Will is a hero of making downmarket competition real. It's so easy to declare alternatives are only what you pay for them, to pronounce Caveat Emptor & anyone paying less is a fool, but it takes a brave fool to say, yes you can, and it'll probably work.
$1300 for a almost 6.5kW inverter with 120A 48V (almost 6kW) battery charging? Uhhh heck yeah. As long as it doesn't catastrophically fail you'll probably come out ahead.
This gear deserves to be comodified. Just watching a Mouser catalog for a couple years on end tells a compelling story about how awesomely improved mosfets & other hardware has gotten in the past decade. Tacking on some decent control processing should not be that exotic an exercise. Home solar gear has held a botique price point, but increasingly I think it's going to be hard to justify, as downmarket competition provides increasingly clear value.
Yeah, the inverters and LFP batteries are really incredible advances, especially in affordability, and in seemingly a short time. These also just got UL listed, so it seems like they should be able to pass many inspections, but Will still seems to recommend the older SolArks for >3x the price for grid tie systems for some reason. But I'm hopeful that that'll change soon.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 16.4 ms ] thread$1300 for a almost 6.5kW inverter with 120A 48V (almost 6kW) battery charging? Uhhh heck yeah. As long as it doesn't catastrophically fail you'll probably come out ahead.
This gear deserves to be comodified. Just watching a Mouser catalog for a couple years on end tells a compelling story about how awesomely improved mosfets & other hardware has gotten in the past decade. Tacking on some decent control processing should not be that exotic an exercise. Home solar gear has held a botique price point, but increasingly I think it's going to be hard to justify, as downmarket competition provides increasingly clear value.