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Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by locke6206

locke6206 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:24:09 +0000

Sweet setup.. What is the Harbor Freight item number on that kit?

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by offthegridsurvival

offthegridsurvival — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 12:05:08 +0000

@locke6206 Its ITEM 90599-1VGA on sale for $199

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by homeismn

homeismn — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:49:30 +0000

Awesome… I just bought the kit
Need to install it when it gets warm.
Where did you get the batts and how much?

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by offthegridsurvival

offthegridsurvival — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:03:04 +0000

@homeismn At Walmart, and were about $70 each… Just make sure you get marine deep cycle batteries, if you get a regular car battery it will just go bad after awhile..

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by ROGUEWARRIORNATION

ROGUEWARRIORNATION — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 10:26:23 +0000

Awesome setup. 5*’s Love your videos. Keep them coming.

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by UncleBob556

UncleBob556 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:59:01 +0000

I like this set up - hate to be a pain, but I’d like to see a more in depth vid on this. I have no experience with setting up back up power so any more info you can give on doing this would be great.

Thanks for the vids!

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by offthegridsurvival

offthegridsurvival — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 09:04:37 +0000

I’ll try to work on that in the near future… There are alot of videos showing setup of this kit. Check out user GREENPOWERSCIENCE… Thats where I learned how to set this up..

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by rblain4780

rblain4780 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:48:21 +0000

Hi. You have the batteries set up in parra…so this system is 12v right? not 25 volt? Also…What can you run in your shop with a 12 v setup? Thanks

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by offthegridsurvival

offthegridsurvival — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:51:11 +0000

@rblain4780 Yes, its setup for 12 volts… I can run my drill, circular saw, jig saw, and other small tools with no difficulty… as well as charging my batteries for my cordless drills..

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by BALALOCA399

BALALOCA399 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:33:26 +0000

nice setup , how much it cost?

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by offthegridsurvival

offthegridsurvival — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:10:21 +0000

@BALALOCA399 I got about $400 to $500 tied up in it, it works great though..

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by gatedude07

gatedude07 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:58:26 +0000

I’m no electrician, so take what I say with a rather large grain of salt, but isn’t it possible to also hook you panels up to the grid and sell the energy back to the grid? A nice little source of money once your battery is full and you’re not using the excess at the time.

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by offthegridsurvival

offthegridsurvival — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:37:14 +0000

@gatedude07 Yes, you could… I looked into it awhile back, with a small 45 watt setup, you would need a grid tie inverter which cost about $300 and it wouldn’t be that cost effective for what you would get back. If you had 200 watts of solar panels or more, grid tied system would be the way to go…

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by loismustdietonight

loismustdietonight — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:30:09 +0000

Awesome setup! I am waiting on my 80watt panel to be shipped. I almost bought the 45 watt system from HF but went to ebay and found a 80W mono crystalline panel for exactly the same price! My friends and I are planning a campout soon and I could really use some suggestions to deep battery sizing to run my 200w inverter powering about 4 - 13W 120vAC CFL bulbs ALL night?

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by offthegridsurvival

offthegridsurvival — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:13:35 +0000

@loismustdietonight Walmart has some pretty cheap deep cycle batteries… Get a battery with the biggest Amp Hour rating you can afford… Say you get a battery that is rated at 120 amp hours, using 52 watts in compact florescent lights… That would last about 12 hours.

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by VWRabbitdiesel

VWRabbitdiesel — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 06:00:15 +0000

nice setup..

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by pivotmasterpmdx

pivotmasterpmdx — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 05:14:52 +0000

@gatedude07: Yes you can. our utility did just that, (PSE&G) by hooking up 200,000 solar panels to the electric poles and back feeding them directly into the secondaries (after the transformer) to absorb the load and help shed the power producing jet engines and fossil units. Specs for panel output are: 200Watt output at 1.6Amps 120/240 VAC. They have an addressable micro-inverter attached underneath them with a rubber ducky antenna. Search “petrasolar” for more information.

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by highperformance7

highperformance7 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 04:22:59 +0000

If i want to run my house how many battery should i have and how much would this set up cost ? Oh and would a generator be better tho ? Thanks

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by highperformance7

highperformance7 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:33:25 +0000

If i want to run my house how many battery should i have and how much would this set up cost ? Oh and would a generator be better tho ? Thanks

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by Briankey1960

Briankey1960 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 03:19:01 +0000

I love that setup, Ive always Loved wind power and solar Power, Im fixing to get me couple of panels, use them instead of Power company, I live alone, so, Im hardly ever inconvienced. I went thru Hurricane Ike with no power,, that really sucked.. Wont be without power anymore. Thanks for the video it gives me alot of ideas…

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by bxrbrfdude

bxrbrfdude — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:51:50 +0000

Great info, just wish there were more on this video. I guess I will subscribe to your channel to see. Keep up the good work.

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by SpaceMan131326

SpaceMan131326 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:43:40 +0000

you can get a power inverter that is 1000 watts and it has plugs so it is better then this set up, but good job, as well you can use a ulternator hooked up to a fan for wind power connexted to a power inverter as well and then connect it to a few batteries so you can have a better power source

Comment on Emergency Solar Power Setup by WORRO01

WORRO01 — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 02:24:57 +0000

Very nice, I have been looking at the HF kit for a long time, could kick myself for not getting one last month when the price went down to 159.00. Thanks for the video, good work!

Comment on How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House? by 9878tubeyou

9878tubeyou — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 13:05:31 +0000

Some people have said to shoot the Monsanto bastards, but I wouldn’t do this. This would be illegal.

Comment on How Much Food Can I Grow Around My House? by whimsicalfuel58

whimsicalfuel58 — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 12:17:52 +0000

House back yesterday and I missed it! Just caught it online at lastnightstvshows (.) com