All electric

It's all electric.....I want you to discuss 3 topics on this page. Switching in the outhouse, cabling from the outhouse to the garage, breaker bord in outhouse. I'm not tackling the breaker board in the garage, it's covered in the ATS or automatic transfer switch.

It's rather a disconnect switch. With this switch I can disconnect the batteries from the inverter/solar panels. It's rated 600A, so rather overrated, but It was a steal on a flea market.

Because of this design I can use power generated directly from the solarpanels and relief stress on the batteries. Do you remember Kirchoff's circuit law? To reduce losses I used 25mm cable between 48V busbar between the charger/inverter. The cable to the pack is 16mm / 5 AWG. Good luck educating the boss lady to use power when the sun is out!

So you think building a powerwall is testing and welding batteries in your man cave? Get yourself a bottle of water and get ready for some exercise.

Trenching from the tower to the outhouse. No it's not a Tesla tower. I'm a hamradio operator (ON7RU) but that's another story. From the tower to the garage I already had a 11cm/5inch tube installad for all kinds of wires & coax cables.

Things can get messy. Wires from the outhouse to the garage, some UTP data cables, and solar wires from the combinerbox to the charger in the outhouse.

Just the tube for the solar wires and grounding cable is missing, but it connects on the grey tube. (at this moment in the process, the solar/combinerbox is not yet installed, so no solar cables)

This is how the solar cables and ground enter the outhouse via the concrete floot. The AC cable goes straight to the garage.

6 months later, the trenching zone is barely visible. Boss lady happy, me happy and those damn chickens don't have a clue what's going on.

A fairly standard breaker bord in the outhouse. From left to right: the earth leaking breaker, 4 AC breaker for 2 circuits. and 2 80A DC breakers for cutting the DC from the PCM60X charger. In the left cable tray 2 cables with 3*2.5mm (3*13 AWG), one AC in and 1 AC out, the right side (only DC) the cables from the copper strip above the switch.

How is it wired up? The AC-IN goes straight to the inverter, it's not used for the moment. AC-OUT from the inverter goes via the earth leakage connector to the 4 AC breakers. 1 circuit is for green energy in the outhouse, the other circuit is for the cable towards the garage. 2x25mm/2 AWG cables from the 48V busbar via a 80A DC breaker. Put some extra tin on those 25mm/2 AWG cables!