Trying to Fix My Brother’s Off-Grid Solar System!

In the last video, I shared how my brother’s off-grid solar system wasn’t working as expected—despite low power usage and what should’ve been enough gear. This time, I’m digging deeper.

I followed the solar company’s advice and ran a series of tests to figure out what’s going wrong... and even asked ChatGPT to help me understand the technical side. It turns out there are two main issues:

Shadows are falling across the solar panels at key times of the day

One of the four batteries seems to be underperforming

I tried charging that faulty battery using a Ctek battery charger for 4 hours—but it didn’t charge properly. So we’re still not quite there yet...

This video is all about troubleshooting off-grid power, learning by doing (and googling... and ChatGPT-ing), and slowly getting closer to a solution. I’ll be testing another charging method soon—stay tuned!


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