Loads List: Off Grid Solar Power System Design - Step 1

Loads List: Off Grid Solar Power System Design - Step 1

Hi. I'm Amy Beaudet from the altE Store. Thank you for watching the first of our video series on designing an off-grid solar system.This first video is appropriately called, Step 1 - Loads List. Figuring out how much power you need is a critical step that many people try to skip.

Designing a solar system without knowing your loads is like being asked how much gas do I need to drive, without knowing what type of vehicle or how far you are driving. Let's start at the beginning. Here's a basic schematic of a typical off-grid system.

You'll notice there is a generator in the drawing. That is there for instances when there is not enough sun to provide the power needed, generally Winter, and if you have an occasional load that requires more power than your system can provide.

For instance, if you needed to use a welder for a project, it may not make sense to design the whole system to be able to accommodate a tool that is used once a year. So having a generator available for occasional use makes good sense.

So keep this option in mind when designing your system. This video series will cover the major steps of designing an off-grid system. Let's start with step 1, analyzing your load.

So let's go over the steps to determine the amount of power you need. Start with a loads analysis. Unlike a grid tied system where you can just base the system on how much power you want to offset, an off-grid system needs to provide all of your power. With an off-grid system, you need to take a good look at what you are powering, and how long you need to power it. Going off-grid often takes changes to your lifestyle.

It's not as simple as just saying, "I'm tired of paying the electric company, I'm taking my whole house off grid and stick it to the man". You have to figure worst case scenarios; winter time, with little to no sun for days. Unless you are in a climate that has long sunny days all year round, most people who are doing a year round off-grid system will have a generator available to pitch in in the winter.

I read a quote from an off-gridder who said, "if it's going to be a sunny day, I can cook waffles for breakfast. If it's cloudy, I have cereal." When designing the system, you can't just say it's an "average" size system.

No such thing. You also can't base it on the square footage of the house or cabin. One cabin may have air conditioning, an electric stove and water heater, electric washer and dryer, a fridge and freezer, and the other may have LED lights and a laptop. Which one is "average"?

Who's to say? Do you think the same system will work for both cabins, even though they are the same physical size? You need to make a complete list of every electrical device you will be using, how much power it uses, and how long each day it will be on.

Don't forget anything. All UL listed equipment will have a power label on it.

Since volts x amps = watts, you should be able to get all of the information you need off the labels. Here's some examples from walking around my house. You can see some do list the watts, some list a voltage range, some and amps, and some list the DC voltage and amps used from a power block that is converting the AC voltage to DC. If the label only lists the volts and amps, but not watts, you can multiply the volts times amps to get watts. Once you have watts, you'd then multiply the watts x hours a day it is on, and you get watt hours a day.

This is not perfect, as it may just be listing the start up current, and not the continuous power, but it is a starting point. If the voltage listed is DC instead of AC, you would still multiply the DC volts by the amps to get watts. If the voltage listed is a range, like 100 to 240 volts, you would use the voltage that is used in your area, for instance, 120V for North American outlets. Some loads, like a refrigerator or a pump or furnace fan, are not on continuously and have a high surge when the compressor turns on, making it difficult to determine how much accumulated power, or watt hours, it uses throughout the day. If it is Energy Star rated, you can find the Energy Star Label, either on the appliance or on the Energy Star web site.

 

If it is not Energy Star rated, and you are looking to power it with solar, it may be worth it to replace it with an Energy Star fridge. The Energy Star label will tell you the average annual kwh used.

From there, you can simply divide it by the number of days in the years, 365, to see how many watt hours it uses in a day. In this example, 383kwh a year, divided by 365 days in a year = 1.049kWh a day.

You can multiply that by 1000 to determine how many Watt hours a day, as a kilo watt is 1000 watts. A more accurate way of determining the power consumption is to measure it with a device like a Kill-a-watt meter.

You plug the meter into the outlet, and then plug your device into the meter. It will show you an instantaneous wattage, volts, amps, and accumulated watt hours. It also shows how long the unit was measuring, so you can divide the watt hours by hours to see how many watts it is drawing on average.

Multiply that by 24 hours, and you have how much it actually used in a day. For example, if the Kill-a-watt says it used 1260 Wh over 30 hours, that averages 42W. 42W x 24 hours in a day = 1008Wh a day. Taking it one step further, 1008Wh / 1000 = 1.008kWh.

Alright, now that we know what each device is using, what do we do with that info? Using a load calculator can help you create the loads list.

This calculator is available on...

altE's website at altestore.com/store/calculators/load_calculator.

To use it, you enter the appliance name, quantity, how many watts it is in AC or DC .

You'll know it is AC if it plugs into a wall outlet. If it is DC, it runs off a battery, like your cell phone car charger. On at the same time indicates that the system needs to be big enough to power those devices that may be on simultaneously.

For example, you have no control over when your fridge compressor will turn on, or your well pump, but you can control when you turn on a light. So if there is a chance that multiple devices may be on at once, you must select On at Same Time.

That will help you determine how big of an inverter you need to handle that power if they all turn on at once.

Some devices also have a high momentary surge, like a fridge or motor. It uses 2 to 4 times as much power for a few seconds when it first turns on. You need to keep track of that as well, because if your inverter cannot handle that surge, the device may not be able to turn on, or you could damage the inverter. That's it for the first video in this series of designing an off-grid PV system.

You can go to our web site to use our Loads List calculator to calculator your own loads. Watch the next videos in this series for how to size the battery bank and the solar array , using the numbers we came up with from our loads list.

Also watch more of our various Video Series on our web site. We've got a team of highly trained Technical Sales Reps available to help you plan your system, give us a call..

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aMember Pro Review Membership Site Software Full Site Management

aMember Pro Review Membership Site Software  Full Site Management 

Hello, This is a review for aMemeber Professional that you can pick up from MEMBERPROAPP.COM This is the Membership Program Application that works standalone on your hosting platform. It is ...... PHP so it will work in any standard Linux hosting. It's independent of your CMS, so you don't need WordPress or Joomla to run this...

...but it also integrates with almost any CMS. They have a lot of integrations and plugins to make it run smoothly. There are a lot of excellent features that I'm going to highlight for you...It's got complete ... Backend control, so you can control every aspect of your membership site ... You can control the users, it's a good thing. So you can manage every aspect of their membership, you've got......reports, downloadable products, virtual products, physical products... ...you can protect content, hide content, and drain feed content to users... ...and so on, there's a lot out there. And that's a really good feature, it's the amount of payment processors...... in some countries where Paypal is banned or something doesn't work well, or if you notice...... a lot of customers from a certain part of the world, for example Alipay ...

...it is obviously very popular in china, and you don't want to miss it in china market, so you can integrate Alipay or Paypal ... ...or clickbank, or a lot of others, they say they have 200+ here.. ...usually you only get a handful, you get Paypal , Stripe , and that's a lot......but with aMember Pro you get a lot... ...that's easy to integrate. You have 6 translations straight out of the box, you have German, Spanish, French, Russian, Chinese... ... This is both front end and backend.They have a lot of integration, and we'll talk about that later, but... ...basically WordPress, and that's what I use. This is something unique, it offers free installation, and you usually pay $100 or more...

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And you also have protection for your site folders...

...so it will hide folders and files from unauthorized users. They've got some testimonials here , but this piqued my interest because I use MyThemeShop , and I use a lot of their plugins , I think ... ... they may have developed their own membership system but I was surprised to see them using ...... this one , which is really good. They have 370k plus users... ...and it's a big database , lots of people to manage.They say how fast it is, it works really well to manage downloads... ... memberships, renewals and so on. I'd like to mention, I forgot where I saw it ......we've been going for ......here... ...they've been going for 17 years ......this is not just a quick project, It only lasts 1-2 years and then it goes ahead. It's a long term project. There are a lot of clients... ...they are really dedicated to this. As I said. This is independent of your CMS, it's the PHP package...... that you install, and it will run independently but also integrate nicely with just about anything.

Let's go through a few of these features.

Unlimited membership levels, for example, you can get platinum, gold, silver, bronze and so on... You can set up re-billing, membership periods, etc. This is very interesting, and offering progressive content, so you can feed the content drip so that you can have one... ...one week package, another week two package and so on.

Payment Systems: Like I said, they've got Stripe, Paypal, and Clickbank. JV Zoo ......many more , 200 plus. Fine grain feature ... ...Membership management feature ... ... You can fully browse and manage members, it's not just an overview ... ... You can manage every part of your entire membership account. Subscribe and it expires automatically, so it's turned off.

Set it up once and it will work forever on its own.

Lots of integrated units. The translation has already been discussed, so this is another essential feature. It's a one-time payment, and the price you pay is forever. Some of the organic plugins I tried for WordPress ... ... they cost $150 up front for one year, you pay $100 for an affiliate ... ...

 

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you can ... ... lock it , grant access to certain roles ... ... highlight another ...deny access To share... ...so you don't want someone to share the backend (access) with anyone so you can... ...if they use multiple IP addresses, you can lock the account. And finally, the technology, it's written entirely in PHP... ...using the standard libraries, so there's nothing special (required)... ...so this makes it fast and lightweight... ...you can create your own themes. If you want......and you get the full source code, you have full access to the entire package. So this is memeber Pro , you can pick it up from MEMBERPROAPP.COM at the moment they have it available at a sale price.

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Empire Traffic Membership Review 🔥🔥Clickbank Product From Fergal Downes🔥🔥 [Free Facebook Strategy]

Empire Traffic Membership Review 🔥🔥Clickbank Product From Fergal Downes🔥🔥

Hi in today's video review we're doing a product from Clickbank called  Empire. Empire is about getting traffic and they say in just 30 minutes a day you'll be able to  make 128 dollars per day with free traffic this is from Fergal Downes.

Fergal's been publishing  and selling products for over 10 years now this is a Clickbank product if you go on Clickbank  it'll look like this right here free traffic system flood your sites with free traffic it's  it's converting anyway people are buying it so we're going to do a review of it it has to do  with free traffic it's empire from Fergal Downes so anyway before we slide into the review for the  product Empire on Clickbank just wanted to show you i did mention that Fergal has been publishing.

For many years now these are some stats from his profile and you can look at all  the products he's published you know i don't know how often he publishes maybe once a month  maybe a little bit longer than that but there's a lot of products here  that have been published and this goes on and on and on now the thing is there is also an  important thing is that he has a Facebook support group that you can join and you're encouraged to  join on the home page so the areas that you will learn in this video the areas.

I want to cover is  number one i will explain in my opinion what this product is number two does the training help you  to use the product in other words is it clear enough that you as a newbie can use it is this  newbie friendly is this product newbie friendly is it something a new internet marketer can use  to make money number four do i recommend this as an ethical business model and i'm looking  at that as a long-term business model number five is it worth the cost that you're paying  for it is it worth it and number six downsides to using the training i'll cover them things i  don't like about.

The training things i think you should be warned about let's move on to  the review for empire by fergal downs so once you've signed in after you've made your purchase  this is the page that you're taken to fergal has a welcome video here and then we've got the normal  things here and encourage you to sign up with our support group which we just talked about.

And then here's number four click to start empire and what you do is you click on that and you'll  go to the dashboard now he's promoting this is a membership which i believe is meant to  be a training membership and now you're paying i think i paid one or two dollars  for a 14-day trial basis for us and then it'll be 37 dollars a month after that i believe that's to  be part of this membership the empire membership by frugal downs now currently this is module one  and as you go through there's i believe 13 lessons here most of these are short videos.

A few of them have some things down below that give you information about let's go to this one  here now this will talk about the facebook group and then he promotes signing up his facebook group.

And then there's also the two groups that he has incorporated into this plan that he wants  you to sign up for and become friends in these two groups the first one is the im watchdog is brent  rutucky's facebook group and there's over 15 000 members and then there's art flairs  facebook group including and also don't forget fergls so like i say that he  is promoting these two groups because they're large and he has a working relationship with them  but he also likes to promote his own group which.

I think is over maybe twelve thousand  fifteen thousand people okay it's around fifteen thousand people in his private group so anyway.

The relationship to facebook is the fact that this whole course sold course is based upon  using facebook making friends on these groups he even admits in some of the training in here that  there's a lot of spamming that goes on inside these facebook groups i've made a video about  adding comments and automatically adding comments and spamming the likes of facebook  and how it's not really a good business model.

You can check that video out the links up in the upper  right hand corner anyway as we move in each one of these videos has different things that come with  it like pm on your phone talks about personal messaging he also has some information about  some examples of what he believes should be how to personal message person on facebook  with links that you're trying to sell products to and the sales 1000 sales formulas like.

Your  secret formula training but these videos are not i found it to be rather vague  not much detail they're all really short i think the longest one's like 11 minutes long  most of them are under four minutes training is kind of vague there is i checked the method two.

Method two is not available it says you have to wait 14 days so let's pass the trial so i tried  that but however i did discover that method three did open to me as i looked at it and it's called  my lead gen that's a separate product that he sold and he teaches in here and that's going to be  setting you up it costs around 60 a month to set up lead generation getting leads.

Daily through sending emails out and kind of like spamming people with emails hitting them  hard and heavy he also has in here a group where he's promoting setting up your own autoresponder  not exactly sure why that is but this person has been set up with him through facebook and  here's the thing that concerned me as i went to contact this person and i get a warning  get a warning about a possible phishing expedition from this site so i got the heck out of here  really quick some of this is probably outdated it may even be unsafe for you to play around with.

You don't want any fishing done on your site or on your computer so the thing is just keep in mind  these methods i believe are supposed to be added but i don't know how long this has been up  method 4 was actually available too even though it says not supposed to be available to after 74 days  okay so i have some further thoughts about the spam spamming people with emails we're going to.

Look at that real quick and then we'll move into some of the otos that were presented to me after  i made the purchase so using empire i believe you will be doing this you'll be one of these people  sending this is like one of my spam folders i've you know i recognize a few of these names most  the names i've never heard of before so this is it's going to go in your spam folder right here  and you're going to say you know and do you expect you're going to get sales i don't know  maybe you will you may not so do you want to be spamming people having the emails go  into your their spam folders and if for some reason they don't and they're in their inbox.

Is that something that you want to have is that how you want to have your business represented  okay so i just uh purchased Empire from Fergal Downes and it's in the Clickbank product this.

 Is oto1 we're going to say no thanks i want us to supercharge the program i'm going to say no  thanks that's ot01 okay so i'm going to give you a downsell it's just the otos we'll say no thanks  ten dollars off making only seven dollars hold on a second second oto number two they will make  that no thanks instant five dollar discount this video is unavailable it's a little problem in the  say five dollars get my best traffic sources for just twelve dollars no thanks and then  there's oto three the video works on this one it's access this must be aiden i know Aiden  and Fergal i'll say no thanks.

This whole thing is about posting comments getting people to respond  fitting yourself into the group uh supply and he doesn't even go into details about  what to do he just kind of gives you a few lack of digital kind of comments that he would make um the  idea is i have seen it expressed a lot better from other trainings but the idea is to use facebook  facebook accounts you know joining groups adding friends you know like he does in this video here  he's going through now this is where he told you about the three groups that he wants you to join  he wants you to add buyer friends from them and then post messaging personal messaging.

Private messaging on to friends after they've comment on things comments that  you made in a group that's what this whole thing is about is using facebook to create  traffic and then people will after you've sent out a bunch of emails to them they'll respond and buy.

Products from you that you're promoting and he's telling you to promote his Empire  product and this one and product three he's talking about the secret late gen product  that he wants you to promote there that's kind of the gist of what Empire is  does the training help you that much i didn't find it to help that much kind of gives you a broad  stroke if you will a broad brush of what the idea is that he's promoting but it's not that detailed  and if you're a newbie you may not quite get what he's getting.

At  he does some provide some emails email things let's let's show you a couple of them  okay like in the lesson two done for you product this.

Is talking about signing up and checking his  leaderboard at the end of each month to see how he did for promoting his products then he's talking  gives you information and directions on how to sign up for clickbank.

And digistore24.com now i have done a video about digi store 24 and you can if you're not familiar  with it check out the video there'll be a card up in the upper right hand corner for you on that.

Clickbank is talking about how to promote the product and writes out that's this is one of the  steps that did go into some detail a lot of these are just getting just short videos let's look at  this one here eight now he's doing here is now he does encourage you to use his product because he  obviously wants to sell his product and the whole thing is kind of self-inclusive  if you will is it newbie friendly i i don't know yes and no do i recommend.

It as an ethical  business practice i'd say probably not i don't like the idea as i said with the earlier video  about spamming and using viral comments and post you'll see check out on my video that what i think  about that now i can see the downsides to using this training is that you're just gonna turn and  burn a lot through a lot of people on a lot of lists i don't think that highlight of Empire  the Empire from Fergal Downes from Clickbank i'm gonna rate this as like a three out of ten  it is methods.

That can be used and can be used effectively but i think he's just kind of lazy and  sloppy with how he set this up and his membership site for 37 a month i would definitely avoid it  i don't see that it's worth your time or your money especially because you can do these you  can get free trainings they're a lot cheaper than this and you'll have the information there that  you can use all the time this you have to keep paying 37 dollars a month to keep access to it  so again i give it a 3 out of 10.

 

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And you're getting  increasingly upset about spending more money on shiny objects then you can stop that  click the link down the description there's a 12-step program for free access it today.

Just go to that link fill in the information that's needed you'll get access to the product  immediately so thank you for watching this review today of empire by Fergal downs from Clickbank  we appreciate you Thanks for watching.

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