Will you be posting those under "Up in Smoke!"?
Unlike some youtubers accused of making for-commission hit pieces, you're trying to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Actually at this point we have simply became lazy and let everyone else do the heavy lifting ... we have grown out of our - "Hey grab a fire extinguisher and lets see if this will really handle the AMPS it says it does" ...
so of course my/our
TOP 5 YOUTUBE channels that has literally taken us from ZERO to HERO to SuperStars at work - and in no particular order are:
1.
DIY Solar Power with Will Prowse -
https://www.youtube.com/@WillProwse .... this is the one that really got us smart on the entire "how the hell are we going to make this solar shit work?" ... I started watching him when he was still living in a van ...even though I was a freshly graduated EE at the time - I had zero understanding of SOLAR. My training was in Heavy Power Distribution (aka - BIG ASS AC) - when I was told sitting in a nice office in LA that the company was going to be moving allot of these smaller generators in West Texas and New Mexico offline and onto Solar because they wanted to pretend to save the environment, (and get a good tax break) and also probably place a token female minority in that position - I was like - "man I feel sorry for whoever gets stuck with THAT job" ... my first thought should have actually been "wonder why they are sharing this story with ME?" .... however years later we are really all having a good time doing this stuff daily - my team has gone from (2) to about (15) and the company actually MAKES money using solar instead of these generators - which means that ppl are now actually trying to get onto our alternative energy teams since the pay, bonuses, and promotions are better than most other sections ...
2.
Off-Grid Garage -
https://www.youtube.com/@OffGridGarageAustralia .... OMG I love this guy .... watching him is more like watching a NETFLIX comedy/documentary then a simply YouTube spot ... his journey along the solar highway is more of a work in progress then a HOW TO ...- numerous of his ideas we have simply copied - we let him figure out all the mundane stuff and then at the end just simply order what best works for him ...
3.
Engineer775 -
https://www.youtube.com/@engineer775 .... he does a really good job of taking you from the installation of the ground mounts all the way through trenching and installation and testing -- for us allot of times THATS the hard part -- figuring out the wiring ...
4.
UnpluggedTexan - same as #4 ...
https://www.youtube.com/@unpluggedtexan .... very thorough explanations of what they are doing and why -- or at the very least you can stop/freeze the video and copy what he is doing on paper ...
5.
DavidPoz -
https://www.youtube.com/@DavidPozEnergy ,,,, yeah he is the one that REALLY got us into making our own battery stuff -- probably has saved us 20's of thousands in the early days ... now days its just not worth the time effort or price savings to do your own - the costs have really gone down ... but his channel is well worth watching ....
Honorary Mentions:
1.
HighTechLab -
https://www.youtube.com/@HighTechLab ....demos some really cool solar stuff --
2.
Јоhn Daniel -
https://www.youtube.com/@JOHNDANIEL1 ....although his videos sometimes seem to be filmed by someone having a mild seizure -- his videos has helped us out tremendously on
wind projects -- i will say that we have mirrored his exact system about 20X with excellent success out here in West Texas oilfields ..
3.
Easypowerwall -
https://www.youtube.com/@easypowerwall .... demos some really cool solar stuff -- VERY tight solutions ...
4.
Lithium Solar -
https://www.youtube.com/@LithiumSolar ....excellent product reviews - YES he's more of an infomercial but that's fine - he does good reviews ... worth the watch
5.
Ray Builds Cool Stuff -
https://www.youtube.com/@RayBuildsCoolStuff ....he got us onto APEXIUM DIY battery containers which are great -- that's really our go-to at this point ... just that alone saved us soooo much time and money early on ..