Very innovative. My land has bedrock, tres cool. People were wanting to blast. Let's use what's there!! Best design I have seen for vertical and horizontal movement! With our wild winds your design looks plenty strong. You've got a great crew, there! Nice tune.
Nice! solid installation! I'm a commercial solar installer and have one suggestion for ya: the small metal clamp that sits between panels to hold them to your frame would be stronger if turned 90°. that way the two tabs on the ends fit snuggly into the gap between the panels and act as spacers
Doing a "azimuthal" Rotary axis for the daily tracking simplifies things so much (so many of the 2-ax systems must compound things with X/Y rather than Az/Elev)- the elevation really only needs seasonal adjustment in most cases (solar doesn't need perfect tracking), even just adjusting twice during the day makes a significant difference. I have "thought" of a garden gazebo with a rotable solar array as the roof - (2nd axis for seasonality) (using a large pipe ring as the rail with sets of trolley wheels - for the ""coaster" elements.... ) One day, other "projects" to get sorted mean while.)
Great job. Thanks for posting. I have to do a solar installation at our cabin. Your mount is nice an simple. I see that things are wrapping up (as much as they ever do), if you have any more concrete mixing try a low speed high torque drill and a 5 gallon pail. It makes quick easy work and little clean up. Ron.
The easiest way to mix sackcrete is to roll it back and forth on a 6 by 12 ft tarp. I've mixed over 100 bags this way. I call it pull-pull-dump. Keep it stiff enough that it forms a ball in your hand.
Great idea ! Just curious what the Dimensions of your panels are? And weight? I've got 12 100 watt 26x40 inch panels that would weigh about 200 lbs Together. If i put them all together it would be about 14 ft long and 6.5 ft tall . Do you think it would be to big and heavy?
Very nice setup. Thanks for inviting me over to your channel. I like it. You mentioned your rails came from Iron Mountain, did you mean Iron Ridge? Mine came from Iron Ridge. I subbed and shared.
Great idea using support column. I like the concept. It's hard to hear you over the very loud background music. Please turn the music down. Thank you for the great idea!
I'm curious to know how well this mount has held up over the four plus years since you constructed it? Upon closer views of the material used, it looks as though your steel it is thin and won't withstand high winds or heavy snow loads. Did you ever get the actuators on to self propel the stand? Good video. Cheers!
I upgraded the main cross pipe to a thicker wall pipe but otherwise its working well. I never intended to automate it. I just rotate it manually on days when I need more power.
hmm, lots of comments :-) 1) I never welded but need a basic welder, what do you have? 2) I did solar 10-12 years ago just to experiment and back then it was horrendously expensive. I did 30 watts and tried to power a shed light at night. How much for the 1k? 3) Will you eventually motorize it to collect the optimum amount of energy? 4) Have a great summer.
+Steve S I just bought a cheap stick welder used. I'm not great at it but it's very useful. Panel prices have come way down. These were less than $1 a watt. It's cheaper to buy more panels than adding a motorized tracking system. You have a great summer too!
@@OntarioLakeside Depending on the size of your array, a tracker might actually be worth it. A dual-axis tracker can increase power by up to 46%. Some people DIY them with old satellite dishes for a couple hundred bucks.
DIY is all I see! Clearly there are no commercial vendors for these systems because everyone is having to build them themselves. You'd think where there's a market, there's an industry to fulfill that need, but I guess not. Not everyone is a "do-it-yourself" capable person, we'll just have to keep buying electricity from the city.
Oh there are vendors. Living off grid isn't chosen because it's easy. Self sustainability necessitates many, many diy skills, by the whole "tribe". Nice build! 👍
I love this build! Fantastic
Very innovative. My land has bedrock, tres cool. People were wanting to blast. Let's use what's there!! Best design I have seen for vertical and horizontal movement! With our wild winds your design looks plenty strong. You've got a great crew, there! Nice tune.
+chinookvalley thanks!
Great design
Nice job.
Beauty design and build.
Thanks
New sub here. Trying to figure out how to install my new system. Great ideas
Welcome. I have a video almost ready on the rest of the system. Should be up soon
Haha, i love the "custom" ciment mixer device , also know as : A wood stick !
+Makett it works! :)
Nice! solid installation! I'm a commercial solar installer and have one suggestion for ya: the small metal clamp that sits between panels to hold them to your frame would be stronger if turned 90°. that way the two tabs on the ends fit snuggly into the gap between the panels and act as spacers
+crunchatizemecaptn thank you! I puzzled over that part and could not figure how it should fit! Makes perfect sence now!
Doing a "azimuthal" Rotary axis for the daily tracking simplifies things so much (so many of the 2-ax systems must compound things with X/Y rather than Az/Elev)- the elevation really only needs seasonal adjustment in most cases (solar doesn't need perfect tracking), even just adjusting twice during the day makes a significant difference.
I have "thought" of a garden gazebo with a rotable solar array as the roof - (2nd axis for seasonality) (using a large pipe ring as the rail with sets of trolley wheels - for the ""coaster" elements.... ) One day, other "projects" to get sorted mean while.)
Nice.
Great job. Thanks for posting. I have to do a solar installation at our cabin. Your mount is nice an simple. I see that things are wrapping up (as much as they ever do), if you have any more concrete mixing try a low speed high torque drill and a 5 gallon pail. It makes quick easy work and little clean up. Ron.
+Ron Young thanks for the tip.
+Ron Young wrapping up. But lots to do but that's the fun!
The easiest way to mix sackcrete is to roll it back and forth on a 6 by 12 ft tarp. I've mixed over 100 bags this way. I call it pull-pull-dump. Keep it stiff enough that it forms a ball in your hand.
Great idea ! Just curious what the Dimensions of your panels are? And weight? I've got 12 100 watt 26x40 inch panels that would weigh about 200 lbs Together. If i put them all together it would be about 14 ft long and 6.5 ft tall . Do you think it would be to big and heavy?
Nice. Where di you get the rail and rail/panel hardware?
Very nice setup. Thanks for inviting me over to your channel. I like it. You mentioned your rails came from Iron Mountain, did you mean Iron Ridge? Mine came from Iron Ridge. I subbed and shared.
Yes Iron Ridge is correct! Thanks for the kind comments and for dropping by.
Great idea using support column. I like the concept. It's hard to hear you over the very loud background music. Please turn the music down. Thank you for the great idea!
Can I get plans from you. Tks Michael
You can find something like this on the Avasva page. Full step-by-step instructions right on your desk.
I'm curious to know how well this mount has held up over the four plus years since you constructed it? Upon closer views of the material used, it looks as though your steel it is thin and won't withstand high winds or heavy snow loads. Did you ever get the actuators on to self propel the stand? Good video. Cheers!
I upgraded the main cross pipe to a thicker wall pipe but otherwise its working well. I never intended to automate it. I just rotate it manually on days when I need more power.
I'm in New Brunswick where can I buy Unistrut from
hmm, lots of comments :-)
1) I never welded but need a basic welder, what do you have?
2) I did solar 10-12 years ago just to experiment and back then it was horrendously expensive. I did 30 watts and tried to power a shed light at night. How much for the 1k?
3) Will you eventually motorize it to collect the optimum amount of energy?
4) Have a great summer.
+Steve S I just bought a cheap stick welder used. I'm not great at it but it's very useful.
Panel prices have come way down. These were less than $1 a watt.
It's cheaper to buy more panels than adding a motorized tracking system.
You have a great summer too!
@@OntarioLakeside Depending on the size of your array, a tracker might actually be worth it. A dual-axis tracker can increase power by up to 46%. Some people DIY them with old satellite dishes for a couple hundred bucks.
How's the shadows? I see a lot of trees around it, did you trim some out?. I like that setup well done
Thanks. We have not had any issues with shadows. Our batteries are topped up most days by 10 am.
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How is the mount working after all of these years and do you get high winds?
Still standing!
@@OntarioLakeside awesome
the music is far too loud
In welding terms, thats called "cocky shit".
You need to make some changes. Check Avasva Solutions if you want to make it right.
I though it was beeing motorise
DIY is all I see! Clearly there are no commercial vendors for these systems because everyone is having to build them themselves. You'd think where there's a market, there's an industry to fulfill that need, but I guess not. Not everyone is a "do-it-yourself" capable person, we'll just have to keep buying electricity from the city.
Oh there are vendors.
Living off grid isn't chosen because it's easy. Self sustainability necessitates many, many diy skills, by the whole "tribe".
Nice build! 👍