I like the way you do footage and make technical as entertainment at the same time, I just start following you the last month and I enjoy even viewing your old videos like this one, but Jehu thank you for taking the time for sharing knowledge, I own a VW Bug that I like to build electric as your bus and these videos help me to understand what I need to do so thank you for that… now I need just to research how I can do to bring the stuff I need to my country Costa Rica, but that's great, I hope I can meet you in person some day and meet the Samba just great project, please keep the channel as you do now… THANK YOU!
Hey Jehu you mentioned you have some solar cells. What do you plan on doing with them?DIY panels? Working on a method for making panels right now that's $0.22/watt for the roof of my camper. Making an instruct able in the near future. I built a spot welder from a microwave transformer for spot welding tabs to batteries but it doesn't work well quite yet. Might tweak it a bit. I saw that 12v battery spot welder video you mentioned and I'm going to try that next. I really appreciate your work and your environmental motivations behind it dude. Your videos are super clear and informative so keep it up! They're also just entertaining af haha
regarding freebies for promotions, it helps if they really want the product. I have a b2b company and I have on numerous occasions zero'd an invoice to a customer willing to pay for product in exchnage for promotion. Many times they were really effective and we got additional trade. If you give away free product to someone there is no need for them to actually use it, it may just gather dust. A customer who was willing to pay for it would use it./
To the guy talking about risking his 1.8 million dollar home. Clearly you can afford to just buy the Tesla Power Wall. So do everyone a favor and just do that instead of trolling here. However I will tell you Tesla's have caught fire and non electric cars burn up everyday and so do house without a DIY power wall. There are inherent risks in everything we do but you can not allow that to paralyze you from doing the things you love.
I have 200 watt panels but can't use the micro inverters because the panels are not powerful enough. MPPT is the way you want to go if you get a charge controller for charging your battery pack. You will need to find one that will allow for lithium cells vs lead acid and with no float. You will want a total shut off when your battery gets low. You don't want any loads on hour pack if it goes low while your gone to save your pack and your investments. Any load will continue to drain a pack and it can get to dangerous levels if you have any load. Yes, even a small led volt meter will drain your pack. Once your pack is critical low that tiny load becomes very very huge. So shut it all off. Manually reset when its safe again and charged. Im just talking a safety mechanism for super low battery pack.
You can buy a single panel that is in the range of 250w and up and a single micro inverter. That inverter will provide 220 volts to your home. Low current but it will add power you can use to your home directly in AC. You could also send that power to a bank of batteries for use after it gets dark so you have some usable power later in the evening. But if you just want to do a solar setup you can buy one panel and inverter then as you can afford another you just add that into the system. Giving you more. If you know your final size you might want you can buy the required wiring then just connect up one panel/inverter at a time as your needs increase or your funds allow. Grow your system slow. Both panels and micro inverters are guaranteed by the manufacturer for 25 years. Thats just the guarantee. They should last much longer.
You should put some brain power into making a machine to help you put them battery packs together easier… Sell the machine to other users so that you can fund your shop and projects…. or make battery packs for people, but them you have to times your cost times 3 or 4 for it to be worth the effort and keep the lights on and food on the table at home… I'm down for brain storming or mastermind sessions….
On instructables there is an arduino controlled MPPT charge controller that Ive been building , but making modifications as needed to scale up to higher input amperages, wider charge voltage range, etc. It was designed for small systems so I am scaling up.
I like the way you do footage and make technical as entertainment at the same time, I just start following you the last month and I enjoy even viewing your old videos like this one, but Jehu thank you for taking the time for sharing knowledge, I own a VW Bug that I like to build electric as your bus and these videos help me to understand what I need to do so thank you for that… now I need just to research how I can do to bring the stuff I need to my country Costa Rica, but that's great, I hope I can meet you in person some day and meet the Samba just great project, please keep the channel as you do now… THANK YOU!
Hey Jehu you mentioned you have some solar cells. What do you plan on doing with them?DIY panels? Working on a method for making panels right now that's $0.22/watt for the roof of my camper. Making an instruct able in the near future. I built a spot welder from a microwave transformer for spot welding tabs to batteries but it doesn't work well quite yet. Might tweak it a bit. I saw that 12v battery spot welder video you mentioned and I'm going to try that next. I really appreciate your work and your environmental motivations behind it dude. Your videos are super clear and informative so keep it up! They're also just entertaining af haha
regarding freebies for promotions, it helps if they really want the product. I have a b2b company and I have on numerous occasions zero'd an invoice to a customer willing to pay for product in exchnage for promotion. Many times they were really effective and we got additional trade. If you give away free product to someone there is no need for them to actually use it, it may just gather dust. A customer who was willing to pay for it would use it./
What about solar panels over battery trailer? 🙂
To the guy talking about risking his 1.8 million dollar home. Clearly you can afford to just buy the Tesla Power Wall. So do everyone a favor and just do that instead of trolling here. However I will tell you Tesla's have caught fire and non electric cars burn up everyday and so do house without a DIY power wall. There are inherent risks in everything we do but you can not allow that to paralyze you from doing the things you love.
really dude your not that cool.
I have 200 watt panels but can't use the micro inverters because the panels are not powerful enough. MPPT is the way you want to go if you get a charge controller for charging your battery pack. You will need to find one that will allow for lithium cells vs lead acid and with no float. You will want a total shut off when your battery gets low. You don't want any loads on hour pack if it goes low while your gone to save your pack and your investments. Any load will continue to drain a pack and it can get to dangerous levels if you have any load. Yes, even a small led volt meter will drain your pack. Once your pack is critical low that tiny load becomes very very huge. So shut it all off. Manually reset when its safe again and charged. Im just talking a safety mechanism for super low battery pack.
You can buy a single panel that is in the range of 250w and up and a single micro inverter. That inverter will provide 220 volts to your home. Low current but it will add power you can use to your home directly in AC. You could also send that power to a bank of batteries for use after it gets dark so you have some usable power later in the evening. But if you just want to do a solar setup you can buy one panel and inverter then as you can afford another you just add that into the system. Giving you more. If you know your final size you might want you can buy the required wiring then just connect up one panel/inverter at a time as your needs increase or your funds allow. Grow your system slow. Both panels and micro inverters are guaranteed by the manufacturer for 25 years. Thats just the guarantee. They should last much longer.
saludos desde dallas me gusta tu programa mui chido
awww, missed a live show. 🙂
You should put some brain power into making a machine to help you put them battery packs together easier… Sell the machine to other users so that you can fund your shop and projects…. or make battery packs for people, but them you have to times your cost times 3 or 4 for it to be worth the effort and keep the lights on and food on the table at home… I'm down for brain storming or mastermind sessions….
+jehugarcia I was wondering if could chat about powerwall ideas
On instructables there is an arduino controlled MPPT charge controller that Ive been building , but making modifications as needed to scale up to higher input amperages, wider charge voltage range, etc. It was designed for small systems so I am scaling up.