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@realnealsmith2 ай бұрын
Could multiple smaller generators be used? Could one be connected to each solark generator input? I do understand this would not work for the manual bypass feed without complicated paralleling of the gens.
@snoflite52343 ай бұрын
Totally off grid is nice. I am at about 75KW with about 300KWH of battery storage. All electric house and 2 ev cars.
@curiouspeople64412 ай бұрын
🤩 how much you paid for your 300khw battery setup ? That is huge 😊
@alanmay79292 ай бұрын
@@curiouspeople6441 literaly a fortune ill say! maybe buying one of those big Hummer EVs that crashed with the 200Kwh battery pack and then using as energy storage could be amazing or quite cheap!
@ryen75122 ай бұрын
who on gods green earth needs that much power? you running a factory? lol
@snoflite52342 ай бұрын
@@ryen7512 I live in Wisconsin, we have very cold dark winter days, sometimes over 10 days in a row.
@GreenTechFusionRenewableEnergy3 ай бұрын
This is an awesome system you all! I have not done this large of a system yet but hope to inspire to get customers like this.
@SolarTechFL3 ай бұрын
Me too man
@goingagainstthegrain3 ай бұрын
Excellent job! Yes, we want to hire you for our off grid home(s.) God bless you and your family.
@MatthewYBarbo2 ай бұрын
That's one impressive looking system. Love how huge that array is! Thank you for sharing, really enjoyed!
@dragonslayer75873 ай бұрын
Wow! VERY impressive! All CME\EMP protected! Well Done!
@georgewest20963 ай бұрын
I wish we had that system!
@ejennings983 ай бұрын
Its great to see this one grow with the upgrade. Very well done!
@TheTundercat2222 ай бұрын
The largest system i ever seen clean nice work boys....
@bn-wt4or3 ай бұрын
Wow amazing work and system.
@daimonvilppu64393 ай бұрын
Beautiful!
@showaltermicro3 ай бұрын
super nice set up
@Flowing232 ай бұрын
great job
@carlosf77763 ай бұрын
Looking Great..!!!
@nulldev423 ай бұрын
I believe the Sol-Ark DIP switches are for enabling/disabling the communication bus termination resistors. The device on each end of the bus needs to be terminated and the ones in the middle don't.
@jeffmotes21292 ай бұрын
Excellent !
@SolarTechFL3 ай бұрын
Very nice system 👌
@clarencewiles9633 ай бұрын
Can I say this is huge setup
@willistisdale42932 ай бұрын
You can say it twice 😂
@maritzm3 ай бұрын
Brilliant - stunning installation!!! One request - Perspex Cover for the front of battery cables, etc. You need to see them but there are to many tangle/hook points for my liking... Not to mention the AMPS!! ;)
@lonestarmetaldetecting83183 ай бұрын
love it nice job
@dmcd73333 ай бұрын
That is the end of the world system! Very cool.
@slaveofjesus38783 ай бұрын
I'd love to see a NiFe battery system installed in a large setup. I'd be interested in performance and annualized lifetime cost along with limitations.
@awbean52543 ай бұрын
ENGINEER 775 & TEAM, GREAT UPGRADE! SCOTT, WE KNOW YOU DON’T PREFER ROOF SOLAR MOUNT, YET WITH THAT SIZE ROOF WOULD EAST & WEST ROOF MICRO INVERTER ARRAYS BE YOUR NEXT ALTERNATIVE RECOMMENDATION IF THE CUSTOMER’S LOADS ARE NOT 100% NOT BEING MET?
@kamikazekunze2 ай бұрын
I expect you can see that from space. During an apocalypse EVERYONE will storm your castle for power. 😂😂😂 love it ❤
@Pippy6262 ай бұрын
I would add a lighting rod. I have seen a lot of big solar panel arrays getting hit by lightning ⚡️ strikes.
@Chilly3833 ай бұрын
That’s amazing
@captainobvious91882 ай бұрын
Tell them to white all the ground around the panels. In my experimenting with bifacial panels that are shaded it makes a noticeable difference.
@Paulwilliams2033 ай бұрын
Not impressive but bloody impressive! Crazy amounts of power, wish I had the money to come close to this system👍🏻
@michiganengineer86213 ай бұрын
You said those were bi-facial panels in the arrays. Wouldn't it make sense for the property owner to put down some landscaper cloth covered by reflective stone under the arrays? It seems like that would be a (relatively) cheap method to boost solar production. FWIW, I've been spreading the word on r/solar to anyone in the SE US states that is interested in a pro install. May your business grow and prosper!
@kenastl3 ай бұрын
If money were no object, that is the system to get. But I am wondering for people on more of a budget, what the tradeoff that instead of trying to get 100% off grid, if you could get 90% off grid for a fraction of the cost/size of this system. And you can run the generator or grid to charge the batteries for those rare cases that make up 10% of the time.
@maverickmacgyver3 ай бұрын
Yes. That’s a great way to do it. The Sol-Ark comes with CTs (current transducers) and can zero out the incoming grid flow and then have Time of Use enabled such that you use battery capacity overnight or during clouds. The grid takes over nicely and then if the battery gets to a low enough state, the generator starts. All of the settings are programmable and adjustable.
@stevewhite57563 ай бұрын
How about a rough estimate of the total cost of this system without invading their privacy? If posable.
@diySolarPowerFunWithRay3 ай бұрын
Wow. Look great! Why do you have those 4-in nipples connecting the inverter to the wire trough? ...Wouldn't it just be easier to have the wire trough butt right up against the bottom of the inverter?
@michiganengineer86213 ай бұрын
Air flow is my first guess. Even if there AREN'T vents on the bottom of the inverter, letting air move naturally is always good. Another aspect may be future replacement in the case of failure. The 4" standoffs would give a little bit of wiggle room when setting the replacement inverter in place. That said, I think the EG4 "interconnect trough" is designed to butt up close against the bottom of their inverters.
@jamestiberiuskirk59943 ай бұрын
Are you able to say the total cost of hardware and labor? I am curious about the cost
@GRIMRPR69423 ай бұрын
After doing some research just looking at major components. The batteries are $100K, the panels/ground mounts are about $45K, and the inverters are $28K. I would add in another $25K for the smaller parts (power panel, disconnects, breakers, wiring, conduit, hardware etc.). I would say its around $200K without labor/tax/shipping.
@jamestiberiuskirk59943 ай бұрын
@@GRIMRPR6942 Thank you for the info.
@ThePirateGod3 ай бұрын
I'm wondering if you are interested in the new sodium Ion batteries compared to lithium.
@D-Khaz20 күн бұрын
I’m surprised you haven’t done anything with the newly announced Pytes Pi LV1 stacking battery. Is that thing vaporware?
@Just_An_Idea_For_Consideration3 ай бұрын
Would you detail how to bus that many batteries, and if you need fuses or disconnects etc
@troyh92233 ай бұрын
Why not use 30K's?
@engineer7753 ай бұрын
@@troyh9223 because he is single phase 120/240. The 30k is 208 three-phase. I don't think I stepped down. Transformer is the way to go. Plus the redundancy of multiple inverters brings a lot of Peace of mind
@ronjones56513 ай бұрын
Crikey! :)
@terrya64863 ай бұрын
$400 k in the system ?
@royamberg91773 ай бұрын
hot damn
@MichaelofYurtBees3 ай бұрын
Bo-staff skills.
@willistisdale42932 ай бұрын
Ninja boy
@MichaelofYurtBees2 ай бұрын
@@willistisdale4293 Napoleon Dynamite.
@willistisdale42932 ай бұрын
@@MichaelofYurtBees 😂
@abigailnumber23 ай бұрын
😳
@dc15443 ай бұрын
I do not see any auto transformers. Sol Ark doesn't have a transformer in them. To handle spikes properly some kind of transformer should be installed. For that system each inverter should have a auto transformer. Going with big systems like this why do you not use Snyder which are made for setups just like this.
@engineer7753 ай бұрын
@@dc1544 I have 158 solark inverters out there that I'm monitoring both hybrids and offgrid. The need for an auto transformer has been greatly exaggerated based on earlier models of solarks. It is absolutely not needed. The efficiency of a solark blows the doors off of any Schneider system.
@blanksender78082 ай бұрын
definitely not area code 775
@yv75842 ай бұрын
I just want to see how big their marijuana farm is?
@shephusted27143 ай бұрын
the only question is what are they doing to need so much power and off-grid means they can't sell back and recoup any of this investment - the things i see here
@rootbeer99083 ай бұрын
I don’t think they are concerned with selling the energy at all with a setup this big. They just want to be off grid on their own power and not relying on someone else.
@Ohiogrown892 ай бұрын
Some places don't offer true sell back in ohio we only are given credits against our bill no cash value so actually pointless to "sell back" I'd rather just be off grid
@crispyglove3 ай бұрын
"Aesthetically they wanted to line up the panels with the building." What kind of idiots are these people? More money than sense.
@pvbatts2 ай бұрын
In fact when it comes to property value, the aesthetics of solar add more value than the electrical savings.
@notmyname98763 ай бұрын
this is an example of why "off grid" is not real. Even with all of that... they still need a backup generator. Solar is great as long as the sun is shining. But sometimes it doesn't reliably shine for 3 or 4 days in a row, and the amount of batteries you need to operate at normal capacity for 4 days makes the entire thing a folley
@krslavin3 ай бұрын
With so much battery storage, they can also run the generator much more efficiently at around 3/4 of max load, so they don't need to run it much, or run it at night.
@careykaeding45423 ай бұрын
It’s all relative to what your needs are. This battery would power my house for like 2 weeks!
@notmyname98763 ай бұрын
@@careykaeding4542 it would not. they said it's something like 53kwh. So, unless you live in a 1 bedroom apartment, this is not powering your house for 2 weeks. just do the math. go look at your last energy bill, and divide by 30 to get the daily average. divide 53k by your daily average. that's how many days this thing will run your house.
@careykaeding45423 ай бұрын
@@notmyname9876 51v X 5600AH = 285KWh. My average daily consumption is 23kw over the last 30 days in July for my house. 285KWh / 23kw= 12.39 days give or take. That’s without sunshine.
@careykaeding45423 ай бұрын
@@notmyname9876 the 53KW you are referring to is what the panels were currently generating not total battery storage. That array will produce twice my daily consumption in 1 hour…..
@PaulBodyBuilder3 ай бұрын
Echo flow Delta Pro batteries. Up to 90 kilowatts of battery storage. What's going on ur Bigfoot channel. Wyndmoor PA USA ❤