Rich Solar 3kW Inverter - Can it REALLY Compete at $499? 

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I have been researching 48v inverters. Your review is so good and elaborate that I bought it. Thank you.

The limited input voltage is the deal breaker for me. My present array is 350 volts. That is a 25 amp input from the panel wiring. My array is 159 feet away, meaning line loss (and copper price) makes this not usable. With 350 volts, the current is only about 8.6 amps. This is manageable. Power loss is I SQUARE R. But, a nice unit for many.

I'm not sure I consider Rich solar to be a premium brand, but I will say if you're going with a transformerless design, and you'll need 6000 watts or more, it would not make any sense at all to get this particular unit over the EG4 6000xp. Even at $499, by the time you purchase two of them, and all of the breakers/disconnects, you'd spend just as much but have a more complicated solution that won't accept nearly as much voltage on the PV side.

Thanks for sharing. 👍

Great video, thanks. New sub and I'm working my way through your video archive, good stuff.

Nice! I have a 48v/50Ah EcoWorthy battery (to run an e-Propulsion boat motor) and I will pair this to get a good solar/AC charger. Great price!

That's a great deal!!

Compatible with any batteries, such as EG4 LL Lithium Battery (V2) | 12V 400AH | Server Rack Battery?

Can that connect that with eco flow?

Is there a way to hook conduit or mc metal sheilded cable connector directly to the bottom of the frame to keep the wires protected?

How many amps are you getting and running with 2000watts from solar??

Bummed to find it’s a 48v. I’m running a 24 and the Quiet had me ready to buy! Any other recon’s for a quiet one? I have an MppSolar I love but loud fans 24/7

Hi, I'm new subscriber. What is the use of the ac input. As i know that the unit is an inverter in combination with batteries..

Does the word "rich" appear in quality and performance too?

Nicw review.

I would guess that if you’re talented enough to be working with this all of this on a DIY basis YOU HAVE ALL THE TOOLS REQUIRED TO HOOK THIS UP. And adversely if you don’t have all the tools to this up, you should not be fooling with this 😳 ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥🇺🇸

Thanks for the great video. There's gotta be a better name for these devices, as they are not just an inverter, it's a charger and charge controller too, yeah? Does it take 120vac & 240vac input to charge batteries too? Is it MPPT or PWM? Pure sine wave or square?

I need 240v, so I would need two of these. Do you recommend this at $800 for two or eg4 6000xp at $1,400? The benefits of the eg4 are that breakers are included and only having one unit.

Hi. I’m a new subscriber. On these inverter videos you might want to mention the system voltage from the beginning. Not everyone runs a 12 volt setup. I watched it all and no mention of the volts.

Even cheaper right now (12MAY24) @$409- at the link you provided :)

Do these small All-in-One inverters ever have regulated DC output? Useful for RV gadgets.

guess this is the business you where talking about on your car channel good luck Robbie

Hey guys, I have a question. I’m relatively new to this and recently I bought two lithium ion batteries each has 3500 W of storage if I wire these batteries in parallel or in series does it change the 7000 W of storage that I think I have? Thanks for all of the information you give us it’s helping greatly. God bless the United States of America ❤️‍🔥🇺🇸

Growatt Spf ????

Rich solar but not for the rich

Looks like a Voltronic Inverter 😮😔

That is a growatt

It is 399.00 now

Man...!!! That's just a relabelled Growatt...!!! C'mon...!!!!

lol better than EG4….I’d say even Biden is better than EG4. Eg4 should be your last resort. I’d even get Growatt before eg4

This is garbage compared to the new eg4’s

Same cookie-cutter all-in-one that half a dozen other brands. They are all made by the same Chinese OEM... you can tell because all the specs are almost exactly the same. They are on sale because there is an over-supply of cheap, lack-luster all-in-one's on the market now. Idle consumption is fairly typical for these cheap all-in-one's, and its unfortunate because ~46W is a lot of power to waste. An immense amount of power... 1100Wh/day. Over 200W worth of solar panels on a good day, wasted. To be honest, it makes the units almost useless since they are targeting small systems where every watt-hour is precious. Combine that with the limited voltage input for the solar and what you really have there is just a glorified battery charger and low-end UPS for AC mains, and not a whole lot else. Nut-and-bolt battery connections are exactly what you want for any battery connection. The shove-in style connectors are fine for relatively low amperages, but not if you are pushing 80A. You absolutely want nut-and-bolt, always. You ever see a push-in for that kind of amperage, you run away as fast as you can. Air filters? Good god, no. That's dangerous. You absolutely never want to have air filters in power electronics like this. If they ever get clogged up, the thing will catch fire. Don't mount it anywhere sawdust is flying about, that's just asking for a fire (air filter or not). If it weren't for the idle consumption these things would actually be useful. But that idle consumption will crater your battery and in larger configurations you don't want to use a unit this cheap anyway, so it really has no niche to fit into. Not even as a UPS. If looking to do a system like this seriously, look at the Victron Multiplus-II 48V 3kW or 5kW ... those are actually useful and the only difference is that they don't have a built-in charge controller. So buy a little Victron 100/20 smart-solar charge controller and a Multiplus-II and call it a day. Extremely low idle power consumption, proper float and bulk algorithm, and logic that actually works well. -Matt

Neither one of these high frequency inverters have an isolation transformer which is necessary for safety and performance. So I wouldn't buy either one of them. Junk.

Egs002 24 mosfet board and 6kw apc transformer, 120 240, it draws only 0.5a. These are not efficient. And the egs002 will push 200a with 52v probably 300a if tuned properly.