The Ultimate Guide To Off Grid Solar Power

passive solar is my friend, maybe I will learn a lot more here.

thank you again for posting he vid awhile back about how to enter a house with only a credit card, or how quickly someone can enter your home - showing how a lack of real security means your door is pretty much useless.




Last Edited by beeches on 05/18/2015 10:26 AM

Good stuff! Thanks

thank you

Solarpanels now are quite cheap.
I buy them for 0.4usd/W so 1000W will only set you back 400usd these days.

I watched the video, but for practical reasons, if you don't want to have an "underground" or survival mode setup then it is better to just get 2-4KW of solarpanels.

Hook up a 4Kw inverter and you can run a small AC and all your other needs at same time mostly.

Just my 2 cents, I think the potential market is not with the loony tunes "grid will break down ahhhhh!" kind of folks but just common sense practical people.

When you decide to follow the plan to make a setup then just do it right, it is not something you can easily overdo with Solar.

...'in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is king.'

This guy has a nice off grid setup too.

Funny... because it's probably the sun who will get our life

We call that "irony"

good thing Tin Hat has TWO eyes!

Later

I call it "so long away you will not even be a nanoparticle by the time it arrives" - yawn. . .

Last Edited by beeches on 05/18/2015 01:39 PM

Thanks OP

No, in the land of the blind, the one eyed man is LOST.
This is because there's no street signs in the land of the blind!

Wont help much in a nuclear winter scenario or asteroid impact scenario...besides NWO goons will track you all down when SHTF.

Great video! Thanks for dumbing this subject down for people like myself. I need every detail explained and you do a fantastic job of breaking it all down. Looks like a doable project to me but I suspect I'd need twice the power your generating.

One cheap way to save is to set solar powered lights outside during the day and bring them in at night. For less than $30 you can have backup lighting.

Thanks for all the hard work you've put in to doing your videos LT, you've grown a lot in knowledge and ability to present it well. Cheers, FBK.

I only wish that the northern tier of the US got enough sun to make solar as useful as it might be in Arizona...

I've been a passive solar fan since the 80's. We live out in the country it an area we affectionately known as the 'grave yard of the clouds.

There were times in the past when it was overcast, the power went out and if you were outside is was so dark you didn't know which way was up. Seriously people got dizzy.

You couldn't find the door handle to your car door.

Then we got a few solar lights for the outside and noticed how they pushed back the coyotes out of the driveway. Got more solar lights to push them back farther and have available light to bring indoors...

...stick 'em is mason canning jars so the kids can safely get around. Sure your can't read a book with them but in there own way they are a God send.

It still works well enough in the North!

Thank you!

can someone post links to videos...want show up for me on that page.

Thanks

Thanks for posting (I'd lost and forget the videos from before heh). I clicked the first video and just got back from watching #7; so been gone about an hour.

Sent a link to the first one to a couple friends as well.

If you live up north you can also supplement your system with a wind generator. Should be able to plug it straight to the batteries. Like an Air Breeze or a KISS.

I have a system almost exactly like the one dude has in the video that runs my sailboat except I have a bank of twelve 6-volt Gel batteries. Same MPPT charger. Same monitor. But a bigger inverter. Actually a couple inverters. Also I have two other banks that get charged off the same system. There's a relay capacitor that charges the other banks once the main is full. 2 twelve volt batteries for the Perkins diesel and two more for the anchor windlass. Also there's a 500 watt wind generator.

I live in Florida and spend half the year in the Bahamas where the wind is usually blowing and it's sunny most of the time. The system runs everything. Refrigerator, lights, computers, flat screen tv's, chart plotter, SSB radio, RO desalination plant, a boomin mp3 system with a bazooka sub, and other appliances many of which are 12 volt.

The only things it doesn't run is the 18,000 BTU air conditioner, battery smart charger, and the washer/dryer. For that I have a Yamaha 3000 watt key start generator that's whisper quiet. At night at anchor if we need the AC I'll fire it up, run the AC, and top off the battery banks with the smart charger at the same time. It has to be used alone to run the clothes washer though which we do for a full day maybe once a week. Or the wife will hand wash and line dry the clothes. Most of the time it's just swim suits and her bikinis.

Been off grid for 5 years now. All the systems have operated near flawlessly providing all our electrical needs. The only time we plug in is if we stay at a marina.

Nice!

Thanks for the hour!

Me too!

5 Stars and added to my personal pins. There's always more to learn, isn't there?

Thanks for that honored position!