Ecoflow seem like a superstar of a company. To let you have 3 months to test this out was amazing to hear. I'm glad they were willing to work with you, to let you keep your principles in place to do right for your viewers. In my opinion, if the UK wants to become net neutral, I think that by law builders should be required to fit solar to all new build houses. If this was installed at the point of construction, with economy of scale, I bet we could get the cost of solar right down.
@@markrainford1219 I'm absolutely 100% behind you with support for nuclear power. The issue with that is the time it takes to get a plant operational. Solar can easily and very very cheaply close the gap.
A mix up of renewable and fossil fuels is the way, sharing the loads also storage when have excess. Really like the way the Guy Martin program explained it.
I would use the male female dichotomy in reference to the plug instead of the pin because for one you can't see the pin without deep inspection and two would be that just about every conventional female connector houses a male pin or pin-structure within.
officially the actual pin/brass conductor part is what is referred to as male and female. what also helps is: the positive on the panel is the one with the RED O-Ring kinda marking it as positive.
Interesting video Cory. Your comment about lightning: we have work in Angola on a school the church built. This has massive solar put in by electrician working for one of the major utilities over here. In went lightning protection - first major electric storm blew the inverter to bits. Now has double protection - glad we don't have storms that big over here! keep up the good work
Hi Cory this might not reach you but I have a Idea im an electrical contractor in South Africa doing Renewable irrigation systems. I was thinking how about you fly down and do a video or 2 on how these systems are built and designed??
Another great video, where do you find the time? Just a small tip, when installing roof hooks on flat tile, try to line the hook up on the seam where the two tiles above meet. It stops the tile from lifting and stops chattering noise in high winds. This is not a criticism, it is just the way we have learned to refine the process over the last few years.
Great video Cory, nice detail & some witty humor. Nice looking system. Pity it wasn't proper UPS with whole house backup. EPS isn't fast enough to change over for sensitive electronics not to notice.
True UPS , at the powers used in the house, is very expensive and probably not justified for the average domestic installation. If there is sensitive electronics it may be better to have a small true UPS to handle them leaving the rest of the house on the 'changeover' system.
@@lezbriddonlighting doesn’t notice the changeover. I mean, it’s, like, within one cycle. 20 milliseconds. Your eyes will barely notice a flicker, let alone for you to have time to fall over something in the hallway.
I love it when the panels in the beginning of the video look worse than the ones I got for free to fix ..been replacing combiner boxes on the back of 6 free 190watt panels
something you might try with the pavers is put sand in on top of the gravel will help them to not crack when that all gets a bunch of water under it and freezing
those 370W JA modules will have been sat in a heap somewhere for a long time before they were put on your roof! All the guesses for 390-410W were in the right area for two years ago.
@@corymacany update on the ipace battery? A 75 kWh Tesla battery can be had on eBay for £3,000 or so and their BMS is well known now, plenty of people sticking them on walls relatively easily. Someone in the UK called BatteryMan on RUclips just did his with a 22kw 3ph inverter!
@@iambenmitchell”relatively easily” seems to be overstating what the battery man is doing quite considerably. I mean, don’t get me wrong, love his project, but it is certainly a Project.
Nice install neat looking batteries, did you put a cover over that installation outside to stop all the paint weathering on the kit? Like a small lean to roof, also I think somebody else mentioned it could you write a list of the panels and parts that you installed?
I have a question for you that I hope you can help with. My landlord just got a government grant to have solar panels, a heat pump, and insulation installed on his property. I have 5.4 KW panels and a 3 KW inverter, which is SolaX. It only makes power on dull rainy days. As soon as the sun shines, it stops working. Also, I asked Britsh Gas to fit a smart meter, but couldn't because of the way the inverter is wired up to the meter. The wires go throw 3 little boxes. Red. blue and black. I don't know what these are. Any ideas? Thank you.
Might want to consider a locking system for the batteries etc. I can see battery storage system theft being a big issue in the future and those being just plug together are particularly easy to steal.
If you want to help out the people blowing up your inbox I'd recommend naking a video directing people to Dala the Great's open source ev battery controller project as thats designed for technically minded people to use and also contribute CANbus data to, in order to expand the library of usable batteries over time
You still need/are allowed to use DC isolators? Our installation regulations now say to skip the DC isolator if the inverter has a DC isolator. Most fires that has come from solar has been the isolator.
for something so expensive to be sat on the outside of your house, how do you secure it from theft. also the isolators, anybody could switch your house off from the outside. can those switches be on the inside, I guess you could put a little shed around it all, but it would be more fun(and I don't condone this at all) if the person steeling it was found later all charred up laying next to it.
Gotta wonder if they'll start selling them with some street-furniture-like enclosure that is embedded in the ground. Might make for an easier sell when you can drop it into a corner of the garden or driveway and just ignore it until access is needed through a hatch or something
@@corymac Surely for you to be using it as a UPS as well the incoming mains goes straight to your unit, then back out to your board. that way when a power cut happens you are isolated from the grid and your internal power remains on. and that pesky Enter key on your keyboard must be too close to the next word you were about to type.
Great content as always, but I thought you might have links to the solar panels and batteries etc in your description, and just out of curiosity how do your helpers get away with working on roofs like that…the amount of red cards you’d get on sites doing that would be off the scale. ;)
For me, this is a temporary installation. There’s also no regs to say you can’t mount things onto wood. How do you wire cabins / sheds? With batten behind, it’s solid and perfectly acceptable.
Your exited about OASIS! I always knew you were a gooden. On lunch at work I said to the other sparks I was well happy with Oasis getting back together.....I was met with silence and looks that said.....WEIRDO.
Writing from Africa 😂, too late! However, I’m making content for a few weeks and will be back. Also, these guys are subbies so only do a few days a week for me 😍, Chester is more of a right hand man, and friend, than an employee!
You're doing a fantastic job! Just a quick off-topic question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?
Great video but I am going to be that guy. My colleagues and I keep having to write reports about solar and battery installers contravening the gas regulations by putting generating equipment too close to pipework and meters, you've done exactly that in this video and I'd rather not see you on the wrong side of the HSE. Can I suggest swapping to a heat pump at your earliest opportunity and removing the gas pipe entirely.
@@corymac Good to hear it, there are so many pending cases at the moment where nationals have designed systems and subbed it to local sparks which have contravened the gas regulations. Sadly as they're a statutory document and written in such a way that the individual to contravene them is fully responsible regardless of being a gas engineer or not. It's caught a lot of Glazers out especially in hotel environments where they've swapped fixed windows for openable ones causing fumes to get into hotel rooms. Now it's catching sparks out because it's not just 25mm and 150mm - it's up to 1550mm away from generating sources (ie batterys from meter boxes). I'd advise any sparks carrying out renewable works to get a copy of the gas regs so they don't fall foul of it and land themselves in front of a judge. It's less likely in your case as it's your own home, you're the designer and it's a detached property. It does invalidate home insurance if anything goes awry, and breaching the gas regs can make some sole traders/ small companies uninsurable as a whole depending on the severity. Not putting down your excellent work just trying to highlight that it's incredibly easy to fall foul of it.
@corymac I assume you have a trade account with all the major wholesalers? If you're paying more than £1,500 (including VAT) for a 10kWh, IP65 rated LiFePO4 battery, then you need to shop around.
I have summer only offgrid system -16 kwp / 19 kWh. If you want to power something more than one tv amd fridge prepare about 20000eur…. no joke, ecoflow is a joke
Dressed like a Danish craftsman, no visible pipe fitter toolbox is good for the viewers What is the cost for this system (for us peasants without the possibility of being sponsored?)
So not off grid. Consider the last 2 weeks when considering off grid in the uk. My PV system deliver < 1/25th of its summer peak over the past 2 weeks. No reasonable battery system can bridge 2 weeks. With 40kwp PV not even close to off grid. The system looks great and will mitigate a huge amount of import.
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7:05 Top tip - working on a roof - take a step back 😂😂😂
Yeah ☠️😂, did I miss the scaffolding too?? Nice vid tho, very enjoyable
Really loving the content on this channel. Love the attention to detail and not just skipping over the less sexy parts. Great job
Thanks mate!
Thanks mate!
Second this!
28:14 might be good idea to measure the distance between the holes next time beforedrilling it to the wall😅
Ecoflow seem like a superstar of a company. To let you have 3 months to test this out was amazing to hear. I'm glad they were willing to work with you, to let you keep your principles in place to do right for your viewers.
In my opinion, if the UK wants to become net neutral, I think that by law builders should be required to fit solar to all new build houses. If this was installed at the point of construction, with economy of scale, I bet we could get the cost of solar right down.
And not just fit a meagre 3 panels and 1kw inverter, max G98 4kwh panels with 3.68kw inverter and optional battery
If the UK was serious, we would be building nuclear power stations, not putting toys on roofs.
@@markrainford1219 I'm absolutely 100% behind you with support for nuclear power. The issue with that is the time it takes to get a plant operational. Solar can easily and very very cheaply close the gap.
@ 30years of planning inquiries objections before building is done
A mix up of renewable and fossil fuels is the way, sharing the loads also storage when have excess.
Really like the way the Guy Martin program explained it.
I would use the male female dichotomy in reference to the plug instead of the pin because for one you can't see the pin without deep inspection and two would be that just about every conventional female connector houses a male pin or pin-structure within.
The plugs tend to be both, in most modern plug housings. The pin is the only one that’s unambiguous.
officially the actual pin/brass conductor part is what is referred to as male and female.
what also helps is: the positive on the panel is the one with the RED O-Ring kinda marking it as positive.
Interesting video Cory. Your comment about lightning: we have work in Angola on a school the church built. This has massive solar put in by electrician working for one of the major utilities over here. In went lightning protection - first major electric storm blew the inverter to bits. Now has double protection - glad we don't have storms that big over here! keep up the good work
That was a fantastic video Cory! My pun generator has failed me, damn it. Lol
I really enjoy your content man, particularly the one with the car battery. Good stuff.. 👍
Hi Cory this might not reach you but I have a Idea im an electrical contractor in South Africa doing Renewable irrigation systems. I was thinking how about you fly down and do a video or 2 on how these systems are built and designed??
It's an early one 🎉
Those look absolutely wicked 👌
Another great video, where do you find the time? Just a small tip, when installing roof hooks on flat tile, try to line the hook up on the seam where the two tiles above meet. It stops the tile from lifting and stops chattering noise in high winds. This is not a criticism, it is just the way we have learned to refine the process over the last few years.
Most important advice for a solar installer, don't fall off the roof, especially when taking a step backwards to look at the job.
I love Chester what a guy man ❤
Great video Cory, nice detail & some witty humor. Nice looking system.
Pity it wasn't proper UPS with whole house backup. EPS isn't fast enough to change over for sensitive electronics not to notice.
My server ups doesn’t notice the changeover! 😃
True UPS , at the powers used in the house, is very expensive and probably not justified for the average domestic installation. If there is sensitive electronics it may be better to have a small true UPS to handle them leaving the rest of the house on the 'changeover' system.
Just put a real ups on the computer and cctv/network, and emergency lighting on hallways and stairs, will do until the power switched over.
@@lezbriddonlighting doesn’t notice the changeover. I mean, it’s, like, within one cycle. 20 milliseconds. Your eyes will barely notice a flicker, let alone for you to have time to fall over something in the hallway.
I love it when the panels in the beginning of the video look worse than the ones I got for free to fix ..been replacing combiner boxes on the back of 6 free 190watt panels
I use bibs now as ppe much better then trousers and belts
loving the videos thank you
Definitely 👍 me too saves the digging in of the belt hate that feeling. I do masonry work so bending up and down a lot.
love Chester we need more of him
something you might try with the pavers is put sand in on top of the gravel will help them to not crack when that all gets a bunch of water under it and freezing
Great idea! I’ve never had to do it before. Experience helps!
those 370W JA modules will have been sat in a heap somewhere for a long time before they were put on your roof!
All the guesses for 390-410W were in the right area for two years ago.
Nice setup. I like the idea of putting on as many panels as possible so it can perform better in winter.
Definitely!
Very cool project Cory.
So what is the budget?
probs the 5k is only the base model of those ecoflow battery...
£4.5k will see you with 4kw inverter and 10kwh battery stacks…. @hexidev
@@corymacany update on the ipace battery? A 75 kWh Tesla battery can be had on eBay for £3,000 or so and their BMS is well known now, plenty of people sticking them on walls relatively easily.
Someone in the UK called BatteryMan on RUclips just did his with a 22kw 3ph inverter!
@@iambenmitchell”relatively easily” seems to be overstating what the battery man is doing quite considerably.
I mean, don’t get me wrong, love his project, but it is certainly a Project.
@@corymacthat’s actually great value
Nice install neat looking batteries, did you put a cover over that installation outside to stop all the paint weathering on the kit? Like a small lean to roof, also I think somebody else mentioned it could you write a list of the panels and parts that you installed?
Yes and yes 😁
Where can I find said list
I have a question for you that I hope you can help with. My landlord just got a government grant to have solar panels, a heat pump, and insulation installed on his property. I have 5.4 KW panels and a 3 KW inverter, which is SolaX. It only makes power on dull rainy days. As soon as the sun shines, it stops working. Also, I asked Britsh Gas to fit a smart meter, but couldn't because of the way the inverter is wired up to the meter. The wires go throw 3 little boxes. Red. blue and black. I don't know what these are. Any ideas? Thank you.
You know what your doing great content Cory love watching owt you do and great attention to detail as usual.
I appreciate that!
Could you possibly make a video about what tools you mainly use and what tools you recommend for apprentices ?
Yaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!! Chester's back! I see you have your site regulation steel-toe sandles & safety socks, perfect PPE.
Cory, Engelbert Strauss do long body T shirts, so you don't flash you boxers to the customers.
Might want to consider a locking system for the batteries etc. I can see battery storage system theft being a big issue in the future and those being just plug together are particularly easy to steal.
Yep. Sad to have to think like that but that's quite some money sat there.
Bohrschablone...drilling template.
If you want to help out the people blowing up your inbox I'd recommend naking a video directing people to Dala the Great's open source ev battery controller project as thats designed for technically minded people to use and also contribute CANbus data to, in order to expand the library of usable batteries over time
We already have done that on the EV battery videos, and have opened a discord with Dala
We already have done that on the EV battery videos, and have opened a discord with Dala
You still need/are allowed to use DC isolators? Our installation regulations now say to skip the DC isolator if the inverter has a DC isolator. Most fires that has come from solar has been the isolator.
Which PV panels did you use for this install?
This ecoflow system is not out yet. Which version/model is this?
Probably a preproduction version. They will have test/promo units long before the release, and the release is supposed to be this month.
A builders home is never finished. :)
for something so expensive to be sat on the outside of your house, how do you secure it from theft. also the isolators, anybody could switch your house off from the outside. can those switches be on the inside, I guess you could put a little shed around it all, but it would be more fun(and I don't condone this at all) if the person steeling it was found later all charred up laying next to it.
Gotta wonder if they'll start selling them with some street-furniture-like enclosure that is embedded in the ground. Might make for an easier sell when you can drop it into a corner of the garden or driveway and just ignore it until access is needed through a hatch or something
They can only switch off the supply to the inverters, not the supply from
@@corymac Surely for you to be using it as a UPS as well the incoming mains goes straight to your unit, then back out to your board. that way when a power cut happens you are isolated from the grid and your internal power remains on. and that pesky Enter key on your keyboard must be too close to the next word you were about to type.
Great content as always, but I thought you might have links to the solar panels and batteries etc in your description, and just out of curiosity how do your helpers get away with working on roofs like that…the amount of red cards you’d get on sites doing that would be off the scale. ;)
Great thing abt not working on nanny sites
Done!
how on earth did you get G99 approval for 10kW of inverters on a house?
That's impressive in its own right!
Looks like a pretty nice system. How much did it cost?
Great content
Honestly thought it was going to be Johnny no neck
Did you use hot dipped galvanised for the uni-strut? If not it might rust sooner than you’d like mate
All work and no play
Your hired
Cory, interested to understand what you mean by "two systems installed in a Cascade" please
I'm guessing this video being made in august -september? ( The blackberries tells it all 😁 and weather)
Ps. You could make a good wine from them...
isolation switches mounted on flammable wood? is that within the specs?
Also, isn't the shed classed as a temporary structure?
For me, this is a temporary installation. There’s also no regs to say you can’t mount things onto wood. How do you wire cabins / sheds? With batten behind, it’s solid and perfectly acceptable.
I cannot find this system for 5000 anywhere
Speak to Callidus wholesale
It’s going to be released somewhere this month according to the ecoflow website. No doubt availability will trickle up.
Link for the wholesaler?
Where can I buy this? I live in the USA
32:37 Are they real MC4 connectors on the inverter? The plug has red o-rings, eFixx recently explained this very well!
Probably not! But it’s important to match the brand, and use what the manufacturer supplies
Probably not! But it’s important to match the brand, and use what the manufacturer supplies
Did you follow any of the "Working at Height" regs ?
Precautions were taken.
Your exited about OASIS! I always knew you were a gooden. On lunch at work I said to the other sparks I was well happy with Oasis getting back together.....I was met with silence and looks that said.....WEIRDO.
Great content as usual Cory 😊
What happened to the EV battery on the wall project?
We finished it! Find part 2 in our videos
Did you fit optimisers to the panels?
Nope, they’re all on one elevation facing the sand way on each MPPT, and they’re low down enough I can easily test and maintain
You lads need to get a circular/metal cut off or a bandsaw for that rail. A grinder is an unnecessarily dangerous choice.
Just use a manual saw, man.
Are you still planning on uploading a van video or is that scrapped now?
I will! But it’ll be a long long time coming. I’ve been fixing bits on it very slowly 🤓
Nice video Pro Thanks and regards rom Holland
Jeesh, most of my panels are 250W. Though they have been up since 2013…
In a few years these will be ‘out of date’. Tech moves fast now!
Uploaded at 6am on a Sunday morning, fella, I enjoy your content but dude it’s Sunday.. enjoy a lay in ha.
Hahaha, I’m in a different time zone right now 🤣🤣 I miscalculated it!
@ Ah makes sense, there I thought you were super eager for a Sunday morning hahahaha my bad.
Louis Litt is now designing solar!? 🤯
How come the house has a fire suppressant system - they are not a domestic norm?
yeah seems very odd.. you'd be tempting fate to remove it though 😁
@@barrieshepherd7694 maybe an HMO before Cory bought it?
@@Richardincancale Possibly but even then it's not a usual requirement for HMOs.
@ Oh, I thought they were - my bad.
@@Richardincancale I admit I had to check 😎😎
What i want to know the most is, why on earth is there a piece of pipe coming out of the brick then doing a u back into the brick wall???????
That’s a pressure relief for the boiler. It’ll spray boiling hot water out when it needs to hence why it faces the wall
I saw your worker on police watch on tv
Oasis back - money is thicker than blood?
20:40 looks good, You only missing straw hat to became proper Amish 😂
Great content just don’t bugger off to a trip around the world and live abroad 😅😂
Writing from Africa 😂, too late! However, I’m making content for a few weeks and will be back. Also, these guys are subbies so only do a few days a week for me 😍, Chester is more of a right hand man, and friend, than an employee!
@28:42 NO TREBLE!!
There's notihing in the discription! :(
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There is now!
Why don't u clean it up and see if anybody on a allotment whonts it
You're doing a fantastic job! Just a quick off-topic question: My OKX wallet holds some USDT, and I have the seed phrase. (alarm fetch churn bridge exercise tape speak race clerk couch crater letter). How can I transfer them to Binance?
Great video but I am going to be that guy. My colleagues and I keep having to write reports about solar and battery installers contravening the gas regulations by putting generating equipment too close to pipework and meters, you've done exactly that in this video and I'd rather not see you on the wrong side of the HSE. Can I suggest swapping to a heat pump at your earliest opportunity and removing the gas pipe entirely.
That gas pipe is going as soon as my heat pump is fitted early next year 😎
@@corymac Good to hear it, there are so many pending cases at the moment where nationals have designed systems and subbed it to local sparks which have contravened the gas regulations. Sadly as they're a statutory document and written in such a way that the individual to contravene them is fully responsible regardless of being a gas engineer or not. It's caught a lot of Glazers out especially in hotel environments where they've swapped fixed windows for openable ones causing fumes to get into hotel rooms.
Now it's catching sparks out because it's not just 25mm and 150mm - it's up to 1550mm away from generating sources (ie batterys from meter boxes). I'd advise any sparks carrying out renewable works to get a copy of the gas regs so they don't fall foul of it and land themselves in front of a judge. It's less likely in your case as it's your own home, you're the designer and it's a detached property.
It does invalidate home insurance if anything goes awry, and breaching the gas regs can make some sole traders/ small companies uninsurable as a whole depending on the severity.
Not putting down your excellent work just trying to highlight that it's incredibly easy to fall foul of it.
£4.5K for a 3.6kW hybrid inverter and 10kWh battery is £2k overpriced.
Where’s your equivalent and cheaper system?
@corymac I assume you have a trade account with all the major wholesalers? If you're paying more than £1,500 (including VAT) for a 10kWh, IP65 rated LiFePO4 battery, then you need to shop around.
The cheapest lifepo4 battery around is probably pylon, and you’ll be paying double that. What brand are you using?
@corymac Again, if you have a trade account with all the major wholesalers, you'll see that Pylontech isn't the cheapest per usable kWh.
Fossel mouse
Lots fake tickets
I like JA Panels..
@34:59 Call it LGBTQ+++++ 😂....
I have summer only offgrid system -16 kwp / 19 kWh. If you want to power something more than one tv amd fridge prepare about 20000eur…. no joke, ecoflow is a joke
Sorry, but this system costs about £4.5k for 3.6kw inverter and 10kwh battery. So I disagree, speak to Callidus
Dressed like a Danish craftsman, no visible pipe fitter toolbox is good for the viewers
What is the cost for this system (for us peasants without the possibility of being sponsored?)
It’s about £4k for a 3kw inverter and 10kwh battery stack. Compare that to £4.5k for a 10kwh SE battery without an inverter!
So not off grid. Consider the last 2 weeks when considering off grid in the uk. My PV system deliver < 1/25th of its summer peak over the past 2 weeks. No reasonable battery system can bridge 2 weeks. With 40kwp PV not even close to off grid.
The system looks great and will mitigate a huge amount of import.
😳32:29 why would you mount these on FLIMSY "wood" which will rot away in few years, whereas other lot is mounted on metal rail? 🤌
This is my house, chances are this system will be sold on and replaced in a year when I try out other stuff to review 😃
Also, that’s not flimsy! 😉 there’s timber behind