possible that you might be able to do a video about running a stove and a refrigerator off of solar panels you see my wife and I are wanting to go off grid and I'm trying to figure out the bare minimum amount and the cheapest panels that we can possibly get!
I just thought of it a couple of hours ago. Been looking for what I needed to do this safely without overheating. I intend to do this setup with a regular solar panel.
*_Question: How do you charge the 12v battery after it has powered your fridge?_* Just use the battery in your car with a set of jumper cables. Be sure to start your car and let it run for a few minutes AFTER the 12v battery is charged. And, don't run your car if it's in the garage.
ok ,, i have a car battery , and a 800 watt inverter , i am going to try this and see if it actually has enough power to get the refrigerators compressor running ... those compressors take a surge of amp to get them spinning and once that has happened they basically dont require much amp
Everything will be fine until the defrost cycle kicks in. :-) Been there and done that. Connect the battery to solar panels with a 20A charging output.
If you really want to be prepped for this, the best thing is to get a chest deep freeze and modify the thermostat to keep it just above freezing. Then you can get by for a long time on a charge. Also build an insulative foam cover around the unit and don't get into it more than once or twice a day.
My idea was to run my freezer to keep food frozen, freeze some ice packs that I got in the mail, and put the frozen ice packs into a large cooler to act as a fridge, so only the freezer runs, but I get the fridge/freezer benefit.
mount a small gen on a workout bike and pretend that you are chasing a hot female ,, this should give you the motivation required to get the job done lol
a fridge does not use power all the time. some may use a little. if it has all the electronics. but the compressor is what eats power. it runs a few minutes out of a hour. and if you turn the inverter off . you use no power. so just turn it on for 20-30 minutes every few hours. the food will likely never know it. and the light goes off with the door shut. so in a pinch. you can just remove the bulb. every lilbit helps. when you have limited power. or you can put the inverter in your car. and run an extension cord to the fridge. and lights . and just start the car every hour . depending on use.
I knew a guy who idled a 4cyl car for a few hours every day to charge his off grid life. Not exactly economical, or cheap in the long run, but it was quieter an cheaper short term than buying a generator.
Great video. Just got a min fridge so, I'm thinking a 12 volt 18 amp hour battery will run it longer than an hour so, I'm over at Amazon looking to pick one up. Was wondering...how do you charge it?
Power inverters destroy compressors! Kip, as an electronics enthusiest and youtube creator, you should know better than to broadcast this to thousands of people. A "modified sinewave" from a standard power inverter causes excessive heat in motor windings and this seriously degrades the motors winding insulation very quickly. Tell the people to use true sine wave inverters!
This video is much better than the previous ones, I would like to see more in-depth DIY, as an inverter connected to a battery is pretty standard but this is definitely a step in the right direction!
Everyone is asking how you charge the battery... If you don't have power for several days or even a week, what about when you need to sleep? you gonna get up every hour to change the battery? Alternative idea; buy a small backup generator.
I'm glad you are doing well brother. I'm in Pasco County and we lost power for about 4 to 5 hours. Glad to see this video as it will help people. I found some solar cared led light bulbs which works awesome and got for 7 dollars in amazon. Could also charge cells in a punch. Great vids.
With two batteries you could keep it on or use some solar cells to reduce the load on the battery making it last longer you can get some at harbor freight
Question, that inverter seems like a non sine-wave inverter, does that work with the motor of the fridge? I ask because those inverters are usually no good for a fan only for "passive" items such as a light bulb or a pc
how did this not get an answer? anyway, it usually depends on the inverter. some put out a total square wave, others put out something a little closer to a sine wave. you cant really tell unless you test it (of course pure sine wave inverters will put out real sine waves, otherwise its false advertizing) some inverters will say how much noise is in the dirty wave. mine says "total harmonic distortion of 30.84% and maximum single harmonic of 27.72%". i dont quite know what those numbers are. i can assume that when you get closer to either 0% or 100%, you get closer to a sine wave or a square wave, but i dont know which way it goes. with dirtier waves, the motors will either just not work, or they will run noisier and hotter. noise is not good for a motor, but its ok in an emergency. the electronics might be confused by dirtier waves too. just try hooking up a clock or something.
Cool! Now THIS is more like it. Good to hear you guys are OK. My uncle’s brother was right in the middle of the eye on Marco Island. He’s OK too, just in case you were wondering.
Connect the inverter to the battery while it is still in the engine bay... run an ext cord to the fridge. No disconnection required to charge the battery... simply start the car.
Great post. I recommend at least having a roll of duct tape near the fridge. When the power goes out. Make a nice tight seal around the edges of the fridge doors and freezer. And only open the fridge when needed. Best would be to remove all meat from the fridge section and cook it, cooking it will help it last. The meat in the freezer should remain there and remain frozen for some time, just don't open the freezer unless needing to. If you want to really help with keep the fridge cooled efficiently you can rig up those thick vinyl attic belts/straps that are used to selerate the freezer from the butcher station in grocery stores. So when you open the door, the eoosh affect of opening the door, which replaces the cold air with warmer air, will have less of an impact because of the vinyls barrier.
Did it actually power the refrigerator? Because my experience with power inverters has been that they only power the lights inside your refrigerator but they cannot power the compressor
I did the same thing with the exception of the type of battery ....I do car audio for a living in central fl and my car is ran with 8 3.2 volt lithium 100 amp hour cells wired to a 12 volt system ... Basically 2 12 volt lithium batteries .... Plus an aftermarket 370 amp alternator on that vehicle ..... I ran everything in my house with the exception of anything that took 220 or more than 25 amps of power to run. Lithium is the way to go
Looking to hookup my fridge to solar with a battery for overnight. What size battery would I need for overnight? What system needed to use the battery as a pass through as in a car.
If you in a house you could easily get a electric cable extension put the converter inside the car without taking the batt out and recharge it all the time as long as you don't use any of the other stuff in the car the amps will suffy and if you have a full tank it will last for a very long time
interesting. could you just attach the inverter to your car and run an extension cord from the inverter inside to the fridge? that would make recharging the battery much easier.
Chuck Nix, or anyone else who knows, is there a simple way to keep the fridge from going into defrost mode? If you know what you are doing,I suppose you could unplug power to the heater. You make a really good point. Is there a way my non-technical son could keep his fridge from going into defrost mode when he has a power outage?
I use to live in a house where the power would regularly go off but rarely for more than half a day so didn't need to power the fridge, but couldn't do without the TV so always had a charged truck battery and inverter ready.
WTF BBQ that's not 100% true. FS 163.04 (2) A deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or similar binding agreement may not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting solar collectors, clotheslines, or other energy devices based on renewable resources from being installed on buildings erected on the lots or parcels covered by the deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or binding agreement. A property owner may not be denied permission to install solar collectors or other energy devices by any entity granted the power or right in any deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or similar binding agreement to approve, forbid, control, or direct alteration of property with respect to residential dwellings and within the boundaries of a condominium unit. Such entity may determine the specific location where solar collectors may be installed on the roof within an orientation to the south or within 45° east or west of due south if such determination does not impair the effective operation of the solar collectors.
@@jeniestra. you can't buy them, you have to make it. Take a 12V car fridge, garage storage rack. Put the fridge in the storage rack frame, screw wheels under the frame, put a solar panel on top as the bar top. Wire in a 12v regulator/charger, 12V battery, connect fridge to 12V battery. Solar powered bar, job done.
Be better off to buy $100 harbor freight generator run your fridge for a couple hours and shut it off LOL my 750 watt inverter just trips when I use it on the refrigerator
220W is the output of the Inverter, not the draw from the battery, it will be higher as to get from 12v to 120v, you need a lot more current. At 18Ah, if it runs for an hour like he mentioned, it means the battery draw is closer to 18A. No way you are charging that battery in an hour, even if you rig it up to a car alternator.
Bought 150$ tractor supply 2kw gen has a12v batt charge cord . keeps frige &fr. Cold.light in weight use batt.w inverter for lites till storm over then hook up gen.recharges battery😎
I'm a big fan for many years Kip. Don't you need a full wave sine inverter in order not to damage the AC? That inverter looks like a Harbor Freight one which is not.
AGM Deep cycle battery, a 50-75ah + 200 watts solar panel + 30ah solar charge controller should keep your fridge running continuously without power quite well.
Good video except for the charging part for some of us at least... So it'd be helpful if you did a video showing us how to hook up the proper solar panels with the proper watt solar panels to make the refrigerator work and some lights and the computer work in the house that would be great... Thanks from the mountains of Guatemala and sometimes the Jeep can't be near the house to charge the battery so solar panels would be great
I have been trying to get some info to run a frig and freezer, I have 400 watt solar panels 30 amp charge controller, 1000watt pure sine inverter and one 100ah lithium battery, Can it be done ? Thanks
Modern appliances run directly on both AC and DC, all we need is series of battery to addup voltage to system voltage and connect Directly without inverter cause inverters are less efficient, almost 30% power is lost by them
For people asking how they can charge the battery in power outage get two batteries while one is being used with the fridge you can use recharge the other one by connecting to car or hook it up to solar charging panels or you can rig up a dynamo setup and can use that to charge it.
@Huge Donkey I've been really tempted to buy some panels recently to play around with in an off grid system. Do you think eBay or gumtree panels are worth buying or am I going to have to head into somewhere like jaycar and pay a fortune?
you are in an emergency probably just gonna use the car battery to do it and wont have enough time to buy foods for the power outage time and most the stock will be gone cause everyone else. the power is out for a lot longer than the hurricane/cyclone/tornado. and it will actually probably cost less for a battery over 40 cans of beans and spaghetti for you and your family and thats right no power cant cook should of made a sandwich with the food i had in the fridge.
I have a question. If you get a 12v battery charger and connect it to the inverter on one outlet to charge the battery and the fridge on the other outlet at the same time. Will it keep the fridge going without having to turn off?
Harold Correa The inverter wastes more power than it provides. Nothing is 100% efficient. Any device, TH-cam video or anything like you described that can go forever on it's own power isn't true. It's called perpetual energy/motion. My physics professor made sure we realized this just in case we would be in a situation where someone tries to sell us something like that.
Lots of you mention solar panels to charge up the battery. But using solar panels in an outage is illegal in Florida (dictated by the Florida government and the monopolized power company). Now what?
The idea behind the video title is good but: The light bulb change is unnecessary- the compressor and specifically the start up is the problem. 750 watt inverters will usually have trouble starting a normally sized fridge A car battery is not designed for disconnected use- other than starting a car. The alternator is an integral part of using a car battery Get an appropriately sized fuse between the positive battery terminal and the inverter. "Why? That just wastes time!" If something goes wrong in the inverter or you draw too much current from the battery, your battery wires become like the filament in a lightbulb- fire. Use very thick and very short wires between the battery and inverter- the 110AC side can be longer - a standard heavy duty extension cord. advice videos are best when researched a bit.
If you are going to be burning gas in your car to recharge this battery, why not just take the money for the battery, inverter and wattage/voltage monitor and buy a small portable generator that can power a fridge, chest freezer, a few lamps with LED bulbs and a hot plate for cooking? For a bit more, you could also power up your modem and computer.
This is a last resort people, advanced warning is given especially of a hurricane approach, often days before the event, the real trick is to add thermal mass to the freezer and refrigerator compartments, fill all available containers with water, freeze them and redistribute them in both compartments. We do that and can get at least 3 days of safe, unpowered storage before temps start to be a concern. Using the battery approach, just bump it back up by intervals, and in between, recharge the battery for the next round.
Its a great idea, but the inverter used is modified sine wave. Which produces unclean voltage. If this were used on a regular basis, this would shorten the life of the fridge. The better solution is a pure sine wave inverter, they are a little pricey, but it produces a cleaner voltage and would be better on the fridge
It would make more sense to connect the inventor to your car battery and occasionally run your car to keep the battery charged. Just know that doing this will shorten the life of the battery in your car, since car batteries don't handle being drained much more that 10-20% very well over time. A deep cycle battery with more amps would be better for this project as well.
question : that battery will run that fridge for an hour, then you have to recharge the battery ? but if the power is out which is why you're using the battery how do you charge the battery ? a solar panel ?
the real question is , if you have 10 car batteries in series (12*10=120) would you be able to power your fridge directly off of them without an inverter
Don't know much about all this yet, but wouldn't it be better with something other than a car battery that quickly runs low on power and has to be recharged all the time. I saw another video where the guy was using batteries for Golfing carts.
This is exactly what I did. I was in charge of everything for the storm except the generator. Well, the person in charge of the generator did nothing, so when I went to crank it up, it was not working. I still have not gotten it working. Anyway, I ripped a battery out of the lawn mower and hooked up my 500 Watt inverter. I removed the light totally and...no dice. So I tried my 1000 Watt one, and it worked....and then the storm did not even cause a brown out for us so all of it was not needed, haha.
Yeah. Good premises. A better idea might be to use A 5 cu ft deep freeze. It draws about .5 amps on house current. So, about 6 amps 12v dc. And since there is no defrost cycle to destroy your battery. A wiser option. A 120 watt solar panel would keep you making ice. Trays of course. Hack would be to add a 60mm 12v fan into the freezer. Air flow would aid in making ice sooner. The car is a great idea for charging. In small amounts. I'm sure a car would idle for several full days on 3/4 tank.
Why not park your car in the driveway, hook the inverter up to your 12 volt battery, run a cord to the refrigerator from the inverter and run your fridge off the car's alternator?
Most cars do not charge enough at idle. Someone would need to be inside the car with foot on the pedal to get the rpms up. This also causes the car to use more fuel.
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How do i charge the battery every hour with no power
@@jeffbezos4746 Put it back in the car... I would leave it in the car, and run the engine every hour or so to save gas, but charge the battery
@@phillies4100_mainsite is there a way that one could connect a battery charger to the inverter to recharge the battery , so in a sense that it would be somewhat, `self-charging', i guess one could state ?
Is it possible that you might be able to do a video about running a stove and a refrigerator off of solar panels you see my wife and I are wanting to go off grid and I'm trying to figure out the bare minimum amount and the cheapest panels that we can possibly get!
How to power your refrigerator with a battery as seen in this video:
Step 1: Buy a car battery
Step 2: Buy a large power inverter
Step 3: Plug them in
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Thanks lol. What's weird is that I never even thought of using a 12v battery + an inverter to power normal appliances...
how long would average car battery power full sized refrigerator?
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I just thought of it a couple of hours ago. Been looking for what I needed to do this safely without overheating. I intend to do this setup with a regular solar panel.
the problem is: how do you charge the battery?
Take it outside and run some jumpers from your car battery (provided you have a car of course) :))
See the pinned comment above.
Solar panels work great during a hurricane
+kipkay You actually failed to pin your comment. Go to it and hit the little 3 dots and correctly pin it.
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*_Question: How do you charge the 12v battery after it has powered your fridge?_* Just use the battery in your car with a set of jumper cables. Be sure to start your car and let it run for a few minutes AFTER the 12v battery is charged. And, don't run your car if it's in the garage.
kipkay People with electric cars can run their cars in garages no problem.
ok ,, i have a car battery , and a 800 watt inverter , i am going to try this and see if it actually has enough power to get the refrigerators compressor running ... those compressors take a surge of amp to get them spinning and once that has happened they basically dont require much amp
if you hook up jumper cables to an all electric car, you will blow it up...
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Doh, who actually did not know what an inverter is for?
Everything will be fine until the defrost cycle kicks in. :-) Been there and done that. Connect the battery to solar panels with a 20A charging output.
@belly tripper I found the placenta helps
Would using a pure sine 8nverter solve this ?
If you really want to be prepped for this, the best thing is to get a chest deep freeze and modify the thermostat to keep it just above freezing. Then you can get by for a long time on a charge. Also build an insulative foam cover around the unit and don't get into it more than once or twice a day.
My idea was to run my freezer to keep food frozen, freeze some ice packs that I got in the mail, and put the frozen ice packs into a large cooler to act as a fridge, so only the freezer runs, but I get the fridge/freezer benefit.
Good idea. With the power out, how are you charging the 12v battery in an hour? Not trolling, serious question!
See the pinned comment above.
Philip Partain connect another 12v battery to charge that one😋
My question is how do I change the battery in a power outage...
mount a small gen on a workout bike and pretend that you are chasing a hot female ,, this should give you the motivation required to get the job done lol
Frank Troland use a car and jumper cables
a fridge does not use power all the time. some may use a little. if it has all the electronics. but the compressor is what eats power. it runs a few minutes out of a hour. and if you turn the inverter off . you use no power. so just turn it on for 20-30 minutes every few hours. the food will likely never know it. and the light goes off with the door shut. so in a pinch. you can just remove the bulb. every lilbit helps. when you have limited power. or you can put the inverter in your car. and run an extension cord to the fridge. and lights . and just start the car every hour . depending on use.
Glad your ok! This is a great hack
I knew a guy who idled a 4cyl car for a few hours every day to charge his off grid life. Not exactly economical, or cheap in the long run, but it was quieter an cheaper short term than buying a generator.
well, its a good start. thats the stuff we want to see.
Equilibrium certainly an improvement
Great video. Just got a min fridge so, I'm thinking a 12 volt 18 amp hour battery will run it longer than an hour so, I'm over at Amazon looking to pick one up. Was wondering...how do you charge it?
Power inverters destroy compressors! Kip, as an electronics enthusiest and youtube creator, you should know better than to broadcast this to thousands of people. A "modified sinewave" from a standard power inverter causes excessive heat in motor windings and this seriously degrades the motors winding insulation very quickly. Tell the people to use true sine wave inverters!
@Overwhelming Euphoria need a pure sine wave inverter. cost more of course
It's been a while since I've seen a kipkay video. In fact, I think it's been since 2011 or so. Glad to see your still doing ok.
This video is much better than the previous ones, I would like to see more in-depth DIY, as an inverter connected to a battery is pretty standard but this is definitely a step in the right direction!
So many of my favourite youtubers are from Florida.
Everyone is asking how you charge the battery... If you don't have power for several days or even a week, what about when you need to sleep? you gonna get up every hour to change the battery? Alternative idea; buy a small backup generator.
You should have a section discussing the need to avoid the defrost cycle in order to avoid having the heating element energize while on the inverter
That is a very good reminder for a solution, that may not be obvious to everyone and actually tackles a problematic situation. I liked that video :)
Thanks so much. This trick could be life saving in an emergency.
I'm glad you are doing well brother. I'm in Pasco County and we lost power for about 4 to 5 hours. Glad to see this video as it will help people. I found some solar cared led light bulbs which works awesome and got for 7 dollars in amazon. Could also charge cells in a punch. Great vids.
Your lucky in Broward county we lost power 4.5 days others longer. I want to be better prepared .
Hope you are both well and keeping safe..
Its cool to know you are a fellow Floridian. I work in Panellus county. 👋
With two batteries you could keep it on or use some solar cells to reduce the load on the battery making it last longer you can get some at harbor freight
Works great if I’m not at work. Thanks for making the video.
Question, that inverter seems like a non sine-wave inverter, does that work with the motor of the fridge? I ask because those inverters are usually no good for a fan only for "passive" items such as a light bulb or a pc
how did this not get an answer?
anyway, it usually depends on the inverter. some put out a total square wave, others put out something a little closer to a sine wave. you cant really tell unless you test it (of course pure sine wave inverters will put out real sine waves, otherwise its false advertizing)
some inverters will say how much noise is in the dirty wave. mine says "total harmonic distortion of 30.84% and maximum single harmonic of 27.72%". i dont quite know what those numbers are. i can assume that when you get closer to either 0% or 100%, you get closer to a sine wave or a square wave, but i dont know which way it goes.
with dirtier waves, the motors will either just not work, or they will run noisier and hotter. noise is not good for a motor, but its ok in an emergency.
the electronics might be confused by dirtier waves too. just try hooking up a clock or something.
Cool! Now THIS is more like it. Good to hear you guys are OK. My uncle’s brother was right in the middle of the eye on Marco Island. He’s OK too, just in case you were wondering.
Hope all is well and missed you kipkay
Connect the inverter to the battery while it is still in the engine bay... run an ext cord to the fridge. No disconnection required to charge the battery... simply start the car.
I think it would be useful if cars and houses were designed so the car can be easily hooked up as a generator to power your house.
They have a system for electric cars for that I saw a couple weeks ago
Careful. That could short out your alternator.
Earthbjorn Nahkaimurrao it would be pretty cool, but cars aren't built to idle for hours and hours the same way a generator is
Your back kipkay! This is the stuff we want!
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1972IHPICKUP nah. He's right. Unless of course you meant to randomly mention Kipkay's back.
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very simple. thank you
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sounds great.. i wonder is a big deep cycle boat battery works longer.. eh????
My prayers are with you, and the rest of Florida.
Great post.
I recommend at least having a roll of duct tape near the fridge. When the power goes out. Make a nice tight seal around the edges of the fridge doors and freezer. And only open the fridge when needed. Best would be to remove all meat from the fridge section and cook it, cooking it will help it last. The meat in the freezer should remain there and remain frozen for some time, just don't open the freezer unless needing to. If you want to really help with keep the fridge cooled efficiently you can rig up those thick vinyl attic belts/straps that are used to selerate the freezer from the butcher station in grocery stores. So when you open the door, the eoosh affect of opening the door, which replaces the cold air with warmer air, will have less of an impact because of the vinyls barrier.
I missed you kipkay it's been a long time. I still love your vids.
Does... Does he not know the light in the fridge turns off when you close the door?
Did it actually power the refrigerator? Because my experience with power inverters has been that they only power the lights inside your refrigerator but they cannot power the compressor
I used the same inverter, 100 watt solar panel kit, 100 amp hr deep cycle battery, kept it charged up when the fridge cycled off.
Hey KipKay! Glad to hear that you are safe after Irma!
the last time i watched this dude's vid was probably 6 yrs ago. Still the awesome content.
Glad to hear you're ok, sir.
Hey Kipkay amazing video.
Tiny question though... I'm in India and our power is 220v can you suggest me something for a refrigerator please.
I did the same thing with the exception of the type of battery ....I do car audio for a living in central fl and my car is ran with 8 3.2 volt lithium 100 amp hour cells wired to a 12 volt system ... Basically 2 12 volt lithium batteries .... Plus an aftermarket 370 amp alternator on that vehicle ..... I ran everything in my house with the exception of anything that took 220 or more than 25 amps of power to run. Lithium is the way to go
Just to be clear you can charge the battery in this example by jump starting with a car battery? Is that safe?
Looking to hookup my fridge to solar with a battery for overnight. What size battery would I need for overnight? What system needed to use the battery as a pass through as in a car.
Wow. Using an inverter to power things with a battery...amazing. Whats next "Power a refrigerator with gasoline." "Put gas in generator, plug in."
If you in a house you could easily get a electric cable extension put the converter inside the car without taking the batt out and recharge it all the time as long as you don't use any of the other stuff in the car the amps will suffy and if you have a full tank it will last for a very long time
interesting. could you just attach the inverter to your car and run an extension cord from the inverter inside to the fridge? that would make recharging the battery much easier.
Chuck Nix, or anyone else who knows, is there a simple way to keep the fridge from going into defrost mode? If you know what you are doing,I suppose you could unplug power to the heater. You make a really good point. Is there a way my non-technical son could keep his fridge from going into defrost mode when he has a power outage?
I use to live in a house where the power would regularly go off but rarely for more than half a day so didn't need to power the fridge, but couldn't do without the TV so always had a charged truck battery and inverter ready.
I have a 300w in my car and a 2.1 surround system works great
I'm glad that you are OK.. I hope that everyone else including Domino is doing fine..
kipkay is back with hacks. keep up the good work
Install a bunch of solar panels
No..... It is illegal in florida to have solar panels that are not hooked to the grid and approved or managed by the utilities.
WTF BBQ that's not 100% true.
FS 163.04 (2) A deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or similar binding agreement may not prohibit or have the effect of prohibiting solar collectors, clotheslines, or other energy devices based on renewable resources from being installed on buildings erected on the lots or parcels covered by the deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or binding agreement. A property owner may not be denied permission to install solar collectors or other energy devices by any entity granted the power or right in any deed restriction, covenant, declaration, or similar binding agreement to approve, forbid, control, or direct alteration of property with respect to residential dwellings and within the boundaries of a condominium unit. Such entity may determine the specific location where solar collectors may be installed on the roof within an orientation to the south or within 45° east or west of due south if such determination does not impair the effective operation of the solar collectors.
I have a solar powered fridge on wheels. The solar panel doubles as a bar to rest your drinks on.
@@skotup Hi. I'm looking for one of those refrigerators. Where can I find it?
@@jeniestra. you can't buy them, you have to make it. Take a 12V car fridge, garage storage rack. Put the fridge in the storage rack frame, screw wheels under the frame, put a solar panel on top as the bar top. Wire in a 12v regulator/charger, 12V battery, connect fridge to 12V battery. Solar powered bar, job done.
Be better off to buy $100 harbor freight generator run your fridge for a couple hours and shut it off LOL my 750 watt inverter just trips when I use it on the refrigerator
probably the in rush.
its probably 750w running but its most likely peaking above that just momentarily during initial start up
220W is the output of the Inverter, not the draw from the battery, it will be higher as to get from 12v to 120v, you need a lot more current. At 18Ah, if it runs for an hour like he mentioned, it means the battery draw is closer to 18A. No way you are charging that battery in an hour, even if you rig it up to a car alternator.
Bought 150$ tractor supply 2kw gen has a12v batt charge cord . keeps frige &fr. Cold.light in weight use batt.w inverter for lites till storm over then hook up gen.recharges battery😎
I'm a big fan for many years Kip. Don't you need a full wave sine inverter in order not to damage the AC? That inverter looks like a Harbor Freight one which is not.
AGM Deep cycle battery, a 50-75ah + 200 watts solar panel + 30ah solar charge controller should keep your fridge running continuously without power quite well.
Good video except for the charging part for some of us at least... So it'd be helpful if you did a video showing us how to hook up the proper solar panels with the proper watt solar panels to make the refrigerator work and some lights and the computer work in the house that would be great... Thanks from the mountains of Guatemala and sometimes the Jeep can't be near the house to charge the battery so solar panels would be great
I have been trying to get some info to run a frig and freezer, I have 400 watt solar panels 30 amp charge controller, 1000watt pure sine inverter and one 100ah lithium battery, Can it be done ? Thanks
Modern appliances run directly on both AC and DC, all we need is series of battery to addup voltage to system voltage and connect Directly without inverter cause inverters are less efficient, almost 30% power is lost by them
For people asking how they can charge the battery in power outage get two batteries while one is being used with the fridge you can use recharge the other one by connecting to car or hook it up to solar charging panels or you can rig up a dynamo setup and can use that to charge it.
SO GLAD YOU AND ALL MY FRIENDS AND FAMILY ARE OK
Glad to see you are doing okay. You seem like the perfect person to be in this kind of situation though. Hack your way through it!
I hope kipkay goes fully back to DIY and lifehacks
You're going to kill that battery very quickly by completely draining it like that.
but in an emergency situation its good
Replacing the refrigerated food and living off of non-refrigerated foods is going to be cheaper than buying a new battery to rapidly destroy.
@Huge Donkey I've been really tempted to buy some panels recently to play around with in an off grid system. Do you think eBay or gumtree panels are worth buying or am I going to have to head into somewhere like jaycar and pay a fortune?
you are in an emergency probably just gonna use the car battery to do it and wont have enough time to buy foods for the power outage time and most the stock will be gone cause everyone else. the power is out for a lot longer than the hurricane/cyclone/tornado. and it will actually probably cost less for a battery over 40 cans of beans and spaghetti for you and your family and thats right no power cant cook should of made a sandwich with the food i had in the fridge.
Huge Donkey Should have*
You should make a video to show how to link a Solar panel into it
so it the fridge uses 225W but a 500W converter isn't big enough ?
ayyyyy we have the fridge that's in the thumbnail!
I have a question. If you get a 12v battery charger and connect it to the inverter on one outlet to charge the battery and the fridge on the other outlet at the same time. Will it keep the fridge going without having to turn off?
Harold Correa The inverter wastes more power than it provides. Nothing is 100% efficient. Any device, TH-cam video or anything like you described that can go forever on it's own power isn't true. It's called perpetual energy/motion. My physics professor made sure we realized this just in case we would be in a situation where someone tries to sell us something like that.
Lots of you mention solar panels to charge up the battery. But using solar panels in an outage is illegal in Florida (dictated by the Florida government and the monopolized power company). Now what?
The idea behind the video title is good but:
The light bulb change is unnecessary- the compressor and specifically the start up is the problem.
750 watt inverters will usually have trouble starting a normally sized fridge
A car battery is not designed for disconnected use- other than starting a car. The alternator is an integral part of using a car battery
Get an appropriately sized fuse between the positive battery terminal and the inverter. "Why? That just wastes time!" If something goes wrong in the inverter or you draw too much current from the battery, your battery wires become like the filament in a lightbulb- fire.
Use very thick and very short wires between the battery and inverter- the 110AC side can be longer - a standard heavy duty extension cord.
advice videos are best when researched a bit.
If you are going to be burning gas in your car to recharge this battery, why not just take the money for the battery, inverter and wattage/voltage monitor and buy a small portable generator that can power a fridge, chest freezer, a few lamps with LED bulbs and a hot plate for cooking? For a bit more, you could also power up your modem and computer.
This is a last resort people, advanced warning is given especially of a hurricane approach, often days before the event, the real trick is to add thermal mass to the freezer and refrigerator compartments, fill all available containers with water, freeze them and redistribute them in both compartments. We do that and can get at least 3 days of safe, unpowered storage before temps start to be a concern. Using the battery approach, just bump it back up by intervals, and in between, recharge the battery for the next round.
Was that a Modified Sine Wave Inverter?
EYY shout out to Pinellas County!
We really dodged a bullet here with Irma, was looking pretty bad at a few points.
You should metion that pure sine wave inverters must be used or there is a high chance that the motor of the refrigerator will be damage
Its a great idea, but the inverter used is modified sine wave. Which produces unclean voltage. If this were used on a regular basis, this would shorten the life of the fridge. The better solution is a pure sine wave inverter, they are a little pricey, but it produces a cleaner voltage and would be better on the fridge
how many batteries like that would it take to make enough for a fridge to work and for how long without any converter ?
I was only able to run my 5,000 btu window ac for 10 mins with an identical setup.
It would make more sense to connect the inventor to your car battery and occasionally run your car to keep the battery charged. Just know that doing this will shorten the life of the battery in your car, since car batteries don't handle being drained much more that 10-20% very well over time. A deep cycle battery with more amps would be better for this project as well.
Caution. That could short out your alternator
question : that battery will run that fridge for an hour, then you have to recharge the battery ? but if the power is out which is why you're using the battery how do you charge the battery ? a solar panel ?
I'm just South of you, how long were you without power?
Or you can buy a small generator instead of all that
Generators use a lot of gas and gas is hard to find. You could charge the battery with a solar panel
Generic Name which uses more gas? Recharging the battery off a vehicle or using the generator?
You will end up buying a new refrigerator using a modified sine wave inverter
Theeeeeeere's Kipkay!
Did not know these things existed.
I do have what I needed to charge it also since I have a generator and a battery charger for a car battery.
So it will run for an hour. How are they charging the battery. No mention of solar or jumper cables into the car alternator...
Ya know the bulb only lights up when you open the door, right?
the real question is , if you have 10 car batteries in series (12*10=120)
would you be able to power your fridge directly off of them without an inverter
No, thats 120V DC, you will burn the inverter.
120V DC is completely different to 120V AC
@@danielji2742 "without an inverter"
@@logangraham2956 without an inverter = directly connecting 120V DC to the fridge will fry the fridge
Don't know much about all this yet, but wouldn't it be better with something other than a car battery that quickly runs low on power and has to be recharged all the time. I saw another video where the guy was using batteries for Golfing carts.
This is exactly what I did. I was in charge of everything for the storm except the generator. Well, the person in charge of the generator did nothing, so when I went to crank it up, it was not working. I still have not gotten it working. Anyway, I ripped a battery out of the lawn mower and hooked up my 500 Watt inverter. I removed the light totally and...no dice. So I tried my 1000 Watt one, and it worked....and then the storm did not even cause a brown out for us so all of it was not needed, haha.
Hope everyone is okay in Florida and the other countries that were affected by a hurricane
Could you do a video on how to power car electronics like a stereo off of 120 ac?
Yeah. Good premises. A better idea might be to use A 5 cu ft deep freeze. It draws about .5 amps on house current. So, about 6 amps 12v dc. And since there is no defrost cycle to destroy your battery. A wiser option.
A 120 watt solar panel would keep you making ice. Trays of course.
Hack would be to add a 60mm 12v fan into the freezer. Air flow would aid in making ice sooner.
The car is a great idea for charging. In small amounts. I'm sure a car would idle for several full days on 3/4 tank.
And a much larger battery.
Why not park your car in the driveway, hook the inverter up to your 12 volt battery, run a cord to the refrigerator from the inverter and run your fridge off the car's alternator?
Most cars do not charge enough at idle. Someone would need to be inside the car with foot on the pedal to get the rpms up. This also causes the car to use more fuel.
This is better, love it!
Can i power my refrigerator (uses 220v) with my 12v battery that is connected to 1000w inverter?
The battery is being charged by Solar...
Well I don't care how bad it is, I'm still sticking with kipkay all the way! :P