This is great, congratulations. I see you one day having the house totally electrified and the world being a better place because you were able to invent an affordable machine to power our small homes. You're the only one out there in youtubeland that actually believes in what their doing thru success and failure. This is real science. The thing that made all of what we have today. Best regards from NY :)
Watching some of these older videos compared to the newer house power ones. I like seeing the progression of your knowledge and how big your system has gotten. cool man. I'm in the process of collecting panels (1800 watts) and cells (18650). I have 20 Kwh now. next will be a full house inverter. Then making the battery packs.
To anyone reading this, you need to add up your watt usage before you purchase or hook up an inverter to your house. 600W is not enough. Yes, you could ruin the lights of the entire house if you use the right bulbs. A 600W inverter cannot handle a microwave, toaster, coffee maker. It can handle the fridge's light but not the spikes of it's compressor. It can handle an oil furnace but not the spikes of the circulatory pumps. An air conditioner is out of the question.
Idk if you ever seen the inside the panel the bus bar doesn't control only 1 side of the panel. One side runs breaker 1 and 2 and 5 and 6 and 9 and 10 And the other side of the bus bar runs 3&4 7&8 11&12. So when u have a double pole in slot in 1 &3 you get 220 on the leg if that makes sense lol I made a cord that plugs into the dryer plug to power the whole panel. I tried 2 separate suicide plugs but a gfi stopped that from working properly
phillip renicker yes i have made this same plug, was wondering how the panel was wired but have not looked inside mine yet, and i have not taken the time to look at my grandpas witch I see all the time.
fliping720 Anything with the two breakers bridged with that piece of metal will be 3 phase. The suicide plug on the dryer or any other 240v circuit will allow both 120v sides to get juice in any breaker panel making it 240v respectively.
Your right about any 240 circuit powering both sides but your not going to get 3 phase in a house. If you had 3 phase it would require you to have a transformer to step the power down to 3 lines of 110 coming into the panel and then the bus bar is set up where you can put in triple pole breakers and run industrial motors that require the extra juice but usually have a separate box with motor starters and heaters and all that fun stuff.
YEEEEAH BOY! You just plugged that right into your outlet? Is there any way to remove the cover clip that right onto the breaker? I'm not an electrician but was really wondering what could be done in a power outage. I know you must have your main breaker off.
its super dangerous and not recommended I would look into a transfer switch, but if you do this make sure 100% main breaker is off and make it so no one can come into your house and turn the main breaker on
Going Off Grid: Yea I did a bit more research last night and believe you're supposed to buy an ac 220v pure sine inverter and then have an electrician install a switch so you can't acidentally feed power into the grid. Really cool though for powering one group of outlets in an emergency.
no you do not need a 240 volt inverter, 120 will do you just have to make a cable from you inverter to your generator panel that binds bolt live wires together. if you need 120 and 240 you will need a inverter that has split phase.
its very unsafe the way I did it in this video and would not recommend, but I used whats called a suicide cord its when you cut two cords and use only the male ends and splice them together and plug one end into the inverter and the other into the house outlet, but you must make sure 100% that the make house breaker is off and will remain off, it is said to of killed lines men and or will destroy your inverter if the main breaker is turned back on, only use this if you understand the risk involved.
+fliping720 how did you get around the whole ground to neutral bond issue then? I'm just starting to learn this before i fry my new equipment :) thanks
RU-vid305 I do not use the ground unless I know my inverter does not have a live ground, in this video the inverter has a live ground and I did not use the ground.
+fliping720 I see, so does that mean that your battery's ground terminal is energized by the inverter like youtube user gnurlknar24 says? It all still sounds a little freaky but thanks for your videos, learning alot :)
There are many cheap inverters out there... and even expensive ones...that the ground and the neutral are not connected internally. If you use the suicidal cable type of connection, there is a problem...the ground and the neutral are connected together at the breaker panel...hence you will fry your inverter!!! Be careful !!!
Can you put on another suicide cord with the one that you have on on a different outlet and turn on the other side also? PS if you have a more powerful inverter would you be able to run the fridge and all the other stuff without damaging your box or causing any problems God for bid a fire or anything like that because you did say you had a baby I’d like to do the same but with a more powerful inverter Add a couple more batteries for more amp life if you can respond thanks
The breaker that controls your outles will be powering up you house panel.. its fine if you have all of the breakers on... not everything will be on that phase that the outlet breaker is on without using a double pole 15A breaker... its useless testing the breakers with only one hot phase.
