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Genre: Autos & Vehicles
Date of upload: May 22, 2023 ^^
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RYD date created : 2024-05-03T08:07:13.661023Z
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Couple things, Love the build so far! I'm really curious about the added weight of everything at the end. For the solar panels, you'll likely want standoffs to allow them to stay cool so that airflow can go under the panels. Cooling them properly will increase the performance. You can get an mppt solar charge controller that can charge that battery bank too from the solar too. So far it's looking great!!! Camera quality looks good too!
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Chris, just from knowing about solar, I sincerely think you'll be wanting as many panels as you can find a way to fit. The thing is, panels almost never get their full output, because sunlight angle and intensity have to be perfect for that to occur. You should instead bet on about half the output most of the time, and that's assuming you've got the panels facing into the sun (so facing South in the northern hemisphere).
For your project, if possible, I'd be shooting for 1000W worth of panels if you can, because you'll probably only see 500W usable most of the time, which is enough to drive a few things (fridge, lighting, battery charger, maybe 1 computer). Or, to charge your battery units.
For example, I have 325W panels on the roof of my house, and could theoretically produce 15.8kW but I almost never see about 13kW even under ideal weather conditions. And that's only for maybe 90 minutes out of the whole day. And that means I produce an average of 36kWh per day, or 3kWh per daylight hour. And that's with 15 times the amount of generation that I'm suggesting you aim for.
I think less than 1000W of panels will functionally do so little that you'll really not be using them, and will rely on the generators exclusively.
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Hey Chris, I am glad you are taking the time to improve your equipment and to ask feedback about your new camera, the quality is good, I see blocking with quick movements which might come from the video encoding parameters in your editing software (bitrate perhaps), I hear audio clipping (saturating, too loud) from your microphone, and at this point it would be worth transitioning to 4k as most new TV can take advantage of it and you see a lot more details of the pieces you are fabricating. You are going in the right direction, keep tuning Chris!
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