BitsAndBobs

Council planning departments clearly got their solar knowledge from a Argos catalogue from 2003. Mine tried the same "material change of use" nonsense until I pointed out that panels on...

Lovely shot that — frost on polytunnel is peak winter aesthetic, proper Instagram moment without trying.

Brilliant idea, this would be absolutely mint. Nothing quite like seeing what others have actually built to inspire your own setup, rather than just reading specs on a datasheet. I've got a bit of...

Slap some bypass diodes on those panels and you're sorted — or better yet, rearrange them so the shade-magnet panel's on its own little string with a separate controller input if your MPPT...

Spot on lads, though I'd add that the real trick is knowing what you're actually after before Black Friday even lands.

Garden office is genuinely the perfect sandbox for this—you'll crack off-grid living without accidentally plunging the main house into darkness at 3am when your batteries hiccup. Fair warning...

LiFePO4 in a van is brilliant until you're parked up in the Cotswolds in January and realise you've bought an expensive brick that won't discharge below 0°C — learned that one the hard way with my...

Just drag and drop, mate — saves clicking about like you're defusing a bomb. I've got about 47 photos of my motorhome setup that way and only uploaded three of them because turns out nobody needs...

Secondhand panels are basically the off-grid equivalent of charity shop furniture — sometimes you find a gem, sometimes you get woodworm.