Stepping Up Our Solar w/ Home Battery Storage!
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- Опубліковано 17 чер 2024
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This week we installed 2 Anker SOLIX X1 units in our family home, adding them to our existing solar array. I love how seamless the integration was and how easily everything came online to work together for our home battery backup system.
Timecodes
0:00 - Intro
0:31 - 8 years later
0:55 - The install
1:14 - Low profile
1:34 - LFP EV grade batteries
1:51 - Extreme conditions rating
2:05 - On the roof
3:24 - Solar payback
3:44 - Storing the excess energy
4:15 - Instant power return
4:40 - 10 year warranty
5:11 - how it works
6:24 - The modes
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Kim's videos are so good. No BS, No drama... Just quality! Thank You!
Those look cool on the Brick
Get this man a span panel!
And we were the installer! SunRite Solar!
My brother in law does land development, does all the upfront paperwork and permits, then turns it over to a builder. He just built a small number of townhomes, being in California he needs to include solar. He beefed up the solar and the battery packs that service the units. He calculated that if they lost power and had no sun for week, the system, should keep the units going for the week.
His thought is that in the Bay Area, they rarely go without sun for more than 3 days in a row. Plus the utility company now takes weeks or more to attach new homes to the grid, especially on small builds.
So... just using solar alone, without any battery optimization, he earned his money back in 8 years. That's much shorter than I assumed.
Remember that is if the electric company buys it back from you at the same rate as it charges you. In Jacksonville, Florida the electric company buys the energy back from you at such a low rate it makes it hard to make any money, you definitely need a good battery backup in place.
If you adapt your lifestyle you can still drop your bill low enough to justify purchase even if your getting reduced rate buyback. Consume during the day, cut back after sundown, sticking to an efficient routine I've gotten my bill as low as $20-40 with $.40kwh rates. I've also tested the opposite side of the coin with an " above average" routine (multiple ac run over night), and that lands us anywhere from $120-190. Most people no solar here are paying at least $400+ for that consumption.
Got my ROI with my solar panels, which is 5.5years in Australia. No battery.
@NuttGreez. That’s my case in South Florida. I sell my electricity back to the power grid and the highest electric bill I’ve had in years is $45.00 where my neighbors pay hundreds.
in Georgia (on "Georgia Power") we only earn just over 8 cents per kwh as power-to-grid (same as it costs from 11pm-7am) yet from June through the end of September electricity costs almost 30 cents/kwh, so a battery really helps keep the energy you capture from the sun
Hire a kid to take the garden hose and sprinkler up on the roof. He will do it for a cookie and an attaboy 😊 Before coming down, have him clean the needles out the gutters.
My 5,000 dollar solar setup offsets the cost of my Tesla model 3. It's also my backup power when the grid goes down.
Brilliant & very educational
How well insulated is his home, and is there a heat pump/s installed to deal with hot water and or air conditioning? If this is in Georgia, in that climate, air to air heat pumps make a great apples to apples replacement for traditional air conditioning units for a fraction of the running costs due to their higher COP meaning they use less energy than traditional units. Have the family opted for LED light bulbs? The savings on electricity is significant; the UK's electricity usage dropped by about ⅓-½ due to people swapping out their old light bulbs for LED and they also last a gazillion times longer.
Only asking as I was so surprised at his comments about household electricity consumption going up instead of down or remaining more or less the same. Most people who get solar, batteries, EV's and other eco tech tend to become very energy consumption/efficiency conscious/aware, often to the point of nerdy geekness... 🤓 🤓 🤓 😅
Can't quite understand why he'd bothered to get the panels professionally cleaned in the first place. Given the relatively easy access, he could (easily) do it himself using one of those extendable brushes with a hose attachment hooked up to a tap. It's fairly quick and easy to use and can be used at one's own convenience.
Priceless.
I have my batteries set to charge to 100% starting at 11pm since the cost at night is the same as the cost I earn selling back to the grid. This way I always have a full battery in case of a grid failure (which happens at least once a month in Georgia).
Same here! I get free nights 9-7am. You never know when you’ll need it.
WHATS THE PRICE. I've watched like ten videos nobody says the dang price. It looks great but what we talking 20k 30k 50k what damn
Agree. I want to know cost of solar, cost of batteries, and cost for an electrician to connect everything.
I guess it’s free from solix as it just launched.
Is it that hard to tell us the price of the whole setup of this Anker SOLIX?
Great 😮
Nice, Kim! Are you ever going to install solar on your home? My array paid for itself years ago, and it's now paying back my 2 Powerwalls. They'll also be paid off in the next couple of months, I'm sure. Even better, we've put a few more kWh into our grid than we've take out of it. I've found that an occasional rain storm is all that's needed to keep our panels clean -but, of course, we don't have the "southern pollen" that turns everything green in your area!
If you clean all those panel you will gain so much more
This set up is a lot better than a gasoline generator backup.
ty kj
Thanks for the video Kim. Cross shopping this with enphase and Tesla powerwall in the next year. Are you able to tell us pricing info? Can't seem to find it on their site and haven't heard from their teams yet.
Thanks, I think it’s all being finalized but the link will get you a quote with the correct info.
Teller to clean out his gutters while he’s up there.
Thank you for the video! You can use a water hose to gently clean the solar panels? Also are the batteries cooled like the Tesla Powerwall is?
had rain at my place and wash all pollen off, turned drive orange lol
What is the price for the battery storage unit?
This is something Anker and anyone is not disclosing I don't know why
Because they know you won't make your money back
You can use a water hose to gently clean the solar panels? Also are the batteries cooled like the Tesla Powerwall is?
12.3kWh system with 3 EVs, 80% paid off (pay back) after 16 months. Keep charging!
My OCD honed in on the dents both units have towards the middle. The right unit seems to be worse.
No Kim, we don’t all have our roofs and gutters looking like that. I’m just outside nyc and my roof and gutters look spotless.
Got a payback in a very short period of time, that is great. But if they are charging 2 evs and running a house they would need some more solar panels , thats a massive energy demand.
Are the panels around 8 years old? Or along with the Solix stuff?
Wait. Didn’t Anker just recently release that system?
I wonder how this would integrate with a home that already has an 18kwh Natural gas generator
Put tiny roofs over the batteries?
Not including the cost of the battery, is he now able to offset the entire power bill by using the batteries during overnight? Probably not generating enough power with the solar to recharge the batteries every day.
At 5:20, nearly lost Kim as she put her hand in the junction box..
@0:45 naw you dont need a good rain, just need to grab some water and cleaning kit and some gloves, can always do it yourself
How does this differ from tesla battery system.
Just clean the solar panels yourself!! Very easy and you should recover minimal 10% generation or better!!
So like the 4th youtube video out there with no pricing... i wonder whyyyyyyyyyyy
Because the price isn’t worth the savings with the install.
Listen closer @3:20
Wondering the same here and I can't seem to nail down anker even to talk with them
Because it was free…
@@XX-166Enjoy giving your money to the greedy power companies
Hope it does not end up burning you house down. They have the potential to self ignite.
Hire a gutter cleaning company immediately before there’s house damage. My northern house had gutters cleaned twice per year.
So these are not made for Chicago or anything Northern, oh well....
Ecoflows PowerOcean with same 5kWh modules cost 2300 Euros 2200 USD (battery module 1x) i hope x1 cost 1500 per module
So how much will it cost to dispose of. No one talks about the disposal cost and the #1 reason why houses are being sold with dead solar panels.
Dead solar panels? How long are we talking about - 30 years?
@@aussie2uGA I don't have an answer to specifics. All I know is solar panels contain mercury and they require proper disposal. I have heard it costing between $5k to $15k.
@@justinburcaw1426 They still last 25 years and then continue to work but fall under minimum efficiency. Most people want the latest and greatest by that point.
No mercury. Myth. Some may contain cadmium and or lead. Some will pass TCLP tests. There are companies that are now recycling them and are able to separate materials to resell them to Manufacturers for profit.@@justinburcaw1426
Waste of money imho
IMHO powerwall 3 would integrate better.
Except you have to use tesla approved installer to have a warranty.
Nasty gutters. Dude needs to learn how to do home maintenance
Dude needs to get on the roof more often and clean his gutters.
I just got 71.5 kwh batteries for $16,885 delivered. Powerpro.
390watt brand new panels $112 apiece delivered. 18k inverter $3556 delivered. Right now is the time to go solar. Lots of overstock reductions going on Right Now. And those prices are without the 30% tax rebate.
I installed 2" of insulation and 8000ft of pex in my driveway. To melt snow in wisconsin. Was going to use solar hydronic panels. But couldn't find drain back panels for under $900 apiece. So just going to use 24 of the 390watt photovoltaic panels hooked up to 2 electric hot water heaters. With solar pumps. About $4000. Way less than the hydronic panels. Needed 10 of those.
Will never shovel snow again. And other than initial investment won't cost anything to heat my driveway.