We are Live! - First time powering the Battery Shelf!

[@xspotbox4400]

Thank you Andy, awesome job, this is what a great electrical engineering is all about. Now people from all around the planet will be able to watch this series and gain real world, industrial grade expertise in those kinds of systems, and this exceptional channel will only gain popularity over time.

[@jashast3248]

When you said "lets move the batteryshelf against the wall" it reminded me of a song: Jerome - against the wall

[@TheDigitalMermaid]

Congrats!!

[@defjamsgreen]

WOW ! A VERY SUCCESSFUL HOOKUP AND POWER UPING OF THE BATTERY SHELF AND PARTIAL WALL SYSTEM WITHOUT NO KABLOWY . MY GOODNESS ! YOU'RE ALMOST CLOSE TO A SUCCESSFUL 100% ON THE SOLAR WALL .👍GREAT VIDEO ANDY .

[@andreasj.9511]

hi Andy, great work as always. I'm happy for you that everything worked right away.

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Thanks 👍 I was really nervous turning the breakers on, one after another. I checked a million times but there was still this tiny bit of concern left...

[@Ge-Fat]

Hurrah! congratz Andy! well done... and thanks for all the great videos!

[@keithsanders9396]

Congratulations Andy - I can't wait to see the inverters connected now.

[@Ben-jv2lu]

1.21 GW 😂👍🏻 Start the "Mr. Fusion" 😂😜

[@ddndd]

Oettinger sehr cool 😎 😂

[@waardom]

Congratulations Andy, with this important milestone in The Off-grid Garage. I’m inspired by your design.

[@Knightliner69]

The good old classic… 1.21GWatts! 🤣 Love it! 😀👍

[@chuxxsss]

Looks like a busy weekend.

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Hell, yeah, it was insane. so man small things to do here and there. I probably would not do this again. It is just sooooo much work.

[@chuxxsss]

@Off-Grid Garage I know the feeling Andy. Plus, I am not one hundred per cent on rules. May go to a mates place and show his setup. You will go wow.

[@mikedurham4448]

no oxide a ... best shit for connections .. many years of use and contacts look as good as day done .. well promoted Andy ... makes me smile

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Ah, right, thanks for sharing. There are so many products out there. It's very hard to tell which are actually working.

[@edwardvanhazendonk]

Congratulations, very nice progress, time for an extra SPAT!

[@rahsomali]

Hey Andy, something tells me LED status on your awesome looking acrylic cover bus bars would look outstanding.. I don’t know how and where but you need to look it to it.

[@PeaceChanel]

Thank You for All that you are doing for World Peace and for our Planet... Peace.. Shalom.. Salam.. La Paz.. Namaste .. 🙏🏻 😊 🌈 ✌ ☮️ ❤️ 🕊

[@TheOneJacinto]

you're a crazy-happy person showing us your projects!

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Hahaha, why not, hope it inspires others.

[@MiniCmaX]

Herzlichen Glückwunsch, Andy! Sieht alles sehr aufgeräumt aus! Als mittlerweile seit drei Jahren im Ruhestand befindlicher ITler weiß ich eine übersichtliche Verkabelung und eine durchdachte Geräteanordnung zu schätzen 👍 Amazing job, well done!

[@kajitis_1]

Well done Andy!

[@SabretoothBarnacle]

Not sure whether you have already done this but it's easy to reprogram the Eprom on the UNI-T210 to get rid of the annoying default of every measurement being AC first. My UNI-T is a pleasure to use now after that mod.

[@edwardvanhazendonk]

Can you share the process, last time I looked there was a possibility you could brick the chip. Thanks, the Uni-T 210E is great, I use it too.

[@cgmarch2359]

@@SabretoothBarnacle pls send to me as well . thank you!

[@SabretoothBarnacle]

@@edwardvanhazendonk 1. Watch this video but remember to mute the annoying music: kzbin.info/www/bejne/nImQd5unbrdnq7s 2. I purchased this programmer with clip on lead: www.ebay.co.uk/itm/254327617481 3. When you first read in the Eprom data compare the data to the data shown on the KZbin clip. It should be pretty much the same apart from areas that have calibration data. If it is all completely different recheck the clip on connection and try again. Once the data checks out save a copy to your hard drive. 4. thearduinoshed.wordpress.com/2020/04/13/uni-t-ut210e-current-clamp-hacking/ Scroll down to the EEPROM Mods section and have a read on the two Word.doc files immediately below. There are many other links on the Web to support what can be done with one of these including enabling the clamp to measure up to 1000A DC!

[@SabretoothBarnacle]

@@cgmarch2359 see above

[@Juma.O]

That's something I would also be happy to know. Kindly educate us on this

[@john_in_phoenix]

Congratulations, great job! I think it is perfectly normal to be nervous, but you paid a lot of attention to detail and obviously did it right. Now I can't wait to see you fill up the shelves.

[@danielnapier4501]

Andy , you would be a ham radio genius. If you put into solar just half the enthusiasm in two way radio you could conquer the world. I'm convinced you can do anything

[@timdarnell7695]

Great Job!

[@markdavidson6321]

The moment you've been working toward. Very cool!

[@faridabdelkrim6028]

Félicitations Andy, un très grand moment!!!!

[@excillisbank2611]

Une belle mise sur orbit ! super Andy 🥰

[@chogardjr.]

Beautiful 😎😎

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Thanks 🤗

[@Christian76S]

No matter it being BOMBENFEST I'd go for SICHERHEITSSCHUHE anytime you move that behemoth :-)

[@pelecho]

Congrats 🍻

[@kswis]

Congratulations, big moment for the off grid garage! Excited to see batteries on the shelf

[@pcMuneer]

Finally ! Finally you did it congrats 👏

[@rahsomali]

Oh congratulations bud. I have something coming very soon too 😃

[@evil17]

Congrats Andy on a really great and professional looking job, ur hard work and patience is paying off and we get some great vids out of it too. Cheers

[@martehoudesheldt5885]

looks great good job 👍👍👍👍👍

[@cenobite_hellriser]

Hi, Mr. Andy! Dichloroethane is the best to gluing acrylyc... or supa glue with baking soda... Congratulations to you! Battery shelf is started nicely and sucsessfully!

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Thank you. I have the new weld-on glue here. It seems to be bombenfest!

[@gumpster6]

No offense to the other DIY solar/battery channels out there, but yours is by far the most entertaining and informative. Looking great Andy! That must be starting to feel so satisfying.

[@DIYwithBatteries]

That's a great big stuff & it's wiring looks nice great work sir 👍

[@offgridwithpojectham]

Congratulations Andy! So proud of you man! Great accomplishment and thank you so much for taking us on this amazingly entertaining ride. Love Geeking out with you on this stuff. I drank a SPAT to celebrate with you. Take care.

[@solargarage]

Looking awesome, Andy

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Thanks a lot!

[@stevenlane729]

Well done Andy, what an exciting day.

[@tomkacandes8286]

“…tell someone who cares and keep on trying…” that’s a T-shirt for sure!

[@vickipps6821]

It's looking 100% Andy

[@jamess1787]

I was expecting a V2 cut-scene or something. A nice big tsar-bomba explosion. Thanks for saving my ears.

[@marcobrian1619]

Fantastic.......so pleased for you and all the hard work and forward thinking you have done and shared over past year. Really do hope the your channel keeps running after the battery shelf is totally finished and up and running. Have a spat😁😁😁😁

[@smokyatgroups]

You needed a helper , where is our sons when we need em? Time for them to give back to the old man!

[@peterwalker7869]

Andy good to see some actual progress. Now to rip apart that battery in a lunchbox and get it installed on it's shelf. Or maybe next step is to connect the inverters. Get the work on the wall done first then move back to the box.

[@wayne8113]

Thanks Andy

[@skoto.power.systems]

Great job Andy 👏 👍

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Thanks 👍

[@BischesseHunting]

Excellent work industry class triple A plus super star. Go for fluxkompensator to charge your electric delorean next

[@alikayacan6768]

Andy, you have positive energy, which makes us enjoy watching while learning from your experience. But you loose too much solar energy because of the shadows of the trees around the garage. Keep height of the trees under control :)

[@dietermaes3971]

Nice handles to easily lift the whole shelf 😉🤣 again a nice video.

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Thank you Dieter!

[@davestech6357]

Now that everything is setup, clean the aluminum plates and spray with clear acrylic paint so they don't oxidize.

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

I quite like the 'dirty' industrial look of it actually. A few scratches and marks here and there.

[@peterrock2838]

Nice! Congratulations!

[@billhannahan7286]

To insulate bare metal try fiberglass cloth impregnated with 100% clear silicon rtv. Thin the rtv with a little lacquer thinner to make it easy to lay up. Lay the silicon on heavy so it doesn’t get too dry when the solvent diffuses out Halve fun and come back with a full charge!

[@SinKillerJ]

Might be worth trying to wrap those handles with something, can never have too much safety redundancy. If something happened to go wrong you are grabbing metal with both hands.

[@NaughtyGoatFarm]

Well done mate. All your hard work is coming together.

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Thanks 👍

[@dtverskoy]

Hello Andy, as they say with love from Russia, it's certainly not as warm here as in the state of New York and especially Australia :), but we try. Not so long ago we were visited by the Atlantic cyclone and it was sunny, got from my sun pole ~ 4 kW in Feb it`s awesome! With Victron equipment of course

[@twingoman2000]

Haha, du bist echt ein drolliger Kerl, nach dem Bombenfest hat sich auch die Frage der Herkunft geklärt 😅... Habe vorher schon paar videos geschaut und dachte es mir direkt. Sehr sehr cooler Aufbau und definitiv echt ordentlich ausgelegt, dafür einen dicken Daumen nach oben! 😉😊

[@ronny7380]

Hi Andy super Video

[@mikedurham4448]

congratulations .. wu huuuuuu !

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Thank you so much 😀

[@jamhough22]

Copper work hardens, as you drill it you are making the copper harder. Together with the copper heating up makes drilling soo much worse. A new, sharp drill bit, go slow, and peck at the copper, get those chips out of there otherwise it will bind up on the drill bit and jam-up the bit in the hole and subsiquently break it. Using a drill press for copper is best.

[@ronmundy3443]

Great work, well done

[@Egorport4]

Классное видео!!!

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Thank you.

[@joshg1244]

This is really cool. This build made me subscribe!

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Oh, wow, thank you!

[@gewema-makkum]

Nice ....i always have Digital Voltage meters ( in Green ) on my bushbars..all the time..almost no current draw...looks nice .. especial in the dark..and very handy..😊

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

I'm sure there will be some upgrades to our shelf down the track 😂

[@gewema-makkum]

@@OffGridGarageAustralia haha...😄 ....Without any doubt ..

[@daskasspatzle2396]

Yes :-)

[@keyem4504]

Wouldn't the voltage drop on the small cable being worse than on the bus bar? I don't think you would gain anything.

[@dig1035]

I watch nearly all your videos! My wife, not technical, calls you buzz buzz. She was eves dropping your video and misinterpreted bus 🍺

[@rendark419]

Ein super schönes Projekt!

[@TheDarkfairy47]

Subaaaa Bombenfest Schöner Schrank. Musste wieder lachen. Gruß aus Kaiserslautern bei 8 Grad .

[@antoni_sk]

Andy, congratulations. I didn't even believe I would ever live to see it. 😆 But I think it's still missing a lot - unconnected converters, unmounted new Lifepo4 cells ... So I'm keeping my fingers crossed, maybe it will be done by next year... 😊

[@eingeordnet]

Einfach nur großartig, um nicht obera...nti...ngeil zu sagen 😉. Ich habe mitgeschwitzt und teile deine Begeisterung für dein perfektes Werk! Übrigens: erstens dauerts länger, und zweitens als man denkt, denn: Am Ende wird alles gut, und wenn es noch nicht gut ist, dann ist es noch nicht das Ende - bist halt ein liebenswert-verrückter Perfektionist 😁.

[@cowboymcq6711]

You can’t rush perfections Andy I don’t care what the topic is I enjoy pretty much all of your videos thanks buddy ❕❕❕ From USA 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Awesome, thank you so much!

[@mikemyshack8915]

If you're still looking for a real super glue go to Walmart of all places. they have a product in their arts and crafts department called E-6000. It comes in black white and clear and will glue anything to anything. Just squeeze it from the tube and let it dry overnight. Great stuff black is getting hard to find though so by all you can get your hands on.

[@scrags733]

Congrats mate, been following along for a while now. Legend :)

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Much appreciated, Daniel!

[@jackoneil3933]

Congratulations Andy! Always satisfying when you pass the Smoke Test. Btw, at 13:30 don't they have steel-towed flip-flops in Sunny Hot Australia, and is that a solar-electric 'Ride-a-Mower' we see there?

[@GordonGaz]

Is there something to stop the smart shunt from twisting and shorting across the busbars?

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Yeah, the cable connection at the top which goes to the breaker. I could add a piece of acrylic for peace of mind but it's impossible that it shorts the busbars.

[@ryanhentschke9090]

Circlip removers will get the bit out the bus bar.

[@bradfordsimms715]

Nice job Mate

[@waynescheepers145]

Hey Andy congrats. Looking forward to the battery installs on the shelves. What about expanding foam for sealing the bottom? From bugs and so.

[@Dutch_off_grid_homesteading]

Heya it all comes to getter in the long run

[@SaenAcro]

Andy why with so many place on DIN rail, Raspberry sitting inside case, where wifi is isolated? There is so many good din rail Raspberry cases.

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Connects just fine to the Wifi on the house with the lid closed and garage doors closed. This is all metal. Signal loss is marginally. Totally overrated 🙂

[@davidpenfold]

Great stuff 💪

[@netrocker9990]

Don't extend voltage sensing cable. Because busbar has less voltage drop compared to cable.

[@MistaTerps]

That Victron smartshunt can monitor two battery banks at once. We’re you running two 24v batteries from one BMS & just one voltage sensing wire?

[@BeeBeorn]

The two batteries are paralleled to busbars ( making it 1 battery). Shunt mesuring only the combined ah in this case.

[@MistaTerps]

@@BeeBeorn Surely the BMS can’t monitor each of cells like that?

[@michaelbouckley4455]

@@MistaTerps Andy was only using one battery before, in the box. Each 48v battery bank, on each shelf will have its own bms

[@extremeacc101]

Hi Andy just wondering what you have set the output on that Orion converter to? That little pot is adjustable for the 12 V output I’m sure you know this. Perhaps a setting more like a power supply output would be more suitable say 13.5 V? What are your thoughts? I

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

I have not touched it and left it as it is. My load is not that critical and a rough 12V power supply is fine. But yeah, you can adjust the output voltage and also use this device as a charger for lithium batteries. The voltage can be adjusted between 12-15V as you know. Even they are not cheap at all but I like the fact that it is isolated, has constant current and can be paralleled. Do you use them for your installations as well. Together with Paul's batteries?

[@JimDory]

Back when I built houses I would grab a bucket to stand on if a proper ladder was out of reach. It finally caught up to me one day when doing sheet rock work - the bucket decided to leave its stable position and go for a roll. I got a real bad sprained ankle. So I cringe when I see you using a bucket to stand on. But I'm sure you're very careful (as I thought I was)... hee hee.

[@henvan8737]

Gosh you have the world supply of copper cables in your system.

[@John-gm8ty]

it truly is a beautiful build, have you done a total costing for the build yet?

[@edwardvanhazendonk]

Sad to see a broken drill, can you drill from the oposite end with a bigger drill?

[@HiltonT69]

It isn't always the case that a bigger drill is needed. ;)

[@davedave6404]

Still wondering if you clean the mating surfaces, you have had your fingers all over them. Did you?

[@Hasskasper]

Your saftyboots 🤣👍👍👍

[@luisaviles6066]

Use acetone to weld acrylic together.

[@Josh-b3c]

You'll need to use your precharge resistor when you connect the inverter

[@routerfixer]

There would be more voltage drop on the extended sense wire than on the busbar.

[@darrenorange2982]

That DIN DC to DC converter where did you get that, what is it?

[@todamnbad]

Do you have a total build cost yet?

[@kevinback7034]

gut gemacht, wie sieht es mit deinem spannungsleck aus, hast du dieses problem immer noch oder ist es verschwunden ?

[@OffGridGarageAustralia]

Das ist weg! Muss wohl an der temporaeren Verkabelung gelegen haben 🤷‍♂️

[@sreekumarUSA]

021822/1429h PST 🇺🇸 021922/0829h Brisbane 🇦🇺 What a tedious endeavor ! Guten Morgan , Herr Andy. The question is , was there no BLACK cables in the store? You have already gotten confused with the cables, twice. Just asked, because I couldn’t stand your agony 🤐🤐🤐 awaiting for the final approach. 73s…

[@marcelprivat]

1.21 GW mein Gott. 1.21GW wie konntest Du nur so leichtsinnig sein. 😀 Super clean, Monk wäre neidisch, ich bin es jedenfalls. Richtig saubere Arbeit. Mir gefällt es gut. Danke und 👍🏻

[@innocentusangira789]

How does he count it to 1.21 GW ? Is it annual production or what ?

[@marcelprivat]

@@innocentusangira789 No. It's from the Movie Back to the Future. 1.21GW is needed for the Time Machine. 😁