Watch my original solar powered air conditioner video: ua-cam.com/video/RQ3IIj8rDNw/v-deo.html Watch my solar powered pool pump/irrigation pump video: ua-cam.com/video/CU4SXECkz08/v-deo.html Check out my full UA-cam channel: ua-cam.com/channels/cPAcUV5haCy4Y46t-VsRWA.html Check out Hoymiles website for more education about their products: www.hoymiles.com/us/ Buy the 200W rigid solar panels you saw in this video: amzn.to/3Bdb8Fr Buy the 100W rigid solar panels you saw in this video: amzn.to/4f0iRo7 Buy the 200W CIGS flexible solar panel you saw in this video: amzn.to/49jQd05 I don’t drink coffee, all donations get 100% re-invested in the channel to bring more un-sponsored content for you. Please consider donating through this link as opposed to using UA-cam Super Thanks since I get to keep more of your hard-earned money and less goes into the pockets of large companies like Google. You can also schedule one-on-one consulting/meeting with me here: buymeacoffee.com/theresatrickforthat Affiliate Disclosure As an Amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no cost to you! Thanks for your support!
Hoymiles could be the next big name in micro-inverters. They have a very god HMT 2000 (3 phase), and just released a huge MIT 5000 8T (8-panel/ 4 contact * 2 panels) mega "micro" inverter. The PROBLEM at the time we speak is that all their smaller micro inverters are 1 PHASE. I hope they could also bring some 1 and 2 panel (3 phase) micro inverter options so that you can add them to the bigger (HMT 2000, or MIT 5000). Or some ~2500W (4 panel) 3 phase with higher than 16 AMPS (that might be the weak point of the HMT 2000). The 16 AMP limitation makes it impossible to add bigger double-sided panels.
Awesome. So happy to see you doing another video, it was because of you I am making my own solar generator system. I've actually just finished finalizing my wite diagram and now it is time to build the wheeled cart that will hold all the components. Haven't gotten the solar yet, as I need a permit here in Florida, so it is unwise for me to purchase anything until the permit is issued. Once my solar generator system was fully charged I would then disconnect the solar panels from it and wheel it off to power certain devices (it will be on wheels and is very portable). I then would hookup the solar panels to my central A/C to supplement the grid power running my unit. So happy you did another video. Haven't watched it yet as I got all excited about the potential.
Yay! I’m so happy to hear you found inspiration from me! Sounds like a fantastic setup you’re working on! Can’t wait to hear how it all works out for you! This is a great introduction to this super powerful micro inverter. I’ve got shade testing coming up and finally connecting it up to my A/C unit. So more epic stuff coming soon!
@3:28 Schutzkleinspannung nach DIN (Eine DIN-Norm ist ein unter Leitung des Deutschen Instituts für Normung (DIN) erarbeiteter freiwilliger Standard, in dem materielle und immaterielle Gegenstände vereinheitlicht sind) VDE 0100, Teil 410. Bei Spannungen unter 25 Volt AC oder *60 Volt DC* kann gänzlich auf einen Schutz gegen Berühren verzichtet werden; diese Spannungen gelten auch für Tiere und Kinder als ungefährlich.
I have a neighbor who wants to put a ground-mount solar array on the edge of her yard and then run that power to her all-in-one EG4 in her garage, but it's a long distance. I figure she either has to put a run of some fairly large gauge cabling to take all that DC that distance, but I wonder if a micro-inverter, or two at the panels could make it AC power at the panel array, over thinner wire for the long run, and then convert back to DC at the collector/inverter in the garage. Thoughts?
I would say it all depends on how many panels you are going to have. Small arrays, the micro inverter would be best. Large arrays can be wired up in a substantially higher voltage than the micro inverters will ever produce and so then you’ll actually be able to use smaller wire than if you used the micro inverters. Thanks for watching!
Great videos! Would you be willing to share how it sense the grid and how to connect to it? The Enphase 8+ seemed pretty straightforward and wondering how easy it is with this device.
Thanks for putting together these videos! Sorry to bomb you with questions on the Hoymiles micro-inverter you showed us but here goes: Does it have the same 5 min delay like the IQ8+? Will the Hoymiles micro-inverter work without the communication gateway/app? Looks like that communication gateway is another $290.00 added cost to the micro-inverter if its required?! I found the micro-inverter for $376.32 + freight/tax...do you have any recommendations for vendors to buy from? Hoymiles won't sell direct to the DIY crowd. =(
My pleasure! I’m glad you’re enjoying them! I’ve got more tests on the horizon with this inverter you’ll be excited to see! So stay tuned! (I’ll give you a small spoiler alert…it demolishes my air conditioner power consumption, and I may have figured out a way to pair it with cheap 12v LiFePO4 batteries and a solar charge controller so that the air conditioner can run off “solar power” even when the sun isn’t shining.) No, this Hoymiles inverter is a lot faster than the Enphase…it only takes 2-3 minutes to start producing power. And yes, it does run perfectly fine without the gateway. You just can’t monitor its production. And finally, I do not have any places that I could refer you to buy one for DIY…but I have seen them online. But I don’t have any experience buying from them. Thanks for watching!
Good afternoon. I live in Southern California where our summers the AC is pretty much running 24/7. Are summer kilowatt usage jumps from 800-1000 kw to 3,000 kw. I am interested in attempting this for my 5-ton HVAC. Sticker.i found on syster states AC Volts 208-230, Hertz 60, voltage range 197-253, min circuit amps 32.6, compressor RLA 25 LRA 134. I wanted to know what is your recommendation on how many panels and how many watts per panel. Would 6 300-400 watt panels work for my application? I want to attempt to build this rig but I would have an electrician or a certified HVAC technician hook it up to the contractor. Thank you any help is greatly appreciated. Like what you are doing.
I’m happy to hear you are enjoying the channel! 25 RLA puts you at approximately 6,000 watts. But if you put a clamp meter on the wires and took a real measurement while the AC unit is running, you’ll probably find that it’s usually consuming quite a bit less than that. The RLA is just the spec the unit needs to stay under for proper function. So if I were you, I’d get a professional out there to take an amp reading on a warm day when the unit is running to get a ballpark idea of what your unit actually draws. But for the sake of conversation…let’s pretend you actually need 6,000 watts of power to run the unit. I would probably get 2 of these large almost 2,000 watt micro inverters and pair them with eight 450 watt bi-facial solar panels. Now, almost 4,000 watts coming out of those two inverters isn’t going to cover the entire consumption of the 6,000 watt AC unit…but you want to be undersized on the solar so as to not run any risk of back feeding the grid if you don’t have a interconnect agreement. So this would be the most cost effective way to eliminate a huge chunk of your power consumption by the AC unit. Of course, you could add a 3rd inverter…but I would maybe only connect up 2 panels to it and not max it out with 4…again to offset the majority of your consumption without going over what the appliance is using. Anyway, I would recommend you consult your licensed electrician or HVAC contractor and have them take some amp readings before you just buy a bunch of solar equipment, because you may need less of it than you think! Thanks for watching!
Watch my original solar powered air conditioner video: ua-cam.com/video/RQ3IIj8rDNw/v-deo.html
Watch my solar powered pool pump/irrigation pump video: ua-cam.com/video/CU4SXECkz08/v-deo.html
Check out my full UA-cam channel: ua-cam.com/channels/cPAcUV5haCy4Y46t-VsRWA.html
Check out Hoymiles website for more education about their products: www.hoymiles.com/us/
Buy the 200W rigid solar panels you saw in this video: amzn.to/3Bdb8Fr
Buy the 100W rigid solar panels you saw in this video: amzn.to/4f0iRo7
Buy the 200W CIGS flexible solar panel you saw in this video: amzn.to/49jQd05
I don’t drink coffee, all donations get 100% re-invested in the channel to bring more un-sponsored content for you. Please consider donating through this link as opposed to using UA-cam Super Thanks since I get to keep more of your hard-earned money and less goes into the pockets of large companies like Google. You can also schedule one-on-one consulting/meeting with me here:
buymeacoffee.com/theresatrickforthat
Affiliate Disclosure
As an Amazon associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no cost to you! Thanks for your support!
Hoymiles could be the next big name in micro-inverters. They have a very god HMT 2000 (3 phase), and just released a huge MIT 5000 8T (8-panel/ 4 contact * 2 panels) mega "micro" inverter.
The PROBLEM at the time we speak is that all their smaller micro inverters are 1 PHASE.
I hope they could also bring some 1 and 2 panel (3 phase) micro inverter options so that you can add them to the bigger (HMT 2000, or MIT 5000). Or some ~2500W (4 panel) 3 phase with higher than 16 AMPS (that might be the weak point of the HMT 2000). The 16 AMP limitation makes it impossible to add bigger double-sided panels.
Yeah! I'm excited to see where they go! Thanks for watching!
Awesome. So happy to see you doing another video, it was because of you I am making my own solar generator system. I've actually just finished finalizing my wite diagram and now it is time to build the wheeled cart that will hold all the components. Haven't gotten the solar yet, as I need a permit here in Florida, so it is unwise for me to purchase anything until the permit is issued.
Once my solar generator system was fully charged I would then disconnect the solar panels from it and wheel it off to power certain devices (it will be on wheels and is very portable). I then would hookup the solar panels to my central A/C to supplement the grid power running my unit. So happy you did another video. Haven't watched it yet as I got all excited about the potential.
Yay! I’m so happy to hear you found inspiration from me! Sounds like a fantastic setup you’re working on! Can’t wait to hear how it all works out for you! This is a great introduction to this super powerful micro inverter. I’ve got shade testing coming up and finally connecting it up to my A/C unit. So more epic stuff coming soon!
cool. interested in this and how it turns out. Thank you
You’re welcome! Thanks for watching! More stuff about this coming soon in the spring!
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Schutzkleinspannung
nach DIN
(Eine DIN-Norm ist ein unter Leitung des Deutschen Instituts für Normung (DIN) erarbeiteter freiwilliger Standard, in dem materielle und immaterielle Gegenstände vereinheitlicht sind)
VDE 0100, Teil 410.
Bei Spannungen unter 25 Volt AC oder *60 Volt DC* kann gänzlich auf einen Schutz
gegen Berühren verzichtet werden; diese Spannungen gelten auch für Tiere und
Kinder als ungefährlich.
Thanks for watching!
Would love to see you connwct to a 240 mini split unit
Great! I just installed some 240V mini-splits, so I could potentially do that! Thanks for the suggestion and for watching!
I have a neighbor who wants to put a ground-mount solar array on the edge of her yard and then run that power to her all-in-one EG4 in her garage, but it's a long distance.
I figure she either has to put a run of some fairly large gauge cabling to take all that DC that distance, but I wonder if a micro-inverter, or two at the panels could make it AC power at the panel array, over thinner wire for the long run, and then convert back to DC at the collector/inverter in the garage. Thoughts?
I would say it all depends on how many panels you are going to have. Small arrays, the micro inverter would be best. Large arrays can be wired up in a substantially higher voltage than the micro inverters will ever produce and so then you’ll actually be able to use smaller wire than if you used the micro inverters. Thanks for watching!
Great videos! Would you be willing to share how it sense the grid and how to connect to it? The Enphase 8+ seemed pretty straightforward and wondering how easy it is with this device.
This one is even easier to connect up! Great suggestion to include in a future video! Thank you for sharing! Stay tuned for more!
Thanks for putting together these videos! Sorry to bomb you with questions on the Hoymiles micro-inverter you showed us but here goes: Does it have the same 5 min delay like the IQ8+? Will the Hoymiles micro-inverter work without the communication gateway/app? Looks like that communication gateway is another $290.00 added cost to the micro-inverter if its required?! I found the micro-inverter for $376.32 + freight/tax...do you have any recommendations for vendors to buy from? Hoymiles won't sell direct to the DIY crowd. =(
My pleasure! I’m glad you’re enjoying them! I’ve got more tests on the horizon with this inverter you’ll be excited to see! So stay tuned! (I’ll give you a small spoiler alert…it demolishes my air conditioner power consumption, and I may have figured out a way to pair it with cheap 12v LiFePO4 batteries and a solar charge controller so that the air conditioner can run off “solar power” even when the sun isn’t shining.)
No, this Hoymiles inverter is a lot faster than the Enphase…it only takes 2-3 minutes to start producing power.
And yes, it does run perfectly fine without the gateway. You just can’t monitor its production. And finally, I do not have any places that I could refer you to buy one for DIY…but I have seen them online. But I don’t have any experience buying from them. Thanks for watching!
Good afternoon. I live in Southern California where our summers the AC is pretty much running 24/7. Are summer kilowatt usage jumps from 800-1000 kw to 3,000 kw. I am interested in attempting this for my 5-ton HVAC. Sticker.i found on syster states AC Volts 208-230, Hertz 60, voltage range 197-253, min circuit amps 32.6, compressor RLA 25 LRA 134. I wanted to know what is your recommendation on how many panels and how many watts per panel. Would 6 300-400 watt panels work for my application? I want to attempt to build this rig but I would have an electrician or a certified HVAC technician hook it up to the contractor. Thank you any help is greatly appreciated. Like what you are doing.
I’m happy to hear you are enjoying the channel! 25 RLA puts you at approximately 6,000 watts. But if you put a clamp meter on the wires and took a real measurement while the AC unit is running, you’ll probably find that it’s usually consuming quite a bit less than that. The RLA is just the spec the unit needs to stay under for proper function. So if I were you, I’d get a professional out there to take an amp reading on a warm day when the unit is running to get a ballpark idea of what your unit actually draws. But for the sake of conversation…let’s pretend you actually need 6,000 watts of power to run the unit. I would probably get 2 of these large almost 2,000 watt micro inverters and pair them with eight 450 watt bi-facial solar panels. Now, almost 4,000 watts coming out of those two inverters isn’t going to cover the entire consumption of the 6,000 watt AC unit…but you want to be undersized on the solar so as to not run any risk of back feeding the grid if you don’t have a interconnect agreement. So this would be the most cost effective way to eliminate a huge chunk of your power consumption by the AC unit. Of course, you could add a 3rd inverter…but I would maybe only connect up 2 panels to it and not max it out with 4…again to offset the majority of your consumption without going over what the appliance is using. Anyway, I would recommend you consult your licensed electrician or HVAC contractor and have them take some amp readings before you just buy a bunch of solar equipment, because you may need less of it than you think! Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much for the information. I will get with my HVAC guy in the summer. Have a great day
Problem is it is not DIY, they only sell to Installer 😅
You might be able to get some products directly from someone to DIY it if you waive your warranty I would guess. Thanks for watching!
@ direct from someone? ??? Who is it? 😀
"1.2A, i power my air conditioner"...yea sure, i bet you missed a lot of class at school....
You add it all up as I expand it and every 1.2 amps adds up! :) Thanks for watching!