Check out my other newer videos with the EG4 3000 watt inverter and also running mini splits. The more you improve on this design the more stuff you can run but this was a bare bones very basic example of runny ac on solar. A 12 volt solar system is extremely limited to around 1000 watts input, 24 volt system is around 3000-4000 watt solar input and 48 volt solar power system can go up to around 20,000 watts input. The best bang for your buck right now is the EG4 3000 watt off grid inverter that will give you true 3000 watt output with up to 5000 watts of solar input. Add a second EG4 3000 watt inverter and you can run a 3 -5 ton ac system on your house, would need 8000-10000 watts input total but can find used mixed manufacturer mono solar panels 25- 230-260 watt mono solar panels for $500, freight might be $200-$350. Check out my other newer videos for more ideals before you decide what to do. You will find it amazing of what you can do with off grid solar and how easy is is to do DIY. They have other pallets with less panels sometimes starting at $200. Links in video for SanTan Solar used panels. Hope you get a lot of ideas of what would best suit your needs.

@@rongray4118 You will need to sign up for email alerts of sales and promotions, they just had a promotion in May and June where almost everything was 25 percent of with a coupon code. Also they add new products almost daily. I check there website several times a day to get the best prices because they post new listings for solar panels throughout the day. So I catch a lot of really low prices and last 2 months they had a very large amount of mono solar panels extremely cheap. The more often you check their site, the better deals you will find and for me, it usually worth it to get pallets of mono used panels for $18-$30 each. Hope you find some great deals, I know I bought over 25 different pallets of poly and most mono solar panels are mixed manufactures and different watt output but usually within 30-40 watts difference. Lately like I said they have been getting in a lot of used mono panels but it’s different every week since these panels come from them removing from large solar arrays around the country with either replacing older panels or decommissioned systems that a business is no longer open. So check back often to get the best deals and be patient, there are always great deals often.

@@happyhamster1411 25 percent increase in tariff. There is currently a 25 percent tariff on imports from China and Southeast Asia. So August 1, 2024 you will pay 25 percent more for the products. If you purchase before August 1, 2024 you will save 25 percent. Hopes this helps to answer your question.

@@diy-solar-guy this is what I saw when I checked. Tariffs on solar cells (whether or not assembled into modules) will double from 25% to 50%. Other products affected include non-lithium-ion batteries, electric vehicles, facemasks, some critical minerals, steel/aluminum products, and medical supplies. I don’t think ion lithium batteries are affected until Jan 1

@@happyhamster1411 Hi, the article I read and Signature Solar on their website states that all EG4 products are going up in price including Lithium Iron phosphate and inverters and solar panels because all are imported from China and Southeast Asia. Just sharing what I have read and saw on websites about price increases for imported tariff products. I hope the Batteries are not included, that would be nice but I believe they will go up in price as well. We only have a little over a week and we will find out. Thanks for your input and hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed day.

Yep, made way for full sunshine with absolutely no shade on solar panels. Were there 20 years.

Yes, I use 10 Awg solar stranded wire that is sun proof and direct burial. I run it through flexible grey conduit.

The Biden administration is raising the tariffs on solar products and EV products being dumped into our country at low prices on August 1, 2024. The increase in tariffs is from 25 percent to 50 percent for products from China and Southeast Asia. They have been avoiding the tariffs by shipping to countries without tariffs and then shipping into US. The tariffs from what I understand are for solar panels, inverters and batteries along with electric vehicle components. It was not in the news that I saw. I noticed that Signature Solar and SanTan Solar has the news on their websites. So I went and investigated it and shared about the increase in video. Hope this helps clarify and for some it will delay them or keep them from going solar until prices come down. This tariffs is supposed to help US manufacturers be competitive in prices but the consumer ends up paying more. Used solar panels which I use a lot that are removed and then tested and sold should not be affected by tariffs increase since the panels have been in use for several years here in the US. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.

Because both parties talk a lot of crap about energy Independence. One side wants to put tariffs on the solar industry and the other side wants to kill solar and keep natural gas and coal going. Both sides work against you towards the middle.

@@diy-solar-guy Seems like climate change is not that important to liberals after all. It's good that they are protecting our markets and manufacturers, but they said it was a global emergency, the seas will rise, we will all die. I guess they were exaggerating or flat out lying about the climate emergency. smh

Thank you. I’m trying to give a lot of info that I learned about the products through installing and testing to the limit of the products and what is the most efficient products. My older videos I was using MPP products which were very limited to 120v but could parallel. Then they had split phase but once again very limited and could never start my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton ac. It the Growatt and EG4 3000 watt inverters in parallel are able to start and run both and run both at the same time which is amazing for out here in the phoenix AZ area where it is often 110 to 117 in the day and 90’s overnight. Everything info is off grid and nothing is the grid is not connected to the off grid system at all. Don’t need to use the grid assist with the large battery bank I have. Thanks for your comment and hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.

@@quickquote1568 Hey thanks for your input. So far no problems here I don’t really run anything like TV’s or computers on loads from solar. Mostly air conditioning, pool pump, pool heaters, 5-7 cubic chest freezers in garage. Inside house appliances are on grid. We run extra spare washer, dryer and dishwasher in garage along with countertop smokeless grills, counter top oven and microwave. Nothing that cost a lot in garage. Like I said, all appliances in house we use on grid. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.

@@kenthiergartner1506 all 4 - EG4 3000 watt inverters have to share same battery bank but each EG4 3000 watt inverter has to have its own separate solar panel array.you can not share battery bank with different inverters at all. The Growatt low frequency inverters can not be paralleled together. Only the exact same inverters that are designed to be paralleled and with the EG4 3000 watt inverter you can parallel up to 12 inverters for a total of 36,000 watts of output. I use EG4 LiFePO4 batteries for all my battery banks. 2-51.2 dc volt 100ah 5120 wh batteries in parallel for one 12kw Growatt and another separate set of 2-51.2 dc volt 100ah 5120 wh batteries for the other 12kw Growatt. That is 4 batteries. Then I have the 5-51.2 dc volt 100 ah 5120 wh batteries in parallel for a total of 25.5 kWh battery bank for the 4-EG4 3000 watt inverters in parallel. Each EG4 LiFePO4 battery is 5.1 kWh. So 3 separate solar power off grid systems with 3 separate battery banks. Hope that helps you understand, you can also watch my latest videos with the EG4 inverters in parallel and I show that there are 3 completely separate system. If I had the more solar panels and more space in yard, I could theoretically have 36,000 watts of output since all 3 separate systems can output 12,000 watts each. I could never use that much but since those 2 Growatt inverters each weighs 186 lbs, they are staying on the wall till I rather sell or give to family or friends. Just to hard to take off wall. Was an all day job just installing each one with engine hoist pull chain set up. Thanks for the questions and hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024

@@eugeneputin1858 you are correct, they have been shipping the solar products to countries that have no tariffs on solar products then into US, that’s why they are increasing the amount and going after countries that were used. Hopefully it won’t last long. Prices were dropping fast for the consumer and made it affordable for the average homeowner. Thanks for your input. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024

@@diy-solar-guy I'm sure they have another loophole already in motion. Solar products will be dirt cheap in the future, no doubt about that.

That’s the wonderful thing about creating your own off grid solar system. You can create any way you want to. You create to accommodate your needs and that’s what I did. I designed it for my power needs. I actually now use 2 times as much power as I use to because I can and I am not worried about a high electric bill. Was 110 degrees out yesterday and 72-74 degrees in my house upstairs and downstairs all 2450 square feet and the garage was around 76 degrees. All free air conditioning because of off grid solar. Hey, thanks for sharing your comment with us, hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed week. Hope your off grid system works out well for you and supplies all the power you need and then some.

​@@diy-solar-guy Ok, I do like how you have positioned yourself with panels given the limited space you have. and you got a great deal on them. I just don't understand why 4 eg4 3000s and 2 growatt low frequency units. That is allot of idle load losses and makes it difficult to make a clean instal. Why not just 2 eg4 18 k or a couple of solarks? You know you won't have to worry very much about a start load on those air cons if your mini splits have DC compressors. Sig Solar has those too. Cheers

@@Greg-bx4id I started

@Greg-bx4id I started out with getting the 2 12kw inverters refurbished and got 2 for the less than the price of one new one. They are solid long term inverters that you can buy replacement boards online if one goes down. The diy guy can replace the boards so I keep those on the wall since they were extremely heavy and hard to mount on the wall. (186 lbs). I was using those 2 Growatt inverters until I decided to get a EG4 3000 watt off grid inverter to install in my motor home to run a 12,000 btu 110 volt mini split. The efficiency was so impressive that I bought another inverter and was able to start my 3 1.2 ton whole house heat pump for upstairs and run all day on solar then switch to EG4 battery bank at night and not use the grid electric to air condition the house. When I was able to run my 3 1/2 ton 24 hours a day, I decided to get 2 more and put in parallel to run my 4 ton downstairs heat pump as well. The 2 ac’s use 6500 watts with both running. Too much for just 2 - 3000 watt inverters. So I ended up with 4 - EG4 inverters in parallel and soon will have rewired all my solar arrays to run everything on just the 4 - EG4 inverters. No sense in taking the 2 Growatt inverters off the wall since I can switch over to one of them when I have my other 4 inverters down for maintenance of emergency. I have 2 backups on the wall but not worth selling or taking down since already on the wall. That’s the story. I don’t need to buy another inverter, all 3 inverter systems run great. The EG4 3000 watt inverter fits well into storage area in the motor home and a large inverter would not fit such as the EG4 6000 watt it 18,000 watt inverter. Just needed to have 120volt output in motor home fit my mini split. That’s how it all started and I’m completely happy with my choices. I’m like NASA , back up of a back up, lol. I have a lot of different arrays because I try to show different ways to mount solar panels and they are so so cheap out here, I’m getting 260-400 watt used mono and bifacial for $18-$30 each that are giving me excellent output. When I first started , they place I buy used solar panels only had used poly panels and very little mono, but used mono panels were very expensive. In the last 2 months, they have been selling ridiculously cheap so I had to get and replaced my poly panels, I’m getting double the output with the used mono versus the used poly panels which means I can start running things at 6 am and keep running to 7 or 8 pm, then able to charge batteries banks back up to 100 percent by 9-11 am. Hey thanks for your input, hope you have a very blessed week.

I actually use over double power now that I am producing it off grid and my electric bill is reduced by almost 80 percent. 72 in the house upstairs and downstairs and 74 in 3 car garage when 110+ degrees outside in day and in the 90’s most of the night. We have been able to pay off equipment each year with just the savings in electric bill each year. Can’t get that payback time with grid solar. Thanks for your input and hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024

This is correct, I’m so happy I started investing in solar over 4 years ago. Hopefully this won’t last long and prices will drop in the near future.

@@ewliang just by chance they actually fit there. I now built 2 separate solar arrays at a 45 degree angle facing the southern sky so I can use year round instead of just winter. Getting excellent results out of array. You can see this in my latest videos using EG4 3000 watt off grid inverters in parallel to run my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton heat pumps that were on house when bought brand new. We now heat and air condition our entire house and garage using only solar in the day and 25.5 kWh EG4 LiFePO4 battery bank to run 3 1/2 ton upstairs ac overnight. We also heat it cool our 15,000 in ground pool throughout the year with an electric heat pump pool heater that uses 7500 watts while running and can heat or cool the water temp by 2-3 degrees per hour to get our pool at 89 degrees year round regardless of temp being down to 30 degrees in winter or 115 degrees outside in summer. We like it at 86-89 degrees water temp year round. We also run our pool pump 24 hours a day 7 days a week with no algae problems with those high temps of water. Check out our other videos to see all we have accomplished with diy off grid solar. Links in descriptions of products used in case you would like to check out products used in videos and prices currently. Hey thanks for the comment and hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024

From the article I read the increase will be with solar panels, Batteries, inverters and Electric vehicle components from China and Southeast Asia because they are dumping low cost products into market and going through countries that do not have tariffs on imports of solar components and EV components to avoid tariffs, tariff increase from 25 percent to 50 percent is to help United States manufacturers be more competitive. You can search for articles to explain more about the tariffs and what all is included. Hey hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024

I do not use a combiner box but are moving away from using parallel arrays since the higher 500 vdc input from solar allows me to connect up to 13 solar panels on series and stay under 500 vdc solar panel PV input into EG4 inverters. My Growatt inverters are limited to 150 vdc solar panel PV input and is not as efficient at bringing in more watts and amps from solar panel as being in series. I am getting up to 80 percent more watts input when in series and connected to EG4 3000 watt inverter. I am also moving away from the used poly solar panels to new and used mono and new bifacial solar panels. I am seeing a huge increase into inverters with same watt solar panels with the mono and bifacial solar panels compared to poly used solar panels. I will try to do a video on connecting solar panels in series and parallel and the benefits & drawbacks of each wiring connections. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024

Thank you. I do have the eg4 3k same one you have. I was going to go with the ten 400 watt bifacial in series. Right now I just have smaller 100 watt panels. Total of 1200 watts in two different strings. Thanks again for the fast reply. Love the videos. Keep up the good work.

@D1petergriffin very nice. I started out with just 2 solar panel and just kept expanding as I saved more and more money with using more and more things on solar power. Now I’m running my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton ac right now on just solar off grid while my pool is running on highest RPM’s along with a mini split keeping my house at 74 degrees for 2 story 2450 square foot house and running a 18,000 btu mini split in garage as well on solar keeping it 78 degrees while it is 105 out right now. All my solar off grid will be completely paid off from savings on electric bill by December of this year, 2024. I use almost double of what I used before setting up off grid solar. It is so easy now with the products they are selling. Hope you solar system works great for you.

@@jeffreydubinsky6718 The Biden administration has raised import tariffs on China and Southeast Asia as plummeting global solar prices hurt U.S. factory expansion plans. Last week, President Biden announced plans to increase U.S import tariffs on Chinese solar cells and panels from 25% to 50% among a host of other products, on the grounds of unfair Chinese business practices. This is from an article a few weeks ago. Price increases start August 1, 2024

Does this affect Lfp batteries, inverters and chargers?

@prefix808 Yes batteries, solar panels, EV products and I thought signature solar said inverters imported from China and south East Asia. They have been sending products through countries that have no tariffs to avoid paying tariffs so this is supposed to try and correct that. Goes in affect August 1, 2024. Should go from 25 percent tariffs to 50 percent tariffs.

@@massa-blasta link for Santan solar to buy new and used solar panels from $20 each. I use poly solar panels in open spaces with no shading and in process of replacing used poly panels with used mono solar panels which are much more efficient. Follow link and check back with Santan solar often, they add more products on a daily basis. You can use 20_summer on pallets to get another another 20 percent off for a few more days. 10_summer coupon is for new solar panels. Coupon 20_summer code Has to be used with individual solar panels or in the category of pallets. Coupon will not work on all used solar panels. Hurry sale ends soon but they often have sales. The used solar panels availability is drying up from what I hear. Getting harder to find used solar panels. Some pallets are already at $20 each solar panel and with another 20 percent off would be $16 each solar panel. If you sign up with email, they will send you coupon codes for sales in the future. If you use link, I get credit for sale and it cost you nothing extra. It helps us to buy more products and test then do videos. Hope this helps. www.santansolar.com/?ref=PappasOffGridSolar

​@@diy-solar-guydo you trust the pallet from them. I see one a pallet for 25 for 500. Do you think those solar panel still work?

@@TienTran-bi1jv pallet listings that say blemish will be water intrusion or damage or browning on circuits or mold growing on circuits. Try to stay away from those, I have a lot of those but they will drop to around 100 watts on a 250 watt panel after just 1-3 years and drop even more. Just try to stay away from blemish in listing. Frame damage seems to be ok and have had great luck with this getting 80-99 percent output. Most blemish panels will be best at 70 percent output or less. Mono panels are more expensive but will be worth it as they will produce more at sunrise and sunset and with partial shading. I am getting 270-400 watt pallets mixed watts output 5-25 panels per pallet that have been giving me double or more of what my used 250 poly panels put out. Mono panel is around same size but twice the output. I have a 1/4 acre yard so I have room for a lot of inexpensive poly panels but have been replacing all with the used mono except the 10 400 watt bifacial panels I bought new. The listings that say used mixed manufacturers are usually mono solar panels but stay away if it says blemished. The listing with list what panels are included with manufacturers name, watts is panel and his many are for that pallet. If you click in additional information in the middle listing it will describe weather poly or mono panels in listing. Usually it is either poly or mono but not both on a pallet. This listing is an example of I pallet I would buy. “Used Mixed Manufacture 230 - 260W Solar Panel - Pallet of 25, $500. Sometimes they have 300-400 watt mono pales for that price but they will be bought usually within hours of being listed. You will need to clean front of solar panel with just with just microfiber cloth and water and maybe the back side as well before installing. Don’t use soap or any chemicals on solar panels. Just water.Looks like they just started a new promo “ Christmas in July” but I have not received a email yet with details and if there is a promo code to get extra discount. Sign up for email to be sent to you for advance notice of promotion and sales and promo codes to get best discounts. You will much happier with the mono sonar panels in the long run. I learned the hard way after I already bought around 100 poly panels. Hope this info helps and feel free to ask more questions about pallets if they are a good deal, that pallet I mentioned above would be around 6000 watts of solar panels and at just 70 percent output would give you around 4200 watts input in solar output for your system for $500. At 80 percent output would give you around 4800 watts. That is a really inexpensive price for almost 5000 watts of solar output from inverter.

@@Mike-01234 The Biden administration has raised import tariffs on China and Southeast Asia as plummeting global solar prices hurt U.S. factory expansion plans. Last week, President Biden announced plans to increase U.S import tariffs on Chinese solar cells and panels from 25% to 50% among a host of other products, on the grounds of unfair Chinese business practices. This is from an article a few weeks ago, price increase starts August 1,2024. I used fence poles and a pole pounder to drive poles in ground 18 inches. We get very little rain out here in Phoenix AZ area and rain will not penetrate the ground out here. That’s why we get flash floods, rain does not soak into ground. If you live in a wet climate, I would use cement in holes and go much deeper, maybe checking out your codes in your area for frost line depth. I bought all the parts at Home Depot and Lowes. I do not have a video on those ground mounts yet. I bought the EG4 3000 watt off grid inverter to install in motor home to run mini 12,000 btu mini split and test on the wall first. I was so supposed by the ease and high efficiency, I bought another one and was prompted by viewers that 2 EG4 3000 watt inverter in parallel might be able to start 3 1/2 ton ac, so I tried it and sure enough. It worked so I bought 2 more and soon will be able to run all my solar powered stuff on just the 4 EG4 3000 watt inverters. The EG4-6000xp would not fit in my motor home, way to big for storage area. Hope this helps to answer your questions. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024

​@@diy-solar-guyis there article saying signature solar will increase their batteries or the inverter? I'm interested but I haven't pull the trigger yet. Or you just base on the fact Biden admin gonna increase tariff

@@TienTran-bi1jv Signature solar says price increases on all EG4 products. All EG4 products are imported from China and Southeast Asia and the tariffs are said to be a way to have US manufacturers compete. So Signature Solar is allowing people to preorder products to avoid the increases and secure the current price while the product will actually be ordered before tariffs kick in. Orders will be deliver when product arrives at their warehouse in a few weeks, after August 1,2024 because product was purchased before deadline. Check out their website and feel free to call them and ask exactly what products will be affected. I hope this helps

@@diy-solar-guy do you have any coupon code for signature sir?

@@TienTran-bi1jv They just posted a new promo starting today “Christmas in July” but they have not sent me a email with info or if there is a coupon code. Sign up for emails from to get promos and sales in advance and coupon codes if available for that promo or sale. You can search for SanTan solar coupon codes on internet and sometimes find good coupons that work. The part one I used was for 5 percent off but the coupon for may and July was a 25 percent off coupon on most of there products. It was a great deal. UPREV This coupon code will give you $25 off and drop that pallet price to $475. Only coupon that works right now. Sign up for emails and they might send you the new promo coupon if available within 24-48 hours. Good luck with deals.

Price increase from 25 percent to 50 percen on imports from China and Southeast Asia August 1,2024

There is a tariff increase on solar products imports starting August 1, 2024. To try to help US manufactures stay competitive in the solar products market. it is 25 percent now and will increase to 50 percent. So US made products will not increase. This increase is only for imported products. Most products are imported so it will affect a lot of products. The following is from an article earlier this year. The Biden administration has raised import tariffs on China and Southeast Asia as plummeting global solar prices hurt U.S. factory expansion plans. Last week, President Biden announced plans to increase U.S import tariffs on Chinese solar cells and panels from 25% to 50% among a host of other products, on the grounds of unfair Chinese business practices.

@@TheObserver567 I have several videos on the EG4 3000 watt off grid inverters in parallel and how easy it is to connect all of it to EG4 server rack batteries or 48 volt battery bank. Check out the videos to see how easy it is to make wire connections.

@@diysolaradventures7894 that sounds like a great idea

@@diysolaradventures7894 I bought over 150 used solar panels from San tan solar. Most recently in last month about 40 mono solar panels. $18-$30 each for 270-400 watts. I bought a lot of stuff off eBay over the years, I understand what you are saying. I bought components and paid on credit over 6 months with no interest to get things. Then when I paid something off, I bought something else. You do what you can afford, diy is about getting great deals and doing most of the work yourself. Thanks for your input, hope you have a blessed weekend

In the electrical panel that is off grid and not connected to grid in any way. Not even grid input on inverter. Used the green bonding screw so the neutral is connected to ground in electrical panel.

@@olaade2109 No, I am in Arizona.

@@diy-solar-guy I need to do something very similar and I need an experienced master electrician. Thanks!

@olaade2109 if you get a lot of clouds out there in the area of Florida you live in, you need to take that into consideration. Cloudy days and rainy days will be hard to produce power. If you build a system you might want to look at mono solar panels that do well in those two conditions. Solar input when cloudy or raining can drop significantly to where you might only have 20 percent input or less. In Arizona, we have over 320 days of full sunshine and very little rain, especially in Phoenix because of the heat island effect from very little trees or grass and mostly buildings, roads, houses and vehicles adding to heat keeping the clouds from being over the whole Phoenix area. It pushes clouds around the city rather than the clouds moving over the city. Hope you have a blessed day

@@diy-solar-guy I have good sunlight here. But I do have a few questions I will need your expertise on. I don't know if there's anyway you can share your email so I can share some pictures with you. Anyway, here is what I plan on doing. I want to install/connect a battery backup for my an existing Enphase solar system. I have two batteries. One of the batteries is an all-in-one 10kWh with inbuilt 5KW inverter (120V) and the other is a 10kWh battery, but I also a separate 5KW inverter (120V). The batteries will be paralleled as well as the inverters. I also have an IQ System Controller and a Combiner box. I understand the parallel connection piece of the installation, however, I need guidance on what to do with the System Controller and the Combiner box. I'm happy to share my number if you don't mind giving me a call. Thanks for the anticipated assistance!

@olaade2109 I have no experience with emphases solar system components or the other equipment you stated in the message. I am willing to help but not sure if I will be any help at all. You might want to try RU-vid videos to see if there is a video about what you are trying to do, there might be videos on your enphase solar system with How to add battery backup or call the seller or manufacturer of the equipment you have. I call the sellers and manufacturers here and there for my equipment to talk to technicians that have actual expertise in the equipment I bought. I would not know where to begin with equipment I never saw before. Try those ideas first and hope you get the answers you are looking for. Hope you have a blessed night.

I have installed 7 mini splits that are used with solar or LiFePO4 2 upstairs, 2 downstairs and 2 in my garage, also one in my 23 foot motor home. I now run my whole house heat pumps on solar in day and upstairs 3 1/2 ton overnight on EG4 25.5 kWh LifePO4 battery bank. I had to put soft starts on my 3 1/2 ton, 4 ton downstairs and my 12.7 ton pool heat pump water heater that heats or cools the pool water 2-3 degrees per hour in my 15000 gallon pool. This basic bare bones example is what I did when I started messing with off grid solar over 4 years ago. Now we run so much on off grid solar power system check out all my never EG4 3000 watt inverter and Growatt 12kw low frequency off grid inverter videos where I show how to run so much around the house and reduce your grid electric bill by as much as 80-90 percent. All diy projects and home owner can do. Thanks for your valuable input, we appreciate it. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.

Ten thousand what? Please expand on your question with more information.

@@diy-solar-guy btu ac

@@aphilly2158 you could but would have to use at least twice as many components. You would be better off getting an all in one inverter, either 24v or preferable 48 volt inverter. I have videos on 24 volt and different 48 volt inverters. These all in one inverters are typically pure sign wave output and can take at least 2000 watts of solar input. I find most people that try to do this example of running window ac with solar go onto want to expand system to run even more appliances. Watch my other videos to see everything I have been able to run with solar. I started with this very basic system and now run my 3 1/2 ton (36,000btu) and 4 ton (48,000 btu) heat pumps in my 2450 square foot 2 story house with only Solar during the day and run my 3 1/2 ton ac overnight with EG4 LiFePO4 battery bank. If you like this video and think about trying this, you will love watching the other videos I did. I started out using all used solar panels that I was buying for $30-$45 each poly solar panels and now have switched to new and used mono solar panels, getting 300 watt solar panels as low as $15-$22 each. When on a tight budget, used solar panels are a great alternative to new solar panels. Price wise you would probably spend same amount of money buying double the products used in video and the all in one inverter would end up being a less expensive overall cost to run the 10 btu window ac. EG4 3000 watt off grid inverter refurbished is $524 and new is $674. Hope you have a truly blessed day

@@diy-solar-guy ok thank you looking into it

@@sambee5748 I have to plug the ac into either solar inverter or grid outlet in wall. You could have LiFePO4 batteries connected to the solar inverter and run at night. But you would have to manually remove plug for ac and plug into what you want to be able to run ac.

Yes, they are long gone, ended up giving to my brother. He is enjoying the off grid solar experience with a 12,000 btu mini split lowering his electric bill. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024

I actually used this in a shed for about 2 years to keep my inverters and batteries cool. It was 105 to 115 degrees and kept it below 70 degrees all day long. Very well insulated on walls, ceiling and floor. Shed was in full sun after 10 am till sun went down. It did not use a lot of power since it was a small shed and very well insulated. This video was more about the basic concept of running an ac with solar. Now I run my 3 1/2 ton upstairs and 4 ton downstairs ac all day with solar keeping 2450 square feet 72-74 degrees when 115 outside and we use EG4 battery bank overnight to run upstairs ac. Check out our other videos on what we run with solar now. This was a starting point 4 years ago. Thanks for your input and hope you have a truly wonderful and blessed 2024

@@omerfar I was able to use 1150 watts and still kept running. Never shut down.

Are you able to check the dc amps input from solar with that meter? Also how many watts in solar do you have on each leg?

@@TinyHouseHomestead so I guess all those people who actually did the same thing in my video and it worked for them, they let me know it worked. They all got scammed. Now I run my 3 1/2 ton upstairs ac and my 4 ton downstairs ac on solar during the day as well as my 3 car garage with a 18,000 btu mini split, all at 72-74 degrees with off grid solar. We even run our 3 1/2 ton ac overnight with our 25.5 kWh EG4 LiFePO4 battery bank. All from solar power during the day. I actually show I know what I am talking about, this is just a bare bones example that you can run a window ac using solar with the very minimal components needed. I have encouraged many with comments to expand and improve on this example as I did and now can air condition my house and garage to 72-74 degrees when it is 115 degrees outside like today and yesterday and the week before. I hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.

I’m not sure, I’m keeping on the wall for now since I have the space. Those were a major hassle to mount on wall. I’m actually using both still. One is being used to run mini split in the garage from 6 am to 6 pm. Keeps garage at 70-75 all day long. The other one I’m using to run my pool pump on high during the day so my pool is sparkling clean all the time. Those are only power hungry at night consuming 150 watts at idle but during the day I over produce so it’s not a problem. I’m in the process of changing out my poly solar panels to mono and also increasing watts for each solar panel.

@diy-solar-guy oh ok I was able to run my 12,000 BTU mini split all night last night in eco mode it got down to less than 200 Watts I was very impressed once I turn my mini split on high and it starts cooling down the room that's when I press the Eco Mode which separates the outside unit from the wall unit the outside unit starts slowing down using less power while the inside unit you can still keep the fan on high in cool mode

@@diysolaradventures7894 very nice. I use the economy mode early in morning and late in the day when I’m trying to cool one of the bedrooms more than the other bedrooms. You are right, it uses a lot less on economy mode. I like the Growatt as a backup and that I can purchase spare boards on eBay or internet that I can replace myself. They have already paid for themselves in electric cost savings so they are still good. Those are selling for $1500 refurbished and over $2200 new plus having to pay freight so they are worth holding onto on the wall for backup. Very very reliable off grid inverters!!!!

@diy-solar-guy yes they are since my solar system is a 24-volt with 224 volt 3000 watt inverter chargers I'm thinking about upgrading to the 24v 3000w Growatt inverters because they the only 24 volt inverters that allow for parallel connections my 24-volt inverters doesn't allow for it I've been looking at the 24v Growatt

@@diysolaradventures7894 an upgrade is nice. When I upgraded to the 48 volt inverters, that opened up every option for me, including running my main whole house heat pumps. I was using 24 volt MPP inverters when I started out but it limited me to run my stuff overnight. Hope you have fun upgrading.

@@abelincoln3261 ran this set up for 2 years in my shed. You know the basics but have not run it yourself as I have. I started with this and now run my 3 1/2 ton upstairs and 4 ton downstairs heat pump to air condition my house when 115 out to 72 degrees. It all started with this bare bones basic set up. I live where there is 320+ days of full sunshine. I have had a lot of people duplicate this and says it is working great for them, others have improved on this basic set up and run larger ac’s or mini splits. This is just a simple example of how solar powers a window ac unit. It is meant for small areas. Just so people can see you can actually run air conditioning with off grid solar. I know, I do it every day now for over 4 years. Hey hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed weekend

@@imothy you could add more solar panels. A 5000 btu window ac will use around 5-6 amps or 500-600 watts. So a 8000 btu would probably use 900 watts or more and a 12000 btu ac would probably use 1200 watts. You would be better off using an all in one inverter. Check out my other videos for using all in one inverters.

All of my Growatt inverters are 48v. Even my new EG4 3000 watt inverters are 48 volt. I now only use 51.2 volt EG4 server rack batteries on all my off grid solar systems. Hope this information helps.

@@diy-solar-guy thanks, I’m considering adding one for the 240v part. I’m running two SW5548 ‘s so I’m already set up for 48v. At this time it’s 48v @ 2200Ah. They can do 120/240 but finding the “SERIES STACKING SINGLE PHASE / THREE WIRE SYSTE USE TRACE P/N 1880-15” cable is difficult to find. I have the wire diagram but to stupid to understand how the pin configuration works.

@@kenmay1988 the 6 kw Growatt can not be paralleled. Might want to t to look at the EG4 3000 watt inverters. I just installed and and running my 3 1/2 ton and 4 ton whole house ac system with 4 of them in parallel. 2 EG4 3000 watt inverters that are 48 volt are much lighter and can do the same as the Growatt inverter but you continue to expand by adding more in parallel, up to 12 - EG4 3000 watt inverters in parallel. Need at least 2 and need to add more in pairs if 2 to expand. Check out my latest videos on the EG4 3000 watt inverters. You can go up to 500 volts dc solar panel input with EG4 inverter, the Growatt can only go up to 150 volts dc solar panel input. You have to keep input dc amps below 20 amps but can output 80 amps on each inverter. They are $674 each. Only weigh 18 lbs. Growatt 6 kw weighs 109 lbs. hope this helps. Hope you have a truly blessed day

@@diysolaradventures7894 you are correct. You have to program the Victron. But even when I fully charge my battery and sync to 100 percent, the Victron within 24 hours will not be accurate. There are times I discharge my battery bank to 30 percent and then while at 50 percent charging the next day when solar is charging, the Victron will say my battery bank is at 100 percent. Not sure if that is happening with you? Let me know.

@diy-solar-guy no because I leave the sync off and manually set it to 100% once I know for a fact the batteries are fully charged I never use the sync to 100% and it started reading more accurately by leaving the sync off

Hey thanks for that tip. I appreciate it.

@@diy-solar-guy you're welcome I've been using it for a year now and it's right on point even if it's off by a little bit when full put it back to 100%

I have no idea on that. Maybe someone else, a viewer can answer that question.

@@alanCalhoun2 the coils never got a frost on them. It was too hot and I never ran the ac long enough for that to happen. It might look like that in the video due to the way the light is on coils. Even when I had installed in the shed I never saw frost on fins when running for hours. It is too hot out here and the humidity it very low usually around 20-40 percent. I hope this helps to answer you question, hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024

@@diy-solar-guy Thanks 😀

@alanCalhoun2 you are so welcome. Have a blessed day

@@diysolaradventures7894 nice, glad it is working for you. Enjoy

@@diy-solar-guy thanks

@@tylermcnally8232 That’s ok, it worked for over 2 years. Now I run my 3 1/2 ton upstairs, 4 ton downstairs ac and 3 car garage ac all day with solar cooling around 3000 square feet and run upstairs ac overnight on battery bank. I spend $0 on ac when it is 110+ degrees outside. It all started with this as you say hodge podge experiment. Hoping you have a nice cool night as I do for free.

@@diysolaradventures7894 was it equipped with WiFi and was it working already? Not understanding what you are asking?

@diy-solar-guy when I got my new Senville mini split it can with some kind of wifi adapter that plugs in under the wall unit I press the lcd button 7 times to pair it with either ur phone or wireless router so I can use the Senville app but nothing sees the wifi adapter that's plugged into the wall unit when in AP pairing mode

@diysolaradventures7894 I had the same problem. Try watching this before you try again this link to video on how to connect WiFi Bluetooth dongle. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rPkScJmneoc.htmlfeature=shared

@@diy-solar-guy I watch the same video and he actually made me mad because he never once showed the public how he connected the phone to the Senville app he didn't show how to pair it Bluetooth it or anything all he shoeed was that his app was up and working he never once explained how he got it to work

Try watching this video for a different brand. Should be very similar in the way they set up. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0ZK3vU63g9o.htmlfeature=shared

Thank you for you helpful comment.

Hey, thanks for your helpful input about modified sine wave inverter. We used this set up for a little over 2 years and had no problems.

Thank you. Usually out here it is hard to get lower than 40 of the outside temp for the room temperature. The temp of the air blowing out of the ac is much colder than the room temp. It can be 110 degrees outside here and my whole house ac or mini split can blow 35-55 degrees. But you won’t be able to get your room that cold with all the heat sources like windows, doors, walls, etc… Hope that helps to clear things up. Thanks for the comment and hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed day.

I am so glad that worked to fix your mini split. That is why I posted it. Very simple fix. Enjoy your cool air conditioning down there in Monterey. Hope you have a truly wonderful and extremely blessed 2024.

Thank you so much for your extremely blessed comment. This is what we started with over 4 years ago. Today will be 112 degrees and it is noon, the upstairs, downstairs and garage is at 74 degrees right now. All from just off grid solar during the day and we run our upstairs ac overnight on LiFePO4 battery bank.a at

@@diy-solar-guy hopefully I will do it myself, baby steps little by little but I will make it happen and thanks to you.

@@johnlozano5054 That is how I started out. Baby steps. Good luck with your off grid solar project when you start it.