Building a Solar Powered Garden Shed with my Daughter @emilyaisling

thank you foreigner foreigner thank you thank you foreigner foreigner foreigner thank you foreigner thank you come on foreigner foreigner thank you okay turn it on I'm finally using this to put this back in the summer and before Emily and I built this

shed

so the

shed

is on top of that winery that we or I dug and built two years ago, now a year and a half, yes, year and a half, I think two years ago I dug up this seller with plans to build it. a workshop here and they completely changed their mind with what happened on the old property so they modified the whole plan and the farm so this became the

garden

area well it's always the forest

garden

but it became just in a garden area, food growing and storage area, so A big orchard right there, an orchard right here, behind us, a forest here and there, full of acorns, others and beeches, and then this Shed stores all the pots, growing materials and all the growing medium to stir the plants along with them during the winter. and for that reason we completely insulated these walls, we still have to install the window and the window and the door, which I think I will do probably next week as the weather changes, but being completely insulated with a good window and a good door .

This means we can heat the space quite easily and I think we will do so this year depending on when we start planting, for example. I mean, this thing here, the Lycan, is running off the four roof panels that are around 1280 watts, you know, three or four or 320 watt panels that feed into this live camera. This has 248 volt batteries now in the back and it's working fine, it's a 20 amp outlet and I have a 30 amp outlet right here and this one. it's a 20 amp input so we'll run a cable so we can charge this in the winter if we take all the power off and there's not enough sun to charge it so we'll run a generator permanently. the gas power generator to be able to turn it on and have it ready to charge immediately, we also need a fire, but the third one, the ac3m outlet, what I'm doing is setting up this type of is like a disconnect and a service that will power a panel of 60 amps that I am going to mount here.

The reason I'm putting in so much energy is that this freezer is going to the basement as soon as we build a door. for the front of the basement, that will keep the temperature much more stable down below, so we will have a fairly uniform temperature that will be well above zero, well, above freezing, so you know what is irrelevant for the winter, but in summer we want that cooler space down there so the freezer doesn't work overtime so that's going to come down below and then up here we're going to put the freeze dryer so we have a platform here in the freezer starter that can work because it's pretty loud and it's good having it in its own

building

and again, if it generates heat, which is possible, and being completely insulated, we can run it here and have the right temperature for freezing and drying and this thing. will run, it's actually surprising how much and how little energy I use from the freezer.

Surprisingly, this thing can easily provide that, for that reason, because we are going to have several like this, it has a front plug AC, so what I need is to have several, so by having a sub panel we approach Emily and I take the cables to the sellers. There's an outlet down there to plug it in and there's uh, I think two lights and then here we are. We will have at least one light and we have outlets, three outlets here so we can plug in whatever is charging or a heat lamp or whatever we need to power in here and then eventually the plan is to put in a green one that just come out of the shed here at the back of the garden another kind of rectangular green juice and that would need some power like lights and maybe a circulation pump for the water.

You know, we're putting this to the test. It's really paced for one winter yet or for a full year which I'm excited to do but I used some power tools and stuff of course they worked perfectly and that's a lot of panels to supply this so I think it'll work well for we. I'm going to put all the specs of this thing in the description below so you can really get an idea of ​​what it can do and what it can power up. I'm not using it as you say to its full potential, of course. now because it's not connected to everything, but once I understand that the secondary panel on the uh is really good as a backup, it really serves to connect it to your house and have this fully charged because it actually charges pretty quickly, so it can charge it AC

powered

, such as grid power or

solar

powered

, and have it on standby so if you run out of power in your house, you can simply turn it on via a transfer switch like this one on your circuit breaker or main panel and then you can run anything that you have insulated to run in your house, so being 30 amps, we had one in the past where you can hook up a generator, but I think it was 60 amps, being 30 it wouldn't work as well . lots of appliances but you just choose what you want to run, like for example blowing around your boiler and your well pump or something, this would be perfect for doing that, plus some essential lights and power switches, such time for any heating source, so perfect for a backup, that's really what I see as something really ideal to be on wheels, be portable, be powerful enough to store a good amount of energy without taking up a lot of space, but you also don't need to know much about electricity or

solar

-powered electricity. just having this power bank ready to go all the time so that's the biggest advantage I would say for me because we don't have power here which makes it sensible to have this redundancy because in the main cabin I have the full Reggie system. again, a 48 volt system is actually very similar to energy storage because I'm not using as much energy, I'm not using as much energy anymore, but I'm just going to connect some additional panels to the four.

Now I'm going to put two more in to have a little more storage and probably get at least one more battery, especially for the winter, and the same thing, I'll also have a generator connected to that one to have The two redundant systems are also far enough apart that so you can't use them both in one system anyway, but since it's power I can always take this, plug it in and add this power to the cabin if needed or to the saw in the shop. the technical aspects are on the screen and I also have them in an app on my phone, so I can monitor and control them from the phone, which of course now a lot of things are run through apps like that, but it's convenient.

I'm not normally one to use all the technology, but especially when trying to download some of the online stuff I'm doing, this isn't the most efficient freezer of the three we're running. running around but being so small it doesn't use much energy it actually comes mostly from hunting and Kelly's Food so we're going fast so this is all pork fat that will be reduced this winter and then I'll give you some. venison for trimming in Cali, she gets all the terms. I've got these whole quarters here too cold to hang so I think what I'm going to do is when I shot the deer this year so I think what I'm going to do is I could processed I'd like to hear it hung or smoked smoke them whole.

I still have four of these plus all the ornaments, so I think so, I'll show you later, but I think it could hang in the Basement with some air circulation, so I'll close this and freeze it again.