Top 10 Beginner Mistakes When Building a DIY Solar System
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GUNS N GEAR
Bought his book. This young guy is great.
Went with a HQST 400 watt kit & a deep cycle lead acid battery to begin with.
Since have added 300 more watts of pannels and two 100amp hour “smart” batteries from renogy. All working great.
Blue sea fuse panel for the 12v half of our set up. Quality DC circuit breakers & wireing etc. However…
I fried an expensive inverter,trying to power my ac fuse box before disconnecting the generator. Dead short
Opps! Expensive mistake. More research and
Back to the drawing board.
His videos are spot on, I’m a big fan of them, I’d only add that for the beginner in the initial solar design phase they can save big $ later focusing first on energy conservation to reduce their power needs, which will translate into fewer costly panels & batteries, maybe even smaller/cheaper inverters, too.
We’re 100% off-grid here in West Texas and had first explored & acquired the most energy efficient electrical appliances, from AC/heat pump, refrigerators, freezers, down to lights, and we’d also incorporated passive solar hot water heater and maximized insulation to further reduce cooling/heating loads. Our system is plenty robust, but it’d been much bigger and more expensive if we’d not first looked at how to best minimize our electrical loads.