I’d like to apologize for filming vertically

@simonpaine2347

8 ай бұрын

No need to apologise. It was fine. Good clean, tidy work.

Great job as always, Scott. I'm still in awe of the retaining wall behind the pond. Very nice.

SCOTT, CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU & YOUR TEAM ON ANOTHER GREAT DUAL SOL-ARK 15k JOB! 🎉

That is a thing of beauty! When I win a lottery I'll have you help me build out my property lol. Great work. 👍

Huge project, great job! What was the array DC cable size you settled on for that crazy long run?

Incredible custom builds. You and your team are a talented group. Thank you for another great video!

Thanks for the overview! I’ve gotten a lot of tips for my own install by watching!

That was an awesome look at a large residential set up. The video makes it seem so easy. I’m sure there were many challenges to get that customer up on going. Great job done

What a job.. good thing you got good help. Hard for everyone to just relax and do it bit by bit

Another great video. Thanks!

Another awesome job!

Great job. looks fantastic

Wow, that D.C. run is crazy. I hope it is high voltage D.C. otherwise I think maybe micro-inverters or a power shed at the panels and then 240v to the house would have been more economical. My house is surrounded by trees and I'm thinking of building a nice big garage 100-150 feet away over near where I can put some solar and then the garage will house my power system.

@keatinhales6524

8 ай бұрын

Great idea! Sounds very nice

So awesome!

nice job! you guys are top notch.

Artis at work. Beautiful work. Well more like amazing work!

What is the voltage drop and what is the gauge of those long cable runs?

@willistisdale4293

9 ай бұрын

Under 3% and 2 awg.

Very good.

Hopefully you charge for the disconnect and reconnect of all those dsl & cameras!

hell yea brother!

Just curious on all the specs with size of solar array and cost (ballpark is fine). With the amount of trenching, wire, complexity and such.... I'd guess around $200K?!

@donlatinohits

6 ай бұрын

That's too high.

This guy knows what he's doing.

good work 👍👍

Hello Scott, I contacted you some time ago about your TechLuck PV water controller. When it would be available again. Can you please tell me If you are producing It again. Jimginn from Ohio mentioned It being off market. Then he said It Is back on the market. Is It on the market or Is there problems with the design. Thanks.

Awesome build. What gauge did you use for the 775 ft PV run, and what were the PV specs after combiners -- OC voltage and short-circuit amps? Love to know those deets..thanks

Chris is a wizard

@engineer775

9 ай бұрын

Yes, Chris has a lot of tricks up his sleeve.

It certainly is awesome to have such great people working on these projects!

Scott, another awesome job, but the esoteric crowd would like to know. Did you throw in a Solar powered "Kitchen Sink" too??? Cheers, Mate.

I'm curious about the bypass wiring. I'm assuming that the mains feed is in the centre and swings to feed the Sol-Ark at the bottom and the panel at the top. However when it's up and connected to the mains, surely the Sol-Ark feed to the panel is live from a backfeed from the panel? Or am I missing something?

Hi Engineer775, why did you choose to use a fusable disconnect over a non-fused disconnect? I'm asking because I'm planning an off-grid install and couldn't convince myself that I needed a fusable disco with with a solark 30K inverter.

Anyone know a way to limit solar load from generator? I have an issue where if I set charge to max of the generator then any large home load will trip the generator. So I have to only charge from gen with enough buffer it doesn’t get tripped.

How big was the generator?

How much voltage drop on a 775ft run?

@keatinhales6524

8 ай бұрын

There will be 4.13 percent drop, assuming those panels make 20 amps and 200 volts per string

48 panels on a single Sinclair-NICE!

What wire is the flexible 4/0?

The Solark doesn't have a high enough surge capacity nor a long enough life expectany to meet my needs. I chose a heavier duty, longer lived, much higher surge capacity, low frequency, transformer based inverter for my off grid home's system.

@engineer775

6 ай бұрын

What is your round trip efficiency?

@solarcharging9743

6 ай бұрын

I'm not concerned about my system's round trip efficiency because I have adequately sized my battery bank with more capacity than I need for my daily consumption, taking into consideration, 3 days of no solar production. If I were using my inverters for a mobile application, with limited energy storage, then maybe, maybe, I might be concerned about round trip efficiency. Besides, you're only talking about an efficiency difference of maybe 3% to 4% which is not worth considering for a shorter inverter life expectancy and a much lower surge capacity for starting and running critical loads. @@engineer775

If I may ask, why use 2x Solark 15k instead of a 30k?

@engineer775

9 ай бұрын

The 30k is a three phase 208 volt inverter so it is not the right inverter for this split phase job.

Impressive work there. I'm using one of those SolArks instead of a generator at a telemetry site whose normal draw was far too low for a generator most of the time. I'm mostly happy how this worked out but seems that 5 SimpliFi batteries didn't give me enough runtime to account for a drunk driver taking out the poles from the grid requiring days of backup... Tell me more about these batteries you selected? Can I mix more of those into this pack or should I stick with the SimpliFi? These also have their own built in BMS but do not expose it for outside monitoring so the Solark is not doing it either. I'm a SCADA and Controls guy so I want to be able to see everything if I choose to do so and batteries rarely let me at this scale... which is odd to me as the consumer sizes often do. And Yea, the touchscreens on the SolArks are terrible and hard to see in sunlight... so is the wired ethernet connection if you have no DHCP available. They gotta think just a little more industrial and allow static IP settings that actually work.

@ewouk61

9 ай бұрын

Have you tried a raspberry pi with a usb to serial converter plugged into the solark?

@OldePhart

9 ай бұрын

@@ewouk61I can and do read the solark through the modbus interface just fine, I can't read the batteries themselves because they each have their own BMS and don't expose an interface of any kind.

@Outdoor with morgan house….

Suggestion. Cell phone video is very distracting with the split video. Most people would prefer just watching the main video without the side screen effects.

Wow 775 feet of HVDC ... Shoulda used Enphase and could have made that long homerun cabling AC.

@jacobh8834

9 ай бұрын

Why would enphase be preferable? DC system can be higher voltage than 240v ac which means less voltage drop and smaller wire.

@bradspaugh9827

9 ай бұрын

That would be way worse!

@guidedbygreen1480

9 ай бұрын

@@jacobh8834 same reason why the utility prefers transmitting AC over long distances over DC.

@isovideo7497

9 ай бұрын

@@guidedbygreen1480 DC is actually preferred over AC - capacitative and inductive losses become negligible. The utilities like AC because it can directly feed transformers.

@jacobh8834

9 ай бұрын

@@guidedbygreen1480 ​Yeah but utility transmission lines operate at thousands of volts while enphase only operates at 240v. Its not that AC is better over distances, its just that its easier to step up/down voltages for with transformers.

If the owner runs his inverters at full bore for 2 hours, they will drain the entire battery bank in 2 hours. Then you are running off the generator.... In a situation that the owner is preparing for, it will be a matter of time before they run out of fuel. Hopefully the owner doesn't live in a place with long cold winter with dark days and or has wood fired heat. Looks like you took someones fuck you money and sold them "security" lol. A sucker is born every second. I am sure the locals know where this is, and it won't work out well for the owner long term in a SHTF situation. The best part is that the owner won't know how to do any troubleshooting if the system has any issus, because he is the type to just pay someone else to worry about it. My guess is that you charged the shlep around 150k to build that. I built a system half that size with a clear view of the south for around 35k. Also, bifacial is usually a waste.

@rustyshackle917

9 ай бұрын

Clear case of more money than sense.

@silverbackag9790

8 ай бұрын

Hop off your ass and start filming then and show us all how it’s done.