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okay this guy apparently just carries this freaking thing right up the ladder

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okay um here you go i was expecting there to be like a

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little crane truck or something whole room water cooling

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that's old news this video is going to be about whole house water cooling but

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maybe not really in the way that you'd expect isn't it water heating it's

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complicated basically the contractors are here at the house right now

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installing some of the trippiest solar panels that i have ever seen in my life

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on the one side totally normal photovoltaic cells

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on the other side fittings for water pipes that's right

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ladies and gentlemen we are going to be using these combinations solar panels to

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power my house and heat my pool and we're gonna explain why that actually

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might not be as crazy an idea as it sounds like thanks to epic games for

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sponsoring this video it's coming pc building simulator 2 is coming and you

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can wish list it now at the epic game store stay tuned at the end of this

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video to learn more

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there are a lot of reasons i wanted solar at our new house it's infinitely

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renewable zero emissions in bc we have

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net billing which means that any excess power i generate can be sold at the same

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rate that i buy it back to the grid and it's relatively low maintenance without

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any moving parts at least a normal install without a pump would be but

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here's the thing despite advancements in the field most solar panels are only

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between 15 and 20 percent efficient with

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these ones from dual sun landing at around the 20 mark for the uninitiated

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then that means that the solar panel can only convert 20 percent of the incoming

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solar energy into electricity which in optimal conditions would yield

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375 watts per panel multiplied by the 24

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panels we have for our installation that is a theoretical peak output of 9

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000 watts holy sh point of clarification though we actually have two different

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kinds of panels for the install and that was based on a recommendation from

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well dual sun the installer and the distributor

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yeah the distributor basically when you have multiple banks of them it can be

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pretty hard to a bleed the system once you fill it b

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drain it when you need to in the winter because it does go below zero here so on

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one side of the house we're gonna have regular non-water cooled panels they're

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called their flash model there you go and on the other side we're gonna have

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their i shouldn't say water cooled panels because it's more like the panels

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serve as a water heater but it's actually both and we'll give you a little bit more explanation of that once

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we talk about the water ones in the meantime though i mean it's a solar panel what else can

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we really say we definitely aren't experts on solar i know that you point

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the sun at it or this at the sun and electricity comes out more sun more

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better yeah more sun more better they use shingle cells i guess that's fancy

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look this the solar installer over there is laughing at us he knows stuff that we

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don't why don't we do them a favor and carry this over to where they're

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actually dragging these things up the roof yeah let's do it

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oh god wow they're actually heavier than i expected that guy was just raw dogging

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this by himself i know right okay this guy apparently just carries this

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freaking thing right up the ladder okay um here you go it's upside down well you

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want to flip it that way oh yeah i think it's got it oh i see you take it from that side yeah yeah yeah so you wanna oh

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you want it like that wow we had it as wrong as possible i think Jake what is

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this i was expecting there to be like a

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little crane truck or something and they've already taken like 15 of

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them up so there's 12 on the other side of the house that are already installed

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this is great our intention was to show you guys this stuff on the ground but i think this is even better so it's a

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simple aluminum extrusion kind of frame i actually wouldn't really call it a

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frame because it's just yeah it's just bars across and then you can see they're

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bolted into ah there you go the roof presses below all right these are

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enphase micro-inverters and the reason we need inverters is that solar power is

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inherently dc so in order for it to be

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used by any of the electronics that we have in our homes we're going to want to

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convert it to ac so you can see these leads are going to go into our solar

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panels and these guys out here you can see are wired from panel to panel to

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panel and are all going to go back down to the ground to the main shut-off we

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went with these micro-inverters from enphase for a few reasons one is the

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efficiency so by having micro-inverters on each panel apparently it's better for

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efficiency and it also means that in the event of an inverter failure the whole

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system doesn't just get taken out two was that they came strongly recommended

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by both our roofing company as well as a

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commercial supplier that i got in touch with they wouldn't sell me anything

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because i was an end user but they were happy to give me recommendations so

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shout out for hespv thank you guys very much for the information and number

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three end phases inverters apparently can communicate to home assistant now

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i'm not sure what if anything i would do with that

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information other than just monitoring the solar output of the array you know

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you're never going to want to turn them off so there's not really a whole lot of

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home automation you'd want to do but being able to at least monitor them is

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cool there's one more thing that we want to look at here

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it's the junction box or they call it a it's a sola deck they offer to open it

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up but it's pretty straightforward basically you just take

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all of the output of these banks of panels they go into here

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and then they make their way oh actually you can see all the grounding is connected through here as well and then

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they're gonna make their way down the house and we'll have a look at the shut off down there another fun one check

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this out the beginning of this video i talked about whole house water cooling

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that's what these tubes are for these are going straight to the mechanical

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room which is also the server room and they're going to be used to cool the

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entire server rack which is going to be the vast majority of the computing power

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in the building make sure you're subscribed so you don't miss that one

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the reason i bring this up though is actually this

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this right here is the armored power cable that is also going straight into

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the mechanical room and this is wired up to our shutoff let's go have a look

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actually we interrupt this look at the cutoff to bring you they are actually

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installing the panels now so we're getting a good look at them hooking up

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the dc side to the inverter and then they've actually got the water cooling

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tubing up there as well stop calling it water cooling i don't have to stop

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calling it water cooling because it's kind of both it serves two purposes one

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is to heat up the water that presumably you will use somewhere whether it's for

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hot water out of your tap or whether it's to dump into your pool or hydronic

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heating but the cooling serves a purpose as well because cooling solar panels

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actually increases their efficiency so when they rate solar panels typically

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it's done when the cells are at 25 degrees celsius which is that's great

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but your solar cells might reach degrees of like 70

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i mean there's they're black and they're sitting out in the sun you do them like in la or something like that here maybe

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not so much but they say that it can increase the efficiency of the panels by

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five to fifteen percent or actually not the efficiency the electricity output so

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it's not like it's 35 now it's like 5 to 15 on top of 20 right

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combined with the solar energy they pull out through heat supposedly it's about a

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2x increase of solar energy harness which is pretty insane yeah i'm excited

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here we go i actually did a pretty nice job with the install here armored cable

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running down from the junction box into this guy right here which presumably i

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can open it wouldn't be powered yet there you go a couple of 20 amp breakers

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so that would be the the two different banks are both coming through here and

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then we're going to have a main shut off alright come on

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look at that boy right there at the beginning of the video we showed

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the front of the panels which is the same for both models now that we've got

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it flipped around we can see what's different about the hybrid spring panels

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so there's a couple of things here one is that the backs of them are actually

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insulated because we don't want the heat

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to be dumped out into the surrounding air we want the heat to go into the

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water the second is we've got these tubing hookups here

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this one's a hookup that one's not seems to be in there

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this is kind of trippy is this just made out of like plastic poster board it kind

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of looks like that it looks like it just like a corrugated

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i wonder if there's like thermal pad in there it doesn't really look like it yeah maybe it's just like so much excess

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energy that it doesn't really matter so basically it goes in here

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spreads all out here comes across the panel and then this is blocked off and

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it comes out this side and ah here we go

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these guys right here which seem to be just protectors

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just a cap yeah pre-lubed some o-rings in there lots of lots of lube on there

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and these look like some serious

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clicky hefty boys here i am not going to

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click this all the way in because i don't know how easy that would be to remove but basically it clicks in a

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little something like that and the whole thing hooks up to well your pool or your

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in-floor heat or whatever the case may be i was actually a little bit worried

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about putting pool water through this thing but it turns out that oh it's

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meant for that chlorinated water is totally a-okay but that's one of the

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reasons that we're going to have to winterize it so if we had water with

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anti-freeze in and we were using a heat exchanger to

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move the heat into whatever other system then we probably wouldn't have to drain

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it for the winter especially here where it doesn't get but there's some efficiency loss doing that and you know

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it is pretty heavy though 27 kilos so that's

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just shy of 60 pounds about 60 pounds for our american friends

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asking about the tubing he says it's a lot of stuff to fit behind the panel so

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the cable and tubing management is a

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bit challenging fortunately the tubing is really low profile and flexible

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tastes like yeah sure when we ordered that did that whole tube thing come with the panels

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like pre-measured it came with a big roll it wasn't cut or anything though oh

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so you guys had to make and then like add the connectors on uh

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yeah the plumbers did that and they definitely did it right right

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i'm not a plumber i'm an electrician

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it's been a couple days now and all of the panels are installed the wiring done

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the breakers flipped on now they haven't quite finished the plumbing but they're

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gonna do that over the next week or so but in the meantime they were able to

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flip the switch on so we can actually see how much power we're making now

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today is kind of gross it's totally overcast

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so we're not expecting a lot but i guess we'll see i'm going to give

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Linus a call once we go back inside back inside the house we can actually see the

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breakers they've installed so we've got our 240 volt 40 amp and then we've got

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the end face envoy connection so now this is the end phase envoy it's

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basically like a little computer that monitors all the statistics of the micro

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inverters it can check the individual panels since every panel has its own

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inverter it monitors how much power is drawn by

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the system or your whole house and also how much power is generated and you can

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show your like grid independence now they just sent us an invite to the app

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so hopefully i log in here we might actually be able to see how much power

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we're making i see power let me call Linus

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hey you're on speaker okay so they uh they set up the end phase system so i

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can see how much power we're making wait we can get a readout already i got a

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readout already it's it's only been up for like 20 minutes or something like

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that so guess how much power it's complete overcast like yeah i don't know

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so the absolute peak was 9000 watts and

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i know that we had to reposition the panels

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and they're not water cooled i'm gonna say like

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1500 watts right now the latest measurement was 1.2 kilowatts and the

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peak was 1.3 i think he said it updates about every five minutes

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so far we've produced one and a half kilowatt hours of electricity and you've

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consumed 1.2 and it says we've actually

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sold 0.5 kilowatt hours to the grid

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that's awesome so you've made like maybe five cents or something like that i'm

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completely grid independent even on an overcast day yeah well i mean with

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nothing not at night obviously nothing in the

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house running but yes here it says 100 energy independence now in the app

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there's actually like statistics so you can see your

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how much power was consumed and produced you can see how much was imported which

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is like electricity that's come in from the grid and how much you've sold man on

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a sunny day when we're even when we're running the ac i bet it's gonna be sick

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dude on a sunny day you're probably gonna be producing like four or five

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kilowatts in the app there's also like uh they haven't set it up yet but

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there's gonna be a grid view where you can see all the panels like how they're

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arranged on the roof and then you can click on an individual panel and see how

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much power it's making so like you can see one side of the house makes more

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power than the other we'll be able to see if the ones that

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are water cooled are like making more power it's pretty freaking

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sick i love it so the system works

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monitoring one that we did yeah because that's kind of related that's gonna be relevant soon yeah we're gonna end up

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using that to monitor usage home system has like a solar energy page now

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so maybe the end phase will hook into that and then we'll use that for like power drive the time we've been working

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on this project the technology has like caught up to our ambitions for it you

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know aside from the thermostats