#10 How to attach your solar array to your Airspool solar-powered air conditioner/solar minisplit

All you need to do is plug in your solar array using standard mc4 connectors and you will be up and running for your Airspool solar-powered air conditioner. We recommend approximately 1,500 watts of solar. Why? Because even though the running current may be only seven or 800 watts for much of the year, we want to be able to meet most or all of your heat load with solar on the hottest days of the year. Remember, on hot days, solar panels lose around .2% efficiency for every degree in Fahrenheit that they are above 77° Fahrenheit. And on a rooftop , the temperature may be 140° on the panels and hot regions like the Southwest. So you need to take that into account. Next, the compressor needs a lot more power in the summer to be able to have the refrigerant come into the condenser above the outside air temperature. so, maybe an efficient mini split needs a thousand or 1,100 watts on peak summer days. In the winter, there's a different set of problems. A good chunk of the photons from the sun are deflected by the atmosphere because the sun is at a lower angle of trajectory in the sky than in the summer, so there are fewer watts per square meter hitting your solar panels. so, panel up! If you are in a cooler area such as Coastal California where the temperatures don't fluctuate as much, you can get by with a bit less. #offgrid #mrcool #solarminisplit

[@wildwestunlimited]

Thank you Dave for making these videos on your Airspool Solar Mini Split AC!! I bought one about 2 to 3 weeks ago, installed it with 4 / 455 watt panels. I'm here in Mesa AZ where we've been setting HIGH heat records on a continuous basis every day, just like Vegas I'm sure.. Even in 110 PLUS degree of temp, this thing STILL pumps out COLD COLD air!!.... I have the thermostat set to 61 degrees and my master bedroom, where it's installed, it's like a meat locker in the day! I also, of course have it plugged into a wall socket and have it programed to "Limited Wattage" for grid power starting at 6:00PM when the solar panels starts to stop producing power. I also have it set to run FULL BLAST starting at around 9:00AM as soon as it starts to get full power from the sun. I just bought another one of these for my living room to do the same thing. I bought PLENTY of panels to eventually cool my entire house using quite a few these Airspool solar mini splits. My END GOAL is to have a complete inverter / battery setup to run the AC's during the night and recharging those batteries from other panels during the day. I'm 60 years of age and am doing this during the HEAT of the day. about 10 to 15 minutes at a time. I will soon have a COLD house!! I'm loving these little units and so is my wife!!

[@airspool]

Love it!

[@eitanfine5185]

Amazing

[@airspool]

Thanks, Eitan. Where are you from? How's the price of electricity there?

[@eitanfine5185]

@@airspool I am from South Africa , we have constant load shedding, overuse of power as we have many illegal foreigners in our county , lots of cable thefts . I work as an electrician for the past 25 years and have a passion for this stuff . I have embarked on an initiative to protect our substations as my volunteer work as a CPF member , community police forum . I would love to go off the grid but can’t afford it , the stuff is so expensive here and our money value is 16 to one dollar so you can imagine

[@airspool]

Well, hang tight. We'll get there. Keep your eyes out for a potential distributor for us down there ;-)

[@eitanfine5185]

@@airspool will do thanks , for sure Keep well

[@kevinmorris4560]

I'm from Jamaica, Dave does this airspool solar ac available here Jamaica ?Whats the cost