If you signed up for SRECs in Ohio via the PA market, you could have earned $350-500 per year, so an additional few thousand offer to improve payback!

Seems like a panel set up that can be set vertical for winter and at an angle for the rest of the year would be a benefit.

Why no use magnifying glass 🔍 to give a boost to the solar panels?

Can you do a teardown video of a RevoPower Rebel? I've been using my rebel for 3 years and it's survived 2 hurricanes!!!! It kept my wife and daughters safe and comfortable at home during the last storm, want to see your thoughts now!

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When I lived near Sacramento in PGE territory, I had a solar system on my roof facing SSW, which skewed my output more to the afternoon, which helped with TOU billing when A/C use was highest. I had also installed it when you still got full retail for excess power sent back to the grid. I didn't pay anything for electricity for the 9 years I had the system. Have you tested tweaking orientation to maximize results based on billing rates?

You know what might be the best part? You might see much less damage from hail stones.

It's ultra cool and inventive. It serves as a proof of contemporary engineering and design excellence.

Who the hell is “off grid”? Like .001% of the population.

NEVER TIE THE NEG AND POS LINES TOGETHER

My question on the vertical panels are why side by side instead of inline, seperated by 6-10ft (guestimate) so the reflection of the western panel reflects to the back of the eastern panel in the morning and illuminats the back of the eastern panel; the reciprocal as the sun moves to the west? That gives three panels in more light throughout sunrise/sunset instead of two. And why no reflectors directing light to your fixed bifacial, south facing array? Working on a Mars habitat project with my students and we’ve shaded our panels to simulate diminished sunlight, and lower locations on Mars.

Remember "structural impediments" by a fiduciary are covered under "bait and switch" laws, and the agency that loads the regulatory code with impossible standards are mob institutions. They're not stupid, they know what they're doing (Evil not Stupid). Lobbying $$$ has made diy installs impossible in a lot of places (Ca. here), while the Indy get huge govt subsidies... $10-20K, for a weekends worth of work, just for an install ~lol-fm !

Thanks! This is a really neat solution during bush fires and such when there are longer power outages. In regard to electricity prices it has struck me peculiar that we speak of an electricity market when buildings generally only have one power line How did it happen that we now have a "market" of supply and demand? The only way would have been to have interested parties (private) encouraging governments to pass laws & regulations to create one so they could buy in. Isn't it technically a manufactures market rather than a free one? Anyway, solar is the go.

Deve I have a question.if you can help me with my power bank

Can it switch to both grid and off grid modes?

Can you install solar panels to this setup without adding anymore components?

how many people have white a white roof? not many I would hazard to guess.

What happens if you install an auto-rotating mechanism to the base? How would the performance be improved?

Happened to my unit too and its been doing it multiple times that I added an xt60 connector at the back so I can wake it up without disassembling the back part 😁 I think this is a flaw because it shouldn't discharge as fast as it should even when the unit is not turned on.

Now you are creating HOT SPOTS on your panels though. That's a thing. If it spreads over the entire surface throughout the day, it's all still good though. Great info man. OK,,, You addressed that. Should have watched to whole thing. LOL

If you start to get taxed or making power to the grid.. as of any money that would be created (unlikely to make $, for an account keeping fee of over $170 in Australia, for pulling all fuses, to not use their power, to still use an account to be asked to pay for nothing used) from the power company paying for that power is less than what people use as to pay for the power sold to them.. your going to look at getting battery's and probably to go off grid.. when their ripping people off for their own ability to make power.. to then not need those companies.. who should be paying more people to make solar electricity. Look at the proposals of it in Australia, as the test bed, for getting screwed over. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWKkqKJvfLalfpY&ab_channel=ACurrentAffair

Can i use my septic system to cool down solar panels of they are positioned in my leech field?

Can’t you just install 2 regular panels, one facing up, one down?

What if you set up a reflector on the back side of the south-facing Bifacial solar panels?

Now I need to get a setup that starts the day off vertical to the 30° and finishes the day off vertical.

STOP! I purchased this battery kit and it arrived damaged on 12/3/24. Basen Green has been difficult to work with and will not authorize a return. Even though their website says they accept returns within 30 days. I can’t recommend purchasing from this company. I have a $2k damaged battery kit that I don’t trust to use.

Setting up two small arrays, one SE and one SW.

I wonder if a couple of slightly parabolic mirrors reflecting more if the southern light onto the vertical array would improve the mid day power curve.

Odd, when I read the data from the app, it says 15 cells rather than 16. I've set it to 16 now.

I’m thinking the true benefit of vertical installation is in the shoulders. If I get 2 hours of morning sun with the rest of the day overcast and heavy rains, I might want to take advantage of that short window with vertical, properly angled panels instead of a standard south facing panel.

there is no dramatic increase in performanse rhe full video is nonsens. yes the make ~5% more if the panels are lift 2 meters over the groud in the air, aree this 5% importand onm any way if to get this is confusing stuff to do important??? no

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Dave - I'm loving this video. Maybe you're already working on this but a SE-SW split array with azimuths of 160 and 200 (just looking at Cleveland as an example since you're in Ohio). How does the production graph (as seen at 10:00) look with that kind of setup across the seasons? Again - GREAT VIDEO.

Love it . I really been wanting to buy these. They seem great

For mid day you can put reflective foils on the ground.

what did he say

They are so ugly on your roof and shout out FFR.

European style breakers allow to stick two wires in one terminal (Usually sum of those should not exceed 16² mm).

Your reflectors are relatively smooth. What happens if you introduce slight variations in the reflective surface? I'm thinking it could even out the variations in electrical output.

According to other UTube solar experts, "Solar grounding and house grounding should be isolated from each other! " Where you said they should be connected. Who is correct?

Thats for the extremely well made video; insightful

very detailed👍Seems like I still have a lot to learn💪Looking forward to your next video!

Did you account for the different sizes of the panels? it's not clear from your visualizations.

Basengreen has since added an output ON/OFF switch which cuts DC power to everything and there is now an active battery balancing module which is rated at 2A. If the active balancing is like other BMSs I've worked on it works all the time by charging up some super capacitors from the highest voltage battery and discharging it into the lowest voltage battery. So the installation method is close to how Dave did it except for a few things. The voltage sense wires go to the + terminals of the jumper bars and the balancing cable harnesses(2) connect to the - terminals and are labeled B0 - B16. Once all the balancing cables are connected, I went around and torqued all the battery terminals down but B- and B+ and then plugged in the balancing harness. The balancer will start as soon as you get the 2nd/smaller harness connected. Then it's much the same, pull out the temp sensor cables, get the front panel in place pulling the temp sensor wires out, get the front panel red wires up off the bottom for later connections. Connect the voltage sense cables, connect the B- cable/terminal and then connect the B+ cable. The wires were well protected with a sleeves this time. I'd purchased 314Ah cells and was surprised they were loose even when I put in the extra spacers and the foam sheet. I ended up laser cutting 2 squares of 3mm plywood and using that with the spacers which came with the batteries.

This is a great video, thanks for making it.

Thank you for taking the time to put these out and explain. I appreciate it

Try mirror behind the panels

Based on what it seems like the vertical solar companies are doing, it's just a thin white strip of plastic or metal. Something high albedo but not a mirror. Seems really cheap to get even 5% more power, if not more depending on how effective their solution is.

Do they have any 24v or other options for smaller setups?

Love your homemade adapter for the auger to screw. We're about to purchase a ready rack system, and wondering what size/type of pipe you used for the adapter.