As some of you might know, I am building up an Off the Grid property in the beautiful Atherton Tablelands, Queensland, Australia. We have no grid power available to us so we need power systems for basic tooling, lighting, charging etc. I bought all the parts for this system and the original plan was to bolt it all to a wall and then it would be a fixed system. However it occurred to me a mobile system might be a better option in the short term at least. I really enjoyed this project. It's technical and the end result is very useful for our off grid situation, or for times when the grid goes down. The cost of this project was around $1050 AUD taking into account wire and bits and pieces.
Thank you for watching
Regards
Scott
The main components are (All bought by me, no affiliation)
- 100 Amphr Lithium Battery Cost = $600 AUD
- Victron 100/30 MPPT Solar Charge controller (Bought second hand) Cost = $120 AUD
- 1000W Pure Sine Wave Inverter Cost $118 AUD AUD
- DC fuse block distribution Cost $21 AUD
- 200 Amp DC Circuit Breaker (Main System protection and on/ off control) Cost$24 AUD
- 50AMP DC CB for Anderson Plug USB and Cig outlets Cost $24 AUD
- 500 Amp Battery Monitor with Shunt Cost $57 AUD
- 4 AWG Wire for Inverter.
- 8 AWG Wire for power supply to 50 Amp CB
- 15 Amp Wire for USB and Cig outlet
- Double USB plug Cost $20 AUD
- Cigarette style socket $ about $10
- Anderson Plugs I had these but they cost maybe $3 - 5 each
The cart is called a Zucca
Video Time Line
0:43 Component description
06:50 Component layout and wiring
19:26 Initial Power up and testing
22:55 Final overview and conclusion