Heres the link to the Samlex Charge controller from Amazon. http://amzn.to/28PecWa In this video i show you how i installed my solar panels and how they tie ...
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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
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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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