How I've built the Off-Grid Garage. Whole system installation and design explained.

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Here is a snapshot of my current installation in the Off-Grid Garage.
I explain all components of my installation and run you through my thought process behind the design.
We start at the top with the solar panels, go through the MPPT chargers and main bus bar system until we reach the battery system, inverters and AC distribution.
This is the current state of my installation and how everything connects and works together.
Before you ask, I made this drawing using www.diagrams.net/
Some of my solar panels have cracked backsides🤦‍♂️
• SEPLOS MASON temperatu...
1000A Bus bar installation for our battery banks
• 1000A Bus bar installa...
Overkill, JK-BMS and Heltec in parallel. Top balancing of 3 battery banks!
• Overkill, JK-BMS and H...
Connect the Multiplus to any other inverter in SERIES. Here's the comprehensive test and set up!
• Connect any Inverter t...
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@meilyn22 2 месяца назад

Isn't this the best way to explain a solar setup? Give Andy props for knowing how to truly explain stuff.

@keshabit 19 дней назад

Andy, I totally appreciate your comprehensive design and intention to share. It's very helpful.

@commongroundenergysolution3632 Год назад

This is all a freaking work of art: the design, the execution, and the video presentation. Thanks for sharing!

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thanks a lot for your kind comment!

@philipkudrna5643 Год назад

Even though I have been watching your videos regularly, this overview wasch good summary and very helpful!

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thank you, Philip.

@gumpster6 Год назад

This is one of your best videos ever. Great job creating the diagram and then the clear concise walk-through of the entire system. I especially liked that you showed the actual equipment after going over that area on the diagram. Outstanding presentation and a great reference down the road whenever anyone asks about your system (though it will be outdated in a matter of weeks but it was accurate at the time). 5/5 Stars!

@FutureSystem738 Год назад

Great summary Andy. You have a Rolls Royce (battery system) in your garage as well as the Tesla.

@aliateik4224 Год назад

I can't find these products you are talking about in your videos here in Yemen. But I can't stop watching them. Brilliant.

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thanks, Ali. You probably have to source them locally in your area and get whatever is available 😉

@ArthurDentZaphodBeeb Год назад

Excellent overview! Puts all the pieces together nicely.

@marlomontanaro3233 Год назад

Thank you! Appreciate the overview! Awesome job- most of us can only dream of such a system. A lot of work went into this.

@Juma.O Год назад

That was captivating till the end. Wooooow!!! Wish to have such a set up. Thanks Andy

@ericstreet9821 Год назад

Fantastic. Thank you Andy. I am working my way through all your videos, learning a lot and enjoying them along the way. It's great to get a peek into (my) RU-vid future to see how far your journey has got. I've learned so much from you and will, I'm sure, be building a home battery if my own. Thank you.

@aaabbb1579 Год назад

Nice job, Andi, well done!

@markk4285 Год назад

Many thanks Andy. To have this overview is a really great help. Avoids any confusion. Greetings from Ireland. Mark K.

@DutchAussieProductions Год назад

Thanks for all the work you put into your videos, Andy. I have learned a lot from you over the last 12 months. I have seen all your videos. Keeps me off the streets. Have a great day.

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thanks a lot. Wow, all videos... I haven't even seen all my videos 😂

@boatelectricaldiy Год назад

Over all a nice set up Andy. I love that you used panduit to keep things looking clean around the inverters.

@matthiasjoseph Год назад

Great overview, great presentation, great entertainment! Congrats and many, many thanks from gold old DE.

@excillisbank2611 Год назад

Cher ANDY, c'était un grand challenge de faire cette synthèse sachant qu'il faut absolument regarder les +300 superbes vidéos pour comprendre la philosophie de l'installation depuis le debut de la chaîne . 😅😉

@bayufakeye3583 Год назад

This is a great video! The walk-thru was excellently delivered and the way you have put the system together is heroic if I may say. Awesome job!!! It is interesting to know that Multiplus II and Phoenix victron inverters of different capacities can work in sync as you explained. I would like to know more about this particular set-up, if you can elaborate more on it in a future video. Thank you again for making a very high-skilled complex work look so easy....

@SanderStolk Год назад

This is gold! Clear and very good explained!

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thanks a lot. I thought it is time for an overview. You can get lost in all these very detailed videos.

@edwardvanhazendonk Год назад

Nice explanation, the electrician which will check your system will be glad you explained all! You see, working all this time on this long project make a beautiful system!

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Yes, the electrician was very impressed about my system (and also the drawing). He will be back soon start to work on the system and solar upgrades.

@edwardvanhazendonk Год назад

@@OffGridGarageAustralia great to hear, hope you find a quick and cheap solution for the cracked panels. Maybe some glue sprayed on the back can prolong their life, otherwise find another batch of pre-owned cells for cheap. You have a lot of potential space for placing them 🤓 keep up the good work 💪🏻

@kelgadeke5102 Год назад

Thanks Andy, on. Telegraph as you suggest. K

@MrDenisJoshua Год назад

That rack of battery is wonderfol ... congratulations :-) Thanks for the video

@GR8Tmate Год назад

You’re a wild man Andy >>>>>>>>>Love ur work dude 🤙🏼

@Shellyfi Год назад

Thank you explaining your entire powerwall + battery box setup. Even I have spend last week to watch all your Battery 2.0, powerWall, Solar Stage 3, Battery 3.0 and Solar Stage 4 playlists in recorded order. You are explaining all Stepa so well that all the basics (and advanced) things can understood - Thank you and you will receive some s.p.a.t balacing

@hendersonsobers396 Год назад

Andy, thank you very much for this. This is very useful information.

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thank you🙂

@kelgadeke5102 Год назад

Andy, I thank you so much what an awesome outcome. All the power suppliers across the country could learn so much from you. I was one of those that asked you for the summary, enjoy the spats. Kel

@evil17 Год назад

Excellent work Andy, thanks for this lovely, graphical schematic & explanation of ur beautiful system, I think I have seen most, (hmm???) Of ur videos now, but this really puts it all into a really nice clear explanation and perspective of the whole system and layout. The last full system shot makes it so easy for me to plan a system out fairly completely and to be able to easily create a smaller system just by using the main basic corresponding sections from this layout, it makes it easy to adjust a few variables if necessary, to scale for pretty much any system. I like how u have simply segregated the different sections & areas of ur system into ac, dc, batteries, inverters & comms, conduited nicely with no crossing of AC/DC, full isolation of any or all components & plenty of redundancy & future proofing features built in as well. Ur “the Guru” when it comes to this tech Andy. Congratulations on a exemplary build & look forward to ur coming upgrades & what ur Sparky has to say, I would be surprised if he is less than impressed. cheers

@glennsonne9786 Год назад

Thank you Andy. You are very much a "focused" individual. I enjoy your work. Having worked in the AT&T Telco environment, I can tell you fusing both Ground and Positive are essential, as is gauging the correct wire size. Very well done!

@jackoneil3933 Год назад

Outstanding briefing and system Andy, thanks! Perhaps a cost breakdown episode with tips for cost and time effective design, purchasing and construction would be a nice follow up.

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Yeah, I thought about that but prices are soooo different depending on region, source and time of purchase. What I paid for the material 1.5 years ago is not so relevant any more. I'll see what I can do...

@jackoneil3933 Год назад

@@OffGridGarageAustralia Oh yea, good point. Well Perhaps sticking to general insights with mention of challenges and cost difference associated to region. I was doing a bit of a more in-depth dive into how much real-estate would be needed to go off grid here in the Northwest of the U.S. (Similar solar footprint and energy profile to Germany), and it seems to be I would need 3 to 4 times the PV you need in the Sunshine State.

@grycripps 2 месяца назад

Thanks Andy, very informative and easy to understand!

@boomermatic6035 Год назад

Awesome video, love the setup and the attention to detail.

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thanks!

@dickhead7382 11 месяцев назад

Thank you I am just updating my system as I have been off grid for 8 years now are now getting problems with my inverter and battery and you have given me good advice 😀😀😀

@Katz2001 Год назад

Super video, you've really made this setup simple to understand

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thank you very much.

@alatifnz Год назад

Morning Andy. Silent watcher of your channel for a while now. This overview is a nice summary. Many thanks for it from bottom of the world New Zealand.

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thanks a lot and hello to NZ 👋

@alatifnz Год назад

@@OffGridGarageAustralia Andy I really appreciate your designe. Being a marketing person living offgrid for 7 years now, I am a self learned diy person in many things. Your detailed video is super helpful for a person like me. Regards

@gregorymcleod Год назад

That is fantastic gives us a great overview.

@davidwilson8114 11 месяцев назад

this is excellent. I have always wanted to go completely off grid, and this explains it very well. I am totally blind, so I’m not able to see diagrams and pictures, etc. You have explained this very well, so that even I can get an idea of your system set up. Well done. 26:15

@hbrns Год назад

Well explained. I like it. The explanation and the setup. Danke schön.

@ScottTurnerformeindustrious Год назад

Fantastic video Andy. I often come to your videos to learn from your journey as I will be doing all this ion the next few weeks. I really appreciate your summary of the system. Very neat build also! Thank you!

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thanks a lot for your kind words, Scott. It took us a while to set this all up in the last few months but it is nice to just look at it. I sometimes do that and cannot believe that we built this all ourselves and it works so well. Mind-blowing.

@sebastienmuniz9788 Год назад

Great schematics ! Can’t wait for the next update ! I’ll send a pic of both my houses solar set up using Darfon H5001 ! All in one hybrid inverters with batteries ;) keep well Andy

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thanks, Sebastien.

@showmequick2245 Год назад

cool stuff bud. keep the good work

@dirk_p Год назад

Vielen lieben Dank für die ausführlichen und gut nachvollziehbaren Videos, helfen mir sehr gut weiter

@johnwatts3339 Год назад

Amazing summary and explanations! Andy for prime minister of Solar! You are the best. Cheers

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thank you, John, much appreciated.

@amsoiladam Год назад

Just wanted to say thank you for this video. I’ve been watching many of your videos over the last couple of months on programming and your testing. But this is the first time I have seen how your entire system is constructed. I just built my first solar system in an RV so I am still in the learning stage but I’m having a lot of fun with it I have a playlist with a few videos posted already on my RU-vid channel as well.

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thank you for your feedback and great to hear you got inspired and started your own project. 🍾

@paul_dz Год назад

A great recap for all your viewers - and I'm sure it will be helpful to you as time goes by!

@photonphil873 Год назад

Thank You! Nice run down on your system.

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thank you.

@vickipps6821 Год назад

Thank you a fantastic set up you are the master

@yv6eda Год назад

Thanks Andy! I dream with your system but I learn it's possible to start small and upgrade when the $time$ is appropriate.

@mrgruisinge Год назад

Never thought I would say this, but, I like your battery busbars.

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

They look nice. Even the electrician was impressed.

@TedeTVs Год назад

Well done Andy. Sehr Schön, Vielen danke 🍻😎

@TheOneJacinto Год назад

A W E S O M E 😱 . . . Congrats and big huggs from Argentina!!

@PetrLANDSFELD Год назад

Nice work.

@wideawaketotruth5301 Год назад

Brilliant, I must say I completely appreciate the fact you are 100% honest, you cut through all the BS and just tell the truth. With that I consider you a man among men. That my friend, is extremely rare these days! I know we have never met, but the way you present, causes me to see you as a friend. Honest, up front, and funny! Clearly you are not deterred by money motivation.. As so many others , that produce videos on RU-vid! MY SINCERE THANK YOU! CHEERS!!! 🍺🍺🍺

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thanks so much for your very kind words, I really appreciate your feedback.

@wideawaketotruth5301 Год назад

@@OffGridGarageAustralia I appreciate you as well, thanks Andy!

@leeroys207 Год назад

Excellent video

@Woodyjims-shack Год назад

Wonderful stuff😊

@jc7654 Год назад

great video and a nice job on the whole setup, and no frog's

@cjtroutt8092 Год назад

Nice video and it is versatile system 👍

@ClausMallorca Год назад

Your perfection is impressive!

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thank you. It all takes very long though. Nothing is done in a day...

@imag555 Год назад

Wow! Really appreciate this video . Chreers!

@imag555 Год назад

You inspire me to be better and thrive to do it the right way . Thank you Andy

@Dutch_off_grid_homesteading 8 месяцев назад

Heya,very nice big detailed explanation of you hole system this is very us full

@1over137 Год назад

This is very helpful Andy. I need to tidy mine up. Got the Muliplus inveter through. Need to properly fuse and terminate my DC side and make it look like I did a "proper job" before I invite the spark in to wire the island plug socket.

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Yes, get some ducting, makes a huge difference already.

@1over137 Год назад

@@OffGridGarageAustralia I'm a while from there. Wish a could post a pic. "Janky" is the word. Shopping list... Solar CU with 16A in 40A out. MCBs (DC rated) MPPT battery isolation 40A Inverter battery isolation 100A Battery master isolation 100A 4 point, dual, fully covered 300A bus bar. 8AWG wire for 100A side. 10AWG for 40A side. All the correct crimps, etc. £250. Ouch. Just the DC side. Oh, and, MDF board and strip wood to wall mount. I produced 0.17kWh today.

@enricoELE Год назад

Really thanks for sharing!

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

My pleasure! Thanks a lot!

@NerdThingsAndMore 10 месяцев назад

Thanks for the info and video.

@OffGridGarageAustralia 10 месяцев назад

Thank you.

@steffen1182 Год назад

From all the other videos i thougt your fusegame is way overkill. But see it all together in this video it makes totally sense. I would build it exactly like that. Good work. 👍

@GregOnSummit Год назад

Now I understand the reasoning for the two MPPT charge controllers.

@wayne8113 Год назад

Thanks Andy

@albaharh Год назад

Amazon mate, top channel for solar and beer :)

@HeinzMeulke Год назад

Thanks Andy for all the great videos! I have been following you before you had 10K subscribers. Your info has helped me build my own 10KWh battery that runs my house. The only thing missing is some stats for us data junkies. How much power have you generated since you started, what is money value of the power and how long do you think it would take before you would break even on cost for your whole investment? I have resorted to HomeAssistant and Node red to automate and optimise my solar power. I also realised that I will have to measure more things to calculate an effective return on investment. With current prices I am looking at about 9-10 years before the sun would have paid for everything.

@solarandwindinsouthtexasda1473 Год назад

Nice setup

@sachinfilinto 11 месяцев назад

wow !! fantastic video

@OffGridGarageAustralia 11 месяцев назад

Thank you.

@jackiedines5229 Год назад

Fantastic👍

@78ss53 5 месяцев назад

Legendary system.

@mustafabyalk8368 Год назад

Amazing!

@simoesp Год назад

yayyy! more videos from andy :D

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Always. probably for the next 20 years 😂

@benoittheminerandgamer Год назад

Cool!!!! So now you need to add as much as possible solar panel to your system and double your battery bank!!

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Yes, solar first. Working on it...

@hadirizvi2670 2 месяца назад

Thanks very informative

@lennieadi Год назад

Wow. Amazing Andy. I can only dream of one day having this. No idea how raspberry and all this business works. I was bullied at school and true tee as a result so left with no educational qualifications. Worked since age 16. 52 now. How can I have this system🤷‍♂️😢

@sreekumarUSA Год назад

011623/0307h PST 🇺🇸 011623/2107h 🇦🇺 Thank you once again for taking time to describe, educate and instruct how your setup runs well and smoothly. I can understand the time and energy that was put in for this segment, for which I can only say, Danke schoen , with much courtesy to Bert Kaempfert, 1963. Dedicated to Herr Andy. Effort is very much appreciated. 73s…

@vdarkobar Год назад

Thanks 👍

@pmacgowan Год назад

Very nice

@grahampahl7100 Год назад

Thank you for sharing this information in a logical way. I have just discovered your channel and am building a house in the lower Hunter region of NSW. I am currently doing research as I also have a 14m x 8m shed which currently has no connection to the grid whatsoever so I am thinking about using it as a project and going offgrid rather than pulling cable. Then in the future I may consider back feeding to the house, at which time we will only utilise the grid for the FIT. Power in this area is unreliable at best. Thank you again and I am going to now dedicate time to learning more about your system.

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thanks Graham and welcome to the channel. Sounds like a great project you're going to work on... that's a lot of roof space. Nice...

@grahampahl7100 Год назад

@@OffGridGarageAustralia Thanks Andy, and it all points North too so very happy.

@DavidHalko Год назад

This was an amazing overview! The choice for the dual solar charge controllers and dual inverters was interesting to me and I decided to go a different route. I am trying to simplify setup, reduce components, drive down idle consumption, reduce cost, plus run A/C from my panels to the house instead of higher current D/C. I decided to go with ~34 kWh of Li-Ion automobile battery modules, so as not to worry about bus bars, compression, and where to recycle in the future. I picked up a single discontinued Delta H6 6 KWh grid tie inverter for panels, to avoid solar charge controllers. (The power will directly run my household needs.) My single Genetry Solar 12 KWh whole house inverter (on order) will charge batteries from excess power on the outputs (generated by my solar panels through H6 grid tie inverter), throttle the H6 grid tie when there is excess power & batteries are full, and enable the mains from the electric company when batteries are too low. I plan on picking up 5 KWh of used panels this upcoming weekend. I love the way you did your batteries! You definitely sold me on the JK BMS! Getting ready to order that, to add to my existing battery bank. Why didn’t you just parallel an East Roof strings with a West Roof string? Just curious since I would think as the sun moved from East to West that the parallel strings would help give longer consistent power on the same wires, albeit with a higher peak at high noon? I did not know if this was a no-no with panels or just a choice on your side for isolation purposes? You have been an amazing help, thank you for what you do for the DIY community!

@paul_dz Год назад

Thanks!

@marcobrian1619 Год назад

What a fantastic run through your system both on paper but also on your system lay out...... God Id love be to have your battery bank......it's so well laid out and bloody perfect. Nice to see you did run round with your label machine and marked everything up. All in all bloody nice lay out. Quick question, can them victron moot chargers take a MT50, instead of Bluetooth/computers??

@dimitrisp3214 Год назад

U R the best online teacher Andy. Next step could be automations? Are u going to install Home Assistant to a Rasp!@*ii, integrate Venus OS, divert surplus PV energy to charge the EV, heat/cool water, etc?

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Thank you. I had a look at Home Assist, it seems to be a pain the a**. It's not intuitive and the setup 🤦‍♂️ The EV is usually not at home during the day and has to charge from the battery. Also, the battery is now so large that I don't have any surplus of energy 😁 But we will look into some automation soon.

@drdangerstunts 4 месяца назад

Thank you

@manningcustom Год назад

thanks !

@brucemunro9555 Год назад

Superb walk through many thanks, interesting to see the mix 215 and 250w panels in 3S5P and 3S3P configurations, I need to better understand the slight differences there though note you said they’re all 60cell panels so does that mean they’ll all play well together? Assume the Voc and Vmax must be slightly different

@romanpetry1625 Год назад

Verry good

@kelgadeke5102 Год назад

Thanks

@bobbinbob Год назад

Thank you Andy brilliant work, can you give me some pointers on the software you used for the wiring diagram - this would be handy for site overview documentation 👍👌😊

@trollgarten Год назад

Thanx, great video, very nice system overview provided. However in case of emergency, I would rather consider to trigger a system switch off 1) automatically or/and 2) by an external command. You might not be available if something starts going wrong, for example the batteries getting very high temperatures, something did fell down on the roof, etc.

@jean-didiermasson4894 Год назад

Hello and thank you !! I look your videos from ... the orther side of the planet. A small village in France. Your explanations was very clear and comprehensive. Fun fact, I look to your other videos and ask me how all of this can be made. The same evening (for me), you post this video ! Technically, it's perfect. But, can you explain how much all of this system cost to you ?

@holgerpohl1591 Год назад

For this video the world is waiting for, but - and there is always a but - please update the pictures at the vrm portal. 😇😁😎 I prefer to add the pictures of the new system to show the start of the system. 😊

@OffGridGarageAustralia Год назад

Yes, you're right. New pictures are coming soon!

@tc4724 Год назад

Current regs need all your panels to be earthed and earths elsewhere. What is your earth bonding strategy ? Do you need lightning protection ?Great video.

@Xerxes85 Год назад

Thank you so much for the great overview! I would probably not use a main battery breaker since you already have individual breakers. I really like the idea of always connecting the bms to the battery and treating it as a closed unit. Great for safety. Your Raspberry Pi is connected to the main bus bar by a 5V converter. What happens when you kill the power? Can you simply turn the breaker back on or do you have to take some additional steps to get the Venus Os working and communicating again?

@pacmanAUS Год назад

As always awesome video Andy giving great detail. I noticed you refer to the breakers for the west roof being 63AMPs but in the 4:41 mark it shows the solar isolator garage with the incoming solar cables via 40amp breaker and the east roof with 63amp breakers where as the DC breaker box are both 63AMPs. Do I read that correctly or am I blind

@user-dc1kd6ye5c Год назад

Thank you Andy! Great overview and very helpful!! After reviewing much of the post video notes and comments and your site, I was unable to determine what duct manufacturer you selected for your cabling and where you purchased them? Are you happy with the quality?

@thegolfhack9417 Год назад

Hi Andy great content as usual, any chance you can do a explanation of your grounding, men link and safety features like rcd's

@charlievickaryous9757 Год назад

Nice.. I would like to see you replace the smaller victron inverter with a hybrid all in one inverter (ie eg4 3000 , growatt 3000, etc). Also to disconnect the victron mppt to see if the new all in one inverter would be appropriate

@brendanbyrne4131 Год назад

I loved this Andy! Are you willing to share your schematic?

@MrRoma70 Год назад

Thank you for the walkthrough, just got a question, how much power in AC does this system generate? Will this system allow you to be completely off grid, house included? Just asking as while you where showing I noticed the battery were 33%. Thank you in advance and keep coming, great video