25 Responses

1. how much money do the wire ext on your panels cost because they seem short
   do you make your own or buy them

2. Nice job, I will be doing something similar to yours, I plan to start with
   the garage, I am also in LB.

3. iv got a kit s well but I also have something else and I find this better
   1. mppt tracer 30amp controller $170 /amazon
   2. (2) 105 watt grape solar panels $120 each /sears/amazon
   3. 600 watt pure sine power bright inverter $219 /invertersrus
   4. 1100 watt energizer mod sine inverter $100 /invertersrus
   5. (2) group 29dc batteries $90 each with a $10 2 years extended war.
   /walmart “note” this is the biggest in amp hour that my store has and its
   122 amp hours each
   this ran me under 1000$ and this is a good start I would recommend this
   setup instead of 4 HF kit but I have one as well but only 1

4. Ok got it, this goes there, that thing goes over there into that thing. I’m
   surprised u got it setup 

5. I heard these panels lose their efficiency over several months of use. 

6. Looks great really good job

7. you do not need a pure sine inverter to feed power to a modern notebook
   tablet or other computer device! the notebook power supplies are switching
   power suplies and rectify it all to dc to charge and supply your computer
   so the pure sine wave is meaningless! also, polycrystalline solar are less
   than half the conversion efficiency you could hav gotten for half the price
   if you bought us made cells and assembled them yourself! not to mention 200
   worth of american monocrystalline cells would result in a 150-200 watt
   charge rather than 45 watts.

8. Well not sure about all of you, BUT I have 12 panels. When they were out of
   the box, Max amps I got for the 4 kits : 15.8 amps Based on my location
   deep south. I took them down a month ago I was getting around 15.2. Then
   again 15.8 was the best day I ever had recorded, it is very possible that
   the day was just Not as good as the last one but lets assume it is a lose
   which :: This is 2 YEARS later. So perhaps 1/2 amp lose over 12 panels so
   divide 1/2 amp into 12 is about ………(.0416) Hundredth of a amp; Not
   bad, not bad at all. And the HF panels are amorphous panels (Layer on layer
   is how they are made) I now use 6 of the large solar monocrystalline panels
   (230) watts per panel (1380 watts for all 6) All 12 of the Harbor Freight
   Panels were total of 180 watts. Honestly there good to LEARN, but not to
   run your house. They can trickle charge and such. However if you get enough
   you can run alot of LED Lights, for the 2 years I ran 14 LED lights in the
   house and 2 mini DC Ceiling fans. Each light (.35 amps) Each Fan (1 amp)

9. Use a 120 volt battery system with a 120 volt DC to AC converter for best
   results

10. I purchased my kit last week. I’m using this to get a feel for how it all
    works. I know that I can build a more powerful system, but for now this is
    all I need. I have a few questions for you.
    Where did you get your wires from?
    Where did you get your fuses from?
    And where did you get those red switches from?
    I hope you can see a pattern. I am trying to find out where I can get the
    extra items. I am especially interested in the analog meter as well.
    Thanks and good luck!

11. It looked great….but had to turn it off at 4:16….the music was
    horrible…and very distracting ….sry

12. Since I see your not using the solar charger controller boxes that came
    with the Harbor Freight kits, I am wondering if you still have them whether
    your willing to sell them to others?

13. nice job

14. I have the 15 watt panel,a inverter and a sunforce controller but its all
    to run my ham radio and cb its a good start for me but i will in the long
    run be going away to home depot and getting a little higher quality

15. No charge controller? And also, I find that deep cycle gel batteries to be
    more efficient

16. That 300A breaker isn’t going to help you if you have a problem. You need
    to size the wire to the device and then size the breaker to the wire and
    NOT just throw a 300A breaker in and hope it works.

17. Good job!!! I also have 4 sets from HF…. Love my system … Why the use
    of the amp meter when your charge controller should tell you????? I just
    wanted to say…. Ya, when the power goes out… People complain… Not
    me…. During that super storm Sandi, No power here for 5 days??? But I
    had light, heat, charged up my electronics, internet…. And cold beer :)
    My neighbor next door was crying at his kitchen table by candle light cause
    he lost $300 in food…. And get more batteries….
    Also, don’t use 12 volt incandest bulds…. Go with 12 volt LED
    lights….

18. Hell ya!! TSOL Jamming in the background!!!

19. turn that music off

20. Hey, Thanks for sharing,

21. This is the Solar Power System Harbor Freight Panels??? I purchased it and
    sure don’t have all those things you called, “Goes in this here, into this
    thing, over to that and this is this and that. All I got was 3 panels,
    couple of light blubs, a controller and that’s it? Me thinks you ought to
    change the name of your video.

22. Acroduster is right, if you switch to a better panel, you can generate
    twice the power. Looks good overall!!

23. KEEP TEACHING BROTHER I AM STILL LEARNING GOD BLESS

24. Nice Job! Glad you skipped the lame basics and showed more of the over all
    results….Tired of watching videos of people screwing their converter to
    the wall….Tht’s a giveme

25. Great video just get rid of the music