hello hello thanks for tuning in today i wanted to look at the simple solar setup again
some people had some questions about how to exactly hook things up
and we're going to run through it and just look at a few things that we have in the
focus in the picture here um let's talk about these charge controllers first and foremost
all three of these things do the same exact thing this one does the same thing that this one does
the same thing that this one does this one just has a couple more features you can see
your battery voltage and all that stuff regardless these things do the same thing
they all regulate the solar panel coming in so the first thing you have to set up
when you're setting up a charge controller is putting the actual battery on it and you see the
battery outside there right so the positive and negative cable of the uh the positive negative
terminal of the battery you have to run a cable and as you can see that's this cable right here
and if we go down there that shows the battery right there
it's a little battery symbol and the plus and the negative and if you see the plus is red
the negative is black that's going outside there out that hole and connecting to those batteries
the same thing would have to happen with this charge controller under the battery section here
you would have to run this outside and if you had a sae connector like this you would either have
to cut this to bare wires and run it outside to the battery or have a sae adapter and connect it
together which would have an end like this and you would put it on some terminals out there the same
thing with this charge controller if you see here i cut the ends off of this so that used to have
an sae connector but essentially i cut it off to use it somewhere else and that is what you would
put directly on the positive and negative of the battery out there once you have that established
the charge controller is going to turn on it's going to tell you the voltage in the battery so
on this one it happens to just put the voltage there if you see it's 12.9 right now the light
will light up on this one uh which i again i don't recommend these ones the thunderbolts they're crap
but your low voltage will usually light up on these let you know the battery's on usually
the red and the yellow will and then on this one here you'll have a light up of
red on one of these leds so they will do something to let you know that the battery is hooked up and
that's the first connection the battery so however you get it out there you have to get the positive
negative terminal to the charge controller battery port positive and negative positive
and negative positive or negative on whichever one you're using once you've got that done the
next connection you want to do is the solar panel connection now on the harbor freight solar panel
it has the same sae connections so if you're using one of these smaller charge controllers like this
you would just take the plug from the harbor freight controller or um sorry the harbor freight
solar panel and plug it directly into here into your solar panel output here and here if you have
a different style in mc4s again you would cut off you have your positive and your negative and that
will connect to the solar panel the wires coming off of that if you're using this charge controller
you would take the wires from the solar panel which you know would come off the
back and you would strip them and put in the pasta negative here at that point
however you have any one of these hooked up you're going to have the battery
and the solar panel hooked up so now you're charging the battery and you're storing
the energy from the solar panel that's collecting and you're putting it in the battery for later
use at that point you need to get it to the inverter which is here and this inverter is
going to give you your household power so you're going to need a second set of cables
that come from the inverter and run back out to the top of the battery and then if you can see
the red optima there in the corner that's the cable that's this positive cable right here you
want to have some type of fuse on here you know depending on your amperage so if you're gonna set
it up you're gonna have two connections coming off the battery you're gonna have a connection
from the battery going to the charge controller and a connection from the battery go into the
inverter to get your power and then you'll have your solar panel connected into the port
so we'll just run through it again it's very easy solar panel lead goes in here plus and minus the
solar panel if you're doing it on one of these smaller charge controllers and has sae connectors
just make sure you're following the correct polarity there red to red black to black
same thing with this one then you'd have your battery wires coming out of the charge controller
going down out to the battery and that would complete your circuit same here if you had
sae connection you would run it out to the battery same with this you would run it out
to the battery you would have your battery and solar panel on there and then you would just take
a set of wires and come off and bring it right to your inverter right here and as you can see the
battery the battery is right outside there have two connections the inverter leads right here and
the charge controller lead right there so i hope this helps thanks for watching please subscribe