Solar Power in an Off Grid Cabin with Harbor Freight Thunderbolt Kit 

Like the way you ran wire in the walls, good job. I have 4 of these batteries in parallel.

Thank you sir for taking the time to upload this video.

Great job my friend have a great memorial day weekend

Man after my own heart! Harbor Freight and TSC all you need!! Lol

just here to say hello and thanks

Use long foldable table hinges that stay in place and fold whenever you want to for the Solar stand

I can't believe you don't have more likes on this video buddy Great job great explanation!! Kind of took what I thought was going to be maybe something I can't handle and made me feel like I should just dive in and go for it! Thanks again for the awesome content!

First solar upgrade I did I smoked my wimpy charge controller that came with the Lance camper I have. It happened months after I did the up grade too. I previously contacted the company and asked what wire gauge they used for the panels. They said 10 gauge. They lied. it was 12 and 14 gauge for the 80 watt panel the camper came with. I put two 200 watt panels up. They don't actually produce 200 watts, more like 60-80% of the stated panel wattage. So I was running 1 panel at first and was way below the amount the technicians said I could use, but actually at the limit of what the wiring could take. I did the upgrade in the winter and it was almost charging my batteries on an overcast day in about 3 hours! So I added the second panel... Imagine my 10A or less charge controllers surprise when spring came and I got well over 250 watts of sunlight. Poof. So I abandoned the camper wiring and ran 6 gauge (with an eye to future upgrades) Got myself a 30a charge controller and all is good on the brightest of days. It was a difficult connection to the existing battery wiring in the "basement" of the camper but I found the connections (very tight and cramped under there) and got it installed. I now can upgrade everything very easily. I installed everything on the inside of the living area. Did it that way so when I have to trash this camper (all RV stuff is eventually garbage) I can pull everything out and reuse it.

Fantastic video Great tutorial 10.5

Best solar set up I have seen !!!

Good stuff! Thanks for sharing.

Hi, Patrick. This video completes perfectly the other about the wiring. Congratulations. I'm impressed by how easy it is to identify and connect wiring and plugs there. Here in Brazil usually it's not identified (I mean where we need to connect the hot, the neutral and the ground connections at the plug and the electrical outlet). I guess the builder just needs the help of a professional electrician for more complex circuits, or am I wrong? I do maintenance at home about this, but it's because my father taught me a very long time ago when I was really young 😊 (now I say I've been young for a long time... 🤣).

I use them HF panels a lot, work good. Like the way you MacGyver Ed the SAE wire through the wall ha ha

You gave me a good idea thanks for sharing ☀️

Great video

I loved to watch this. I liked you humor too.. Thank you for a good RU-vid time. 👍⭐️🇸🇪

Nice install. I did something similar to my shed. The little battery is all I have too and I drain it very quickly so that's next to be upgraded

Like what you did. I didn't get the HF battery, I got a 122 amp hour DC battery from Walmart. It's flooded, but it needs venting, though. I have the same panels and love them. My choice for a battery is a flooded 29 DC marine battery from Walmart. The reason I chose it was 3 times the power. My panels charge it fine. If it rains I've got lights for several days. I use them for running the lights in the kit and charging a cellphone.

Men I enjoy your video very much nice work and good attitude keep making videos

Never storage lead acid battery inside your cabinet, specifically battery in charging stage , dangerous gas could cause explosion

Enjoyed the video, have the land but have to get the permit and the material. 😊

U should have put a hub on your system one wire in and U can add panels.

HF makes a 4way that you can attach them to, so you only have to run 1 wire through the wall. Great job, though. I just bought one of these kits for my cabin. Will be using your info for my install.

Good job! But you may want to add an inline fuse (as close as possible to the battery) to protect your beautiful cabin from fire.

those solid copper wires can be pushed into the holes instead of wrapping them on the screws, right! :-)

Now that's using your head..lol

I see it

I'm not an electrician but I do know that your outlets are upside down. The ground socket is supposed to be on top.

Hehe. Cool. 😜

I didn’t read all comments. You could have used a harbor freight combiner outside. You can hook up to 400 watts. Then only have one wire through the wall.

the insulation under the screw terminal that's not supposed to be there. strip it back a little. not sure about that crimping style lol. but fun video no hard feelings

Hey is that smoke I see? lol just kidding ...great video I'm going to save this info for when I hook mine up here pretty soon thanks

Are those panels sturdy enough to withstand snow and icicles dropping on them??

2 amps is more than 1 amp. Not bad for a novice. ;)

Ok...

If you get serious about solar that type of panel are the poorest quality thin film and will probably be OK for your usea there but for full time use the best panels are monochristaline which are easy to tell they look like white diamond shapes between each cell

Black is hot, silver is not.

great job i just bought the 100 watt set up today but am still thinking about ''2'' 6 volt golf cart battery's as they should last a long time what do you think

It moved

Correct me if I'm wrong but don't the batteries need to breath or have some form of air flow?

Is this amorphous solar panels?

Very cool setup. My question is, the way you powered the wall wires how much actual run time do you get off the battery and is that a Harbor freight 30 ah battery? Thanks in advance. Looking to do something similar for my shed.

What size inverter is that

As a Carpenter for over 40 years, you made a huge mistake running that Circular Saw! NEVER PUT YOU HAND BEHIND THE SAW, NEVER Great way to cut fingers or even you hand off if that Circular Saw kicks. You aren't strong enough to hold a kicking saw! No one is! Rookie mistake! Either clamp the piece of wood down or screw it down or better yet use a table saw with a fence. Can't tell you how many fools I have seen cut fingers off, cut deep into there hand a a few even their hands off. I get tired of calling 911 to save the poor fools from bleeding out! As the old saying goes, you can't fix stupid! Stupid is what it is! I run work now (Foreman) I charge $20 ever time I see a hand behind the Circular Saw. Either pay up or I just assumed you quit! Bye! At $20 bucks a shot, not to many stupid fools want to do it a 2nd time. Good Beer Drinking Money! LOL I saw you do it, now pay up the $20 bucks! LOL Just had a 30 some old guy start, has a college degree could find any work in his field. So he wants to be a Carpenter, fine! Hired the guy, trained him for over 6 months on what to do and not to do. Sent him out with another guy on a framing job. Get a call 3 hours later from the other guy he went out to due the job. They are in the emergency room. He cut 3 of his fingers off! Even guys with brains are fools! He mangled them, Doc tried reattaching them, they won't ever work again right! There goes his dream of being a carpenter! Maybe he can get those fingers good enough to wash dishes at some greasy spoon (dive diner)? LOL Keep your hands out from behind the saw!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

But why Harbor Freight.