Off Grid Renewable Energy Solar Wind Setup Part1

We have 2 Evergreen Solar panels 180 watts each, Tristar 60Amp Controller, 2, 400 watt Air-x wind generators, about 8 marine deep cycle batteries from walmart now. A 250A DC breakerbox from Midnight Solar, Xantrex DR-2412 2400Watt Inverter, and a Reliance transfer switch.
So far the system has cost about $6,000 with everything overbuilt to be upgradeable with more solar panels as soon as we get some more funding!
More videos soon lots has changed since winter has set in.

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Science & Technology

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• Evergreen
• Solar
• Air
• Morniningstar
• tristar
• Xantrex
• midnight
• solar
• wind
• power
• renewable
• energy
• green
• inverter

[solarcabin]

A good system but too complicated and expensive for the average homeowner I believe.

Visit solar cabin for small use wind power and solar power ideas!

[esiosan]

nice set up friend. Good stuff!

[BigBearHuskyMusher]

I want to mainly go GTI but also I want to float charge my small battery bank for when/if the grid goes down. I have 3 PV panels 500W total each running 24V and I will run them parallel to a 30A 12V/24V LCD Display Solar PWM Battery Charge Regulator "CM3024Z". I need to know if I parallel my pos and neg wires from my solar array to the GTI and also to the charge controller that that setup will accomplish 1. keeping my batteries float charged at all times and 2. any excess to go to grid tie.

[jubfub1]

Gay

[backwoods223]

@DeFensorForTiSs The 1000 watts is per hour. so 24 hours is 4x1000x24=96,000. so for example, if you get 5 hours of good sunlight per day, divide 96000 by 5. you get 19,200. that is how many watts you need to be producing per hour of sunlight. so if you find some solar panels that you like, just divide 19,200 by however many watts the solar panels produce. you will also want a few extra panels just in case. Just to warn you, It is going to be expensive to get something to run that much power.

[cyim1st1]

Can you run your wind gen and solar at the same time with the morning star charge controller? Thanks

[DeFensorForTiSs]

So I know nothing about alternative energy sources, say I had 4x 1000 watt lights running basically 24/7 how many solar panels would i need to run that?

[toddac1]

@toddac1 had grammer errors

[toddac1]

@jordansname wish he would answer this for us....:)...guess ill call morningstar in the a.m.

[toddac1]

At 3:16 you are talking about the tristar ts60. im looking at doing the same set up. but (4) 100 watt duponts, (1) 400 watt air x. I realize the charge controller is the "heart" of the system but we cant afford $600 bucks for an mppt outback or xantrex. I like the ts 60...can you run your wind gen, and the solar system at the same time through he ts 60...thanks

[FutileFreak]

What's the wind-cam for?