About Off-Grid Garage

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Taking your house, shed or garage 'off-the-grid' is a very exciting thing to do. On this channel, I share my experience and thoughts of taking my garage offline, disconnecting it from the power supply and run it solely from solar and batteries (for teaching and coaching purposes). I will also show a lot of little solar projects which you can easily do yourself. I provide all necessary knowledge and also present a part list for each experiment.

I will explain how everything works in a beginner friendly way. We will do lots of tests along the way and also smaller side projects to break things down and make it easy to understand. So no previous knowledge or experience necessary to build your own solar-battery system.

You can get more information on my website: https://off-grid-garage.com

Final touch on the Battery2.0. It had to be done! 💡💡💡💡💡💡

OK, that did not take long from finishing the battery shelf to the first upgrade! 🤦‍♂️ It is a nice little fun project to install some LED light strips inside the battery compartments to give us a better view on the cells and cabling when we do maintenance. OK, ok, ok, it is for the sake of safety …

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The 44kWh Battery2.0 is finally DONE! What a community project...

Over the weekend, I was working on the Battery 2.0. The weather was rainy and this finally gave me the time to finish up the battery shelf. I really wanted to re-align the battery cells to satisfy my OCD. For this I had to make custom bus bars. A difficult decision had to be made on how to close th…

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Magic smoke! What happened to the JK-BMS? Still reliable or bad design?

After we saw some magic smoke from the JK-BMS in the last video (https://youtu.be/LDalnC01MZE), we want to find out what exactly happened and why the BMS exploded... but still works. After pulling just over 200A for only 5 min, one of the MOSFETs died when the BMS disconnected the current. What a s…

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