Surviving Off the Grid: 7 Months Without Grid Power
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- Опубліковано 13 тра 2023
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i would agree with you that on cloudy days panels have little benefit from being angled to the sun. I have three ground arrays that i have been using for two years now and have found that the most horizontal panels do better than the ones set to the angle of the sun on cloudy days.
Thank you! It is good to get confirmation of my theory. 👍🏻 On light overcast days they do benefit from being tilted but it’s not worth the hassle as I don’t have a problem getting to a full charge.
Makes me think of a song, "The long and winding road". My regret is I didn't set up my system as 24v. Having problems with my Victron Charge controller. Going to swap things around.
Yeah it is a never ending quest for more power! 🤣 I went with 48 volts for my system based on the loads I was expecting to pull. Sorry to hear about your charge controller giving you problems. Hopefully you get it sorted. 👍🏻
If you think about it the panels on the side of your building on a dull day are only looking at half a sky .The other half being below the horizon where there are no sun rays incoming from .
You are correct. 👍🏻 I think it is to do with diffused light. The flat panels get a lot more diffused light than tilted ones never mind the vertical ones on my garage. So no tilting of my panels. 🤣 is the answer I was chasing all along. 👍🏻
@@FarmsVilla I think a well placed designed wind turbine might help out not using your generator .Thinking and Tinkering channel has a lot of interesting wind generator info .
@@FarmsVilla Sorry the channel is called Robert Murray Smith
@@rocklover7437 yep. I have a 2kw turbine I need to put up still/again. 😊
@@rocklover7437 I watch him. He is brilliant. 👍🏻 Got some really good ideas from him on a few subjects. Think I need to build one of the alcohol stoves he presented a while back.
I think I need to stop doing these solar updates. 2 days after uploading I had to run the genny for 2 hours. 🤦🏻♂
How about 8 kw diesel generator or larger to fast charge the batteries.
That would be perfect. If only I had one. 🤣👍🏻 Sadly I am having to make do with a 3kw Honda gas generator. 😵💫
Could it be that in cloudy conditions the sun's rays are dispersed so there is no direct light. In these conditions it would make sense to have the panels flat to collect as much dispersed light as possible. When it's bright and sunny out, lining the panels up with the sun to catch the sun's direct rays makes more sense.
Yup. That is the conclusion I came to. The panels seem to collect diffused light better when lying flat. I don’t need to worry about generation in sunny or light overcast conditions with the panels flat so I’m not going to tilt them. Not worth the hassle of then dealing with the worry that wind will send the panels to the neighbour. 🤣
@Farm Villa I have seen some smaller solar systems that have a mechanism to track the sun automatically, but no I wouldn't bother climbing up on the roof to do it manually. Especially with the added worry of the wind picking them up. 😳
I had grand plans of building a solar tracker but figured it would be like a big sail on the roof and would take off at minimal wind velocity so that was scrapped. 🙄
@Farm Villa The first ones I saw are shaped like flowers with individual petals. The petals fold up at night or in bad weather and open in the morning, tracking the sun all day. They are mounted on a short pillar in the ground. They look cool but a very expensive option.
@@notyouraveragegringos lol. You have seen my clothes. Do you think I have that kinda cash lying around? 🤣🤣 I was going to build one myself.
Are these panels 1000w strings also paralleled together to up the voltage.....
Hi David. I have two panels on each string in series and those are then in parallel. Same for both strings. Then the two 1000 watt strings are also in parallel. This is due to the limitation on the input voltage of the charge controller I am using. It was a cheap one from Amazon that is still working perfectly to my surprise. 😊Hope I haven’t jinxed it now. 🤣
@@FarmsVilla ok your inverters can handle 500voc
@@FarmsVilla im trying to say increase your volts and decrease your amps on your panel arrangement
@@davidparker1760 I have two inverter/chargers that can each handle a max of 150 volts input with a total of 4kw input. I have 9 strings making up 8kw on the roof which feed into the MPP inverters. The panels on the back of the garage are on a separate solar charge controller that also charges the battery bank.
@@davidparker1760 I have just checked and the max input voltage is actually 145 volts.. that is why I have 5 strings of 3 panels on the one inverter. I was running 4 strings of 4 panels which worked fine in summer but in winter they went over the allowed input voltage. That had me scratching my head for a while! 🤣