A DIY with a Little Help
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.พ. 2025
- We visited this DIY customer and gave some assistance!
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It’s not always the case someone lets a homeowner do their own thing and then ask for finishing help. Bravo for helping home DIY-ers
Wish they were in my state. I did identical work as a homeowner and looking to add on.
I love how genuine you are, DIY is not always about saving money but getting the experience of doing a project and what really goes into it.
Good team effort, everyone!
Nice project. I recently did my own DIY project with 10 bifacial panels using EG4 equipment as a back up power to my diesel 14KW generator. My battery pack and 6KW inverter are on a wheel base to make it more portable. None of the equipment is grid tied. It was a good learning experience for future expansion. Love watching your program.
As always, an excellent install! You guys do such high quality work.
Best customer built array I’ve ever seen
One of my favorites! Love your vids!
Hey Scott. I'm going to be getting in touch with you about a Solark inverter. I have a Magnum MS4448PAE that quit on me, about a year out of warranty. I'm pretty disappointed in the Magnum since its only 6 years old. I'm still off-grid at the moment and will be on-grid, eventually. Thanks for the videos!!
I would be happy to help. Since you are going to eventually connect to grid I would steer you toward a 15k Sol-ark. Send me an email and we will figure out what is best for your situation. info@practicalpreppers.com
@@engineer775 Thanks! I will reach out when the finances allow. I was planning on the 15k anyway so we are both thinking alike. I'm thinking more towards middle to end of summer and I should be able to swing it. Thanks again!!
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This is a goto idea Thumbs up 👍
Do you have a video showing how a bypass is wired?
Thanks for the video. I’ve also seen your video installing a HomeGrid Stack’d battery system. How do they compare, and which one do you think is the better value?
hello can you provide me how you wired your battery banks?
SCOTT, THIS PROJECT REPRESENTS MY PROJECT!
1. LIKE THIS PROJECT THE HOME OWNER INSTALLED THE INFRASTRUCTURE OF HIS SYSTEM.
2. OVER THE YEARS OF WATCHING YOU & YOUR TEAM INSTALL SOL-ARK’S, BUT DUE TO OUR LOCAL REGULATORY AUTHORITIES WE HAD TO HIRE A LOCAL VENDOR TO INSTALL OUR 5.7 KW PANELS ON OUR FLAT CONCRETE SLAB ROOF. YET, WE RAN THE WIRE STRINGS, MOUNTED THE INVERTER, 12x12x48” OUTDOOR WIRING TROUGH & (2) KILOVAULT HAB 7.5KWH V4 BATTERIES. (NEED YOUR WISDOM ON WHY THE SECOND BATTERY 🪫 ALL OF A SUDDEN IS NOT POWERING UP AT ALL)!
3. THIS WEEK WE ARE RUNNING OFF OF SOLAR!
4. CAN YOU VIDEO YOUR “LOAD TESTING” SO WE TOO CAN “LOAD TEST” OUR SYSTEM AS WELL?
THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR PAST TEAM: JOHNNY, ABRAHAM & YOUR PRESENT TEAM OF WESS, TONY & THE OTHERS!
Do you have a ground mount that can work as a carport that I can park under?
You really need a solar carport as the engineering for a sinclair skyrack will not allow for it to go that high.
@@engineer775 Thank you for the reply. I have found one supplier online that offers solar carports, they just the type of solar panel I decide to install to properly size it. I think a solar carport will work for me because I have a pickup that is parked outside, and I think a carport would take the most advantage of bifacial solar panels.
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Hey 775, have you done any installs with the new Pytes stackable batteries?
They look very interesting and I remember you saying that you liked the regular ones.
I have not used them yet. I am not a fan of stacakble that have separte control units. The only stackable I like is the Giga stack. It is not a money thing but a failure mode thing.
@@engineer775 Thanks. That makes total sense.
With the 200Amp Grid Pass-Thru, why is a disconnect required? ...especially more so in a Net Metering situation? What am I missing?
The diconnect is a Utility requirement Nationwide. Overcurrent protect and lockable handles are required by the utility. It is not an NEC code compliance issue.
Over here the contractors wont go near DIY stuff as their all jobsworths it's so annoying
They aren't that knowledgeable.
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I think a whole home power system of very respectable capaicty can be made to fit in an area the size of a washing machine.
If manufacturers used thin film ctde or cigs in roughly just a 3x3 panel size 1m^2 the panels would just be about 1/2inch thick each, multiply 20 and thats just 10 inch by 1 m^2,
add the lifepo4 batteries, 30kwh is a good size system, thats about half of the size of a washing machine being reserved, then add the inverter, which cooould be the size of a toaster oven which is leaving room for the supplies. I think conduit should be ditched and the wires should be triple insulated and just attached like coax cable. connectors all the same, watertight. and off grid meaning no other psky junchtion boxes cutt offs troughs or transfers. It would be literaly something mounted right by the distribution box, or acually waterproof and theftproof and mounted outside in a compact, 1 location only install. Where the meter would be. This box would be safe outside, mounted to hardy board, as code, and then just outside, where it can vent and if its cold obviously inside, Either way it would be safer than many boxes and junctions and resource considerate. does god teach conservation of resources!!? Even add an extingusher in side the panel it would not take much space and would significantly increase safety. The mppt and inverter being correctly made and programmed would help tooo obviously. This means no messy systems at installation and design too even.
The whole system can be made cheaper this way, I think the profitable price would be 5k each system, Where its made in 1 factory and using the easiest methods of panel inverter and battery construction.
I still think batteries are overpriced, where lifepo4 could have batteries wound as 1 cell, to 48v, where the cells are in series like individual panel cells on the thin film constructions. This would SIGNIFICANTLY reduce costs and negative economic and environmental factors of the overly complex non simplified versions of batteries inverters and thin films.
The first solar thin films are good, and even they say they could do it 1 step with a roll of stainless steel, clear plastic insulation and sputtering and laser etching machines. This means continuous 1 step sealed environment manufacturing where panels could be printed like rolls of paper.
But, this would all have to be made responsibly where too many people dont get too much all at once, this is the real problem. Overstimulation of work and economy and technology.