Hey corndog, thanks for watching! fellow musicians unite! I have a great time when i get down to my off grid living tiny house, i hook up big red and take it out to the beach, get together with band mates and jam . I take total of 400 watts panels with for power. great times. thanks again for watching!
Lol .. not at all. Its a very nice setup but almost anyone can do it.. if u dont know how just ask (almost anyone) Just keep hot wires taped off (and, or solar covered up so it doesnt make power) until youre ready to plug it all up.. very simple and fun todo. 4 wires in and out of the solar controller. Panels are Indian givers with out an SC lol... theyll give power, then take it all back at night .. draining your batteries worse than u began with lol .. also overcharge batteries and ruin them over time, pretty quickly. Be sure and have an SCC
Some people just don't have the right guidance, if they did everyone that's single would be living in one of these instead of paying thousands of dollars, and we would be able to get ahead of the system since saving is almost impossible now adays
@@dave1-iz210 the zoning laws are what’s the problem. Most towns & cities have a minimum structure size of 800 - 1000 sq ft. Tiny homes can be a secondary residence outside of a larger home, but that is a hurdle most can’t overcome. We need more friendly zoning laws.
@@Ethan.s.. unless they want to get into it with the tribes I highly recommend for them to go home with their public servant behinds and analyze their whole entire existence if they are in north America. That's just the nice side.
What a great inspiration! Thank you so much for the video. Very politely, I wanted to ask, how many batteries you think I may be needing for one 25000 btu window air condition (3000watts) and two Extractor Fan Blower (1040 watt for both) and an industrial humidifier (3000watt)? However the humidifier and fans will not run all day continuous, only the air condition would. The fan and humidifer, again, will run one and half hours every four hours. I would use all three applances only day times, say from 7am-8pm daily, no night usage of them. And I live in texas where the sun is super hot in the summers. Please advice me on how many batteries and panels I will be needing for my project. Again, thank you and for your response in advance.
That's 7040 watts per hour those are on(just added them all up). So the next question is how many hours will you run each device? When in doubt, go for higher hours (aka duty cycle). If you have 100% duty cycle on 7040W that's 168,960 Watt/hour(or 168.96 Kilowatt/hour) for 24 hr cycle.. which is quite a bit. You always want to add a buffer on solar and make sure to include everything when figuring out your daily use. You can google your zipcode for how many "sun hours" there are in your location. Then for the battery pack, you need to decide how long you want to have power if you don't have any sun(I call it standby power). If your in Arizona desert, you probably don't need more than 1 day standby power. If you're in Northeast you may want 3 days standby power. Ex: If you have 5 sun-hours in your location then you should size your battery for 5X max rating of solar panels. And you want 2 days standby power. So lets assume you need 169Kw per hour(for everything you mentioned) 24/7 use(100% duty cycle). Battery would be 169Kw x 24 hrs x 2 days standby= 338 Kwh. Solar panels should be 169Kwh / 5 hr = 33.8Kw solar needed. Its a lot cheaper to oversize solar panels, than to have a big battery.. but you do need standby if you wish to remain 100% on solar. For batteries, Lithium Iron Phosphate are the preferred chemistry among a lot of tiny housers/RVers. RUclips search "Will Prowse solar" for more information on batteries/solar and he does go over everything I just mentioned in one of his videos. He's got several solar systems at his house, and he's charging multiple electric cars from solar which is pretty cool.
@@Geoff9001 where are you getting 168.96/hour.. it'd be 168.96/24hours... Also you're not taking into account inrush current and having the power at hand when the AC cycles on, which it will do.
@@michaelcohen9363 yeah quickly glancing over my math it looks like I accidentally multiplied it by 24 twice. Thanks for the catch! Btw for original commenter, I recommend hiring a solar company to do a true load evaluation because it's impossible for us to estimate your power use without much more information. Are there south facing windows? What latitude is this solar array? Etc etc
Living in the year 2090 you have an electric heating blanket, but it also has conditioning. So if you want to save energy at night you use your electric blanket in A/C mode. Wall mounted A/C is so 2020s.
I lived for several years without utilities. You can survive if you try, that's what I tell everyone. your bed is a sofa. Very well insulated then on two sides right? Ok, now long johns. regular street clothes. A heavey hat, Winter coat, Then 2 blankets and 1 comforter. Hide your head under and leave a little passage for air. You will wake up sweating.
@@Alileverything because he's making fun of poor people!!! And this is a video for how to stay cool not warm!!!!! Nobody in the Southeast USA freezes to death, it's very rare and due to intoxication!!!!! But alot of people die every year because of heatstrokes!!!!!!
I smart female would recognize the integrity and intelligence of that but also he owns the land !!!!!!!!!!!! Preferably a man like him a Batchelor land owner. Would explain in the first few dates. And then if not comfortable camping on the land go to hotel.. or her place..then they can build together whatever she/they want!!!!! Any smart lady will respect a owner more than a renter anyday!!! Don't hate dude!
@AtlanticDrain I have just had a ruff life. It's me ,I have just changed screen names. I watch stuff like this because I'm constantly worried about survival. I have a 5th wheel that is 1/3erd built into something substantial now. And am hoping to buy some land maby . But the cost And regulations of having utilities put into land is just obscene as i'm sure you understand well. I'm happy this came across my feed again.
He's smart enough to have strong off grid AC !!!!! Seems protective to me as a female!!!!!! And he's the land owner next to there office dude!!! A smart lady could imagine boom boom with intelligent man like that !! Cus his girl would be chilling 😎 after storm while the rest of the city has no power!!!!!
can you put in the discription how many batteries you have, and how much AH they are example 50 100 300 400AH, how many solar panels you have and they are at 100 watts? They look like polycrystaline.
@@curierfromxibalba1155 With say 5 amp at 120 vac draw equates to 50 amp draw on his batteries. I'd say his 2 batteries wouldn't last long even if they were each 12 volt 200 ah batteries. You wouldn't want to drain your deep cycle batteries more than 50% so you're only looking at about 4 hours of continuous running of that air conditioner. He said he had as much as 20 amps coming in from solar panels during a sunny day. That equates to 2 amps at 120 volts ac not including the loss to invert that power.
Best to convert your loads to watts and compare those watts to the watts being used from the batteries. Watts is watts regardless of the voltage. No conversion required.
How amps does a 110vac AC dra need when starting the motor? I'm wondering if i could skip the batteries. I only want to supplement my house AC. Cheapest way is to immediately use the power from the panels.
Please check with Chris about specs. As far as I I know the unit came from Walmart. 5000 BTU. It’s the inverter that makes things run.. 2000 watt inverter from harbor freight. Here is Chris’s channel on RUclips ruclips.net/user/AtlanticDrain He has many videos about his hide-a-way
Those are 2 basic, new car batteries.. around 60$ each at Walmart.. He's not even using deep cycle, or the expensive life batteries.. hell hes not even using 3 or 4. Hes got a good get down there with that little setup. The secret is how many solar panels hes running. I got 3 of those cheap charge controllers and was happy to see someone else using them.. bought my first one Dec 2018 and my 3rd one last week. All from ebay for less than 16$ for this last, most expensive one.. others were 12$ each. They work great so far and like i say, i been usin em since late 2018. This guy would have even more after daylight power by just addingn1 or more of the same type batteries.. getting deep cycle or Life batteries. Peace
Forgot to mention.. the charge controllers i got .. the first 2 are 50A .. this last one is 100A .. they look exactly like his just different color sticker label. Even 30 or 40A is plenty.
@@koollee yes, I have some deep cell batteries and they last much much longer than car batteries. Car batteries were not meant to be severely discharged during the night
I've had trouble finding inverters capable of supporting a full AC even if small. What kind of inverter is this that's working in the video? He did say it was a 2000 watt inverter but not which maker, type? Thanks. Tried several inverters and they keep shutting off and not able to do a 400 watt AC... a small one.
Keep in mind 10 amps charge at the batteries (12 volts) is only 1 amp or less at the inverter output (120 volts). They didn't say how many amps the air conditioner uses. But if the batteries were 12volt 200 ah. 2 in parallel would give him 400 ah. You should never take deep cycle batteries below a 50 % charge so you have 200 amp hours available plus whatever amps your getting from solar panels. Converting that 12 vdc 200 ah to 120 vac gives you approximately 20 ah of electricity. That equates to running a 1 amp load for 20 hour, or 2 amp load for 10 hours. But after those time frames the batteries will be only half their capacity and will require a full charge to get the best life out of your batteries.
I see you understand how solar works. I don't see batteries lasting all night unless they're lithium and 300ah each. Lithium batteries can be discharge completely without any problems so he'd have all 600ahs available if they're 300ah each and I do think that may work
@@marvinsalee7134 one misconception is the longevity of lead acid batteries, maintenance free labels are simply patched over the maintenance holes to prevent honest people who don't have the knowledge of how to boil their batteries from doing so and injuring themselves. In the solar community however, I think that this is less of an issue since safety has to be learned anyway to run the system. If you safely learn how to boil your lead acid batteries they can last you 75 years or more if you're lucky using the proper machine for it. Now weight and space is your main concern when using lead acid if you learn this. Which is not really an issue if you are a home owner. Lead acid for stationary, Lithium for portability. My problem is I have studied the batteries more than the solar itself because at one point I was considering making my own batteries because of how expensive that they can get. overall lead acid is safer. You can mix battery banks of different types by the way but it needs a certain type of combining circuit. You shouldn't combine them in the same bank however. Combo circuit is basically a fancy filter capacitor in a very basic version of a mppt controller yet they are not the same.
Its an old but small window unit in a small place. The compressor as long as its set to 69-71degrees wont be one majority of the time. It only maintains the temperature. Thing is that nowadays the high seer splits burn even less current than that it can definitley work
Makes sense because of the size of the building. 5000 BTU ac is supposed to cool 150 sqft. What size is that trailer 6'x10' ? So the AC only has to cool 60 sqft instead of 150 sqft... assuming he closes his doors. An AC is going to maintain whatever temperature it is set at, so if it takes 500 watts per hour to cool 150 sqft, would it make sense then that an area of only 0.4x the size would use approximately 200 watts per hour? He says at one point the controller is taking an input of 14 amps. Voltage from the solar panels I've been looking at recently is between 17-22 volts. 14x17= 238 watts 22x17=308 watts.
I'm curious, I didn't hear or see if 2 batteries are 100ah or larger or how many watts of solar panels. Also is the AC unit 5000btu or larger I think it looks like under 5000btu! Probably around 500watts draw? Thanks!
Nice job. Congrats. I did something similar once with $13 10' T-posts. That still up? The biggest threat to that set up is not nature, it's man.. trying to steal, destroy or report you. Long story (optional read).. but FYI. I've tested 450W AC with solar.. IMO, it's not worth it and it's better to adjust your life to where you live vs trying to seal yourself in an air conditioned box. Florida is hot and humid, but there are parts of Florida that are cooler at night and where sleeping with some USB fans is not uncomfortable at all. Florid has no winter a blanket or sleeping bag can't fix. No wrong way to live, but I'm taking a very different approach now with just shade and fans.. lots of fans .. IMO, Off-grid is a great opportunity to get away from couch life. I'm building a tiny 4X8 personal, screened in pod UNDER THE TREES. It's a couch, desk, bed and counter. Corrugated insulated roof, but otherwise open screened. USB fans super ventilate it. Idea is to cook, eat, work and hangout outside under the trees, but mostly I find something else to do between 11am and 3pm...that's the best time to go out , have lunch, do laundry, go shopping, etc.. The pod is basically to sleep, couch and surf.. which unfortunately is an American pastime now. A single 250W solar panel perfectly situated away from camp in direct sunlight will charge a 48v 50AH battery that is not only my only power source for fans and technology, but also drives an eBike 100 miles and will run my security camera year round. Anyways, off-grid in Florida in July and August is brutal so I would try to van life in the beach or mountains those months.
I don't understand why you're 450watt ac didn't work out. As long as you have atleast 450watts of solar power while it's running I don't see how it wouldn't work if you have sunshine. I'm sure it would take a decent size battery bank to run it through the night but it's doable 4sure. I'd use about 800watts of solar panels so it could run and have enough power to charge the batteries for night time use.
How many batteries and solar panels would i need to run a small deep freezer and house fridge 247 with a couple lights and a small window ac to keep the temp of a samll cabin or room at 69 to 70 with the chance of running a stove or electric griddle or burner
A very very large amount. You should consider cooking with propane because stoves use a high amount of current and you'd have to add several panels just for an electric stove.
hey spyplane, thank you for watching! The Air conditioner uses 475 -600 watts so, yes 600w / 120v = 5 amps on start up then drops to about 4 amps in run . Still runs great today!!
If I would do this I would run my panels in series to get approx 50 volts via solar into a MPPT charge controller. The batteries would be hooked in parallel for 24 volts. The inverter would be 24v. The advantage would be smaller gauge wire and more efficient charging… Big, high gauge wire for a 12 volt system will cost as much as pure sine wave 2000/3000 peak inverter. Furthermore in my experience the wire always seemed to heat under 12v systems at high loads as it is difficult to make low resistive connections. Otherwise good build.
Do u play guitar on that little Crate amp? Where abouts? I just ordered a 5000BTU Frigidaire for my Cargo Trailer. I'll be heasding out soon looking for musicians to jam with!
I have some questions and maybe some help. I am trying to run a 12,000 btu split ac. can it run all night? and how many panels and batteries do I need for that?
Hey guys, checking out your video, in between tracking hurricane milton, in between guitar lesson videos, i live here in beautiful sebastian FL, on the east coast, i should get my solar panels today from amazon, i'm going to build my own off grid, system, well somewhat off grid, looking at the power queen batteries this morning, so,here we go again, another hurricane, stay safe guys, 🙏🎸🇺🇲
I don't think there's any reason A/C, refrigeration and freezers couldn't easily run off solar power because they have start capacitors, right? That's what provides the surge of power required to start a compressor, isn't it? And capacitors charge practically instantly so why do people assume they can't run cooling devices off solar?
Did you see the part where the area was littered with solar panels? Im sure he is intending the system to primarily be powered by the solar panels. batteries fill the gaps on both ends of too much and too little power production from the solar.
Hey Jim, Thanks for watching. The air conditioning is helpful and is necesarry in the hot summer heat here in florida to maintain proper operation of he power systems. They would over heat and shut down under full loads of 15-17 amps 110 V AC ( current capabilities) COMING SOON, power from the big red power station SUPPLIES 2 camp sites on property as well as solar pump well power!! check it out on youtube channel atlanticdrain. Thanks again for watching
Depends on how much wattage of solar panels you have but the panels can give enough power to start it although you'll need to run it through the batteries and inverter if you can understand that
I desperately need your advice! Everyone, feel free to advise me as well. I had 2 men working on the solar system in van. They replaced the batteries with a LiFePO4 12.8V 78Ah and a 12.8V 35Ah 448Wh. They installed a Pure Sine Wave Inverter 12V Input, Power 2500W, Output 120V. I also have a Victron Smart Solar Charge Controller, MPPT 100/30. When the electrician hooked up everything sparks began flying, the system got hot, and he has given up trying to set it up. I have no solar power now in my van, which is my home. Please help! I can't waste any more money and I have no idea what I need. Thank you.
Looks like he's got between 1,200 and $2000 worth of equipment depending on what kinda batteries and such also what kinda deal he got on everything. I have a similar sized system and I have about $1600, in it
I just wanted to get some good ideas, the pavilion is interesting 🤔, gives me ideas, one thing I already know, that trailer is going to be so hot 🔥 in the summer, I guess the next video will be insulating the floor and inside ...I will be using 300 ah lipo. W 3000 w inverter 800 solar. Building from the ground up, 10x20 With lots of insulation. Arizona.
So, in my part of the world. we really REALLY need the air conditioner to run, so is it possible to set my house us with an air conditioning unit running at night? Because you kept repeating that the air conditioner will run all day "as long as there is sunshine"; but how do I get it to run even at night where the temperature drops to say 25 degrees C (77 degree F)?
You need batteries to keep it going through the nights . But remember the batteries needs to be changed but it still can go dead before the night is over because it's not being charged from the moon 😂. But that's how it go's . Get like 10 batteries Big ones like truck battery
1 horsepower = 746 watts of motor is 100 percent efficient single phase Walmart acs are only 50 percent efficient and probably have 1/4 horsepower motors. Depending on unit. So that wold be 1500 wats/ horsepower 1/4 horsepower needed to run ac. At 120 volts 375 watts/120volts = 3 amps@120 volts or 30 amps @12volts. If you use an inverter run ac it works more like a 3 phase motor and is between 70 to 90 percent efficient. This would mean you only Abe to put in 900 to 1200 watts to get same horsepower. Divide that by 1/4 horsepower and you would save the extra you spent on ac by needing less panels and battery’s.
That air conditioner Im sure is at least 400 Watts so if he can't run that heater he shouldn't be able to run the ac. I'm sure he doesn't run the ac at night on the batteries he had there. Pretty cool though. I run a ac myself when the sun's hitting the panels but not at night or cloudy day's. With enough batteries and panels it can easily be done though
Prople don't understand that devices are not running constantly they do cycle off and on the fan may run all the time but not the compressor. Same with a well pump. I had a co worker run his well with the old harbor freight solar panels that were only 15 watts a piece for a total of 45 watts. He used a deep cycle battery a harbor freight inverter and three solar panels plus the charge controller. 73
Man I nearly flipped when you said you can run guitar amplifiers for the whole day on that setup!!! Woot Woot! Off grid musicians😊
yeah, the rest of the world really needs that.
Hey corndog, thanks for watching! fellow musicians unite! I have a great time when i get down to my off grid living tiny house, i hook up big red and take it out to the beach, get together with band mates and jam . I take total of 400 watts panels with for power. great times. thanks again for watching!
Great video. I just bought a 29 foot rv trailer and live in west texas. I have .35 acre of county land and will be building to be off grid
I just moved there about to get me a rv too bro!
This is impressive he got some skills no ordinary man can do that
Almost everyone can for instance i know how and im only 14
@@2crayzlol. Exactly. 😂😂😂😂😂
The rest of us are living like savages and this man is living in the year 2095
Lol .. not at all. Its a very nice setup but almost anyone can do it.. if u dont know how just ask (almost anyone)
Just keep hot wires taped off (and, or solar covered up so it doesnt make power) until youre ready to plug it all up.. very simple and fun todo. 4 wires in and out of the solar controller.
Panels are Indian givers with out an SC lol... theyll give power, then take it all back at night .. draining your batteries worse than u began with lol .. also overcharge batteries and ruin them over time, pretty quickly.
Be sure and have an SCC
Some people just don't have the right guidance, if they did everyone that's single would be living in one of these instead of paying thousands of dollars, and we would be able to get ahead of the system since saving is almost impossible now adays
When the collapse happens, this man won't notice!
@@dave1-iz210 the zoning laws are what’s the problem. Most towns & cities have a minimum structure size of 800 - 1000 sq ft. Tiny homes can be a secondary residence outside of a larger home, but that is a hurdle most can’t overcome. We need more friendly zoning laws.
@@Ethan.s.. unless they want to get into it with the tribes I highly recommend for them to go home with their public servant behinds and analyze their whole entire existence if they are in north America. That's just the nice side.
Yes to the amplifiers man thank you for that!!
Hey Jason, Thumbs up! Its great to see fellow musicians play off grid!!
Thats a cool setup you have there I like it 👍👍
This is very good ideas for everyone especially homeless and going to school younger generations for a low cost
What a great inspiration! Thank you so much for the video. Very politely, I wanted to ask, how many batteries you think I may be needing for one 25000 btu window air condition (3000watts) and two Extractor Fan Blower (1040 watt for both) and an industrial humidifier (3000watt)? However the humidifier and fans will not run all day continuous, only the air condition would. The fan and humidifer, again, will run one and half hours every four hours. I would use all three applances only day times, say from 7am-8pm daily, no night usage of them. And I live in texas where the sun is super hot in the summers. Please advice me on how many batteries and panels I will be needing for my project. Again, thank you and for your response in advance.
That's 7040 watts per hour those are on(just added them all up). So the next question is how many hours will you run each device? When in doubt, go for higher hours (aka duty cycle). If you have 100% duty cycle on 7040W that's 168,960 Watt/hour(or 168.96 Kilowatt/hour) for 24 hr cycle.. which is quite a bit. You always want to add a buffer on solar and make sure to include everything when figuring out your daily use. You can google your zipcode for how many "sun hours" there are in your location. Then for the battery pack, you need to decide how long you want to have power if you don't have any sun(I call it standby power). If your in Arizona desert, you probably don't need more than 1 day standby power. If you're in Northeast you may want 3 days standby power.
Ex: If you have 5 sun-hours in your location then you should size your battery for 5X max rating of solar panels. And you want 2 days standby power. So lets assume you need 169Kw per hour(for everything you mentioned) 24/7 use(100% duty cycle). Battery would be 169Kw x 24 hrs x 2 days standby= 338 Kwh. Solar panels should be 169Kwh / 5 hr = 33.8Kw solar needed. Its a lot cheaper to oversize solar panels, than to have a big battery.. but you do need standby if you wish to remain 100% on solar. For batteries, Lithium Iron Phosphate are the preferred chemistry among a lot of tiny housers/RVers. RUclips search "Will Prowse solar" for more information on batteries/solar and he does go over everything I just mentioned in one of his videos. He's got several solar systems at his house, and he's charging multiple electric cars from solar which is pretty cool.
@@Geoff9001 where are you getting 168.96/hour.. it'd be 168.96/24hours...
Also you're not taking into account inrush current and having the power at hand when the AC cycles on, which it will do.
@@michaelcohen9363 yeah quickly glancing over my math it looks like I accidentally multiplied it by 24 twice. Thanks for the catch! Btw for original commenter, I recommend hiring a solar company to do a true load evaluation because it's impossible for us to estimate your power use without much more information. Are there south facing windows? What latitude is this solar array? Etc etc
Great product...
Living in the year 2090 you have an electric heating blanket, but it also has conditioning. So if you want to save energy at night you use your electric blanket in A/C mode. Wall mounted A/C is so 2020s.
Completely over my head.
You're awesome. I need this energy in my life
I lived for several years without utilities. You can survive if you try, that's what I tell everyone. your bed is a sofa. Very well insulated then on two sides right? Ok, now long johns. regular street clothes. A heavey hat, Winter coat, Then 2 blankets and 1 comforter. Hide your head under and leave a little passage for air. You will wake up sweating.
Why do all that if you don't need to
@@Alileverything because he's making fun of poor people!!! And this is a video for how to stay cool not warm!!!!! Nobody in the Southeast USA freezes to death, it's very rare and due to intoxication!!!!! But alot of people die every year because of heatstrokes!!!!!!
I smart female would recognize the integrity and intelligence of that but also he owns the land !!!!!!!!!!!! Preferably a man like him a Batchelor land owner. Would explain in the first few dates. And then if not comfortable camping on the land go to hotel.. or her place..then they can build together whatever she/they want!!!!! Any smart lady will respect a owner more than a renter anyday!!! Don't hate dude!
Hey elizabeth, right on! all my life and a day to come up with this one.:)
@AtlanticDrain I have just had a ruff life. It's me ,I have just changed screen names. I watch stuff like this because I'm constantly worried about survival. I have a 5th wheel that is 1/3erd built into something substantial now. And am hoping to buy some land maby . But the cost And regulations of having utilities put into land is just obscene as i'm sure you understand well. I'm happy this came across my feed again.
He's smart enough to have strong off grid AC !!!!! Seems protective to me as a female!!!!!! And he's the land owner next to there office dude!!! A smart lady could imagine boom boom with intelligent man like that !! Cus his girl would be chilling 😎 after storm while the rest of the city has no power!!!!!
What kind of continuous power . With the inventor. O will buy one now
can you put in the discription how many batteries you have, and how much AH they are example 50 100 300 400AH,
how many solar panels you have and they are at 100 watts? They look like polycrystaline.
How many input watts can the controller handle?
How many amps does the air conditioning draw?
it must be a 4500/5000 btu 110v Window AC. must draw between 4 and 5.5 amps
@@curierfromxibalba1155 With say 5 amp at 120 vac draw equates to 50 amp draw on his batteries. I'd say his 2 batteries wouldn't last long even if they were each 12 volt 200 ah batteries. You wouldn't want to drain your deep cycle batteries more than 50% so you're only looking at about 4 hours of continuous running of that air conditioner. He said he had as much as 20 amps coming in from solar panels during a sunny day. That equates to 2 amps at 120 volts ac not including the loss to invert that power.
Best to convert your loads to watts and compare those watts to the watts being used from the batteries. Watts is watts regardless of the voltage. No conversion required.
How amps does a 110vac AC dra need when starting the motor? I'm wondering if i could skip the batteries. I only want to supplement my house AC. Cheapest way is to immediately use the power from the panels.
Can't you build a fireproof enclosure for the electronics and what size circuit breaker do you use
Love it!!Thank You for the video!
That’s a great piece of art and inventionmenship
Nice job 👍🏼 . And very simple and easy 👍🏼
Hallo sir nice video what caind the air conditioning you got?
can you do an update video with specifics and links to ac unit
Please check with Chris about specs. As far as I I know the unit came from Walmart. 5000 BTU. It’s the inverter that makes things run.. 2000 watt inverter from harbor freight. Here is Chris’s channel on RUclips
ruclips.net/user/AtlanticDrain
He has many videos about his
hide-a-way
Would have been nice to know the specifics of the batteries.
Those are 2 basic, new car batteries.. around 60$ each at Walmart..
He's not even using deep cycle, or the expensive life batteries.. hell hes not even using 3 or 4.
Hes got a good get down there with that little setup.
The secret is how many solar panels hes running.
I got 3 of those cheap charge controllers and was happy to see someone else using them.. bought my first one Dec 2018 and my 3rd one last week. All from ebay for less than 16$ for this last, most expensive one.. others were 12$ each. They work great so far and like i say, i been usin em since late 2018.
This guy would have even more after daylight power by just addingn1 or more of the same type batteries.. getting deep cycle or Life batteries.
Peace
Forgot to mention.. the charge controllers i got .. the first 2 are 50A .. this last one is 100A .. they look exactly like his just different color sticker label. Even 30 or 40A is plenty.
@@koollee yes, I have some deep cell batteries and they last much much longer than car batteries. Car batteries were not meant to be severely discharged during the night
So each batteries are 12 volts each or…?
Great idea, Chris didn't tell us how many BTU's the a/c was and how many amp hours were in the two batteries. Have a great dry day. Enjoy your videos.
Hey Roy,
Thanks for watching!
I have video up stating everything you need to know about solar air conditioniers.
youtube channel - atlanticdrain
about 5k, i think ive seen the model at home depot. 5k on box
@@AtlanticDrain where is the video your channel is all over the place cant find it
Id say 5000 btu because of the size of the space and the unit is small
@@2crayzbouge rv makes a 2.5k btu, way better. It’s portable too.
Very nice, what part of Florida are you from?
I've had trouble finding inverters capable of supporting a full AC even if small. What kind of inverter is this that's working in the video? He did say it was a 2000 watt inverter but not which maker, type? Thanks. Tried several inverters and they keep shutting off and not able to do a 400 watt AC... a small one.
I've been wanting to go solar but must have my guitar amp. Thanks for the info. Awesome setup
Let me know when you’re ready to Jam!!!!
How many watts solar panel do I need to power a air conditioner that's 500w ?
Hey Lermer,
Thank you for watching! I use big red for gigs as well. Take to festivals, beaches, parks. I always take 400 watts with for power.
What about a propane heater?
Keep in mind 10 amps charge at the batteries (12 volts) is only 1 amp or less at the inverter output (120 volts). They didn't say how many amps the air conditioner uses. But if the batteries were 12volt 200 ah. 2 in parallel would give him 400 ah. You should never take deep cycle batteries below a 50 % charge so you have 200 amp hours available plus whatever amps your getting from solar panels. Converting that 12 vdc 200 ah to 120 vac gives you approximately 20 ah of electricity. That equates to running a 1 amp load for 20 hour, or 2 amp load for 10 hours. But after those time frames the batteries will be only half their capacity and will require a full charge to get the best life out of your batteries.
I see you understand how solar works. I don't see batteries lasting all night unless they're lithium and 300ah each. Lithium batteries can be discharge completely without any problems so he'd have all 600ahs available if they're 300ah each and I do think that may work
I'm guessing he only runs it during day
@@marvinsalee7134 one misconception is the longevity of lead acid batteries, maintenance free labels are simply patched over the maintenance holes to prevent honest people who don't have the knowledge of how to boil their batteries from doing so and injuring themselves. In the solar community however, I think that this is less of an issue since safety has to be learned anyway to run the system. If you safely learn how to boil your lead acid batteries they can last you 75 years or more if you're lucky using the proper machine for it. Now weight and space is your main concern when using lead acid if you learn this. Which is not really an issue if you are a home owner. Lead acid for stationary, Lithium for portability. My problem is I have studied the batteries more than the solar itself because at one point I was considering making my own batteries because of how expensive that they can get. overall lead acid is safer. You can mix battery banks of different types by the way but it needs a certain type of combining circuit. You shouldn't combine them in the same bank however. Combo circuit is basically a fancy filter capacitor in a very basic version of a mppt controller yet they are not the same.
Its an old but small window unit in a small place. The compressor as long as its set to 69-71degrees wont be one majority of the time. It only maintains the temperature. Thing is that nowadays the high seer splits burn even less current than that it can definitley work
What brand of AC is that and size?
You could bring a band in there 😂
Will it run the A/C during the night ?
With only (2) batteries ?
Fantastic, the ladders were perfect.
hey sholland, thanks for watching! yes, unique set up. glad you like it!
Makes sense because of the size of the building. 5000 BTU ac is supposed to cool 150 sqft. What size is that trailer 6'x10' ? So the AC only has to cool 60 sqft instead of 150 sqft... assuming he closes his doors. An AC is going to maintain whatever temperature it is set at, so if it takes 500 watts per hour to cool 150 sqft, would it make sense then that an area of only 0.4x the size would use approximately 200 watts per hour? He says at one point the controller is taking an input of 14 amps. Voltage from the solar panels I've been looking at recently is between 17-22 volts. 14x17= 238 watts 22x17=308 watts.
I'm curious, I didn't hear or see if 2 batteries are 100ah or larger or how many watts of solar panels. Also is the AC unit 5000btu or larger I think it looks like under 5000btu! Probably around 500watts draw? Thanks!
How many btu's is that ac and can you do a test of how many of them you can run on that setup?
That AC is 5,000 BTU. And my 5,000 BTU AC uses about 500 Watts when running. But it is also 15+ years old.
Nice job. Congrats. I did something similar once with $13 10' T-posts. That still up? The biggest threat to that set up is not nature, it's man.. trying to steal, destroy or report you.
Long story (optional read).. but FYI. I've tested 450W AC with solar.. IMO, it's not worth it and it's better to adjust your life to where you live vs trying to seal yourself in an air conditioned box. Florida is hot and humid, but there are parts of Florida that are cooler at night and where sleeping with some USB fans is not uncomfortable at all. Florid has no winter a blanket or sleeping bag can't fix. No wrong way to live, but I'm taking a very different approach now with just shade and fans.. lots of fans .. IMO, Off-grid is a great opportunity to get away from couch life. I'm building a tiny 4X8 personal, screened in pod UNDER THE TREES. It's a couch, desk, bed and counter. Corrugated insulated roof, but otherwise open screened. USB fans super ventilate it. Idea is to cook, eat, work and hangout outside under the trees, but mostly I find something else to do between 11am and 3pm...that's the best time to go out , have lunch, do laundry, go shopping, etc.. The pod is basically to sleep, couch and surf.. which unfortunately is an American pastime now. A single 250W solar panel perfectly situated away from camp in direct sunlight will charge a 48v 50AH battery that is not only my only power source for fans and technology, but also drives an eBike 100 miles and will run my security camera year round. Anyways, off-grid in Florida in July and August is brutal so I would try to van life in the beach or mountains those months.
I don't understand why you're 450watt ac didn't work out. As long as you have atleast 450watts of solar power while it's running I don't see how it wouldn't work if you have sunshine. I'm sure it would take a decent size battery bank to run it through the night but it's doable 4sure. I'd use about 800watts of solar panels so it could run and have enough power to charge the batteries for night time use.
How much of a temperature drop do you get
Im using Avasva instructions to make it and I do it already :)
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How many batteries and solar panels would i need to run a small deep freezer and house fridge 247 with a couple lights and a small window ac to keep the temp of a samll cabin or room at 69 to 70 with the chance of running a stove or electric griddle or burner
A very very large amount. You should consider cooking with propane because stoves use a high amount of current and you'd have to add several panels just for an electric stove.
What brand of AC is that and size?Please!
would like to know how much is drawn . I thing a small ac about 4.5 to 6 amps?
hey spyplane,
thank you for watching! The Air conditioner uses 475 -600 watts so, yes 600w / 120v = 5 amps on start up then drops to about 4 amps in run . Still runs great today!!
If I would do this I would run my panels in series to get approx 50 volts via solar into a MPPT charge controller. The batteries would be hooked in parallel for 24 volts. The inverter would be 24v.
The advantage would be smaller gauge wire and more efficient charging… Big, high gauge wire for a 12 volt system will cost as much as pure sine wave 2000/3000 peak inverter. Furthermore in my experience the wire always seemed to heat under 12v systems at high loads as it is difficult to make low resistive connections. Otherwise good build.
What charge controller are you using?
I need help to run ac and elec in my yurt!! But I dint have outlets.
Do u play guitar on that little Crate amp? Where abouts? I just ordered a 5000BTU Frigidaire for my Cargo Trailer. I'll be heasding out soon looking for musicians to jam with!
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How many amps is this ac Consuming?
How do you keep food cool
I have some questions and maybe some help. I am trying to run a 12,000 btu split ac. can it run all night? and how many panels and batteries do I need for that?
A LOOOOT of them. Like 3000-5000 dollars of panels. 3000-4000 watts.
Next do yourself a huge favor and upgrade charge control asap. I started out with same you have and I dont wish that on anyone. Otherwise good job.
How do you have the Panels wired (Series or Parallel)?
Parallel
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Hey guys, checking out your video, in between tracking hurricane milton, in between guitar lesson videos, i live here in beautiful sebastian FL, on the east coast, i should get my solar panels today from amazon, i'm going to build my own off grid, system, well somewhat off grid, looking at the power queen batteries this morning, so,here we go again, another hurricane, stay safe guys, 🙏🎸🇺🇲
How many watts of solar do you have hooked up. It was hard to see in the video.
Looks awesome, I'm going to do something similar. What temperature is your AC set at?
Great vid ! Ty4Sharing
Love your guitar jammin` on the vid. How can I get a copy of that music ?
Wolf (from Dade City, FL)
Woot! From Dade City as well!
For heat, have you experimented with using a black infrared lamp?
I don't think there's any reason A/C, refrigeration and freezers couldn't easily run off solar power because they have start capacitors, right? That's what provides the surge of power required to start a compressor, isn't it? And capacitors charge practically instantly so why do people assume they can't run cooling devices off solar?
I have my doubts the two batteries can run an air conditioner all day on solar if they were capacitors and yeah I believe it
Did you see the part where the area was littered with solar panels? Im sure he is intending the system to primarily be powered by the solar panels. batteries fill the gaps on both ends of too much and too little power production from the solar.
Are the panels connected in series or parallel, and what about the batteries?
Is that a mppt charge controller? Using one would definitely enhance the power coming in from the solar panels.
Yes.. supposedly. These r cheap, ebay Scc's.. i just got my 3rd one this week.. first one 12/2018 ..
They work great so far
my ac wont kick on the compressor due to the spike
Wana do this to run tv fans and lights cut back on electric bill
what about all night.
Nice work
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What model is this air conditioner
What is the BTU rating on the AC unit? Looks tiny.
I like it
Are u using a 2 - 12 volt 100ah lithium or AGM batteries? Also, I guess u can run the AC with the back door closed or what?
It looked like lead acid flooded batteries to me.
Is the Ac unit to keep all the equipment in the pavilion cool? Is that necessary and what does the pavilion provide electricity to?
Hey Jim, Thanks for watching. The air conditioning is helpful and is necesarry in the hot summer heat here in florida to maintain proper operation of he power systems. They would over heat and shut down under full loads of 15-17 amps 110 V AC ( current capabilities)
COMING SOON, power from the big red power station SUPPLIES 2 camp sites on property as well as solar pump well power!! check it out on youtube channel atlanticdrain. Thanks again for watching
Does a solar power AC need batteries to start the motor? Or would only panels start the AC's motor?
Depends on how much wattage of solar panels you have but the panels can give enough power to start it although you'll need to run it through the batteries and inverter if you can understand that
I desperately need your advice! Everyone, feel free to advise me as well.
I had 2 men working on the solar system in van.
They replaced the batteries with a LiFePO4 12.8V 78Ah and a 12.8V 35Ah 448Wh.
They installed a Pure Sine Wave Inverter 12V Input, Power 2500W, Output 120V.
I also have a Victron Smart Solar Charge Controller, MPPT 100/30.
When the electrician hooked up everything sparks began flying, the system got hot, and he has given up trying to set it up. I have no solar power now in my van, which is my home.
Please help! I can't waste any more money and I have no idea what I need. Thank you.
Look morty, I've turned my cargo trailer into a refrigerated trailer. We can can finally give the middle finger to the sun.
plot twist, sun decides to stop shinning... ur comment did get a chuckle. not mad not hating
lol
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Can you run the a c at night time
Not with 2 batteries
Could be two large batteries with many watt hours.
Do i need to say whenever you turn on an air-cond. , you also need to close the window and door. 🤔
Just goona say thought the trailer was a big battery to power the mansion lol but this is a castle ...owned by a king ...
How many solar panel use?and batery?
why did you not use a 48v DC air conditioner?
What all is needed for this setup? What batteries do u have and which inverter?
Where can I buy this please?
How many panels???
can you itemize the expenses. trying to figure the expenses
thanks man
Looks like he's got between 1,200 and $2000 worth of equipment depending on what kinda batteries and such also what kinda deal he got on everything. I have a similar sized system and I have about $1600, in it
Where would a person source leftover ladders?
I just wanted to get some good ideas, the pavilion is interesting 🤔, gives me ideas, one thing I already know, that trailer is going to be so hot 🔥 in the summer, I guess the next video will be insulating the floor and inside ...I will be using 300 ah lipo. W 3000 w inverter 800 solar. Building from the ground up, 10x20
With lots of insulation.
Arizona.
You're gonna need more battery power if doing ac.
No wind turbines?
Does the ac produce condensation, that you can harvest?
That’s the question every ask! I will do some research
I hope the battery fumes don't kill you.
No chance
So, in my part of the world. we really REALLY need the air conditioner to run, so is it possible to set my house us with an air conditioning unit running at night? Because you kept repeating that the air conditioner will run all day "as long as there is sunshine"; but how do I get it to run even at night where the temperature drops to say 25 degrees C (77 degree F)?
You need batteries to keep it going through the nights . But remember the batteries needs to be changed but it still can go dead before the night is over because it's not being charged from the moon 😂. But that's how it go's . Get like 10 batteries Big ones like truck battery
1 horsepower = 746 watts of motor is 100 percent efficient single phase Walmart acs are only 50 percent efficient and probably have 1/4 horsepower motors. Depending on unit. So that wold be 1500 wats/ horsepower 1/4 horsepower needed to run ac. At 120 volts 375 watts/120volts = 3 amps@120 volts or 30 amps @12volts. If you use an inverter run ac it works more like a 3 phase motor and is between 70 to 90 percent efficient. This would mean you only Abe to put in 900 to 1200 watts to get same horsepower. Divide that by 1/4 horsepower and you would save the extra you spent on ac by needing less panels and battery’s.
That air conditioner Im sure is at least 400 Watts so if he can't run that heater he shouldn't be able to run the ac. I'm sure he doesn't run the ac at night on the batteries he had there. Pretty cool though. I run a ac myself when the sun's hitting the panels but not at night or cloudy day's. With enough batteries and panels it can easily be done though
do yall use lithium or lead acid batteries???-im kinda spooked by the lithium burning up and exploding
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Prople don't understand that devices are not running constantly they do cycle off and on the fan may run all the time but not the compressor. Same with a well pump. I had a co worker run his well with the old harbor freight solar panels that were only 15 watts a piece for a total of 45 watts. He used a deep cycle battery a harbor freight inverter and three solar panels plus the charge controller. 73