Please check the description of this video for the 2 wire size charts I showed in the video.

@explorer156

8 күн бұрын

Corazón recién acabo de ver tu episodio de supervivencia al desnudo no conozco tu canal hasta que vi dicho episodio, tu huella en ese episodio sigue sumando admiradores a través de la plataforma de Max Por lo que me alegra poder escribirte y saludarte te mando un beso y un fuerte abrazo desde San Pedro sula Honduras.!!😘✌

You are doing a good job, easy to understand, thank you

@De5O54

3 күн бұрын

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Here’s my money saving wire recommendations….. use the biggest wire possible… you will expand your system, needing ever bigger wires. I also recommend this when buying solar chargers. Everyone buys a 40 amp to start, then a 60 and so on. I’m on 120v/120a now. If you like solar, this is just your start. A 100amp hour battery turned into 800.

@adon8672

11 күн бұрын

Please where can I get a 120V/120A charge controller?

@kayakeux

11 күн бұрын

Bigger system are usuallu 48 volts = smaller wires, unless you are into vanlife.

@danielbast352

11 күн бұрын

@@adon8672 I bought mine on Amazon. Just typed it in and there’s a selection. I won’t recommend one because I’m no expert. But they are there

@danielbast352

11 күн бұрын

@@kayakeux well I started this solar adventure by making a 400 watt cover for my roof rack on my suburban and now it’s powering a camper.

@danielbast352

11 күн бұрын

@@kayakeux I’ve 4000 watts of panels now a 80 amp/100v controller and the 120/120 amp 3000watt inverter. Completely off grid. I bought a generator as back up and have never used it despite living in northern Wisconsin.

Thank you. I've been wanting this information prior to beginning a system. I didn't know where to start and you've been a blessing.

This is a really great little set up, Lily!

Lilly you have a well engineered system. Good job!

good advice for living independently! for my small shelter it's too big an installation 👌

We Love Lilly around here. Smart Beautiful and prepared. And especially love that she actually reads Comments. Mark of an excellent KZreadr. ❤😂

Lilly, you are an electrical engineering genius! Your knowledge and abilities will continue to serve you well in the coming maelstrom.

Good job! I am a Canadian Electrician and mostly memorize those wire sized. Our Code Book is our ' go to ' for all those charts. I believe that even I would struggle a bit to get all what you have done right!

These solar videos are great !. Not just the usual prepper videos on how to rub two sticks together to make a fire like most ... lol .. Like your videos very much as they're not all the same stuff like bushcraft and so forth .. Your prepping is much more complete than other prepper videos .. Good stuff ..

Hi Lilly, excellent video on basic wire sizing for any kind of electrical project. Especially Solar with battery backup. Thanks for all the hard work. 🙂

Excellent video explaining this 👌 👏 thanks Lilly.

Nice Simple set up. Best Wishes Lilly

Use mirrors to reflect sunlight on your solar panel.

@mikew8622

11 күн бұрын

Great idea. Never thought of that

@KevinEng44

18 сағат бұрын

I used a high powered flashlight once just to see if my panels worked after I installed them at night. Turns out my street lights can trickle charge my batteries. Who knew

Here’s my money saving wire recommendations….. use the biggest wire possible… you will expand your system, needing ever bigger wires. I also recommend this when buying solar chargers. Everyone buys a 40 amp to start, then a 60 and so on. I’m on 120v/120a now. If you like solar, this is just your start. A 100amp hour battery turned into 800. Same for the inverter, I bought a 3000 watt because it needed to run a microwave or the a/c, but guess what ….. it’s not big enough.. 22200 watt micro , 2800 watt a/c, 800 watt heater. Of course I don’t run these all simultaneously but you get the idea. I wish I would I bought a 5k watt inverter. Not that any of these lower or smaller items are a waste because everything can be ingratiated into the system, but I would have saved bunches buying bigger to start although I only started small.

I found this video very helpful.

You want the fuse to protect the weakest link downstream of it. Also you want a fuse or any protection to operate quicker than any protection devices upstream of it towards the source.

With dc power bigger is always better. Less internal resistance. Less voltage drop.

It is not too difficult if you do the proper planning. The hardest part is mounting the panels and running the wire. It is not too difficult to do especially if you have someone to help.

Best thing about 12 volt Solar less or absolutely no licenses Like a copy of my book Solar Independent Utility Systems Manual

a bit of power ready to use. In back up situation (Chuman accent). no sound, no stinky thing. 1000 watt inverter just fine for 12V. I figured all out at that time. Braided wire works better for solar 10 Gauge from panels to controller. And twist it (literature reviewed). protect the cables from Sun off panels, OVER TIME with a sheath.

Thanks for this very informative.

Very interesting, but I'm curious as to what happened with your camper van. The last video I saw, you had installed your solar panels - but nothing since then. Did I miss something?

Good video. only thing i'd change is the Fusible link at the inverter. i'd use a Circuit breaker instead. 100 amp circuit breakers are cheap & available easily. Overloading that inverter under normal use is very possible & changing those fuses is a pain & expensive. 1000 watt inverter is Small Relatively speaking. if You plug in a 1500 watt Hair dryer You will blow that fuse , 1500 watt appliances are very common. i always recommend a 2,000 watt continuous inverter min. Great video as always. take care. Fusible link at the Battery is Ok / Very Good.

You're awesome! 👌 👏 ❤

Have you thought of adding in some wind generations as well?

Wish that I could find a Super Chic like you 😊

@OcRefrig

11 күн бұрын

Join a Outdoor Club For hiking or Rock climbing. Might Find one there. She's a Unicorn 🦄. But, they are around. You Just have to Think about it. Where do Super Chicks Hangout ?

@kennethhoppe2259

11 күн бұрын

@@OcRefrig thanks 👍

@able880

8 күн бұрын

Today solar and off grid power is a novelty in developed nations - My grand father was an early 1900s mechanic/ electrician - I live in the rural south US - in the US rural family's that had power from the 1890s till grid power was brought to rural areas had farm light plants - Were I live up till about 1960 homes in the country that had power had a large bank of battery's - the house would be supplied 32 volts DC - in rural towns merchants sold entire lines of appliances that were 32 volts DC - they sold radios, fans, water pumps, light bulbs, electric irons, vacuum cleaner, refrigerators ect - There was an agreement in the rural areas to only charge there house battery's on Friday - A home ran off the house battery's for 6 days and they charged the battery's all day on Friday - Were I live at most used farm light plants till 1960 or so - grid power was brought out here in the 1960s or so - Till then every one lived off grid out here - the battery's lasted 40 to 60 yrs -

well done project , i just wanna ask how's your battery performing so far and what's the capacity ?

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Why 12volts? Why not use 48 or 36v. Is this for a small load?

G'day Lilly, We set up our off grid cabin 24 volts DC because the step to 240 AC is halved than from 12 volts DC. Can you do a video on which types of trades or skills will be marketable in a future SHTF world ? thanks Ishman 👍.

Hi, is it true the inverter will be drawing full amps from the battery when in use ? Even if you are just charging a laptop or running fridge it's using the same ?

If you’re gonna do it yourself kinda fella/gal it always starts small like the harbor freight first kit I bought was like 110 bucks❤️‍🔥 now I will expand my system ONE MORE TIME and shut off the grid power in the 🇺🇸

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size by amps

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Boa noite Lilly Edi Brasil ,tu não tem mais Istagram ?

U use very long wire from battery to inverter. The wire must to be as short as possible

@SurvivalLilly

10 күн бұрын

This is no problem

Don’t fall for the grid tied stuff? Here in the US we paid $25 for the electricity consumed and $48 for the rental and maintenance of the lines by creating your own power. You’re eliminating most all of those cost figure that out for the life of most panels 20 years the system pays for itself Easily! whereas in a grid tief system you’re still paying all of the transmission maintenance fees, along with a portion of your electric consumption? And at the end of your 20 year payment plan, you left with dead panels and holes in your roof and the power company has made lots and lots of money off of you 😳When you can generate all of it and keep it all! And use the grid for emergency use only!

You might put a 1000 watt load on the inverter and see what the voltage is at the inverter at full load - With the distance there is from the battery's to the inverter you might have a voltage drop - If the voltage drops to low at 1000 watts of load - you might consider moving your inverter closer to the battery's - With a 12 volt system it's better not to have more than 2 ft of power cable between the battery and inverter - I worked on generators in the offshore oil fields for yrs - even if you double the size of the conductors - with 12 volt system you will still have a notable voltage drop when a cable is longer than 2 ft from the batteries - I prefer the 12 volt system over 24 or 48 volts because if I loose one of two or four battery's I just lost some capacity - I live in the rural deep south US and hurricanes and ice storms dose knock my power out for long periods - I have a 14 kw bank of battery's and two 3 kw 12 volt sign wave inverters - In my case I charge my house batterys a few hours each day - then run the house off the battery's when the power is out - That way I burn 1/6 the fuel compared to a generator running 24 hrs a day - solar does not work well in my area - the humidity defuses the UV light so it does not strike the panels directly - so panels performance is poor in these parts -

@steverturnsk6190

7 күн бұрын

I live in the foothills of California. I have an assortment of different types of solar panels that now add up to 14,000 watts. I have arrainged the panels in groups of 4 or 5 or 6 connected to ten Victron charge contollers. 12 volt Trojan lead acid battery bank adding up to 900 ah. I have an Ecoflow battery/inverter that I have tested each of the 50 or so panels. Not one panel has ever produced more than 55% of it's rated wattage while charging the Ecoflow. I have half of the panels facing west so the 1100 watt air conditioner is powered by sunlight in the late afternoon. I have load tested the entire system with the air conditioner and electric pre-water heater element, lights and fans etc and the maximum solar panel production at noon in June was 3700 watts. There are 6000 watts of panels on the roof. The solar industry is telling untruths about the wattage of solar panels. I have 3/4 of my home running on one 3000 watt 110v Renogy inverter 100% of the time (charging a 6 gang Generac switch bank). I have another inverter, an Aims 240v 4,000 watt inverter that energizes the generator plug and then the main transfer switch. I also have a cheapo Harbor Freight 2000 watt square sine wave inverter that powers only the 120v 1500 watt heater element inside the preheater water heater. The pre water heater feeds the propane water heater. I have turned off the gas to the propane water heater for 10 months a year as the pilot light uses 1 gallon of propane every 3 weeks. I have a 6 hour spring wound timer to energize the pre water heater element. On top of all of that I have a couple of gridtie inverters with limiting CTs which prevents backfeeding to the grid. I have knife switches that switch the roof panels either to the charge controllers or to the gridtie inverters. I use the gridtie inverters to pump water once a day to the water tanks 70 feet up the hill. I also use them to run the air compressor, my lathe and also my welder. I have had a few months where I used less than 3 kwhr from the grid for the entire month, but CA has recently enacted a minimum charge ($.39 a day or $12.50 a month) and to maximize the minimum I must use 1 kwhr per day, or 30 kwhr per month to obtain a monthly $15 bill. I have been using solar now for 1 1/2 years. I was cleaning some old files the other day and ran across a power bill dated 2015 where the monthly bill was $16. I have around $15K into my system, although $3K of the equipment was replaced with better stuff so I could do it again for $12k or so. 5 years ago I got an estimate to have solar panels with micro inverters professionally installed, no batteries; $30k. If I paid cash it would have taken 17 years to pay for itself as at that time my monthly average power bill was less than $75 per month. Solar is a scam and is certainly not sustainable (whatever sustainability means), but it does increase one's independence.

@able880

7 күн бұрын

​@@steverturnsk6190every thing you said is absolutely true - the only time solar works is if you don't have grid power and you have good sun - In dry regions were the humidity is 20% or less and there few clouds solar can work fairly well - I have worked remote oilfields in the US we did use some solar for radio & microwave tower repeaters that relied on fuel air drops - As a rule in the US nothing beats the price of grid power - in my area we often deal with hurricanes - I've ridden out 19 hurricanes in my life time and a few ice storms - There has been times were it took several months till our grid power was restored - In that case 14 flexible panels can help to reduce generator fuel consumption - for those who have them they just set them out when there power is out for lengths at a time - In my case I have several golf cart batterys presently - I reduce the strength of the acid from 1.275 to 1.220 gravity - That way I will get about a 40 yrs service life vs 7 yrs with stronger acid - there is a 30% decrease in capacity with the weaker acid - Sense I only cycle them when needed they will last much longer than 40 yrs - Where I live there was no grid power till 1960 or so many used 1.200 strength acid for there house battery's - my grandfather worked on farm light plants for 50 yrs - He said with 1.200 acid charging the battery's all day once a week - they expected a 60 to 70 yrs service life from those farm house battery's - I inherited my first set of house battery's they were 1.195 - they were 2 volt 800 amp cells - there 16 of them - they were cycled weekly from 1900 to 1960 then they stood by on a float 30 yrs - When I sold them they still had full capacity and there was no noticable plate rot - it was because of the weaker acid - with .195 there is a 40% decrease in capacity & they freeze at 0° F -

@able880

7 күн бұрын

​@@steverturnsk6190sense your using flooded batterys this is a well kept secret in the battery industry - If you want spare battery's on hand you can do this - You can take a lead acid battery fully charge it then pour the acid out into a container - then fill the battery with water and let it sit a while - then pour the water out - Do that 3 times - then leave it up side down to drip the water out - ( in my area the battery has to be off the ground or ants will build a nest in the battery's) After the battery is dry - it's a dry charged battery - it can be stored in that state indefinantly - Over time the negative plate will oxidize some - it will just take longer to reactivate the battery when you pour the acid back into the battery to activate it - Also if the acid poured out the battery is 1.275 strength there will be some acid strength loss in reactivating the battery with it's original acid - From what I've seen the acid strength is reduced to 1.220 or 1.240 when I reactivate a battery with it's original acid - If you want it back at 1.275 or higher what I do is I use a syphoning hose like used to syphon gas out a car with the bulb pump - I pull the acid down to the top of the plates then I add new acid to top the battery off - in most cases it will bring a starting battery back to 1.285 - Most of this info has been lost - you can look up on the net about 32 volt farm light plants also rural town 110 volt DC power plants in the US - Even in New Orleans in the french quarter on bourbon street there was a110 volt DC power pant for decades that sold power the residence In the french quarter - During the winter they charged 2 hrs daily and during the summer they charged 3 hrs in the morning and 3 hrs in the evening - in summer a lot of fans are used in the deep South - that plant was used up till after WW2. - .my grandfather said those battery's were 50000 amp 2 volt cells with 1.195 acid strength - there were 55 cells with spare plates - my grandfather said he never heard of a battery failure in that power plant - he worked on all that stuff from the early 1900s - All this can be found on the net but has to be searched for - 195 acid freezes at 0°F - the lowest temperature was what the old electrical engineering used for.the. strength of acid in stationary battery service -

Mehdi would be proud Lilly. 😊

Lily, great info,... but we want to see you doing Bushcraft on a deserted island 🏝️ it is summer time again grab the swimsuit and go to the beach ⛱️... can I get a few 👍on this commit... love you lily🌹💖

@theanonymousprepperchannel

11 күн бұрын

Seems like certain bushcrafters haven't been doing stuff lately. Hopefully that changes but i know europe has been on edge with the war.

These videos only for rich people. Guess the rest of us are out of luck.

@SurvivalLilly

10 күн бұрын

A setup like this costs 850 Euros. Stop drinking and smoking then everyone can afford it within 6 months

Good, informative video.

Lily, i have certified you by using the remote kinetic energy of thought. mit gruesse, - 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Here’s my money saving wire recommendations….. use the biggest wire possible… you will expand your system, needing ever bigger wires. I also recommend this when buying solar chargers. Everyone buys a 40 amp to start, then a 60 and so on. I’m on 120v/120a now. If you like solar, this is just your start. A 100amp hour battery turned into 800.

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