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Online, SAA-accredited CPD training for Australian solar and battery installers — taught by Pat Southwell, a Licensed Electrical Inspector who sees the defects on the tools every day.

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Pat Southwell, Licensed Electrical Inspector

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Short, practical video courses for installers, apprentices, and the admin and sales teams behind them. Most earn SAA CPD points; all of them are made by people on the tools.

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Pat gets asked the same questions every week — on site, at Installer Nights, by email. He can't answer every one of them personally, so we built the next best thing. Chat with Pat is built from his courses and more than 15 years of installing, inspecting and fixing solar and battery systems.

Quick, plain-English answers to the questions installers ask Pat most
Built from every Southwell course and thousands of real inspections
Practical guidance on solar and battery installs, labelling, testing and common defects
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Where's the best spot to put a home battery in a garage?

Pat's rule of thumb from thousands of inspections: keep it away from where the car parks, clear of anything stored against it, easy to get to for isolation and servicing, and get the signage sorted before you leave. Our Battery Locations course walks through good and bad examples, and the free Battery Labelling Checklist covers the labels.

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Taught by the inspector, not a presenter.

Pat Southwell is a Licensed Electrical Inspector, solar installer and electrician who inspects solar and battery systems across Victoria every week. He has audited for Solar Victoria and inspected for the Clean Energy Regulator — so every course is built from the defects he actually finds.

Licensed Electrical Inspector25+ years electrical · 15 in solarSolar Victoria auditorCER inspectorMore about Pat →

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