I had that same off brand surge protector temporarily and was highly skeptical of its effectiveness and this video confirms it. I replaced it with an equivalent Belkin. When it comes to surge protectors, only go with name brands: APC, TrippLite, Belkin, CyberPower, GE.
During an experiment feeding open a neutral voltage into the generator port of my EG4 18Kpv inverter I caused a power surge from unbalanced load on my system leading to upwards of 200 V on one leg supposedly and fried some equipment (LED lighting clock radio and main board in a microwave and 3 Battery Minder's) I just thought I would share this because it was an older Belkin Surgemaster II SPD saved a good portion of my equipment sacrificing it's self in the process. The MOV's took the hit and saved a Hitachi TV and a Edifier DB350S powered speaker system. Point to be taken cascading level of protection is very important and surges can come from within the home not just from lighting.
how you liike the 18kpv? We're shopping for land to build and i spent a good amount of time picking out what equipment i was gonna use and the 18kpv was the winner for my needs. Plus it seems extremely easy to tie into the mains and automatically switches/supplements between PV, Battery, and then finally utility line incoming. I think the plan is to go off grid but i wanted to start with that and about 14kw of battery and 12 to 15kw of PV. Too much info, lol. but curious how you like the EG4
@@Josh-oe4ex Sorry I didn't see the message you should join the wheel pros is DIY solar form I'm pretty easy to find there but I love the 18 KPVI am running my whole property off of it the only thing it struggles with is my well pump it's a deep well in ground pump and if water heaters run in and three or four window shakers it has a bit of a hard time more so than the 4 ton air conditioner but other than that it's been installed and running for the past three months and I've only used 40 kilowatt hours from the utility I used zero kilowatt hours last month and it was still $18 so you figure it would cost $200 a year just to have the utility is back up to me it's worth it if the inverter was to fail for some reason and I needed to get warranty work done on it or whatever I could easily just throw a switch I am currently feeding the 18 KPV via a line side tap to an outdoor disconnect box and then through the grid side input of the inverter and then back feeding into a 150 amp modified breaker in the upper right slot of a 200 amp square D home line panel and I'm using a generator interlock that acts as my transfer switch to back feed my main panel in the entire property if I had it to do over again I would have went with the 12 KPV and doubled down on those as they each have the same surge capacity as the 18 KPV and they're almost the exact same price point per watt but what I really like is having redundancy down the road if I find a good deal one I will get another 18 KPV but as it is right now my next inverter is going to be ANHK 10K that's 10 1000 watts continuous and I believe it is 15,000 watts of PV over four inputs and it has two load outputs on it you can pick it up for $200 through Watts247. Bottom line is it is a very capable machine and I do not regret my purchase it is also a hybrid inverter meaning it can supplement load as if you are consuming 15,000 watts it could supplement 3000 watts from the utility until the load dropped and then it would all transfer to the inverter it also has AC couple for tying an existing in phase system into the grid so that you can use that power to charge batteries and power loads and it has a micro grid function as well this is just another function to hook an existing solar system into the 18kpv.
I had that same off brand surge protector temporarily and was highly skeptical of its effectiveness and this video confirms it. I replaced it with an equivalent Belkin. When it comes to surge protectors, only go with name brands: APC, TrippLite, Belkin, CyberPower, GE.
During an experiment feeding open a neutral voltage into the generator port of my EG4 18Kpv inverter I caused a power surge from unbalanced load on my system leading to upwards of 200 V on one leg supposedly and fried some equipment (LED lighting clock radio and main board in a microwave and 3 Battery Minder's) I just thought I would share this because it was an older Belkin Surgemaster II SPD saved a good portion of my equipment sacrificing it's self in the process. The MOV's took the hit and saved a Hitachi TV and a Edifier DB350S powered speaker system.
Point to be taken cascading level of protection is very important and surges can come from within the home not just from lighting.
how you liike the 18kpv? We're shopping for land to build and i spent a good amount of time picking out what equipment i was gonna use and the 18kpv was the winner for my needs. Plus it seems extremely easy to tie into the mains and automatically switches/supplements between PV, Battery, and then finally utility line incoming. I think the plan is to go off grid but i wanted to start with that and about 14kw of battery and 12 to 15kw of PV. Too much info, lol. but curious how you like the EG4
@@Josh-oe4ex Sorry I didn't see the message you should join the wheel pros is DIY solar form I'm pretty easy to find there but I love the 18 KPVI am running my whole property off of it the only thing it struggles with is my well pump it's a deep well in ground pump and if water heaters run in and three or four window shakers it has a bit of a hard time more so than the 4 ton air conditioner but other than that it's been installed and running for the past three months and I've only used 40 kilowatt hours from the utility I used zero kilowatt hours last month and it was still $18 so you figure it would cost $200 a year just to have the utility is back up to me it's worth it if the inverter was to fail for some reason and I needed to get warranty work done on it or whatever I could easily just throw a switch I am currently feeding the 18 KPV via a line side tap to an outdoor disconnect box and then through the grid side input of the inverter and then back feeding into a 150 amp modified breaker in the upper right slot of a 200 amp square D home line panel and I'm using a generator interlock that acts as my transfer switch to back feed my main panel in the entire property if I had it to do over again I would have went with the 12 KPV and doubled down on those as they each have the same surge capacity as the 18 KPV and they're almost the exact same price point per watt but what I really like is having redundancy down the road if I find a good deal one I will get another 18 KPV but as it is right now my next inverter is going to be ANHK 10K that's 10 1000 watts continuous and I believe it is 15,000 watts of PV over four inputs and it has two load outputs on it you can pick it up for $200 through Watts247.
Bottom line is it is a very capable machine and I do not regret my purchase it is also a hybrid inverter meaning it can supplement load as if you are consuming 15,000 watts it could supplement 3000 watts from the utility until the load dropped and then it would all transfer to the inverter it also has AC couple for tying an existing in phase system into the grid so that you can use that power to charge batteries and power loads and it has a micro grid function as well this is just another function to hook an existing solar system into the 18kpv.
@@RobBananaman321 Wow. Thank you for the detailed reply. Seriously! That sounds great and exactly what i'm looking for