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Timber mountain cabin among pines with four solar panels on a green metal roof

Timber mountain cabin among pines with four solar panels on a green metal roof

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Pine Gulch
Cabin

A weekend cabin above Nederland that ran on a petrol generator. Four panels on the green metal roof, a 5 kWh module on the pine wall — and no generator since.

Cabin Off-Grid Kit

Nederland, CO

Completed June 2026

Generator hours

since June — lights, the fridge and the well pump run on the roof and the battery.

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The story

Weekends by generator, and the noise with it.

The Brandts’ cabin has no grid line. A petrol generator ran the lights, the fridge and the well pump every weekend.

Off-grid, no generator

Owner-fitted

01

Challenge

No grid, a well pump that starts hard, a fridge that runs all weekend and a forest road the delivery truck could not climb.

02

Solution

The Cabin kit: four panels, an MPPT controller and a 5 kWh module on the pine wall. The pallet went to a neighbour’s yard at the road; a Ranger station and folding panel came for the van.

03

Result

About 2,500 kWh a year, more than the cabin uses. The generator has not run since June, and the Ranger keeps the van fridge going on trips.

Spec sheet

The build, line by line.

Figures from the order, the gateway and the owner, checked with them in October 2026.

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Location
NederlandCO

Kit
Cabin1.7 kW

Roof
Green metal

Storage
5kWh module

Fitted by
Owner

Yearly output
2,500kWh

Generator
0 hsince install

Completed
Jun 2026

Parts in this build

A cabin kit and a portable pair.

The kit runs the cabin. The Ranger station and its folding panel travel in the van — and come indoors if a storm parks the cabin in cloud for days.

Cabin off-grid kit: four compact panels, charge controller, battery box and cable

1 kit

Roof Kits

Cabin 1.7 kW Off-Grid Kit

$2,190

Grey portable power station beside folding solar panels

1

Portable Power

Ranger 2 kWh Portable Power Station

$1,290

Portable four-fold 200 W solar panel on its kickstand

1

Portable Power

Ranger 200 W Folding Solar Panel

$349

On site

One weekend, two people, no ladder truck.

The Brandts carried the kit up from the road on Saturday morning and had the lights on from the battery by Sunday afternoon.

Battery module and charge controller on the pine wall of a cabin

Battery module and charge controller on the pine wall of a cabin

Battery module and controller on the pine wall

Solar kit parts laid out on a wooden floor: panels, inverter, rails and cables

Solar kit parts laid out on a wooden floor: panels, inverter, rails and cables

The kit, laid out on the floor

Fixing bags, cable and an open binder of diagrams laid out on a garage workbench

Fixing bags, cable and an open binder of diagrams laid out on a garage workbench

Bags and cable ready on the bench

Generator hours a year, before and after

Generator retired

Before

410 h

After

0 h

Monthly solar output, first year · kWh

May–Aug in teal

140

J

160

F

210

M

240

A

260

M

280

J

280

J

260

A

220

S

190

O

140

N

120

D

The first year in numbers

5kWh

module on the wall — stack two more later

4panels

on the green metal roof

0hours

on the generator since June

“The first quiet weekend we just sat on the porch and listened. We’d forgotten what the cabin sounds like without the generator.”

EB

Ellie Brandt
Verified buyer · Cabin 1.7 kW Off-Grid Kit

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