DIY The Cheapest Solar Panel System EVER Cheap Solar Power
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See this solar panel system with lights. Inexpensive, easy to install, reduce your power bill. Cheap Solar Power. Cheap Home System. See my part 2 video.
See this solar panel system with lights. Inexpensive, easy to install, reduce your power bill. Cheap Solar Power. Cheap Home System. See my part 2 video.
February 11th, 2010 at 12:28 pm
It is the band “the cure”
They have a ton of songs like this.
February 11th, 2010 at 12:50 pm
What music is this? I like it.
February 11th, 2010 at 1:25 pm
You will have to watch part 2 on this
video….You will be pleased to see………
February 11th, 2010 at 1:35 pm
Excellent thoughts, very cool. Only thing I see that you may want to change is how the battery vents… if it’s using the same vent as the dryer it’s potentially a fire hazard… batteries vent hydrogen, not sure you want to be supplying the hot element in your dryer with hydrogen
February 11th, 2010 at 2:20 pm
That would be fantastic!
Please send me the video!
Your system sounds fantastic don’t get discouraged!!! keep going !!
It will pay off …….rick.
February 11th, 2010 at 3:02 pm
Thanks Rick,
Right the walmart Blk&decker certainly didnt do the trick. The panels and the 2-12v setup I have running parallel seems to running okay. I’ll know more when the new inverter is in place. I’ll post a video later this week
February 11th, 2010 at 3:11 pm
Get a excellent inverter check out radio shack.
The walmart ones are not the wattage they say they are …..don’t go to harbor freight………I have a 400watt coleman that is more powerful than my 1000 watt HF…
Weird huh??? The cheap ones suck.
February 11th, 2010 at 4:03 pm
Rick,
Just a follow up I noticed that the invertor at 750w just isn’t cutting it so I may increase this to a 900w to run my sump pump and the desktop computer as well as TV. the 2-12v batteries are wired in parallel and seem to be getting a charge.
February 11th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
Rick, I bought the HF solar panel kit, awesome deal and like the thought of some of my power usage coming free. The first night for a test I was rewarded with 1-hour of TV on a 12v marine battery that wasn’t fully charged. Still like it. I have mine running a 750w inverter for AC power.
February 11th, 2010 at 6:00 pm
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February 11th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
@MrWombatPPC LOL no. really. its not a problem. you can’t say “The heat is absorbed by the huge mass of pannels. The ground below gets NONE.” at the end it’s one system. the panels can’t keep the heat forever. and they cant keep more heat energy than your car if it’ parked outside. the rest is friction. so at the end the total engergy is the same. the earth doesn’t have a problem with it. the only question still is does a panel reflect more light than the round. if yes it will be colder.
February 11th, 2010 at 6:49 pm
Simply place, don’t be crazy assed about the placement of the things. Don’t Blanket cover huge acres of land.
February 11th, 2010 at 7:25 pm
Thats one way of looking at it. But heres the right way to look at it.
The heat is absorbed by the huge mass of pannels. The ground below gets NONE.
Just like citys and towns, and the rain problem
Road are covered to the extent that no water is able to be absorbed, leading to rivers being over filled, in a storm.
So it will be with using the suns power. The earth need the light just as much as we do. (unless you place them of house roofs) which would solve the problem.
February 11th, 2010 at 8:14 pm
@MrWombatPPC no sorry. this would be against physics. if light from the sun arrives the earth it first heats the atmosphere a small and than if its reachs the ground it will heat the ground the rest get lost by reflection into space. so sun radiation= heat+reflected radiation. if we use the radiation that reaches the ground to produce energie it will still heat up the solar panel und later the cables and the rest is refelction again. so the only question is how much is refelcted?
February 11th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
I don’t reckon my longest wire is 10 feet.
Depends on what you run too.
February 11th, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Nice setup!
The only problem with running everything on DC is power loss on cables. Unless you plot on using thicker gauge cabling, its not so efficient to have lights 20 feet from the power source using DC and thin cables.
February 11th, 2010 at 10:03 pm
Yeah, I would go DC on everything I can. I really just need to power lights, cameras, and computers. I’m spending a year on an uninhabited island and need to find a excellent way to generate power.
February 11th, 2010 at 11:02 pm
Sure you could add all the batteries you can afford!! You only need an inverter if you run 120volt crap.
Run all 12volt wonderful stuff and its way more power with no waste . Thanks..rick.
February 11th, 2010 at 11:03 pm
This looks perfect for my cabin here in Alaska. Can you add more batteries? I guess you need an inverter for AC power, right?
February 11th, 2010 at 11:22 pm
Hi London1817, you are running your tv off of the panels? How is the picture and sound quality? What is the name of the inverter? I was told a cheap inverter would not run a tv…
February 11th, 2010 at 11:32 pm
My worry about the use of it is what will happen if we keep steeling it from the earth.? Its abviously going to do something. Maybee it will cool the earth.?
February 11th, 2010 at 11:59 pm
The earth receives more energy from the sun in just one hour than the world uses in a whole year.
February 12th, 2010 at 12:11 am
Thanks you soo much for saying that.
Its right I don’t have the funding like NASA and that is a excellent point.
that is an awesome cure cd. I saw them live back in 89′ they were always on the radio back then….Thanks for the comment. you made my day! ……… Rick.
February 12th, 2010 at 12:22 am
That’s a very excellent start for being able to be off grid, or to reduce the use of grid power. Some people will go to these comment sections and talk smack on somebody because they don’t have the funding that NASA, or Sandia National Labs, or others, have. I saw such a comment on this page of comments, alone. You know what? That’s a excellent start, man. I hadn’t heard that Cure song in several years, by the way. Wasn’t it off of Wish? Well, I wish you the best and stay at it. Wishes can come right.
February 12th, 2010 at 1:08 am
Ha I started looking here on youtube for laser demos and finished up here. I was hoping for a small more DIY but your video got me thinking and after just buying a ton of LEDs from ebay real cheap, turns out solar cells are pretty cheap there too.
Now I’m thinking of how to make my room solar powered. We rent so just doing a few lights and stuff would probably be about all I could do for now. Or I could get all crazy and make all my stuff run off DC =p