Solar Powering Just 1 Room in My House
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 2024
- I solar powered 13% of my house...in the simplest way possible.
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Seeing some comments about the AC unit. I should've been more clear in the video - I rarely use it in that room and yes, as people have pointed out, running it for just a couple hours at full blast would drain the battery entirely. Apologies if it came across that I was frequently running the AC unit - I was not
If your cranking that AC which is using something like 400Watts / Hr you would burn through that battery in 2.5 hours if no solar panels were hooked up. Thanks for being creative!
He forgot to unplug the AC from the grid. There is no way!
Awesome video Alex!
Thanks Scott!
That was a fun video to watch, thank you for sharing your experiment!
I would love to see you trying a small wind turbine. Thanks for the Video.
Good job on to the next room
loved this one!!!
I would have used both panels in each position to get the most energy.
I think they have to be the same wattage and voltage and stuff
Love this idea one room at a time gives me a great idea
while the battery was charging why would you unplug the ac cords if you didnt have the ac inverter on? slowly learning about solar myself
I think on most portable batteries you would likely not need to unplug them if the AC inverter was off. Normally most electronics continue to draw power even when off however that wouldnt be a problem if the inverter was off, they would not be able to get anything out of the battery anyway.
When inv is off there 0 pwr. The inverter isnt energized and doesnt even know if anything is plugged in or not
Loved the Astley plug :D
Um, wondering if a mirror ground mount to shine on too the big pannel would work nothing fancy a bench or table with a 45 degree lean-to covered in adhesive mirror or space blanket to throw light on to fence.
Nice thought👍
great video idea. if you left it for a year how much do you think your savings would be? i know you said it wouldn’t be worth it but would be cool to find out
A kilowatt hour of energy from the grid costs between 10 and 30 cents, and he said he uses 200 watt hours a day, so maximum cost would be $1.60 per week. $83.20 per year.
So after the cost of the panel, battery and wiring: yeah. It's gonna take quite a while to ever even break even.
This is what I wanted to do. Do you have a video explaining Voltage and Watto? I don’t understand how the power and storage works.
Power is a watt , energy per time . A volt is like pushing pressure . Think of electrons as moving liqiud under pressure. Think of Amps as amount of electrons . Multiply your push by amount gives you your engery (J) per second or a Watt. So if you multiply your watt by time , then the time units cancel out, (covert hours to seconds) and you get just energy so joules are really Watt-hours if you account for the convertion of units. Energy can be defined by force * distance (N*m) so Nm are also Watt-hours. Divide a watt hour by the volts and you get an amp hour. Hope this helps
I run my living room like that but have 1 solar panel 550 watts usually brings around 375 to 450watts, works fine and fully charged everyday.
Awesome!
Very good! I started out with one 40 watt panel, now i have four 450 watt panels and two 100ah LiFePo4 batteries running bedroom and living room now. Im hoping to be 100% solar eventually here in Jamaica.
@@lawrencedavidson6195 nice, soon you will be energy independent 👍
@@SlackersIndustry Yes, but i'll keep connected to the grid as a backup power source for rainy days.
@@lawrencedavidson6195 yes backup is good
Mount it on the roof?
BoughRV just released a new 200 watt Bi-Facial panel that may work great in that yard.
Hoping to get my hands on some bifacial panels soon
What is the difference of a bifacial panel;
Follow-up episode of weather stripping the window/AC? 😉
I like the video, but I noticed you rickrolled me
0:20 Люди делают это по приколу, когда в Украине это вопрос выживания...
Where did you order such long cable to run?
Amazon. I added a parts list in the description
Dang. Can u test a gaming PC too?
new video idea: what kind of battery is best to use [lead-acid, LiFePO4, Lithium ion] im stupid pls teach me
I'm kinda doing the same thing..... and with mostly the same equipment. I have 2 of those C1000's. I'm trying to run my Media Room where we watch TV for 3 or 4 hours a night. Let's be honest here.... there's no way you can run the a/c so why not make the exercise "run the room except for the A/C"? In my case I have a good location for the (exact same) panel, but it still just doesn't produce enough juice. So tomorrow if everything works out, I'm jumping up to a single 400 watt panel.
That's when we have grid power. If we lose power I redeploy and run the fridge and an office space that has antenna TV and my internet equipment in case a signal is coming thru.
I've tried without success to get Anker's attention and saying a "fallback" option in the app would be great. Run everything off battery but if battery gets down to X percentage, go ahead and draw power from the wall socket if available. Since that option is not there, I do it manually by plugging Anker unit into a Kasa switch and then manually turning on Kasa switch if power gets low.
I would love to hear details explaining your set up to someone who is not fully versed in watts and cutting cables to make connections. I’d love to do this in one room with table light, phone, two ipads, clock/weather station and portable heater. That would get me comfortable through a power outage. Add a toaster oven for some hot food.
@@MeriMorMick I know as little (or less) than you. That's why I went for the Anker C1000. Most of these power stations try to make it plug and play for us. Solar panels (as I understand it) need an inverter and a controller so Anker (Bluetti, Ecoflow, etc.) build the inverter and controller into the power station so we don't have to worry about it. I bought 2 Anker C1000s, and the Anker 531 200 watt solar panel. They are designed to work with each other. All I had to to was get an "extension cable" (XT60 to XT60) because my panel was going to be a fair distance from the battery.
I got 2 C1000's rather than a C1000 and an expansion unit because it give you more flexibility. I can have one battery feed the other with either a/c (from a/c outlet on front to a/c input on side) or 12v cigarette connector.
I have not cut/spliced one single cable!! Let me know if you need more info.
Why did you put the solar panel in the garden instead of on the roof?
Ease of access.
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Good job👍.
Can i ask how long was the distance from the panel to the charging point;
Its the reason i got into solar. I have a room that has no power. So i have this whole room running of solar. Its a gaming room too, it has an xbox one x, xbox one, xbox one s, 2k 32inch 165hz monitor, 4k 40inch tv, ps4, ps4 pro, ps5, xbox 360, nintendo 3ds, nintendo ds, steam deck. i only ever use one of these devies at a time. so no problem. it has a 200ah lifepo4 battery and 600 watts of solar ! :D! i also run some lights. best room in the house!
All them things consume little,it's achievable he's trying to run ac off 100w panel 😆
yeah, I know. That's pretty crazy a whole AC system !. I thought running a tv and a ps5 with 600 watts of solar and a 200ah lifepo4 battery was stretching it. My setup hasn't gone below 41%. I rarely use it, sadly. But when I do, I game with the boys for about 10 hours ! 😂. @@SlackersIndustry
Very cool!
Running the AC is just too much.
The more solar panels the better.
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