DIY solar power for cheap energy !
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I show you how to build your own solar power system using affordable solar panels, inverters, storage batteries and charge controllers to significantly reduce your energy costs.
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A do-it-yourself solar plant can pay for itself in just a few years if the planning is done properly.
The electrical components are now very affordable and easy to combine.
Installation materials are often the most expensive item, and installing solar panels is usually the most difficult task.
You don’t need to be a qualified electrician to install your own solar panel system properly and, above all, safely.
Of course, certain safety rules and local legal regulations, where required, must be observed.
Generating your own solar power is great fun and can greatly reduce your energy costs while contributing to the much-needed energy transition.
Installation by a special company is expensive, and it takes a very long time for the cost to pay for itself.
However, if you set up your own system, you usually have to do without subsidies and the feed-in tariff for electricity fed into the public grid.
This means that with 'zero feed-in', your inverter only generates as much electricity as you are currently using.
The individual parts, such as solar panels, inverters, storage batteries and charge controllers, are now very cheap and, if you think about a few things, easy to install.
To ensure that the solar installation pays for itself quickly, correct sizing is of the greatest importance.
In summer, you always seem to have too much energy, and in winter, not enough.
You need to think carefully beforehand about how much electricity you actually need in the summer, so as not to oversize the system and make it unnecessarily expensive.
As a homemade solar system usually operates with zero feed-in, no energy is generated when the storage battery is full and no electricity is required.
Although this preserves the system, making effective use of solar energy would, of course, be more cost-effective.
Devices with high power consumption include, in particular, heat pumps for cooling, heating and hot water supply, tumble dryers, ovens, dishwashers and washing machines, and, of course, electric cars.
The actual demand and, of course, the available space for the solar panels determine the size of the system.
You then need to decide on a system voltage of 12, 24 or 48 volts.
I recommend using the highest possible voltage, as this results in the lowest losses.
This consideration also includes how the individual solar modules are wired into strings.
This is where series and parallel connections – or combinations of the two – come into play, although one should also bear in mind the issue of partial shading.
Once you have considered these points, you can then choose a suitable inverter, storage battery and, if necessary, several charge controllers.
In most cases, a low-power single-phase inverter is sufficient; three-phase inverters and high-power models are much more expensive.
There are then several ways in which the feed-in to the domestic grid can be controlled.
If only one phase is measured, power is supplied to that phase only; you should therefore connect your main electricity consumers to that phase.
With a three-phase inverter, consumption is measured across all three phases and power is fed back into the grid via all three phases.
Or all three phases are measured and the total is fed into just one phase.
It is tempting to design the entire system to be capable of running on emergency power, but this is much more expensive and you should consider whether you really need it.
It is much cheaper to buy a portable inverter – for example, one designed for camping – which allows you to keep your essential devices powered up in the event of a blackout.
With the right planning and execution, you can reduce your electricity costs to almost zero in summer and save heavily in winter, too.
Over time, you develop a good sense of your electricity usage, and it’s great fun to minimize your energy consumption.
If implemented effectively, this makes a significant contribution to environmental protection and helps drive the urgently needed energy transition.
I’d be very happy to see lots of comments with suggestions, ideas and criticism!
Thank you very much for watching!
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Watch: • Jim Yosef - Eclipse | House | NCS
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Thanks to Baptiste (alias OfficialyMax) we now have a Discord server: https://discord.com/invite/TDABS5z2mT
It would be very nice if we could discuss there everything about Stirling engines, 3D printing and more, thank you very much Baptiste.
A do-it-yourself solar plant can pay for itself in just a few years if the planning is done properly.
The electrical components are now very affordable and easy to combine.
Installation materials are often the most expensive item, and installing solar panels is usually the most difficult task.
You don’t need to be a qualified electrician to install your own solar panel system properly and, above all, safely.
Of course, certain safety rules and local legal regulations, where required, must be observed.
Generating your own solar power is great fun and can greatly reduce your energy costs while contributing to the much-needed energy transition.
Installation by a special company is expensive, and it takes a very long time for the cost to pay for itself.
However, if you set up your own system, you usually have to do without subsidies and the feed-in tariff for electricity fed into the public grid.
This means that with 'zero feed-in', your inverter only generates as much electricity as you are currently using.
The individual parts, such as solar panels, inverters, storage batteries and charge controllers, are now very cheap and, if you think about a few things, easy to install.
To ensure that the solar installation pays for itself quickly, correct sizing is of the greatest importance.
In summer, you always seem to have too much energy, and in winter, not enough.
You need to think carefully beforehand about how much electricity you actually need in the summer, so as not to oversize the system and make it unnecessarily expensive.
As a homemade solar system usually operates with zero feed-in, no energy is generated when the storage battery is full and no electricity is required.
Although this preserves the system, making effective use of solar energy would, of course, be more cost-effective.
Devices with high power consumption include, in particular, heat pumps for cooling, heating and hot water supply, tumble dryers, ovens, dishwashers and washing machines, and, of course, electric cars.
The actual demand and, of course, the available space for the solar panels determine the size of the system.
You then need to decide on a system voltage of 12, 24 or 48 volts.
I recommend using the highest possible voltage, as this results in the lowest losses.
This consideration also includes how the individual solar modules are wired into strings.
This is where series and parallel connections – or combinations of the two – come into play, although one should also bear in mind the issue of partial shading.
Once you have considered these points, you can then choose a suitable inverter, storage battery and, if necessary, several charge controllers.
In most cases, a low-power single-phase inverter is sufficient; three-phase inverters and high-power models are much more expensive.
There are then several ways in which the feed-in to the domestic grid can be controlled.
If only one phase is measured, power is supplied to that phase only; you should therefore connect your main electricity consumers to that phase.
With a three-phase inverter, consumption is measured across all three phases and power is fed back into the grid via all three phases.
Or all three phases are measured and the total is fed into just one phase.
It is tempting to design the entire system to be capable of running on emergency power, but this is much more expensive and you should consider whether you really need it.
It is much cheaper to buy a portable inverter – for example, one designed for camping – which allows you to keep your essential devices powered up in the event of a blackout.
With the right planning and execution, you can reduce your electricity costs to almost zero in summer and save heavily in winter, too.
Over time, you develop a good sense of your electricity usage, and it’s great fun to minimize your energy consumption.
If implemented effectively, this makes a significant contribution to environmental protection and helps drive the urgently needed energy transition.
I’d be very happy to see lots of comments with suggestions, ideas and criticism!
Thank you very much for watching!
Thanks for the background music:
Song: Jim Yosef - Eclipse [NCS Release]
Music provided by NoCopyrightSounds
Free Download/Stream: http://ncs.io/eclispe
Watch: • Jim Yosef - Eclipse | House | NCS
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