Thanks Glen. It’s not particularly fun having a crack at a product that industry friends support. But we’re not here to promote alchemy. Ross is good value.
I tested that with coreflute with holes cut in it. But it’s such a small amount of shade that will engage the bypass diode, I can’t see many situations where Aiko will have a real advantage.
Good to see someone actually testing these panels. In their blog, they say that 1 to 3 cells can be shaded per bypass diode, on the 4th the cumulative loss will cause the bypass diode to activate. So according to them, shading a column would guarantee that the diode would activate. Your tests seem consistent with what they say. They also show something similar on their field test with individual cells being covered with post-it notes. The heat of the shaded cells is also somewhat reduced (presumably because the energy loss is about a third per cell). Another detail from the blog post - the cell is not being 'bypassed', the power still goes through the cell, it's just that the resistance is somewhat less. Interestingly, Longi are reporting similar effects with shading & heating on their next generation of prototype back-contact cells (2025/2026?).
Their words - "Shading one cell results in only single digit percentage power loss, with the bypass diode activating only when four cells are shaded, thus maintaining higher overall efficiency."
@@mcelectrical I found it when I was trying to figure out how the panels worked. There is a distinct lack of information in the marketing material. Also some of the conversations I've had with people have been along the lines of "I play golf with xxx and he says this [wild salesman BS] so it must be true". They should talk to the actual technical people, not the ones on the golf course. Probably also worth reading the Longi research paper, their next gen cell sounds almost identical.
C'mon... solaredge and enphase decived us into thinking that any amount of shade equals mlpe. However last months pvtech magazine showed that there is "zero to none" gain from mlpe vs string invs on partially shaded systems.
Performance aside, which shading measure offers the best protection against hot spots and strain on the diodes? Inverter algorithm, panel technology (ie back contact) or panel level optimization? This may be hard to test over a short period of time, however genuinely curious as there is so much focus on performance rather than protection.
Good point. Enphase treats the panel more gently by only making them run at 1 panels voltage (30v) rather than string voltage. This in theory is better for the panel’s longevity. But, with our install numbers - (170 Enphase systems installed, 6000 Fromius systems) - the reliability of Enphase becomes your issue instead. I’m not saying Enphase is particularly unreliable- it’s reliable compared to any other MLPE. It’s just you have 20 or 30 rooftop potential problems. You’ll have much better odds with 1 quality string inverter.
In theory the Aikos should be good for hot spots since the resistance is somewhat lower per shaded cell, therefore the heat is spread out a bit more rather than being focussed on a single cell. Sounds like this is one of the things that @cmelectrical is going to be looking it, so will be interesting to see the outcome in the real world. This heating effect is actually what Longi focus on in their paper.
Thanks Mark…, justified my on paper assessment/research a few months ago. I was keen on Aiko for all the apparent opportunities v Canadian however I couldn’t get over their newness to the market & cost uplift. Ended up with the Canadians (13.2kw) and couldn’t be happier… - cheers! 👍
@MC Electrical, thanks for this great video and for conducting these tests to debunk data based on, as you say "shady marketing". I'd also not believe everything Artisan electric says, find their content to be hollow and unconvincing, most of it's a marketing exercise for their ludicrously pricey services and brands they want to promote.
Well. Not far from what I expected. I work for a company installing AIKO and you didn’t touch on this probably because you’ve once tested a selected few but I find the quality of manufacturing to be a spot for improvement for them too. Does MC electrical design and install many off grid solutions for their customers? (May be a dumb question. Idk exactly where you’re located in Queensland?) cheers Mark
Hey Ben, yeh the build quality was good. If anything, it was better than the sample of Canadians I installed. We are based in Brisbane, and no, we don’t do off grid. I stay local so our warranty work isn’t too much of a burden.
Yeh maybe I should. Do you have reason to think that would make a difference? To be fair, there is a significant difference between how the inverters handle shade.
Great review. Thanks for the effort you put in. I just had 28 470W Aikos put up for my first Solar install on Thursday. The Marketing did seem cool but I choose them as the cheaper option over Winaco (Aiko was $1500 less) which were my installers two options. Aiko should just market that thier 440w all black panels look amazing, its a shame the 470s don't look so nice. I don't have any shading issues so it wasn't really a factor at all, bird shit was the only thing I thought might be useful. I'm sure you have access to price per panel/ per watt. Disregarding the shading marketing, how do they compare to the normal budget brands on price? Are Aiko trying to market them against top tier panels or against the budget brands? And a follow up question as I'm new to solar. I got a catch relay in my package. I'm in Tassie and yesterday my system produced 87.5kwh on catch but only 82.2 in SEMS. It still hasn't hit the 10kw cap either (9.5max so far) but that may be normal for Tas. I would assume the inverter is more accurate and the relay should be seeing less power rather than more. Is that kind of discrepancy normal?
Thanks for the “super thanks” 🙏 It my first :) I probably could do further testing with bird poo type shade. The small sticker showed no advantage but a wallet sized crap would probably prove … satisfying. That probably is where the real advantage is with the panel. Aiko are only about $20 or $30 more per panel.
Interestingly the cells in the 470W 2P white panels are identical to the cells in the 455W 2S all-black panels. The only difference is that the backing is white rather than black. This has two effects - firstly, any light which manages to pass through the (very thin) front cells gets reflected internally, and hits the back. The Aikos are about 70% bifacial so some of the reflected light gets absorbed. Obviously a lot more light gets reflected with a white back panel compared to a black back panel. The bifaciality on the black panels is almost entirely irrelevant because the back panel is opaque (on the 2S, there is also a 2S+ glass/glass panel). The second effect is that the light backing keeps the panel slightly cooler, and hence the efficiency loss from heat is fractionally less.
The Aiko specs are definitely better than Canadian. have had only issue with Canadian our panels had to be replaced 2 times already and being on the market longer doesn’t make the warranty clamps any easier 😢
Oh wow. I know there were back sheet issues with panels around 10+ years ago. Same with many brands of that era. Which model did you have? 250w? And what do you mean the Aiko “spec” is better. Do you mean the build of the panel or “on paper spec”.
@@mcelectrical but you missed a tiny point at the end at least for me. Are optimizers the really wrong solution for microinverters ? And guess what the right answer would be as mostly always!? It depends, cause bigger microinverters with 1 mppt only and 2 panels or 2 mppt and 4 panels will benefit for sure. But only partially cause the big string inverter usually comes along with 6 or 8 or 15 panels. I have only Growatt single phase. But a fleet of 8 inverters from Mic 600 and 2000 and 3000 over Min 4600 to SPH and mostly 4600. Sounds weird, but back then we have had growatt for 10 years , so when we expanded and repowered from 2 to 30 kWp with batteries we had set 2 points. 1. we get growatt again 2. we want and need a Low Volt System cause for those were BMS available which spoke the Growatt Canbus dialect cause they had 17 brands protocols built in. Time war flying buy and real DIY builts became obsolete cause you could get the whole assembly box as kit incl. bms and all cables everything except the cells which I did wanna buy myself. So I got an EEL V4 case with JK BMS and built a battery in 5 hours, the second one later was much cheaper from 3000 € to 2300€ in Nov. 2023 and now 1650€ incl. everything and all the certificates finally no one should ask for, but I have them. I like you channel and dedication, you love what you do and how you can do it like in this case and if someone seems to fool the world you call it by the name those manufacturers deserve. I still can remember the story about the famous myenergy Zippy which in the UK everyone seems to have, where you said more or less that theses are inacceptable chargers due to a kind of throtteling, they had a big issue at least in Australia even though you did not say back then that it was crazy hot. Just summer. So I did not buy one, I got a Pulsar Plus Wallbox 11 kW for an eGOLF, which is not the greatest for surplus charging cause it can not "turn off/on" phases, so it might charge too much but for 250€ or 220 GPB or 260$ it is a great charger. We use this cause they are compliant with Octopus intelligent go, which reduces our bill by 80% cause we charger in the morning 5 hours 46 kWh for 4 Cent instead of paying later 32 Cent. Yes, 20% losses are there, not nice, but 5 Cent after adding the losses instead of 32 Cent is a big saver. Have you ever heard about evcc EV Charge control, an opensource devleopment ? It is our energy manager for cars, heatpumps and battery . They can use all modbus canbus eebus protocols and are brand independent, fully. Not paid, not sponsored. The product is developed much faster than our Wallbox firmware. You might search for it cause it might be a big opportunity. My PV planner and electrician master had to all the checks for the utility provider. And when he was ready he wondered how I could do all that as a former Mercedes white collar manager: just math and logic The first he was impressed that I had planned the system with a german professional planning tool called PV SOL Premium which he was using and his worker could not use that well. I told him: 100 plans were made to find the optimum size and amount of panels, optimizers and low costs. Later he looked at the battery and could not believe the price. I suggested buy those from china from your own branding cause you will outcompete every other offer when you add in the final round an alternative with a 14 kWh or multiple batteries for much cheaper. 1550€ built in 3 hours from the boys he had to train for the school, apprenticeship and internals, are much cheaper and brought a bigger profit than all the expensive ones from Huawei sold in 2,5 kWh pieces. Next step will be buying used BYD atto batteries without changing anything, just adding a communication board, no 2 of them. 60 kWh LFP terribly cheap and the best you can get cause that is a highvoltage system ready to use with Deye inverters. Have a look on the swedish channel flying tools. He has equipped a cutter / tugboat with EV power train out of 3 id4 batteries, rebuild the GOLF 2 electro fomr 1991 completely with a new drive train, build a id4 battery as homestorage, bu integrated in a trailer for the holiday season and lot of more crazy stuff. And now the biggest thing: genuin byd atto battery only connected with 2 lilygo boards from china to a deye inverter and 3 phase of cause. Fronius are made in Austria and Germany, cause I had recogniced that you prefer them even though solaredge and others had such big marketshare and are selling quite well, but only through certain solar power planners. Still quite unusual due to reputation, reliability and stand by consumption. Grood luck and big thank you for these kind of videos and the straight sentences , not the usual sugarcoating I see in the UK. Feels really german and exotic when an english speaker is speaking straight from the hard and nailing the points.
Interesting that Solaredge and Enphase still make up the majority of US installs (because their "shadey" marketing over there was so effective). Now Fronius finally have a Symo model for the US grid I wonder if the penny will drop?
Hi from the (rather dull) Uk! Great Content, I have been waiting for your video on this topic for a number weeks now, after I was offered the Aiko ABC Tech panel for an install I was considering, the sales guy linked me to the official Aiko UA-cam video of ladies taping up portions of an Aiko ABC technology panel & a competitors and the water fountains changed. I thought it was marketing BS at the time, thank you for confirming it is actually BS.👍 In your opinion, is there any solar panel technology widely available which has any advantage with diffuse shade (tree leaves, branches) e.g. Shingled Design Panels as advertised on TW Solar's page?
The closest I’ve seen is Aiko. I wouldn’t buy a shingle panel. I’ve been to a factory and seen them flash tested. Not petty. All you need is an inverter with a GMPPT like Fronius or SMA.
Very Biased Review. Facts, customer is better off with Aiko: ✅️ Aiko outperformed CSI ✅️ Aiko positive tolerance Vs +/-3% ✅️ Many other parameters not mentioned Aiko is superior.
OK, so their marketing is BS. So how did the demonstration show otherwise? You're avoiding saying they cheated, but you're heavily implying it. How? I can't help but conclude your rant was BS.
I don’t think they exactly cheated on the demo, just because - surely they couldn’t get away with doing that all over the word with various staff. It’s just different having 1 panel in a string I guess . I would have loved for it to have worked in the real world, then i probably would have taken a risk on a new product and started selling them. I didn’t spend $1000 on Aiko panels just to make a negative video!
Yeh I was wanting to show it in real time, but that was getting to complicated with the camera etc, And really, the results came over days and weeks of testing - so anything I showed on screen could have been rigged anyway. That’s fine, you don’t need to trust my results.
And there are a lot more variables that will make it elrk differently. I asked Aiko several times how I could set up a real world test to make it work like they showed in the demo. They dodged the question.
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Thanks Mark for another indepth real world comparison. Hats off to Ross Crawford, from Aiko for agreeing to taking up your challenge.
Thanks Glen. It’s not particularly fun having a crack at a product that industry friends support. But we’re not here to promote alchemy. Ross is good value.
Wonder whether it's good with diffuse shading
I tested that with coreflute with holes cut in it. But it’s such a small amount of shade that will engage the bypass diode, I can’t see many situations where Aiko will have a real advantage.
Good to see someone actually testing these panels.
In their blog, they say that 1 to 3 cells can be shaded per bypass diode, on the 4th the cumulative loss will cause the bypass diode to activate. So according to them, shading a column would guarantee that the diode would activate. Your tests seem consistent with what they say. They also show something similar on their field test with individual cells being covered with post-it notes. The heat of the shaded cells is also somewhat reduced (presumably because the energy loss is about a third per cell).
Another detail from the blog post - the cell is not being 'bypassed', the power still goes through the cell, it's just that the resistance is somewhat less.
Interestingly, Longi are reporting similar effects with shading & heating on their next generation of prototype back-contact cells (2025/2026?).
Their words - "Shading one cell results in only single digit percentage power loss, with the bypass diode activating only when four cells are shaded, thus maintaining higher overall efficiency."
That’s interesting. I wish Aiko would have pointed out their blog. Might also be good for them to send that to the Marketing Department.
@@mcelectrical I found it when I was trying to figure out how the panels worked. There is a distinct lack of information in the marketing material.
Also some of the conversations I've had with people have been along the lines of "I play golf with xxx and he says this [wild salesman BS] so it must be true". They should talk to the actual technical people, not the ones on the golf course.
Probably also worth reading the Longi research paper, their next gen cell sounds almost identical.
Hmm interesting about Longi. Hopefully they don’t oversell it. Yeh it’s funny how we still trust the salesman for tech advice.
C'mon... solaredge and enphase decived us into thinking that any amount of shade equals mlpe. However last months pvtech magazine showed that there is "zero to none" gain from mlpe vs string invs on partially shaded systems.
Yeh, Mple is for rapid shutdown- not for shade. I showed that years ago in this video ua-cam.com/video/TqOw43-hbjc/v-deo.htmlsi=ae_UIGRgTV_PB9xh
Performance aside, which shading measure offers the best protection against hot spots and strain on the diodes?
Inverter algorithm, panel technology (ie back contact) or panel level optimization? This may be hard to test over a short period of time, however genuinely curious as there is so much focus on performance rather than protection.
Good point. Enphase treats the panel more gently by only making them run at 1 panels voltage (30v) rather than string voltage. This in theory is better for the panel’s longevity. But, with our install numbers - (170 Enphase systems installed, 6000 Fromius systems) - the reliability of Enphase becomes your issue instead. I’m not saying Enphase is particularly unreliable- it’s reliable compared to any other MLPE. It’s just you have 20 or 30 rooftop potential problems. You’ll have much better odds with 1 quality string inverter.
In theory the Aikos should be good for hot spots since the resistance is somewhat lower per shaded cell, therefore the heat is spread out a bit more rather than being focussed on a single cell. Sounds like this is one of the things that @cmelectrical is going to be looking it, so will be interesting to see the outcome in the real world.
This heating effect is actually what Longi focus on in their paper.
Thanks Mark…, justified my on paper assessment/research a few months ago. I was keen on Aiko for all the apparent opportunities v Canadian however I couldn’t get over their newness to the market & cost uplift. Ended up with the Canadians (13.2kw) and couldn’t be happier… - cheers! 👍
Nice! Yeh when something looks too good to be true ….
@MC Electrical, thanks for this great video and for conducting these tests to debunk data based on, as you say "shady marketing". I'd also not believe everything Artisan electric says, find their content to be hollow and unconvincing, most of it's a marketing exercise for their ludicrously pricey services and brands they want to promote.
Welcome! Oh really. That’s a shame, I like the content I’ve seen so far. More end customer level - I tend to get stuck in the weeds too much 😳.
Well. Not far from what I expected. I work for a company installing AIKO and you didn’t touch on this probably because you’ve once tested a selected few but I find the quality of manufacturing to be a spot for improvement for them too. Does MC electrical design and install many off grid solutions for their customers? (May be a dumb question. Idk exactly where you’re located in Queensland?) cheers Mark
Hey Ben, yeh the build quality was good. If anything, it was better than the sample of Canadians I installed. We are based in Brisbane, and no, we don’t do off grid. I stay local so our warranty work isn’t too much of a burden.
Can you do the same test with Sungrow or Goodwe not with Fronius AiKo and Canadian panels
Yeh maybe I should. Do you have reason to think that would make a difference? To be fair, there is a significant difference between how the inverters handle shade.
Great review.
Thanks for the effort you put in. I just had 28 470W Aikos put up for my first Solar install on Thursday. The Marketing did seem cool but I choose them as the cheaper option over Winaco (Aiko was $1500 less) which were my installers two options. Aiko should just market that thier 440w all black panels look amazing, its a shame the 470s don't look so nice.
I don't have any shading issues so it wasn't really a factor at all, bird shit was the only thing I thought might be useful. I'm sure you have access to price per panel/ per watt. Disregarding the shading marketing, how do they compare to the normal budget brands on price? Are Aiko trying to market them against top tier panels or against the budget brands?
And a follow up question as I'm new to solar. I got a catch relay in my package.
I'm in Tassie and yesterday my system produced 87.5kwh on catch but only 82.2 in SEMS. It still hasn't hit the 10kw cap either (9.5max so far) but that may be normal for Tas.
I would assume the inverter is more accurate and the relay should be seeing less power rather than more.
Is that kind of discrepancy normal?
Thanks for the “super thanks” 🙏 It my first :)
I probably could do further testing with bird poo type shade. The small sticker showed no advantage but a wallet sized crap would probably prove … satisfying.
That probably is where the real advantage is with the panel.
Aiko are only about $20 or $30 more per panel.
Interestingly the cells in the 470W 2P white panels are identical to the cells in the 455W 2S all-black panels. The only difference is that the backing is white rather than black. This has two effects - firstly, any light which manages to pass through the (very thin) front cells gets reflected internally, and hits the back. The Aikos are about 70% bifacial so some of the reflected light gets absorbed. Obviously a lot more light gets reflected with a white back panel compared to a black back panel. The bifaciality on the black panels is almost entirely irrelevant because the back panel is opaque (on the 2S, there is also a 2S+ glass/glass panel). The second effect is that the light backing keeps the panel slightly cooler, and hence the efficiency loss from heat is fractionally less.
The Aiko specs are definitely better than Canadian. have had only issue with Canadian our panels had to be replaced 2 times already and being on the market longer doesn’t make the warranty clamps any easier 😢
Oh wow. I know there were back sheet issues with panels around 10+ years ago. Same with many brands of that era. Which model did you have? 250w? And what do you mean the Aiko “spec” is better. Do you mean the build of the panel or “on paper spec”.
I’m getting AIKO panels installed later on this week. Hopefully, I made the right choice. 🤞
They are probably ok as a panel long term. Hopefully they stay around for warranties
@@mcelectrical being one of the largest panel makers. Would all hope they will last long-term in Australia.
you ayou are the shadow master from now on
Ha, I’ll own that!
@@mcelectrical but you missed a tiny point at the end at least for me.
Are optimizers the really wrong solution for microinverters ?
And guess what the right answer would be as mostly always!?
It depends,
cause bigger microinverters with 1 mppt only and 2 panels or 2 mppt and 4 panels will benefit for sure.
But only partially cause the big string inverter usually comes along with 6 or 8 or 15 panels. I have only Growatt single phase.
But a fleet of 8 inverters from Mic 600 and 2000 and 3000 over Min 4600 to SPH and mostly 4600.
Sounds weird, but back then we have had growatt for 10 years , so when we expanded and repowered from 2 to 30 kWp with batteries we had set 2 points.
1. we get growatt again
2. we want and need a Low Volt System cause for those were BMS available which spoke the Growatt Canbus dialect cause they had 17 brands protocols built in.
Time war flying buy and real DIY builts became obsolete cause you could get the whole assembly box as kit incl. bms and all cables everything except the cells which I did wanna buy myself. So I got an EEL V4 case with JK BMS and built a battery in 5 hours, the second one later was much cheaper from 3000 € to 2300€ in Nov. 2023 and now 1650€ incl. everything and all the certificates finally no one should ask for, but I have them.
I like you channel and dedication, you love what you do and how you can do it like in this case and if someone seems to fool the world you call it by the name those manufacturers deserve. I still can remember the story about the famous myenergy Zippy which in the UK everyone seems to have, where you said more or less that theses are inacceptable chargers due to a kind of throtteling, they had a big issue at least in Australia even though you did not say back then that it was crazy hot. Just summer. So I did not buy one, I got a Pulsar Plus Wallbox 11 kW for an eGOLF, which is not the greatest for surplus charging cause it can not "turn off/on" phases, so it might charge too much but for 250€ or 220 GPB or 260$ it is a great charger.
We use this cause they are compliant with Octopus intelligent go, which reduces our bill by 80% cause we charger in the morning 5 hours 46 kWh for 4 Cent instead of paying later 32 Cent. Yes, 20% losses are there, not nice, but 5 Cent after adding the losses instead of 32 Cent is a big saver.
Have you ever heard about evcc EV Charge control, an opensource devleopment ?
It is our energy manager for cars, heatpumps and battery . They can use all modbus canbus eebus protocols and are brand independent, fully. Not paid, not sponsored. The product is developed much faster than our Wallbox firmware.
You might search for it cause it might be a big opportunity. My PV planner and electrician master had to all the checks for the utility provider. And when he was ready he wondered how I could do all that as a former Mercedes white collar manager: just math and logic
The first he was impressed that I had planned the system with a german professional planning tool called PV SOL Premium which he was using and his worker could not use that well. I told him: 100 plans were made to find the optimum size and amount of panels, optimizers and low costs.
Later he looked at the battery and could not believe the price. I suggested buy those from china from your own branding cause you will outcompete every other offer when you add in the final round an alternative with a 14 kWh or multiple batteries for much cheaper. 1550€ built in 3 hours from the boys he had to train for the school, apprenticeship and internals, are much cheaper and brought a bigger profit than all the expensive ones from Huawei sold in 2,5 kWh pieces.
Next step will be buying used BYD atto batteries without changing anything, just adding a communication board, no 2 of them. 60 kWh LFP terribly cheap and the best you can get cause that is a highvoltage system ready to use with Deye inverters.
Have a look on the swedish channel flying tools. He has equipped a cutter / tugboat with EV power train out of 3 id4 batteries, rebuild the GOLF 2 electro fomr 1991 completely with a new drive train, build a id4 battery as homestorage, bu integrated in a trailer for the holiday season and lot of more crazy stuff.
And now the biggest thing: genuin byd atto battery only connected with 2 lilygo boards from china to a deye inverter and 3 phase of cause.
Fronius are made in Austria and Germany, cause I had recogniced that you prefer them even though solaredge and others had such big marketshare and are selling quite well, but only through certain solar power planners. Still quite unusual due to reputation, reliability and stand by consumption.
Grood luck and big thank you for these kind of videos and the straight sentences , not the usual sugarcoating I see in the UK. Feels really german and exotic when an english speaker is speaking straight from the hard and nailing the points.
Interesting that Solaredge and Enphase still make up the majority of US installs (because their "shadey" marketing over there was so effective). Now Fronius finally have a Symo model for the US grid I wonder if the penny will drop?
I think the reason the US uses SE and Enphase is because of rapid shutdown in most states. Fronius does seem to struggle in the States.
Hi from the (rather dull) Uk! Great Content, I have been waiting for your video on this topic for a number weeks now, after I was offered the Aiko ABC Tech panel for an install I was considering, the sales guy linked me to the official Aiko UA-cam video of ladies taping up portions of an Aiko ABC technology panel & a competitors and the water fountains changed. I thought it was marketing BS at the time, thank you for confirming it is actually BS.👍
In your opinion, is there any solar panel technology widely available which has any advantage with diffuse shade (tree leaves, branches) e.g. Shingled Design Panels as advertised on TW Solar's page?
The closest I’ve seen is Aiko. I wouldn’t buy a shingle panel. I’ve been to a factory and seen them flash tested. Not petty. All you need is an inverter with a GMPPT like Fronius or SMA.
Canadian solar at mid day they get hotter when compared AiKo
Yeh they probably do. I did mean to measure that. May be part of the reason they outperform at lunch time.
Very Biased Review.
Facts, customer is better off with Aiko:
✅️ Aiko outperformed CSI
✅️ Aiko positive tolerance Vs +/-3%
✅️ Many other parameters not mentioned Aiko is superior.
OK, so their marketing is BS. So how did the demonstration show otherwise? You're avoiding saying they cheated, but you're heavily implying it. How?
I can't help but conclude your rant was BS.
I don’t think they exactly cheated on the demo, just because - surely they couldn’t get away with doing that all over the word with various staff. It’s just different having 1 panel in a string I guess
. I would have loved for it to have worked in the real world, then i probably would have taken a risk on a new product and started selling them.
I didn’t spend $1000 on Aiko panels just to make a negative video!
The review is very negative and does not show real time simulation result which make it very unreliable, inverter to inverter it can work differently
Yeh I was wanting to show it in real time, but that was getting to complicated with the camera etc, And really, the results came over days and weeks of testing - so anything I showed on screen could have been rigged anyway. That’s fine, you don’t need to trust my results.
And there are a lot more variables that will make it elrk differently. I asked Aiko several times how I could set up a real world test to make it work like they showed in the demo. They dodged the question.