Renogy Workshop Solution Kit Beginner Set-Up | How to Install and Power Your off-grid Cabin

In this video, we get our off-grid cabin outfitted with a complete solar power system from Renogy. These kits provide an excellent opportunity for novice DIY'ers to install their own systems. Be sure to check out the their website and use the discount codes below:
Discount code:
The retail price for the original solution kit is $3999.99. Since it's a newly launched product, it's currently on discount for around $2559 last time I checked. But the Renogy team happily offered me and my audience the full kit at $2303.99 and $2735.99 using the code.
1. novice kit：$924 OFF
Msrp： $3299.99
List price：$2639.99
Special offers：$2303.99
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2. craftsman kit: $1358.8 OFF
MSRP：$4299.99
List price：$3267.99
Special offers：$2735.99
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[notgonnadoit]

We run our off grid camp on 2 Renogy 550w Bi-facial solar panels and an EcoFlow Delta Pro power station (3600kw which qualifies for the tax credit). Love EcoFlow because it’s plug and play…I didn’t have to waste hours of my life trying to figure out inverters, charge controllers, batteries, etc. And the batteries are LiFePo4! Everything was easy peasy and just worked.

[tradermunky]

Nice. At full price I can find better deals but with the discounts it's pretty good 👍

[robertduffy]

suggestion - get some Rockwool into those walls, ceiling, and floor to keep that place toasty in winter and cool in summer. won't take more than a few bags and you'll never have to deal with it again.

[KevinGastonSR.]

Hope you get the fuses or breakers in soon so there's no accidents. Also the size wire between your batteries and renogy bus bar are undersized for handling 250 Amp max to the inverter. I recommend moving ground wire to opposite battery so you get a even draw on the batteries

[LWYOffGridHomestead]

Is it a 12v system?..do they have a 48v kit? Cant wait to see it in action

[JR-rxke]

I was wondering how long it would take you to tape the + battery cable lug before final installation-even though it was tucked behind a stair/ladder stringer.
Had it been me, I would have put an inline main disconnect switch on + side of the battery wire (using longer cable -painted red) from the battery +terminal to the disconnect mounted high on the plywood, and of course a longer piece of red (or painted red) cable back to the device with the buss bar. You could have had a heavy equipment repair shop make up the two extra cables with appropriate lugs. FYI Always connect the + cable first, then the - terminal.

[resleem]

Thanks for real world, hands on video! Question, what king of small camera are you using on the small tripod stand?

[TN-Land-Manager]

Are you concerned about the cables and varmints all winter? Interested to see this is in working order and you testing it this fall.

[sycoticlyme]

Thank you for uploading your step by step process, I've yet to take the plunge but these serve as sort of a refresher. One thing I noticed is you landed one of the small/thin material comm. cables for the combiner box before the load wire ... so the load wires contact is restricted by the thin material in front of it and the bus bar. 20:55 area. Cause for concern?

[thenextpoetician]

Hope you don't mind this not at all cheery info, however for further down the road you might consider hardening off against a range of solar eruptions/cosmic rays/proton storms and so on, since some/many of these can wipe the grid, to varying extent depending on where the sun-facing portion of earth was upon impact, though some effects engulf the planet. Electrified civilization has a best before date of as few as a couple of centuries. Had the 1859 Carrington Event happened before you made this video, you might have been unable to make it. It's interesting reading. This is an electric universe. Our sun is an externally-powered capacitor and pulse-power generator, and when it discharges, we take the heat. Still, we're here because of survivors.

[shannonswyatt]

Well, it isn't a lot of voltage, it is 12 volts. But the amps will knock the snot out of you!

[richwood]

The wires from the battery are much smaller than those connecting the inverter. You have 400 amps running through what appears to be 6 guage wire. Those will glow nicely.

[StonerSmurfin]

Just know that MC4 connectors can fail on you after a while. I was having issues getting power and couldn't figure out what was going on till I saw a video saying that they can fail. I took a look at them and the metal in the clips had a lot of corrosion. Changed it and worked great again. It did take about 5 years to fail, but it does happen.

[rustybell]

I've often wondered why some company doesn't come up with a unit that combines all those 3 boxes into one. Then you'd simply have to mount the box, connect batteries to box (quick connectors?). Plug & play style. Those of us that are void of electrical skills and scared to death of messing with that sparky stuff would buy that for sure.

[SJHedeen-hims]

your small wires should go on top of the heavy wires in your combiner box your largest load wires go on first with lightest load wires on top

[davescorneroftheworld]

The next time you come up to the cabin PLEASE TIGHTYED the four leads at the charge controller. Loose wires is a charge controller's ENEMY!
Then the next time you come to the cabin tighten the same four leads again. It is almost impossible to overtake them.
If they get loose you will have resistance at that point and you will burn up your charge controller. "Ask me how I know"! I let the wires get loose on a 60 amp MPPT charge controller and the loose wires BURNED UP my 60 amp MPPT charge controller, that was several years ago and the charge controller was MUCH MUCH more expensive then your little 40 amp cost today.
I have 1, 950 watts of solar on my motorhome, a 100 amp MPPT, a 30 amp and a 20 amp charge controller feeding my 1, 200 amp hour battery bank.
AGAIN LOOSE CONNECTIONS WILL DISTROY COMPONETS!

[floridaguy]

Your battery is wired incorrect the positive and negative have to come from a separate battery or they will not charge and discharge correctly