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Yeah, the system was purchased as a kit, and bi-facials are what came with it. Seems like I'm seeing more bi-facials these days than not, so I would not be surprised If bi-facial just becomes the norm even if you can't benefit from the gain. I could be wrong, I guess we'll see in time. Thanks
@@BradCagle interesting. how much gap is required to get utility from the bifacials? maybe you can bring this up in the part 2 if you havent finished filming.
@@pearlrival3124all the testing I've seen the gains from bifacial are far from substantial. Since the only thing he's powering with his panels is the AC unit why would he need gains from a bifacial panel anyways? And the roof doesn't have to be white. Any light colored surface will reflect light.
Why would you not hook up the solar Panels to a microinverter and feed the power into the grid? Then you could also cool with it, but if you do not want to cool, you could use it for other appliances. Like this, the excess solar power is simply wasted.
Right now it's running strictly on solar, and it just comes on automatically when the sun is shining. Cooling full blast through the day. So it's using most of the PV anyway. There might be a little time during the day when they would be over producing, but not much really. Later they may add an inverter, and battery to store excess to run other things, or for power outages, etc.. Thanks
Tradeoffs.. Like this avoids efficiency losses due to inverting and then conversion to DC and then reinverting.. As you said though, it’s somewhat less flexible. But panels are pretty cheap and if you want to heat or cool the shop every day, say for a commercial operation this is pretty good.
Inefficient I have seen people install them then disconnect them to run the panels directly to their inverter and use all the solar cells capacity to its fullest.. then feed a regular cheaper mini-split... this is a fail..You will under utilize your panels if you use this system nice try..
Yes, that is all true, but not everyone has grid tied solar, or an ESS. You do not need a permit or an interconnection agreement for this. This requires far less monetary investment to add cooling or heating to a space that is usually only occupied during the day. Also if you live in an area with high summer heat and/or humidity, with high electric rates, this is a way to reduce your power bills with a fairly short break even/payoff period, without the need for permitting/interconnection agreement etc. Although you may need an electrical permit if wired to a panel. But yes, if you already have panels/inverter/ESS, it would be cheaper to add a basic inverter based mini-split (pioneer/senville/alpine/gree etc)
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Nice Clean install.
Thanks!
Nice install! Looks great and I'm sure it's cooling that room good 😎
@@SignatureSolarEthan Thanks! Yes it's doing great
That is a big area to cool with solar! That is absolutely awesome.
Yes indeed it is. I'm really thinking of installing the 12k version in my pool house now :)
Cutting out the actual linstallation footage on an install video was an interesting decision
13 Amps exceeds the maximum recommended amperage for these. Apparently they will tolerate it, but you're not supposed to run more than 12 amps.
Love it
Unfortunately, it's a 410A refrigerant unit, and it's going to be phased out very soon.
And? Your point? It’s still going to cool fine.
They've been saying the same thing about R22 forever...
it just doesnt make sense to install bi facials without a white background
Yeah, the system was purchased as a kit, and bi-facials are what came with it. Seems like I'm seeing more bi-facials these days than not, so I would not be surprised If bi-facial just becomes the norm even if you can't benefit from the gain. I could be wrong, I guess we'll see in time. Thanks
@@BradCagle i think you missed the point here. the gains would have been substantial if you had painted the metal roof white first.
@@pearlrival3124 No, there's not enough gap between the roof, and the panels to allow any decent amount of light behind anyway.
@@BradCagle interesting. how much gap is required to get utility from the bifacials? maybe you can bring this up in the part 2 if you havent finished filming.
@@pearlrival3124all the testing I've seen the gains from bifacial are far from substantial. Since the only thing he's powering with his panels is the AC unit why would he need gains from a bifacial panel anyways? And the roof doesn't have to be white. Any light colored surface will reflect light.
Why would you not hook up the solar Panels to a microinverter and feed the power into the grid? Then you could also cool with it, but if you do not want to cool, you could use it for other appliances.
Like this, the excess solar power is simply wasted.
Right now it's running strictly on solar, and it just comes on automatically when the sun is shining. Cooling full blast through the day. So it's using most of the PV anyway. There might be a little time during the day when they would be over producing, but not much really. Later they may add an inverter, and battery to store excess to run other things, or for power outages, etc.. Thanks
Tradeoffs.. Like this avoids efficiency losses due to inverting and then conversion to DC and then reinverting.. As you said though, it’s somewhat less flexible. But panels are pretty cheap and if you want to heat or cool the shop every day, say for a commercial operation this is pretty good.
Inefficient I have seen people install them then disconnect them to run the panels directly to their inverter and use all the solar cells capacity to its fullest.. then feed a regular cheaper mini-split... this is a fail..You will under utilize your panels if you use this system nice try..
Maybe I’m slow, or maybe your message was just poorly put together, but I’m a minute in and reading your comment has me lost.
No bats or inverter needed unless need night time power lol if so about $3k will be needed for bats and inverter.For off grid.
Yes, that is all true, but not everyone has grid tied solar, or an ESS. You do not need a permit or an interconnection agreement for this. This requires far less monetary investment to add cooling or heating to a space that is usually only occupied during the day. Also if you live in an area with high summer heat and/or humidity, with high electric rates, this is a way to reduce your power bills with a fairly short break even/payoff period, without the need for permitting/interconnection agreement etc. Although you may need an electrical permit if wired to a panel. But yes, if you already have panels/inverter/ESS, it would be cheaper to add a basic inverter based mini-split (pioneer/senville/alpine/gree etc)