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this entire tiny home Airbnb is powered purely from the Sun this is a super sought-after location and hundreds of people have stayed here and not a single one of them has ever had to rely on the grid not only that but this was built and operated by our video editor Josh So today we're going to let him take you around show you what it is he did and what he would do differently next [Music] [Applause] time so we actually built this tiny home with Energy Efficiency in mind we actually were just testing it the maximum that this will draw is around 2,000 watts and that's with everything running going with solar we saved roughly 15,000 on top of that too we don't have any power bills now so we'll go over it I'll show you guys what we have in there and how it's drawing that sort of power so this entire tiny home runs off of this one cable here this is coming from the Delta pros and then you can plug the building in just like you would your iPhone that goes straight to the panel and Feeds out to everything else so we've got a lot of lights they're all LED lights so they don't really draw much at all it's around 9 wats here we have um obviously our sink hot and cold we have the uh mini fridge which is not really a huge draw it's only 50 WTS and then the gas cooked up this would usually be a massive draw so you got to sort of be practical when you're doing solar um this is something that we did is just gas the only electrical component in it is just the lighter which takes basically Al nothing there's a fan for the fumes and that's pretty much it for the kitchen so in the bathroom same sort of thing not really much of a power draw we have a GFI protected uh fan to take it all the moisture with a light above LED lights hot and cold water so we have a jet pump and a heater which is also gas uh and that's pretty much it for the bathroom we also made sure that there's lots of casement windows inside just for ventilation we actually do have an Erv it's a tiny Erv which is super cool also really energy efficient uh we're pretty much just powering a little fan the other main draw massive draw if you're doing electrical is the heat I mean we're in Canada gets pretty cold so the heater is also gas it's direct vent there's actually no electrical component to this whatsoever so it even has a thermostat but no electricity and then in the utility room here we have the tankless water heater which is gas it does plug into the electrical but that's basically just to figure out when the pressure is changing just for like little sensors so it also barely takes any electricity we have a UV bulb that takes around 70 WS not a huge draw it is on 24/7 though so as far as like power draw it is one of the bigger ones if you didn't have to have filtration you wouldn't need that but we just put it in as an extra precaution and then obviously we've got the Delta Pro here with the expansion battery and uh just this little setup here Powers everything so altogether maxed out we're pretty much using 2,000 WTS to run this entire Place we've got Outlets everywhere the Delta Pro can do 3600 WTS so we still have plenty of room to run laptops phones any small appliances that people are going to be using it's more than enough so just as a demonstration we can flick on everything and I'll show you what it is maxed out all the lights this kitchen light we'll even put on the fan we'll run the pump too fridge is on I'll even leave the door open bathroom pump light and fan coming up here when things get hot we've got a fan so I'm turning that on Max and lastly we have the back room so just looking at the app now we can see what it's drawing the pump is currently on it's hitting around 1.2 1.19 when it first kicks on it'll peek around 2,000 so we've actually got tons of room to add more stuff we went with solar because the cost of tying this to the grid was going to be a lot it's kind of out in the middle of nowhere the closest Transformer to here is probably around 3 km away and then we have power lines that are roughly 1 km away but then there's no Transformer there so we'd have to buy a Transformer run super expensive cable or go the other option not get a Transformer and run even longer cable and that just costs a fortune going with with solar was just the more economical decision much more plug andplay easier to get up and going you didn't have to disturb the land either on top of that two we don't have any power bills now it's totally off grid we estimated it somewhere around 25,000 if we were going to tie it to the grid instead we ended up spending a little under 10,000 doing like gas or propane and going with like those big genac um things like we thought about that and uh we actually seriously considered it just because the thing with solar too is I mean you only get power when the sun's out when you don't have power you don't have the electricity and when a renter doesn't have the electricity they're obviously going to be a little bit upset we thought about doing either propane or gas but then you have to deal with the noise if you have an Airbnb it's all about getting out of the city people want peace and quiet so we thought okay if we do a generator we're going to have to put it somewhere far enough away that people won't really be able to hear it we're going to have to kind of like put up a sound barrier but then you're getting into like long wires still and then that kind of defeated the purpose of going with a cheaper option was solar so we're like okay let's go with solar that'll be our primary source possibly even like wind down the line and then we're just going to supplement those off times without the sun with a generator and that might only run for a couple hours during the the day so people might go out and the generator is going to turn on and it'll recharge the batteries on a cloudy day so here's the solar array it's a total of 1 1200 watts each panel is 100 12 in total this this is a DIY stand that I built myself and I made it so that you could pivot it for the different Sun height in the winter and in the summer if you want to come around back here I can show you how I set up all the panels all right so this is the back of the panels here I've got six panels in series on the bottom another six panels in series on the top and then both of them are in parallel this is a DIY frame that I built it's all out of steel except for the wood on the sides because it's built out of steel it was really easy to ground right over here I've got the ground wire coming down so everything's grounded and then I've got my positive and negative coming out here and then these arms I can pull out push it down and then I can get the perfect angle for the winter time went with the Delta Pro because at the time it was just the most tried and true people had done so many tests with it it was kind of like the popular guy it wasn't brand new at the time but that was a good thing for me that means that it's just being tested that was just a bonus they aren't really designed to be stacked but we found that you can stack them having a tiny home you don't really have that much space so you kind of have to get creative with space going with just a plug-and-play system like a power um a portable power station was just super appealing it's like we wheel it in plug it in it's done as far as maintenance uh we haven't done at any even with our panels some people they like wash them and clean them I mean I guess we've gotten enough rain in the winter time they're tilted down enough cuz the sun's on the horizon it's so steep the snow would just always I guess they also generate a little bit of heat when sun does hit them they never had snow built up on them which was awesome we have the smart generator which was super cool the smart generator there is maintenance I've done fair amount of oil changes play the air filter you got to obviously do that because it's a combustion engine on those cloudy days we did have to have a backup in the right conditions it does just kick on 2 and 1/2 3 hours and then when it's paired with the solar if there is a little bit of sun cuz even on a cloudy day you still get a little bit it's even faster so you'll get the dual charging happening which is super cool unfortunately it doesn't work as as great as it was like marketed to where it just kicks on every time uh when the batteries get down sometimes if it's too cold the battery dies inside of it and it doesn't turn on I thought maybe it would back feed power so that if your batteries are indoors you don't have to worry about the cold uh it would just always turn it on but it's not it has its own little lithium battery in there so when it does get really cold it won't start so you do have to go out there and pull the pull start which isn't a big deal [Music] don't you just love the smart generators it's not even going so like it's just not going to go so this is a situation where you actually you you you have to come out the batter is dead inside which makes no sense it ran a while ago and it hasn't been cold but it might not be like this is one of the issues with the smart generator is um it could just be a firmware thing or because it just needs to turn off and turn back on it's just a little bit finicky it's not it's not a perfect System since it's not running with the electric start now I know for a fact that when these batteries die if the same thing happens it's not going to turn on automatically so that part of the system is going to fail so you have to come out at this point you might as well just get a cheaper generator because it's not doing the auto start so that kind of sucks it's finicky so I got a pull start it and then it runs it's fine when once it gets going it'll probably hit about 1,700 Watts if we were going to upgrade the system we would go with more panels 1 1200 WS was cool when we first installed it but on those cloudy days we're just not getting anything and so more wattage is just faster charge on those cloudy days like if you oversize it you're going to get more power even when the sun's not out I would love to have something that is like at least double what we have now and go with like 2400 WS with the battery bank it's just just more battery storage is better if we can charge it up on a sunny day but if you have 2 days of no sun you're going to have to pull out the generator just having more storage means more days where we can just use the solar and that's like kind of the goal is like we want to basically use the solar as much as possible and then just have the generator for those like really crappy weeks in the [Music] winter so all in all Josh saved about $155,000 going solar this way if you guys are looking to learn a little bit more about the techn technology or you want to purchase some products yourself or anything like that we have tons of links down below and coupon codes for you guys to use we'll also leave a link to Josh's Airbnb if you guys want to come here and check it out so that is all we got for you guys leave a comment let us know what system you would have use in a situation like this and I'll will catch you guys in the next one thank you guys so much for watching peace out and stay charged [Music] ...
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