Off-Grid Academy UK
EOD-CIT-301 • Citizen & Household Track

Home Micro-Grids & Sovereign Compute: LiFePO4, Solar & Offline AI (EOD-CIT-301)

Design silent indoor LiFePO4 solar micro-grids for overcast British winters and build your own air-gapped "Project Alexandria" local AI & Wikipedia server.

Option A: Self-Paced Online Course (£395)

18 Hours Deep Engineering Labs + CAD Schematics

  • 4x Deep Electrical, Solar & Sovereign Compute Video Modules (18 hours)
  • BS 7671 consumer unit changeover schematics, fuse sizing calculators & Kiwix/Ollama installation scripts
  • Lifetime updates to our curated Project Alexandria .ZIM & local LLM configuration image

Option B: Online Material + 5-Day / 5-Night Intensive Residential (£2295)

All-inclusive UK residential training (5 Days / 5 Nights)

  • Full Online Learning Material access + 5 nights private accommodation & all meals
  • 5 days live workshop training with 18th-Edition Micro-Grid Engineers & Linux Cyberdeck Architects
  • Build & wire live 48V Victron/LiFePO4 banks, manual changeover switches, and your own offline AI server
  • Take-home Pre-Loaded 1TB Rugged Offline Knowledge SSD + Anderson Powerpole Kit (£160 value)

Module-by-Module Curriculum & Practical Labs

M1: UK Winter Solar Physics & LiFePO4 Battery Bank Engineering (4.5 hrs)

  • Why December in Britain gives 0.6 Peak Sun Hours vs 4.5 in July—and how to size PV arrays for winter survival
  • LiFePO4 BMS chemistry, C-rates, low-temperature cut-off protection (<0°C charging damage), and 12V vs 24V vs 48V bus architecture
  • Re-configuring grid-tied rooftop solar (which shuts down in a blackout due to G98/G99 anti-islanding) using hybrid inverters or manual DC MPPT tap-offs

Hands-On Lab: Complete a full Wh/day critical load spreadsheet and fuse/cable gauge schematic for your home.

M2: Safe UK Consumer Unit Isolation & Changeover Switching (BS 7671) (4.0 hrs)

  • Why "suicide cables" (double male 13A plugs) kill linemen and destroy inverters
  • Installing a 40A manual break-before-make changeover switch and managing Neutral-Earth (N-E) bonding on portable inverters so RCDs actually trip
  • Pure sine wave vs modified sine wave: protecting inductive fridge compressors and sensitive boiler PCBs

Hands-On Lab: Test Earth-Loop impedance and RCD trip behaviour on an islanded portable power station.

M3: Building "Project Alexandria": Air-Gapped Kiwix, OSM & Medical Servers (5.0 hrs)

  • Deploying Kiwix-Serve on a 6W Raspberry Pi 5 or Intel N100 running off native 12V DC
  • Downloading & verifying `.zim` archives: Full English Wikipedia (102GB), WikiMed Clinical Reference, iFixit, and StackExchange
  • Hosting a self-contained offline UK Ordnance Survey / OpenStreetMap tile server and ATAK Meshtastic gateway over local Wi-Fi

Hands-On Lab: Build a bootable NVMe offline knowledge server accessible via any browser at `http://ark.local`.

M4: Running Local Quantised LLMs (Ollama / Llama-3) with Zero Internet (4.5 hrs)

  • Selecting 4-bit/8-bit GGUF quantised models for CPU/NPU edge hardware (Llama-3.1-8B, Qwen-2.5-Coder, MedLlama)
  • Building a local RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) pipeline over survival medicine PDFs, RSGB radio manuals, and mechanical schematics
  • EMP/CME cold storage: conductive gasket enclosures and 3-2-1 air-gapped NVMe backup rotation

Hands-On Lab: Deploy an offline medical & engineering AI assistant drawing under 12W of DC power.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What are the delivery options and UK fees for Home Micro-Grids & Sovereign Compute: LiFePO4, Solar & Offline AI (EOD-CIT-301)?

Home Micro-Grids & Sovereign Compute: LiFePO4, Solar & Offline AI is available as a self-paced Online Digital Course (£395, 18 Hours Deep Engineering Labs + CAD Schematics) or as an all-inclusive Online Material + 5-Day / 5-Night Intensive Residential (£2295) at our Peak District, Welsh Borders, or Cotswolds centres.

What certification and practical lab skills will I complete in EOD-CIT-301?

Graduates earn the Sovereign Systems & Off-Grid Micro-Grid Architect Certificate after completing 4 practical engineering modules with Online: Optional Pi 5 / Multimeter • Residential: All workshop rigs & 1TB Knowledge SSD included.