This takes you through a day in the life of an off-grid solar power installer. Off-grid means traveling long distances, in this case on boats, to do installations. In the first location we install additional solar panels and upgrade the Delta lightning arresters with Midnite Solar lightning arresters. The Xantrex inverter was damaged from lightning so we replace it with an Outback inverter and add an Outback charge controller for the new solar panels. In the second location, two Xantrex inverters were damaged by lightning so we carry them away for possible repair or to get new ones. We also replaced the 17 year old Surrette/Rolls batteries with fresh ones. In the third location we were going to add an inverter bypass switch to make it easier to isolate the inverter but whoever installed it hadn’t put a generator disconnect switch so we’ll come back later with one. All off-grid solar installation work on this day was done by Ottawa Solar Power who can be contacted at: ottawasolarpower.com For the details of an off-grid solar power system, see this video youtu.be For details about off-grid systems, including sizing and maintenance, see: rimstar.org rimstar.org
16 Responses to “Off-Grid Solar Installing – Day in the Life”
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Agreed. But necessary. It was painful to cut and speed up but this video could easily be ten to fifteen minutes and far fewer would bother to watch. There were 82 clips to start with! I’m glad you enjoyed it otherwise. This one was for the beauty as much as the info. We off-grid installers are spoiled sometimes.
Thanks man! Glad I could reciprocate.
Thanks. Yeah, the beginning shorts worked out well, partly through luck but then I caught on to what I saw – like the pans for the first half. And yeah, I tried to slow down the guys loading up the barge, but as you say, if I didn’t so some speeding up then the video would have been too long to watch.
Uh…. Did you see the rock that exploded next to the tree?
Interesting. Nice job on the editing BTW. I like the effect of the short cut scenes. Also, speeding up the guys loading the barge, etc is a great. The viewer gets the “jest” of the process without making the video insanely long. Thanks!
that was completely cool man !
I hate to be a stickler but the speeding up of some parts of the video really detracted from some of the beauty of the shots. Otherwise awesome video
ok then mother fucking squirreles, remember corruption in every liveing room son of man
There are lightning rods on the dock’s roof (spikes along roof peak 2:13.) I guess they worked because the solar side of the system was fine (solar panels, charge controller.) The lightning hit somewhere else on the grounds, probably a tree near the AC cables going uphill to the house. The damaging energy came in through that cable and killed the inverter. The generator was fine so it wasn’t that cable. I don’t know if house breakers tripped or if there was damage in the house. That’s my guess.
Might want to install some lightning rods to redirect that energy away.
Thanks!
You’re welcome. Always happy to share.
LOL It weren’t us… honest! Maybe da squirrels, but not us!
you con man clameing that every think got hit by lightening fortunate for your comperny hay! hope you rot you mother fucker
interesting thank you
cool video!