Passive Solar Modular Home Designs: Green, Off-grid, Small

Passive Solar Modular Home Designs: Green, Off-grid, Small - If you've seen us before, you probably know we're pretty into solar power. Well, Andy, that's his job. Me? I just like it. I like it because it makes sense. Solar power isn't expensive or complicated anymore. It's good for the environment, and it saves people a lot of money. Plus, I got a new bike, and I'm pretty sure that's the reason. It all comes down to a random idea that Andy and his buddies at Vivint Solar have. Tell you what, Millie. How about you and I go check out an installation, and we can see how all of this ties together. Cool! Let's go. So, you can see right here, this is our Vivint Solar Box Truck. Then behind it, we have our electrical truck that has all of our electrical wire, and conductors, and things like that. So, we're super excited to be here and be part of this team. Yeah, this is so cool. Take a look at this installation right now. Whoa! That is so cool. Pretty cool, huh? Yeah.

Morning, Blake, how are you? fabcab modular passive solar homes Good. Hey guys. This is Millie. Hey Millie. Hi, it's nice to meet you. It's nice to meet you, too. Welcome to the job site. We've been prepping all morning, and we're just getting the solar panels up. Solar panels? Can I see a solar panel? Absolutely. Let me show you some solar panels, Millie. Let's go over here. Okay. Alright, Millie, this is a solar module. Really? Yes. It has 60 different cells that capture the sun's power and converts it into DC current. That is so cool. So, we take one of these modules and combine it with others to create a larger system that creates power for the entire home. This is stuff is really cool. It is, isn't it? Yeah. Ready for our hard hats, Blake. Excellent. Here you guys go. Thank you. Go ahead and put that on, let's go take a look around. So this drawing is called a Site Plan, and we create a site plan for every account that we install solar on. What this does is it shows all of our installers where to put their solar modules. Where we're standing, we're standing right here, and we're watching them install this array here. Alright, Millie. Here's the ladder. How about you and I get up on the roof. I can go up there? Yup.

Really? That is so cool! Let's go get some safety gear, and we'll go up. Okay. When we go up on the roof, we want to make sure that we're safe. If anybody were to have an accident, we don't want them to hit the ground. We want to be able to save them before they get to the ground. Yeah, that's really smart. Homemade solar mobile charger So right now, each one of these modules cause the sun's hitting it  is creating power. It's not going to the house yet because it's not all hooked up. But, these modules, they're creating power right now. Just with this little bit of sun, I know it's overcast, but just with the little bit of sun that it's getting, it's still producing energy. What they do, is this is your optimizer. That's what those cords on the back of the module hook up to. So, behind every single one of these modules you can see  let's walk this way a little bit further  behind every one of these modules you can see that these plates are there. Those are your power optimizers. And what will happen is, they'll take all of the connectors, all the cords that are underneath it, and they'll put them into this box, and they'll tie it all together. Yeah. So, this is mounted to the rail, and then all of the electrical cords will run through this raceway into all of the different arrays. That's pretty cool, huh? That's really smart. How about you and I jump down and go take a look and see where all of that power gets sent back to the house?