A time lapse installation video of Dave's 3kW home solar power system using LG MonoX panels.
How to install a home rooftop solar power system.
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How to install a home rooftop solar power system.
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Done.
I saw add that they are using your video, hopefully they asked your permission
Nice video sir please make mppt solar charge controller pcb circuit.
The best thing I've found on the net was plans from Avasva .
I made it by myself. I used inplix scripts for that.
how do you install on clay tiless?
Epic.
I've never seen a roof of that material before in the US. What is it called?
24c a kwh wow I pay 7.5-11c a kwh depending on how much i use here in Canada
I feel like the rushed it 😉
wow they work FAST!!! 2 minutes!! LOL 😉
Did this require a permit and inspection?
I got the satellite view from before the installation. It will be interesting to compare before and after when G.E. catches up.
OH&S perhaps. No rails on the roof or arrest harnesses… Caught on camera
Roughly how much % of your electrical demand is met by these solar panels?
Good soundtrack!
Et voila! It is installed!
Just reposting what I posted on the eevblog comment section:
Have you done some statistics about the production/consume of energy and so on?
Would be interesting to know.
How many time during the year do you have to clean the panels from dust etc. or is a powerful rain enough to keep it clean to improve efficiency?
Watched it again so I could see that cordless drill slowly slide down the panels…. wondering how slowly it must have been sliding in real time but still too lazy to do the math to work it out.
Better get that Maximum Power Point Tracking going on. Or is it too much work for your purposes?
do they allow you to sell back and store in banks or is it either one or the other?
I read in the editorial for March 2015 Silicon Chip that if there's a blackout in the area, Solar Panels or not, one's house will also be blacked out. This totally sucks. Hopefully, not too far away, people will have batteries good enough to store enough electricity to be completely energy independent. This could be so much more efficient than than distributing power through the grid, considering distance losses. Folks are already harvesting Off-Peak power so surely this scenario isn't in a reality far in the long distant future.
Yeah i remember seeing this a while back. good idea cuz you guys get a shitload of sun down their on Earth's Dry Taint.
A bit bigger than my solar PSU for my amateur radio gear Dave, I only get 135W on a good day here in the southern part of the uk but it's good enough to run the radios 😊
2880W
Neat, shame the guy fitting them suffered with builder's buttcrack though… :S
Are those roof tiles masonry/terracotta? Or are they some type of synthetic? I haven't seen anything like that around Pennsylvania (I have slate, but most people around here have asphalt shingles.)
Dave I love to sound track you use in this video, what is it ?