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@showaltermicro

Жыл бұрын

About time for an EMP battery

@D2O2

Жыл бұрын

"Safe and Effective" is all I think when I read this.

@coziii.1829

11 ай бұрын

I’m been watching for a year or so Figuring what to get I heard Sol- Ark has a few problems shutting down after an update. Is that fixed Plus do you come to Oklahoma for work

@johnstark4723

11 ай бұрын

If you're worried about EMP you are not well educated on EMP or the chances of being hit by EMP of any kind

@engineer775

11 ай бұрын

ok. Whatever. Do you want to compare EMP education now? @@johnstark4723

We had bees try and colonize our home. We called a near by university and were hooked up with the bee keepers. They came out and had all the bees transported away in less than a day.

@willistisdale4293

Жыл бұрын

This was attempted, but because of where the bees were in the home it would take demolition of load bearing brick walls to get them out. They’re still hanging out in there. I didn’t get stung once despite being right up close and personal with them.

Man that is a awesome set up and clean install.

Respect for doing such large system installs, pretty neat the level of quality you put in your product installs!

As always, beautiful work! You guys are top notch.

What a wonderful system . 😉👌I know the customer was pretty happy to have such a system installed by the best for going off grid . Props to your company for making it happen.😊May the solar be with you .🤗

Good thing it's a Sol-Ark so you can install fast and get away from the bees! Big fan of the double lug upgrade in your bypass / knifeswitch / meter base.

I love this channel man. You give me hope to be totally off grid

That is a BEAST. I'm jealous. I'd love to have a big plot of land like that, throw some solar in and know that I don't have to rely on ANYONE else to power my home. Such a clean installation for a bit of a messy situation too.

Super nice install!!

ENGINEER 775, GREAT INSTALLATION! THANK YOU FOR KEEPING US ON THE LEADING EDGE OF SOLAR TECHNOLOGY. IF WE WOULD HAVE WAITED WE COULD HAVE HAD A COMPLETE EMP SOL-ARK 15K & LITHIUM IRON PHOSPHATE BATTERY BACKUP SYSTEM. AT PRESENT NOTHING WE HAVE IS EMP HARDENED.

On the ends of the panel mounting you can get rubber dip ( used to dip handles of pliers and other tools ) and paint it on making a rubber cap 🧢

Looks like a really nice system

I found a great SIM for those kind of cellular modem things. Its like $3 per month, unlimited transfer, 64k per second. I also set one up for a friend that wanted a nest in the middle of nowhere.

great net work 👍👍

Nice clean work ❤

I’m in Columbia, SC. Dominion Energy stopped allowing solar systems run through the net metering program. Solar Choice is the new program. I get the impression that utility companies are not interested in paying customers for power.

@engineer775

Жыл бұрын

You can also do Zero export with Dominion energy. You are correct that they do not want to pay or credit you. We are finding that the customer can still net zero with a well designed system.

Cool tunes!

Thats an insane amount of power for one house

@davidjoly9816

11 ай бұрын

Two Sol-Ark 15ks are rated for a combined 24kW to AC loads (100A @ 240V). More than what a lot of people need. But if you are using heatpumps, electric water heaters, electric ovens, and electric dryers, you can get up their quick. Say 9kW for an oven, 4.5kW for a water heater, 5kW for a dryer, several kW for an air conditioner, plus pumps all the smaller stuff. Combined, these two Sol-Arks can't run the on-demand hot-water heater in that house.

EMP hardening is cute. I love extra engineering and new product categories like you said BUT if the customer thinks this will let them shrug off some sort of nuclear event they’re out to lunch. Apparently they couldn’t even address a bee problem! In my mind a solution to truly be prepared for an event where EMP is of a concern is a reserve stock of standby equipment in your bunker… even pre-nuclear Armageddon you can’t get replacement stuff promptly!

@greenwolf401

Жыл бұрын

IMO, the only way to truly be prepared for a major EMP event is to have replacement parts for Everything. And have all the parts properly shielded.

@notreallyme425

Жыл бұрын

If there is a major EMP event food will be the biggest issue. Once the food runs out the looting will begin. Then we’ll all be eating grass. Their will be massive death by starvation on an unbelievable scale.

@tomunderwood4283

Жыл бұрын

Yea, there will be difficulties. I hope they’re prepared. Their lives may depend on it.

@D2O2

Жыл бұрын

And then a lightning strike takes it all out.

@johnstark4723

Жыл бұрын

The chance that an EMP will damage it is like 10 gazillion to 1. Fact is, IF you actually do the research an EMP attack won't do jack to 99.9% of the electronics that the fear mongers think. Many scientists have already proven this but people seem drawn to the fear mongers than real facts. This so called EMP shield is just a waste of money.

It’s nice how SolArk has everything in a compact cabinet, but then it takes 3x the cabinets for the wires to connect to it.

That's a really slick looking system, tons of power! Question for you, how / where do you dispose of broken panels? I'm just across the border in NC and have a broken panel that I have no idea how to get rid of.

@engineer775

Жыл бұрын

South Carolina, we just take him to the transfer station.

A hybrid hot water heater and a 300 gallon hot water holding sure would have made this system a whole lot easier and less expensive .

@trophyfishn9757

11 ай бұрын

Yea that on demand unit is not cost or energy effe tive trying to go solar and battery. Sol ark already has smart load circuit for heating water during the day. Scratc h and dent water heaters are cheap and easy to reconfigure with smaller elements and put them in series. Then add a hybrid unit at the end running hot all the time. I do thos with 4-50gal water heaters with the final in series being hybrid. Easy and cheap and runs mostly during the day with a few days storage.

@terrya6486

11 ай бұрын

@@trophyfishn9757 On my current system, I have a forty gallon propane water heater and in front of that, I have a fifty gallon electric water heater which is my dump load in the middle of the day when I have too much power. I do have a 300 gallon hot water heating tank. I'd like to incorporate into the system 1 day.

Scott, another awesome video. I can only try and imagine the final bill... Ouch. Do you have a way to detect and mark water lines? In turn to minimize damage? Kudos and cheers to your team and you, too. Cheers, Mate.

@engineer775

Жыл бұрын

$120k I have doused for water lines and found them. I have gotten good at fixing them and I keep all the parts for 3/4" and 1" on the truck.

@jackwalsh1468

Жыл бұрын

@@engineer775 Scott, thank you for the follow up. Cheers, Mate.

@SolarTechFL

Жыл бұрын

​@engineer775, you gave them a good deal for that. I did a very similar installation for $125k with a big roof mount and no trenching. You do amazing work at a competitive price 👏.👍👍

@jimbob3030

Жыл бұрын

@@engineer775 Six strings of 7 panels, I guessed 440w or so, that makes it around 18kw of panels, is that about right?

@engineer775, nice looking install!! I would love to know more about the EMP protections built in, and what did they build into the batteries for this? Did they just use relay traps? And, who did the testing? You need about 1 to 2 nanosecond (or less) shunt to ground every 250' of wiring upon over voltage pulse (via DOD specs). You have some long runs there, but's it's not easy to know the true distance of the panels to the controller/inverter panel from the video. Then, you have a long run to the barn from system and first breaker box. And, I'm not sure how long the run is to the secondary house breaker panel. There are products that can be used to help shunt to ground EMP on the ends of extended wiring runs, due to DC resistance in wire. You don't want to slow down the effective shunt time on product plugged into distances over 250'. Just a brainstorm here, but I would add an EMP Shield DC unit at the panels, and connect the green ground wire to your separate earth ground you set there. I would also add one of their 2 faze AC home units into the barn's breaker box. And, if the house's secondary breaker box has wire runs extending the whole run from main in to end of that breaker's wiring to over 250', another home unit can be added at that second home breaker box. This will help protect all assets plugged into the whole electrical system. Just a thought. ;)

Very nice setup. I'm in the process of putting in a 6kWh split controller/inverter with 5.4kWh of solar with 20kWh of EG4 LiFePo4 batteries with a couple of transfer switches. Offgrid until I connect on. I have a feeling that the system you set up there cost a wee bit more than mine. What is your take on the hardening? If an EMP went off over the US, could that system actually stay up and running, or is it still a tossup? You have a lot of wire attached.

20 kw solar + 50 kwh storage. I've said it for years, and ill keep saying it... this is the future.

I like that you are training Jr (Engineer 598). He needs to fatten up before he graduates to 775 Jr.

No issues with the wireway extending more than 6 inches from the wall under the main breaker panel? Not sure if inspectors care about that usually or not.

Jesus, that's the tits! Shame the UK has such little amounts of sun, my tiny system suffers with the lack of sunshine, none the less, this is awesome, what a setup! And that place is amazing.

Is it possible to put the ground mount up high enough to store a tractor under it and still have the seasonal adjustment?

Beautiful system! I would love to know ballpark what a system like that costs completed.

@HabitualButtonPusher

Жыл бұрын

2,600 a battery plus labor probably looking at 80kish

@jameschupp2230

Жыл бұрын

He just commented with someone else... $120K

Wouldn’t splitting the systems make more sense? One in the house, one in the barn?

Ok so garages get hot here. Ours typically in arizona gets to 115. How hot is their garage?

How much does that ESP rack weigh?? May be able a fab a commercial rack system for 3 more above.

Hello, just wondering Is that MPPT you made for heating water without grid or batteries Still available please.

STOP READING MY MIND!!! 😂😂😂

I see a lot of Sol-Ark on your channel. Would you not recommend Schneider XW Pro?

@trophyfishn9757

11 ай бұрын

Ive used both and I can tell you from my experience that the xw is a nightmare. Several youtubers get sponsored by them for promoting their surge capacity but if you used both you would avoid xw like the plague. Ground faulting all the time for the charge controllers after 2 or 3 years rendering them useless. The software interface is horrendous from the 80s or earlier. Solark is beond the best out there. You can actually ask questions and get help with solark. Good luck with xw if you buy one. Youll regret it.

does the eg4 unit cool real good like a ac

the price on those batteries vs competitors is crazy. are they that out of touch?

Can you give us a clue on costs, ive done a similar sized system in the uk with sunsynk and pylontech.

@engineer775

Жыл бұрын

120k

Those ESP batteries are a big hit in Spain for some reason.

Where can I find the list of equipment? I’m looking for something similar.

@engineer775

Жыл бұрын

Would you like a quote?

WOW he is huge

1:49 that's engineer 776 :-)

What is meant with regard to “closed loop” in these systems?

@engineer775

Жыл бұрын

Closed loop is is when the BMS from the battery has control over charging and discharging, not the inverter.

all the wires in the house will backfeed and fry everything - it doesn't matter if the battery is emp protected they should fire duke energy and just go totally offgrid #feed in tariffs

EMP Everything... You never know when VaChina is going to let loose and yes they have some serious EMP applications ready for anyone right now... 775 you still tha man

Man $2600 per battery isn’t there a way to emp harden EG4 batteries a faraday enclosure or keeping a spare BMS in a faraday cage ect?

@engineer775

Жыл бұрын

You can theoretically buy BMSs for the EG4 but we have not been able to get enough for even one customer. You would need the screen/cover as well as it has princted circuit boards on it as well.

@tomunderwood4283

Жыл бұрын

I like the faraday cage idea. Would that work?

Electric water heating. The fine line between 'green' and 'stupid'.

I'm not sure how EMP hardened it can be with wires connecting outside of the faraday cage. I may be wrong, but it seems a bit like marketing to me.

Are the panels emp proof? Are all panels emp proof? Which brand/models?

They sure know who they are selling to. WEll, except for those folks actually familiar with EMP acceptance and hardening and testing, but let's not burst their bubble with real world facts. Marketing uber alles!

What does EMP Hardened mean exactly?

@johnstark4723

Жыл бұрын

Basically it's a Faraday cage....try google

@trophyfishn9757

11 ай бұрын

Look up the EMP resilience guidelines pdf by cisa.gov on google. Will tell you everything you want to know.

Those trails in the sky though😅

Do the inverters have to be connected to the web? I could care less about remote monitoring.

@engineer775

Жыл бұрын

Did you not have to be connected? It is just helpful sometimes if there's a problem to be able to troubleshoot and make sure the system is running optimally. It is also nice to be able to update the firmware, but once you have your updates you can remove the Wi-Fi dongle and be totally off the grid.

Bees or wasps ?

^5

Don't kill honeybees, call a beekeeper to remove them. My guess they are Yellow Jackets.

Scott, what do you think about these smart panels like the SPAN panel that integrates with solar and battery backup they talk about here? Or is there a better way to do it. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lYSLtJZmf8_Tobw.html

@trophyfishn9757

11 ай бұрын

Too expensive, you can already tell what is running and see the power on your inverter. You dont need a span. Just a waste of money.

@robertduffy5805

11 ай бұрын

@@trophyfishn9757 Thanks for the response. So the inverter can control the panel breakers to limit or balance the load on the system?

yes, but can it survive a nuclear strike - enquiring minds want to know

LiFePO4 is worse than LTO.

So we are into an atomic weapon scare again???

@yurimodin7333

11 ай бұрын

no its just boomer marketing like gold coin ads on Fox News

@herbbates4713

11 ай бұрын

@@yurimodin7333 No they are there to suck you in, we know to buy it low and not when someone on TV tells us to buy

@yurimodin7333

11 ай бұрын

@@herbbates4713 I always thought the buy gold crowd was kind of silly anyway......if not having gold on hand is gonna determine if I starve or not then I am better off with copper, brass, & lead.

@herbbates4713

11 ай бұрын

@@yurimodin7333 Everything goes up and down in price

EMP hardened... cringe.

EMP Proofing is Literally impossible unless you're 30/50ft under ground 😅 And that equipment is only rated for level 3 EMP Not 1 or 2 if IF that ever happens lmfao 🤣 anything that has a charge in it will short out likethe solarpanels. There toasted... that is really nice equipment though 👌 Only place EMP proof is underground 🚇...

@yurimodin7333

11 ай бұрын

it sure is a good way to squeeze a few more bucks from boomers that don't know any better.

@trophyfishn9757

11 ай бұрын

Im sure they told Noah that building a big boat was really stupid too.

@user-dd5kv3ht6f

11 ай бұрын

@lickalittle Sol-Ark EMP hardening is tested for E1/2/3 events. Exceeds military standards for substations. Also includes internal and external EMP hardening protection for solar panels. Preparing for EMP events is expensive but not even the military buries their substations underground.