Planning ahead for expansions.

[@engineer775]

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[@realnealsmith]

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.

[@snoflite5234]

Totally off grid is nice. I am at about 75KW with about 300KWH of battery storage. All electric house and 2 ev cars.

[@curiouspeople6441]

🤩 how much you paid for your 300khw battery setup ? That is huge 😊

[@alanmay7929]

@@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!

[@ryen7512]

who on gods green earth needs that much power? you running a factory? lol

[@snoflite5234]

@@ryen7512 I live in Wisconsin, we have very cold dark winter days, sometimes over 10 days in a row.

[@GreenTechFusionRenewableEnergy]

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.

[@SolarTechFL]

Me too man

[@goingagainstthegrain]

Excellent job! Yes, we want to hire you for our off grid home(s.) God bless you and your family.

[@MatthewYBarbo]

That's one impressive looking system. Love how huge that array is! Thank you for sharing, really enjoyed!

[@dragonslayer7587]

Wow! VERY impressive! All CME\EMP protected! Well Done!

[@georgewest2096]

I wish we had that system!

[@ejennings98]

Its great to see this one grow with the upgrade. Very well done!

[@TheTundercat222]

The largest system i ever seen clean nice work boys....

[@bn-wt4or]

Wow amazing work and system.

[@daimonvilppu6439]

Beautiful!

[@showaltermicro]

super nice set up

[@Flowing23]

great job

[@carlosf7776]

Looking Great..!!!

[@nulldev42]

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.

[@jeffmotes2129]

Excellent !

[@SolarTechFL]

Very nice system 👌

[@clarencewiles963]

Can I say this is huge setup

[@willistisdale4293]

You can say it twice 😂

[@maritzm]

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!! ;)

[@lonestarmetaldetecting8318]

love it nice job

[@dmcd7333]

That is the end of the world system! Very cool.

[@slaveofjesus3878]

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.

[@awbean5254]

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?

[@kamikazekunze]

I expect you can see that from space. During an apocalypse EVERYONE will storm your castle for power. 😂😂😂 love it ❤

[@Pippy626]

I would add a lighting rod. I have seen a lot of big solar panel arrays getting hit by lightning ⚡️ strikes.

[@Chilly383]

That’s amazing

[@captainobvious9188]

Tell them to white all the ground around the panels. In my experimenting with bifacial panels that are shaded it makes a noticeable difference.

[@Paulwilliams203]

Not impressive but bloody impressive! Crazy amounts of power, wish I had the money to come close to this system👍🏻

[@michiganengineer8621]

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!

[@kenastl]

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.

[@maverickmacgyver]

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.

[@stevewhite5756]

How about a rough estimate of the total cost of this system without invading their privacy? If posable.

[@diySolarPowerFunWithRay]

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?

[@michiganengineer8621]

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.

[@jamestiberiuskirk5994]

Are you able to say the total cost of hardware and labor? I am curious about the cost

[@GRIMRPR6942]

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.

[@jamestiberiuskirk5994]

@@GRIMRPR6942 Thank you for the info.

[@ThePirateGod]

I'm wondering if you are interested in the new sodium Ion batteries compared to lithium.

[@D-Khaz]

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_Consideration]

Would you detail how to bus that many batteries, and if you need fuses or disconnects etc

[@troyh9223]

Why not use 30K's?

[@engineer775]

@@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

[@ronjones5651]

Crikey! :)

[@terrya6486]

$400 k in the system ?

[@royamberg9177]

hot damn

[@MichaelofYurtBees]

Bo-staff skills.

[@willistisdale4293]

Ninja boy

[@MichaelofYurtBees]

@@willistisdale4293 Napoleon Dynamite.

[@willistisdale4293]

@@MichaelofYurtBees 😂

[@abigailnumber2]

😳

[@dc1544]

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.

[@engineer775]

@@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.

[@blanksender7808]

definitely not area code 775

[@yv7584]

I just want to see how big their marijuana farm is?

[@shephusted2714]

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

[@rootbeer9908]

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.

[@Ohiogrown89]

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

[@crispyglove]

"Aesthetically they wanted to line up the panels with the building." What kind of idiots are these people? More money than sense.

[@pvbatts]

In fact when it comes to property value, the aesthetics of solar add more value than the electrical savings.

[@notmyname9876]

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

[@krslavin]

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.

[@careykaeding4542]

It’s all relative to what your needs are. This battery would power my house for like 2 weeks!

[@notmyname9876]

@@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.

[@careykaeding4542]

@@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.

[@careykaeding4542]

@@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…..

[@PaulBodyBuilder]

Echo flow Delta Pro batteries. Up to 90 kilowatts of battery storage. What's going on ur Bigfoot channel. Wyndmoor PA USA ❤