Solar Panel, Wind Turbine, Renewable Alternative Energy - Pirate Lifestyle TV ™ Episode 025

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Today's episode, too much important information for a quickie, is about you generating your own electricity.

I have always been interested in what most people like to call, "alternative living and alternative power." Aye, we be livin' on a frickin' sailboat and we lived for 11 continuous months completely self-sufficient with our Off-Grid electrical system.

In an earlier video we discussed the basics of, why and how you go Off-Grid. I'll make it a video response so you can watch it later.

This video will be more hands on.

In today's crazy unpredictable world generating your own renewable electricity for your sailboat, motorhome, remote camp, and even your current home will make you independent of big power companies. No more worrying about price increases and power outages.

OK, let's get to it.

A "Hybrid" system is a combination of solar, wind, and generator. The sun shines and the wind blows at different times of the day and year. Many times your needs might be greater than the solar and wind can produce. Systems that use several types of power generation have the advantages of each one.

Solar panels convert sunlight directly to electricity any time the sun is shining. The amount of electricity generated depends on how much of the sun's energy hits it. They produce electricity without noise or air pollution from a clean, renewable resource, the sun. Solar panels never run out of fuel.

Wind turbines convert the energy in wind into clean electricity. The wind spins the turbine's blades which spins a generator producing the electricity. The amount of electricity generated depends on how hard the wind blows. Like solar, they produce electricity from a clean, renewable resource, and never run out of fuel.

Good deep cycle batteries are very important because they store the electricity your hybrid system generates for use at a later time. They are designed to provide a lower amount of power over a longer amount of time. We currently have a house bank of three group 29 batteries.

An inverter is needed to run standard household appliances. They convert DC battery current into 120 volt AC house current.

I strongly suggest you get a battery monitor. It is too easy to ignore your batteries and they are expensive to replace. With a specially designed battery monitor you can maintain your batteries and optimize their performance. These monitors include many features that can be displayed at the press of a button. Variables like voltage, amp usage, total amp hour's, time to recharge, and more.

A small electric generator makes a great part-time source of electricity. There may be times when you need a larger amount of electricity than your hybrid system can supply. A generator makes up the difference when electrical demand exceeds the combined output of the solar panels, wind turbine, and the batteries. They of course convert some type of non-renewable fuel into electricity.

Whatever your reason, with a little planning you can design and build an off grid electrical system. Yes, you can build a reliable pollution free system that will generate clean electricity for many years.

Remember that any idea whose time has come, was once an idea ahead of its time.

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[upallhours9]

Interesting. The houses on my side of the street get the sunlight, relevant because a neighbour of mine uses solar energy. The set up is solar panels mounted on racks outside, and a bunch of panels mounted inside, taking light through the windows. I counted atleast 24 panels approx 8x8 in size.

My question...is that a feasible setup? I mean, the extra hardware needed plus the panels..will the savings "pay-off?"

Good video.

[PirateLifestyleTV]

@upallhours9 Maybe... ;-)

It depends on attacking the problem from both directions, production of energy and consumption of energy. And keeping costs in check.

[jonathoncrowe28]

If you build Solar Panels by your own, it will pay you back in 1-2 years!

There is an Engineer from Chicago that explains it All

You can find his web site by Searching Google for...

"Top DIY Solar Panels"

Choose the First Result (Remember to skip The Advertisements)

[UmyNEPHEW]

It's turbine not turban. A turban is what a pirate wears on there head.

[MrMagicseeds]

@PirateLifestyleTV its windy where ill put the turbines so i think they will be putting out atleased 3/4 of max output constantly and i was thinking instead of buying charge controller to limit the potential current to batteries just have more batteries so its harder to fill up and check current and voltage with multimeter every few hours and then just unplug turbine the batteries for £70 each ive got turbines,inverter i willcut up car jump leads to connect batteries want amp capacity is needed?

[PirateLifestyleTV]

@MrMagicseeds No way to know for sure. That isn't much demand, TV, 4 lights, and a laptop. I don't know how much wind you have, remember, 400w turbines means at full speed. 6 batteries sound like plenty (we have 3), but it depends on their size.

[MrMagicseeds]

@PirateLifestyleTV all ill be using is 200w tv 3 hours a day 4 energy saver lights 10w each and charging laptop i did a eletrical course so know how to wire up but not to good at the maths side do you think the 2 400w turbines eill do job with 6 batteries

[PirateLifestyleTV]

@MrMagicseeds You need to add up (estimate) your daily needs. For example: Lights, computer, all things electric. Then you need to have the ability to produce this amount, and having a battery bank that will cover the peaks and off times.

[MrMagicseeds]

@PirateLifestyleTV maybe you can help me im 18 im about to move out of home and go and live in my own house wich is in another contry in the house i use a generator for eletric as you can not get mains to the location i have 2 wind turbines 400w i had batteries they got stollen everything is still boxed i want to know what else i need and a good amount of batteries to have i want to be able to watch tv for few hours aday and charge laptops i have gas fridge and cooker would appreciate help:)

[upallhours9]

@PirateLifestyleTV Thanks for the prompt and clear reply.

[PirateLifestyleTV]

@MrMagicseeds No, this video was made for anyone interested in alternative energy.

[MrMagicseeds]

was this made for people that are a bit slow gave me a headache