DIY My small home solar power system

A brief layout of my solar system that I added to my small house. This house is still hooked up to the grid. I use it to run all the lights in my home and the tv, every day. I am able to run anything up to 1000 watts if needed

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[yamsack1]

Hi,

How is your 1000 Watt inverter able to handle so many devices? I know that just the microwave alone sucks up well over 1000 watts to run. Additionally, I'm sure you are using your devices during the day as well, so that means that the battery bank is being dipped into all day long, not just at night.

[fencekid]

@yamsack1 it's able to handle up to 1000watts at a time. When I use the microwave, it takes a little longer to heat food than from the grid, so I know it's not running as hot as it should, but it still gets the job done. Still lookin to upgrade my inverter. I rarely use solar energy by day. It takes most of a full day to replace the energy I used the night prior. I ping pong back and forth in the top 20% of my bank. the other 80% gets dipped into if i run into some cloudy days.

[TheTonyjara]

So.... How long & how many electrical devices can run solely on 2 80 w panels within a 24 hour period?

[fencekid]

@TheTonyjara If I stream in 10amps in the sun, and your in the sun for 10 hrs,you end up with 100 amp hrs to use tonight. you can run a 1amp light for 100 hrs, or a 100amp light for 1 hr. Just depends how you use the juice you catch. Rule of thumb - you only want to use tonight what you caught today. This will keep you ping ponging between the top 20% of your bank, with the other 80% to use when you run into cloudy days. Sorry for the late reply:)

[robinclark8989]

A 100 Watt Solar Panel is priced at about $300 - it's too high.

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[wotan237]

Ive watched about 15 or 20 similar videos and yours is the best, the most clear and audible, for the scale.

[dtvgmedia]

Using a battery charger to recharge from the grid adds 3 points (AC 2 DC, charge battery, DC 2 AC) where you loos grid sourced energy over throwing a switch that switches you to grid power when the sun doesn't fully shine and your batteries are depleted.

[MacOSJoey]

@AussieHomestead Funny you mention that: my typical "outage prone" area hasn't had a single outage or brownout or anything since I installed an off-grid backup system. BUT like a lot of things in life that's usually how it works.

[MacOSJoey]

Nice! Does the Tri-Metric have a computer interface? I know one of the models does, and I'm curious to see how that goes because I can't be constantly running in the basement where my system is located and chck on it. The computer interface is appealing because it can upload info to the internet live and also make graphs and charts using Excel. Just curious if you've experimented with that.

[AussieHomestead]

Nice set up.

When the grid power goes out and everyone else in the neighbourhood gets out candles, "you" still have power :).....it's a great feeling.

[smilinggoats]

Great video, check out my channel for how to keep the panels performing to the maximum

[KC6CNN]

More panels, better batteries, bigger inverter. Also honda generator propane powered to charge while off grid.

[mrsmagandelatour]

What heat and air does that work.

[jldkmd]

I live in a 14x70 mobile home an was thinking of using solar panels. Any suggestions?