Thanks to all your videos, Ive bought the 60v bench power supply Jk bms 20amp capacity tester The red clamp/volt meter Active balancer And soon the large buck converter, 😋 I've sanded down all 96 bus bars I've re threaded stripped cell screw holes Capacity tested all 96 cells to match them nicely in the same banks (took a month non stop to do) Your my#1 watched channel
@@OffGridGarageAustralia I commented just before the end 🙄 - and thought 46%#:5(… But did not want to change that comment because it was late and i was already preparing to get home from office 🤷🏻. Anyway: any ideas on linking color or brightness to state of charge, power input, whatever?
What an Epic achievement! That is so beautiful, you can not cover that up! Let’s LED light this shit up, all the way, yay! You have set yourself a very high bar here Andy, and I know you wont let us down, We will be expecting nothing short of a fantastical finale. Don’t brush aside considering a lighting tech team if need be. You could get real crazy and adventurous & also have a sound sensing mode that beats to the music when you have shed party’s. PIR sensors, so LED’s is only on when someone is nearby, red LED to signify individual shelf fault, multicolour SOC lighting, so many possibilities, cant wait to see what u do next, apart from clean up the driveway! Excellent job, this has been a great experience. Cheers
Good call Andy, the clear panels make it look really great, and very practical for keeping an eye on things too, and as for the LED's, hell YES, just do it! lol Very neat, a real show piece, well done Andy!
You're not done Andy... open her up and get those awful active balancers out and replace those 2 less than perfect BMS' with the king of BMS' - The JK of course. As for lighting... of course you need to add a strip of RGB's to each shelf. That battery shelf has become "The Centrepiece" of the off grid garage and all art is accentuated with some light 😉 Thanks for all the effort, time and knowledge you've shared with us Andy. I've learnt so much here on your channel. Can't wait to see what's next...
Thanks so much Clynton. Of course we're not done. Not by far. But for now, I'm trying not to open the shelf for a week or so... so it looks done! 😉 Yeah, heaps more to come. I feel like I have just stared with the basics.
Congratulation! As my friend say "you can not stop construction work, you just put on hold" This was great idea to have transparent cover. This will make you proud what have you done and also avoid opening it every week to look at it.
Hi Andy the aluminum will stop signal I found that out when I tried to communicate with my BMS through a color bond tin wall cladding on the house,but I found that u can extend the BMS cable to compensate for that.I extended my cable to 7 metre and it still worked fine,cheers Rene.
Thanks, Rene. I haven't had any issues so far with signal strengths. Even in the old metal cabinet I used to have, I could always connect tot all solar charge controllers just fine.
Great job Andy! Both from a build perspective and knowledge perspective, you've come such a long way from that battery in the plastic tub. It continues to be quite fun watching your progress and learning with you!
It’s been great watching your videos Andy thoroughly enjoyed every minute of your detailed episodes. More content like this is what is needed. Thank you for all of your efforts and time in making all of these awesome videos.
Hi @Andy @OffGridGarage #OffGridGarage , wow what a journey its been, thankyou so much for taking us along on the journey, side note, not sure about AUS rules but Polycarbonate has a better fire rating than Acrylics and PVC here in the UK, might be a solution for your regulations and give you visibility too, also please still start a few videos saying "hello and welcome to sunny hot AUS with...Amps " and tell us how many Amps your pulling IMHO that's one of your most excellent catch phrases ;-]
Thank you. The pool structure is not made for carrying solar panels I'm afraid. It's in the shade most of the time anyway. It's more to prevent leaves to fall in the pool 😉
The total SOC should remain unaffected so long as there isn't any 'unmetered' discharge while it is disconnected from the other packs. The distribution of that SOC will briefly change however correct itself as you mentioned when the charge cycle approaches higher voltages. The pack with the lower SOC will consume more current until they match. Great videos, love the testing and scientific method you apply!
Your head is bashed with the shunt ahr......you really smashed mine.......or it could just be the SPATs ......ha ha. The clear front looks fantastic, really shows off all your hard work...... As for led light.........why bloody not, it's better than them fancy computers with them in... Just in middle of setting up 3x grid tie inverter at work on a 3ph system, only small at moment but IV give them the room to expand. Happy sunny days.
It looks great, no question though I worry that the lack of external air circulation will cause electronics / heat sink / battery temperatures to be higher, particularly in summer when ambient temperature and solar charge rate will also be higher. I understand that LiFePo4 calendar aging (or is it cycle life?) is adversely affected by elevated temperatures. Perhaps a vented screened filtered air fan might be warranted?
I thought your OCD gaps need was ridiculous! They're just freaken batteries. But. Once you were done I was much relived by the calming effect of perfect alignment. I think it was a Feng Shui thing!
It looks fantastic! Would have been a shame to cover it up with aluminum after doing all the OCD aligning. Hope you don't have any hot spots when you run a heavy load on that top bank. I can imagine the removal of the covers could get annoying if you have to get in there often.
Thank you. I can remote control every bank through the Bluetooth app for the BMS in case I need to. And it takes only 45s to take off the panel. I literally haven;t touched the middle battery with the JK-BMS since we set it up.
This is A Artist at work very ocd is not to bad I am the same way it is the best Battery Bank Diy thank you for the Great Videos take care from great up north mitten
Absolute beauty. Well done mate. It's been a blast to watch it build up and I have learned a ton. No led strips. I think that natural beauty needs no make-up. Just leave it be. Or if you must, only white light...
State of charge, amps in and out, you are on the right track! 👍 The charge acceptance (efficiency) is high enough that charging 2 batteries instead of 3 is insignificant, leaving you with "amps in is amps in is state of charge." If you were running lead-acid you would have higher losses when charging 2 banks vs 3, but even then the efficiency loss is mostly only over about 80% or even 90% state of charge.
thought when you complained that you did not have distances to have between the battery so I thought that you have well grass trimmer and the wires to them are usually between 1.5 - 4mm thick and in durable plastic so it is insulating with (only as a suggestion) When it comes to LEDs in the cabinet, it can be good that it can be switched off completely, but another suggestion is that you put small analog thermometers in the cabinet so you can see if the temperature rises now when it is relatively closed and no air is flowing through now
Line trimmer... I didn't think about that. I have 2.5mm line here... The LEDs come with an app and can be either programmed via timer and also switched of completely. Temperature is a good point. I will have to see what the single BMS say over time. At the moment it is cool down here, so no problems...
Thanks for all the information and experiments. Would it be possible to make a last overview/summary of the final system. I really would like to see a schematic of the whole system and used parts on the DC and AC side. O and what is the preferred battery and BMS. Again, thank you for your efforts and time making these videos.
Beautiful shelf!!! I would not have attached the battery shelf to the ground, in case you needed to move the shelf outside in the case of a fire… maybe some wheels & a handle or a hoop where you could drag the whole thing outside, in a pinch?
Thanks David. The shelf is far to heavy and also top-heavy and it cannot be moved. It is attached to a lot of cables on the back as you may know. It would mean to disconnect them all first. In case of a fire 😉
@@OffGridGarageAustralia - completely understandable! Love your work! I am running into a similar situation with a battery & power shelf I want to build. I hope I can figure out a mobile solution.
I'm going to fly to Australia and sneak into Andy's garage and just move a bunch of arbitrary things so that they are slightly off. Transparent Aluminium!
Oh no no blinkenlights. You still have the German "ordnung muss sein" reordering all those battery's just so it looks good. when I see the last shots of the video it looks like there is place for 2 more battery shelf's, that's no incident :-) :-)
Nice one Andy. I'm only surprised that you don't worry about heat building ..I know it might not be big deal as current might not be so big..but stil i would place small hole on both and then place very fine mesh so all electronics can breath and air can move a bit ..
I think the smart shunt would be mostly accurate, because you put A amount of amp hours into batteries 2 and 3, then recconecting battery 1 will take 1/3*A amp hours from batteries 2 and 3 into battery 1 (the smart shunt doesnt see this) so the total amp hours will still equal A it just came out of 2 and 3 into battery 1. So the smart shunt reading will be mostly accurate because you would have lost some watt-hours because of resistance between the batteries, in both connection resistance and ESR of the cells.
I was thinking near the end, would look good with some white/cool white LED strips at the top front 👍 Do it 🥳👍 Looks great, hope the sun comes out for you soon 🤞🤞 Looking forward to the next ep already 🍻🎉
Superbe travail, je me demande si il ne faudrait tout de même pas juste un petit ventilateur d'extraction de chaleur pour les périodes d'été ou de canicule ? bonne continuation ANDY.👍
If I disconnect the battery bank for a long time, I would change the capacity in the smart shunt. For these 2-3h, it does not really matter, I think. It will balance out again once fully charged.
Heya, that looks very beautiful so straight your ocd must be very happy lol but truelly looks like a profesional instalation. I hope my closed will look only halve of yours I'll be happy
@@OffGridGarageAustralia I’d bet it is noisy ONLY when it’s turned off and that it’s going into power saving and it’s a single IC on the board that provides power to the micro controller at all times. They will start skipping and lower the switching frequency to save power and meet EU regulations for “vampire power draws”.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia sorry to here that even in Thailand where I am retired it is really early rain the Monsoon seems to be 4 weeks earlier causing havoc with our fruit tree's.
Holy crap this looks goooood. Damn good work, Andy. It pays off! I'm actually jealous :D I'll know what to save up for the next few years 🤣 oh, and please do install the LED strip! :)
Thanks a lot! Yeah, it came out pretty nice after all this work I put in and people telling me off this shelf idea since the beginning. I'll do a cost breakdown in a future video.
Top job Andy Has been a very interesting journey through the whole process which has brought up lots of questions that have all been answered. I would have thought the last part of the video would be you relaxing on a BENDED banana lounge with a nice cold S.P.A.T in front of the setup.
Solar coke can tip - To see if you are getting the best position for your panels, take a coke can and place it in the middle of the panel - if the coke can has no shadow on any sides besides the bottom, you have the correct position :)
I think a 3D printer could bring your OCD to the next LVL! ask me how i know... haha As for the lights... wasted energy if you ask me :) nice work Andy, wish i had the room to build it that way, pretty neat
There is a switch in settings for the smart shunt To activate synchronisation at hundred percent state of charge so when the battery goes into absorption it’s synchronisers hundred percent. Every time
yes your correct . i've been through it with mine . i look forward to your input though . hopefully i might learn some more from it . sweet bank m8 . love it !
Hi Andy i like the turn off switch u installed on the BMS which cable did u use it on I WANT to do the same on my over kill BMSs.cheers from sunny Vic,Rene.🤔
You gave me an idea with the bended polycarbonate top cover . I think I will make some to act as trays for the cells to sit in to catch any leakage should it happen over the years .
You could put a nitrogen purge on the cabinet, it would limit corrosion, add fire protection and no pests would enter. Only if you have continuous ventilation on the garage.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia You would tube it in from a nitrogen bottle, and by using a sensitive pressure meter and a flow rotameter, again, low flow. You can make your own flow meter with a little clear tubing. The pressure measures the difference between atmospheric (room pressure) and the cabinet. About 1 inch of water column would be all you need. It is a standard way of preserving equipment from moisture and oxygen damage.
All right ! I told my girl friend i would put in led strips. Et voila! Now this is done, will you colonize Mars? I ll buy you some more spat for the journey.
It all looks great. I would like to see a video about the EV charging setup. Maybe I missed a video. It would look cool if the car charging cable had LED lights that are lit when charging, maybe they could even be set to light up in a pulse along the cable. Like Christmas lights? I think you get more rain in a day or two than I get in a year.
Thanks Ron. The actual EVSE from Tesla has got these running lights when charging. I didn't make a dedicated video about the charging port as it is just a 16A single phase outlet, connected to the AC panel of the inverter.
G'day Andy, love your work, I have learnt a lot . Your comment on the new 4s jk bms that it is not suitable for series or parallel . I have an 8s set up using a jk 8s bms, if I wanted to parallel another 8s system and wanted to use another jk 8s bms wouldn't this confuse the Bluetooth on the app. I see on your big battery you are using 3 different bms with 3 differant apps.......
Thanks to all your videos, Ive bought the 60v bench power supply
Jk bms
20amp capacity tester
The red clamp/volt meter
Active balancer
And soon the large buck converter, 😋
I've sanded down all 96 bus bars
I've re threaded stripped cell screw holes
Capacity tested all 96 cells to match them nicely in the same banks (took a month non stop to do)
Your my#1 watched channel
Oh, wow. You must have the same setup with all the tools by now 😉
Thanks a lot for being here!
Automatic thumbs up every time you post, I love this show!
Thanks a lot!
So great. I love the shelf with the transparent front. Gorgeous. 🥰
Thank you 😃
You need some led-strips in your battery compartments - color linked to eg. state of charge on the bms :).
Oh, you didn't watch until the end 😔
Busted lol .
'Brigher your home'
@@OffGridGarageAustralia I commented just before the end 🙄 - and thought 46%#:5(… But did not want to change that comment because it was late and i was already preparing to get home from office 🤷🏻.
Anyway: any ideas on linking color or brightness to state of charge, power input, whatever?
@@fldutch you're excused 😌
I've no idea how to tap into the Bluetooth receiver of these LED stripes.
Absolutely beautiful setup... Amazing work!
Thanks a lot.
What an Epic achievement! That is so beautiful, you can not cover that up! Let’s LED light this shit up, all the way, yay!
You have set yourself a very high bar here Andy, and I know you wont let us down, We will be expecting nothing short of a fantastical finale. Don’t brush aside considering a lighting tech team if need be. You could get real crazy and adventurous & also have a sound sensing mode that beats to the music when you have shed party’s. PIR sensors, so LED’s is only on when someone is nearby, red LED to signify individual shelf fault, multicolour SOC lighting, so many possibilities, cant wait to see what u do next, apart from clean up the driveway! Excellent job, this has been a great experience. Cheers
Thanks a lot Evan. I appreciate all your support and comments here on the channel.
Good call Andy, the clear panels make it look really great, and very practical for keeping an eye on things too, and as for the LED's, hell YES, just do it! lol
Very neat, a real show piece, well done Andy!
Thanks a lot Val. LEDs will comes soon, I guess 🤭
Nope. No LED-strips. My 1/8-German part protests wildly. Whole of me bows to the wonderful and awsome batteryshelf. Sehr gut!
Thanks Bjoern. What about a working light to do maintenance on the batteries?
A happy moment. Congratulations Andy
Yes, the silicon around the bottom was the final touch. It's all done. For now 😆
Beautiful transparent powerwall. Love it Andy. I want one😌😃
I can ship it to you.
Or, build your own variant of it 😁
@@OffGridGarageAustralia 😀🥴
Looks fantastic, freaking beautiful dude!!!
Perfectionist playground! Hahaha right.
Rock on Andy!
Thank you. That's why it took so long right?
Well done, let the sun shine and electrons flow freely.
Thanks, Edward. Sun is really what I need now. And more solar of course!
You're not done Andy... open her up and get those awful active balancers out and replace those 2 less than perfect BMS' with the king of BMS' - The JK of course. As for lighting... of course you need to add a strip of RGB's to each shelf. That battery shelf has become "The Centrepiece" of the off grid garage and all art is accentuated with some light 😉 Thanks for all the effort, time and knowledge you've shared with us Andy. I've learnt so much here on your channel. Can't wait to see what's next...
Thanks so much Clynton. Of course we're not done. Not by far. But for now, I'm trying not to open the shelf for a week or so... so it looks done! 😉
Yeah, heaps more to come. I feel like I have just stared with the basics.
Very nice and greetings from the Czech Republic
Thanks a lot, Karel!
Excellent video with many challenges and you’ve succeeded. Keep it up and running and stay prepared .😊😊
Thank you so much 😁
Hi Andy, that's great! congratulations, you did a really good job!
and again and again thank you for sharing all these videos with us!
Thanks you very much!
Very nice Andy it's a work of art. Beats a crappy wooden tinder box.
Thank you. You start with wood but upgrade later 😁
Congratulation! As my friend say "you can not stop construction work, you just put on hold" This was great idea to have transparent cover. This will make you proud what have you done and also avoid opening it every week to look at it.
Thank you!
I probably would look at it very often and open the covers again and again...
thanks for letting us watch your hard work. Can't wait for the next adventure.
Thanks Kevin. Battery 3.0 is in the planning 😁
Wow! Just, wow! That really came out nice! Ooh LED's are a must now.
Hahaha, thanks Sean 🤭
Hi Andy the aluminum will stop signal I found that out when I tried to communicate with my BMS through a color bond tin wall cladding on the house,but I found that u can extend the BMS cable to compensate for that.I extended my cable to 7 metre and it still worked fine,cheers Rene.
Thanks, Rene. I haven't had any issues so far with signal strengths. Even in the old metal cabinet I used to have, I could always connect tot all solar charge controllers just fine.
Congratulations Andy! I fully share your joy!..
Great job Andy! Both from a build perspective and knowledge perspective, you've come such a long way from that battery in the plastic tub. It continues to be quite fun watching your progress and learning with you!
Thanks a lot Russ. Wit for Battery 3.0 😉
It’s been great watching your videos Andy thoroughly enjoyed every minute of your detailed episodes. More content like this is what is needed. Thank you for all of your efforts and time in making all of these awesome videos.
Thanks a lot, much appreciated!
Good work and good man for all us newbyes. Tanks for the Great work and all good videos
Thank you, you're most welcome.
It looks very nice well done you are a real perfectionist
Thanks a lot, Vic.
I like that you love clear alignment!
And the transparent front looks perfect aswell.
YES, put in the lights! :-D
Thanks! Will do!
Hi @Andy @OffGridGarage #OffGridGarage , wow what a journey its been, thankyou so much for taking us along on the journey, side note, not sure about AUS rules but Polycarbonate has a better fire rating than Acrylics and PVC here in the UK, might be a solution for your regulations and give you visibility too, also please still start a few videos saying "hello and welcome to sunny hot AUS with...Amps " and tell us how many Amps your pulling IMHO that's one of your most excellent catch phrases ;-]
Looks amazing! Well done Andy! I am jealous...
très joli cela présente bien .very nice it looks good
Thanks a lot!
Fab system really nice looking agree that the clear glass is way better than boring aluminium. Just need to tidy up your solar panels now!!
Thank you. If it would stop raining I could go on the roof...
I'm exactly the same Andy 🤣 OCD can be a blessing or a burden sometimes...
I could not see these gabs any more! HAHAHA
Very nice👍
Greetings from Bavaria
Danke Dir!
Looks very slick
Fabulous Andy. 👍
Thanks, Dave. Also thank you for your donation recently. Much appreciated!
@@OffGridGarageAustralia Thank you.
@@FutureSystem738 Let me know if you need any help with your battery setup.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia Sincere thanks Andy.
It looks fantastic Andy, very professional. Thanks for sharing your journey, it was thoroughly enjoyable and i could not wait to see each new episode😊
Thanks Peter, heaps more to come!
Congrats on the finished BATT. BOX.... Andy, to me, the sailcloth shade cover over the pool is wasted space, ... MORE Panels!!!
Thank you. The pool structure is not made for carrying solar panels I'm afraid. It's in the shade most of the time anyway. It's more to prevent leaves to fall in the pool 😉
Looks amazing Andy +1 on the LED's!
The total SOC should remain unaffected so long as there isn't any 'unmetered' discharge while it is disconnected from the other packs. The distribution of that SOC will briefly change however correct itself as you mentioned when the charge cycle approaches higher voltages. The pack with the lower SOC will consume more current until they match. Great videos, love the testing and scientific method you apply!
I fully charged it yesterday and the SOC was off by 1Ah only. So disconnecting 2 banks for 2h each did not affect it at all!
Can't wait to see you add the new panels to the other rooves!
Coming soon. It's still raining though 🤦♂️
Your head is bashed with the shunt ahr......you really smashed mine.......or it could just be the SPATs ......ha ha.
The clear front looks fantastic, really shows off all your hard work......
As for led light.........why bloody not, it's better than them fancy computers with them in...
Just in middle of setting up 3x grid tie inverter at work on a 3ph system, only small at moment but IV give them the room to expand.
Happy sunny days.
Thanks Marc!
Thanks Andy
It looks great, no question though I worry that the lack of external air circulation will cause electronics / heat sink / battery temperatures to be higher, particularly in summer when ambient temperature and solar charge rate will also be higher. I understand that LiFePo4 calendar aging (or is it cycle life?) is adversely affected by elevated temperatures.
Perhaps a vented screened filtered air fan might be warranted?
Looks really good. Congratulations
Thank you, Rik!
You should have used transparent aluminum for the front! Nice job Andy! Enjoyed the whole process!
Hehe 😁 Star Trek it was
I'll put a link in the description for this transparent aluminium. Great tip 😆
@@OffGridGarageAustralia 🤣
@@OffGridGarageAustralia ua-cam.com/video/DduO1fNzV4w/v-deo.html
We have transparent alumina as a material. Dope it and you can end up with ruby or sapphire.
Thanks!
Thanks a lot, Darren!
@@OffGridGarageAustralia I love watching you videos the way you put them together and I find them very informative and helpful
Looks great Andy, although to me the biggest single improvement was getting those three positive cables finally tied down!
Thanks Chris. I misplaced these cable mounts, ordered new ones just to find the old one back. I've got plenty now 😏
Bist wahnsinnig handwerklich begabt. Ganz großes Lob an dieser Stelle!
Danke Dir vielmals!
I thought your OCD gaps need was ridiculous! They're just freaken batteries. But. Once you were done I was much relived by the calming effect of perfect alignment. I think it was a Feng Shui thing!
Haha in Dutch you're called a "mierenneuker". But how nice does it look, beautiful!!
Thanks a lot, Rik. I looked this up 😂😂😂
Looks great! Are temps warmer with it sealed up?
It looks fantastic! Would have been a shame to cover it up with aluminum after doing all the OCD aligning. Hope you don't have any hot spots when you run a heavy load on that top bank. I can imagine the removal of the covers could get annoying if you have to get in there often.
Thank you. I can remote control every bank through the Bluetooth app for the BMS in case I need to. And it takes only 45s to take off the panel. I literally haven;t touched the middle battery with the JK-BMS since we set it up.
Sehr schönes Projekt.
Danke Dir!
Yes, light it up!
I loved to play doom 🥰 nice Job
Yeah, one of the first multiplayer games back in the days...
God job Andy. Keep up the good videos 👌👌
What do you think about adding a smoke alarm on inside top of shelf system?
On my list! Will be project for the whole garage. I have the Raspi already😉
Light it up Andy!
It's a beautiful thing!
Thank you. I like it too. It's great to come into the garage now...
This is A Artist at work very ocd is not to bad I am the same way it is the best Battery Bank Diy thank you for the Great Videos take care from great up north mitten
Thanks a lot. Wait there is more to come... the video list is enough for the next 20 years 😉
Absolute beauty. Well done mate. It's been a blast to watch it build up and I have learned a ton. No led strips. I think that natural beauty needs no make-up. Just leave it be. Or if you must, only white light...
Thanks Juhani. No LED Rainbow flickering, no? 😆
A job well done. Somehow I don’t think this is the end of things!
Thanks Harry. It's finished, it's the end, all done. For a week or so... at least. 😆
@@OffGridGarageAustralia ROFLMAO
yes, now the artistic decorative job. :-) 👍
State of charge, amps in and out, you are on the right track! 👍
The charge acceptance (efficiency) is high enough that charging 2 batteries instead of 3 is insignificant, leaving you with "amps in is amps in is state of charge." If you were running lead-acid you would have higher losses when charging 2 banks vs 3, but even then the efficiency loss is mostly only over about 80% or even 90% state of charge.
It's a bit confusing to just thinking about it what is going to happen when you do things like this...
thought when you complained that you did not have distances to have between the battery so I thought that you have well grass trimmer and the wires to them are usually between 1.5 - 4mm thick and in durable plastic so it is insulating with (only as a suggestion)
When it comes to LEDs in the cabinet, it can be good that it can be switched off completely, but another suggestion is that you put small analog thermometers in the cabinet so you can see if the temperature rises now when it is relatively closed and no air is flowing through now
Line trimmer... I didn't think about that. I have 2.5mm line here...
The LEDs come with an app and can be either programmed via timer and also switched of completely.
Temperature is a good point. I will have to see what the single BMS say over time. At the moment it is cool down here, so no problems...
Thanks for all the information and experiments. Would it be possible to make a last overview/summary of the final system. I really would like to see a schematic of the whole system and used parts on the DC and AC side.
O and what is the preferred battery and BMS.
Again, thank you for your efforts and time making these videos.
Beautiful shelf!!!
I would not have attached the battery shelf to the ground, in case you needed to move the shelf outside in the case of a fire… maybe some wheels & a handle or a hoop where you could drag the whole thing outside, in a pinch?
Thanks David. The shelf is far to heavy and also top-heavy and it cannot be moved. It is attached to a lot of cables on the back as you may know. It would mean to disconnect them all first. In case of a fire 😉
@@OffGridGarageAustralia - completely understandable! Love your work!
I am running into a similar situation with a battery & power shelf I want to build. I hope I can figure out a mobile solution.
That just looks awesome. I also had the idea with the LED strips. It's probably such a nerd thing. 🤓😄
Thanks Patrick. I'm pretty happy too how it turned out now. Would have been a shame to hide it behind grey Al.
I'm going to fly to Australia and sneak into Andy's garage and just move a bunch of arbitrary things so that they are slightly off.
Transparent Aluminium!
NOOOOO, don't! Ha, you need a screwdriver now to get access to the batteries 😂
@@OffGridGarageAustralia foiled by not being able to find the right philips, again!
Oh no no blinkenlights. You still have the German "ordnung muss sein" reordering all those battery's just so it looks good. when I see the last shots of the video it looks like there is place for 2 more battery shelf's, that's no incident :-) :-)
Nothing to see here... Battery3.0 will be different...
Schön geworden... 👌
Danke Dir!
You should use transparent aluminum like in Star Trek 😉
Yeah, someone said this already. Where do I get it from?
Nice one Andy. I'm only surprised that you don't worry about heat building ..I know it might not be big deal as current might not be so big..but stil i would place small hole on both and then place very fine mesh so all electronics can breath and air can move a bit ..
Yes the heat is a very important point, even this type of battery can't go in fire
I think the smart shunt would be mostly accurate, because you put A amount of amp hours into batteries 2 and 3, then recconecting battery 1 will take 1/3*A amp hours from batteries 2 and 3 into battery 1 (the smart shunt doesnt see this) so the total amp hours will still equal A it just came out of 2 and 3 into battery 1. So the smart shunt reading will be mostly accurate because you would have lost some watt-hours because of resistance between the batteries, in both connection resistance and ESR of the cells.
I was thinking near the end, would look good with some white/cool white LED strips at the top front 👍
Do it 🥳👍
Looks great, hope the sun comes out for you soon 🤞🤞
Looking forward to the next ep already 🍻🎉
Hahaha, great, thanks for watching until the end 😂
Superbe travail, je me demande si il ne faudrait tout de même pas juste un petit ventilateur d'extraction de chaleur pour les périodes d'été ou de canicule ? bonne continuation ANDY.👍
German perfectionist 😂
And yes, this was the right decision.
Aaaannnnd yes to RGB 😎
Hahaha, haven't seen a no to the LEDs yet. Thank you 😉
Capacity changes, so should you update the shunt?
Add the lighting strips, then stand back light your pipe and admire your handywork
If I disconnect the battery bank for a long time, I would change the capacity in the smart shunt. For these 2-3h, it does not really matter, I think. It will balance out again once fully charged.
Looking good Andy
Yes to the LEDS but in Victron Blue . Blue Power !
It's the Blue PowerWall!💪
Heya, that looks very beautiful so straight your ocd must be very happy lol but truelly looks like a profesional instalation. I hope my closed will look only halve of yours I'll be happy
The noise is the half bridge buck/boost is switching at too low a frequency and you can hear it. Happens below 60 kHz.
The BMS is turned off though. The switch does not seem to really turn it off, ey?!
@@OffGridGarageAustralia I’d bet it is noisy ONLY when it’s turned off and that it’s going into power saving and it’s a single IC on the board that provides power to the micro controller at all times. They will start skipping and lower the switching frequency to save power and meet EU regulations for “vampire power draws”.
Woohoo! Great job Andy! What’s next?! 😊
Bunnings sell the plastic tile spacers in big bag in isle with grout or tile glue.
I know but we were flooded in...
@@OffGridGarageAustralia sorry to here that even in Thailand where I am retired it is really early rain the Monsoon seems to be 4 weeks earlier causing havoc with our fruit tree's.
Holy crap this looks goooood. Damn good work, Andy. It pays off! I'm actually jealous :D I'll know what to save up for the next few years 🤣 oh, and please do install the LED strip! :)
Thanks a lot! Yeah, it came out pretty nice after all this work I put in and people telling me off this shelf idea since the beginning. I'll do a cost breakdown in a future video.
It's a Go for the leds....
I thought so too
The plastic fronts look awesome! The whole thing does Andy. Something to be proud of! And.. yeah go for it with the LED's worth a look eh?
Thanks a lot, Dan!
Top job Andy Has been a very interesting journey through the whole process which has brought up lots of questions that have all been answered. I would have thought the last part of the video would be you relaxing on a BENDED banana lounge with a nice cold S.P.A.T in front of the setup.
Thanks Glen. Yeah, I need to get such a bended sofa to relax in the garage now. But, there is no time! So much more to do 😁
Solar coke can tip - To see if you are getting the best position for your panels, take a coke can and place it in the middle of the panel - if the coke can has no shadow on any sides besides the bottom, you have the correct position :)
We have S.P.A.T. for this!. You must be new to the channel 😏 Welcome!
@@OffGridGarageAustralia I am 😁😁👍🏼👍🏼
Welcome Buddy, I just spent the last 3 months binge watching this guy, u got a lot to get thru, enjoy! Cheers
@@jdmderick let me know when you find the S.P.A.T. videos 🍺
I think a 3D printer could bring your OCD to the next LVL! ask me how i know... haha
As for the lights... wasted energy if you ask me :)
nice work Andy, wish i had the room to build it that way, pretty neat
NAAAAAAHHHH, DON'T!
I don't want to make little nice plastic parts for my setups myself. I really don't!!!! 😆
@@OffGridGarageAustralia lmao
You know you do 😂
There is a switch in settings for the smart shunt To activate synchronisation at hundred percent state of charge so when the battery goes into absorption it’s synchronisers hundred percent. Every time
There are actually three parameters in the Smart Shunt which needs to be met to sync it back to 100%. We will explore this in a video soon.
yes your correct . i've been through it with mine . i look forward to your input though .
hopefully i might learn some more from it . sweet bank m8 . love it !
Hi Andy i like the turn off switch u installed on the BMS which cable did u use it on I WANT to do the same on my over kill BMSs.cheers from sunny Vic,Rene.🤔
Not sure, it came to me like this. I will have a look...
You gave me an idea with the bended polycarbonate top cover . I think I will make some to act as trays for the cells to sit in to catch any leakage should it happen over the years .
I don't think they will leak ever.
@@OffGridGarageAustralia I don't think they will either but....
well done Andy
You could put a nitrogen purge on the cabinet, it would limit corrosion, add fire protection and no pests would enter. Only if you have continuous ventilation on the garage.
Like an Ion-Thrusters?
@@OffGridGarageAustralia You would tube it in from a nitrogen bottle, and by using a sensitive pressure meter and a flow rotameter, again, low flow. You can make your own flow meter with a little clear tubing. The pressure measures the difference between atmospheric (room pressure) and the cabinet. About 1 inch of water column would be all you need. It is a standard way of preserving equipment from moisture and oxygen damage.
great work !
All right ! I told my girl friend i would put in led strips. Et voila!
Now this is done, will you colonize Mars?
I ll buy you some more spat for the journey.
Yeah, what's next? How about an awesome, easy to build, community Battery3.0?
It all looks great. I would like to see a video about the EV charging setup. Maybe I missed a video. It would look cool if the car charging cable had LED lights that are lit when charging, maybe they could even be set to light up in a pulse along the cable. Like Christmas lights? I think you get more rain in a day or two than I get in a year.
Thanks Ron. The actual EVSE from Tesla has got these running lights when charging. I didn't make a dedicated video about the charging port as it is just a 16A single phase outlet, connected to the AC panel of the inverter.
told you in the last video you needed some lights in the cabinet got you thinking hahaha
Nah, I had these lights for a long time and showed them already in a video a while back. Everyone was like, nah, no LEDs. Now, it's the opposite 🤭
G'day Andy, love your work, I have learnt a lot . Your comment on the new 4s jk bms that it is not suitable for series or parallel . I have an 8s set up using a jk 8s bms, if I wanted to parallel another 8s system and wanted to use another jk 8s bms wouldn't this confuse the Bluetooth on the app. I see on your big battery you are using 3 different bms with 3 differant apps.......