did you do a under pressure start on air compressor? A compressor still under load is much harder than a no residual air start.

I was thinking of mounting some panels on the north side of my house ~15' off the ground with ~15° tilt. 3 intended outcomes ; snow sheading, primary reason for angle is to reflect inferred heat south onto the roof to melt snow. 2 increase winter production by having a more perpendicular ( slightly negative) angle to the winter solstice. And 3 reduced summer production. I am $5-10( ~50-100kw) under the minimum usage fee 8months a year. However my power supplier charges $35 ( ~380kw) extra per month for customers with solor + limmits return current to 500w per month . So kinda counter productive to go solor/ full off grid. Winters are ruff and the furnace has to run when I'm not home to build a fire.

I guess hail stone damage is kept minimal .

Very interesting video. Maybe research hydroponic light reflector designs to see if it could spark some different design ideas or maybe different material to use.

What part of Ohio? I'm in the NE.

Great experimenting!

Way too much jargon!

Honestly, if we can boost panels quite a bit it's worth the extra improvement. Maybe we lose a year or two in the panels lifespan, but by that time newer panels would be much more efficient and prob. cost less. So I don't think it would be a bad idea to "boost them".

One observation of this design. Apart from some randomly located temperature sensors, there is no thermal management, maybe these batteries don't produce any heat. Dream on.

put an array of long, 1mm-thin nails in short succession on the top, nail-tips pointing to the sky, and birds will never again try to land on them... the mayor of my 5million-city did it, cause of the pigeon-pest, and it works... wire can replace the nails, but nails can be installed easier (simply nail ´em on a thin, narrow, long piece of wood), and the wire should be cut so, that a pointy tip results...

There are solutions for bird poops. Mount something above spikes or very rough surface. Of small overhang to reduce pooping on panels. For angled mounted, add more to top part, so birds are more away from panels, so pooping is less problem. Extra solutions have bit more money but at least less pooping problem / less cleaning cycles needed.

If your array were higher in the air, you proba ly would've gotten a bigger snow boost. I've seen other videos that say it should be at least 5 or 6 feet high to get the full reflection advantage.

I wish they would’ve sent out the E 1000 LFP and 2400 LFP to the reviewers in time for Black Friday this year. Having to buy them sight unseen, kind of sucks. Looking forward to your review of both units and also looking forward to receiving mine.

Add a big white cone around it, slightly angled, it will diffuse it better

How often do you have to clean the reflectors though?

Ok brother as a transplanted native buckeye I'm going to throw you a bone because you are on the right track, (at least for as far as It seems you want to take it.) I have developed a combination system of 3 + currently used green energy technologies to achieve a 24/7 365 green power ( no exotic materials or chemistry ) system. What I am giving you for you vertical design are 2 of the clues I used to perfect the solar aspect of my own system. Ready? think "Stone Henge" & pyramid or squared vertical panels corners pointed to N. S. E. W. billed Mylar vertical ring around it. Let sun chase your reflector rather than ( as many with motorized moving reflectors do ) using part of their power production to move a flat reflector to chase the sun use the round reflector to hit panels from all angles at ounce& most all solar day long. there is another version that will allow it to work even longer hours but hay it took me a few years to get 4his design . Oh & if anyone wants to buy my patient for this portion of my overall design they can pay many millions for it and repair all of these Solar1 design systems, like the ones in NV & CA that have to operate at a fraction of those systems so called potentials, or replace them with my new design, minus the shortfalls of those older designs, The reworking of those old sights shouldn't be all that much, with all the details of my design to work with. ( oh my design doesn't burn itself down if operating at higher operating temps ) While not spending a portion of the power produced to move the mirrors. But don't think you can just run off & forget to pay me , there are like I said a few missing important features to the complete segment design to fix all the design errors of those systems that I will detail upon agreement & payment tendered. Besides those systems will be no longer used after I sell Elon Musk my complete design. A $1,000,000,000,000.00 for Mr. Musk, $3,000,000,000,000.00 for prince of Dubai. $33,000,000,000,000.00 for any who will hold it to keep power & money over people. Mr. Musk I want you to have it for here & Mars, I trust you to see it's potential & not be bought off or keep it from the masses . even if you only market it at commercial scale it can drastically reduce pollution . A new fan let's see what a motivated Buckeye can do. good luck I am watching.

The reflectors are nullifying one of the advantages of the vertical bifacial setup, which uses virtually zero land area. If you already increase the used land area, then you could also angle them slightly (I would put them 75° or so from flat, which would use a quarter of the area that the two reflectors do. Not to mention that the ground would only be periodically obstructed by posts, instead of permanently shaded). And to get even better power production in the 3 hours after sunrise/ before sunset (and improve the winter performance at the cost of summer performance) you could face half of the panels each +-75° or so from south, instead of +-90° from south. The combined effect of both angle changes would also miss-align the front and back face's dips (which used to overlap at 12:00) into two dips, one around 10:00 and one around 2:00, which should give you a similar 50% improvement compared to straight west and east facing panels, the same amount that the reflectors did. I don't think you can fully optimize the power production without taking advantage of the fact that the front face gives you 50% more power than the back face.

Your experiments are so enlightening thank you.

So you had the AC300 plugged in to solar and A/C and it still over discharged, is this because you set the user parameter battery threshold too low at 10%, why would Bluetti allow a set point that would cause this to happen, the load should automatically disconnect if the battery is about to shut down. With all this fancy programming this thing should be just about bulletproof from over discharge if it’s plugged in to A/C. These power stations are pretty convenient all packaged up but the more I read about the complaints the more I think one would be better off building your own from off the shelf components. Lastly when you had the unit all apart why not add an XT60 plug sticking out the back that directly tied to the battery. Cheers and good luck.

Wow this was an amazing set of tests. Got my subscribe for sure.

If hurricane hits your area, your house will be the only house in miles that has power and water. That's some preppers level stuff.

i feel like adding a solar tracker and making it spin would be the best option lol maybe they can double as a windmill as they spin ahahaha

Were you required to hire licensed solar designer and installer? I am wondering if I am allowed to apply for a permit for a ground mount system my self without hiring licensed installer

TLDW: In ideal conditions you'll get a few percent more power production.

Get it for free but you will do an unbiased review? Goodbye.

Curious why you mylar panel isn't matching the height of the vertical panels OR curved to always reflect some light

Water cooled panels in this experiment would of been interesting .

Great Video! I would also use reflector on the ground under the south looking panels! And: Yes, Orca has the most diffuse surface!

You think you have it bad? My panels hit 70+C after a long hot day at 130PM. I guessed as much as I was designing the system so I specified 600w to 440w microinverters with a DC to AC of 1.38 in order to eliminate as much of the loss as possible. Doing so also allows me to hit peak at around 800w/m2.

Knowledgeable, relevant, personable, great communicator.... your subscriber base will grow. I know it ticked up by one right now. And as a former Alaskan, where did you get that great hat??

I just ordered bifacial panels too. The thing comes to mind is optic lines used to route sun lights insides the house. Use those lines to route lights underneath the panels.

This is really valuable video. Thanks 😊

Would vertical panels in water not be better ? As the water would reflect the sun a bit on it's own.

Why don't you just put anti bird spikes on the top of your panels?

I noticed a news item that the Saudi's are applying a simple lubricant to their solar panels that causes the condensation to run instead of forming droplets that cools overheated panels which boosts power output by cooling. This sounds like something that should be tried. A search suggested it was silicone and a polymer. This sounds like something that could be even store bought.

Bifacial is the name of the game. It seems like HJT hetero/multi-junction panels are making their way to utility-scale installations too, which will only improve the benefits of bifacial panels due to HJT's symmetry.

PVC or TPO white roofing would also work great . It's extremely durable and will snow blind you on a very sunny day on a roof without sunglasses . It can be mechanically fastened or totally adhered to a substrate .

This makes me wonder if there's some kind of prism we could put on top of the cells, like the light collector on a skylight tube, that will effectively pull in sunlight no matter the angle

I live in a valley in the mountains,I made a system with one side on wheels, the other side is on a on a rotating bearing plate in the ground, allowing me to follow the sun, and I do use reflectors, and am able to move the panels to a vertical position..The improvements are off the charts..

Hm, at 10 pannels these sre still 200$ a pop. Only worth it if you're really needing high energy density array. I think theres some 450- 500w panels for half that.

I'd write about the 'How to make your own solar reflective paint' that reflects at the frequencies used by panels, but I know the comments never get read and you content creators only say "comment" to please The Algorithm. So no: DON'T look into it. And you just got another algorithm pleasing comment. Bully for you!

How about verticaly (radialy) rotating panels ? Rotating post with panels on each side in "I" or "X" shape (or in delta/triangle shape?) ? :D Would be interesting. The "I" shaped might be better in high wind and it could be solar tracked at the same time.

"THIS ISNT SPONSORED BUT HERE IS AN EXCLUSIVE CODE FOR THE CHANNEL" seriously?

i did NOT think that said "facial" and i initially had a lot more questions than i do now

At $4,000 it should rub your feet..

why not just put mirrors behind bifacial angled panels?

So the NEP gateway is not required to commission? You can get these inverters for about $100 at the moment. That's cheap AF for a dual channel micro inverter.

You suppose to connect them to positive not the negative terminals am i right ?

Hi Dave.Thanks for making this video as I was actually wondering at what angle SW and SE to position my panels to ge the benefits of early and late production, especially in winter. Have You had a chance to make actually do the project You mentioned in this video of placing your panels 20 degrees to west and east to see the results ? It would be interesting what they are exactly. Thanks and good luck !

Just finished glass walls and slide doors for a terrace and car roof. Added some panels for a battery setup. Looked for all black bifcial with clear between lines but could not get any through my installer. Settled for 580W dark blue with regular aluminium frame. The bottom performance is secondary for me. Three horizontal panels on a line in a wall. There's no direct light source from the back. No big expectations bro the performance as these are just a place that's good for winter sun (there's no sun in the winter around here though). But there is noce glass surface instead of aluminium sticker on the back. Just a slight shine through the caps. Looks way better than one sided panel would have been. And the price point was ridiculous compared to rest of the glass work. Round 200 € for three panels vs 9500+ € for the glass doors and windows.