14 Days No Sun,5 Days with Sun Merry Christmas!

[@iiinsaiii]

This is the reason I tell people that you need a plan B or C to charge your system when there’s no sun and have enough gas, diesel or propane to keep your generator running.

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@iiinsaiii always need a backup for your backup

[@ChrisUens]

Merry Christmas to you and the Family

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@ChrisUens merry Christmas, thanks for sticking around !

[@jeffouellette9946]

I might be interested in that tank. Of course if you need you need.

[@JustinCaseSolarPower]

Happy holidays, my friend. Can't knock the snow off them like that with the non-reflective coating the Australian panels are meant to have. You use a lot of fuel. I guess that is the cost off grid in Canada. Keep well my friend 😉

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@JustinCaseSolarPower yes unfortunately it's not as solar friendly here..

[@randylenart9674]

Merry Christmas and a good thing your panels aren't on your roof

[@harold.one.feather]

In northern South Dakota, enjoyed two days of sunlight, batteries charged, 200 watts of solar panel lol lol lol

[@GoingOffGrid101]

hey thats great any system is better then no system!

[@craigfietsam2723]

Merry Christmas!

[@muhammedalzadjali2524]

In snowy regions, on ground mounts, Bifacial solar panels are more beneficial since the ambient reflecting light from snow helps to produce a lot more electricity in low light and short days.

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@muhammedalzadjali2524 I'd love to get some!

[@frankz1125]

Merry Christmas brother

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@frankz1125 merry Christmas!

[@korishan]

This goes to show how latitude makes a HUGE difference. I had this almost exact same kind of overcast past couple days, and I was able to get 200-300W of power generation from the panels at 10am. That angle of attack of the light coming thru makes a big difference.

[@offgridwanabe]

Yes it has been cruel this year I believe you got more sun than we did lol and we got about 7 feet of snow herein Muskoka. We had a run of no power and I burnt up a bunch of propane which made me wonder how much you burnt being off grid. Take care brother the days are getting longer now. Merry Christmas

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@offgridwanabe o yeah, that was nuts , glad your ok

[@TheKiloG69]

Quite to set up merry Christmas to you all.😊

[@mrbill8542]

Ever thought about adding a wind generator for those cloudy days ??!!

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@mrbill8542 I did, just not sure witch one to get

[@northidahodreaming5657]

Enjoyed seeing your setup. I'm fully off grid, just south of the BC border. I charge my batteries with a gasoline generator 9KW Champion burning about one gallon (3.8 liters) per hour. Looks like your diesel is a 11kw. I've been wishing or wondering if a diesel generator is more fuel efficient than my gasoline generator. Have you an idea about your fuel consumption? Thanks for the video

[@GoingOffGrid101]

ill have to do a test, but its much cheaper then my champion 7k running and 9k surge

[@bobmonztr]

Last year 105 days with 20 hours of sun. This year November 7 39.5kw then 1 hour of sun on Dec 18, I gave up and put 6kw of gen charge everyday under 7kw pv 100% 120v with hungry electric heat only. I have a 123g lpg next year getting a 500gal then refill once a year. I would have to get 20kw of solar to not have a gen 11.6kw now. Not sure how it is there but I am 17c warmer than average this winter. I have my panels vertical I had to clean them once due to snow drifts. Wild voltage there, full is 51.6v for me, winter 46 to 48.4V, lead carbon so they don't mind PSOC for 30 days. Good to see someone who has enough fuel and back up to survive these grey days. I did the old fill up gas cans for a month and switched to LPG. happy holidays.

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@bobmonztr yes last year was very hard. I'm hoping this year is better. I just upped my generator charging to 6kw.

[@bobmonztr]

@@GoingOffGrid101 I might sell my back up 5kw gas and get a 13kw lpg make the 9kw the back up then charge at 10kw gen run time 35 mins maybe. I put 2kw of heat on with the gen so I only charge at 80A 4.2kw. I only use 6200w for a smooth 60hrz.

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@bobmonztr thats a nice size, 11kw is the smallest I would go.

[@bobmonztr]

@@GoingOffGrid101 When I bought the 9kw I had no idea how much it was needed in this overcast nightmare.

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@bobmonztr yea it will get better half way through January.

[@jeffouellette9946]

You still need to build a faraday cage for everything. And make sure you have some backup solar panels somewhere stored away. Cuz when it comes it's going to come. It's going to take everybody s*** out. As a matter of fact I would not have all you have wired because if it takes something it's going to take it all if it's all wired up.

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@jeffouellette9946 I have some backup in my house, bad cell phone signal in my house. I have a rebuild kit for the genetry solar inverter in a Faraday bag.

[@josephshantimba8124]

Here in Africa we have sun all year round

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@josephshantimba8124 that would be amazing for solar!

[@korishan]

Get you some "Child Safety Plug Covers" put on your genny plugs to keep those mud-dobbers out of those holes 😜🤣

[@GoingOffGrid101]

good idea! thank you.

[@solarcharging9743]

Very smart choice to using US-made, Magnum Energy low frequency, transformer-based inverters instead of those cheap, short lived, high frequency, transformerless XP inverters that everyone is pushing.

[@GoingOffGrid101]

im very happy with them so far. I have the HF in my travel trailer and it is around 4 years old and working good so far :)

[@offgridinthepacificnorthwe3210]

Ruff time of the year for us. No sun for going on 3 weeks. December is for burning diesel. It warmed up and rained on the snow. The ground thawed and the roads are a disaster. I am down with the flu so we will not be able to see family this year. That said I am thankful we celebrate The Light of The World on the darkest days of the year. Mic. 5:2 “But you, Bethlehem Ephrathah, [Though] you are little among the thousands of Judah, [Yet] out of you shall come forth to Me The One to be Ruler in Israel, Whose goings forth [are] from of old, From everlasting.” 3 Therefore He shall give them up, Until the time [that] she who is in labor has given birth; Then the remnant of His brethren Shall return to the children of Israel. 4 And He shall stand and feed [His flock] In the strength of the LORD, In the majesty of the name of the LORD His God; And they shall abide, For now He shall be great To the ends of the earth; 5 And this [One] shall be peace. Isa. 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. 7 Of the increase of [his] government and peace [there shall be] no end, upon the throne of David, and upon his kingdom, to order it, and to establish it with judgment and with justice from henceforth even for ever. The zeal of the LORD of hosts will perform this. Mt 1:23 “Behold, the virgin shall be with child, and bear a Son, and they shall call His name Immanuel,” which is translated, “God with us.” John 8:12 ¶ Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” Merry Christmas my friend.

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@offgridinthepacificnorthwe3210 I'm sorry that your bot feeling well. I'll keep you in my prayers. Thank you for those beautiful verse.

[@rafalklepinski7372]

Merry Christmas! Just curious, what percentage of power of their rated capacity do the panels generate in weather like this, assuming they're uncovered from snow? I'm sure it's not absolute zero but I suspect something like 1% to 5%?

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@rafalklepinski7372 yeah around 5% - 10%

[@korishan]

Why don't you use a 50gallon/190L barrel to transport to get fuel? You could even set up a switching valve with your tank pump so that you can drop a hose in the barrel and use the pump to refuel the storage tank from the transferring barrel.

[@GoingOffGrid101]

I might one day. would be nice to have one.

[@korishan]

@@GoingOffGrid101 They don't have barrel/drums for transporting large quantities of oils up there where you are?? That'd be weird if not. You could use any oil barrel really as that's fine for use in diesels.

[@rolc8272]

Most legal way, is a tank in the truck bed like they use on construction sites. I have modified A furnace Oil tank and layed it on its side with 3inch square tubing Welded On the bottom.... then I could unload it with a tow motor. And sits low profile in the truck bed...

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@rolc8272 interesting, I like the idea.

[@44samul]

Can you do a video about the whole system?

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@44samul yes I can

[@jeffouellette9946]

You still need to build a faraday cage for everything. And make sure you have some backup solar panels somewhere stored away. Cuz when it comes it's going to come. It's going to take everybody s*** out. As a matter of fact I would not have all you have wired because if it takes something it's going to take it all if it's all wired up. I'm getting ready to buy a whole bunch of stuff myself and I'm going to make sure that not anything is going to be wired up all the time. And I'm not so sure about all them gadgets that you can purchase the ground to all these electronics that it's all going to work. If they ain't testing it I ain't buying it. Of course it's all about Jesus Christ at the end of the day.

[@jeffouellette9946]

Yep this is when the generator comes into play.

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@jeffouellette9946 and the $ lol

[@markschuette3770]

yes- this climate change is putting more water /clouds into the atmosfere and killing the ability of the PV system to make electricity!!!! here cental Oregon its the same!

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@markschuette3770 it's like this almost every December

[@royamberg9177]

how about wind do you get wind there

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@royamberg9177 sometimes, might get one.

[@fahrimertdincer8421]

not gust bout consistent wind youmay need 48v wind turbine and 12v charge controler for that and a boost charger to charge 24-48v system so wind turbine can charge at lower wind speeds as a trick

[@royamberg9177]

not much to choose from but it does help​@@GoingOffGrid101

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@@royamberg9177 what would you buy ?

[@peteasmr2952]

Merry Christmas!

[@GoingOffGrid101]

@peteasmr2952 and Merry Christmas to you