Have you replaced all of your batteries??? I have a all electric side by side that needs new batteries what’s the safest way to replace old batteries with new..???
Plus I can pull power back out of the EV at night if I leave it plugged in to my home system. Something these car companies keep talking about doing with cars, & I've been doing it all along. Of course my home system is 48vdc as are most, & the EV is 48v. So that makes it easy vs a car connecting to a home which is usually grid tie. But it just needs to be purposely built.
@@bransonoffgrid Hey there, great video! I'm looking at getting an old ranger, putting lithium ion batteries and using it like you are for solar storage. It looks like you are bypassing the onboard battery mgt. system, is that right? Does your ranger battery bank connect only at your charge controller before going to you inverter? Also, if you were to plug it into a grid outlet, would you reconnect that red plug into something on your ranger and then use a regular outlet? Thanks
@@Alhajadebaja There is no batt mgt on the Ranger. The Outback PM80 charge controller manages the charge. Discharge is managed through the Ranger inverter. Plug is either to PM80 or direct to Magnums when plugged in. One video has a wiring diagram. I'm sure there are others charging like this. You could use any battery chemistry you wanted to install I guess. The PM80 can be programmed to suit most anything. It comes down to cost really. These batt's work good & I can re-purpose them from my solar. They are heavy though.
Congrats, you're about 1/10 of 1% of the population of America. At the pace off-grid solar is being installed in Australia you'd probably be 3%! In some cities it's being mandated now. People acted like I was in some kind of cult when I told them I had installed a saltwater battery & I was going to run my house off of it. Even my solar installer thought it was a scam. He still asks how it's working for me. Now, a lot of people who could of easily afforded it 5 years ago, are looking at less or no income & wish they had done it when they had the extra money.
Good videos. I live in StL and also ha e a 2010 Ranger EV. curious to know if you ever figured out the loud noise coming from rear. Mine has it too and no one knows what it is. I took a video of the sound and can share it to see if it’s the same noise you have. Thx
Hello, great video. I like the things you’ve done to the EV. Mine is also a 2010 EV. I’m curious if you made a video about how you installed the bigger batteries? And why did you have to remove the motor? Thank you in advance.
Watch the 9 part series called 'Battery Upgrade' in the videos - th-cam.com/users/bransonoffgridvideos I pulled the motor to have it tested to see if it was the cause of the 'shutter' noise that I made the other series of videos about. It was perfect, no problem. Seems to be my front u-joint, or CV's, or combination of both I think. I'm not going to bother with it. If it had a gas engine, you'd never even hear that little bit of noise anyway. The minor noise after 10 years doesn't bother me enough to actually replace parts trying to make it perfectly quiet again. I haven't really done anything to it other than upgrade the batteries that one time, & add a plug to charge them direct from my offgrid solar system. I'm still using the original tires & brakes, & they look like they could last another 10 years! My 'gas' is energy I'm wasting during the middle of the day during the 'duck curve'! Excellent UTV if you can live within it's limitations of being tied to having to charge it vs adding gas. 10 years from now if I need a new one, they'll probably be much better on range, & the batteries will last 30 years! The tech is actually already here now, just not implemented just yet. I've posted some video on battery capacitor tech & it's already improved since then.
Well, 254 hours of use in 10 years with 90% being April - Oct during summer planting hours to pulling the sweet potatoes at the end of season... must be someway to calculate that out! For 7 months I use it almost every day, but I don't go miles & I recharge it so often I never get below 50% charge. I really have no idea what the range could be if I took it out on the road & did a cruise in Eco Mode till it came to a stop. But if someone wanted to donate enough money for me to trailer it to an area I could use as a test track I'd do it just for fun. Just contact - mailto:david@bransonoffgrid.com & we'll figure something out. We don't have a lot of flat here.
We go very short distances around the complex. That's why my EV hours are so low at the 10 year mark. It's mostly from our upper gardens to the lower gardens. You just can't carry stuff by hand. So a lawnmower & trailer was replaced by the EV which makes perfect sense if you're on an offgrid system anyway. The EV was already 48vdc, so plugging in direct only makes to charge it, vs the built-in 110vac charger. The EV just has limitations. When you run out of electricity, you can't just pour some in. Although, if you look at my videos, there is this car in Switzerland that's 48vdc & uses a liquid refill system. So here's hoping! Otherwise, you need a pretty big generator to recharge from or roll out at least 5kw of solar panels to charge fast enough. You can get soft solar panels that are pretty light, but I haven't seen anyone do it except the military. The panels would take up your whole bed, but it can be done.
@@bransonoffgrid Gas will go past $5 a gallon again it's not a matter of if but when. also when it hits $10 a gallon that's when everything goes to hell!
@@METALMAN4Wii Yes, but that's why I'm OG & teach others how to do it. I saw this coming 20 years ago. It's just in the USA, there's few who can work together to make an OG Community sharing their own power. If you build an OG Community, you can sell the homes. It's best to have 10 homes sharing power to get the cost down enough where you can buy commercial battery tech & so forth, to get the cost down. Other countries are doing it, but sadly, the USA will be last in this line. Everything in this country is run top down by Cabals. The citizens themselves don't work together very well for a common benefit.
@@bransonoffgrid Yup Amazon is going to electric vans that means we are gonna have to double the electricity the grid makes, so solar farms will be the new gold rush.
Have you replaced all of your batteries??? I have a all electric side by side that needs new batteries what’s the safest way to replace old batteries with new..???
Consider an upgrade to a Lithium kit. We did it on our 2010 EV and are exceptionally pleased with it.
I like the charging set up you have. Instead of inverting with a loss and then charging with a loss, your direct charging gains at least 20%.
Plus I can pull power back out of the EV at night if I leave it plugged in to my home system. Something these car companies keep talking about doing with cars, & I've been doing it all along. Of course my home system is 48vdc as are most, & the EV is 48v. So that makes it easy vs a car connecting to a home which is usually grid tie. But it just needs to be purposely built.
@@bransonoffgrid Hey there, great video! I'm looking at getting an old ranger, putting lithium ion batteries and using it like you are for solar storage. It looks like you are bypassing the onboard battery mgt. system, is that right? Does your ranger battery bank connect only at your charge controller before going to you inverter? Also, if you were to plug it into a grid outlet, would you reconnect that red plug into something on your ranger and then use a regular outlet? Thanks
@@Alhajadebaja There is no batt mgt on the Ranger. The Outback PM80 charge controller manages the charge. Discharge is managed through the Ranger inverter. Plug is either to PM80 or direct to Magnums when plugged in. One video has a wiring diagram. I'm sure there are others charging like this. You could use any battery chemistry you wanted to install I guess. The PM80 can be programmed to suit most anything. It comes down to cost really. These batt's work good & I can re-purpose them from my solar. They are heavy though.
Good video. We are off grid in kissee mills about 25 mins from branson.
Congrats, you're about 1/10 of 1% of the population of America. At the pace off-grid solar is being installed in Australia you'd probably be 3%! In some cities it's being mandated now. People acted like I was in some kind of cult when I told them I had installed a saltwater battery & I was going to run my house off of it. Even my solar installer thought it was a scam. He still asks how it's working for me. Now, a lot of people who could of easily afforded it 5 years ago, are looking at less or no income & wish they had done it when they had the extra money.
Good videos. I live in StL and also ha e a 2010 Ranger EV. curious to know if you ever figured out the loud noise coming from rear. Mine has it too and no one knows what it is. I took a video of the sound and can share it to see if it’s the same noise you have. Thx
OK, email david@bransonoffgrid.com
Hello, great video. I like the things you’ve done to the EV. Mine is also a 2010 EV. I’m curious if you made a video about how you installed the bigger batteries? And why did you have to remove the motor? Thank you in advance.
Watch the 9 part series called 'Battery Upgrade' in the videos - th-cam.com/users/bransonoffgridvideos
I pulled the motor to have it tested to see if it was the cause of the 'shutter' noise that I made the other series of videos about. It was perfect, no problem. Seems to be my front u-joint, or CV's, or combination of both I think. I'm not going to bother with it. If it had a gas engine, you'd never even hear that little bit of noise anyway. The minor noise after 10 years doesn't bother me enough to actually replace parts trying to make it perfectly quiet again. I haven't really done anything to it other than upgrade the batteries that one time, & add a plug to charge them direct from my offgrid solar system. I'm still using the original tires & brakes, & they look like they could last another 10 years! My 'gas' is energy I'm wasting during the middle of the day during the 'duck curve'! Excellent UTV if you can live within it's limitations of being tied to having to charge it vs adding gas.
10 years from now if I need a new one, they'll probably be much better on range, & the batteries will last 30 years! The tech is actually already here now, just not implemented just yet. I've posted some video on battery capacitor tech & it's already improved since then.
Thanks for the update. Great info. How many miles you get off your full charge?
Thank you
Well, 254 hours of use in 10 years with 90% being April - Oct during summer planting hours to pulling the sweet potatoes at the end of season... must be someway to calculate that out! For 7 months I use it almost every day, but I don't go miles & I recharge it so often I never get below 50% charge. I really have no idea what the range could be if I took it out on the road & did a cruise in Eco Mode till it came to a stop. But if someone wanted to donate enough money for me to trailer it to an area I could use as a test track I'd do it just for fun. Just contact - mailto:david@bransonoffgrid.com & we'll figure something out. We don't have a lot of flat here.
Bet you saved at least $10,000 in gas over the 10 years plus no oil changes I bet?
We go very short distances around the complex. That's why my EV hours are so low at the 10 year mark. It's mostly from our upper gardens to the lower gardens. You just can't carry stuff by hand. So a lawnmower & trailer was replaced by the EV which makes perfect sense if you're on an offgrid system anyway. The EV was already 48vdc, so plugging in direct only makes to charge it, vs the built-in 110vac charger. The EV just has limitations. When you run out of electricity, you can't just pour some in. Although, if you look at my videos, there is this car in Switzerland that's 48vdc & uses a liquid refill system. So here's hoping! Otherwise, you need a pretty big generator to recharge from or roll out at least 5kw of solar panels to charge fast enough. You can get soft solar panels that are pretty light, but I haven't seen anyone do it except the military. The panels would take up your whole bed, but it can be done.
@@bransonoffgrid Gas will go past $5 a gallon again it's not a matter of if but when. also when it hits $10 a gallon that's when everything goes to hell!
@@METALMAN4Wii Yes, but that's why I'm OG & teach others how to do it. I saw this coming 20 years ago. It's just in the USA, there's few who can work together to make an OG Community sharing their own power. If you build an OG Community, you can sell the homes. It's best to have 10 homes sharing power to get the cost down enough where you can buy commercial battery tech & so forth, to get the cost down. Other countries are doing it, but sadly, the USA will be last in this line. Everything in this country is run top down by Cabals. The citizens themselves don't work together very well for a common benefit.
@@bransonoffgrid Yup Amazon is going to electric vans that means we are gonna have to double the electricity the grid makes, so solar farms will be the new gold rush.