Hey I'm Adam with the Solar Truth here and I'm with Andy out in Temecula California and we did a
really cool uh battery backup system not totally off-grid you know it is grid tied but it could
go off-grid you know we got battery solar SolArK inverters and a 10.5 kilowatt LG solar system um
you know so uh so Andy if you want to uh just talk about why we what your goal was here and and what
we were trying to accomplish with your house yeah thanks Adam well when I was looking for a solar
system I was really looking for a system that could take our house to be the on the critical
circuit so the whole house could be powered and um looking around at different systems and different
companies I really couldn't find a solution until I came to SunPro and I'm not being paid for this
but uh it's for real these guys know what they're doing they do customized designs and you'll see
from the installation that uh it delivered exactly what they promised they would so it's
really great yeah and I know Andy's uh one of his big concerns was was off-grid you know we're out
here we're actually just outside the fire zone so we didn't get like the really big battery rebate
that is available in California for a little bit longer um but we got a pretty good uh uh
size rebate it's about 6500 bucks yeah just over 69 um so which is the standard rebate but
locked in at a tier that that kind of went away and it's dwindling down um but we were
able to reserve that a while ago and get that locked in what the concern was was a lot of
production when we're off grid especially when uh in the winter like when the sun's not out as much
so that's why these these panels are actually at uh more tilted a little bit more than normal so
they're at about they're right about 30 degree angle at perfectly true magnetic south and
the reason for that is in the summer with a little bit flatter array like 15 to 20 percent you're
getting more production because there's more hours in the in the summer the sun's out longer but
in the winter you're not nearly as getting as much production when you don't have as much
sun so then you need more production to charge your batteries to get you know that production
too so anyway you get a little bit more uh winter production with this system and a little bit less
summer production because of that but overall the production isn't much less cumulatively um
so it's you know going to provide more uh when you need it basically to get you through those winter
nights and stuff and then we did a pretty cool battery backup system here too that we'll show you
in a second and you know able to provide um you know pretty much all the power for his home here
so we got two solar 12 kilowatt inverters here these are very popular with prepper
scenarios so in fact a lot of people actually replace other battery systems like even tesla
power walls for example when they can't provide enough power for backup cases
so there's actually quite a few advantages with these when you have off-grid one is you can do dc
connection to your solar so if your battery totally drains a lot of battery systems can't
even restart you have to like manually start them or charge the batteries it can create a lot of
problems but with dc power as soon as that sun hits those panels the batteries are charging and
the system's on they also can do load shedding and reduce demand charges automatically like
with commercial scenarios too so they're just very universal and have they can auto start generators
there's just a lot of capacity with these so if you know like here we can add an auto start
generator if you want now you know if that ends up being needed so we have uh you know 12 kilowatts
what that does is one it can have a lot of solar connected to it you can have 12 to 16 kilowatts
of solar actually connected to it each one and then um they can do 50 amps of power each so
that means we got 100 amps of backup power which you would need five Tesla Powerwalls to do that
so we have one of those arrays out there connected to this one and then two of them connected to this
one and then we're charging our stores batteries that we have over here I'll show those in a second
and um yeah we'll do a live test also to shut the power off and and uh I'll be out here
shutting it off and then we'll video inside as it's being shut off and you know using
you know whatever we want in the house um with uh uh basically the power being awful okay so we
have a stores battery system here uh these have a lot of advantages versus a lot of batteries on
the market one is their lithium iron phosphate which can't catch fire explode it's non-toxic
lithium-ion technology batteries like cell phones and cars are lightweight but they have those
disadvantages to them you know you shouldn't put it on like a bedroom wall for example
so these actually have 8000 life cycles which will generally give you about 15 to 20 years of
operating time most battery systems are about 4000 life cycles and it's a 15 year production warranty
uh they're 5.12 kilowatt hours each so the whole system is about 20.5 kilowatt hours which will
give you like one to two days run time uh when the when when it's raining and your solar is not
working uh it really depends on how many loads you have going and what you're using off-grid
uh and when the power goes out they're also stackable up to 14 batteries so you could
do a pretty large system you could add on later so we can check out the inverter system now and
show you the monitoring and and what you can all see from the system as it's functioning
so the solar converters unlike a lot of other inverters out there actually have a display screen
on them and a mobile app so you can look at it however you want you know you can come out here
if uh something's wrong with your phone and uh just tap on the screen there right now we have
uh power comes from the solar we have energy going to the grid we have energy going to
the house and we have the battery state of charge so um on this one we've already had uh
48 kilowatt hours today and about half that on the other one with with a third of the arrays and
uh the battery is at 98 charge right now we have you know power going to the grid and to the home
so on your app um you have uh everything you can see here too and you can actually
you know choose what you can see um and look at your production the battery state of charge
uh the energy same you know same thing on there except a little clearer and
kind of all the options you want then you can adjust your settings on the inverters as well
here our main panel here is actually a 400 amp panel um our main disconnect is here and then our
solar inverters and the house is actually on this panel over here so what I'm gonna do for this test
is shut off our main panel and then we're powering the backup panel and the solar and we'll do a live
feed into the house running stuff and show how that's gonna work okay so we're doing a live
test now I'm gonna go ahead and shut off the main power to the house and we're gonna run some
equipment in the house here we go three two one all right simulating uh off-grid power shut off
all right everything's still running there was just a slight little flicker
and we're boiling water right now on an induction cooktop
and it's on a boost setting the next thing we're going to try is run the microwave at the same time
here we go we're heating a cup of water with a microwave running at full blast
we're boiling the water now I'm going to turn on the oven
okay the oven is preheating and all our lights halogen lights are on
indoors and not a hiccup everything's running
and now yeah over here we have our solar converter has uh it shows the grids off
yellow and now all the power is coming from our solar system as you can see there
and the batteries as you can see here on both inverters
so that's what our app will be showing now too that um the batteries are starting to discharge
and uh there we got all our information there too on the solar battery and everything pretty cool
all right cool we have water boiling and the water's boiling in here
you may recognize this because we were trying to do a different battery system
before called Paladin and it sounded amazing it kind of sounded too good to be true to be honest
and uh that that's what I believe it was kind of too good to be true so you got to be really
careful you know SolArk has been around for a long time so we ended up uh just having a
lot of delays not able to get the battery we got the the container and that was it just the
cabinet the batteries going no inverters no batteries or anything and uh you know I didn't
want to I didn't trust that uh that it was gonna happen so I ended up switching to SolArk which
just has a lot of advantages that are uh reliable and they've been around for a long time I think
like at least like 10 years and um uh they're they're probably the most common battery in a
proper situation they've won awards for being the best thought out uh off-grid battery system and uh
generator uh available battery so uh this is a great way to go and it's got a great monitoring
system just everything's dialed in so it ends up being just an amazing solution if you need a lot
of power off-grid all right thanks for watching our video on seoul arc live test demonstration
with our off-grid or grid tie but can go off-grid battery backup system uh that test we did was
actually the first test we had done here and uh it was live and um you know no edits and we just
filmed it as it was and worked great worked perfectly so um that was pretty awesome and um
uh yeah make sure you like and subscribe to the videos I'm gonna try to do a lot more of these
videos of like pretty cool off-grid systems we've been doing a lot I've been helping a lot
of battery backup systems mainly because of the fire rebate out in california because it's just
such a good rebate that's uh amazing and uh sadly not going to be available for very much longer
because it looks like they're not funding it uh more so join us next time and thanks for watching