VIMEO VERSION (in case Dtube doesn't work)
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We've had this deep freeze lent out to another family for a while and now we are going to put it to work on the homestead. Up until now, we haven't had a way to keep things cold other then lowering them down into our 19th century well or just buying ice in town each week. But now we are hoping to make our own ice and keep certain food items cold. This will come in real handy when the family milk cow comes into season.
Zac walks you through the entire setup process. It's really quite simple.
- Solar Panels are connected to the Combiner Box
- Combiner box is connected to the Charge Controller
- Charge Controller is connected to the Batteries
- Batteries are connected to the Inverter
- Inverter is connected to the Freezer.
It's really simple but it can seem intimidating. Especially when you think that you're dealing with electricity and electricity has been known to kill people who do not handle it safely. It can also be intimidating when you think of the cost of the components. The Midnite classic being used in this video retails for almost $700 on Amazon and if you hook it up wrong or don't pay attention to the instructions, you can fry it and that is an expensive mistake. But learning and researching and adhering to instruction will save you a lot of grief and mistakes.
So here is our installation of the small homestead deep freeze with a new solar array.
ENJOY THE VIDEO!
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wow. take them down asap. they're in there making money off of you. I was definitely seeing ads. If you have someone you can trust on a fast Interenet, let them download and save off to a USB.
and WAIT! You have decent speed don't you! Just unconventionally.
I would volunteer but you don't know me from Eve ... that said, I'm hoping to go to the BIG city of Lexington on Thursday. But no I'm not willing to scrape them off one by one, either. So. Yeah. Find someone you know. WAIT Are you saying they're not even letting you pull the videos with the whatever tool they have available?
I had considerable trouble viewing the video due to network problems- your write-up was thorough enough, that watching the video wasn't really necessary as I'm familiar with these designs; your system was nicely laid out, and the video well made.
It seems like the combiner, representing around half your system cost, is substantial overkill- until you hook up more panels and batteries and take advantage of that second circuit.
I also have to comment- complex systems CAN be pretty much plug-and-play, but they have to be packaged with VERY thorough automated monitoring and control integration (as a commercial COTS, pretty expensive, but since it can all be done with AT MOST 2 pi's and an added I/O bridge (as long as you have internet/intranet) not much extra at all) and people will STILL have to actually pay attention to the flags and alerts the monitoring systems send- and the kind of average unwillingness to devote attention to. not the internal workings, but just the status and operation of something that's actually somewhat important in life (that a sufficient supply of clean electricity is available) is unfortunately not surprising.
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