hey what's up everybody before we get
into this video I just want to mention
one thing real quick um code is a thing
when you live off grid there are some
areas that don't have any restrictions
but most areas have restrictions when it
comes to your septic because you don't
want to have it to where people are just
you know dumping human waste on the top
of the ground CU when it rains it could
flow into your property and then also
two for power because if somebody rils
their own system and they do it
incorrectly it could cause a fire and if
you're in a forested area like mine
it'll burn the whole Forest down
including everybody's property with it
so that's something to think about you
know and with these uh all-in-one power
stations that blue Eddie puts out a lot
of times you can circumvent code you
don't need a permit for your power
system because it's portable so that's
something to think about you know when
you're when you're looking to go off
grid these systems are easy they're
plug-and playay you know I'm floored at
the technology and how far they've come
these days so let's get into the video
and I'll show you what we've got over my
buddy's
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property this here is my good buddy Chad
we met back in the late 1990s while
working in the tech industry and have
remained good friends to this day Chad
spent a number of years building out a
really nice offgrid Homestead in
northern Arizona complete with a big old
Garden it's got some rabbits uh also
some chickens both egg layers and meat
birds and then also some goats Chad and
his family have spent years converting
various sheds into livable spaces all of
which house Creature Comforts making the
off grid livelihood more enjoyable all
of these structures are powered via
solar but we got a problem Chad's power
system is starting to
fail now with the old system still
somewhat operational we decided that we
could part this project out into phases
and convert each out building over one
at a time so this is the bath house/
laundry room which definitely gets a lot
of use it has a washing machine a hot
water heater and then also a Beday and
when running all together all these
electrical devices pull around 2,500
watts of power I received an email last
month from Blue Eddie who had contacted
me inquiring if I had any scenarios
where we could showcase one of their
renewable solar energy systems powering
an entire off-grid Homestead with my
property being a bit more basic not
having any large energy consumption
devices I shifted my focus to see if we
can make a scenario work over at Chad's
Homestead I explained Chad's power needs
to my contact at bloy who suggested we
use two AC 500s and Four B 300s battery
packs each of the two systems will be
120 volts with the ability to produce up
to 5,000 WTS of continuous power with a
10,000 wat power surge and a battery
storage capacity of
6,144 w hours and that is expandable up
to
18,432 W because you can add six B 300s
battery packs to the ac500 which is
absolutely amazing the life pole 4
batteries have 3500 life cycles to 80%
can be recharged six different ways and
offers 16 versatile outlets for 99% of
the devices out there in addition to all
this blue Eddie offers a four-year
warranty on these devices the idea I
guess is this replaces this entire thing
yeah all of this this was this was put
together by the Solar Company right
these are individual components you can
buy they built it put it together it was
like five or six grand I think mhm um
and that replaces this I mean this
replaces that sorry yeah just this piece
and then all of that is replaced by this
and actually this is 20% more than that
in terms of storage and having two
systems like this you could run the
house off this and then your other
living space off that and then you have
5,000 watts in each pushing out right
and plenty of storage space right so
much easier it's just a plug-and-play
system yes absolutely and that's the
difficulty of expanding with a system
like this is is you can't really tell
but I've got like these are my wires you
can see it back here mhm this is one
building this is the other building and
they have to come in and Bridge into the
same hot negative you know and you know
all the wiring and stuff we could look
at it later but so if I want to add
another building I have to make sure
there's another spot I don't know if
there is I can't remember I see so
what's nice about that is is turn this
into a plug that we plug into here right
mhm and then turn the house into a
different plug that we plug in yeah and
then what what's crazy about it is we
still at 5,000 continuous Watts won't
max out what my house and bath house can
do at the same time yeah it's like all
of this is being replaced with that and
then with that yeah grid power coming in
mhm and then we have AC and DC both on
but there's no power going out to it
yeah right so let's put that on let's
see what
happens it did start Char yeah f
I wanted to explain what we're doing
here this is our electrician friend Tim
and he came up with the idea to turn the
wiring for the bath house and laundry
room into a 20amp plug I picked up a few
of these at the hardware store in town
and what this does this gives Chad the
ability to easily plug this living space
into the ac500 to bring everything
online it's simple easy and effective
and the ac500 has no problem handling
this power
load all right cool going go and plug
that in yep just get that extra the way
let go right over
here oops sorry good you got a big head
yeah all right let's see what it hits
cuz I don't know what's on over
there ah there it goes 4
Watts
yeah so it's up to uh between 820 and
750 and now it's up to 953 that's the
day now almost up to a
th000 so if this pushes 5,000 I'm going
to go turn the water heat around it's
going to jump another 1300 okay sweet
yep uh wow that pulled a lot yeah we're
up to 2600 Watts now well it was 2600
now it's down to 2,000 so it might have
been a surge yeah probably that's
usually nice dude so we're not we're
using about half of the output right now
right and and everything in the house is
on
nice up next is to wire the main
residence here at the homestead inside
there's a large flat screen TV with the
surround sound system and then the
kitchen area there's a full fulls size
fridge and uh in freezer along with a an
oven and then an an air fryer which
actually that pulls quite a bit of power
there making either popcorn or whatever
else the oven itself this pulls I think
I he said anywhere from 500 to 700 watts
and then you've also got you know like
your ceiling fan and then lights all
throughout the the place so
unfortunately though the rain hit pretty
hard and so we had to shut down CU we
didn't want to be outside wiring up
electrical stuff in a storm and so I
took Meadow into town and I use this as
an opportunity to get a few more
supplies so that way when we get back to
wiring up the house house will be good
to go all right we got three more videos
coming with this there's a lot more
stuff that I want to show you all
personally I want to let you know that
I've been using blue Edy products since
2017 and I've never been disappointed
with them whether I was out truck
camping or winter camping and now living
off grid they've always delivered the
quality strength and stability of the
blue Edy products that I use give me
peace of mind knowing that I'll never
run out of power whether you're looking
for a system that's going to help bridge
the gap if the grid goes down and you
live in the city or if you're off- grid
like us out here and you want something
to power your entire Homestead I've got
a link in the video description below if
you use my code offgrid ac500 you get
$200 off your purchase and I cannot
recommend these products enough I mean
I'm blown away and I can't wait to show
you more of what this things are capable
of doing all right thanks for
watching