Off grid solar and battery electrical system 

I enjoyed listening to you. I also try to get the most bang for my buck. I still use the first inverter I purchased. You can have multiple inverters/charge controllers on the same battery bank. With Anderson connectors, you can share arrays between charge controllers. With switches, you can select which load an inverter powers or which inverter a load uses. Good luck on your second iteration. I call it organic design. Fortunately, most of it can be reused. You may end up with multiple systems. Redundancies are probably good.

We had solar installed on our house. 26 panels with individual micro inverters. So far so good

You would be welcome in the "weirdo" community, (the rest of the world) if you (America) want to come on board. The metric system works well and is easier to use. Great video. 🇨🇦

Thanks for sharing your experience & knowledge on your set up. INSPIRING video!

You must be way up north to have your panels pointed at such an aggressive solar angle! I live in AZ and we only point at 35 degrees. It rocks! At least your snow slides off easily. 👍😆

A thought about the cabin, if you had a battery there and charge it through the cord and then run an inverter to power the devices in the cabin. I saw where someone ran their house on a number 10 wire with a battery buffer. He house burned down and they could not get new service for his new house. The power came from their next door neighbor.

I am an amputee who is also a service connected veteran. Ive started a channel to showcase me doing full time van life while traveling the country as a motivational speaker. The hope is to monetize only to pay for gas/food and such.

You can add more from another charge controller you can have more than one going to your batteries

I think you can have additional mppt charger. to assist charging batteries. They are cheaper than all in one unit and can work in parallel.

With 2.1kw of panel I get approx 1.7 averaged out on sunny days mostly so I agree, I do have 100ft run so its a bit expected.

For your next upgrade get a string inverter.

a slight correction to your terminology. if your panels are producing 2500 watts continuous for an hour they produced 2500wH @ their overall voltage how they are wired. aH or wH is a power over time measurement, watts is a measure of power without time. I dont mean to nit pick but people will misunderstand if not termed correctly. EDIT: you have this somewhat correct in your light bulb story. also look at the sungold inverters. I have a 5k with a 5k 20 panel array. it is only a 120 inverter but it handles (2) 10 panel strings but it was only $700. I plan on adding another one with another 5k in panels. Im fighting battery price right now. I think im going the 280aH DIY route. also look if you have a local welding store for wire, you can get up to 4/0 flexible welding cable fairly cheap.

It is better to run AC cables from power house to your cabin, have a main isolator and breaker at source, then use 100A AC cables to another consumer unit / fuse board inside the cabin

I wonder if you would get more in the summer if it was more vertical to not get the shading or take that panel out of the string. Signature Solar has free shipping on orders of $3000. Maybe you could find someone who would want to split a shipment.

You may want to ask who you bought the batteries from if it is ok to use the old cables. Just my thoughts - The smaller cables should push less current to the old batteries and might cause the older batteries to "age" slower compared to the new batteries so they will age to the closer rate. Just a thought.

Hi Cameron! Got Janeys door done yet? Seriously you are such a craftsman and building something with and for your family for years to come. 😊

I've had to cover almost my entire property with solar panels in order to get enough power to provide for my electrical needs in most types of weather.

Good job. Would like to see the panels

If you ever need any assistance with strategically trimming those trees just let Vick and myself know. We have experience in both climbing and cutting mature rare pine trees with hand saws.