Installing 5.6kW Grid-tie solar system. Step by step. 

This is the most detailed installation I’ve ever seen among all other RU-vid videos. Thanks for sharing the detail installation

This panel can put out close to 100 watts ru-vid.comUgkxOqI2yqX0XVrhR2BMJciTWrHJpG8FhJyg when positioned in the appropriate southernly direction, tilted to the optimal angle for your latitude/date, and connected to a higher capacity device than a 500. The built in kickstand angle is a fixed at 50 degrees. Up to 20% more power can be output by selecting the actual date and latitude optimal angle.The 500 will only input 3.5A maximum at 18 volts for 63 watts. Some of the excess power from the panel can be fed into a USB battery bank, charged directly from the panel while also charging a 500. This will allow you to harvest as much as 63 + 15 = 78 watts.If this panel is used to charge a larger device, such as the power station, then its full output potential can be realized.

My solar is going in this week, and will also be using Enphase. This video is exceptional and has provided the best explanation of anything I have seen. Thank you so much for making this

Great install. I am impressed by the accuracy and professionalism of the team. Awesome job.

Excellent Video. Looking in to going Solar. Just doing my homework.

loved the video, cracked up a little at the tree casting a shadow over the bottom part of the panels.

Thank you for this detailed video. RIP to on-site conversations like normal, but it was worth it!! :)

Excellent, very clear, detailed, step-by-step video.

Excellent video, this makes things look very doable as far as installing the array. Years from now when i have the $$ to install a system i hope to install the array myself then work with an electrician to setup the connections.

Beautiful installation! shows a lot of experience. In my country, we can not do grid tie systems unfortunately! We do only off-grid and hybrid systems! And you dont need a permit to install PV modules on your roof 😀

The tools and equipment were so professional and efficient..do avideo on tools too

Thank you for sharing 🥰 it helped me design a 60 kw grid tie solar power system.

Those shingles are in bad shape I would have had the roof replaced.

This is the best video I have seen so far on a shingle roof grid-tie solar installation. This was so informative. Thanks.

Great installation. Great working

WOW, That roof is SHOT. Should have replaced before the solar. Plus foam insulation under the roof in the rafters is a bad idea. But.... The solar install part of the video is great!

Least you tied off. That's the smart thing to do which means I undoubtedly would've "forgotten it" cause man what a pain! Both ways. Excellent video quality work

Currently, I have not been able to build a solar panel system like this, but this video really inspires me to stay motivated. Thanks. YuTanBu.

Thank you for sharing! 🙏 Great work! LOL @ Minute 13:19. Thanks for leaving that in the video. It's encouraging to see that this happens to other people as well. 😀 This is our system in Colorado Springs: (8) 325W Solar World Panels (Model: Sunmodule SW 325 XL Mono) (8) Solar Edge Optimizers (Model: P400) (1) Solar Edge Inverter (Model: SE3000A-US) Enjoy your system!

Only one bolt to hold inverters to the rails? No hurricanes or bad weather there huh? 😂 Great video! Very comprehensive. Love the commentary on music selection.

I love your accent. Thanks for the amazing video!!

Excellent! Beautifully done. Thanks for your attention to detail.

Thank you for this wonderful information,I have learnt a lot.

I found your work so useful. I will love that you should invite me to come and lean more

Thank you for sharing this great video!

21:07 Those block under the piping on the back side of the roof could cause water to back up under the shingles and eventually cause leaks in the roof. In fact, all that piping should really be going through the attic and not over the roof..

It'd be nice if you can post the full list of the hardware and where to get them. Thanks

Thanks for sharing such wonderful video, it is very clean and well detailed. All steps are very understandable.

great video. I just put up 31 panels IQ7+. I wish I saw this before hand. My roof was twice a steep

Хорошая работа, мужики! Профессионально 👍🏻

This guy has good music advice

Awesome video man! Keep doing more solar install videos like that. Thank you

I am really grateful to you, this video help me about installation.

Good work done teams. Very professional

Very nice I'm sure you'll love it for years to come

Great presentation. Thank you for your time and effort to make this video and share it with us. Greetings from Croatia.

Great video and good work by those guys. Thank you.

This video was great Thankyou for it.

Wow!....Way over kill...but very clean install.

I finished a 58kwp system a few weeks ago. 128, 455W panels. It was a nightmare finding the rafters. I don't know how the roof was build, but the rafters seemed to be in different places everywhere😂 the rafter was built with just 18mm wide poles so that made it even harder to find them.

Good step by step! . But as installer myself I can’t move at this pace lol. Me n my crew be jamming . 3 guys 16panels 2.5 hours .

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Wow man, great jod!! I'm electrician here in Brazil and work with solar panel. The instalacion is different here. The panels are too big too with power to 665 wats and 49 volts continous courrent

great job done by team i have aiiso work with dear mens to get eassy instolation for time management i reqaver such new things to developed thanks soon

That’s hilarious, I was a lead installing solar and I always had music and specific genres for different hoods but for some reason 90% of the time I had neighbors barking when I played The Beatles…..

Funny to see those kind of roof.. we do not even consider those tiles for our chickens coop.

Great overview! That being said, i hate grid tie. No power at night or when grid down.

Hi, guys you doing great job and video, I have a question here, what is box attached Micran daughter ip7 and what his function? Thanks

Thanks for making and sharing this. A great demonstration of the installation project - it answered a lot of questions. One thing was odd to me. Did you use EMT conduit on the roof to run the power to the garage? I'd have expected RMT or PVC.

You should do a video on Troubleshooting Enphase Microinverters. Great video BTW!

That roof needs to be replaced. It has significant granule loss which increases the degradation of the roof shingles. One should only install solar panels on a good roof.

Installation of 6.7kW hybrid system: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-UXvFnlv3a88.html Installation of 9.5kW grid-tie system: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hVzAKJvxRjM.html Full-home backup: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zrPAA1nusZo.html

Great video, thanks!

Amazing

Чувак, это самое крутое и понятное видео по установке панелей из всех ! Спасибо!

I’m DIYing my house with a grid tie 20kw system, bought all the panels and inverters from the titan bankruptcy auction😊. Gonna cost me less than $12k. Folks you can do this yourself, do t pay $60k for a solar system, build your own and your roi will be 2 -5 years

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I build small off-grid systems where we dont use microinverters nor optimizers. In a few years I plan to install a grid-tied system on my house and dont plan to use microinverter nor optimizers, seems like a big waste of money.

Very informative video! Should invest in a rafter finding guage. So if you miss the first Time you are guaranteed to hit the second time. Also, The iq7+ can total 13 on one branch circuit. Not 12. That's would be the iq7x.

Great video thanks

Thanks for sharing comrade!

I am mounting the solar panels on a barn roof that is 180 feet away from the house due to roof issues on the house. Your installation is exactly what I am planning so given that, would you mount the combiner box at the barn location or would you run the panel wires to the house and mount the combiner next to the House disconnect and circuit breaker panel? Thank you and I concur, this is one of the few videos with an incredible level of detail, great job!!

man, you are the best! thank you very much sir

Thanks for sharing this video

I am loving this, but I have to wonder, why would you put an array on such a deteriorated roof?

Very helpful

I am waiting (so far 2 months) for the installtion of a 4.8Kw system using Qcell G10 (400watt) panels with the Enphase IQ8m microinverters. And it should be using the racking that includes flashing under the shingles. The is estmated to provide 135 percent of electrical needs. Tucson, AZ has good regular access to sunlight. However, my installation isn't expected to happen for 2 more months. Choosing a reliable solar panel company is not a slam-dunk since we have never done it before.

What's the procedure for a home owner with solar when the time comes to replace the roof tiles? How much does it cost to have say a 20 panel system removed, then reattached after the roof is completed?

Important note: if shingles are not straight and crooked, use a string chalk line. Also, caulk the flashings as well as the comp for maximum reassurance. Also for the lags, make sure it’s tight but that the washer doesn’t bust. To be continued as I’m on the first few minutes of this install lol

Great setup

Very insightful

Sweet. Now they have to remove all of it in 2 years to replace that roof. Haha

Oh man, the granules are loose on that shingle. How long before they need to be replaced? That solar work would need to be redone/reinstalled in less than 10 years due to the roof replacement.

The rails are supposed to sit on top of the L foots. It tells you in the instructions the attachments come with.

every thing looks great but there is a shadow of tree on the panel which might reduce the power generated from the panel.

We didn't install our system but it took me months to find the 1 guy who didn't want me to lower my bill but get rid of it 🙃 what, lol yes 9660 watts, we live in Arizona with no bill yet since install.

Great Video! Very informative when you know little about Solar. Just 1 question: Does the panel that your Micro-inverters connect to have a neutral (White wire) and where does it come from? I thought that the Inverters only had 2 hot wires (Red/Black). When the feed came from the inverter tie panel where the breakers were connected there was only the 2 Hot wires. When the wires came into the main circuit panel it seemed to be a 3rd wire (a white one)?

Love the details. Any app for the designs? I mean the solar panel simulation

Great explanation on everything on the roof but you provided very little explanation installing and connecting the system to the grid

Good video. A litle chopy in some spots. Wish you spent more time explaining the numbers on the meter.

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My California electric provider just installed a Tesla Powerwall on my house with an existing modest 2.6Kw of 70 watt solar panels(35) going through a Frontis 3Kw 15 year old inverter. I was told my solar inverter bypasses the mains breaker panel and is now wired to the Tesla critical loads panel. I'm thinking about adding more solar panel power via a 2nd array. I may or may not use micro inverters. Should I keep in mind that whether micro or another dedicated inverter for a new array of panels is used I need to connect the new inverter's output to the now vacated 30amp breaker in the main panel to be grid tied.? Or can I connect them to a breaker in the critical loads panel to feed the house in an outage along with the Powerwall. Also what is it tells an inverter to shut off in an outage. Thanks in advance.

What direction does the roof that the panels are on face? I noticed your neighbor had panels that faced in a different direction. Have you compared the output based on the two different directions?

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Pls as a beginner of this work By connecting the wire from the battery to the inverter... I want best practical and I don't know if I can gain it from you

Can you run power to your roof inside of your home in conduit to the roof? I don't do solar, but the home owner doesn't want to see conduit on the outside of the building. This is a new home we are wiring, but there is no attic. Thank you, Leigh Simpson

I was speaking with a solar installer in northern Illinois, and I may have misunderstood, but I thought he said they wire from the central inverter directly to the smartmeter all on the outside of the house, such that then there's no separate wiring from the inverter to the main breaker panel. He said the main breaker panel in the house is never touched. I am right that it can be wired that way?

Great job but that customer really needs a new roof

Need to take into consideration the roof’s life expectancy. In order to recover the roof, will have to disassemble the entire solar array and then rebuild the array with new material due to existing corrosion issues.

sir can this work well? power goes into the inverter then pull the power cable into the mcb on the far right then into the main source a Lvd goes to the 48v relay to trigger the relay Then the AC inverter goes to the relay via hole no Pull the cable from the MCB AC inverter output to the contractor so that the load doesn't pass through the relay then enters it into the ATS source B

it's the best video on microinverter based solar installation. What brand of panel mounting railing did you guys use? Thank you

When I built my system, I didn’t put or use any micro inverters. Seems to me you only need them if you’re going to have to worry about shading. I don’t see where you would have a problem with this?

Could you not use a stud finder instead of compromising the shingle? It costs an additional $5,000 bucks to redo the roof shingles if they link down the road

Maybe I missed it, but is there a circuit that detects grid power? If there isn't any grid power the solar system should not be outputting any electricity to the main.

As with any build one must build on a good foundation! Those shingles on that roof in the beginning of this video should have been replaced, very brittle.

I think that at minute 14:11, you make a mistake connecting the positive an negative wires inverted, I see the in the video, I don't know if I could see wrong!!

Nice concise installation video. Thanks!

Greetings, and first of all thanks for sharing, my question is how much was the total for this project and if you are thinking of using batteries for when there is no sun?

Where did the neutral come from - Didn't see any white wires on the roof from the Enphase converters. Looks like you combined the grounds and call that a neutral? Thanks in advance for help. Great video

What program are you using to design the panels on the roof ?