(upbeat music) - These are Tesla solar panels. There's a chance that
is signed by Elon Musk. Big things are happening
at our house today and I'm not talking about the giant 12 foot tall 3D printed 6,000 pound statue of my friend Jerry which we're going to take
apart and see what's inside. And it's kind of crazy
what's inside of that. But no, a year ago, we made a video called, "Why we are not getting Tesla solar." Tesla would not even come to our little town in Southern Utah NO because they didn't have
certified installers. We told them that we would pay
extra to have somebody come from Las Vegas or from Salt Lake city
for them to install it. And they basically just said NO. We had a Tesla power wall
that was going to be for free. NO They couldn't even ship it to us because there were no
certified installers here. So fast forward now, 12 months
later, here's where we're at because he had certified
installers in his area. I had them ship the Tesla
power wall to my friend Zach from Jerry Rig, everything. But somebody from Tesla was really cool. One of the regional managers
called me personally and said, - "You know any solar
installers in your area that we can certify to become a sellers? What do we need to do
to get it in you town?" - So it took about six months,
but I did know some people they went through the Tesla training. They got certified. And now right behind me is Tesla solar. (upbeat music) Today is the day we are
getting it installed on our house. We're doing it in three different places. I wanna show you the process, how it works and then also show you the results. Cause I'm excited to
see how good is Tesla. Solar really? Is it worth the cost and the hassle of putting
them on your roof? Now, a lot of you are going to be saying - No, wait a second. I thought Tesla had tiles that look just like roof tiles that go on your roof. So it looks seamless. It doesn't even look like you have solar. - Yes, they do have that. But they also have- (machine buzzing) But they also have another
option where it's actually- (machine buzzing) (machine buzzing) But they also have another
option that are solar panels like traditional solar
panels and what you see. And over the last couple of years Tesla has dropped the price of these dramatically to
where it is very affordable. The cost of energy in our
town is not super expensive But still- (machine buzzing) But still, solar is helpful to have. So first things first, let's go up on the roof and see what this looks like. (machine buzzing) (machine buzzing) (machine buzzing) The last time I was up on this roof I stepped on these tiles and they broke, Oh, I broke one. The roofers did tell me that, - "Over time they will
harden with the weather." - Either I've lost a lot of
weight or they are hardened. I'm scared to walk on it. Okay. These are the tiles that we
have on our roof right now. Which is different than
a lot of you that have Asphalt shingles. That makes it a little
easier to put the brackets on because we have these giant clay tiles. You have to get a specific kind of racket. All right. What is this bracket
that we're putting on? - It's a SnapNrack flashing. And then this is the riser. And then the base plate slides on there, seals off and has some
rubber gaskets blowing above (upbeat music) - Flash on there, (upbeat music) (upbeat music) sit right in there, scrape it up (upbeat music) down with ease, slide in there pretty good. (upbeat music) - That's it. Wow! Just with those things up, put them down. So now that we've got this cover on here we're going to put the foot and like a rubber bolt with like a little seal on it so that it keeps the water out. (machine buzzing) Next step is to get the rails and you put them on there, get the rails all secure. Then you put what's called
optimizers on there. And they're like a
little electronic things that measure how much
energy is coming in and out and also have a shut off so
that you don't get shocked. And basically that's what you put on before you take the panels and put it on there and connect it so that they can capture
all the beautiful energy from the sun and charge my electric car. Pretty easy. (upbeat music) Today things are getting real. We have an official Tesla energy truck. No, it is not a cyber truck. I'm sure next year, all of them will be Tesla
energy, cyber trucks. It's a Ford, F-150. That's nice. At least they know what a good truck is because Ford F-150 they're good trucks. Every single solar panel is
actually on the roof right now. Like everyone, they are not connected to the electronic system. So that is the next step. Right now. They're running wires
all throughout the house all throughout the attic, it's kind of a pain to have to go run
all the wires everywhere. I feel bad for her. Like this is a hard
thing to go into a house. We should have planned it better. When we built the house. This box right here is
what's called the gateway. And this gateway is covered by this beautiful white glass cover. This box right here is also a gateway. If we open it up, let's see if it'll open. But obviously this does not look as good as what the glass gateway
looks like over there. This is what Tesla sent with
the free referral power wall. So it is really nice
that I got this brand new the latest edition glass gateway with all of the different parts that
will work for our huge house. But I also had to spend an
extra $1,000 just to get that. Also a little sneak peek. Here's the power wall. And look under there. It's red, it's a red power wall. There's a chance that that
is signed by Elon Musk. Cause I know he signed a lot
of the reward once it went out to people and it would be
so cool if I had a red sign by Elon Musk power wall
inside of my garage. - Yeah. (upbeat music) - That'll be fun once
we get it up on the wall we'll rip all that off and
we'll see if it's signed. You want to see what it looks like with all the solar panels. So there we go. All along the RV garage they are incredibly dusty right now. So dusty. So we'll have to spray those
off before we use them. But there's all the panels. Two, four, six, eight, 10, 12, 14, 16, 18 20, 21. So we've got 21 on this roof. One, two, three, four, five, six on this roof. And then on this roof right here we have one, two, three,
four, five, six, seven- 12. If my count is right,
we have 12 on this roof. Man, they are so dusty. I'm gonna have to come out here and clean these things all the time. So if my math is right, that's 12. See, I don't know. Here's the number. I don't even remember
what the second roof had or the first one was 21, 40? 40? I think we have 40 panels. I don't know. I could be wrong. South facing solar would
make so much more sense but we don't want to put them on the front of our house because, well I don't mind them on the RV garage. I definitely don't want them
on the front of my house. That could be very ugly. (upbeat music) - They're coming, they're coming. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Look at the size of that poop. Look at that. It's almost as big as my hand and it's everywhere. They just are pooping all over the pool. Have they pooped on Zack? We still have Zack's hat on. So I don't see really much poop. But that is an attack, that is an attack. And that across my solar
panels is an attack. Every January these birds come. If you remember last year, we did a video on the
birds pooping on our house. If you were, it was an
attack on our house. It really was. Here's how every January they come and they eat these little berries that are on the trees over there. And it's just the perfect time of year where they came South. I don't know. And they're just here living. There's a pond down the
road and they just hang out here and decide to poop
on our lawn and everywhere. Get out of here birds, get out of here. This is a pole that is 30 feet long with bristles on the
end of it like a brush and then the water squirts
out of those two places. But look how long that is. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) (upbeat music) - Three months later. - So check this out. It has been a few months
that we've had solar on our house and it just wasn't enough. Like it's probably 10% of the energy that we need for our house. So I've made a decision, instead of having 36 panels on our house, we are going to have more I need to do quick math, 36 plus 20 is 46. Good math. Okay. So no that's 56. I'm so dumb. We are going to have
56 panels on our house. And so right now we've
got these new ones here. And if you've never seen solar panels like not on a house, they're
actually quite light. We're going to put them
on the back of our studio. And then also on top of
the patio, we can put six on top of the patio and
another 12 on the other side. And then there's two that aren't working. We use a lot of energy. I mean, we have four
electric cars that takes up a lot of energy. And then of course we do have like
six air conditioning units. It's a big house. These are really tall solar panels. They're about six feet tall and they produce a maximum of 340 Watts. It gets Watts. So they're good solar panels. And they're from Tesla. These are Tesla solar panels. (upbeat music) There we go. The two are in here. This one's a red one thinking
maybe right here on this wall, this is the white one thinking
over here on this one. I just want to pull all
of them off right now but I'm going to wait. I'm going to wait until
it's up on the wall. (upbeat music) This is the moment the power
walls have been installed. That we've been testing them out. They work on the system. It's right now capturing the sun's rays. And it's more than our house needs. And it's filling up these
battery packs right now. So what we need to do is we need to take off the plastic cover, this thing. So, it looks prettier. On the side, you can see the green just shiny. It's like pulsing that tells you that the energy is actually going into the battery pack right now, into the power wall. Because this one came
from Tesla as a reward. It could have a signature
on there from Elon Musk. - I didn't know that it
might have a signature. So you really don't know. And I didn't know that was $8,000. That's a lot. - It is a lot. - Fun fact. Like we interviewed Bill Gates a couple of weeks ago and we asked him about the Tesla power
walls and the batteries. And that is one of the things he said. He said that, "It's too expensive." - Batteries are very expensive in terms of that type of grid storage,
we've gotten good enough for the battery for the electric car but the grid battery has to
be about 20 times cheaper. And I don't know if we can do it or not. - It's not just Tesla. It's LG cam. It's all of the battery manufacturers. They need to bring the costs down so that it can be more affordable. Otherwise you're paying
so much money just to get some energy from the sun that sometimes it doesn't make as much sense financially. Here we go. - It's time, satisfaction time. (upbeat music) - Okay. (upbeat music) - That's not bad, I like that it's white. - Let's see. (inaudible) - Oh my God. - Oh it looks so good. - Where is the signature? - No signature. - I've seen a lot of YouTubers get the signature because
it's a reward one. I mean, I get it. The guy is busy, but Oh, that looks good. I see, I know you liked the white but the red looks so good. - I wish that they, I don't care which color, but I wish that they match. - Well, I like them all. We need to switch the cars. We need the red car on that side and we need a white Roadster. Can we get another Roadster? - No. - Oh, that looks good. (inaudible) It really stands out. It's like art. That's what I like about it. I like having some art. I love the interface on
the app to be able to see exactly what is
happening the other day. The power went out in our neighborhood. And I know recently
with the storms in Texas it kind of highlighted
that, Hey, guess what? You can't always rely on
the grid to give you power. All of the systems across the country. When it comes to power, the systems or some of them are publicly
owned, some are privately owned and they've been around for decades. There's been so much growth
in the infrastructure. Hasn't really kept up. There's going to be more outages. I don't care if you live
in a beautiful sunny place. Like I live in where it's
like blue skies or you live in somewhere like Florida,
where there's hurricanes or we live somewhere in
Texas, where guess what? Every a hundred years you
might have a snow storm. We can keep some of our house cold with the air conditioning
unit in the summertime. If the power's out with the power walls and
with the solar power. And that is something that's just a peace of mind that I'm super
incredibly grateful to have. This is not a cheap thing. It was expensive to get this. And the payoff is going to take years and years for me to pay it off. If you're somebody that's
considering getting Tesla roof tiles or Tesla solar,
or Tesla power walls I will put a link in the description and right here on the screen
to my Tesla referral code. So if you're somebody
that learned something from this video and it encouraged
you to get Tesla solar, feel free to click on my link
and it is an affiliate code. I think we do get some money for it. Maybe a couple hundred dollars
if you buy a Tesla solar. And I think you get something to maybe a couple hundred dollars. I'm not sure what the full
program is right now, but yeah this is our journey. It's been a lot of fun. Oh. And check this out. If the audio is not so good right now that's why we got loud fall
things going on right there. (machine buzzing)
