GRID TIE INVERTER SOLAR POWER EASY SOLAR SOLUTION POWER INVERTERS
www.greenpowerscience.com This is a grid tie inverter that is 200 watts. It actually reads a bit higher for various reasons. This was to see how well it worked. POWER INVERTERS.
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Great presentation, you answered several questions that I had about these devices.
I have one of these units and run it daily outside right off of my homemade panel that produces +/- 100watts. I have tried everything under the sun to test if this is really doing anything ( i have the kill-a-watt device) but get nothing. the light on the grid tie invter flases then goes green and stays so till the sun is down. What can I do to tell if this is really working, I need numbers! Thanks and I love your work
@guessohw Your voltage is too low. Panels produce 12v-21v with no load. The Inverter requires 14v-40v DC. Wnen you hook only a panel, you have about 12-14 loaded volts so the light stays green. Solid green low voltage. Red fault not hooked to grid.
To test, take 2 (12v batteries in series) and test. Batteries have very high amps and the 24v will make them flash fast.
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the unit that I have only has 1 red and 1 green light so it doesnt flash like yours does.
I use my phone line of 40 volts with a tiny charge controller with a 12 volt battery to run my 200 watt grid tie inverter. it works fine .
@getjagged I doubt you are getting 200 watts. I would guess you are getting 10 watts max. Phone lines are very low amperage, less than 100 milliamps so the most you could get is about 4 watts . Also most inverters like this run on 14 – 28 volts. Any more or less they do nothing. Place a kill a watt meter to it and see what you are doing. A 12v batter cannot run most grid tie inverters. That is why I have 2 in series = 24v. That is between the 14-28.
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Thank you for sharing . I just heard about the egyptian Solar power project . its in video response
just pulling the chain : )
I use it like this. – phone line to tiny charger controller = 12 volt pulses to my 12 volt deep cycle to power 144 led lights. this lights up my living room every night . night after night and is ALWAYS almost too bright. FREE LIGHT ! also back up for power outage
Love your videos Dan, you do alot of work to help the community.
I was also looking at this model for my own system and this is what I found.
FYI and to keep it short, I have done extensive research on the SSI 200: The unit needs 14 to 28 volts to work. One 12 volt solar panel wont work. 2 @ at 12 volts in series are needed or 1 @ 24 volts.
Wattage: Two 80 watt panels @ 12 volts in series can produce 160 watts (max sunshine). This is still below the output of the inverter. Cant get something for nothing. Two 125 watt panels @ 12 volts in series can produce 250 watts. This is what is needed to get the most out of it.
The good: Less than half the cost of other pure sine wave inverters, no battery banks, plug and play, overload protection, stackable, turns off if grid goes down (wont injure line men fixing grid), did I mention less than half the cost of others?
Bottom line: For what I mentioned I think I can get a 2 panel system up and running for less than $1000. I WANT ONE, maybe 2 or 3 down the line. Thats my opinion.
What I recomend is a single 205 w panel. If a panel is shown at 12v thats not what it means you have to look at the spec sheet it will be more like 22v open. These inverters will pull the panel down to 15v and stay there. all my panels are 12v in parallel with 4 of these inverters. CHEERS WINDY NC
this video is great!
Hey Dan Love what your doing.. Got a question for you. Could this be used for a load dump ? I was thinking if the power came from my charger and the charge controll dump it to the GTI. Also could I use more than one ? Stack them and using the same load dump line.
haha i dont know why u guys would bother, the US has just started doing a rebate so u can get it for freeeeeee
Thanks OBX! I am looking for a “tried and true system” Good advise!!!
Your welcome Mike
Doing research on this stuff can be confusing. I started before micro inverters were availible. My goal was to be able to grid tie and off grid with one system. Back up power is important to me. My system in grid tie makes about 15$ a month but during a power outage its priceles to have backup power with out runing the generator.
Thanks again take care.
@shinbean: But it’s really not free, since they’re taking my tax dollars to give to people to buy this stuff. Why not just have people cut out the government and go and commit a robbery to afford their green solutions.
being from australia i dont know if it will work the same way but over here what happened is they released an $8,000 grant for a 1kw system, you would have to pay an upfront cost of about $2500 but after about 6 months you would get that back from the government therefore making it free
@ shinbean: Once again, it’s NOT free. The $8000 “grant” comes from the taxpayers of Australia. And so you’ll take money from your neighbors (either in taxes or interest money borrowed by the government) in order to buy your system. The government doesn’t produce wealth; people with jobs do.
way to be technical mate i was just making a point for americans that they will be getting the same thing as us, im sorry for trying to help ppl mate
keep doing what our doing .. there will always E-thugs
If you supply the grid with electricity from your house won’t repair people potentially be in danger if they work on the lines energized unknown to them
yes, ekimgiles – that is why the inverter shuts off if there is no power. That is the safe feature that he mentioned.