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hey everyone and welcome back to remember this Tech on today's video we're going to be doing something a little bit different in that I'm going to show you on how I set up solar power for my shed the way I set it up was the slightly easier way to do solar power I only needed enough solar power in the shed to basically have um overhead lights um charge up some batteries for my cordless tools maybe put in a fan so didn't need a ton in this video I'm going to kind of describe the process for everything I used I'll have links in the description section below now some of you may want to go the full route where you buy an inverter a solar charge controller um and a battery bank and you can do that but it's a little bit more complicated and you have to match everything up and Ure that you're going to have enough battery storage wire the batteries up correctly and you know voltage wise and such so the way I did this is the easier way to do this starting off I bought this ecoflow unit it's a 600 wat peak battery generator 256 W capacity 300 W output surge to 600 watt 3,000 battery Cycles up to 80% capacity for 10 years this model has has two AC output plugs right [Music] here it's got a us it's got two usba a ports and a USBC cigarette lighter will actually turn on and off the DC here for the cigarette lighter and the D the AC over here and you can turn it on and it tells you the charge amount and how long you're going to get off of that charge estimated well it's idle now so when you start drawing power you'll get the updates and in the back you have an AC port for uh charging through the house for fast charging and you have a plug for your mc4 and they have a cord just for that that adapts and plugs in the back of the ecof flows and connects to the mc4 solar connectors that's important because this unit didn't come with a adapter and but my larger unit did and I used that one why did I buy this little ecoflow a it's got a built-in charge controller B it has a built-in inverter C it's got built-in lithium ion battery so takes the guesswork out of things it's got just enough power to do what I need in my shed instead of buying those batteries buying the inverter buying the solar charger so there you go downfalls is that it's limited capacity you can only take an input of certain amount of volts or amps depending on how you wire your solar panels keep that in mind the larger unit can take up to 200 Watts through the solar panel input this one can only take 100 110 and there's a caveat which I'll show you in the video later on you keep watching wired in series this unit with 200 W panels won't work it'll get a overload because it's too much too many volts going in if you wi in parallel it works just fine and also parallel works better in dim conditions lower sunlight I used a levaton ceramic overhead light mount for a light bulb it also has a three-prong um Outlet on there so in case you want to run power from your overhead light to add in addition to this and what I did was I got a junction box ran roax wire into the dun junction box wired up the ceramic light bulb and Outlet secured it to the junction box cover plates put on mounted it to the top uh in the ceiling the shed ran their omx up and over and down and I put on a levaton three-prong pluged to it and sealed it up that way I can just plug it right into this here and that'll power a pull cord light in the shed and it also give me an extra outlet that I used here in case you want to power something from there if you want to plug in anything from USB it's good to go as well in this video I kind of go through the steps of how I set up the solar power rack which can accommodate up to four e worthy solar panels at 100 wat each or you can mix and match other vendors of larger capacities but you can't get four of those panels on there cuz obviously they're bigger I also ran a uh waterproof conduit from the solar panels up to the shed through the wall of the shed through the wall of the shed sealed it with a 90° curve coming out there I ran 12 gauge wires for the mc4 connectors and they are I used 20t roll of that uh and then I connected the mc4 connector in parallel to the two panels and then on the other end I connected up the connectors cuz there's no connectors on them in the shed and I didn't have the right connector so I crimped them best I could and I soldered them put the mc4 connectors on there and put the adapter to run to the ecoflow if you're going to run solar power cover up those panels if it's in broad daylight cuz they're going to generate electricity before you start messing with it cuz the other ends are going to have current flowing through them electricity cover up your solar panels the beauty is you can exchange this unit for the larger one and you can get a higher capacity or you could scale up your power in your shed or your off- grid kind of setup however you want to do it it's a versatile solution and it's easier because you can scale your power as you need it eventually if you had a bigger ecoflow you could probably even run a u like a small fridge fan couple lights up your phones Etc on an offgrade situation so without further Ado let's get right into the video and show you what I did come on let's go now I have to set up the solar Rock so I can put on the E worthy solar panels and run solar to the shed and then run lights and power from there on out so let's get started this is an Eco worthy uh solar rack it can hold up to 400 WT e worthy panels so let's see how easy or hard this is to set up there's a lot of pieces and parts these are the foot brackets and there's two of them and there are retaining clips for the solar panels in here the joiners for the solar back and then there are the back feet so this four feet you got four feet and then you got the brackets that fit onto them and then should you should have two short ones [Music] for the front because the front is shorter and then two long ones for the back for an angle so let's see how I like to line up my pieces so that this these are the Front Bottom those are the back bottom mounts when they're feet and they go in like that and you screw them in and they're the plethora Parts but tells you what do it's good instruction so so far so good cross my finger got the two end pieces connected with the foot pieces on there now I'm going to tighten them up and put the uh I'm going to join the long section together with the Joiner brackets and hook them up to this Main section when putting together these long rails you got to make sure that these are joined tight and straight so I wedged one of the spare ones in here to get it even and the same Gap is there but when you tighten them they're going to torque all over the place so I guess try to keep them straight or wed something in there because otherwise your panels will be cockeyed and when you mount them a little bit it'll sag so these little nut bracket things with the plastic things on there have curved uh nuts on there so that when you put it in the rack here like this it enables you to turn it and lock in place so you want to take out the bolt so you can secure the racks here like so but you're going to have to do adjustments your final adjustments so that they're straight when you're done so there's 2 200 wat panels I'm going to put them in series for now but as you see in the middle brackets here don't tighten them too tight also the end brackets here well you might have to adjust them a little bit over because if you come to here where they come up with the joint make sure you put it where it's in the middle of the joint uh where the bolts are otherwise you won't be able to get like the screw down deep enough in there to secure it properly if you're using just two then you can use this bracket for the sides but if you're joining another panel then you're going to use the Joiner one here and that's you know see how if you try to bring it over you can't so you actually have to physically slide it out right and they're notched so they swivel in and then you have to bring it in and turn it but yeah that's what you have to look out for the Joiner plates I'm going to try to hook this up in a series now and see how it works parallels hooking them up is easy easier because you just H the dep positives together you know but for now depends on what kind of inverter you have or what you're looking up to what their input is wired up my panels in series to test and and midday Sun's putting out 159 um Watts here so yeah that's not too bad I was actually able to use my equal flow unit it's a smaller one equal Flow River delta unit and I was able to power my soldering iron to put on the mc4 connectors and uh for the cable I run from the solar panel into the shed the connectors here through the conduit waterproof and uh yeah about ready to put the other one through and secure it and then we can uh go about wiring up the shed from here it appears that the small ecoflow cannot take the charge input from two solar panels uh 200 Watts at least but the large one can and we got clouds and we're not getting much input but if you see there you go 16 Watts trickle in now I'll hook this one up and you'll see it says overload so I might have to just run one panel killing me says overload why because I can't handle it maybe I I'm running in series maybe I need to put them in parallel I don't know figure something out yeah I hooked up one panel only removed the series don't even know I mean it's pulling 17 Watts maybe I need to run it in parallel fig figed out Max's input Max input it's supposed to be able to take is 110 Watts so got this levaton uh plugin attachment hooked up and we'll see if we can get it hooked up to here and plug it into here so got the uh Power uh hooked up from the solar array into the the Flow River 2 and we're currently pulling almost 50 wats for the one panel um we have this mini LED light charging and then we have my light and the shed on it's LED so we're putting out like two Watts that's it the thing is to remember with this is that 36 I think m 36 volts I think Max for the input on the uh solar input uh with a 8.8 amps Max as well for the solar input so you're kind of limited to maybe 110 watt panel maybe a bifacial perhaps you might want to get a bigger unit that can handle more like the ecoflow river to Delta Max or Pro um that can take up to 220 watts and a higher amperage rating so you can hook up two panels in series or a parallel so just FYI this one though on a good sunny day can charge everything up without a problem so the shed Project's almost done for power wise uh I wired up this in a box it also has the outlet up there but so does the ecoflow you can swap out that plug and you can charge up your uh Power devices for like your cordless drills and stuff in here so I have the panel set up in parallel and it works better that way it doesn't give me the overload voltage as it is when I had them in series so this unit can take up to 110 Watts input uh as you see we're almost peeking out in maximum but I can charge up my devices in here whatever I need and I ran power to the unit as well so yeah working pretty good so this little one is has to work with parallel if you have 200 wat panels see it's maxing out but if you have um the larger equal Flow River delta 2 whatever the hell that is and you can run him in series cuz it can take 220 Watts input so so far so good shed solar power shed solar power yes ...
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