I Have the Power of the Sun - New House Solar Install

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@LinusTechTips 2 года назад

Add PC Building Simulator 2 to your wishlist here: www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p/pc-building-simulator-2

@blox2542 2 года назад

@jw6575 2 года назад

i Will preorder when i get the money

@ugogatto 2 года назад

what happen to the radiator behind the panel when temp drop too much

@JAMJAM2020_YT 2 года назад

cool you can also install fortnite

@InvinsableNoob 2 года назад

Once everything is done please do a "MTV Cribs" full show of the house

@Rowsdow3r 2 года назад

I can't believe Linus would buy a house with such a blurry back yard.

@maxpflegel 2 года назад

Backyard comes pre-bokehed. Cameraman’s dream.

@WarrenGarabrandt 2 года назад

The high res texture pack hasn't been installed yet. That's coming in a future episode I bet.

@quincybriley4113 2 года назад

It's like he was doing a zoom meeting from his backyard

@ChristopherHailey 2 года назад

His backyard is only DLSS 1.0

@smallbutdeadly931 2 года назад

His backyard has TAA enabled

@AntVenom 2 года назад

I am like, so ready for whole house water cooling. I'm sure you would have taken this route with the new house either way, but I'm glad you never gave up on the dream after all these years!

@Slintyy 2 года назад

the sun is powerful

@ragtagragnor2943 2 года назад

Antvenom!? That's a suprise

@Altronic- 2 года назад

hello antman

@JustAhmd 2 года назад

@RandomUser2401 2 года назад

ah yes another episode of monetized BlurTV with some house content

@reubencobb6465 2 года назад

I love watching linus and his husband upgrade their new house

@Bubbachichi Год назад

I now dub thee: Jinus

@itsdollhouse Год назад

@@Bubbachichi lake

@cholarrytheone Год назад

@@delightfulgenius4635 It's a runniggag. Previously Luke was his "Boyfriend". Now, since Jake spended so much time planning and supporting Linuses Houseupgrades and Serverstuff, Jake is his Wifes Husbands Boyfriend.

@CoderThomasB Год назад

@@delightfulgenius4635 That's the joke

@alfredoghost2306 11 месяцев назад

@@delightfulgenius4635nope that's his husband. Linus flames harder than the Olympic torch

@9746669250 2 года назад

I love it how the solar guys, the people who do this for a living, EVERYDAY!!!is wearing harness and Linus is just up there with no concern for safety whatsoever. Linus is probably the greatest asset and the biggest liability to the company. Perfectly balanced as all things should be.

@simpledj509chromo7 Год назад

One time we were going through an L&I audit or something and the big boss walked out of the office, jumped on a four wheeler, and sped off through the yard at like 30 mph and peeled off down the road wide open throttle grabbing gears with no helmet. To us, that's just normal stuff, but the inspector just shook his head and scribbled some notes on his clipboard. I think the business actually got dinged for that.

@Alucardx72 2 года назад

Love how you guys protect the privacy of the trees by blurring them!!

@mikelisteral7863 2 года назад

the more complicated something is the more maintenance and energy it requires (wastes)

@theophilelouison7249 2 года назад

Those trees were naked, how dare they?

@Rich-qs6kn 2 года назад

They just turned the Draw distance setting down

@xzaz2 2 года назад

Iv been playing GeoGuessr and people only need 1 tree to pinpoint the location. No joke.

@fungo6631 2 года назад

@@xzaz2 That depends on the tree though.

@LEGITPURPOSE 2 года назад

With everything Jake is contributing to the house, it feels like he’s going to live there to when it’s done.

@dazley8021 2 года назад

legit was gonna say that haha, but fr why is HE so invested in this? is he gonna be Linus' personal assistent?

@HenningGu 2 года назад

I think Linus and/or Yvonne has said that Jake will know this house better than either of them.

@P1EX 2 года назад

@@dazley8021 I’m assuming because he’s already on the payroll why not assign someone to help manage and plan such a huge project. Also they are making videos so it doubles as content for the channel so he’s still technically doing normal work for the channel in a sense

@Gambsmoore 2 года назад

Ngl, I think Jake is always there because he thinks the project is fun. They both look like they're enjoying themselves.

@0Aberration 2 года назад

Dennis and Ethan walked so Jake could run.

@gr6e Год назад

4:43 I love it when a company is willing to spend the time to talk to you and give you advice even if they know they aren't going to be making money off of you.

@maxxyang3723 Год назад

that's how public relations works. in the end it all goes back to money. Conversating with a customer is virtually free and leaves a good impression on the customer.

@b18crx4 Год назад

I would say they will make money off of talking to Linus for sure. If I buy anything I always consider what Linus has purchased for his family. I'm sure bang for buck is considered but he generally gets the best stuff.

@marvintron477 2 года назад

I love how Linus is on the roof just holding on to a rope instead of wearing a harness. The contractor guys had a harness.

@maltero0074 2 года назад

Yes they had and how they've used it, it would have done nothing in case of a fall. I'm quite shocked how badly they were secured. I am a rope technician in Germany and I've never seen worse protection against fall.

@Mrshotshell 2 года назад

@@maltero0074 At least it's something

@maltero0074 2 года назад

@@Mrshotshell But that something gives you an Illusion of safety, wich is actually more dangerous.

@Studio23Media 2 года назад

His house, his liability. As opposed to those guys being there for work. (Even though Linus was ironically working too)

@malfaroangel3896 2 года назад

@@Studio23Media WTF that’s not how that works 😂. Those contractors have their own insurance in case they get hurt, it doesn’t fall on Linus. Some people won’t even hire you if you don’t have workers insurance

@midnighthymn 2 года назад

"The power of the sun...in the palm of my hand."

@theTECHIEE 2 года назад

Yoo

@bluespirit5101 2 года назад

“Otto?”

@vakvlogs84 2 года назад

I Love My Country 🌹

@thanhdanhphi5384 2 года назад

Yesss!!! I’m looking for this comment!!

@Neoxon619 2 года назад

@@bluespirit5101 It’s good to see you, dear boy.

@daniel_poore 2 года назад

Every contractors "favorite" kind of customer. The guy that wants to be involved with everything, and mess with all the parts before install.

@RobotnikPlays 2 года назад

And film the crew at work

@dacheesebroker1105 2 года назад

They 100% most likely agreed to it before being contracted.

@volodymyrzakolodyazhny7740 2 года назад

@jeremybdman 2 года назад

"Hey how's this work? What do you think of this vs this?" Heh... I'm that guy lol

@faithblack3851 2 года назад

You forgot contractors love being filmed for social media platforms...lol

@AbeDillon 2 года назад

That's pretty damn cool tech. I would guess the small efficiency loss from adding glycol and antifreeze and using a heat-exchanger would be totally worth it. You should be able to divert the flow to a heat pump so that you can heat your house 3-5 times more efficiently compared to traditional gas or electric heating. You can even get heat-pump based water heaters and clothes dryers. You could cut your energy consumption from heating your house, heating water, and drying your clothes by a factor of ~4!

@DerXavia 2 года назад

but you can't put anti freeze in your poolwater and its flowing through there.

@seabream 2 года назад

@@DerXavia That's why it would need a heat exchanger. So you have a glycol loop going from the roof to the heat exchanger, and a pool water loop going from the pool to the heat exchanger. That's the simple version. If you have a variable refrigerant flow heat pump then you can have multiple places to send and receive heat from. So, pool, roof, domestic hot water, home heating (and cooling, actually - at night when you aren't getting solar electricity you can use rooftop panels to radiate heat more efficiently than dumping it into the air, depending on your setup. You can also heat your pool with heat from inside the house, which cools the house). Depending on your heating and cooling needs, you can also use large thermal masses, like a pool, or if it's really cold and you need to drain the pool, an insulated vessel with water or some other material, perhaps buried so you don't lose surface utility, as thermal storage for load shifting. So you could put heat into it when the sun is up and you have more available power, and draw it out at night for your home heating. Even a 2 metre cube of water can store 308 kWh (~ 1.051 million BTU) of heat through a 33°C (~60°F) temperature change, which is quite a lot of buffer range for a home system (assuming that you aren't doing, like driveway snowmelting or something, that takes a lot of heat).

@GZuid_mannetje 2 года назад

The home assistant coupling is extremely useful to turn on high power appliances, like the car charger, automatically. This is important when the 1 to 1 ratio of buying from and selling to the grid is dropped by regulations and when there is too much solar power delivered to the grid, which cant be used in your area, the voltage runs to high, causing your inverter to shut down for over voltage protection. With home assistant you can make sure to use the power instead.

@pain2737 2 года назад

there 100% is a DC regulator to prevent over voltage. even if you have power available it doesnt mean that it will just build up or sometin. higher voltage is something they thought about when the input changes randomly dependent on the weather and stuff. it should also kick in when there is enough voltage available and coexist with your wired-in electricity from transmission lines (some thingy thats lining up their AC with city power AC so they dont short each other)

@GZuid_mannetje 2 года назад

@@pain2737 There is AC over voltage risk if too many people supply to the grid. The grid is not designed for large scale solar production in domestic areas. If many people supply to the grid instead of consuming from the grid the current gets to high which causes the voltage to rise. The over voltage protection will then shut down the transformer if it exceeds a certain limit and kick on ones the voltage drops below again, which basically is wasting energy. In the Netherlands this is a very common issue and, knowing the poor grid quality in Northern America, it wil likely also occur there at some point.

@pain2737 2 года назад

@@GZuid_mannetje it doesnt make sense that there would be such an issue

@GZuid_mannetje 2 года назад

@@pain2737 Consider the local distributor, which is rated to supply (arbitrary chosen) 1000A to the connected households, what do you think if all in a sudden the neighborhood, which normally can consume a maximum of a 1000A now instead supplies 1100A? This causes the voltage to rise in the local distributor and hence, anywhere this grid line is connected to, aka the solar transformers. This causes over voltage protection to kick in within the transformer.

@pain2737 2 года назад

@@GZuid_mannetje current doesnt matter cuz I = R/U

@rud 2 года назад

I have recorded data every minute from my solar panels into a MySQL database since 2012. Even here in Scandinavia I can see that they produce more electricity a cold May day than a hot July. I might get 5200w in peak early summer late spring but the heat sometimes limits them to 3800w if we have a heat wave. At a local trace school, they tested watercooled panels. (Think it was 5-10 years ago they tested) and they did get 20% more energy by cooling the panels. I did a few videos on my installation

@arinc9 2 года назад

damn these check-my-channel bots are getting real advanced

@aprilnya 2 года назад

mysql? naw postgres on top babeeeeeey

@guiAI 2 года назад

The guys replying to this comment must have some inter cranial nerve damage. Nice information commenter

@Rafaelinux 2 года назад

@Martin J. Do you get heat waves in Scandinavia? Any days over 35 or 40 °c?

@TheNegationist 2 года назад

@@namantherockstar I’ve seen you too many times man

@archerstown 2 года назад

This is an awesome example of what Linus was talking about during the WAN show. The contractors literally let him crawl up on their work space, offered to open up equipment, and handle the panels and all. That's what makes good content!

@Ragnorok64 2 года назад

It probably helps that the work space is his house in this case. Being up there without a harness might not have been allowed in an industrial shoot.

@gothnate 2 года назад

A lot of contractors will do that with any property owner. They can't keep you from accessing any part of your property.

@danimayb 2 года назад

@@gothnate Exactly! And you have right check on their work.

@rogerbradfield402 2 года назад

@@Ragnorok64 if he is making money from the video, then it should be treated as a commercial activity.

@DoctorWhom 2 года назад

@@Ragnorok64 Harness and training is something Linus should look in to anyways. Not sure if you watch the WAN show, but the topic of doing a video on data centers came up, and the amount of access they NEED to make an interesting video came up in discussion.

@logun0 2 года назад

Question - is this Linus's dream home? Is there anything he hasn't done that he would have wanted to (that was realistic?). I love these vids. So cool to see this stuff

@zach237 2 года назад

No shot this is all he has plans for with this house, and that makes it super sick to watch, especially with Linus paint tips lol

@Matisyahuwu Год назад

I’m here 2 months later, the number of cool things he’s done certainly hasn’t ceased lol.

@Kriae Год назад

maybe a robot butler or maid

@paulmarkey Год назад

I love how chill those contractors are. Canada is just built diff

@Alex-zi1nb 2 года назад

I love how Jake is like the house project manager. It’s like he’s a part of the family with how amped he gets lol

@MiraDaWulf 2 года назад

Heh, amped

@IrrationalCharm 2 года назад

but he doesnt get to live in it xD

@RDR911 2 года назад

@@IrrationalCharm and only likely makes 1/10th of what Linus makes 🤣

@DigBickMcQueen 2 года назад

@@RDR911 considering how many employees lmg has, making 10% of what Linus makes seems pretty great

@urbypilot2136 2 года назад

Being able to see each panel's production will also allow you to know which ones need cleaning/dusting.

@cubertmiso 2 года назад

true. i would still pick only one top tier inverter. so there is only one piece that could break up that is easily exchanged. and with dust, when you hook up the pressure washer normally you rinse all panels at the same time. but I sacrifice some energy when transferring e in DC. would like to hear how much that system cost to calculate break even time. even linus overestimated IRL solar output. happens to everyone.

@pesterenan 2 года назад

Thank you guys for using gaussian blur instead of mosaic, it's so less distracting and nice to the eyes :) I love solar energy videos, nice one Linus!

@mikelisteral7863 2 года назад

the more complicated something is the more maintenance and energy it requires (wastes)

@DextersPlace 2 года назад

The way the solar panel installer carries the panel up the ladder reminds me of my days of installing windows. That's how we sometimes had to carry glass panels, windows or sliding doors up to hard to reach spots.

@hydroxy0 2 года назад

The automation aspect from solar is great, you can set thresholds where if you’re not producing enough power you can turn off/down the AC, your pool pump for a time, turn off lights that we’re left on even decrease the charge rate on your electric car. It really comes into play when you way to be truly off grid and try to balance generation, charge and use.

@filipschlembach9388 2 года назад

Couldn't agree more! On the other hand you can potentially automate things like starting a washing maching when you are producing enough. I'm excited to see the potential that can be unlocked by this data.

@dontaskdonttell6147 2 года назад

@@filipschlembach9388 that is already a thing

@ghosthunter0950 2 года назад

@@dontaskdonttell6147 That's cool. Do you know what solution there is if it's winter for example so you don't produce enough for multiple days and it never starts automatically?

@HyperSnypr 2 года назад

@@ghosthunter0950 Turn it on manually. But in all seriousness, you can have rules to run the machine on a different schedule in the winter, or have if run overnight if it hasn't run for an amount of time. It might be a bit of a niche requirement, because I suspect most people aren't going to want their smelly clothes sitting around unwashed until the sun comes out, but if someone wants to automate that, they could.

@djlowtek 2 года назад

A/C is worth every penny regardless of solar generation. Never turn it off/down Source: I live in the desert

@carrioncrow8191 2 года назад

I kinda loved the electricians answers. Straight forward, no bs to try and soothe a customer. Might hurt some peoples feelings but it is efficient

@oshwaflz 2 года назад

cant bs THE tech guru

@stickit2theman1 2 года назад

Thats the trades for yah we're all like that LOL

@memethief4113 2 года назад

bruh it's not that deep he was just joking with them

@keithlemmons_ 2 года назад

@@stickit2theman1 no yall arent

@solace6633 2 года назад

Tradies love to joke with each other like this all the time. Sparkies always see plumbers as the "dumber" trade and it's always seen as light hearted banter

@marnett2005 2 года назад

If you don't have in-floor heating, I'm curious if the water loop could be used by a heat pump to try and boost efficeincy in the winter.

@tomp538 2 года назад

My parents had solar heating (DYI) for their pool in San Fernando valley, Cal. The irony of that; during the summer there, heating the pool is really not needed. During winter no one wanted to use the pool when the solar heat would pay dividends. You do the math.

@petera1422 2 года назад

I guess since he's in Canada his pool may need some heating ; )

@jungle_run 2 года назад

For Home Assistant instead of controlling them on or off, you would want to use that information to control other devices depending on output, such as turning off devices when you have less power, or you can have the lights turn on when the outside luminosity goes down.

@zyeborm 2 года назад

I wrote a script that used the output of my inverter to enable mining on my and the wife's PC only when the solar output was high enough support it without drawing from the grid.

@jokerman545 2 года назад

Span smart electric panel can do that!

@aa-lp1ho 2 года назад

Yes that’s correct. In this case irrelevant while the utility continues to pay out at the same rate as it charges. As grid stability becomes more of an issue they will incentivise this behaviour and it will be worthwhile.

@DJ_Penguin 2 года назад

I would get smart pressure sensors too for the water lines. If you spring a leak, youll be able to find out when it happens and where.

@KubikDezimeter 2 года назад

A quite expensive light sensor

@achimhaun2726 2 года назад

Hey Linus, you might want to use a Water to coolant heat exchanger that can be added to your AC outdoor-unit. This allows you to heat the pool with excess heat that would normally get blasted into the atmosphere in the summer in addition to the solar panels which in my experience (live in Germany and have a medium sized pool myself) can lack a bit in heating power

@mikelisteral7863 2 года назад

the more complicated something is the more maintenance and energy it requires (wastes)

@BleughBleugh Год назад

Can we get a followup on this now the water's hooked up? will be great to see just how much 'heat' you're getting out of this thing. I'm currently planning a dual panel like this - predominantly due to lack of roof space for seperate pool heating and PV!

@willlehrfeld457 2 года назад

Happy you went solar and shared it with your viewers Linus. It may convince some of them to follow you. I have had panels for 5 years and they are awesome.

@atrumluminarium 2 года назад

"The power of the sun, -in the palm of my hand- on the roof my house" Linus, 2022

@pain00077 2 года назад

@@namantherockstar grow up kid

@midnightqueen4040 2 года назад

I was hoping someone would make the connection

@GregM 2 года назад

I love the safety line and how it was securely fastened to Linus in case he took a tumble off the roof.

@baseballjustin5 2 года назад

Tbf it seems like a steep roof

@GregM 2 года назад

@@baseballjustin5 All the better to take a header off of. Especially since it is not a normal shingle roof but a "shake" type roof

@danieljones9937 2 года назад

I used to work in Health & Safety for a construction firm which works at height. (I was also the IT guy there for ages before and when the previous guy retired I got 'promoted', so had to do both; it didn't end well) The safety of Linus (and the contractors, to be fair) on the roof looked muchos dodgy. Muchos muchos dodgy. You're meant to be clipped via safety harness/lanyard to a fixed point at all times and he/they just.... weren't. Glad it went OK though. :)

@Shajirr_ 2 года назад

@@danieljones9937 Yeah, despite seemingly low height, fall from such roof can still be fatal if you land wrong and possibly break your neck/spine/fracture the skull. I have heard stories about people who died exact this way. Well, even if you don't die from the fall the 27kg panel falling on top of you as a bonus might finish you off.

@PoisonWaffle3 2 года назад

Yeah, I was waiting for Linus to drop himself there...

@TandelKGamer 2 года назад

Would recommend keeping 2 panels for Inverter Battery connection so if there is blackout you can still work during night time . During Blackoutd direct Run from Solar during Day and same time charge the battery and at night use the battery power for Lights Fans and Sockets for Mobile Charging.

@kemalnottaturk2500 2 года назад

Just got a 12.5 KW system installed. It is peaking at 10 KW but it is still wintery. Love the selling back to the power company part.

@SilverCymbal 2 года назад

I watch all the tech vids, but I loooove the house tech videos even more!

@jaredphillips889 2 года назад

Could be a whole new channel. If they had ⏲️

@thebaum64 2 года назад

Agreed, love them to death. Honestly could watch them for hours.

@Diijkstra 2 года назад

@@jaredphillips889 Linustechhousetipsquickie

@ClairvoyantTruth 2 года назад

Silver Cymbal and LTT, what a crazy combo upgrade that can be! Linus ever made yourself a well?

@JORGE4757S 2 года назад

✌🏻You are one of the best RU-vid channel that exist !

@NickStallman 2 года назад

Home Assistant both has an amazing Energy dashboard, but you also may want to do automations not to turn the solar on or off, but rather turning other stuff on or off based on solar output. E.g. if you are exporting excess energy to the grid, maybe make your airconditioning work a little harder as one example. I've actually got a dishwasher with wifi, so I could trigger it to start once enough solar power is available for it.

@iCuzZ 2 года назад

Or turn on hot water heater and raise the hot water temp and store the energy there etc.

@Catsrules1 2 года назад

Exactly that is the beauty of home assistant all devices talk to it so it so all of your smart devices are just one big integrated system. You can control one device based off the data of another device. That said in Linus' situation is probably doesn't really matter with solar because he gets a 1:1 ratio net metering so there isn't really a intensive for him to use all of his solar power vs just selling it back to the grid and then buying the power back later. But for many people who don't have a 1:1 ratio or are running totally off grid it would beneficial to use as much of you solar power vs selling it back or throwing it away in the case of a off grid system. So charging an EV, or turning on the HVAC system are really easy things to throw power at.

@iCuzZ 2 года назад

Yeah, in some places in Finland you get 10% back if you produce energy to the grid so it's really important to use everything

@matthiasjooris1460 2 года назад

the home assistant integration is very usefull! here (in belgium) power that we send back to the grid, we get like 8 times less money for then what we need to buy from the grid. So you want to user as much as possible from your own power! so during the day, when solar power goes above a treshold i turn on the heatpump to heat, gas goes off. pool heater can go on and vice versa :)

@richardbilous5338 2 года назад

dan's really smart at that stuff! He's an awesome & great guy to hang around with super smart!! i love all those inverters and outverters & stuff its pretty sick!

@bierrollerful 2 года назад

"You point the sun at it." LTT space megastructures coming soon.

@izzydotexe 2 года назад

Interstellar techtips corporation

@Dood_ 2 года назад

Embrace the Linus Sphere

@crashtfa 2 года назад

Having hass talk to each inverter is actually amazing, yes you won’t control the inverter with hass, but you are missing the main point of hass, having other automations key off other devices. Like when your solar output is at max, turn down the ac to help cool the house then taper off as the output drops, or having that data and pulling into something like grafana to dashboard and log your solar generation and compare to what the energy company says so you can call them on their bs

@kenzieduckmoo 2 года назад

calling home assistant "hass" is just funny.

@Bear-form 2 года назад

Watch hass control every inverter 🤪

@Henk14789 2 года назад

But why would you need a connection to each individual inverter? Total output is all you need for that. It only would be handy to see wether an individual panel is grossly underperforming and even that should be monitored via the box connecting them all.

@Dan-fx7vn 2 года назад

@@Henk14789 there’s a comment by a Rolf Smit earlier which which I believe explains your query. In summary, if you have one inverter for all panels, your whole solar panel array is limited by the worst performing panel of the bunch. By having an inverter for each panel, each panel performs independently of other panels and insnt limited by another panel which may not be getting direct sunlight.

@sjorsangevare 2 года назад

@@Henk14789 Because it's cool 😎

@ObjectiveCosta 2 года назад

I can think of a few good automations with the data from the solar panel output: - Only enabling heating when the solar output can handle it (or is at X% points of the heating power consumption) - Opening and closing doors based on how much heat/cool air you want to conserve inside the house - Same thing with shades: high solar output, you might want to close shades not to heat up the inside of the house too much

@wendellsaddress 2 года назад

Depending on the power markets where you are, you might actually be able to use your micro inverters to provide voltage or frequency support to your grid. So that's something you could possibly do via Home Assistant

@TheXshot 2 года назад

These home improvement videos and the server and networking ones are my absolute favorite!

@ssjwes 2 года назад

Same I don't always visit the channel but when its a home improvement video I 100% know I'm going to watch it.

@705J 2 года назад

Agreed, that and the intel extreme upgrades

@88porpoise 2 года назад

0:18 Water cooling and water heating are the same thing. It just depends on which end of the loop you are on.

@runeseeker993 2 года назад

Thermal regulation loop

@Dysan72 2 года назад

I kept expecting them to make that point, with how they doing the "Water cooled" "well no really" bit.

@ryantothmisc Год назад

So for the home automation it's more so for things like using the data output from the solar system to trigger certain things in the home. For example, you may want to heat or boost your hot water system or cool a room down when you have excess solar production. In your instance it isn't that handy as you have net metering, but for people like me in Australia, super helpful to use the excess solar production rather than export at a tiny feed-in tarrif.

@AlonCunningham 2 года назад

Okay this is awesome! I just got solar but I didn't know you could get them water cooled. On our next house, I'm doing this! Thank you Linus

@bobbiac 2 года назад

Personally, if I had the cash, I would go the glycol route. The lack of yearly drain/fill cycles would be worth it

@tobimai4843 2 года назад

Yes i was really surprised you use water for it. Here in Europe Glycol is standard for Solar systems

@fionathegayesttiefling9867 2 года назад

Yeah, you'd definitely lose efficiency, but if you wanted a heated pool, I'd just hook it up to a resistive heater or something. Less efficiency, but also no hassle and means the house isn't losing efficiency in the winter

@isaackvasager9957 2 года назад

Glycol isn't the best to swim in.

@vgamesx1 2 года назад

@@isaackvasager9957 I can't tell if you're joking, but you know you don't have to dump liquids directly into something, right? You can conduct heat just via contact for example a coil of copper tube which sits inside the filter.

@isaackvasager9957 2 года назад

@@vgamesx1 gotcha, that's a fair point. It was clear from the video that Linus plans to run the chlorinated water through the system directly...hence my reply.

@Scottgunner89 2 года назад

How long before Linus' new house gains sentience and he has to build something equally as silly to stop it?

@forgotn42 2 года назад

Sounds like a solid excuse for an LTT Kaiju.

@Regus-mk1 2 года назад

I give it 2 years, with most that being the house learning about the" wonderful" place we call the world

@edraburhdohr667 2 года назад

Stop... it?

@HypePerformanceGroup 2 года назад

House Tech Tips

@Carnage8 2 года назад

it would sabotage itself well before it accomplished its goal

@seanb3516 2 года назад

Good on the guys for using FallPro properly. What I would have liked to have seen is a temporary roof edge clamp to secure the ladder in place at the top. I would also recommend they use a 'kicker rope' about 1/3 of the way up. The rope can be attached to anything handy and strong on the building or even to an anchor in the soil. These ladder safety features are even more important as they have a worker carrying a weight greater than 20kg (greater than the weight of an 18 liter water bottle). When carrying something like a bag of cement powder no one cares if you drop it. When carrying objects of great value workers tend to 'sacrifice themselves' to save the item.

@NoProHarrie 2 года назад

Lovely stuff! I recall a guy making solar heat panels by hand at an energy conference back when I worked in electric mopeds!

@rolf-smit 2 года назад

Some info on per panel converters vs a converter for the whole array: - Per panel converters are more efficient because in setups with just one converter for all the panels, the worst performing panel will cause all other panels be limited by that performance. This can be very common is places where during the day panels can be overcast with shadow, while other panels might not be in the shadow. Therefore it is very common to see per panel converters in those situations. However if the amount of sun is almost equal across the day for all of the panels, a single converter is often way more economical. - Almost all combined converters can be connected to Home Assistant, not just per panel converters. - It is quite common to have converters that work with so called "strings" (arrays) of panels. Where a single converter can handle two sets of about 6 panels (sometimes 4 sets), this allows to combine the panels according to their estimated performance, making this more efficient without having to use per panel converters, and thus extremely economical.

@mikelisteral7863 2 года назад

the more complicated something is the more maintenance and energy it requires (wastes)

@xiro6 2 года назад

I'm really surprised about those converters. Never heard about them. Always had the idea of the difficulty on sync multiple generators on the general electric distribution system, but meanwhile i suppose it got a lot easier on small scales with modern electronics. Maybe something like radio telescopes. The signal amplifiers became so “cheap” that now it's more economical to build an array of small telescopes than a big one. In the past, they had to go big because of the electronic equipment price.

@bohner83 2 года назад

@@xiro6 syncing of these micro inverters is only done when they are connected to the grid. Grid tie inverters have what is called islanding, where they don't turn on unless they see grid power first and when the grid goes down they shut down. It is a safety device for lineman when working on the system so they don't get electrocuted. The down fall is that they will not work for a stand alone system. So when you have a stand alone system you have to have different style inverters installed.

@xiro6 2 года назад

@@bohner83 Oh, thanks, looks even more interesting, I will have to take a look, it triggered my curiosity,

@dtemp132 2 года назад

This is all true, but it's important to make a distinction between per-panel converters and per-panel inverters. Which, someone else should do, because I'm just learning solar myself, but I know the distinction is important and is something you have to decide when building a system.

@Atlessa 2 года назад

I love that this episode is sponsored by Epic, yet they show the Steam store page of PC building simulator. :D

@NickYea 2 года назад

Epic games lacks so many features and brand recognition, that they have to show a competitors functional store in order to market the game (despite buying exclusive rights to the game no doubt)

@MysteryMii 2 года назад

@@NickYea They didn't buy exclusive rights to the game, they bought the developers because they were part of Mediatonic (the Fall Guys people).

@MrBenthraxify 2 года назад

There are other considerations to putting inverters on each panel. One consideration is that it allows you to keep each panel at its Maximum Power Point (MPP), which the inverter can do by changing the "impedance" that the AC side sees the panel at. This is known as Maximum Power Point Tracking (MMPT). Basically, it allows you to keep maximum efficiency even if some panels in the rows are obstructed. It also can simplify distribution and connection to your home AC. There were a few other considerations that large solar installations have to consider, but I don't remember everything from my EE class. Placing inverters on each individual panel is more expensive as compared to some DC schemes, and it may not always be necessary, given the right environment.

@shawnmurphy8941 2 года назад

Just had our Enphase install certified, after like 5 city inspection failures(our installer sucked), but now it's fun if you like data. Enphase Enlighten, is what our system uses. Not sure if it is the same for all Enphase installs, but there is an accessible API, and there is a way to get into the installer tools, I believe. We have 16, 460watt panasonic panels.

@nevilleb121 2 года назад

i would like to see a part 2 of this system when its fully functioning, particularly on the power production side, the water cooled vs the non water cooled panels on a sunny day.

@jeffreyparker9396 2 года назад

I have solar on my house and talked with the installers quite a bit as well as did quite a lot of research. The enphase microinverters have had reliability issues in the past, they seem to be fixed now, but the first solar install that I did used a solar edge inverter with power optimizers which gives much of the same benefits as the microinverters with much simpler devices at the panels, basically DC-DC converters at the panels to maintain peak efficiency for the inverter. From what I understand the Solar edge systems are incredibly reliable, like far more than the enphase and they hit like 96% efficiency. I also have an enphase install that is connected to my Tesla powerwalls, neither system has had any problems so far, but they are not very old.

@geronimo2973 2 года назад

I install solar and do support of these systems. I will say that Enphase did have a questionable history with their M series micro inverters. The IQ micro inverters that he has installed are in fact way better than what you have heard. I imagine you have a newer install from you comments with the newer HD wave setAPP inverters unlike the screened HD wave inverters that have a very high failure rate. Solaredge is a good company that does recognize the failures that they have and does honor the warrany's but it can lead to down time of 4-5 weeks of an entire system. Enphase with an micro inverter can have the same downtime but with and individual module not the entire system. When looking at cost, these are things to consider. Enphase is more expensive but what is your loss if an inverter goes down with Solaredge vs Enphase? When I am asked as someone in the industry at this I would reccomend Enphase. I say this as the place I work for installs 80 percent Solaredge and 20 percent Enphase.

@rj44319 2 года назад

Micro-Inverters in general are just a huge pain to keep up with and get baked. From an upgrade standpoint, I would go with a standard Grid Tie inverter.

@jeffreyparker9396 2 года назад

@@rj44319 the problem with those is the design and balancing of the strings that is required. The power optimizers on the solar edge system and the microinverters fix that and allow things like adding one panel at a time if more is needed.

@jeffreyparker9396 2 года назад

@@geronimo2973 yeah that is my impression and why when I added more I was ok going with enphase. Though part of the thing is that both the Solar edge and enphase systems have not really been around long enough to have good data on long term reliability.

@rj44319 2 года назад

@@jeffreyparker9396 Imagin one Inverte dies on the roof in the center of your array. How much is it going to cost you to replace it in labor?

@KG4JYS 2 года назад

Floridian here. Yes, black plastic "tubes" or a sheet of square tubes like you have are very common for solar heating. DIY solar water heating usually involves just using black garden hoses on a wooden frame painted black. We don't have much need for house heating down here.

@xGaLoSx 2 года назад

I'm here for all the home update videos! Love this stuff!

@spdcrzy 2 года назад

NGL, Linus' house is basically exactly how I want to have my house laid out when I have one - hydronic heating, proper APs in every zone, fully sealed theater room, solar panels, and cameras everywhere.

@tiernancusack8915 2 года назад

Now to solve the only pitfall, where do I get the money for it?

@3X0SK3L3TON 2 года назад

especially cameras in the bathroom and toilet?

@namesurname624 2 года назад

What are APs?

@drbass9677 2 года назад

@@namesurname624 access points

@GothicDragonX 2 года назад

@@tiernancusack8915 saving and taking out loans, and one of the benefit of being married. Having your significant others helping you out.

@BrainLeisure 2 года назад

That's gonna be a sick house, hope we'll get a full tour with technical details when it's done ! Love from France.

@Tokru86 2 года назад

that will probably be a 24h video.

@CutiePi 2 года назад

Very cool showcase of solar in Canada, Enphase micro inverters and monitoring app! It's very cool for me to see you guys talking about this, as I am a software engineer at Enphase!

@vertisce2845 2 года назад

I used to install pool heating units on top of peoples roofs when I lived in Las Vegas. Just tubes that the water is pumped through to be heated by the sun. Pretty basic...until it leaks.

@zombiexpanda 2 года назад

I'd like to recommend finding a 'safe' area to do the specific outdoor-sy sections where jake was talking; the blurred background was honestly an eyesore. Even having the background in that exchange being the siding of the house would have worked out better IMO

@kpcenti 2 года назад

THIS, like they couldn't have just turned around?

@tommybaker4330 2 года назад

Idiots, like there's no 2 trees alike. "I've seen that tree before and I know exactly where his house is". Want to know where he lives? Just follow him home.

@meadsource 2 года назад

Absolutely... But an after thought maybe?

@GDColon 2 года назад

i have a long essay on solar panels/cells due today, incredible timing thank you linus

@mobabot 2 года назад

lmao

@vakvlogs84 2 года назад

I Love My Country 🌹

@Terra_ 2 года назад

yes

@DesertCookie 2 года назад

Linus will help you drop that mic on your essay.

@slate5778 2 года назад

Oh look the gd (not a furry) guy

@Bastyyyyyy 2 года назад

Awesome Video love it, pls make an update once the pannels are watercooled and show the difference it makes! Didnt know sth like that excists, so cool.

@countbowl 2 года назад

A colleague of mine makes use of the API from his electricity supplier and the data from his solar array and battery bank to automate things like turning his washing machine on at certain times based on energy trends, charging his EV, preferentially using his battery bank instead of mains power when electricity is more expensive etc. So that data you get from the micro inverters could definitely be useful for all of that and more

@LonelySandwich 2 года назад

"The power of the sun in the palm of my hand" Linus Sebastian

@ADeeSHUPA 2 года назад

ないす

@Kotai-Matrix69 2 года назад

I was looking for this

@kazi_19 2 года назад

Where did he say that, I watched the whole video and I couldn’t find it ):

@thedelcrew 2 года назад

@@Kotai-Matrix69 same lol

@matthewbuchan6385 2 года назад

I'm gonna put some dirt in your eye

@fauzirahman3285 2 года назад

I've got regular panels and yeah, on a really hot 40 degree summer day you can really see the system output degrade a bit. Really looking forward to see how effective the water cooling is. I'm liking this video topic aspect of energy systems / water cooling crossover.

@Arokhantos 2 года назад

You could setup something to send notification if solar output drops below treshold or when its at peek performance etc so you can utilize that to save power or use more when you able to.

@noahreeverts465 2 года назад

Loving the new house vids!

@davidp4081 2 года назад

The cooled panels must help keep the house cooler, keeping that heat out of the attic and lowering AC costs

@ZesPak 2 года назад

Even non-cooled panels take a serious hit from the sun. So yes, they really do.

@mikelisteral7863 2 года назад

the more complicated something is the more maintenance and energy it requires (wastes)

@resneptacle 2 года назад

@@mikelisteral7863 This literally does not apply here

@mrbmp09 2 года назад

Yes, but the savings is miniscule.

@dtemp132 2 года назад

Solar panels, whether normal ones or these water-cooled ones, are not mounted directly against the roofing material; there is a gap of a couple inches left, and wind can blow through there. So, in practice, putting any solar panels on the roof will make the attic more temperate, but the water cooling won't make it better by much.

@thegamerdad2870 2 года назад

I just got solar installed on my home and it's pretty cool seeing your power independence. My home only uses typically between 1.4-1.6kWh of power and my panels produce nearly double. Kinda wish I could have gotten the water cooled ones though, those look freaking sick.

@DailyCorvid 2 года назад

Get panel insurance man because when one panel goes wrong and needs replacing, the cost will negate every penny it will ever make in it's working life time. Then ideally, in future switch over to a better solution and retask your panels for something more efficient than general power. The problems are the carbon footprint on these things is huge, the efficiency drop off is rapid, and the operating costs are stellar. I hope you avoid these problems though I expect within a year or two you will get the same things I have here. Flimsy little bastards barely function now lol.

@dustinkrejci6142 2 года назад

@@DailyCorvid panel insurance is a thing?????????!!!

@glujaz 2 года назад

@@DailyCorvid carbon footprint is high, but not excessive. IPCC says it's about 50g/kWh. And wind turbine is around 12g, so is a nuclear power plant, and regarding hydro stations, it's about 19g (although the last one is very variable, as the trees you are flooding on might generate methane. Regarding nuclear power plants, it can go even lower then 12g (4g in France), as your uranium fuel production which is done by electricity, uses very low emission electricity. Anyway, even a 52g, solar is still very low compared to the 800-1000g for coal, and 400g for gas :)

@zephirus4483 2 года назад

@@glujaz The main issue I see with them is all the trash they create when they have to be decommissioned. They recycle a big part of the panels, but not everything. And the inverters eventually end up dying too, so that's more tech trash. If you have lithium batteries it's even worse as you have to change them every 10 years or so, and they are mostly not recycled at all for now. I believe that in the future solar energy will become cleaner, but for now it's still pretty dirty. It's only environmentally worth it if you live in a country that mostly uses coal or fuel for its electricity. If you live in Canada where 90% of the electricity is hydroelectric and the kWh is very cheap, I really don't see the point. Especially when you'll have your roof full of snow, your sky full of clouds and your days very short half the year (and, ironically, winter time is when you need the most electricity). 1.2 Kw for this entire installation is honestly garbage. Yes, it was not a sunny day, but it is what you'll get most of the time of the year. This barely powers a heater.

@danielp763 2 года назад

@@zephirus4483 My thoughts exactly. Outside of it being a cool tech feature, this doesn't make that much sense for his use case. As is typical with these sorts of videos, they only ever highlight the benefits and ignore the real downsides. It's going to take years and years for him to actually offset his carbon emissions from the production and installation of the panels. The panels aren't fully recycleable and create toxic waste when they're decommissioned. The carbon footprint of dealing with that waste is never accounted for and is somewhat unknown. Especially since he lives so far north, in Canada, and in such a rarely sunny environment, it is entirely possible that he'll never offset the emmissions from creating and then maintaining the panels. The cost saving aspect is really lon-term as well. An installation like that cost thousands and thousands of dollars. If you're selling back less than a dollar on average a day to the grid, it may take a decade or more for them to pay for themselves, before you even consider the cost of the maintenance. I really wish they would have adressed this in the video. But since it was sponsored by green tech, they probably couldn't. At least in the future i'd like to see them actually take a look at what the actual expected numbers will really be to know if this was a net positive or a net negative for the environment and for his wallet.

@drippingwax 2 года назад

If it looks like cardboard, but is made out of plastic, it sounds like Coroplast, although there are other brands. They make campaign and bandit signs out of it--and greenhouse siding!

@MindCrime550 2 года назад

A long time ago i thought about thermal pasting peltiers on the back of solar panels for a little extra energy by cooling the panels a bit.

@jakobb8063 2 года назад

10:17 gave me flashbacks to those first-gen "portrait modes" on smartphone-cameras a few years back... Good times

@Verlisify 2 года назад

Linus' house gets more awesome with every update

@yuvrajdas9552 2 года назад

That's basically how updates work.

@Freezezonian 2 года назад

At the very start of the video when they were talking about water cooling for the house. My first thought was, Of course Linus would use watercooling for his house. He's probably gonna overclock the Furnace thermostats or something.

@decimat777 2 года назад

when you have a way to tax deduct every possible "upgrade" for videos, definitely utilize it!

@aurathedraak7909 2 года назад

His ego

@rippenzong2455 2 года назад

@@aurathedraak7909 if i did as much as linus has ide have an ego as well. dudes kinda chad doing shit he loves.

@laserspaceninja 2 года назад

Some home automation ideas: - dim lights and cut certain appliances to further reduce your dependance on the grid - have a real-time idea of how overcast or dark outside it is to adjust lighting scenes to reflect what is happening outside

@darugdawg2453 2 года назад

Led lights barely eats electricity lol

@laserspaceninja 2 года назад

@@darugdawg2453 Not in a house that size; many small cuts can add up. Also I was referring to aesthetics as well. I automate my lights from the moment I wake, to when I leave, depending on what time of day, and sometimes the activity. These small things make me happy.

@xOperator 2 года назад

speaking from experience and having 30 panels on my roof since 2008, you will want to put up pigeon protection. Have someone come in and put up a metal fence material (not plastic) around the edges of the panels to prevent pigeons from going underneath the panels. Its good preventative maintenance. Few years ago, we had to get our solar installers come in, take down all the panels (charged by the hour), to clean up underneath, get pest control to clean up, then put panels back up, which was around $5,000 Our fee was higher than average, because we have Sunpower panels, which is around 22% efficient, so there is a premium with everything

@chewymaster54 2 года назад

Im in in solar industry, these panels will leak and hopefully the roof work is proper because it may cause leaks on the standoff penetrations. Also Enphase microinverters have a ton of line noise issues. The installed an Envoy S which should have been an Envoy Combiner box to resolve the line noise issues. They may need to install a in line noise filter which is 500$ just for the piece.

@DoctorWhom 2 года назад

What sort of environments did you deploy the spring panels in? they might work fine for linus as he's in a more calmer climate.

@mikelisteral7863 2 года назад

the more complicated something is the more maintenance and energy it requires (wastes)

@enkrypt3d 2 года назад

Yea they need the combiner box and enpower switch so they can add batteries later on... And a line filter.

@goibnius2658 2 года назад

And you forgot a smol side of the dc and ac side of the inverters. Ac side to the supply hub should be a short cable, while the dc should be long, maybe high gage duo to no parasitic resistances like capacitiv or inductive, wich are experience in ac

@sdfsdf2205 2 года назад

*there are a lot of competing solar industries*

@MiesvanderLippe 2 года назад

You'd want to scale loads with peak production. Start a washing cycle when the sun's out, heat or cool the house while it's free. That's why the data is important.

@crazycarl509 2 года назад

If he was completely off the grid, then yes, but since it gets sold back at the same rate he buys it then it's not an issue. In a sense the city grid is acting like a battery, maybe not physically but monetarily.

@EoRdE6 2 года назад

With net billing it really doesn't matter, it's like having an infinite sized battery connected.

@--_DJ_-- 2 года назад

I agree with some of that, but you don't really get to choose when you heat or cool your house.

@MiesvanderLippe 2 года назад

@@crazycarl509 if they have net billing in Canada, they won’t in a few years. The model doesn’t check out. Transport costs money and just dumping during the day isn’t sustainable.

@MiesvanderLippe 2 года назад

@@--_DJ_-- of course you do! You can let the house get a few degrees warmer or colder, especially when you’re not there. Why not make the house 24 degrees when the sun is out, so it’s 22 when you get home and 17 when you go to bed (shit insulation but you get the idea).

@fishma2 2 года назад

My buddy used black metal pipes on his garage to heat the water for his pool when he moved in like 12 years ago. Takes that idea to the next step, love it!

@lorenadelafuen864 2 года назад

very easy to understand and the best it works

@therealpanse 2 года назад

5:14 One thing that comes to mind for automation would be controlling your AC according to the current energy production. No sun? Turn off the AC automatically to save power, since you don't need it anyways. Also, (not finished with the video and not sure, if the cooling part is reversible) with some preparation you could deduct from the incoming data, if there's snow on the panels and reverse the heatpump for an automatic de-ice cycle...

@aleks138 2 года назад

the thermostat already turns off the AC if there is no sun and you don't need it

@PeterSlack83 2 года назад

I wonder if RGB solar panel would improve efficiency, in the same way it gives you extra FPS

@AsbestosMuffins 2 года назад

At least they'd be useful at night for annoying your neighbors

@TKFeather 2 года назад

I mean, _technically_ sunlight is full RGB (white) and it produces more electricity than if it was single-color, sooo... 🧠

@ZaHandle 2 года назад

*better cooling

@rachmatzulfiqar 2 года назад

Bruh, on legion 7 you got lower fps if you turned on RGB lighting, idk if they already fixed it or not, it used to be the case last year.

@mikelisteral7863 2 года назад

the more complicated something is the more maintenance and energy it requires (wastes)

@LusscaLP 2 года назад

6:20 Happy to see you and Mutahar colabing!

@ChiSa123 Год назад

00:30 Linus: "photovoltaic cells" Subtitles: "photo VoLTE excels" 😂

@hav5n 2 года назад

"we watercooled a solar panel" the newest development of the watercooling saga

@ZesPak 2 года назад

Next up: RGB solar panels.

@SimonSays- 2 года назад

1:13 I wouldnt say "Infinitely renewable", since sun has expiration date too but it sure gonna outlive humanity.

@111ch1a1d111 2 года назад

HA connection is useful if the grid power goes down. Teh Enphase IQ8 inverters can disconnect from the grid and supply AC to the house. Using HA, you can monitor the watts being generated and shut down unneeded appliances, dim lights, etc., to limit the load on the inverters.

@Mrsquiggley 2 года назад

Never thought about combination panels. In northern Australia solar hot water systems are the standard way to generate your hot water it’s crazy efficient and completely passive heating.

@bren4846 2 года назад

I install solar for a living this definitely piqued my interest. The way the installer carried it up is the most common technique. My only criticism from the installers is it appears they started installing the modules from the top and made their way down. Typically you'd start from the bottom up that way you can set the upper row on the bottom row and ensure they are lined up and it just makes the install a whole lot easier. I'm surprised they didn't go with the enphase combiner box. It's essentially a sub panel with the envoy installed in it. It's great for applications where there isn't much room in the existing (MSP) and when there won't be a (MSP) main service panel upgrade. Either option is ok but in California with enphase systems you would typically do the combiner box and hang it up on a outside wall for fire department access. For the times we do install it in a garage we would run a shut off switch on a outside wall for it. It definitely varies city to city, they all have their own rules and regulations and code you have to meet

@iamperplexed4695 2 года назад

Only when you weigh more than the panel :)

@Rentorock 2 года назад

It's "piqued my interest*. I know, weird.

@jimsmith3715 2 года назад

Even with all that piping? I presume they zig zagged up and down each row

@berndpetersen6355 2 года назад

Maybe they started from the top cause they already did the other side ?

@TetraSky 2 года назад

@@Rentorock Because "Pique" is a French word that the English took for some reason. Though it means something completely different in French, in the familiar language, you could say something like it's the action of "taking" something... Piqued my interest could mean you've got my interest, as in you "took" it, so I guess the Englishman of the time decided on that definition for that word.

@AndrewMeyer 2 года назад

Imagine hooking this system up to a heat pump. You could theoretically heat and cool everything in the house that needs to be heated or cooled just by exchanging heat with your giant water cooling loop. Pull heat out of your freezer and use it to heat your pool, or pull heat out of your solar panels and use it to heat your house. Imagine the efficiency!

@jacobpickering8586 2 года назад

i saw a youtube years ago where a guy had a buncha water basins on his roof to pre-warm water with sunlight, then he had an old bigscreen tv glass turned backwards that focused the warm water with the glass focused sun and it was enough to boil and turn a little turbine and alternator. the water was then routed to the water heater.

@sharpsdark1271 2 года назад

We just did did a science project on a simmilar sort of thing, where it is just the heating part. Being used to heat water to save gas or electricity using the boiler.

@deltacx1059 2 года назад

0:53 they are actually pretty easy to build yourself too, also helps keep the cells cooler so they last a little longer. Cells now are getting around 22% efficiency and if you have money to burn like Linus there are technically even more efficient cells.

@TheDutchisGaming 2 года назад

4:15 from dc to ac. And if you want your phone or pc to use it. It goes from ac to dc again.

@denim47gaming 2 года назад

Agreed.

@matthewcovington2699 Год назад

Next time you need solar equipment for a project make sure to call Signature Solar. We’re based in Texas, from call in tech support to bench techs for ship in repairs. And great set-up, although I think you might like the ui of the Aptos micro inverters more. Just something to think about for future builds!

@D0S81 2 года назад

its nice to see a youtuber showing a house without saying the words *i bought this but i don't know what it is* or *i have one of these in my house but i'll probably never use it* or *i have this really expensive thing/art/furniture that i'll likely never use and don't really like but ya know....money!!!* its really refreshing.