Drew Layton Darn true LOLL

Drew Layton where?

Drew Layton you have seen a different video then

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lmao I was going to say something similar.

agreed one very neat well thought out panel

Probably looks a bit exciting round the back, but he wins massive points just for the labelling alone. :)

Better than most electricity company installations for the average domestic household systems m8 :)

Does he do the installations himself?. Normally such jobs are carried oit by electricians. Photo is an engineer. Engineering barely has any practical training.

You wouldn't see a neater wiring job here in australia.

+MMedic PHOTON BUILT THIS IN A CAVE! With a bunch of scrap! He is the true Ironman.

Tesla pretends to be this guy.

OMG I thought this was a 4 year ago KZfaq vid 😳 . 9 years ago ! Fuck me what foresight 🤔🤔👌👌👌👌

Imagine LED lights and tv efficiency 😳 ? Home appliances . But not the kettle /microwave 🤭🤭🤭🤭

A power wall cost £10,000 and Photons setup costs £700 and stores more power and has higher output.

Pretty much yes... but i think hes ok.... i sill waiting an surprise video in the future... and his channel still growing up in subscribers... imagine if he still make videos.... his channel would have 1 milion subscribers.... I am sorry and appologize for my rusty english

Hes ok, hes still alive. I watch Wayne's Electrical (a friend of mr photon) hes been collaborating with him actually

That video is coming

He Came back today!!

@@gabrielvieira6529 He's back!

You remind me of Jeremy Clarkson as he usually starts his sentences with "...Some say..." right before he switches over to The Stig. ;D

haha :D

Some say that was the end of Photonicinduction, others say it was just the beginning. No one ever says it was the middle.

i have one today

we all know whats coming. i've noticed solar acts as a UPS at too and DIY solar is waaaaaayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy cheaper, especially with Lifepo4 destroying lead acid and ruling the market with it's insane life span of 10 years plus vs 3 for lead acid.

"my lights are literally kind of flickering and we are in a storm" maybe your electricity comes from a cable on a pole? terrible, but it works mine flicker randomly when it's perfectly still, only when a supercell formed over the balkans recently did they flicker twice in rapid succession, i think the building uses underground cables

£££ lol

Yeah. Not a bad idea, at all. At very least, it got the gears in my head turning.

Great if you can source and install it all yourself, I hate to think how much this would cost the average Joe to have installed, the cost would take many years to balance before you start saving money on KWh peak time imports.

At that point, I would have used Windows 8 with plans to upgrade to Windows 8.1, despite extended support still in effect in 2012. 😡😡

I have Windows XP the original

TheRebornNewb :0 No service packs?

I have Windows XP professional 2002 IBM thinkpad

He did this video in 28 Mar 2012....

Welcome to the binge.

If he didn't know his stuff, he'd have been dead before his first video.

I'm surprised by how neat and tidy it is considering his usual uh... safety

***** He did a vid a while ago saying he fixes industrial laundry machines. He went onsite somewhere and changed a clothes dryer drum in under a minute or something.

+cornish guilt hahaha yeah the burning carpet

I believe he's an electrical engineer.

TheGreatWarrior123 a bit of both!

Hmm. Maybe more like the British version of Tony Stark.

Yes

Tony spark

Nikolas Bellic

he was actually married lol

+Jack stolzenberger i know he's divorced. but he was previously married.

Hes recently got married but the home office refuse to give his wife a visa to come here.

Lolololololol

***** hahahhaa

***** i fooookin LOL'ed

+Austin O'Neal Oh yesss he did... or did he pop? :P

+Agustin Cesar you mean shart

bobbieslandy Agreed :)))

well this is the UK, if you keep quiet about it they'll never bother you, they don't even check if tenants have adequate fire safety/alarms, but we can use that to our advantage as long as we know what we're doing, and as long as we can undo it when we leave the property

You're learning!? What a looser! :-P

SquirrelFromGradLife yea pure sinewave generators are really expensive, I bet those easily cost 700

You can get used server UPSs pretty cheaply, abd some of them do pure sine wave

it gets even more expensive here where i live, so i build my own with the EGS002 sine wave (spwm) and old UPS parts..

Nothing like the sound of a contactor pulling in

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1500 watts is hardly “powerful”. Your microwave will max it out.

Use thermal expansion and fuck EU love RF

nice, tekkit reference

Every truck on the road has the same setup to run tv, microwave, etc. from an inverter.

Terryblount Not at all. The trucks don't have to deal with the problem of making it work seamlessly with or without the mains supply which is the real puzzle here.

***** I would not say so. If you're charging during night and draining batteries during day, you're cycling it quite a lot and it will result in worn out batteries in quite a short time (2 years maybe), then you will need to replace it. Now count how much you will save at rate difference, subtract some efficiency loses (pumping all energy through inverters 2 times - when charging and so when discharging plus chemical process in batteries) and compare it to prize of batteries. As a backup solution it's definitely great and can run for years (10?) in frequent blackouts easily, but I don't believe it will actually save you money if your night rate is not just 20% of day rate or so...

Pavol Čuj Of course. The storage of energy is a standing engineering challenge. Doing it with lead-acid batteries cannot be viable, unless an aggressive night-saving plan is in place, probably not even then. Maybe one day, when we get used, but still properly working car lithium batteries for handyman purposes, it could work. There is pumped-storage hydroelectricity type of plant that works better than any batteries for this purpose.

If you need to ask for schematics, you shouldn't be building such a thing.

Random Videos - Cr1TiKaL Full Streams im still using it now, you cant download an apps anymorr

xp is brilliant

ive got it in a virtual machine for web surfing

We still use xp in our parts store lol!

I'm still using Windows XP in 2018

Yeah, in the video he mentioned the batteries had 10 years of shelf life. I'd love to see a long-term review video where he mentions his experiences with the system and what he'd do differently today. After all, it's nearly been 10 years (bloody hell).

Maxwell Goodacre omg what do u folks have in the US?!

@@therealb888 No damned switches on power points, that's what. Biggest shocker for somebody moving here from Aus.

Lifepo4 is the shiznite!

@@cdoublejj Certainly is. I've seen some batteries warrantied for 10 years.

@@jamescollins6085 aging wheels just pulled apart an 11 t 13 year old prototype EV pack made of Lifpo4 round cells that have not been charged for 8 years and put them in an EV lawn mower, they blew even new lead acid golf cart batteries right out the water despite thier years of neglect.

@@cdoublejj I'm so glad I will be a late adopter of solar power as I'll get to benefit from these mature technologies.

@@jamescollins6085 well then youay trap the rewards it's been absolutey gang busters with new products and price drops the past year or three. I've started investing in Lifepo4 I have nothing to loose vs constantly buying lead acid batteries. Curious what the next 21 months bring

google Tesla Powerwall. You can buy one of these pretty easily these days

Except Photon did it a decade before Elon Musk did!

When I did electronics at school one of my fun tricks was rigging relays up to a sine wave generator - or even a walkman and amplifier. At first people would wonder why I had built something to produce such low quality sound.... until I invited them to point out where the loudspeaker was in the circuit and getting confused looks and people asking 'what the f**k?'

@@Debbiebabe69 LOL I bet that sounded hilarious!

+Alex Scott you can pull allot more current from two 6v

+Alex Scott Parallel banks go out of balance.

+zogworth no, series goes out of balance

yes series becomes out of balance parallel equals itself out

parallel batteries require a swamping resistor to keep both batteries at approximately the same voltage, and balance the load. As you know a battery has an internal resistance, or the ESR. This resistance plays a role in which battery discharges first, and therefore shortens the lifetime of the battery. Series goes out of balance when using a 12V charger to charge two 6V (series) batteries, but internally thats how a 12V battery is wired. Anyway, i am thoroughly perplexed by the neatness of the wiring and the thought that went into that setup. And a note to photon, PV panels work on UV not 'light', so cloudy weather is no problem! You of course do benefit from full sun but it is better than NO solar, may be a useful investment with all that money you saved on electricity with that battery backup?

mate this is 2012

I think at the time he was using the most efficient light ever to maximize consuption

LED is not all it's cracked up to be - at least not the 'modern' fixed ones. My mother moved into a recently renovated retirement unit where they'd put in all LED stuff. A light went out after 3 months so I climbed up there with the ladder to replace whatever bulb was in it - only it's not a bulb is it, all hard wired into the ceiling...and dead after 3 months use. Cue the expensive house call from the electrician who then had to order the part and come back a second time to change it out. Where the fuck is my promised 20 years service life? Oh that's right they're stuffed full of driver circuits that can fail at any time now because of course they're all made in China to their usual brilliant quality standards. And you're absolutely stuck with whatever wattage / lumens the fixture puts out - if you want a bit more light in one corner you can't simply change to a higher wattage bulb. Sheer idiocy permanently affixing these things. I don't mind LED screw-in bulbs so much, I use them where I live now. But once again the claimed lifetime of these things is outright lies. When I moved into my current flat 4 years ago it was all LED screw-in bulbs already here but they virtually all had to be replaced within the first year, all except the ones in the spare room that isn't really used. Maybe the LED chips might last, but the driver circuits are all shit. Fuck LED.

LED light is unhealthy kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hpqXqaWWtbmboZ8.html

chocolate squiggle if you buy quality bulbs, you dont have that problem. Ive only had one defective screw in bulb, and I was an early adopter.

GREEtINGS FROM GERMANY; I THOUGHT ABOUT THIS, TOO!

copy? like you copied that AvE icon? that kind of copy?

Cool your jets Bill, you best be looking after your sexual assault allegations. Nobody copied anything from AvE. AvE got the icon from Adafruit: blog.adafruit.com/2011/10/19/the-magic-blue-smoke-monster/ as it existed before AvE even made his KZfaq channel which was on Feb 24, 2012.

+Mark C all the same. no other measurement apart from the Watt. Power is measured in Watts and a Watt is the Voltage (Volts) "times" the Current (Amps)

A watt is a unit which can be used for any system which dissipates/absorbs energy. It's broken down as joules per second (J/s). So the speaker which says 225 watts on it is indicating that it is comfortable with dissipating 225 watts of electrical power provided by the amplifier as acoustic energy. The amount of watts dissipated by the speaker is equal to the voltage across the terminals of the voice coil multiplied by the current flowing through it. As in P = IV (P is power(watts), I is current(Amps) and V is voltage). I do believe that the 225 watt figure on the back of the speaker is an average of sorts, in reality there will be transient events which could cause the speaker to operate way above its rated range, but they don't damage the speaker if they're not too high because they last for a very short time. 90 watts on the back of the amplifier indicates that 90 watts is the maximum amount of energy that the amplifier can supply the speaker.

+motown shogunate Tooo much , All I do know is a 400watt rms speaker played off a 90watt per channel rms amplifier distorts very easily but when same 400watt rms speaker played from a power amplifier rated with say 600watts rms the Amp not running at full capacity is maxing out the speaker , But then with cheap speakers they might go loud tone flat , but heavy bass they blow them selves to bits .

In the case of your 400W speaker and 90W per channel amp, it's actually the amplifier output that's distorting, not the speaker which has far greater power handling capacity than the amp. The output voltage of any analogue amplifier is limited by its power supply rails (typically around 70 to 80 volts DC on the positve and negative rails depending on the design). When you max out the volume to try and drive more acoustic power (sound energy) out of the speaker, the peaks of the audio signal run into the amp's power supply rail limits and get "clipped" flat, which is why this kind of distortion is known as "clipping". This results in the amp's maximum positive/negative DC voltage output applied across the speaker's voice coil which causes it to heat up very quickly, creates horrible nasty distortion and burns out the speaker very fast. The type of distortion caused by over-driving a smaller speaker with a bigger amp is more gentle and will take much longer to destroy the speaker as the voice coil gradually heats up to the limit of its power handling capacity. Many speakers have protective devices built in to prevent this kind of damage, but they can't protect against clipping. So it's a bit counter-intuitive, but it's actually much easier to blow up a big speaker with a small amp, than blowing up a small speaker with a big amp! By the way, google "Ohm's Law" to get a greater understanding of the relationship between power (Watts), voltage (Volts), and current (Amps). It is the most basic fundamental law of electromagnetism, pretty much the first thing that every electrician or electronics technician/engineer learns. Good place to start if you want to know more.

NeXTSTORMING whats wrong with the comment?! >:?

Stream/river at the bottom of your property?

TTKMKaizen Yes. Its a pretty big one in spring and that's when I put most of the excess power into charging batteries for the winter ahead.

joe m Good idea, be careful though. I read a story of a guy here in England who did the same thing, when the water authorities found out, they tried to bill him for using their water. What next? Air tax for windmills?

TTKMKaizen Dude. I know that it is in my property. Some water company asked if they could set up a little lower down from where I am. I said yes anyway And when I brought my current property, It even stated on the sale document that the river is on my land. I think that they tax too much. Can't they just tax the companies like Google (who don't pay taxes)?

I was thinking the exact same thing! Although I was a prototype engineer in electronics many years ago things have changed so much since that I would be lost nowadays. I could certainly follow a blueprint though.

DarkMantisSr To a lesser extent, so was I. I did computer engineering in the 90s - I can follow a schematic as well, but I'm no electrician, let alone a reverse engineer.

It's very easy. A bare-bone system is a DPDT relay whose coil (230V AC) is connected to the mains, the normally closed terminal goes to the mains, the normally open one to the inverter. The common goes to your load. When the mains fail, the relay will open connecting the inverter. When the mains is working again, the relay closes disconnecting the inverter and reconnecting the grid. Then you can add more features. You can add a timer that turns on another relay connected to a charger so it only charges when it's cheap time. You can add a delay so you avoid burning the inverter when the relay switches You can add contactors in parallel to the relay in order to increase the power that the system can handle His version is just the bare-bone plus some extras like circuit breakers and protection circuits, the timer, the delay, the contactors and some indicator lights. It's just very simple electromechanics. You can even get away without using a single electronic part (if you use an electromechanical timer and delay)

To be legal you'd need a qualified electrician to install this. Cost around 6000 for this or 5400 for a Tesla Powerwall which includes a warranty and more storage.

This isn't marketed towards regular people. It's "marketed" for people that actually understand it just by seeing what is shown in the video, probably because they are already at least qualified electricians (or electrical engineers etc.) So you would only pay the price of the materials. And you also need a qualified electrician for installation of a Powerwall.

+ApexMike I could make you one if you want ^^

manaquri Thanks, but I was just interested to know the exact setup that Andy has.

ApexMike ok, no problem ^^

If you have a diagram laying around, I wouldn't mind studying it. Thanks

I would like a copy too if you have a spare one. Please just email me.

He knows how to hack electric meter and lower the bills

+Bishwash Poudel He hasn't hacked the meter, he's just storing the cheaper nighttime electricity.

+Tom L HAHAHA probably as many amps as he got out of the thing. amps=$

The meter is simply two meters on a timer. The lower meter counts during the day, the upper meter counts at night. When billing time comes around, they charge a different rate for each.

He's back now :)

He's an expert: he has what he needs.

***** Sheesh. Why don't you ask him if you're so obsessed with his PC hardware. Alternatively, get a life.

***** OK friend. I take your point. My apologies.

***** tell me more about those days in 2005.

artifactingreality its not 2005 youtube found in later 2006

In the bad old days of Metal Halide lamps it wouldn't have helped, they draw too much power for this system. These days, with LED lamps, you can run a small grow room off your mains supply and nobody would be the wiser, it would be equivalent to running a small electric heater. Or you could run a BIG operation off this kind of system, balancing the load between the batteries and the mains, and cycling banks of lamps on/off for charging. Er, at least, that's what a friend told me....

Yep that's pretty much right.. Falls in-line with what the experienced officers been saying...

Smart operators would also be supplementing their charge circuit with PV panels or wind/hydro systems, depending on location.

UV Tubes mate. ;) I built my own & use a 20w tube! DONE!

LOL no clue springs to mind

in uk your allowed to do pretty much what you want with your power

Damn dude

tesla powerwall etc.

+John QPublic Classic Baptist democrat.

+Adam Thomas you do realize that is his own panel right?