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everyone in this video I'm going to show

you how I set up my solar panel system

on my sailboat what I teach in this

video can also be used on any boat RB or

house so yeah at the end of this video

I'll show you my 24 volt system here at

my house and then my boat is actually a

12-volt system both using the same

charge controller and the techniques

that I've learned here at the house so

yeah if you wanna learn more about that

that's coming up next so today we're

working on solar panels right here

behind me I've already got one mounted I

mounted it yesterday I'm not quite the

right size as you can see here but what

I'm using here is that 85 watt about

five amps so I'm in mounting two of them

which will be about 160 170 watts about

10 amps which is just temporary for now

I've also mounted a temporary this guy

had these self stoppers in here so I

kind of just did that because I didn't

want to add new holes but the proper way

to mount that will be with some

quarter-twenty stainless steel bolt but

I'm probably going to replace these with

the right size panel eventually anyway

so all right now it's temporary the

other panel

I'm going to stick that up there so

let's see how this goes here I'm just

slicing these wires together I would eat

a solid one but this is like the only

spare piece I found so far but I know

there's going to be more of these once I

sort out the wiring so later on I'll

rewire this and remount it and then

we'll just run this wire over to the

other wires over their suit that reaches

you

you

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now I'll just go inside and inside part

right now what I've got going on is I

got the solar panels hooked up and

they're bringing power to this wire

right here so I've got amperage coming

in from two solar panels up top which is

I was at twelve five earlier I'm about

thirteen to right now about midday so

they're bringing in power but the

problem is without the charge controller

it will bring it too much power so you

can run solar panels directly into the

batteries but what's going to happen is

I doubt that voltage is going to end up

getting up to 14 and 15 and day after

day and it's going to get so high little

products blowed the battery and then

caused a lot of problems so that's why

you putting a charge controller now with

the Sam lakhs

this is probably the third one I've

bought fourth maybe Boeing originally

for my house I think they're made for

RVs they're samalex solar 30 amp model

SCC 30

alpha Bravo anyway looks like this

they're good controllers I got one on my

house and around 12 or 24 volt basically

simple as it gets you've got your panels

coming in PVE positive negative and

batteries so those just go out to the

batteries and then over here it tells

you what your settings are 12 or 24 volt

it's all in the back and you can remote

and remote option there what I'm going

to do next is wire in this so basically

I'm going to do is take this wire you

see here which is coming from the

panel's and extend it over to here

because I'm eventually going to probably

mount this somewhere

on this side because I see there's no

more room left over there I don't wanna

put stuff here so I'll be building a

wall here one day or they made it down

here I don't know where the Lord is

gonna go but I'm going to extend this

wire that I found somewhere in here and

I'm going to extend it and we want to

replace that now so let me show you what

I've got going on so yeah here's that

where I got this I pulled off something

else that was in the bathroom that

wasn't necessary so it's a pretty good

gauge wire not sure the exact gauge 10

gauge wire it's a good decent gauge and

that's what I got coming from the back

so maxing it and I've just got this

clamped on with some clamps to the

battery bringing in power but and these

can go up to like with the chart that

the battery charger on it I'm getting it

up to like 14 volts and it's fine it's

not going to explode just because it's

over 12 volts so you have been dealing

with the same thing at my other house

for four years I've got the same setup

except I've got a which one to use for

battery wise is this is just a

continental battery thousand amp Marine

RV because 12 volt pretty easy

lightweight to get on the boat but

anyway that's this is temporary what do

you really want to use is the Trojan six

volt batteries and the price went after

about 140 PS when I'm in New Mexico so

they're averaging about that for they're

basically golf cart batteries is what

most people use in for six volt Trojan

but yeah you could do that I gots for

those in line for MI else with a 24 volt

system six

12 volts with four of them linked one

bank and then you could add on from

there you can just keep adding on as

many as you want but the amount of

panels I have I could probably with

three pounds you'd probably need to

Trojan six volts with those three panels

and you should be run a decent system

although you're not going to over

amperage this them

I'm only I think about at 10 amps what

I've got with the two panels up there

this is 30 amps so plenty more than left

on it anyway back to this wiring job so

we're going to do see what this reaches

enough to go on to the batteries so

we'll kind of evened out

actually the batteries gonna move at

some point too but now I guess hmm you

don't know where the batteries I'm gonna

go in the future so I'll make sure that

we have enough room for the charge

controller I wish

okay let's go to here and what you do is

you'll get your cutters here slice it

down the center there

gently cut it around like this

so you don't slice into the other

my er should throw it off get your

client tools made in USA

yes yeah this is a works

and I got got going to there and I'll do

the same thing with this one all right

so you can see here we've got I've got

the battery side hooked up which is why

we've got power here but so we've got

zero amps zero watts 13.2 so it monitors

your batteries but there's no amperage

coming in because the PV side is not

hooked up solar panels so all I've got

left to do

there's your positive and negative this

is the one that's coming in from right

here so we're going to real quickly just

disconnect those and then swap it over

round

you need to upgrade or red haze also

because I make so many mistakes that

it's just easier it up none these that

way so you're always crimping and

cutting wires when possible spark let's

see see that was the spark coming off

that's just because a lot of amperage I

don't know why people think you get

shocked but you don't get shocked from

touching 12 volt I'll show you just a

second just cuz some people still may

not believe me I told someone that the

other day and I wouldn't believe me and

then I showed them and they're like nah

you can't get shocked okay there we go

so we've got some point 9 amps coming in

105 watts and it's working so whenever

the batteries are fully charged this

thing will tilt will stop letting

amperage in and it might be to the point

where it's already so charged that it's

not letting amperage in I don't know

they're setting the back here that allow

it to go to a certain height so go to

adjust them so make sure to read those

where you hook it up so now really I

don't need this inverter at the moment

because it was just for the it's

actually just drawing power to be on and

so really I'm gonna just connect that

next this what I was charging with now

in theory we should be getting enough

power for the 12-volt side and but we're

still using short power for a lot of

things like all my electronics so anyway

that's pretty much how you are up solar

panels pretty easy you just need your

panels one of these and I've done a lot

of research this is a good one so just

you can still do your research but it's

decent price so the price is about

160 to 170 depending on where you look

eBay or Amazon will have it but it's

worth it forgetting that monitors

everything you could tell everything

that's going on there's a lot you could

do with it I've named pushed all those

buttons but it does a lot more than that

so do your research on that 6 volt

Trojans are the best to go for batteries

and that's about it

get one last thing that on the batteries

thing okay so I have one last thing too

as far as batteries go this is what yeah

I'm cheap on a lot of things but one

thing you don't want to be cheap on the

batteries I was cheap in the beginning

and bought the Walmart 12-volt batteries

and they last about six months you can

take them back and get another one and

last about six months so they're just a

waste you really got to spend the money

you're spending already 100 plus for the

Walmart one just spent a little bit more

get the 6 volt children two of those

will outlast for the Walmart batteries

probably even eight of them the the

Trojans are made to last 5-10 years

supposedly I'm going on probably three

years on my Natalie and mess with them

but you're always screwing around with

the cheap batteries so one thing you

don't be cheap on his batteries so I

mean this Continentals not bad it'll

work it's better than Walmart battery

I've been buying all my batteries from

Continental they're all over the place

but they're decent and battery and also

Continental is the one that sells the

Trojan batteries so if you look up

Continental they'll be selling the

children batteries more than likely in

your local area so the with the Trojans

or Continental and just do it right the

first time

same with the charge controller you

could buy these cheap Chinese ones but

they're now can outperform this one I

mean more likely it's made in China but

it was made right about now it's made in

Taiwan so there you go

mid Taiwan Sam likes solar charge

controller Trojan or con metals for the

beginning

and that's about it for this one okay so

we're back in my house I wanted to show

you some I set up at the house just

because it's a little different a little

more organized and you kind of see the

setup a little better maybe understand a

little more so what I've got here is to

2500 watt Ames inverter it's a modified

sine-wave and I'm going to say if I had

to do it again I'd probably go with the

pure sine-wave probably a lower wattage

like 1500 watts the 2500 is overkill

doesn't ever get used and pure sine-wave

is a little better technology so if you

could afford it go with that if not

these work good you don't even need to

look like I said the 25 minute watts

it's overkill and so what else I've got

here I've got these are my Trojan

batteries four of them they're 24 volt

bank here and this is also a 12 volt

this is a 24 volt bank and these are two

12 volt 24 banks so you can do it in any

different way you want I've got 6 4 volt

Trojans here and then the 12 volts in

the 12 volt so anyway they're all

different banks but at all equals 24

volts just you know how you wire it but

you can look at the diagrams really easy

on online so if I get a zoom in over

here what's going on

and over here we've got my battery

chargers this is the one I use for the

12 volt I use this one for the 24 volt

it's a really good battery charger this

is one of the best ones I found diehard

always makes good stuff I used to use

this one which ran off 220 and went off

the generator but at some point it broke

so that's just kind of sitting there

this is what I use a switch over from

the generator to the inverter so it's a

3 pole breaker so all you got to do is

pull this swap it over here after you

shut off well what it usually I do is I

shut up the off switch shut that off

swap that over and then you can run on

generator side and then the generator

also run all the 110 side which is up

there and here's some of the things I

installed right back here for the wind

generator this is very important a

breaker this is a 30 amp breaker here I

put that in line after several failures

blown in blown ah

inverters I tried a few of those making

mistakes I see an on/off switch here

breaker in here and because there's not

a built-in breaker in this one which is

no good idea fried i fried about this is

actually my fourth one I kept making

mistakes on the positive side over here

not having things like this in line and

things like this you always want you

just run one wire the wrong way on the

110 side and you'll fry everything so

always make sure yeah you've got all

these type of breakers in line this was

something I bought but it broke it was a

Coleman I bought it on ebay it worked

good but I made a mistake and fried

something on the inside this is also

charge control I don't know how they

could get it into that but this is when

I fried I don't know what I did around

but I screwed that up a long time ago so

that's pretty much my setup here just

wanted to show you two different

versions of sound Mike's running a 12

volt and 24 volt system so I've had good

luck with it alright see you next time

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