Is anyone considering doing a battery only system without solar to store cheap night electricity and use in the day e.g. with Octopus Go nighttime is 7.5p/kw…. Usually price of the battery made this not worth it ….. but with the fogstar that could now be resolved? Would love to see a battery only install example
@@steve_787 Hi, yes the price does include delivery. I live in N.I and they even delivered, no extra charge. Be warned it's 140kg The battery has been great so far. Very pleased with my purchase.
@@AdrianMcDaid that's great, thought it did. I'm about to order one as part of my new solar setup. I know it says max discharge of 200A but what's the highest you've been able to draw/charge it to in kW(still not 100% on how to calculate it from amps)? I'm having an 8.8kW Sunsynk hybrid inverter so don't think I'll be limited that side and guessing the battery would top out at maybe 5-6kW?
Hi Adrian, a fellow Norn Iron man here. I'm considering purchasing a Fogstar 15.5kWh battery, did you purchase it direct from Fogstar? What was delivery cost/time to N.Ireland? There seems to be very little actual specs in the wild. Can you tell me the maximum charge and discharge rate? Also the recommended DOD for the battery? Thanks.
Hi mate, just a quick question how come you used the pylon protocol and not the solis one. Can you possibly do a video of the set up as I am in the middle of installing this system myself. 6kw solis hybrid inverter and the fogstar battery, I have a pre order in for the battery. Cheers
@@Scottishprepper73 I think the simple answer is no. I had Plyontech batteries sold them on eBay . From what know Fogstar does not recommend mix and matching. If you check notes in there website believe does state this. Just to note it was dead easy once I sold on my old batteries to fit the Fogstar.
@@Scottishprepper73 very pleased so far. My thoughts would be sell what you have buy two of these for 5k what are you going to get back sale of your own. Just to note they are 140kg each
Hi...I'm here following your comment on Artisan's vid. Nice work Buddy, the Fogstar battery is insanely good value for money considering what's on offer from the "white goods" companies out there. I think if people are prepared to be a bit hands on then it's a no brainer. My setup for 14.5kwh with the JK Inverter BMS from Fogstar was £1600 all in....Saved a fair bit on buying the cells from China, Grade A Eve 280ah at $70 each. Inverter is a Sunsynk 3.6 ECCO from Bimble Solar ( another great company) .Super happy with it so far.
@@LindsayMcConnell-uq8dy hello it's been great. Working as it should. There seems to be bug not sorted it out yet. Where if it gets as low as 14% will charge its self to 30% . Believe that's with an inverter. Heavy battery, very easy to install to my current setup. Removed previous Plyontech batteries and simply connected this up. It's a great capacity for the price.
Thanks for the reply, does sound like good value for money and hope you get your charge issue sorted on the inverter. Can I ask why you moved away from pylontechs? I seen batteries on eBay with used lithium packs in them going for good money, so was tossing up between them and your Fogstar.
@@LindsayMcConnell-uq8dy the Fogstar was just great value for money compared to the Plyontech ones that I had. Had three Plyontech 2.5kwh batteries that were giving me around usable 5ish kWh of storage. Sold them used for £1500 in total then for 15.5kwh of Fogstar for £2500 also ended up with newer batteries.
Great video, very straight forward and down to earth. I bought the identical battery and can confirm its a very heavy battery, the lorry driver just left it on the road outside my house, no help at all despite me having a "thalidomide" condition. That aside, I am interested to know which model of Solis inverter you have, and who you got to install it. I've been getting silly quotes for solar battery installs where they want to charge £6,500 with their equipment costing £3,000 - meaning they are charging £3,000 - £ 3,500 for the installation - which can take less than a day - license to print money comes to mind - as does "Rip off Britain". The battery itself is fantastic value for money which will ultamately drive down prices of other batteries. Would you still go for your inverter with time as insight :-) once again, great video
Hello! Thank you for your question/comment. I’m still very pleased with the battery. I would definitely choose the same inverter, which you can find at Solar Trade Sales. However, if I were to do it again, I might opt for a higher-capacity inverter to import power more quickly at night and enhance power output when needed. When I had my system installed after the first lockdown, I received several quotes. Interestingly, one company wanted 50% more than another for the exact same setup. At that time, I was using Plyontech batteries. It’s essential to shop around! I’m based in Northern Ireland, and I chose www.treenergy.co.uk/ for my installation. The battery installation itself is straightforward; just have installer leave it for a future "update" So you dont have any solar system setup at the moment ?
@@AdrianMcDaid Yes I have a solar setup, installed before the origin FIT payments were introduced, so they are quite old by todays standard (10 panels x 180 watts each) I originally got £950 per year on the original FIT tarriffs. Thank you for your advice if you were to do to do it again. I think I'd go for a bigger inverter as well, I might even go for 2nd battery lol I put a query on check a trade, they didn't have a catagory for solar battery, just EV installation . I did a search for MCS engineers in and around my area - that seems to be getting more traction.
Hi, thanks for the review and showing us your setup. What is the usable capacity of the battery? Are you going down to 20% or all the way to zero? I spoke to Fogstar and they say the BMS is setup to only charge to 85%. What I don't know is if 85% is 15.5kwh, or if it's 85% of that figure so roughly 13.2kwh. Thanks
Hi, thanks for the questions. It's the same as any other battery system. Be that Tesla power wall etc. I have a solar setup, the solar power goes into my battery Via my solar inverter. This power then feeds the house. On cloudy days and I know the next day won't produce enough solar I can charge the battery up at night at a cheaper overnight rate. Then feed the house with cheaper electricity during the daytime.
Newbie here, thanks for video! Have been recommended Sunsynk inverter by installer, how would I start to figure out if this battery would work with the inverter? (I know nothing about what protocols mean!)
I may be a bit late to the party on this one but I'd be confident that it would work with a Sunsynk inverter. I have a similar setup albeit 14,5kwh diy battery with a JK inverter BMS and a Sunsynk Ecco 3.6 Inverter. The pace BMS in the Fogstar is very similar to the JK. Setup for me was a breeze, i've since added Solar Assistant and everything is all working great together.
Not quite sure of your question. I have 5.4 kw solar array. Produced 17 kWh yesterday from it. You could get this battery setup with an additional inverter without solar and charge overnight on cheaper electric use during the day.
really depends on your inverter/charge controler as with some a single panel will produce power but not very much of it, inverters have a wide range for the input voltage on the mppt side. Personally I have a solis s5-eh1p6k-l which has an input voltage range of 90-520v DC with a max of 15A per string and it can take two strings. I have one string of 9 JA solar 545W panels with a max of 49.75v and 13.86A per panel and a second string of 12x 12 year old 300W panels.
Hi, thanks for the question. Be honest I don't know . Did you have any more information or links .The battery only connects to my property side not out to the grid . The inverter would not allow that.
@@carlwhitaker5151 I have just completed all the paperwork for my DIY battery and Victron Multiplus 5000VA inverter. It didnt ask about battery manufacturer it was only intereste d that the inverter had been approved and on the ENA register. That was via UKPN
