Homie if you paid 60k for solar and can't run your oven you got fucking ripped off

I live off grid in the desert, in a 38ft RV powered by a 50amp 120v system. It has 2 14,000BTU Coleman A/Cs, a full size refrigerator, 2 space heaters, 2 big screen TVs, Xbox, microwave, guitar and 100w amplifier, even washer and dryer. My 50amp main is supplied by 18*300watt panel array charging 4 lifepo4 batteries. I spent $10,000 6 years ago and STILL have more power than I need at any given time.. just not enough to run everything all at the same time. (We have a LPG generator for laundry on hot summer days) My choice to go off grid was one of the the best choices I’ve ever made. I own my home, my land, my power, my water, and my vehicles. It enabled me to save ridiculous amounts at a young age. I’ve been waiting years for the batteries to die, replacement cost was saved in the first 3 months of being off grid. My wife agrees, it was SO worth it!

this guy is the kind of guy who would spend all day trying to find blinker fluid and a left handed screwdriver.

When a not-so-intelligent person tries to give advise on a subject he barely understands.... THIS happens.

This dude is literally the definition of "trust me bro"

This is so true this is why I have a wind turbine and nuclear reactor in my backyard

Never listen to anyone who calls himself "the GOAT" lol.

I guess I am Mr Nobody. With off grid solar, you heat air, cook and heat water with gas or wood. Minimize electric use and NO problem.

My dad actually lives off grid! He has 4-5 panels (I think) and a propane powered grill, and wood heating! He doesn’t much care for the city so he decided to renovate his dads old house (which is in the middle of the woods, with no power) during winter, he has a generator because the suns out a bit less. It’s a really cool mix of old and new.

When you hire a solar technician from Wish:

POV : It's your first day on the job "Hey boss, I'm gonna make a Tik Tok"

I have integrated into a number of off-grid systems here in Australia. Theyre doing just fine.

When the installer thinks they know what they're talking about. Lmao

"Sponsored by the electric/gas company."

Every OTG customer needs a tank of propane for the stove, furnace, & hot water. I have 600watts of solar panels that I bought in 2005, and it is still working fine. I paid $550 and installed it myself.

I have an offgrid system. 8Kw solar panels. 2 x 5kw hybrid inverters, and 1600Ah battery. It cost 12 000$ (the parts), and I assembled it. My home is controlled by a tiny computer system measuring all the power input, and all the "big consumers" are governed by the available power. I can use EVERYTHING in my home as I did before. The biggest consumer is always heating-cooling. So, I added buffers. Extra warm water storage, heat batteries for winter and summer, and than I can use the full power output of the solar panels during the day. What the guy says is true if you have no idea what are you doing, therefore you can not benefit from the potential of the system.

The moment he said 50 amps... I knew his a fool.

If you’re off grid, your dryer is called a clothes line

I’m just putting it out there that you don’t need all that stuff to live in the first place. A lot of people around my area are mostly off grid except for electricity. They have wood stoves and wells. There’s all kinds of low power appliances you could use like air fryers. You could also just cook on the wood stove. You can wash clothes with rain water and dry them on a clothes line. Not to mention the fact that you can also have other power sources to charge your batteries such as wind turbines, hydro turbines, biogas, etc. I plan to live off grid in a tiny house so that way I’ll be debt free and I can peruse my own business ventures that I actually want to do without worrying about making payments, high taxes, or being stuck in a 9-5 loop.

When you off grid, the ac is called a window unit while enjoying a cold drink from a 12V fridge

Whenever you start a sentence with “nobody” or “everybody” you set yourself up to look dumb. This guy’s statement is simply not true.

Goes to show. Even if you "know" how to install them, you dont know how they work lol

This guy doesn't know what "Off-Grid" really means.

Me, literally every day: It's sunny, I should start the dishwasher or washing machine now... I'm serious, I only start them when I have a surplus (I installed a display in my house and also get a Notification on my phone) or REALLY need to. I can even do it remotely...

And this guy has the audacity to call himself, ‘solarGoat’. 💀

Dude, my house is off grid fully powered by solar power and the cost paid for itself in 10 years lol

I spent 60k on my system (42K after tax credit) and I'm completely off grid. That got me 80Kwh battery, and 95 panels. I produce, on a sunny day, 92 kwh in Dec (low) and 176 kwh in the summer.

The grid went down in our town last night. The only reason we knew about it was that we heard the backup generator at the hospital up the road, fire up. We are off grid with a system more than adequate for our needs (15.1kWof panels and 32kWh of batteries) and it didn't cost anywhere near what that dude was prattling on about. In fact, we went over the top to ensure that we have redundancy built in, just in case something fails. 3 x 5KVA inverters in parallel, single phase. 4 x MPPT solar controllers, each capable of 4.5kW output. 10 x modular LiFePO4 battery units at 3.4kWh each. We have a complete monitoring system and the whole lot is integrated with Home Assistant to automate tasks. We even have a 7.36kW EV charger, which we use regularly. I'm not sure that this dude has a handle on solar power.

how to tell ppl you have no idea about solarenergie without telling them:

Dude. I'm off grid and run all that with no problem. Usually you have a backup to charge your batteries if needed. I might run backup generator 20 hours a year. Mostly during winter when snow is covering panels.

powering a home off of a fully off grid system with a $50,000 budget is definitely possible. people say it's dumb until the power company starts r*ping everyone.

This makes Florida Man shake his head

Me who lives in Germany where AC is considered exclusively to Stores: I dont have such weaknesses

Me living in a van, always checking battery status before even putting the lights on.....

Dude thinks the guy off-grid is going to work and washing using a dryer and washing machine.

My best guess is that he is part of the Flat Earth community! 😅

My family does. It is awesome. You just need to be mindful of your power consumption. Completely worth it. Enjoy paying truck loads of money to the electric company.

This is blatantly untrue

I’m completely off grid solar and i spent under 30K. Would have cost me 40K to run power to my house from the grid. This guy is blowing smoke. I can even run a mig welder. It all depends on your inverters. Da Heck is this fool talking about!?

I did and never once have I felt concerned. Sorry, you're wrong.

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The moment he said 50 amps I knew he was a click bait

We are completely off grid at our Barndo in Ohio. $20k system installed DIY. This guy is hilarious

Do you want to go off grid? There are two sides to the coin. On one hand, solar panels trying to run a town/city house that's 3,000 square feet or 800 ×2 16,000 square feet basement is 800 square feet and street level is 800 square feet. You can't because you need batteries and knowing how much soral panel is pumping out × how many you need to run: rang, hoid fan, fridge, washer, dryer, and electronics like wifi, tv, computer/ laptop and cell phone. If you want to go off grid, you can. This is the other side of the coin. You can go off grid Easier than people say can by knowing how to build a small log cabin adding some solar panels just to run 3 things: some kind of lighting, something to charge your cell phone, and some kind of small things you like you need corded electric toothbrush you could run. In the cabin has: you can get a small wood burning appliance/stove or build your own wood burning stove.

"Surely nobody that knows how solar panels work will watch my videos"

50 amps.... Had me in tears lmao

This actually makes sense. When compared to a grid-tied solar system. People do go off-grid, but it requires a much larger system to be able to handle going off-grid.

Call me when this shit isn't a 30 yr payback. 😑

When the new untrained helper tries to do a misinformed psa announcement **

This video is dumb AF. My house is completely off grid and so is my best friends entire marijuana farm lol

It’s doable with some lifestyle changes. I live in an off grid cabin run completely on solar. You just have to get appliances that are lower wattage etc I don’t have a full blown oven but have ninja indoor grill and other ninja products that I can cook everything I’ve wanted on and my 2000 watts of solar and 5 100ah batteries have never failed me. Small at the source water heater for shower and everything. Only thing I don’t have currently is washer and dryer.

Expectations are never met regarding the actual output from off grid. We read that one can get 3-4hrs runtime out of a 100AH battery for a window AC... My 1400AH 9x155AH bank runs AC for 2-3 hours max. To go all night I would need 3-4x the capacity. No one understands, but you do. Honestly refreshing reality check. Thanks

Why is he on the roof acting like installing solar panels?

He doesn't know jack!!! And, RV'ers do it all the time, so this fool is talkin' outta his backside...

You made a great argument for never buying them..

I built a number of off grid systems and have an off grid cabin I run off solar! It’s been great for me.

You gotta be kidding I’ve been living off grid for over 20 years in a 4000 square-foot house with a big shop and also charge my electric car with solar

If someone is living off the grid I think they have bigger problems than cooling their living space and cooking at the same time lmao

This is what happens when you drink too much beer and your brain gets f***** up

You forgot that we'll need to change some batteries every couple of years, also changing the invertor every 7-10 years..

apparently, all in one split phase 48V systems and server rack batteries don't exist in his world.

My 2.7k system was 6000$.. Half of that was the mount. I'm off grid.

This guy ain’t lying. I laugh at everyone in my neighborhood because of shit goes down for real they’ll probably think this panels will save them.

I always thought the point of getting people to put solar panels up on their roofs was to basically get consumers to pay to implement a new system, so companies didn’t have to do it for them. Then they can still charge people and act like it’s less but the electric co is basically acting like banks that use you money to make money that they give to the shareholders, and charge you fees 😮😅

What do you mean nobody does it got off grid?? What about every person who lives off grid. Certified clown 🤡

I spent $15k on my solar panels for my roof and I get paid for them. I have extra power I don’t use at the end of every month and the government literally buys it from me. This guy is clueless lmfao

We live completely off-grid off of solar and it's just like being on the grid for us. Then again we spent $85k building it that way. We run AC, even in Arizona, freezers, refrigerator, well pump, water pumps, ceiling fans, PCs, TV, etc. with zero issues.

In a relatively sunny region, for the average household to live comfortably, a 20kw inverter capacity, dc coupled to a 20kwhr battery, in parallel, supplying 10kws of output, w/ 30kWs of pv oversized, would have a consistent oversupply of electricity 90% percent of the time. This would be ample to run some really heavy loads any day of the week. worst case, in the event of an extended blackout, w/ low light conditions, you can plug in an auto start generator (that ideally talks to the back up interface), to keep you going. Myth; batteries are for night time use Truth; batteries bring stability to your supply of self generated green energy

Tell me you're stupid without saying "I'm stupid".

I'm off grid since 2001. I run my whole house

If you live in the suburbs, sure. If you eat what you kill and shit in an outhouse in the woods, then No, you're wrong.

Curtis Stone disagrees with this fellow.

The are more examples of people comfortably living of solar than I can count.

God, if only there was some way to plan your system in order to never have that problem. Like, something involving numbers, and we could make those interact with some kind of operations. That would really help!

Weird in Australia they are literally charging people for unused solar power. So it makes me think not enough power is a rare issue.

Thank god we run on 230vac. My home max current is 15A. More than enough

"A really cool battery" lmao how about 32 batteries

if your running everything in your home its not the solar panels fault, its your excessive power needs.

Nobody uses electric ovens/furnaces for “off grid” homes. Propane is how you cook and heat your home. A/C is tougher but you can do it with a large system or use a backup generator for the unbearably hot days. This video is clickbait.

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“50 amps” 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

Tell me you don't understand electricity without telling me you don't understand electricity

Yep folks in subdivisions all over America are grid tied. And why not use the power company as your main source or battery allow the solar to try and keep the bill at $0 ? This very smart view this dude has. People just don’t realize the size of the battery bank needed to run a home. The panels are cheap the batteries and management systems are what cost ya.

That’s why I keep my nuclear plant in my basement. But you didn’t hear it from me

Dude 50A is alot, even in South Africa where we use 240V our main breakers trip at a max of 60A

Back when I worked for a Wildland fire suppression company in Nevada, our company HQ only had solar power, and we trucked in water for washing. We had to ration power use after sunset, but it wasn't rough living or anything, especially by the standards of people accustomed to camping on mountains, which happen to be on fire. EDIT: This was back in 2009, with a tiny 18"x24" panel, and the real limit was the cheap car battery we used for storage, a real modern system would do way better.

When the sun's out you got power homie ...

When the utility want's to charge you $300,000 to run out the lines, damn right you go off grid. Also no rule that says you can't include a generator to get through a rainy week.

Pretty sure he's been partaking from those left handed cigarettes

I'm off grid with family we all have rv's, I have a 38ft foot fifth wheel. We are all doing great with solar and generator, swamp cooler. Chicken coops and family garden. All on a platoe of 46 with 260 degree panoramic views full fun.

The whole point in going off grid is to be self sufficient. In doing so you need to replace or get rid of appliances that use alot of power and use ones that are made for off grid or low power usage.

Well I’m enjoying all my gear…. Mine must be a 55 amp system though. You’re a goose….

You have absolutely zero idea what you’re talking about.

50 amps? Ok awesome! How many volts is the real question... I use solar off grid

When you get into Solar you have to understand that you can save money and use Solar but not the same way as you did when on the Grid unless you have deep deep pockets! If your conservative with your power usage and aware of how much power your consuming then off grid Solar can work at a fraction of what a Net Metering system would cost you plus you can get an immediate ROI on your Solar investment instead of a new lease payment like many do for a system you will probably never own! Smart consumers do not Rent/Lease their Solar systems!

Thanks, man. I'll be sure to avoid you if I ever need solar work done.

“Think about it.” I knew he was full of S@&T after he said that

This just shows, we're taking energy for granted