DIY 3KW OFFGRID FULL SYSTEM TOUR.

[@suekelleher2786]

Brilliant, good luck with the upgrade, be interesting to see the wind power working 👍😊

[@ourkilkennyhomestead2006]

Thank you! Aiming to get both turbines up and running again very soon.

[@nhikoid]

Really nice video. Look forward to seeing new system underway.

[@ourkilkennyhomestead2006]

Thanks so much. It'll take a few months before it's fully finished but you it's going to be epic.

[@morrigans_cottage]

Really excited to see the change to off grid :) I'm hopeful that in the next 2-3 years I'll be shifting to off grid electrics too

[@ourkilkennyhomestead2006]

Cheers, hope it's useful info for your journey at the cottage.

[@hoax8760]

Great Video/ Info cheers

[@ourkilkennyhomestead2006]

Hi, Glad it was useful, thanks for staying with us 👍

[@hedfuka8608]

Good luck with the rebuild,thanks for the tour..👍

[@ourkilkennyhomestead2006]

Cheers, thanks for tuning in. Looking forward to the build, it's going to be done properly this time.

[@leehill7711]

Good evening, I've only recently discovered your channel, i must say your doing a grand job. I'm up in county sligo trying to do the same, albeit on my own 😁. i don't need as much power ( i hope ) really interesting tour thank you for sharing, I'll certainly be looking at your recommendations. I'm an engineer by trade now a woodworker but have spent the last 30 year's learning as many skills as i can to fulfill my goal of self sufficiency, I'm determined to recycle, reclaim and repurpose as much as possible in my efforts to achieve the end results, going pretty good so far, very long day's, sometimes hard work but the satisfaction is immeasurable. Would be great to bump into you one day. Take care and all the best. Can't wait for the next video.

[@ourkilkennyhomestead2006]

Fantastic stuff! It's a slow process but stick with it and the results will come. To find exactly how much power you need to build a system for, simply take the unit consumption on your bill divided by the amount of days in the billing period to get your daily production target. Thanks for joining the channel, glad to have you with us, best of luck and best wishes on your own homestead in the making 👍

[@suekelleher2786]

Great, go for it! 👍

[@daco8367]

How far along are you on your journey to being completely off grid . Iam in mayo and we have been fully off grid from the start . We have never had a esb connection on site . Its not a monster size house but still serves 9 people who live in it with its 6 bedrooms . Theres 4 teenage girls which do have a higher energy demand the boys do (sorry girls but it's true ) . . Anyway All our power is harvest from 575w panels 29 of them in total faceing east South and west to capture The sun from morning to evening the South ones do most of the work really but its nice to be able to start getting some power back into the bank early and the added peace in the evening of still being able to run of the sun is grate before the night sets in . For the electric components were using victron energy equipment as we found the cheap stuff a disaster and being full off grid we dont have the luxury to flip a switch And back onto mains esb . Then we also run a midnite classic mppt as they offer a solution for wind and with the hyper voc its suitable for the type of turbines we build for ourself and our customers

[@mudislander864]

Hi, dont be mistaken with a 48 volt system. I have 3x 5.5kw kw hybrid inverters parallel setup and 15kw of solar and two pylons 10kw. Yes they can kick out some good power and on most rainy cloudy days they still able to bring in 600 watts per hour dealing with the Irish weather. December and January where I am was trying. Some days only 13 watts coming off each solar array. I purchased an Ista breeze 2000 48volt for a 220 amp lead acid bank I have, haven't connected my wind turbine yet. I split my solar system so I could use my lead acid bank and increase my power. This worked great as my batteries the pylons weren't get up to full charge. Running two battery banks we able to give the batteries a break to catch up and instead of only 50% we can get up to 90%. Each system works differently depending where you are and having to many batteries and not enough solar to charge doesn't help either. Another point I will note on the inverters themselves draw power too and at night up to 1kw of power during the dark hours. Switching 2 to standby, only Mppt mode helps with saving battery power. We looking at buying another 8 pylon 5000 so we should suffer to much this coming winter and we can throw the wasted power from the inverter draw.Wind we have lots of and this coming winter should be different. Regardless good luck

[@ourkilkennyhomestead2006]

Some great information there. Great to hear some real world experience as not many have it, and that's a fact. How do you find the pylon techs compared to the lead acids? They seem pretty good but the price is the big put off. There seems to be a growing support for running parallel battery banks for built in redundancy when the inevitable problems occur. Sounds like you've discovered that yourselves and it sounds like it works better too. Have to say your setup sounds fantastic, best of luck with it and thanks for checking out our little channel. 👍

[@mudislander864]

Both banks work well. You can get pylons for €1500 delivered to Ireland from Nkon. Cheaper than my 8 golf cart battries €1600 from battery world Ireland. Pylons have full 200 amps in the bank where as the lead acid is 225 amps but only 100 usable. So cost wise its worth it. If you can, buy a hybrid 48volt system that you can build on and add parallel units. That way you can build up over time and don't need to replace the system. As for battries we save, you buy one now another when you can afford it. Carry on using the lead acids, they work well in the cold, pylons don't like cold weather is my only gripe with Lithuims.They can drop their voltage. My system is in a shed and insulating will take care of that problem.

[@mudislander864]

Sorry must correct. Pylons 5000 are 100 amps each I was refuring to my two batteries and compared to the lead acid they both supply the same. One batter compaired to 8 batteries and call it same price

[@jean-paulcastellano9589]

48 V makes sense especially to reduce the sise of the copper wire (the energy lost on the copper wire is proportional to current square). 24 V works fine but big copper, big circuit breaker and so one due to high intensity ==> more expensif and more energy lost Note: No need to have 2 paralel electrical circuit. The Grid goes to the Conversal converter and the Conversal converter takes care of isolating the Solar from the Grid (You would need of course an Off-Grid type Conversal). In case of converter break down risk, you could add a switch upfront to move back to the grid. Easy enought to achieve with the help of an electrician. For full off-grid, I beleive a generator is still needed, especially arround christmass. The only added value of wind turbine(s) would be only arround christmass when the sun is very low and lots of clouds

[@ourkilkennyhomestead2006]

Hello Jean-Paul, Yep, you're spot on, great info there. We're planning on using a big old fashioned manual transfer switch to seperate the off grid from on grid while using the original building circuits. The seperate socket setup was a novice solution to avoid hiring an electrician. It's going to be interesting getting the 24v turbines to run on 48 without having to spin at Mach 2. Thanks as always for tuning in, hope all is well.

[@MrPadraigmccarthy]

So you claim you need 16kw per day, that's a reasonable amount power. Are you currently achieving that daily with solar and wind. I don't see how you can and will go fully off grid.. your connected to the esb so you will always have an annual standing charge and as your in the country it will be slightly greater than people living in urban areas... Your best option in my opinion is to cover your roof with panels or wherever south is tie it into the grid with batteries. You can can micro manage your system to be about 90% of grid.. you can also export the excess and get paid accumulated credit in your account...

[@ourkilkennyhomestead2006]

Hello Pádraig. I dont claim, I know. That's our daily usage according to our bill and meter reading. It would be the worst idea in our opinion to stay tied to the grid. Why export power offsite only to re import it a few hours later for a handling fee. Half the point also is to innovate and there's absolutely no obligation to stay connected to mains or contract once what can be generated on site exceeds requirements. Simply put, why export when you can store? We'll have to agree to disagree on this one but each to their own 👍

[@MrPadraigmccarthy]

@ourkilkennyhomestead2006 Unfortunately you will always have a standing charge.. they can legally turn you off at your request. But as the metre is on your property but it's there property you will have a standing charge. I don't disagree with you at all by any means. You know your household and stats better than anyone... I look forward to following your new project and seeing how it goes..

[@ourkilkennyhomestead2006]

@@MrPadraigmccarthy You're 100% correct there. The ownership of the meter is an interesting conundrum that will have to be figured out for sure. There's not much in the way of precedent in these matters unfortunately apart from word of mouth or 2nd hand stories. With that said it'll be 6 months or so before we know the capabilities of this next stage and where to go from there. Thanks for the very valid question and for tuning in. 👍