That garage being 78 degrees when it's a 110 degrees outside with all those battery's and inverters running. That's impressive! I am in Fl. and I know how these garages get this time of year. Does keeping the garage cool take pressure off the rest of the house? Your system is really amazing! I like how you showed the wiring to us really quite easy to understand. Most content providers don't do that so thank you!
The garage is below upstairs bedrooms, so keeping it cool , keeps the upstairs cool. There is a 2 foot gap between garage ceiling and upstairs floor for running ductwork for hvac. I insulated my garage door with 2 inch rigid foal insulation and my west wall as well. I had another 12000 btu mini split in garage that was able with that running, got the garage down to 68-70 degrees while 110 out. But I gave that one away. Keeping the garage cool helps with keeping the rest of house cool but I mainly air condition the garage because of the inverters producing heat and when we pull cars in the garage that we’re driving in that 110 degrees heat. That 18,000 btu really does a good job keeping garage cool, I like to run it in the turbo mode. I bought that at Home Depot around 2 years ago. It was in stock at store and they still stock these mini splits. But I found you can buy a 18,000 btu mini split on eBay for about 1/2 the price as Home Depot. As low as $600. That’s an excellent price. Any mini split over 12,000 btu will be 230 volts. But you can get 12,000 btu mini splits in 110 volt option. Thank you for your comment. I do these videos to show how easy it is to do off grid solar. We have over 320 days of sunshine in Phoenix AZ. You have cloudy days in Florida so using mono panels would be preferably over poly solar panels. I just bought 400 watt bifacial solar panels that can go to 500 watts total with backside solar gain. I’m getting around 400 watts per panel consistently. Works so much better on cloudy days compared to poly solar panels. I just bought 9- 365 mono used solar panels for $22 each that have slight frame damage to see how well they will do on my 3000 watt EG4 inverter. 4 of those are actually bifacial solar panels. The 12 used 335 watt mono solar panels are preforming well with 2800 watts on one 3000 watt EG4 off grid inverter. Should be able to get 12,000 watts output here soon, I will be able to try my pool electric heat pump pool heater to cool my pool water when it goes over 89 degrees. That uses 7500 watts or more especially when 110 degrees out. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.
I really liked your presentation in this video. You were concise and easy to understand. I was wondering if you’re totally off grid and if you ever worry about firmware updates if there is ever a major grid down occurrence? Also, would you recommend not going with the Growatt systems using the EG4’s for all of your system instead if you had to do this all over again? I subscribed. Thank you.
Hi, thank you for you watching and liking the video. My systems are completely off grid. I don’t worry about firm ware updates, there are videos out there that show you how to update if needed. So far no need to update inverters. Been working flawlessly since I installed with no problems at all. The EG4 is better than the Growatt inverter in almost every way. It’s a great inverter but I prefer the EG4 inverters. If I had to do it over, I would settle with all EG4 products and call it a day. Extremely reliable and easy to install and connect. Great customer service at Signature Solar, answer all your questions. I love the EG4 system I have now and am debating on removing Growatt inverters off wall and selling. Growatt is a very reliable product for certain applications like out in the field away from everything and can replace circuit boards easily. But for home or cabin I would use EG4. Let me know if you have more questions. Hope you have a wonderful and extremely blessed week.
Great video. I want to learn solar and i have a small project : put my pool motor(230/115)/pump off the grid. Do you have a recommendation of the most cost effective way to doit?
@@alexherrera3918 solar requires basic 4 components, there is more to solar off grid but just pricing, solar panels, wires, inverter and batteries. You will need 10AWG solar wire to run from solar panels to inverter, you will need at least 2AWG stranded flexible wire from inverter to battery. You will also need 2 dc breakers. I between battery and inverter and one between solar panels and inverter. A basic system at minimum would be around $2000-$3000, that’s just a basic system with just a few solar panels. You can save money buying used solar panels it warranty is usually a year at best. Research more and you will find out you can do so much with off grid solar. Watch my newer videos to see all the large draw equipment I run off grid. Hope this helps. Signature Solar sells kits to start out that you can expand later, like the EG4 3000 watt off grid inverter is expandable and can run 120/240 volts with 2 inverters in parallel. Hope you have a truly blessed day
@@videoforgeeks my system over 4 years is around $20,000, that is including inverters and batteries I gave away to family and inverters I no longer use. With just the saving on air conditioning and running my pool pump and 5 freezers and a fridge 24/7, it has paid itself off. My electric bill would be around $1000 a month in the summer if I had to pay for all the electric I use. I actually use a lot more electric now than before installing off grid solar. My winter bills would be around $400-$500 a month if I had to pay for all I am using. My electric bill averages around $130 a month. Before we use to keep ac at 83-85 in day and 78-80 at night. Now the house and garage and between 65 and 72 degrees in the day and around 68-72 at night. I have way more than what I need because I am constantly changing the arrays to see what position on solar panels is the most efficient at different times of the year. I can even heat my pool. I did off grid solar because I was curious if I could run a small ac with solar. I was able to run window ac with solar in the beginning. I also installed 6 mini splits in house and garage. Mini splits use a lot less power than traditional ducted heat pumps so I ran mini splits instead of my main 2 heat pumps to air condition the house. Now I use my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton ac to air condition my house and a heat pump in the garage. Together the upstairs 3 1/2 ton and downstairs 4 ton heat pump use around 6000-7500 watts. But I can cool whole house down very fast. If I had to just buy what I need to run mini splits alone, it would be 1/2 the price as running my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton ac. We run the upstairs 3 1/2 ton ac 24 hours a day on solar during the day and battery bank at night. 4 EG4 3000 watt inverters are $3000, each server rack battery is around $1200 plus freight ($250), same freight wether you buy one or 6 batteries so cheaper to buy all at once. You save freight cost on 5 batteries versus ordering individually and paying for freight each time. Circuit panel main breaker is around $200, wire is around $200-$400, I bought most solar panels used for $18-$22 for about half and around $30-$40 for other half locally. I bought new bifacial solar panels $120 each, 10 total plus freight. I bought 2- 12,000 watt Growatt inverters that I don’t use anymore, those were around $1500 each plus freight. I will have everything on this 4- EG4 inverter system soon. I chose to invest in solar and do it myself. If I had to pay someone to install everything, it would have cost me 2-3 times the price. The only way to do off grid solar affordable is to DIY. After 4 years, my system has paid itself back in savings on electric bill and I will be able to produce free electric for next 10-20 years. I bought components usually one at a time and put on credit where I got 6 or 12 months no interest and paid them off on time. Most solar products are no sales tax. I don’t need to buy anything else to keep producing off grid solar and have around 35 extra solar panels as back up. The 2 Growatt inverters I can use as backup and I can buy replacement boards if circuit boards go bad. Off grid solar is an investment. I also had to run 10-2 or 12-2 AWG wire from breaker panel to each individual ac I run and pool pump and pool heater. Everything I run that uses 10 amps or more has a dedicated line from breaker panel to component. That is a cost as well. I look at as I could have spent money on vacations or clothes or cars or I did not spend that money for 4-5 years and used that money to buy solar products. I just traded what I was spending my money on. I am retired and not having to worry about electric bills around $1000 in the summer. My electric bill in summer is around $150-$160 and around $80-$120 in the winter. A propane generator requires heavy tanks being refilled, once your solar is installed, you do not have to refill anything. Also solar is extremely quite outside and inside your house. EG4 inverters make very little noise with the cooling fans. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have more questions. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed week
I’m not sure how much a single portable propane generator is, I would think maybe above $5000-$7000, but not as reliable as solar. I have a 4500 watt propane generator on my motor home that was new in 2015. It is finicky and if you do not start like every week or every 2 weeks, it may not start. I replace the carburetor and change oil filter and air filter and it still will give my trouble trying to start and sometimes does not want to stay running with a load. Solar is much more reliable. You use it every single day of the year. I live in Southwest Phoenix and I get 320 day a year of pure sunshine so it was a great investment for me. If you live in an area that gets a lot of cloudy and it rainy days, solar will not do well on those days, you might only get 10-30 percent of solar panel input. My propane generator is the top brand for motor homes but still I would not consider reliable. Keep that in mind.
Thank you, I already had purchased 7 -12 volt batteries in the past so I just use those. They are already paid for. But I love the EG4 batteries, I have 9-52.1 volt server rack batteries
Who did you order these units from? I ordered mine almost a month ago. I’ve had shipping label created for over a week. Yeah no updated tracking and Solar sovereign is giving me the runaround.
I buy almost all my products from Signature solar in Texas, links in the description in my videos. I buy used solar panels from Santan Sloar in Gilbert AZ. The mono used solar panels are a better deal signature solars orders are usually delivered within 5-10 days and always have tracking numbers you can actually track. Outstanding customer service at every level.
@@diy-solar-guy strange because Solar sovereign is affiliated with signature Solar however I’ve been getting the complete runaround. Finally got an email today from signature saying that they will look into it Monday.
@@jglassman1122 might want to buy from Signature solar directly in Sulphur Springs Texas. Why go through a middle man and wait forever for your order. Never had a problem with over 40 orders with them.
@@diy-solar-guy I had done my research prior and Review said that they were shipped from signature Solar in signature Solar boxes and the company shows the same address so I thought it was safe said their normal shipping times are 2 to 3 days for in stock items. once I saw they had the memorial day deal with free shipping. It was a no-brainer for me but lesson learned and the bummer is now signature. Solar shows that they’re on pre-order not available till August.
@@jglassman1122 I’m so sorry to hear that. I bought new and refurbished EG4 3000 watt inverters. Refurbished was $250 off regular price with all the parts in box. Hope you order gets to you soon.
That garage being 78 degrees when it's a 110 degrees outside with all those battery's and inverters running. That's impressive! I am in Fl. and I know how these garages get this time of year. Does keeping the garage cool take pressure off the rest of the house? Your system is really amazing! I like how you showed the wiring to us really quite easy to understand. Most content providers don't do that so thank you!
The garage is below upstairs bedrooms, so keeping it cool , keeps the upstairs cool. There is a 2 foot gap between garage ceiling and upstairs floor for running ductwork for hvac. I insulated my garage door with 2 inch rigid foal insulation and my west wall as well. I had another 12000 btu mini split in garage that was able with that running, got the garage down to 68-70 degrees while 110 out. But I gave that one away. Keeping the garage cool helps with keeping the rest of house cool but I mainly air condition the garage because of the inverters producing heat and when we pull cars in the garage that we’re driving in that 110 degrees heat. That 18,000 btu really does a good job keeping garage cool, I like to run it in the turbo mode. I bought that at Home Depot around 2 years ago. It was in stock at store and they still stock these mini splits. But I found you can buy a 18,000 btu mini split on eBay for about 1/2 the price as Home Depot. As low as $600. That’s an excellent price. Any mini split over 12,000 btu will be 230 volts. But you can get 12,000 btu mini splits in 110 volt option. Thank you for your comment. I do these videos to show how easy it is to do off grid solar. We have over 320 days of sunshine in Phoenix AZ. You have cloudy days in Florida so using mono panels would be preferably over poly solar panels. I just bought 400 watt bifacial solar panels that can go to 500 watts total with backside solar gain. I’m getting around 400 watts per panel consistently. Works so much better on cloudy days compared to poly solar panels. I just bought 9- 365 mono used solar panels for $22 each that have slight frame damage to see how well they will do on my 3000 watt EG4 inverter. 4 of those are actually bifacial solar panels. The 12 used 335 watt mono solar panels are preforming well with 2800 watts on one 3000 watt EG4 off grid inverter. Should be able to get 12,000 watts output here soon, I will be able to try my pool electric heat pump pool heater to cool my pool water when it goes over 89 degrees. That uses 7500 watts or more especially when 110 degrees out. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.
I really liked your presentation in this video. You were concise and easy to understand. I was wondering if you’re totally off grid and if you ever worry about firmware updates if there is ever a major grid down occurrence? Also, would you recommend not going with the Growatt systems using the EG4’s for all of your system instead if you had to do this all over again? I subscribed. Thank you.
Hi, thank you for you watching and liking the video. My systems are completely off grid. I don’t worry about firm ware updates, there are videos out there that show you how to update if needed. So far no need to update inverters. Been working flawlessly since I installed with no problems at all. The EG4 is better than the Growatt inverter in almost every way. It’s a great inverter but I prefer the EG4 inverters. If I had to do it over, I would settle with all EG4 products and call it a day. Extremely reliable and easy to install and connect. Great customer service at Signature Solar, answer all your questions. I love the EG4 system I have now and am debating on removing Growatt inverters off wall and selling. Growatt is a very reliable product for certain applications like out in the field away from everything and can replace circuit boards easily. But for home or cabin I would use EG4. Let me know if you have more questions. Hope you have a wonderful and extremely blessed week.
You are obvious well versed in Solar and it shows.ó
Thank you, self taught over last 4 years. Some by trail and error. But a lot of fun along the way.
Great video. I want to learn solar and i have a small project : put my pool motor(230/115)/pump off the grid. Do you have a recommendation of the most cost effective way to doit?
@@alexherrera3918 solar requires basic 4 components, there is more to solar off grid but just pricing, solar panels, wires, inverter and batteries. You will need 10AWG solar wire to run from solar panels to inverter, you will need at least 2AWG stranded flexible wire from inverter to battery. You will also need 2 dc breakers. I between battery and inverter and one between solar panels and inverter. A basic system at minimum would be around $2000-$3000, that’s just a basic system with just a few solar panels. You can save money buying used solar panels it warranty is usually a year at best. Research more and you will find out you can do so much with off grid solar. Watch my newer videos to see all the large draw equipment I run off grid. Hope this helps. Signature Solar sells kits to start out that you can expand later, like the EG4 3000 watt off grid inverter is expandable and can run 120/240 volts with 2 inverters in parallel. Hope you have a truly blessed day
@@diy-solar-guy thanks for the response, i am a subscribed, i will check those new videos. thanks again!!
@@alexherrera3918 feel free to ask more questions
What is ur break even on ur setup total cost...vs a single 12k portable propane gen?
@@videoforgeeks my system over 4 years is around $20,000, that is including inverters and batteries I gave away to family and inverters I no longer use. With just the saving on air conditioning and running my pool pump and 5 freezers and a fridge 24/7, it has paid itself off. My electric bill would be around $1000 a month in the summer if I had to pay for all the electric I use. I actually use a lot more electric now than before installing off grid solar. My winter bills would be around $400-$500 a month if I had to pay for all I am using. My electric bill averages around $130 a month. Before we use to keep ac at 83-85 in day and 78-80 at night. Now the house and garage and between 65 and 72 degrees in the day and around 68-72 at night. I have way more than what I need because I am constantly changing the arrays to see what position on solar panels is the most efficient at different times of the year. I can even heat my pool. I did off grid solar because I was curious if I could run a small ac with solar. I was able to run window ac with solar in the beginning. I also installed 6 mini splits in house and garage. Mini splits use a lot less power than traditional ducted heat pumps so I ran mini splits instead of my main 2 heat pumps to air condition the house. Now I use my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton ac to air condition my house and a heat pump in the garage. Together the upstairs 3 1/2 ton and downstairs 4 ton heat pump use around 6000-7500 watts. But I can cool whole house down very fast. If I had to just buy what I need to run mini splits alone, it would be 1/2 the price as running my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton ac. We run the upstairs 3 1/2 ton ac 24 hours a day on solar during the day and battery bank at night. 4 EG4 3000 watt inverters are $3000, each server rack battery is around $1200 plus freight ($250), same freight wether you buy one or 6 batteries so cheaper to buy all at once. You save freight cost on 5 batteries versus ordering individually and paying for freight each time. Circuit panel main breaker is around $200, wire is around $200-$400, I bought most solar panels used for $18-$22 for about half and around $30-$40 for other half locally. I bought new bifacial solar panels $120 each, 10 total plus freight. I bought 2- 12,000 watt Growatt inverters that I don’t use anymore, those were around $1500 each plus freight. I will have everything on this 4- EG4 inverter system soon. I chose to invest in solar and do it myself. If I had to pay someone to install everything, it would have cost me 2-3 times the price. The only way to do off grid solar affordable is to DIY. After 4 years, my system has paid itself back in savings on electric bill and I will be able to produce free electric for next 10-20 years. I bought components usually one at a time and put on credit where I got 6 or 12 months no interest and paid them off on time. Most solar products are no sales tax. I don’t need to buy anything else to keep producing off grid solar and have around 35 extra solar panels as back up. The 2 Growatt inverters I can use as backup and I can buy replacement boards if circuit boards go bad. Off grid solar is an investment. I also had to run 10-2 or 12-2 AWG wire from breaker panel to each individual ac I run and pool pump and pool heater. Everything I run that uses 10 amps or more has a dedicated line from breaker panel to component. That is a cost as well. I look at as I could have spent money on vacations or clothes or cars or I did not spend that money for 4-5 years and used that money to buy solar products. I just traded what I was spending my money on. I am retired and not having to worry about electric bills around $1000 in the summer. My electric bill in summer is around $150-$160 and around $80-$120 in the winter. A propane generator requires heavy tanks being refilled, once your solar is installed, you do not have to refill anything. Also solar is extremely quite outside and inside your house. EG4 inverters make very little noise with the cooling fans. Hope this helps. Let me know if you have more questions. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed week
I’m not sure how much a single portable propane generator is, I would think maybe above $5000-$7000, but not as reliable as solar. I have a 4500 watt propane generator on my motor home that was new in 2015. It is finicky and if you do not start like every week or every 2 weeks, it may not start. I replace the carburetor and change oil filter and air filter and it still will give my trouble trying to start and sometimes does not want to stay running with a load. Solar is much more reliable. You use it every single day of the year. I live in Southwest Phoenix and I get 320 day a year of pure sunshine so it was a great investment for me. If you live in an area that gets a lot of cloudy and it rainy days, solar will not do well on those days, you might only get 10-30 percent of solar panel input. My propane generator is the top brand for motor homes but still I would not consider reliable. Keep that in mind.
eg4 12v 400ah server rack batteries now available
Thank you, I already had purchased 7 -12 volt batteries in the past so I just use those. They are already paid for. But I love the EG4 batteries, I have 9-52.1 volt server rack batteries
Who did you order these units from? I ordered mine almost a month ago. I’ve had shipping label created for over a week. Yeah no updated tracking and Solar sovereign is giving me the runaround.
I buy almost all my products from Signature solar in Texas, links in the description in my videos. I buy used solar panels from Santan Sloar in Gilbert AZ. The mono used solar panels are a better deal signature solars orders are usually delivered within 5-10 days and always have tracking numbers you can actually track. Outstanding customer service at every level.
@@diy-solar-guy strange because Solar sovereign is affiliated with signature Solar however I’ve been getting the complete runaround. Finally got an email today from signature saying that they will look into it Monday.
@@jglassman1122 might want to buy from Signature solar directly in Sulphur Springs Texas. Why go through a middle man and wait forever for your order. Never had a problem with over 40 orders with them.
@@diy-solar-guy I had done my research prior and Review said that they were shipped from signature Solar in signature Solar boxes and the company shows the same address so I thought it was safe said their normal shipping times are 2 to 3 days for in stock items. once I saw they had the memorial day deal with free shipping. It was a no-brainer for me but lesson learned and the bummer is now signature. Solar shows that they’re on pre-order not available till August.
@@jglassman1122 I’m so sorry to hear that. I bought new and refurbished EG4 3000 watt inverters. Refurbished was $250 off regular price with all the parts in box. Hope you order gets to you soon.
what are you trying to acomplish guy.. none of what you are doing make any sense..
Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed day. Try watching Will Proust off grid solar videos. Maybe you will have e better luck.