How to wire your own Solar Array Grid tied system.

In this video, I show you how to wire your own solar array grid tied system.
Part two shows the entire wiring diagram and connections for an on-grid system.

[MatHelm]

At 9:20, Best way to sink a grounding rod is to dig a small bowl in the ground and use about a gallon of water, keeping that bowl full as you work the rod up and down. Not sure how smooth it'll go in that rock, but has always worked amazingly easy.

[jamesrichard]

I'm happy for you and your family looks like you guys have a nice peaceful place there in AZ. God's Blessings to you

[OohzyJohnDow]

After a hard day of watch people having a hard day of work :P Enjoy watching though!

[roberta]

Really great information David. Hearing the final expense continues to motivate me to move off grid. It proves the overall system cost has greatly reduced over the past few years. I suppose less expensive components (as the demand and production has increased) and the increase in manufacturer and regional sales company competition. What I call "competitive deflation". Great episode.

[jacobroberts]

Odell thats the best way of driving a ground rod, dewalt, hilti etc also make a ground rod bit specifically for the purpose.

[douglascampbell]

Another great video. Nice solar system install.

[JonnyDIY]

Nice job. Free A/C baby. Hopefully your array can bank enough during day to offset night use of electricity 🙏💕👍

[ahhdavy]

You are a scholar and philosopher David! Awesome job!

[Curious_Cat]

What kind of rack system is this? Great job!

[jacka]

That kit is sweet, can’t wait to hear how ya like it in the future. Good work

[zippythechicken]

yeah the whole time you are wiring those boxes i am freaking out a bit as you twist the hots together .. but the inverters don't pass electric... If you were off grid you would want to wire that at night so no power is being generated. I know a guy that went from Ground to Roof and he is up north so he gets snow.. not sure that was the best idea for him especially as you get older you don't want to climb the roof. Now you just have to generate enough to break even.. hope you got some good rebates. nice to see you're doing well.

[kevinz]

Hey David, Look up online RST clean tech solutions. They make solar panel cleaning systems. They're main market is huge solar farms. I've talked to them about residential systems, so if you contact them they'll return your call. Not a super cheap system, but keeps your panels clean of dust. My plan is to run a gutter and recirculate the water with some extra filtration, or just let the water run off onto the ground.

[MikeHarris]

one nice thing about grey pvc conduit is if there is an obstruction like the cement footer just a little far out, you can take a heat gun and heat the conduit up and make it maluable to bend over areas like that. so you get a nice flush conduit. It takes a minute or so with direct heat going all around the conduit to get it hot enough to move around, but its like a jelly where you heated up once its done, then you mold to what you need, then take something cool like water or wet rag and hold it around it to make it go solid again. Otherwise it takes like 10 minutes for it to harden back up naturally. so you have PLENTY of time to play with it.

[valeriehayes]

Who did you purchase the panels and ground array from?

[MikeHarris]

Wow, my last system on my old rental property (was my primary house for 7 years) was a 7Kwh system and was 29 eventually tesla had to replace them all and ended up being 2 panels less.... Looks like in the 5 years since, the output per panel has gotten even better!

[seanbhaney]

Excellent video! Must be because of AZ, but I'm surprised the under panel wiring isn't tucked a bit better, since it's accessible. We just put in last November a roof-mount, grid-tied Enphase 10.8kw system (27 panels), and it's kicking azz right now here in SoCal!

[theapplefooler]

excellent work very professionally done could you tell me material list what size pipe and holding panel rail thanks

[BWIL]

I love these videos what im curious of is how much power your generating at peak of the day. Where your at it has to be very high. Not just enough for your house but getting paid for what's going back into the grid. A great investment

[Guywithcrazyideas]

Now you need to hook up an automatic sprinkler system to wash all that dust off your panels every day.

[Asomesauc]

A few episodes ago, you showed the storm damage to your fences, is there any concern for future storms causing serious damage to the solar panel array? Is the system you used rated for a certain mile per hour wind?