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- These are Tesla solar panels.
There's a chance that is signed by Elon Musk.
Big things are happening at our house today
and I'm not talking about
the giant
12 foot tall
3D printed 6,000 pound statue
of my friend Jerry
which we're going to take apart and see what's inside.
And it's kind of crazy what's inside of that.
But no, a year ago,
we made a video called,
"Why we are not getting Tesla solar."
Tesla would not even come
to our little town in Southern Utah
NO
because they didn't have certified installers.
We told them that we would pay extra to have somebody come
from Las Vegas or
from Salt Lake city for them to install it.
And they basically just said
NO.
We had a Tesla power wall that was going to be for free.
NO
They couldn't even ship it
to us because there were no certified installers here.
So fast forward now, 12 months later, here's where we're at
because he had certified installers in his area.
I had them ship the Tesla power wall to my friend
Zach from Jerry Rig, everything.
But somebody from Tesla was really cool.
One of the regional managers called me personally and said,
- "You know any solar installers in your area
that we can certify to become a sellers?
What do we need to do to get it in you town?"
- So it took about six months, but I did know some people
they went through the Tesla training.
They got certified.
And now right behind me is Tesla solar.
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Today is the day we are getting it installed
on our house.
We're doing it in three different places.
I wanna show you the process, how it works
and then also show you the results.
Cause I'm excited to see how good is Tesla.
Solar really?
Is it worth the cost
and the hassle of putting them on your roof?
Now, a lot of you are going to be saying
- No, wait a second.
I thought Tesla had tiles
that look just
like roof tiles that go on your roof.
So it looks seamless.
It doesn't even look like you have solar.
- Yes, they do have that.
But they also have-
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But they also have another option where it's actually-
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But they also have another option that are solar panels
like traditional solar panels and what you see.
And over the last couple of years
Tesla has dropped the price
of these dramatically to where it is very affordable.
The cost of energy in our town is not super expensive
But still-
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But still, solar is helpful to have.
So first things first, let's go up
on the roof and see what this looks like.
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The last time I was up on this roof
I stepped on these tiles and they broke,
Oh,
I broke one.
The roofers did tell me that,
- "Over time they will harden with the weather."
- Either I've lost a lot of weight or they are hardened.
I'm scared to walk on it.
Okay.
These are the tiles that we have on our roof right now.
Which is different than a lot of you that have
Asphalt shingles.
That makes it a little easier to put the brackets on
because we have these giant clay tiles.
You have to get a specific kind of racket.
All right.
What is this bracket that we're putting on?
- It's a SnapNrack flashing.
And then this is the riser.
And then the base plate slides on there,
seals off and has some rubber gaskets blowing above
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- Flash on there,
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sit right in there,
scrape it up
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down with ease,
slide in there pretty good.
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- That's it.
Wow!
Just with those things up,
put them down.
So now that we've got this cover on here
we're going to put the foot and
like a rubber bolt with like a little seal
on it so that it keeps the water out.
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Next step is to get the rails
and you put them on there,
get the rails all secure.
Then you put what's called optimizers on there.
And they're like a little electronic things
that measure how much energy is coming in and out
and also have a shut off so that you don't get shocked.
And basically that's what you put
on before you take the panels
and put it on there and connect it
so that they can capture all the beautiful energy
from the sun and charge my electric car.
Pretty easy.
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Today things are getting real.
We have an official Tesla energy truck.
No,
it is not a cyber truck.
I'm sure next year,
all of them will be Tesla energy, cyber trucks.
It's a Ford, F-150.
That's nice.
At least they know what a good truck is
because Ford F-150 they're good trucks.
Every single solar panel is actually on the roof right now.
Like everyone, they are not connected
to the electronic system.
So that is the next step.
Right now.
They're running wires all throughout the house
all throughout the attic, it's kind
of a pain to have to go run all the wires everywhere.
I feel bad for her.
Like this is a hard thing to go into a house.
We should have planned it better.
When we built the house.
This box right here is what's called the gateway.
And this gateway is covered
by this beautiful white glass cover.
This box right here
is also a gateway.
If we open it up, let's see if it'll open.
But obviously this does not look as good
as what the glass gateway looks like over there.
This is what Tesla sent with the free referral power wall.
So it is really nice that I got this brand new
the latest edition glass gateway with all
of the different parts that will work for our huge house.
But I also had to spend an extra $1,000 just to get that.
Also a little sneak peek.
Here's the power wall.
And look under there.
It's red, it's a red power wall.
There's a chance that that is signed by Elon Musk.
Cause I know he signed a lot of the reward once it went
out to people and it would be so cool if I had a red sign
by Elon Musk power wall inside of my garage.
- Yeah.
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- That'll be fun once we get it up on the wall
we'll rip all that off and we'll see if it's signed.
You want to see what it looks
like with all the solar panels.
So there we go.
All along the RV garage
they are incredibly dusty right now.
So dusty.
So we'll have to spray those off before we use them.
But there's all the panels.
Two, four, six, eight,
10, 12, 14, 16, 18
20,
21.
So we've got 21 on this roof.
One, two, three, four, five,
six on this roof.
And then on this roof right here
we have one, two, three, four, five, six, seven- 12.
If my count is right, we have 12 on this roof.
Man, they are so dusty.
I'm gonna have to come out here
and clean these things all the time.
So if my math is right, that's 12.
See, I don't know.
Here's the number.
I don't even remember what the second roof had
or the first one was 21, 40?
40?
I think we have 40 panels.
I don't know.
I could be wrong.
South facing solar would make so much more sense
but we don't want to put them
on the front of our house because, well
I don't mind them on the RV garage.
I definitely don't want them on the front of my house.
That could be very ugly.
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- They're coming,
they're coming.
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- Look at the size of that poop.
Look at that.
It's almost as big as my hand
and it's everywhere.
They just are pooping all over the pool.
Have they pooped on Zack?
We still have Zack's hat on.
So I don't see really much poop.
But that is an attack,
that is an attack.
And that across my solar panels is an attack.
Every January these birds come.
If you remember last year,
we did a video on the birds pooping on our house.
If you were, it was an attack on our house.
It really was.
Here's how every January they come
and they eat these little berries that are
on the trees over there.
And it's just the perfect time
of year where they came South.
I don't know.
And they're just here living.
There's a pond down the road and they just hang
out here and decide to poop on our lawn and everywhere.
Get out of here birds,
get out of here.
This is a pole that is 30 feet long
with bristles on the end of it like a brush
and then the water squirts out of those two places.
But look how long that is.
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- Three months later.
- So check this out.
It has been a few months that we've had solar
on our house and it just wasn't enough.
Like it's probably 10%
of the energy that we need for our house.
So I've made a decision,
instead of having 36 panels on our house,
we are going to have more
I need to do quick math, 36
plus 20
is 46.
Good math.
Okay. So no that's 56.
I'm so dumb.
We are going to have 56 panels on our house.
And so right now we've got these new ones here.
And if you've never seen solar panels
like not on a house, they're actually quite light.
We're going to put them on the back of our studio.
And then also on top of the patio, we can put six
on top of the patio and another 12 on the other side.
And then there's two that aren't working.
We use a lot of energy.
I mean, we have four electric cars that takes
up a lot of energy.
And then
of course we do have like six air conditioning units.
It's a big house.
These are really tall solar panels.
They're about six feet tall
and they produce a maximum of 340 Watts.
It gets Watts.
So they're good solar panels.
And they're from Tesla.
These are Tesla solar panels.
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There we go.
The two are in here.
This one's a red one thinking maybe right here on this wall,
this is the white one thinking over here on this one.
I just want to pull all of them off right now
but I'm going to wait.
I'm going to wait until it's up on the wall.
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This is the moment the power walls have been installed.
That we've been testing them out.
They work on the system.
It's right now capturing the sun's rays.
And it's more than our house needs.
And it's filling up these battery packs right now.
So what we need to do is we need to take
off the plastic cover, this thing.
So, it looks prettier.
On the side,
you can see the green just shiny.
It's like pulsing that tells you
that the energy is actually going
into the battery pack right now,
into the power wall.
Because this one came from Tesla as a reward.
It could have a signature on there from Elon Musk.
- I didn't know that it might have a signature.
So you really don't know.
And I didn't know that was $8,000.
That's a lot.
- It is a lot.
- Fun fact.
Like we interviewed Bill Gates a couple
of weeks ago and we asked him
about the Tesla power walls and the batteries.
And that is one of the things he said.
He said that, "It's too expensive."
- Batteries are very expensive in terms
of that type of grid storage, we've gotten good enough
for the battery for the electric car
but the grid battery has to be about 20 times cheaper.
And I don't know if we can do it or not.
- It's not just Tesla.
It's LG cam.
It's all of the battery manufacturers.
They need to bring the costs
down so that it can be more affordable.
Otherwise you're paying so much money just to
get some energy
from the sun that sometimes
it doesn't make as much sense financially.
Here we go.
- It's time, satisfaction time.
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- Okay.
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- That's not bad, I like that it's white.
- Let's see.
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- Oh my God.
- Oh it looks so good.
- Where is the signature?
- No signature.
- I've seen a lot of YouTubers
get the signature because it's a reward one.
I mean, I get it.
The guy is busy,
but Oh,
that looks good.
I see, I know you liked the white
but the red looks so good.
- I wish that they, I don't care
which color, but I wish that they match.
- Well, I like them all.
We need to switch the cars.
We need the red car
on that side and
we need a white Roadster.
Can we get another Roadster?
- No.
- Oh, that looks good.
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It really stands out.
It's like art.
That's what I like about it.
I like having some art.
I love the interface on the app to be able to
see exactly what is happening the other day.
The power went out in our neighborhood.
And I know recently with the storms in Texas
it kind of highlighted that, Hey, guess what?
You can't always rely on the grid to give you power.
All of the systems across the country.
When it comes to power, the systems
or some of them are publicly owned, some are privately owned
and they've been around for decades.
There's been so much growth in the infrastructure.
Hasn't really kept up.
There's going to be more outages.
I don't care if you live in a beautiful sunny place.
Like I live in where it's like blue skies or you live
in somewhere like Florida, where there's hurricanes
or we live somewhere in Texas, where guess what?
Every a hundred years you might have a snow storm.
We can keep some of our house cold
with the air conditioning unit in the summertime.
If the power's out
with the power walls and with the solar power.
And that is something that's just a peace
of mind that I'm super incredibly grateful to have.
This is not a cheap thing.
It was expensive to get this.
And the payoff is going to take years
and years for me to pay it off.
If you're somebody that's considering getting Tesla
roof tiles or Tesla solar, or Tesla power walls
I will put a link in the description
and right here on the screen to my Tesla referral code.
So if you're somebody that learned something
from this video and it encouraged you to get Tesla solar,
feel free to click on my link and it is an affiliate code.
I think we do get some money for it.
Maybe a couple hundred dollars if you buy a Tesla solar.
And I think you get something to maybe
a couple hundred dollars.
I'm not sure what the full program is right now, but yeah
this is our journey.
It's been a lot of fun.
Oh. And check this out.
If the audio is not so good right now
that's why we got loud fall things going on right there.
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