Anker SOLIX F3800 + Home Power Panel = Automatic Battery Backup with a BONUS!! AC COUPLING
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- čas přidán 21. 03. 2024
- Today we are going over the Anker SOLIX Home Power Panel! How to Wire it up and a few Tests!!!
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Nice demonstration. I always enjoy your videos.
Thank You! I Apprecitate that!
These easy switches that all the companies are coming out with are so easy to install it makes solar backup diy friendly for beginner
Good work and thank for sharing. I can see my self looking into this one. You did this year have a power outage. All the new stuff is looking much better this year. Thumbs up 👍
Thanks Man! Its crazy how quickly everything is coming about. Just a few years ago none of this type stuff existed...well at least that I knew of. Thanks again for hanging out to watch.🤘
As always great content and I really do appreciate and enjoy seeing your back up projects.
Thank You! I really enjoy the battery backup projects. There are so many options these days its amazing people dont have one.
@AveRage_Joe you are so right im going to get one for backup power and to drop cost of power bill
Nice, thought out demonstration on how to install the system. Thanks!
Great video! Thank you!
Thanks for watching!🤘
So refreshing to see an electricians screwdriver being used. 👍
😁 I need to get another set. I keep boogering up the insulated coating near the end and my gloves get caught lol.
Nice review. The app looks super easy to set up... unlike other systems.
Thanks Man! Yeah the app was pretty easy to setup and navigate!🤘
@AverRage Joe thanks for the great video. What do I do if my main panel has no more breaker space?
awesome, thanks for the review!
Thanks for watching. I shared one of your last videos on FB. Many people were asking about RSD and how to get it working.🤘
@@AveRage_Joe great, thanks
I would have loved to see you simulate a 240V load and power failure. Also - a single phase failure. Finally, during TOU see if the unit switches over during peak and switches back to charging during super off peak. And what threshold is there for off peak / charging/discharging. And can you program in emergency charging if a storm is imminent?
this thing is so new, it would be cool to see those features tested. this thing promises alot and if you can peak shave it would be super valuable for my use case.
Nice video Joe. The only problem I see is with the new electric code requiring an outside home electric main breaker to kill whole house power incase of a fire. Critical loads will still have power endangering firemen.
Id have to look at those codes again. I thought I remember it saying HVdc. I know for Roof solar you need RSD.
Great videos, i'm enjoying your channel. With the exact configuration in the video could you plug solar into the f3800 directly and have it charge while still connected to the power panel?
Thank You! Yes, solar can be attached directly to the F3800 while connected to the home power panel.
Can already installed roof mounted solar panels charge the f3800 in the event of grid failure?
Nice & clear. Im a newbee, could you simply use a generic automatic transfer switch and a std generator plug if you do not need the control info and solar connection ? Would that be much less expensive ? Tks.
Yes you can do that. I did that exact thing in another video!🤘
Does the Solar HAVE to be AC Coupled or can you plug solar panels into the solar input on the F3800 while connected to the Home Power Panel?
So to use it to the fullest of its abilities, you'd have to have your solar system AC coupled with an inverter rather than just plug right into your F3800?
Oh, so like a UPS but more in depth and made to run continuously.
Yep, what ever you have connected to the sub panel will continue to work like a UPS.👍
Great video. If you have home solar system, where do you connect the clamp that comes with the system prior to installing the green connector in the smart panel?
I show a min later and it will go on 1 of you AC solar input wires.👍
@@AveRage_JoeThank you and I understand that. Next question - if my PV system shuts down during a power outage, how do I connect the system so that it, (PV) will charge the Solix during the outage? Or is that not possible? Thank you again.
Any idea how this would be different if you also have a Powerwall/back up battery too as well as were to get a second cable for a 2nd solix to the smart panel? Getting solar installed with a Powerwall 3 but also have 2 f3800 that I ordered previously.
Everything should work like normal with the PW3. Install the home panel before a subpanel and then you have a 2nd layer of critical loads backup. If for some reason your PW3 goes dead while on battery backup then the home power panel is last defense. I have a similar setup here at my house. I have a different system then a PW3 tho.
I'm wondering if I could use my smart panel as the sub panel, since its pulling from a bigger external which is the main and solar. Want to get a battery tied in to my system to counter power outages and would also like to be pulling from a battery rather than the grid during tou.
Which smart panel do you have?
So the Ac coupled solar will also stop when the grid goes down so the solar will not charge the battery in a grid down situation. I think you need to move the solar to the sub panel to keep it active.
And the solar needs to be less powerful than the inverter in the Anker Power Panel.
@@whattheschmidt Yes to be safe so the inverter can control the shutdown around 80% of the inverters rated power is what most recommend but if you monitor the load it can go much higher but it may kill the battery.
Hey Joe! Great video! I do have a question: what is the maximum wattage does the smart panel use to charge the F3800? Is it still the 1800W juat like if you plug it into a wall, or is it higher?
Its higher since it uses the cable directly to the panel.
@@AveRage_Joe Oh ok! Any idea the charge rate?
Does the Home Power panel max out with the 12 critical load circuits or could you use a larger subpanel with more critical loads?
it's honestly gonna depend on what the loads are, remember your limiting factor for the subpanel will be what 1 or 2 f3800's can support, so like you can't run a Water Heater, Dryer and AC all at the same time with a single F3800 (hell you might not even be able to run all that with 2).
A bit confusing because of the subpanel. Ideally the power outage should be detected and battery power should be sent back into specific circuits in main panel.....
except that is simply IMPOSSIBLE, it's not how main panels work, if you send ANY power back into the main panel you energize the entire main panel AND you backfeed the grid energizing the power lines that the linemen may be working on and you could KILL the guys trying to get your grid back working.
So this can feed power back to the main panel and is like grid 0 use by watching the L1/L2 from grid?
The sub panel it is connected to is your backup and operates off grid when the grid goes out. Simple relays in there cut off the grid connection and change it to the battery. Another one that does this but is its own subpanel is Ecoflow Smart Home Panel. Pros and cons to each. Cool what these can do with ease though!
I think you are correct! I dont think I fully understood what this panel could actually do! Kinda crazy, you could actually "power" your whole home and then power the sub panel if the grid goes out.
@@AveRage_Joe if that’s the case where it can supplement the main panel if grid is up, that’s a game changer.
Is sub panel necessary if you will be powering all circuits
No I guess not but you would need a "panel or box" to supply power to the home power panel. Another thing I didnt realize at the time is, if you use a subpanel. This will backfeed the main panel to power all loads so you actually power the whole home when grid is there. If grid goes out, then you only power the sub panel or in your case, whatever you connect to the output side.
i wonder why they don't integrate the sub panel with the power panel. does ecoflow do it this way also?
Maybe this way is "easier" since many might have a sub panel installed already. Yeah EcoFlows panel has it built in.
thanks for your reply
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@@AveRage_Joe i think the trade off with ecoflo is you cant connect traditional home installed ac coupled solar like you can with this unit. you should make a video comparing the units!
i didnt think eaton was still going .. well not in the uk anyways i have 100's of breakers for eaton boards but nothing to put them in
I am not a fan of this panel. It works but it seems like the local hardware store will have better options.
Doesn’t this technically require a net metering agreement with your utility? It is hardware capable of exporting.
NO because the Smart Panel that you connect the F3800 to doesn't allow power to flow out to the grid making it an OFF GRID system.
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