Grid tie off grid simulated power outage

I wanted to show a demo of a power outage or a grid failure with my DIY solar pannels wind turbine battery bank. 1400w of solar ,400w wind turbine , 2 xantrex 1800 w inverters and a 1600ah battery bank.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• emergency power
• backup power
• solar power
• wind turbine
• battery power
• SHTF

[4vermont]

Great Video's Man!!!

Love the set up. Lot's of gadgets. Gives me something to shoot for.

Love the House and setting.

And your a Diesel fan!!!! Love my 7.3.

What do you think about the Perkins 10-15kw Diesel gen's CATMAN?

[OBXSOLWIND]

@4vermont Thank you Perkins are great engines cat uses them in lots of aplications

[TheLockerzfreaks]

"It basically didn't blink" uh.... I saw it get dark then bright again, unless I'm seeing things, or I guess not seeing things. :)

[OBXSOLWIND]

@TheLockerzfreaks "It allmost didnt blink" witch means it blank UH.... DUH... THAT MEANS IT BLANK. GROW UP......

[AlamoCityCello]

Great Vid!

Question, I have 16 Trojan T-105's (96v) and a Zivan NG3 Charger, left-overs from an EV project. I want to hook them up to an inverter for back-up power for the house. What kinda inverter would I need to get? Any advice would be appreciated.

BTW..U got a pretty kool set-up there.

[OBXSOLWIND]

@AlamoCityCello Hey John That is a tough question your batterys are great it just depends on what you are looking to do and the cost. I would go 12 or 24 volt and maybe try to go for a quality pure sighn wave inverter. I like the xantrex inverters with the transfer switch and no charger. I hope that helps. CHEERS OBX NC

[14luckykid]

how did you wier the inverters together in the braker panel.

[flamesecureUK]

how did you make the grid tie inverters stay on when the mains failed?

i want to use grid tie inverters but i also want power if the mains fails. i thought about getting a small pure sine wave inverter and powering it up when mains fails so as to trick the grid tie inverters. would this work??

thanks :)

[Echo242]

I loveee this setup, i need some assistance in creating a setup like this, i sent you a message. I am excited about this project. Thanks in advance

[AFACF]

Great videos, I've been trying to study and understand your set up. My situation is that I'm about 8 months from being out of debt and I am looking forward to investing in a setup like yours shortly after, I am trying to learn the components so I can get an accurate assessment of my costs and so I can get an organized list of what I would need. I see that your setup changes and improves thru-out your videos. Is there any way you could make a list of yur recommendations for someone to duplicate?

[treyscofield]

Kevin, what book / dvd / learning resource would you recommend that is current and up to date that I could purchase? Any recommendations on how to or other manual on how to scope, plan, engineer, install, and operate these solar systems sir? Please advise.

[atvrider7]

still dont know why the music is playing its pointless.

[hokanut]

The fridge,Pink Floyd and satalite are still on. All a man needs. Great set-up. You sound just like a friend of mines Dad. You from Kentucky?

[arnoldcustom]

so if you could tell mme what your using in order to get such fast kick in, with out sending power out to the world. great video

[arnoldcustom]

what are you using for a transfer switch, that keeps your AC on with out sending power out to the gride, but yet keeps your home still runing on AV, a gride tye need power from the gride to keep running, with do a great job, but haed to find one larger then 200 watts, but they only run as long as you have power from the gride, i have tried a few trasfer switchs that work but not well,

[mumbleye]

pigs by pink floyd. one of the greatest songs ever!