Off Grid Air Conditioning A Sucess You Dont Need An Expensive System
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Ok, a full day and a night of testing the solar powered air conditioning system proves that it can and does work. My stuff costs about $2,000. You may pay a bit more depending on where you look.
In this video I show you where to get solar panels as low as 50 cents per watt. Yes, it is true. You may find that after shipping its $1 per watt. That is cheap and good. Its still cheaper than the full retails of $5 to $10 per watt.
My solar panels are off craigslist at 50 cents per watt. 800 watts = $400
My charge controller retails for about 500
The batteries are about 100 each = $600
The inverter retails for about 500 but you can get a tiger claw pure sine wave inverter off amazon for about $179. I read lots of good reviews about them.
Check craigslist for second hand or discounted, scratched or dented solar panels.
Check sunelec.com for low priced solar panels.
The charge controller is an mppt type tristar controller from
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Get yourself an additional charge controller. You are wasting a LOT of
energy by not capturing those amps. IMHO.
Sidney, I’m searching Youtube to learn for my first off-grid setup. COuld
you elaborate on having more than one charge controller?
Took a lot of time to save up but now I have three of them.
Get a dehumidifier for when you have to keep the camper closed up. Monitor
your humidity levels so you don’t get mold growth.
Agreed, even passive dehumidifiers would work with it sealed. And some
ozone could kill anything that built up.
how big is your battery bank????
great idea.but what an eye sore to the landscape.looks like a junk yard
Was a junk yard when I got here. We have been cleaning it recently.
430watts only for the AC, that’s a very small one!
I mounted a “double pulley”(junk yard $3) to my RV air condition compressor
and mounted a 12V electric motor to run off the battery bank. That way I
can run the RV gas engine to run the AC and charge the bats, run the
generator to run the AC and charge the bats, use the solar panels to charge
the batts and run the AC. If you have a good breeze get a windmill to back
up during the night hours your solar.
Just FYI, the reason the power consumption on the AC unit goes up in the
first few minutes of operation has to do with the head pressure on the
compressor. As the temperature on the high side of the system goes up, so
does the pressure difference across the compressor, and thus its power
consumption.
+Josh Jones I believe start run capacitors handle that problem on window
units
Hi. my name is Niven !
your mama is junk yard..
Such inspiration!!! Thanks for this video 😀 Gives me hope for my projects!
So do you no longer have a job in the developed world, just spend your days
surviving, getting basic needs met? Did you have to pay anything for the
land?
you do this all alone where’s your dog.
Consider using a small car compressor, just need a small motor and fan belt
to spin the compressor then you are using 12V to activate the compressor
with only a small amount of power for the small motor (12V or 120V), at
this cost for the power stations, you can build one for each room and only
use them when you are using that room. Just a consideration…
Good idea , he could also put a alt in the belt to make extra power too
You don’t say that you are running a refrigerator or freezer. I have never
seen a day or night that I wasn’t happy with the large soap bar sized
freeze cubes tucked under my armpits or behind my knees, between the small
of my back and my belt, when sitting or under my feet with or a cold damp
wash cloth from the fridge behind my neck with a small fan on me. But I
don’t live in the NorthWest. On very hot days I will use them 4-5 times
when I sit down and use several of them at time. You can use them in the
car as well and leave your windows open.Just take a few along with you in a
small cooler with ice. The cubes lower your entire body temp by 1-3 degrees
and usually are only needed 15-30 minutes at a time. I prefer it to living
enclosed with AC. I keep a dozen of them in the freezer during the summer.
They take up very little space and I could get by with just 4 and a 16in
fan.
And, if you recycle the water that dribbles down from your armpits due to
the melting ice cubes, you can refill the ice cube trays several times.
That’s gotta’ save at least a nickel too.
Great video Mr Do it Yourself… many success to you!
Thank you
what’s the name of the book?
AMPS X VOLTS = WATTS
430 WATTS WITH 120 VOLTS IS LESS THAN 4 AMPS
430 WATTS WITH 12 VOLTS IS ABOUT 35 AMPS
A 120 WATT LIGHT BULB USING 120 VOLTS WILL PULL 1 AMP
AN AC COMPRESSOR PULLS LOCKED ROTOR AMPS TO START WHICH IS SEVERAL TIMES
THE NORMAL RUNNING AMPS, A LARGE CURRENT DRAW BUT FOR VERY SHORT DURATION.
i USED SIX 6 VOLT GOLF CART BATTERIES WIRED AS THREE 12 VOLT BATTTERIES
THAT AC UNIT IS 5000 BTU’S
why not use Led lights? More light less watts used
+Kd Grayson !
120 watt lightbulb? There’s your problem. You need to cut your power
consumption, not try to make it cheaper.
so in your experiments how many aH is your battery bank and how many watts
of your solar panels to charge that battery bank, and the value of your
inverter, in order to operate your air con , tv and lights, is you air con
is a 12 volts operated? or straight from your inverter?
what if you mounted the panels on top of old telephone poles to rise them
above the trees…..