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how's it going you guys it's Scott with everyday solar and today I want to walk you through our completed solar shed project it's a super fun project and we put a few different parts of this project on the channel but I want to pull that all together so if you guys have a solar shed project or a detached garage or a cabin or a she shed or an office that you want to put in your yard and you want to power that with solar there's a lot of cool features to this one that I think you can apply to your own project so let's jump into it just a little information on the shed itself so it's an 8T X 12T shed now this one's from Home Depot and it was actually a kit so that means everything came within an 8tx 4T kind of package that you could fit in pretty much any truck you bring that home and really where it saves you is all the lumber all the siding everything is precut now just know that kit doesn't come with everything you need you still need a foundation you're going to have to buy your shingles it's not coming with any exterior or painting so there's other things that you have to buy now this took me a couple days to build this out and all in the cost for the shed including the exterior cocking the painting the shingles the ramp here the foundation and the kit itself all that came together right at about $3,000 compared to the actual kit cost of $2,000 so you have to spend a little bit more to get your shed kind of in this state but let's actually get to the meat of this video and start off inside the shed at kind of the heart of the operation which for me was an ecoflow portable power station so when you're trying to select the right equipment for your application you kind of have two main paths you can go down one is the Plug and Play path which is what I went down with this ecoflow Delta 2 it's kind of an all-in-one unit has your charge controller your battery and your inverter all in one a very efficient packaging at about 30 lbs and it really doesn't take up much space at all and then the other path is kind of DIY or doit yourself where you are mixing and matching the components to fit your application you select the charge controller you want the battery or batteries plural that you want and then that inverter that's going to meet your needs the specs on this one for me the ecoflow Delta 2 has 1,000 wat hourss of energy capacity it can bring in 500 watts of solar and then it can output 1,800 Watts continuously the 1 1800 watts is way more than I need for this application the battery capacity is kind of right on that borderline especially if I have many days of overcast skies and the solar input at 500 watts is a good match for my overall use case now this has been I've been running for several weeks now and working great but let's look at kind of what we have going on on an overcast day light loading for inputs and outputs on the wattage so overall we got a pretty light load right now from an output perspective I really have just the lights on so I have a workbench light I have two lights on the interior on and then also the outside security and camera is pulling a little bit so right at about 100 Watts at 105 watts and then input from our solar this is an overcast a but we're still getting about 150 watts so we are just slowly going to charge up that battery but we're already at 94% so we're in a pretty good spot just note on these systems I have the inverter always on so do understand that that is going to drain your battery down even without any sort of output just keeping that inverter active so I can keep my security camera and security lights up and running I did a measurement on that and in 24 hours I did lose 204% of battery so that's definitely something you want to take in account when you're sizing your solder and also sizing your overall battery capacity and then when we're talking about DIY kind of matching your own components what would be comparable to the Delta 2 here and this Renegy Rover it's an MPP charge controller if you bring 12 volts in it can go up to 400 watts of solar if you do 24 volts it goes up to 800 so depending on which configuration it's either a little less capable or more capable than my 500 WS on the Delta 2 then battery you have a lot of different choices this would be a little more capable you'd have about 1,200 to 1300 wat hours compared to the 1,000 W hours in Delta 2 this is a lithium iron phosphate kind of the best chemistry for this type of application but you can see the sizing is starting to add up because we don't even have these mounted yet and we don't have our wires and our fuses or Breakers in the system set up also we need to use that DC power there is some DC out on our charge controller so we could run some DC lights if we wanted to but for most of us we need an inverter so this is going to bring you over to AC and give you the same capability that we have here 2,000 watts compared to the 18800 Watts here but very similar capability now the solar panels for this setup we have a few different options we got ground Mount and roof mount and again this is a DIY setup I love these type of projects I think there's a ton to learn and you kind of iterate over time but if you're looking to actually do a larger system and especially a grid tide system let's say to offset your monthly power bill like I did last year I wanted to eliminate my monthly power bill by investing in solar on my home and I started off there's a link in the description and within a few minutes I was able to put in a few details on my home obviously the monthly power bill on average a couple more characteristics and I was able to get very quickly what size for me it was a little over 11 KW and then roughly what was that cost and this is an estimate assuming you can get the 30% federal tax credit and for me I knew there was additional incentives in the state of Illinois that we're not going to be there forever so I kind of jumped on it last year got that system installed and now my monthly power bill is is less than $20 per month now let's dive back into our setup here I have 200 WTS on this ground Mount it's just a custom made Single post 4x4 post that then frames in two 100 watt panels that then are wired in series and then to show an additional option I have a 360 W roof mounted panel I'll show you a few more details on that those two are coming together so technically I'm what's called over paneled for this system where I'm really pushing in quite a bit of solar and kind of throttled on the sunny days I'm almost right to that 500 wat Max on the Delta 2 but even on overcast days I'm getting a respectable amount 100 150 watts like you saw earlier which I'm able to charge up and meet my need remember I'm losing 24% per day so I don't want to have days where I'm getting absolute nothing in even on overcast I'd like to go ahead and offset the losses from having that inverter on all the time let's go ahead and take a closer look on the wiring and mounting here so these panels are facing south with a 30° angle which is a pretty good yearr round angle for me not necessarily ideal for winter not necessarily ideal for summer but in overall it's good for a year round I have my mc4 cables coming in wired in series and then I made a little custom PVC box that had mc4 connectors coming in the top makes a weathertight seal then I ran thh and wire down through PVC which I trenched in over to the corner of the shed we have that PVC coming out of the trench into an lb body and then that's passing that in this is solar so passing the solar in so I can plug it into the Delta 2 so that is how I get the ground mounted system in and just note we also have a GFCI outlet on the exterior this is a key part to My wiring which I'll point out inside but just remember this GFCI is kind of the start to swapping everything over to AC and protecting all the circuits in the shed with ground fault current interrupt protection and I did not ground my panels or ground the shed now that is a decision you're going to need to make and also check your local codes just to let you know I do not have a ground rod or to sunk in the ground here for this shed but I do have GFCI protection on my AC circuits so let's take a look at our roof mounted which I think that's probably what a lot of you guys would go with so for the roof mounted panel I have that 360 W Helen panel it has Critter guards on here to keep pigeons Birds squirrels or anything else from getting under the panel I used a minir rail mounting system which I will link to all these different parts in the description in addition to each of these separate videos to dive much deeper if you want a lot more detail on trenching a lot more detail on mounting and using the mini rail setup those individual videos will be down in the description below the video which hopefully will help you out so I took my MC cables I put a little bit of an abrasive covering on here because they're touching the edge of my asphalt shingles and I did not want that to wear down my cable so I put a protective housing on that and then ran that right here through a bulk head so I was able to have an easy watertight entrance into the shed so coming in from the roof I have that going through kind of a loft area here and then running down this stud right in the corner I'm using these little they're usually romx routing ladders and you can UNP them put your wires in them recp them they work really good for Sol cables as well to kind of control that routing and be able to pull them in and out as needed so the roof mounted mc4 cables go down and then meet up with the ground mounted down here by the Delta 2 so those two cables are coming down from the roof mount and then it's going into two different Splitters which are running into mc4 connectors here on this custom PVC box that brings in the ground Mount so I'm bringing the 200 Watts here from my ground mount because they're a pretty good voltage match to my one panel coming off the roof I'm able to bring them in parallel and up my current and then that goes through an adapter cable that runs in the back of the ecoflow which is an xt60 connector now there is a place online shop solar kits that has the Delta 2 all the cables needed including the converter cable some mc4 cables the two rigid 100 W panels everything for about about $930 that's the best pricing I can find and you'll see a link in the description you can jump over there and change the panels around too to kind of fit your need because we're all going to want a little bit different solar setup so that's how we're bringing the solar in and then we're just taking the AC out here through a cord into that junction box and then that goes out to the GFCI which then Powers my full shed this is the 122 RX going to two duplex outlets at the workbench and this is the 122 RX that's going up to two light switches to power the interior and exterior lights so that's the big use case for me here on the AC side it I have a workbench light here that I can turn on and off I have a charger for Makita 40 volt batteries and then I have kind of the big boy which is the ego this is a 56 volt 10 amp hour this is like the biggest battery you can get this charger when it's and all out can pull 720 Watts so that's by far the biggest loading on this overall setup and those are all being powered here from my box with two duplex outlets and then for lighting we have two simple lamp holders that run over and you can see also this is a pancake box here that brings in power for our exterior setup two light switches one for exterior one for interior I just upgraded my Standard Security light to a UI 360 video monitoring and then also the security light because I did want to keep an eye on this shed and that UI setup lets me do that but again I want to hear your feedback is there anything else you guys would add is there any other use cases that you have or just questions with a cellular modem or maybe starlink you can even have a very remote piece of land and keep an eye on things because you have that connectivity and you have all the power you need and everything set up so it can continue to provides you connectivity and power even when you're not there now if you need some additional help in the calculations of sizing the right system check out this video right here if you want a few more details on how I actually ran that roax and all the wiring for this shed setup check out this video right here and we'll walk you through that complete process so thanks for joining me on this video and we'll catch you on one of those next ones take care ...
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