Solar Panel Systems for Beginners - Pt 1 Basics Of How It Works & How To Set Up
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In this video, I will show you in layman's terms how a solar panel system works and how to set one up in 2 different types of systems. This video is intended for beginners so obviously there is a lot more involved than I am explaining but this covers the basics to get started. #solarforbeginners #solarmadeeasy #solarexplained #solarguide
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At last someone who can just make a clear explanation for all of us to understand. Top work mate
Thanks, I appreciate the feedback! Be sure to give it a thumbs up to help me out. Thanks for watching.
As a dummy of solar electricity, I learn a lot from you. Thanks
+Chungchi Chiu You are most welcome.
+Chungchi Chiu There is also a guide on facebook.com/diyhomeenergykits/app/190322544333196
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Very good explanation. I know nothing about how to utilize the electricity from solar panel but after watching this video, I have understood what is power controller and invert er and how both of them works. I am making a little project to run my transfer water pump using solar energy. Thank you for posting this video.
The one thing that is very advantageous with this clip is that we thank you for your clarity in speaking in english language ,straightforward & layman's term in explaining the things.
You are welcome!
From an LDS Brother in UK.Just getting into solar and boy was my ideas wrong, But not any more.Brilliantly simple.
Glad I could help! And nice to see another LDS brother. Thanks for watching.
I have been interested in Solar for a long time.Now I can start. We went to the temple last night and I told them about your video. We are now starting our own solar self sufficiency project and our president has asked me to put it together. So with your permission, is it ok for me to use your videos as teaching aids.
Of course! That is awesome.
Nice video. One note: DC power can be much more dangerous than AC due to how the shock affects you. DC shock will cause your muscles to tense, possibly on the source of the shock = prolonged electocution. Not really an issue with the demo you are using, but another good reason to get it installed by a pro.
True. But in very low wattages like in this video that isn't going to happen.
Wrong way around. AC is the dangerous one. Electric fences are DC and can run up to 70,000 volts but they won’t hurt you. The voltage throws you off the fence (AC grabs you) and the low amperage means it’s not harmful. Don’t play with AC!
Hi, thanks for the information, I’m from a medical background so have little knowledge of solar or electronics. Although this is the case I am very keen to learn from your content. Thank you for taking the time to create your videos. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
You are welcome! There is lots more where that came from.
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once again thank you dude i am a dummy when it comes to this people forget that not everybody is up on this ! im 60 and just learning this thank you for making it (OLD SCHOOL EASY) for me.i cant thank you enough im a follower and cant wait to see what else you have to show us thank you, thank you, thank you!!!!! ive watched plenty of vids but you break it down god bless dude .!!
Here in 2021...waiting on the collapse...searched and finally found your video, the only one who actually breaks it down in laymen terms. Thank you!
You are welcome! Thank you for watching and I am glad you found my channel. There are lots more videos like that on my channel that break things down for the laymen. Be sure to subscribe!
Its an exvellent tutorial. Very nice example of a solar panel installation.
Thanks! And thanks for watching.
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Awesome!!! Thank you for taking the time to educate all of us!😊
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
Very inspired video. Now I made my mind to study mechanical engineering and chose the master in Sustainable Energy Engineering. Thx alot
Wow that is very cool! I am glad I was able to help. Thanks for watching.
Josef X cool, I'm an environmental engineer in industry so if there is some knowledge to share with you it would be great.Good luck!
Thank you guys :)
I m mechanical engineering student I am talking two solar energy courses and I am very happy with it. ...so i hope u will work hard toward ur passion and mange something great good luck
That's very cool! More people need to think like you!
From an 19 year HVAC expert, this is very efficient for the size and noise level
I was today years old when i finally understood AC vs. DC. Thanks for the video!
Glad to help!
Great man. An excellent and clear demonstration for understanding solar energy usage for beginners like me. Thanks very much hope more and more video as raised by FAQ.
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Perfect explanation. I was very confused before, but now I understand the basics. Thank you!
Thank you for this demo, because I am learning and know absolutely nothing about the specifics of how solar panels work. I would have liked to have seen the underside of the solar panel to see what that single black wire is connected to. By the way I have used jumper cables, so I am familiar with positive charge and negative charge. Thanks for this lesson.
Thanks for teaching folks how to go about solar setups. The essentials are all in your video. I've bought a flexible 200watt 12volt solar panel to cover one of my bedroom windows it's charging a heavy 75Ah Agm battery. It is essentially the same in principle, just scaled up bigger. I hope other watchers learn and take notes. Oh, for learners, remember that once you have sun shining on the panel you have electricity. Be careful with metal things around the connections. The video above shows no metal things nearby.
Glad you learned before you jumped in and installed a system. Good luck!
Thank you, finally someone who explains what they’re trying to sell you an how it works! All the other videos they want to sell and Assume you know how it works. Or maybe they know you don’t work and they can make more money by doing a personal training session.($$$$$) Looking forward to part 2!
"I'm going to dumb this down so simple that ANYBODY will be able to understand it."
Me: hold my hot chocolate
Sorry, which part is confusing?
Oh, sorry, it was a joke :)
Haha!
What are you doing with hot things?
Dumbed down enough for me to understand thank you sir
Thank you. This is the beginning for me. Great confidence building exercise!
Great. Glad it helped you understand solar a bit better.
Excellent video... made my life easy
great, finally someone who breaks down their entire solar system for others to understand. we always need to break it down for clear understanding
Yes, I agree. Thanks for the comment!
In 2020, GREAT and EASY to VISUALLY UNDERSTAND. I have NO ON HAND SKILLS of ANY TYPE and this will be a CONFIDENCE BUILDER for OFF GRID POWER when I ATTACK LOL MY VAN CONVERSION PROJE CT. NEW SUB from CALIFORNIA
Thanks, Ben! Good luck in your project!
Excellent demonstration
+Sohail Suri Thanks! I appreciate that. Thanks for watching!
Hi
Batteries in series: same current more voltage
Batteries in parallel: more current same voltage
See current and voltage divider theory
is there a formula for storage?
Chris : how do you connect them in series, and/or parallel in layman terms? Thanks
Spec on the Video. Correct me if i am wrong?
Solar Panel: 12V/100Watt/ Amp?
Charge Controller: 20V/Amp?
DC Battery: ?
Invertor (DC to AC): ?
Load: 12V
These are the products from the video (or a current model of same):
kit.com/LDSreliance/beginner-solar-diy-kit-10-watt
I am a beginner to connect a solar panel. By watching you i got an idea. Thank you.
You are welcome! That is what the video was for. To learn and get ideas.
Thank you for the simplicity ✌️💕
You are welcome. Thanks for watching! Be sure to give it a thumbs up to help me out.
Thanks for he "Hellow world" demo
+Chamal Liyanage You are welcome, I think.
just so you know you do not connect the batteries in series but parallel or else you will up the voltage.
Yep, I kind of misspoke on the video but I put up the correct info on the caption on the screen
what batteries, lead acid, lithium, nicads?
The comment is 3yo, but nope...
Depends on the system you want to use. There's the typical 12v, then there are 24v, 36v, 48v.
Correct me.
Series for voltage, and parellel for amps?
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Thanks. U made it easy to understand.
+nzinga zindua You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
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nzinga zindua thank you made so use full
I did the same setup for hurricane Maria, on the load side of the charge controller, I put a female Cigarette Lighter plug so I could charge phones and tablets with a car charger, good thing is that it's portable and the controller keeps you from over charging and fully drain the battery, great video, I put everything in a $8 toolbox for emergencies.
Nice! Great use for solar.
This is very helpful. I’ve been watching a lot of videos and you’ve actually shown what to do. Makes me more confident going forward.
That is great! Thanks for the feedback and good luck.
Hi, this is the future. Good primer, even in 2019. Thanks!
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
This was great, thanks, I been tryin to find out about "solar panels power your home" for a while now, and I think this has helped. Have you ever come across - Piyaarter Uncomplex Preeminence - (Have a quick look on google cant remember the place now )?
It is a smashing one of a kind product for discovering how to generate energy-on-demand without the normal expense. Ive heard some interesting things about it and my m8 got great results with it.
your battery sir, what is the capacity and how long it last?
do it can last on 12 hours if i just use 5v 2a device?
Idk what battery capacity he using ,
But we assume he using 7Ah @ 12v battery fully charged
So total power
7Ah x 12v = 84 Wh
If you using 5v 2A
2A X 5V = 10 W
You drain battery to 0% you can use for about 8 hour
This video is very helpful for beginners
even these small setups are very useful. I set up a small DC setup to heat my sunroom/dog room in the winter and to keep vegetables all year.
thank you for the quick reply just let you know i live in Sri Lanka and my Air Conditioner is 12000BTU and in here we using 220volts. how do we calculte how much amps we need? in your reply u mentioned (5amp @ 115volts). in my case lets assume i need 1200W so will it be 5amps @ 220 volts.
OK, that is good information. In Sri Lanka, the average number of hours of sun per day is just over 4.5 so we will use that in the calculations. Your 12,000 BTU air conditioner does use about 1200 watts like you said (about 5.6 amps or so @ 220v). So again if we run the air conditioner 6 hours per day and plan for 1 day of backup power in case it is cloudy you will need 5 of those batteries and 3400 watts of 12v solar panels.
Very good video---good explanation
Thanks! I appreciate that. Thanks for watching!
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Where did you see it?
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Lol
Waiting for C19 to mutate to give us zombies...
Great explanation. This is my first vid to watch on the issue and it was PERFECT. Thanks.
This has helped me gonna start my first class in solar panel installation tomorrow. Great job
Good. I am glad it helped you. Good luck in your class!
thanks engineer this video is useful
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how would i be able to power things like a laptop or a fridge with solar panels completely off grid?
would i want to run my panels into a charge controller and then to batteries and then from the charge controller to an inverter?
Yes, exactly. But for those bigger loads you will probably need to run the inverter straight off the battery instead of the load output of the charge controller as that will be limited (usually 20A on most cheaper models).
so i would run the solar panels into the charge controller then into the batteries and then from the batteries into the inverter which goes to outlets that i can plug anything into?
Good question which has helped me answer a lot of questions in my head. From LD' s response, it is YES. However this will be unregulated by the controller whose limit is 20A for most. You may wish to introduce a higher rated fuse between the battery and the inverter (in the red wire (+)) in order to protect your equipment
Good video but how do you put the battery in the system with the inverter? or how do you put the inverter in the battery system?
I don't understand your question. Sorry
You would typically run the inverter directly from the battery itself. So the charge controller would be connected to and charge the battery and the inverter would also be connected to and draw directly from the battery. The capacity of your batter bank and inverter load should be sized properly.
I guess in battery system simply connect the load wires with inverter but all the power maths of the load need to be calculated prior.
Yes, the power inverter will connect directly to the battery. You see, a solar charge controller's main function is to regulate the charge going into a battery, to prevent overcharging or undercharging. They typically have 3 "ports" - one for the solar panel, one for the battery and one for a load. I don't like using the load feature on a charge controller because it is limited in the amount of amps it can deliver. However, connecting a power inverter directly to the battery will give you all the amps you need without losing current.
Just be sure to correctly fuse any power/hot wire (i.e., anything connected to the red terminal). You can properly determine safe fusing by looking at your wire rating. Every wire has a temperature limitation based on its gauge (or thickness). There is a chart online that I found several years ago that listed the amount of amperage that is flowing through a wire based on its gauge and maximum temperature. So basically, as an example only, if a 0 gauge wire has a limitation of 195° and at that temperature there is 250 amps being produced, I would fuse that wire at 250 amps. This would blow the fuse instead of overheating the wire beyond its rated temp which is a potential fire hazard in the event of a short. For safety, always fuse based on gauge AND wire temp. If you need more current, you need bigger wire or you need to up the voltage from a 12 volt system to 24 or even 48 volts. Higher voltages allow you to use smaller gauge wire.
Here's one of the charts I found: www.windynation.com/jzv/inf/how-properly-fuse-solar-pv-system
This video is very useful, planning portable setup for a car.
Food for thought: a lot of electronics actually doesn't need more than 12V (e.g. computers), their power supply actually converts voltage to 5, 3.3 V. You will need a different power supply, sure, but you won't loose energy during conversion
Yes, that is true. If you can find a DC to DC converter for your favorite electronics instead of using the AC adapters that come with them you will be much more efficient.
Great, simple tutorial... Every techie should mess with solar.. Good for water pumps for the garden and or outside lighting.. We rely soo much on the grid... Make your own power (FREE) and save the World!!
Amen!
terima kaseh share a good things
Series??? WTF
You mean PARALLEL, right ? Otherwise, you are burning up electronics 🔥
LoL I had no idea I wasted my time watching a video that has been misinforming 2+ million people for the last 5 years. I hope no one watched this and then actually connected batteries in series like was suggested. Always chain batteries in parallel to maintain the same voltage. Connecting in series ADDS voltages together. Everything else? Eh... could have been explained much better.
@@superhiway It says that in the video. At least it is written out.:/
@@b2stts2b37 I don't recall that... At all. He said "series" plain as day. 🙊🙉🙈
@@superhiway 3:25?
@Sayit AsItIs Agreed... So what have we learned today?
V=IR ? LoL
Second half of the video is not right😂
How so?
I have always love to know a lot about clean and renewable and here I got the idea. Thank you very much for this video.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching! Be sure to subscribe if you haven't already.
Thank you our best teacher you give alot information to undertstand how to install solar after I watching this video l have not any concept to solar go ahead teacher you support
yes i am beginner , even if i live live sunny climate, i did not recognize living in engulfed in flood of solar energy . but i shall learn more and more starting from your presentation lesson . thanks a lot !
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
Finally, a video that breaks it down so I can understand and learn 👍🙂. Thank you so much sir👍🙂❤️
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for making this video. Solar panels can be really complex and there is a lot of physics involved. It's hard to understand, specially if you don't have a strong background of some electrical and electronics knowledge. This video really helped me understand solar systems a bit more so I can go on and build a solar powered grow tent
You are welcome. Glad you learned some things. I have quite a few more solar videos that explain the basics. Check them out on my channel.
I've only been using the off-grid system for my work. Never thought the other systems before. Really cool, thanks!
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Thank you for the video. Now I have understood how solar panel works.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
Good info. Never understood how to get away from dirty power or understood it firmly.
Am seeing the limitations of solar and how today's technology can be obsolete tomorrow.
Yes there are limitations but advancements are being made. The future is bright (if you look past this virus).
@@LDSreliance I'm interested enough to watch and learn.
Really well explained and a chap who is not hyped.
Thank you. I really appreciate that :)
thanks, for clear demonstration for understanding solar energy usage.
You are welcome! Thanks for the comment and for watching. Please thumbs up and/or subscribe to help me out!
Wow. Just what I was looking for. Before watching your video I was clueless. I just purchased a 12v Endless Breeze RV type fan for my greenhouse to try to lower the temperature and was researching on how to rig it up. I have seen in run on 30 watts solar panel here on youtube but it wasn't hooked up to a battery so now I know how to do that. I do need to find out how to hook it up to a thermostat so that it only comes on when the temperature gets up to 90 degrees. Thanks for your tutorial!
+eyesalooking You are welcome. Glad it helped!
To wire in your thermostat, just wire it in series with the positive (red) cable going to your fan. In other words, run a red wire from your charge controller to one side of the thermostat and then another red wire from the other side of the thermostat to the fan. The black wire just goes straight from the charge controller to the fan. All the thermostat does is flip a switch and break the connection when the temperature is less than 90 degrees. When it gets over 90 degrees the switch closes back up and the connection resumes and powers the fan.
+LDSreliance Thanks. This is going to be fun. Never to late to learn something new.
eyesalooking
Yep! Good luck and let me know if you have more questions.
Thank ULDS reliance for responding so promptly I really appreciate it. I did just put two new batteries in the system. I think the problem is is the controller. It’s built-in to the two panels I think it might be considered a trickle system and now after talking to you about this I’m pretty sure that’s what the issue is. I think. The panels are producing 20 V before it goes into the controller. After it comes out of the controller I’m only showing 3 V on my voltmeter.
Have you put the controller under a load? It may not show an accurate voltage until it is producing power for a load. Try connecting it to a battery and then test the voltage.
your training is an eye opener and self help please keep it up. Thanks
You are welcome. I appreciate the feedback! I will keep making videos for sure.
I just found your channel. Great stuff. Good luck to you. I've got a lot of vids to get caught up on. Thanks for your hard work.
Good to have you! Thanks for the support.
Finally a simple and to the point explanation. Thank You
+Laszlo Musho You are welcome! Thanks for the feedback and thanks for watching.
Nice! Much easier than I thought it’s going to be.
Yep. Thanks for watching!
Thanks was thinking of getting a basic setup for my cabin in the woods, have no idea how they work at all. This was a super easy - plane spoken - informative video! Thank you
Glad I could help! You are very welcome. I have plenty more solar videos where that came from so if you are still interested in learning more, have a look.
It's now 2020, Coronavisus has spread... Your video has helped. Many thanks from the future.
Thanks! I am glad it helped you.
The flash light example helped me visualize 💡
Good! Glad you found it helpful. Thanks for watching.
The best simplest explanation ever. Thank you sir!
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
You will make a very good teacher.
Thanks! I appreciate that.
Gonna use solar panels to backup power outages. Good video!!
Great use for them. Thanks for watching! Be sure to give it a thumbs up.
I am not new too this stuff , but I am in using it .. I am looking too add this for lighting in my barn so I can do the stuff I cant do in the day with feeding my animals .. and Possibly adding some low dim lights on the front porch .. & to top it off use in a newer made solar heaters ..
Cool. That would be a good use for it. Good luck!
Thank you so much - after trying too many incomprehensible videos, I found what I need to know! :)
Good, I am glad you liked it! Please hit the thumbs up and subscribe :)
Thanks it is very useful for beginners easy to understand god bless you,
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
Excellent video. Thanks for sharing!
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
i had to start somewhere. and im glad i did here.
Awesome! Glad you found it and it helped you.
thanks for the video..I have met several people from Africa and was thinking about how to help them get some of the most basic things...like clean water..I have used solar light bulbs but it's so Kool to see HOW to make something. ..teach a man to fish. ..great video...more...more...more
Thanks! I appreciate the support. I have helped several people who are volunteering in Africa and other places to bring technology to them that will give them a little electricity. Hopefully the price of solar continues to go down and it becomes affordable for these people to better their lives.
+LDSreliance I was a vendor in NC at Floyd fest...and Leaf. ..they had Internet. ..and powered 3 music stages all on solar...guy had a horse trailer full of boat batteries and the panels on top...it was here that I purchased my light bulb...now I am in the UAE and often go out to the desert. ..like I said I love the idea of teching people what is possible. ..thanks
Gerald Foushee
Sounds fun! Good luck and let me know how I can help!
Thanks that helped a lot, when you want to learn you gotta start at the beginning.
Very well explained! Im doing my DIY solar system installation at home, and i find your discussion very easy to understand.
Thanks! I am glad you found it helpful.
Subscribed! :)
We also had our own DIY solar home project. The way I showed how it's done is no where close to the detail in your discussion :(
looking forward to more videos!
Haha, thanks. My early videos were garbage. Even this video is pretty old and I have gotten a lot better since then.
Exactly the size system I'm hoping to make.
Getting one of these for power outage situations lol.Sure the 18v solar panels will come in handy.With dc to ac converter to make 12 or 18 volt appliances to work.Even make a pot coffee maybe lol.Not to mention sounds like solar panels help in emergencies too
+TSpider Keeper Yes, they are great for emergencies. I wouldn't count on brewing a pot of coffee unless you have several big solar panels but if you want lights or to charge up your portable electronics or maybe power a tv for an hour or two then it works great.
Perfectly explained. Thanks.
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
Just what i'm looking for as begginner, thanks, so helpful!
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
Actually I'm thinking of getting a better solar system (by this I mean one like the type displayed in this video) because my basic, basic one will give me a few hours of 5v lighting in a power cut but I wasn't too sure about the setup for a slightly better system.
This was a very good video. It got straight down to basics, left the beginner (like me) confident that they knew enough to set things up and went on to explain other solar systems which the user might want to progress to.
Thanks! I really appreciate that. I am glad it helped you. When you are ready to advance your knowledge even further, I have dozens of other solar and battery videos on my channel that you should check out.
Solar Panel Systems for Beginners is a very awesome video.. thanks to you I learn a lot..
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
This as made it very clear for me. Thankyou. Anthony
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
Thanks . sound and clear for me as a beginner.
Glad it was helpful!
It's a very good observation, the diode's rectifier is actualy the most important thing you need to now wen converthing AC to DC and controlling the generation and flow of electrical currents from 127 Volt's to 15 DC and vice versa. I actually learned the trick in a lab from a 87 year old teacher that wered a bow tie insted of a regular tie and a dude that drove the truck's and operated the montacargas (the machines that lift very hevy things from one place to anoter) and was more beach wale alfamale than man they all made fun of them both, including me the 1rst day of school, nothing ever worked that I build, but gona try to build a solar charger for my mini my pot caus im hitting the road in serch of adventure, and you now that means no electric outputs as far as you can see. Thank's for the beginer demo, going in to the frey as a profetional señior electromecanical tecnician with 0% work experienece, but if I buid my own mypod solar charger I can do anithing. You dudes like the cience society secret guild or something? KUDOS
Good luck with your adventure! Sounds fun.
WTH this channel is underrated!
Thanks!
Your explanation makes me really decide that we need one! Thank you!!!
You are welcome! Enjoy and thanks for watching!
2022 starting to get ready!
Good info for newbie’s, thanks, Shalom!
Awesome! Glad it was helpful. Be sure to give it a thumbs up to help me out :)
thanks i now have an understanding of solar and components i would require. . simon
You are welcome! Thanks for watching.
Thanks for explaining the basics of solar panels. It helps me alot 👍
You are welcome. Thanks for watching!
This is a really informative video! Bravo!
General explanation of how it works is good for me who is working at solar panel sales Dept.
+Eric Park Hey thanks! Glad you liked it. Thanks for watching and feel free to send your customers over to my videos for a good explanation :)
Very good effort. Simple and easy to understand. Thank you
You are very welcome. Thanks for watching!
Thank you for the intro. I want to run solar to heat mats for two feral cat houses. I've never built anything so my learning curve has been steep.
There is a learning curve to solar but you can do it! I have uploaded dozens of solar videos geared toward people who are new to it. And I am here for questions if you need help.