EEVblog #484 - Home Solar Power System Installation

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1. Are those metal tiles?
2. >...inverter can't go next to the fuse box
   
   (but mum's is, Dave why?)
   
   >......because of the gas (pans to show meter)
   
   ahh that'll be it. no gas at Mum's - they have bottles.
   
   our inverter box gets so hot in the summer, can't tell if it is a bodge job.
3. Not certain about the points made but ,if anyone else trying to find out how to install solar system for home try Pyzork Solar Saver Professor (do a google search ) ? Ive heard some amazing things about it and my brother in law got cool results with it.
4. don't get a smart meter
5. Need your opinion, I have lots of Stion, but they ran out so I got a bunch of SUNGEN panels for under 40 cents a watt, I just got 15 of them. This is where ( that link), Whats your opinion of this type, so far, there impressive. http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/711-53200-19255-0/1?icep_ff3=2&pub=5575119394&toolid=10001&campid=5337663844&customid=Solar+panels+100+watt&icep_item=171847674560&ipn=psmain&icep_vectorid=229466&kwid=902099&mtid=824&kw=lg 100 watt high volt Amorphous
6. This is great. Did you know that it is illegal to have solar panel systems in the Spain. That is right. That tax you for the sun. Stupid spain
7. You would have had a right good rampage / moan about our solar system install job. The plonkers installed two rows of 2kw and the upper row were all installed upside down, so the male and female link cables did not match. As such the installers left the entire upper row disconnected. I sniffed a rat though after the inverted only ever read a max of 1.9kw on a sunny day, then i noticed the disconnected cables tucked in under the panels.
8. How many years until you can store interesting amounts of solar energy in a flywheel?
9. use a battery backup
10. Neat 👍
11. if you update this system lookup max input spec for this sunnyboy and then buy another 2kw of panels to 'overclock' your inverter :P
    
    reason i say lookup spec is if you stay within amp and volt limit you'll be sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! mate runs 8kw panels on 5kw inverter.
12. Considering "Americans" migrated from some where is I do recall and killed quite a few people with disease. More deaths from disease than from war. Sad.
13. I don't understand why every American movie has Caucasians as the main roles. I thought being an American has nothing to do with where your from or what you look like. But ignorant American Hollywood has it different.
14. thank you for showing this video i find it very informative
15. about time
16. Pure Sine Wave Power Inverter 500W / 1200W DC 12V AC http://ali.pub/3w4y8
17. great content but fuck me you say "and ah" a lot
18. Dave...could you please answer some questions? Could you draw a schematics for the panels installations. (If they are in series or parallel conection). The sum of the panels watts must be the total of Watts needed for the home? If the inverter delivers 220V, does the total volts sum of the cells must need more than 360v? Or the inverter only sees the power whatever the voltage of the solar cells? If those questions were already answered, is there a knowledge data base that i can download from somewhere?
19. I've installed LG panels before and they're no different than the others. I don't know why you would need special training from LG.
20. Is that enough power for all your domestic needs?