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Bunnings are my go to too. Love them ♥

A true Aotearoa family 🖤🤗

What would it cost to build something like this

Awesome, would happily downsize our house to some land and a big bus

Hey cuz. I have a bus the same size, Mercedes 303d 1989. Same axle set up etc etc. Have lowered the floors too... Still a work in progress... Am fifty. 7 cats. 😻

One of my favourite episodes!

Ty for sharing Wishing you all the best . Simplicity is freedom ❤

Top stuff James do you supply tents overseas?

If I'm running two of these inverters in parallel split phase and I want to use the autostart, do I just use the dry contacts on the Master Unit and leave the second unit's dry contacts alone?

Great video and good work from Elite. Would be great to see an episode dedicated to the Battery sheds and ideas you have seen. I was thinking about a 8ft shipping container but would love to see what you guys have come across in peoples builds.

Awesome ❤

What area is this im Maori and you havent said the name of the area properly so had no idea

How much?

Kia ora Steve and Whanau! Such an awesome and peaceful location, great choice. Just wondering how you go obtaining the land clearing consents.

look, love the home, and loving the support on the Plant Pot!!! #FreePalestine Xx

hey quick question how much would it cost if i needed a setup to power everything as if i was on the grid

yep

amazing job team

Great work Sally and Dan. I enjoy seeing new off grid businesses. The Maui looks like a cool tiny house.

Awesome

THANK YOU BILLY, YOU ARE AWESOME😍

Kudos to you two. I love this lifestyle too. I've been living alone, off grid in caravans since 2014. Didn't have a tap (buckets of water uphill) or heating (except a hot water bottle) candles for light, etc. Every small improvement is a huge step and causes feelings of so much gratitude. Now I have a tap to my outdoor kitchen, a shed & a shower (instant hot water with a califont!) solar runs my fridge, my freezer, an inverter, water pump (shower) lights and charges all my devises Gas for heating & cooking. I live and breathe in nature. I have wild creatures all around me (although some of the birds are fairly tame now) flower gardens which the bees love, and fenced off vege gardens. I look out my windows at the bush, mountains and ocean ❤ I LOVE THIS LIFESTYLE ❤

Thank you for the video. I am finishing up my build with the Growat 12K with 2 48v lipo4 batteries I put together from Docan. I have the 9000 watt Dura Max inverter generator running on propane to power up the EG4 Chargeverter. My plan is to only run the 100 amp Chargeverter on the generator.

Doesn't look like a true Staubli MC4 to me. You might want to mention that in the video since they are not cross compatible. There is no such thing as an "MC4 Compatible Connector," Cross-mating other Mfrs similar looking connectors with true Staubli Multi-Contact MC4 TM voids the listing, warranty and may well lead to fires. Seriously.

Love what you are doing,

Great information, thank you 😊 Lovely articulate lady!

Now that we watch TV entertainment together connected to the world, these cute tips become the best touristic atractions, where you can organize a nice cyber event dating your followers or just enjoying a birthday paaaarty this exotic and wild, nobody must be left behind, nobody's alone anymore, let them web technologies work for you guys & have fun, enjoying extreme trips on the other side of the planet is.. cool🎉❤🎉

What an awesome setup they have made.

How much was the house build?

Hi, Thanks for this detailed video! It really helped me understanding the product. I've got 2 SPF 5000ES inverters in parallel and 8 ARK 2.5L-A1 batteries. I need an output of 10kW (200A x 51.2V), so I wanted to connect two groups of 4 batteries (each 100A) together with this ARK LV HUB-A1, but I noticed it's no longer in production. I live in the Netherlands and I can't get the hub here or anywhere else in Europe anymore unfortunately. Do you think it would be possible to combine the 2 BMS CAN communication cables together a different way, via a kind of different brand BMS combiner if that exists. Then I can connect the postives and negatives together with 2 bus bars myself. Or.. if you still have these hubs in stock, would it be possible to ship them to the Netherlands? Many thanks in advance! :)

What a lovely episode and giveaway. 💓. This couple and their whanau are very earthy and are true blue gid free. Very well deserved. ❤

Great video! Thanks! If I have 3 battery stacks with each 10 of them (total 25.6KWh each stack), does that mean I will need a much thicker positive and negative cables on the output side of the battery hub (or Growatt combiner hub) which can handle 300A? I assume maximum amps for each stack is 100A allowed, so combing all of 3 stacks will end up 48v and 300a if I'm not wrong?

Amazing!

So your telling me i need 800 watts of solarjust to offgrid for 2 days ?

Awesome videos Craig, they're a pleasure to watch, I just stumbled on GridFree today surfing the web, I like everything about what you're doing cuzzie, it's simple to setup if you want to do it yourself, pretty good pricing too, the best thing I like is the total separation and independence from the main grid and no quarterly power bill, I know who I'll be ringing when I move back to Aotearoa Off Grid

Livin the dream 👌

Best vid yet. These guys truly live off grid and I'm impressed, well done GridFree for choosing them. Too many people in their fancy set ups doing it for a lifestyle change. This whanau live it. Tino pai!

Thats ol brotha ben ik him irl

Their lucky bro👍

A life authentic and true ❤️ That's so how my dad and uncle lived most of there lives... I spent many yrs living the same way with dad and am being drawn back to it..

Reminds me of Dad and Dave, Hey Dad i just had my first shag, thats great son, when do you think you will have another? Not for a while Dad, my arse is still sore.

Those guys are inspirational .I am onto my fourth system and I got from grid Free for the first time . Set it up and have lived happily ever after in the shadow of Mt Ruapehu - snow has had little impact , just wipe off gently . But the change in lifestyle and reduction of stress are a major shift and those kids have some very cool parents . I wish them well .

Living the Dream, definitely agree with the offgrid lifestyle and I love that so Many kiwis are starting to create their own little camps now and enjoying the simplicity of this life.. Love their set up..I'd love to find something like this out in the bush somewhere that's been left behind and is unwanted, One day.. Legends

Yay a kiwi off grid story ... I am aiming to do this...off grid , away from everyone .awesome life style

That’s what happiness looks like 😊

When you hear about people winning amazing prizes like this you always HOPE it goes to good people and OMG what a beautiful inspiring whānau🥹well done Grid Free whānau well done🙌🏽

Awesome

A trade like carpentry is always going to have plenty of work. Well done for making the effort to change directions with your working life.

Family time is so important for kid's mental health, especially when they are teenagers. We chose to live in a small house on one income when the kids were little. It didn't pay for me to work. The cost of childcare was more than I could earn. A girlfriend, who is a chartered accountant, worked out that with 2 kids in childcare, she would be earning $10 a week. That's without petrol, office clothes, make-up etc. They decided to have a 3rd child instead.

Father and son combo good to see💯🤝