Easy Low Budget DIY Solar Power Installation - Part 1

I've had off grid solar power for some years with DIY batteries made out of 18650's, but with the price on LIFEPO4 batteries coming down it makes it a lot easier to build a system that better suits your needs. Here I build a basic solar power system to run lights and a refrigerator, a water pump and the power tools. It also doubles up as backup electricity in case of power outage, in future we will install a changeover switch on the house.

It's only the beginning, in the next video we will make some upgrades and solve a few problems that appeared.

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eBay.com.au links for Australian viewers: MPT-7210A Charge Controller: https://ebay.us/TrQF4J 100AH Lifepo4 battery: https://ebay.us/XUklxW Pure Sinewave Inverters: https://ebay.us/7xrNHF XT60 connectors: https://ebay.us/K81xsg

Not mentioned in the video, as I’ll go over this in a subsequent video (and I haven’t finished) is the cost breakdown in $AUD.

MPT-7210A: $75 Inverter: $188 Solar Panels: $67 ($200 / 3) Solar cable joiner: $13 1 x 100AH LIFEPO4: $369 Total = $712

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