THE ULTIMATE SOLAR SQUAD, 17 PANEL SLATE ROOF SOLAR INSTALL! @OvalRenewables

Can I please ask why are the battery’s going to be fitted outside? Surely inside they are protected from the elements? Love the panel bird protection.

Top job as always guys. Looking forward to seeing the battery and hot water diverter install. We have a Solic200 hot water diverter on our SE system, but because the battery is DC coupled we have a single AC feed meaning the Solic cannot differentiate between excess solar and capacity in the battery. Means we have to switch off the immersion heater overnight and watch the solar on dull days to ensure the Solic doesn't drain the battery. Real pain so will probably get an SE diverted and hopefully their smart EV chargepoint when their availability improves.

I enjoyed that video. Well done lads 👍🏻

Bird protection? What would a woman be doing up on a roof.

If I was an employer I would be concerned about my staff working at heights without any apparent form of fall arrester / safety harness.

Pretty unsightly inside install. Why did you not take the solar cables to the inverter through the wall at a high level adjacent to the inverter instead of dropping conduit all the way to the ground and then all the trunking up the inside wall. Alternatively there seemed enough space around the consumer unit to put all the solar gear there.

Great video loved it, what size storage battery will the system have?

Ultimate,very exciting,beautiful & fascinating ??? Don’t undersell yourself Ha Ha Decent job though. Well done to all concerned MASSIVE, by the way it’s Luke & I 😂😂🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪

Great video lads top notch work as always. What’s type of breaker do you use to stop the dc blinding the RCD? This bit always confuses me

You should have used a roof ladder you would then kept your feet of the slates also no sliding down .Not a good practice clambering over slates ,

Weatherproof seal, weatherproof connection…..changes connection after one rain shower

That's a really good looking installation. 👌🏽

Hey guys
I’m just doing the bpec course as we speak after the first day of looking at all the characteristics I have a few questions

There appears to be so many different ways to connect panels series or parallel or over one or two or three stringers how comes you chose to have separate facing systems on one Stringer? Do you use series or parallel when connecting together?

Jordan “The Blister” (pop’s up when all the hard works done)

Looks really smart. I definitely need to sort some solar and battery storage.

Killing it legends!

Amazing and informative video but if you guys where to treat my slate roof in the same way I'd treat you responsable for every single single slipped or cracked slate for 10 years. Thread lightly and offer a garauntee

Oval fitted all the panels on the roof all the inverters all the tech
Artisan fitted a length of 20mm conduit and a piece of trunking 🤣
Couldnt of done it without them

do you bond the rails on the roof for the solar panels guys

Good Video as always, Does the Skirt when fitted need to be the recommended 400mm from the edge of the roof ? Does the Skirt hamper the natural ventilation of the Modules ? Is the Skirt MCS Accredited ?

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Great video, as always! Love the quality of content you guys keep on putting out. Much appreciate the attention to detail for this challenging install on a slated roof. On the solar topic I have to get some comments off my chest though. There's a few things happening in this video which are pretty big no-no's in my humble opinion:
DC Wiring is installed as a big DC-loop. Meaning: the plus and minus aren't following the same route, but rather installed as a big ring. This basically creates an antenna setup which could cause any kind of issues over time.
Panels are clamped down using an impact drill. These clamps are supposed to be torqued down to a specific spec. Impact drills give you no slip controll at all to prevent torqing it down too much.
MC4 connectors are hand-tightened, whereas there's a torque spec for them as well. There's even special tools to be used for this.
No equipotential bonding (at least not visibel) between the rails. And the panels themselves aren't accepted as equipotential bonds. Not between rails, not between sections.
Carrying solar panels on their glass fronts using glass suction cups. These could cause too much strain on the glass fronts and the solar cells behind them, causing micro-cracks over time.

Keep up the work you're doing! You have a set of top-notch skills!

Great videos. Your content is so helpful and educational, especially as I am considering a solar installation in the near future. Two things that would add even further insight for the solar installs are whether each is covered by G98 or G99, how long did approvals take, any issues? And secondly, indicative costs for some of the kit that you are commonly using. Thanks 🙏

What are your thoughts on running dc cables together in the same containment? I was always taught to keep separated however your containment looked pretty full with them

Solar panel are for rich smug people right now. long time until its really available and widespread

You mentioned bird protection on today's solar install. Do you cover that in any more detail in another video?

Why didn’t you earth the rails?

Good morning ,I have a question. Why do installers not run an earth from the roof rails to the inverter area. Regardless if it's next to a velux or not. I ask because a seaward pv150/200 one test requires a connection to a pannel.

I've been installing solar panels in America for about 5 years now, and it's interesting to see how things are done in other countries. If your SolarEdge equipment works the same way ours does, then the way we run our cables from the array down to the inverter is the main difference. Over here, if I remember correctly, any DC source that is over 30V or 8A needs to be run in metal conduit. This is due to the way that DC arcs if the cables/conductors are damaged. For this reason, we prefer to use microinverters, which converts the power to AC at the panel, and then we can just use typical conductors/cables. Other than that it's quite similar with the RSS, backfed circuit breakers, etc. Looks good.

Jordan seems far too happy all the time it's slightly unnerving, need some of that morale in my life

Fantastic video guys, well done. Love the SolaSkirt install in particular but then we may be biased :-). Always looks great on a slate roof.

Did anyone else not notice one of the panels was different to all the others? That would annoy me big time.

And not a a safety helmet in sight, well done.

Hi Jordan, Have you every installed a gateway switch to allow a Solar PV to go into Island mode in a power cut? I know Telsa have a product on which I've found this "Gateway 2 for Tesla Powerwall provides energy management and monitoring for solar self-consumption, time-based control, and backup. The Backup Gateway 2 controls connection to the grid, automatically detecting outages and providing a seamless transition to backup power." It breaks the Line Neutral and Earth hence the need for an Earth rod. Do you know of any other makes?

Excellent video, really informative

you can see that the panels do not have ventilation, it looks cool but in the summer the panels should be cooled, you can see professionalism

What is the boarding behind the invert called?

Should be a double safely rail up the gable

And you as a director should tell you idiot staff to not use the phone on the roof.

Literally using the phone mid fitting

Muppets

Keep using your phone sliding down the roof you mug and you will fall off the roof.

seems like 90% of the hard work of this install is installing the units then the qualified electrician has to connect everything up. Some real skills combinations needed to deliver this.

Aesthetically awful..

What a shitty attitude, why dont you post your replies on here?

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THE ULTIMATE SOLAR SQUAD, 17 PANEL SLATE ROOF SOLAR INSTALL! @OvalRenewables

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I can assure you no one cares mate

That seems to be an Electric-Lee 😏correct installation 😇

It really, really pains me to say, as a pest controller, you passed with 10/10 out of ten.....understanding columbia Livia the feral pigeon, electrics, batterys, rain, health and safety, health and safety again, proper scaff, working at height....Well done.....I'll cry in my beer now....Lots of love Pest-Tek.

This is beautiful work! I’d love to attend one a class if any! I’ve been installing since 2014, but love to upgrade my quality

You should check out solar limpets for slate installation. Far quicker than all the faff required to install a hook on slate jobs. Find the rafter with a stud finder and drill straight through the slate and screw the plastic limpet fixing into the rafter. Never had a problem with water tightness if you silicon the appropriate places as per the training