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.
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, 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
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 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
@@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.
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
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.
@@kennyrodg hello, yes been great value for money money . Very pleased so far.
@kennyrodg appreciated buddy. Prefer real world opinions like this.
@@Scottishprepper73 Anytime Buddy.
Could you send a link to this discussion? Thanks
@@007silverwings It was on one of Artisans battery choice videos....It should be fairly recent as I posted in here in relation to it.
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
Fogstar price does seem to make this option way more appealing for people only wanting a battery system.
@@AdrianMcDaid hi, thinking about getting one of these as well, I can't see on the website but does the price include delivery? Cheers
@@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?
Thanks good walk-through of the new battery, especially the breaker 😂
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
Which inverter is that you are using? What's the maximum kW you can draw from the battery?
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.
Great video, if you can do one how you configure to work with the solis inverter that would be really useful, I have a battery ordered
Can we get a video tour of your whole setup sometime?
Yes sure, I'll try to do that on my next one.
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
Hi, From my understanding the Fogstar uses the Plyontech protocol. But yes I'll see about making short video
What settings do you have set on the Solis? floating/equlization voltage settings?
How’s the system going ?
Hi m8, I have solis inverter and 11.4kw of pylontech batteries atm. Is it possible to add this battery to the existing stack of pylontech?
@@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.
@AdrianMcDaid cheers buddy, I was going to double up the pylontechs but tbh for less coin could just buy two of these.! What's your thoughts on em?
@@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
How are you getting on with the fogstar now? Fellow NI resident with identical inverter thinking of adding a battery.
@@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.
How does it connect to your meter to reduce your grid usage does it come with a ct clamp. Please do a video on you system in depth. Thanks for posting
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.
I would love to see how the inverter communicates with the meter. Please do another video. Thanks
@@manikdesign the inverter has its own meter that monitors the power going in and out using CT clamps on the tails between the cut-out and the meter.
Looks like it was really straightforward? what Model of Solis inverter do you have?
I have the F5 RH-3.6K-48ES-5G . Yes was very easy to swap out Plyontech I had and add the Fogstar
Do you have a vid or drawing for the full battery install? We have solar but no battery really interested👍
I don't . Is your inverter hybrid inverter ? Maybe I can make one.
It’s a growatt inverter model Min 3600TL-X
Would be great if you could 👍I’ll subscribe
@@davidbunting9922 you should look up if you have hybrid inverter. If you don't batter won't work for you.
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!)
Hi, defo worth asking Fogstar
@@AdrianMcDaid Fogstar confirmed should work perfectly with Sunsynk but not with Foxx ESS as "they are high voltage inverters"
@@RahulParmar1978 you may find this useful online forum of that inverter with Fogstar renewableheatinghub.co.uk/forums/postid/29527
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.
What's the software and app like for it? wonder if it's easy to configure it to charge over night and drain during the day.
Do the config on the inverter
the phone app is just for monitoring.
How many panels do you need to charge,ie minimum voltage?
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.
Do you have to let the dno know about your fogstar battery? Its not the register
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.
@@AdrianMcDaid I'm pretty new to it all but I know if you apply for g99, they want to see that a battery is on the ena register.
@@carlwhitaker5151 I'm in Northern Ireland seems to apply for GB not UK
@@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