Hey Joe, My wife and I are taking the plunge building our next house in sunny NC. We are moving to the Hurricane Belt along the coast. We are working with a great installer who has multiple contacts with Enphase employees. We have decided on REC panels, Enphase Microinverters, and 4 - Enphase 5P batteries and a single SPAN panel for our system. We chose Enphase because of their integration of Bi-directional charging. We will have 2 EV's capable of bi-directional charging when we move to our new house. The installer told us that they now have a dedicated engineer contact assigned to our project at Enphase that will help them every step of the way in making sure our system is optimized for our needs. We discussed Tesla Powerwall 3 and after they spoke to several Tesla employees, the Powerwall 3 is not currently able to utilize bi-directional charging (I believe the Powerwall 2 can). I will report back after the system is installed and let you know how it's performing. By the way, our installer contact and I both watch you. "Our friend Joe just had a great video" is mentioned in our emails. Great information as always!
Hey Joe, you've done a handful of these videos and they are great! It would be AWESOME if you had a website that put all these together into one comparison. For example, EPCube vs. Franklin vs. Powerwall III vs. Enphase vs. Mango, etc. etc. etc!
I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but it seems that there is some apples vs oranges comparison going on here. If you are going to rate the power and capacity of the single unit, the price should be taken into account for the single unit. Or even more accurately, if you match capacity with 4 units, power would also be upgraded. That’s a +5 for Enphase and Mango could still win with a lower score for price, but at a more even comparison. Or they would be even with the warranty, price and installation being the differing factors.
I agree, though I would argue that the comparison should be 1 Enphase 5P vs. Mango with only one power module. (5kWh each). This picks up the unavoidable cost of the inverter in the minimum configuration. Then a separate evaluation of the cost to expand either one.
I was on contract for a Mango 20k system and the contractor called me and recommended I don’t do that vendor. They had issues with warranty work and Mango was insisting on having a company tech onsite for the repairs. And repairs took as long as Tesla to service.
Hey Joe, My wife and I are taking the plunge building our next house in sunny NC. We are moving to the Hurricane Belt along the coast. We are working with a great installer who has multiple contacts with Enphase employees. We have decided on REC panels, Enphase Microinverters, and 4 - Enphase 5P batteries and a single SPAN panel for our system. We chose Enphase because of their integration of Bi-directional charging. We will have 2 EV's capable of bi-directional charging when we move to our new house. The installer told us that they now have a dedicated engineer contact assigned to our project at Enphase that will help them every step of the way in making sure our system is optimized for our needs. We discussed Tesla Powerwall 3 and after they spoke to several Tesla employees, the Powerwall 3 is not currently able to utilize bi-directional charging (I believe the Powerwall 2 can). I will report back after the system is installed and let you know how it's performing. By the way, our installer contact and I both watch you. "Our friend Joe just had a great video" is mentioned in our emails. Great information as always!
Out of curiosity, why get home batteries when you will be using the EV batteries?
Good info. Even if you don't DIY, the more you know, the better you can work with the professional doing the work for you.
Hey Joe, you've done a handful of these videos and they are great! It would be AWESOME if you had a website that put all these together into one comparison. For example, EPCube vs. Franklin vs. Powerwall III vs. Enphase vs. Mango, etc. etc. etc!
What about Span compatibility.
I don’t really have a dog in this fight, but it seems that there is some apples vs oranges comparison going on here. If you are going to rate the power and capacity of the single unit, the price should be taken into account for the single unit. Or even more accurately, if you match capacity with 4 units, power would also be upgraded. That’s a +5 for Enphase and Mango could still win with a lower score for price, but at a more even comparison. Or they would be even with the warranty, price and installation being the differing factors.
I agree, though I would argue that the comparison should be 1 Enphase 5P vs. Mango with only one power module. (5kWh each). This picks up the unavoidable cost of the inverter in the minimum configuration. Then a separate evaluation of the cost to expand either one.
Would you be able to do one against the Franklin battery too please? Thank you in advance.
He did one last year ua-cam.com/video/U7DxCWwX1WA/v-deo.htmlsi=D1ciaWXjN41zBgJY
I was on contract for a Mango 20k system and the contractor called me and recommended I don’t do that vendor. They had issues with warranty work and Mango was insisting on having a company tech onsite for the repairs. And repairs took as long as Tesla to service.
I have an Enphase system with IQ7 inverters but I want a different battery system. What batteries are compatible with Enphase system?
Do these commonly output 240v? For thinks like wells?
How about doing a comparison between Mango, Pytes, and Homegrid.
QCells still pips both of those.
Off course a bigger battery gets better points in Power and Capacity 🤦🏻♂️