Make your own Photovoltaic Off-Grid System

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The installation of an off-grid solar system can be a complex task, but with careful planning and attention to detail, it can be completed successfully. In this project, we will demonstrate how to install a solar-powered lighting system in a garage.

First, we mounted the switch sockets and a junction box to the right wall of the garage using screws secured by pipe clips, ensuring that there was a distance of 10 cm from each electrical component. Additional pipe clips were added in between these components, with a maximum distance of 60 cm between them.

Next, we measured the length between the first and last clip for one pipe length, adding 8 cm to this measurement. This length was marked onto a pipe used the handsaw to cut it to size, and then clicked into place.

To ensure that AC and DC cables are laid separated from each other, not only through the pipes but also when it comes to wiring inside the junction boxes, we decided to use two installation conduits parallel to each other instead of just one.

After finishing the installation on the right wall of the garage, we added a junction box for the LEDs at the back of the garage and mounted most of the installation conduit WDS there as well. We then drilled holes for the LED strip clips and secured them in place with screws.

Before attaching the LEDs, though, we marked a point in the center of the first LED clip row and drilled a hole there all the way through up to the roof of the garage. After enlarging the hole from the other side, I hammered the pipe through it and applied a layer of bitumin to seal off the newly created hole.

To mount the solar panel, we created a fitting square shape out of the bitchman (a type of material used for insulation) directed the extension solar wires through the pipe hooked them up to the panel using MC4 connectors, and pressed the panel into the bitumin square to further protect the initially created hole from water. We added an additional layer of bitumin all around the edges of the solar panel inside the garage.

Next, we shortened the pipe and continued by creating fitting lengths of warm white and cold white 5630 LED strip to mount it to the ceiling. I utilized a piece of wire installation between the LED strip and clip to apply enough pressure to the LED strip so that it stays in place, but only used this additional piece of insulation for the first and last clip - not for the other Clips in between them.

To ensure that the wiring is secure, we sold 1.5 mm wire pieces to cover a total area of 4 square meters, making it easy to hook up to the beginning of each LED strip without ripping off the cover pads. We then mounted the remaining DC and AC junction boxes as well as the solar charge controller to the back of the garage.

Using instant glue, we attached the recharge switch to the garage door mounting and fitted magnets to the garage door. By hooking up two wires of the USD cable to the read switch and directing the cable into the D junction box, we started off with the actual wiring - pushing all the required cables through the pipes and partly into the junction boxes, cutting them to size, and wiring up the switch and both sockets.

We then connected all the LEDs in parallel using Wago terminals added a mounting for the inverter to the wall which was attached with zip ties. We continued by adding load wires to the charge controller which we then connected to the inverter and relay circuits inside the DC junction box, and of course it is always a good idea to solder along with PCB terminals to a piece of perfboard beforehand to make the wiring easier.

Finally, to perform the first test of the system, we connected 4 square mm wires to the battery terminals of the charge controller which directly connects to the battery terminals and attached the wires of the solar panel to the PV Terminals. By flicking the light switch, the LEDs turned on without a problem and by adding a Bluetooth module to the charge controller, we can even use an app to see whether the battery gets charged through the solar panel or discharged through the LEDs.

After finishing the AC wiring and closing all the junction boxes, the solar off-grid system was complete and works like a charm. I hope you like this project and learned a thing or two about electrical wiring as always, don't forget to like, share, and subscribe - stay creative, and I will see you next time!

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enever since I got myself a garage half a year ago there has been one problem even though it looks like electricity should be available in reality it is not hooked up to the power grid and thus I'm dependent on sunlight as the only light source so in this video let's change this by reconstructing the wiring and adding a photovoltaic ofg grid system to my garage so that I can see what I'm doing even when the sun went down let's get started as with every electrical room wiring we started off with a layout plan in which we decided on a position for the LED strips junction boxes sockets the light switch and so on afterwards we marked an approximate position for the switch and junction boxes onto the wall and measured the distances between all of them to come up with an estimated length of the different wire kinds and installation conduit so we went on a trip to the nearest Home Improvement store to buy one switch three sockets pipe Clips one big junction box four small junction boxes M16 installation conduit and three kinds of wire why three kinds you may ask well we use so-called num wire to connect all these sockets in parallel and hook them up to the output of an inverter that on its input side directly connects to the load outputs of the solar charge controller we use the finner usty wire to create a serious connection consisting of the light switch and in additional read switch in order to trigger a relay when the switch is turned on and the garage door is opens because a read switch with a magnet is mounted to it and a read switch closes its contact when a magnet comes near it when triggered the relay then connects the 12vt power from the load output to the LED strips which we all connected in parallel by utilizing the last wire kind common 4 S mm speaker cable and while we're at the subject of the wiring diagram the 100 W solar panel connected directly to the PV input of the blue solar charge controller while the big and rather heavy lead acid battery with a voltage of 12 volts a capacity of 100 amp hours and deep cycle capability connected to the battery input of the charge controller and now with the diagram out of the way it was time to remove the old switch light junction boxes wires wire Clips sockets and so on basically everything holds then we mounted the switch sockets and a junction box to the right wall of the garage with screws secured pipe Clips with a distance of 10 cm from from each electrical component and added more Clips in between those components with a maximum distance of 60 cm to one another afterwards we measure the length between the first and last clip for one pipe length added 8 cm mark this length onto a pipe used the handsaw to cut it to size and clicked it into place and just in case you need a greater length than 3 m which is the normal length of such a pipe you can always easily connect two of them together and if you ask yourself why we use two installation conduits parallel to each other instead of just one then you should know that AC and DC cables should always be laid separated not only through the pipes but also when it comes to the wiring inside the junction boxes but getting back to topic after finishing the installation on the right wall of the garage we added the junction box for the LEDs at the back of the garage and mounted most of the installation cond WDS there as well next we drilled the holes for the LED strip clips and secured them in place with screws but before attaching the LEDs though we marked a point in the center of the first led Clips row and drill a hole there all the way through up to the roof of the garage after enlarging the hole from the other side I hammered the pipe through it and open a partt of bitamin which I applied all around the pipe to to seal off the newly created hole to mount the solar panel we created a fitting square shape of the panel out of the bitchman directed the extension solar wires through the pipe hooked them up to the panel through mc4 connectors and pressed the panel into the bitamin square to further protect the initially created hole from water though we added an additional layer of bitamin all around the edges of the solar panel inside the garage we then shorten the pipe and continued by creating fitting lengths of the warm white and cold white 5630 LED strip to mount it to the ceiling I utilized a piece of wire installation between the LED strip and clip to apply enough pressure to the LED strip so that it stays in place but I only used this additional piece of insulation for the first and last clip not for the other Clips in between them then I sold at thinner 1.5 mm wire pieces to the 4 squ m wire in order to easily hook them up to the beginning of each LED strip without ripping off the cover pads of these strips next we mounted the remaining DC and AC junction box as well as the solar charge controller to the back of the garage and utilized instant glue to attach the re switch to the garage door mounting and the fitting magnets to the garage door and by hooking up two wires of the USD cable to the read switch and directing the cable into the D junction box we started off with the actual wiring that means we pushed all the required cables through the pipes and partly into the junction boxes cut them to size and wired up the switch and both sockets afterwards we connected all the LEDs in parallel with Wago terminals added a mounting for the inverter to the wall which was then attached with zip ties and continued by adding the load wires to the charge controller which we then connected to the in conver and the relay circuits inside the DC junction box and of course it is always a good idea to Sol the relay along with PCB terminals to a piece of perfboard beforehand to make the wiring easier later on now to perform the first test of the system we connected 4 Square mm wires to the battery terminals of the charge controller which directly connects to the battery terminals and attach the wires of the solar panel to the PV Terminals and by flicking the light switch the LEDs turned on without a problem and by adding a Bluetooth module to the charge controller we can even use an app to see whether the battery gets charged through the solar panel or discharged through the LEDs and after finishing the AC wiring and closing all the junction boxes the solar offgrid system was complete and works like a charm I hope you like this project and learned a thing or two about electrical wiring as always don't forget to like share and subscribe stay creative and I will see you next timeever since I got myself a garage half a year ago there has been one problem even though it looks like electricity should be available in reality it is not hooked up to the power grid and thus I'm dependent on sunlight as the only light source so in this video let's change this by reconstructing the wiring and adding a photovoltaic ofg grid system to my garage so that I can see what I'm doing even when the sun went down let's get started as with every electrical room wiring we started off with a layout plan in which we decided on a position for the LED strips junction boxes sockets the light switch and so on afterwards we marked an approximate position for the switch and junction boxes onto the wall and measured the distances between all of them to come up with an estimated length of the different wire kinds and installation conduit so we went on a trip to the nearest Home Improvement store to buy one switch three sockets pipe Clips one big junction box four small junction boxes M16 installation conduit and three kinds of wire why three kinds you may ask well we use so-called num wire to connect all these sockets in parallel and hook them up to the output of an inverter that on its input side directly connects to the load outputs of the solar charge controller we use the finner usty wire to create a serious connection consisting of the light switch and in additional read switch in order to trigger a relay when the switch is turned on and the garage door is opens because a read switch with a magnet is mounted to it and a read switch closes its contact when a magnet comes near it when triggered the relay then connects the 12vt power from the load output to the LED strips which we all connected in parallel by utilizing the last wire kind common 4 S mm speaker cable and while we're at the subject of the wiring diagram the 100 W solar panel connected directly to the PV input of the blue solar charge controller while the big and rather heavy lead acid battery with a voltage of 12 volts a capacity of 100 amp hours and deep cycle capability connected to the battery input of the charge controller and now with the diagram out of the way it was time to remove the old switch light junction boxes wires wire Clips sockets and so on basically everything holds then we mounted the switch sockets and a junction box to the right wall of the garage with screws secured pipe Clips with a distance of 10 cm from from each electrical component and added more Clips in between those components with a maximum distance of 60 cm to one another afterwards we measure the length between the first and last clip for one pipe length added 8 cm mark this length onto a pipe used the handsaw to cut it to size and clicked it into place and just in case you need a greater length than 3 m which is the normal length of such a pipe you can always easily connect two of them together and if you ask yourself why we use two installation conduits parallel to each other instead of just one then you should know that AC and DC cables should always be laid separated not only through the pipes but also when it comes to the wiring inside the junction boxes but getting back to topic after finishing the installation on the right wall of the garage we added the junction box for the LEDs at the back of the garage and mounted most of the installation cond WDS there as well next we drilled the holes for the LED strip clips and secured them in place with screws but before attaching the LEDs though we marked a point in the center of the first led Clips row and drill a hole there all the way through up to the roof of the garage after enlarging the hole from the other side I hammered the pipe through it and open a partt of bitamin which I applied all around the pipe to to seal off the newly created hole to mount the solar panel we created a fitting square shape of the panel out of the bitchman directed the extension solar wires through the pipe hooked them up to the panel through mc4 connectors and pressed the panel into the bitamin square to further protect the initially created hole from water though we added an additional layer of bitamin all around the edges of the solar panel inside the garage we then shorten the pipe and continued by creating fitting lengths of the warm white and cold white 5630 LED strip to mount it to the ceiling I utilized a piece of wire installation between the LED strip and clip to apply enough pressure to the LED strip so that it stays in place but I only used this additional piece of insulation for the first and last clip not for the other Clips in between them then I sold at thinner 1.5 mm wire pieces to the 4 squ m wire in order to easily hook them up to the beginning of each LED strip without ripping off the cover pads of these strips next we mounted the remaining DC and AC junction box as well as the solar charge controller to the back of the garage and utilized instant glue to attach the re switch to the garage door mounting and the fitting magnets to the garage door and by hooking up two wires of the USD cable to the read switch and directing the cable into the D junction box we started off with the actual wiring that means we pushed all the required cables through the pipes and partly into the junction boxes cut them to size and wired up the switch and both sockets afterwards we connected all the LEDs in parallel with Wago terminals added a mounting for the inverter to the wall which was then attached with zip ties and continued by adding the load wires to the charge controller which we then connected to the in conver and the relay circuits inside the DC junction box and of course it is always a good idea to Sol the relay along with PCB terminals to a piece of perfboard beforehand to make the wiring easier later on now to perform the first test of the system we connected 4 Square mm wires to the battery terminals of the charge controller which directly connects to the battery terminals and attach the wires of the solar panel to the PV Terminals and by flicking the light switch the LEDs turned on without a problem and by adding a Bluetooth module to the charge controller we can even use an app to see whether the battery gets charged through the solar panel or discharged through the LEDs and after finishing the AC wiring and closing all the junction boxes the solar offgrid system was complete and works like a charm I hope you like this project and learned a thing or two about electrical wiring as always don't forget to like share and subscribe stay creative and I will see you next time