I get 49 cents a kilowatt for power I export to the grid. I would rather not use that power to run an electric hot water system. In my case I am replacing my old solar HWS with a new one this week. That seems to me to make the most sense in my case, so long as the booster works. The old one was 16 years old and died. I am in Queensland.
There's also the EG4 6000xp which is a better deal. You can get the 6000xp and an EG4 PowerPro battery for about the same price as one of these. You'll get 6000watts of inverter and ~14kWh of battery. You need to plug in 2 power wires and a communication wire.
We are picking up a cannibalized DC Solar Trailer with (2) SMA 6048 inverters, (1) Midnite Solar Charge Controller and (10) Panels which will need to be replaced. The trailer will assist us in moving the power system around the property while we build. I am trying to figure out the maximum input of power from the solar panels that will create the highest amount of amperage without overtaxing the inverters. We will be hooking up a 2,000Ah GNB 48v Battery Bank to get started. Thank you for your insight/thoughts on these units.
I use several victron charge controllers and a 24.24.12 victron to link my Nissan leaf battery bank to my 840ah lifepo4. It's all in my holiday rambler. Victron makes good gear. I still use a large sungold power inverter but I do love the victron stuff. Thanks for the video. You guys that do the videos is how I learned to be completely off grid and never have a monthly bill again
@@Welcometothedavelife my system started as a small 3000 watt system but once I installed the minisplit and the electric hot water heater my energy demands went thru the roof so I started adding more and more components. It is a lot of equipment in a holiday rambler but it's finally enough to be off grid completely.
A heat pump will save what $150 a quarter for the average family, a 6.6 kw solar system will produce maybe $500 worth of power for similar cost. Not sure your maths stack up if people can use the power
@@WelcometothedavelifeFor us it was closer to $300 a Quarter saving. You say my Maths don't add up, a cheap heat pump is around $2k yet the cheapest Chineseum 6.6kw Solar is about $4k & will start deteriorating from day 1 & will most likely fail(panels or inverter) as mine did with cheap garbage & need to be replaced. As for the "average" Family who work during the day, most of the Power generated will go back out into the Grid for almost no return & will be of minimal benefit. My 10kw system used to give us around $2k per year return @54¢ per kW but now it's a joke at 5¢ & I'll likely never see ROI.
I'd get a new wife by the sounds of things shes fairly unreasonable
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Hi, do you know if a three phase inverter (MOD 3000 TL3-XH) is capable to push all it's capacity to one phase only if there is a high load on one phase, but no load on the other two phases?
What’s wrong with say a solahart unit? I’ve had one in Nz … in cold climate and it’s produced the hw for 9 months of the year ? PV solar is marginal and payback is 15+ years
this is a 15kW three phase inverter. It's like three inverters in to one box. Always going to be a hum of operation, nothing compared to fan cooled inverters. We sell these in Queensland. Here we have to install a box protecting those DC inputs and the earth. Shame it had to go in a break room... wouldn't notice it in a less used area....
I just bought the 5kw hybrid inverter and battery, powerwall system,,,,nice unit ,easy install, great wifi app, the integration with the grid works well, it was reasonably priced being $2000 cheaper than Sungrow, use it at night , single household, use about 30% for cooking, tv , lights, i could most probably use my AC for heating as well. Its still new so cant say much about reliability..
You can add a 3000W inverter if you want BUT you can only power @ the battery discharge rate, yours are 100Ah/1200W. The two 100Ah batteries I have only have a discharge rate of 50Ah which is only 600W 💩💩💩 Live and learn as they say 👍👍
Good video but the title makes out that enerdrive are no good. Best on the market and support is second to none. I bet if you told them that you were going to run a coffee machine they would have suggested a 200 amp battery and a 2000 watt inverter.
Ha! Great video, well presented and entertaining with common sense, understandable content.....You are right, the pod coffee machines seem to be a deal breaker for wives. I am having the same issues. Out in the bush, heat, dust, flies, free camping drop toilet, no problem. Unable to make pod coffee... NOT acceptable, do something about it!...
I loved the honesty in this video 🤣. I've just bought a fogstar 460ah constant 200amp Biggest pull is the 1500w water heater. Longest 500w efoil battery around 4 hours taking at least 80amp. £1250 for the battery 😁
I've had this specific inverter since 2020 - the Sunny Boy AV-41. Solid, no issues, works. Don't need a screen, as the screen is one of the weakest points of any inverter.
Please Note; The eLITE battery is capable to be paralleled to a second eLITE battery of the same size. For maximum performance and lifespan of your eLITE battery, no more than 2 batteries should be connected together to increase your overall capacity. Overall loads when paralleled should not exceed the current limits of a single batteries BMS.
It's better than an app, they have a web-based interface so the inverter acts as a rudimentary web server, just like the interface for most routers. That will have far better compatibility than any app, even if SMA folds.
IMPORTANT: installers shouldn’t use CT to achieve anti reflux function for MIN2500-6000TL-XE inverters. Instead they should use the single phase meter Growatt SPM. Growatt has confirmed that although the use of CT is mentioned in the user manual, because issues have been found with this type of option, they decided to stop promoting CT for limitation to the grid altogether. Therefore, now they recommend the use of the Growatt SPM ONLY for that purpose.
Look at DCS. They are making a battery that you can also charge direct from your solar panels now, overcoming need for a dc to dc charger. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FbStDC-7Q9E.html
Sounds like BS to me or somethings wrong with your set up or its an Itechworld paid add Darren Bailey said "2 "balanced" batteries connected connected together are not limited by a single BMS capacity. This information is incorrect"
Some time ago, I looked at Enerdrive (as we have some of their other products finding them of high quality e.g. dc to dc charger; solar panels etc). At time of intended purchased, and going through the fine print, Enerdrive's basic 100 amp/hr, even if you put two of them together, would only allow a maximum 1000 watt inverter. Conversely, their 200 amp hr batteries even you ran two together, would only allow you to run a 2000 watt inverter. At time, we were also interested in running their 2600 watt inverter, so in this regard I reached out to an Enerdrive technical support person there, who verified this information. I acknowledge at this earlier time, I had seen other reviewers on RU-vid, happily matching the Enerdrive 2600 watt inverter to their 200 amp batteries, but this was not recommended by Enerdrive, thus I wondered about their honouring any warranty issues if something were to go wrong. I will post up Enerdrive's own spec for the given batteries that I notice now have been superseded (Go down the page to see this info) enerdrive.com.au/product/epower-b-tec-12v-100ah-lithium-battery I understand Enerdrive had also at the time, had more complex systems available which may well have overcome these issues, but at time, we only wanted their basic lithium batteries e.g. 2 X100 amp/hr. We ended up anyway going with batteries from another firm (DCS), that appeared to have way better specs for our intended usage, their BMS system is just different as well; more innovative. It could be that the guy above bought what are now the superseded batteries, hence he is still telling the truth. This all said, we are not down on Enerdrive, acknowledging on their webpage currently, they offer a very broad range of batteries, that now appear to overcome the discrepancy, e.g. allowing 200 amp hr battery to be matched with 2600 watt inverter etc. I'll post up Enerdrive's now superseded battery spec to prove things; and if you are still interested, I'll post up a very good review of the DCS battery systems (where Stefan Fischer compares specs across a very broad range of popular lithium batteries as well) to see their differences. I was actually surprised to learn at the time, that lithium batteries do vary considerably even if they appear the same amp hr. Happy travels anyway! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-FbStDC-7Q9E.html
