How a solar trailer/light tower works 

Wish it had three of those battery boxes. I'm a cat 🐈 by the way mmrrrrp.

Don’t open the box. The red button is in there. Don’t open the box.

I heard there’s sour patch kids in there just the red ones

We worked for 2 years to make sure it’s the best light tower built, and we sell if for the same price as the other companies sell cheap alibaba resell specials

Could you rig one of those trailers up to run an RV? No lights

​@@suprestoner yes

​@@EdisonMotors That's wonderful. I'm so glad those people like you building quality products locally

​@Edison Motors Setup looks great quick question how does the system ground ? Is it grounded via the trailer itself ? Do you need an additional ground ? Thanks

Look close. It actually has forklift pockets already and you can sling off the landing legs for a picker

Pulling double or triple duty is awesome. It's a solar light tower, with the ability to recharge some hand tools or run a small electric tool for a bit, and phones. Plus having a high up camera is awesome.

@@deansmits006 15kW is roughly half of a home's daily usage - so it's got plenty of juice.

We already have that. Take the handle off and hit the socket with an impact gun (but that’s not in the operation procedure for Finning so I didn’t say that)

Exactly what I was going to say. I was thinking a straight through shaft to put a half inch drill on so you don't risk damaging something with an impact. Could even use a corded drill powered by the SLT.

​@EdisonMotors I thought you could put a socket on the end to just slip a half inch impact in and go

@@EdisonMotors Having watched nearly all of your videos I should have known that you had it under control. Something about people who actually have worked out in the field, they tend to think about these things. As you have said many times Engineer < Mechanic/operator at least when it comes to operation / servicing of the equipment. Anyways thanks for the response :) Greetings from Norway.

Makes sense for Canadian remote construction work.

When our town flooded and highways washed out we actually restored power to emergency services for the week with these

We’re working on it. Right now all our orders mainly go to rental fleets in Canada. It’s an easy sell: rent this and have no extra costs, or rent a diesel and pay someone to fuel it up consistently

With 4 extended outriggers, if the wind blew hard enough to tip it, a light trailer is probably the least of your worries. Lol I do wonder how fast that wind would have to be...

Also less moving parts, less stuff to break. The cost of setting up a rig with foldout solars may be the same cost as 6 more solar panels.

Or impact wrench, not all of us have a drill

@@stauker.1960 Ha yeah is kinda generic like Kleenex

According to another comment here they have this already, just didn't mention it since it's not the official procedure.

@@TheBks573 you gotta paid more attention buddy 😂 you have the attention span of a worm. It’s literally in the video at 6:20

@@JoeMcLovin69 I would rather have the attention span of a worm than being a dick

I think it's more of a North American thing. It's been adapted from Binary where 1 = On, 0 = Off. Hence the circle and line pictogram.

The circle and line are for open and closed, meaning a closed circuit.

@@jaredlancaster4137 yes, but i get what he's saying. Its sort of counterintuitive if you don't know its based on binary code. If i knew nothing about switches and was asked what represents a closed 'circuit', an o or an I, id think it would be the circle.

Yeah, now that you said that I realized we should have included some night time video. But it’s so hard to get a good sense of light output on a video/picture

​@@EdisonMotors get someone with slightly better camera skills, and someone with marketing skills to sort through the selling points so they don't crowd out eachother.

Yes

A power invertor /bms system. Couple of heating pads, it’s pretty simple but if you push buttons then it’ll screw up the settings

​@Edison Motors but me want to push button

​@@randomfastreader Do you want to get everything potted in silicone and enclosures ultrasonically welded shut? Because that's how you get everything potted in silicone and enclosures ultrasonically welded shut.

Not hard at all. We’re looking at including it as an option right now actually

​@@EdisonMotors Soon as a Starlink goes up someone's gonna want to have it also provide on site 4g/5g micro-cell service as well as a powerful outdoor WiFi access point up on that nicely elevated mast too. Might as well sell a light tower version and a remote communications tower version, or at least make an easy swap capability to switch out which payload is mounted to the top of the mast.

Kind of, but it also then takes away the primary benefit of the solution: Set it up, and forget it. It is meant to be as idiot proof as possible, and the less interactions with the North American 230lb Gorilla? The better. I mean, as he said, it charges to full in ~4-5 hours on a clear sunny day, as is. Because they devoted that much space to the panels. If you could orientate them, you cut the charging time down to....2-3 hours? In 99% of regions this might be used? That additional capacity would be meaningless.It would also greatly increase the surface area for wind-loading, making the whole trailer less stable. About the only places where such a feature would be useful, is in the farthest north work camps and towns, where they get almost no sunlight at all during the winter. Even then, they likely would need to be supplemented with grid/vehicle/generator power anyways, because...such limited hours of "low quality" light. Everywhere else? It won't matter, and the ability to just drop them where they are needed, just makes them more appealing.

We used really thick H-beam frame, and thick steel, and heavy batteries on the bottom to lower the centre of gravity and then added outriggers

Pintle on the back - not suitable for on road use but for e.g. temporary parking...

Or even power part of a house

I'm guessing they are using an all in solar inverter and charging kit cable of outputting split phase power or possible two different ones paired together to provide split phase. If you're curious look up eg4 6.5 kw inverter. To answer your question on wattage that looks to be a 20 amp 240 plug specifically a nema l14-20 at 4:53 Watts =amps x voltage At a minimum there is 4800 watts available Not saying this what they're using this just an educated guess.

Yes

To make it easier to back up and for a forklift to grab it easy. Most of the weight is all at the back with the batteries and light tower

Unfortunately you can only get them through your finning / CAT dealership