To answer questions in advance, no, they are not growing crops with all the power. On the property, there are 3 RV's, one for my mom, one for my dad, and one for my step-dad. RV's are not very energy efficient...so in summer when it's 110F outside, they use a LOT of power to air condition them. The electrical room is also air conditioned and there is a hot tub that used to have the excess diverted to it, but sometimes they don't like waiting until there (isn't) excess. They only have about 12kW of solar, mounted flat, so it doesn't get anywhere near peak production.

A million dollars worth of genset, chargeverters and batteries yet we can't afford a new 9v for the smoke alarm... makes perfect sense.

Sounds like a good PV mounting structure would be a solar canopy to park the RVs under so sun isn't hitting them directly which would cut the heat gain.

Now that’s an amazing way to harness all the power. I really like the serial hybrid approach. Great video!

SOK needs to come up with a lifetime battery for smoke detectors.

All that available power & yet no power for the smoke alarm,an alarm you REALLY want operational ⚡⚡🔥🔥

That's a badass set up there brother it has changed a lot over the years... Keep it up brother

Holy cow! What a setup. That is a lot of amperage potential.

We use an EG4 Chargverter in our system and it’s amazing.

That was a great video. I have one Chargeverter and it heats up my electrical room. I can't imagine how hot that room is!

One nice thing about those switching rectifiers is that it really don't care about the line frequency as much so long it is within 50 to 60 Hz. You're definitely getting the most out the generator by using it in 3 phase mode. Even if you lose a few chargeverters, definitely have enough redundancy to keep things going until you get them replaced. Maybe EG4 might come out with a budget rack mounted version for higher power configurations?🤞 It be one heck of a setup and much cleaner for larger installations...

Your video had me hunting for the smoke alarm in my house that had a dying battery then I realized it was YOUR dying battery. Whoops. :)

For whatever reason I have been subscribed to you for several years but I have not been receiving any notifications from your channel. Deanna and I needed this information and video very much. Thank you. I am still attempting the best means to charge the 48 volt Absolyte 2,000 amp hour battery bank that we picked up for the mountaintop. Always good to see you! Blessings and Happy New Year ( a little late!).

Love the content you put out! Please keep the videos coming!!

every time some one links to this video I have to come back and watch parts of it - LOVE this video and I share it

What a beast of a set up, very nice.

Probably the largest DIY system I've ever seen on KZfaq. Lots of $...Wow....couple of generations can live off of this amount of money in my country.

Wow, super cool. Thank you for sharing.

Looks like you have your phases well balanced...but that neutral is technically undersized. I would be interested to see what kind of current that neutral cable sees with the load of chargeverters, and if their loading stays balanced as the battery voltage comes up. Another scenerio where the neutral could see more current is if a few chargerters went off line...and happened to be on the same phase--seems unlikely, but still worth considering. Another option would be to forgo the neutral all together and run as a 208 delta (of course this would mean double pole breakers for the chargeverters). Love this content!

Awesome and a bit insane, I love it.

Nicely done! Quite the system. I would love to see an IR cam on this system. Thanks for sharing.

Thanks! what an awesome setup.

Bad ass thanks for the tour 😊

We have the similar genset but not enclosed. Bought new in the 90s and worked reliably. But recently, the avr burst into flames because it used the infamous Rifa paper caps. Fortunately was a quick fix there are lots of clones of the avr that used more reliable poly caps. Might want to check yours out, if the Rifa caps are cracked, they will burst into flames eventually.

That's an insane amount of chargers. EV's have chargers one 10th that size that can take anywhere from 50 to 350 kW. I wonder if one could be gotten to do the same job, but probably would need to be actively cooled. Anyway, very impressive setup. Good job. Edit: Opps! Those EV chargers are DC to DC! Yours is AC to DC. Max AC to DC in EV's is 19.2 kW that I know of and they are expensive.

THANKS, GREAT INFORMATION!

Speachless!

Oh yeah! More power!!!

WOW Crazy!!!! Love it!!!

AWESOME VIDEO, Thanks

All I can think of calling it is "the beast". Thanks for sharing.

Thats some serious charging

Very nice! Also love the blue car... :)

Awesome!!!

This is awesome!!

No wonder I can’t find one in stock to buy this dude got them all 😂

So glad I bought a Chargeverter! If they can handle this, they can handle my puny 7500watt generator.

How to go nuts on batterys and generators

I love how the fuel cap the fuel Inlet for the diesel tank it's just a galvanized piece of pipe with a threaded cap simple easy basic I gets the job done

Damn. I'm incredibly impressed you can do all this seeing as you aren't even capable of replacing your smoke alarm batteries.

Wow that was really cool. I’ve never seen european colour coded wires used in a US panel before. What a great setup! I really like this it turned out great. And will look even better when the lugs arrive. Its always good to have backups and redundancy and this really covers that greatly. Great concept and use case for this properties specific needs. And could benefit similar and other use cases.

Wow awesome

Well thats pretty neat!

well to be fair... i only want one... always ran a charger rather than direct gen to inverter on my off grid set ups... cheap gensets too variable ... great mech room!

EMP proof good idea 👍

You should try a line reactor inline on the output of the generator to help filter the noise.

the 2 wires that are not hooked up on the oil pressure sensor I think need to be hooked up to make the connection to the controller and make it work right now it thinks it has no oil pressure and would go into shutdown without the ziptie you will prob need to buy a new oil pressure switch also as there maybe a reason it's unhooked awesome setup btw !!!

Solar panels are cheaper compared to batteries, but the generator is an awesome backup. I would love to see a video in the future of the system upgraded with lots of solar.

Finlay !! I can not understand why this is not the standard. to be honest the Inverter Charger combo is only god for RVs that frequent trailer parks. In any other setup you are better of separating the Inverter and Charger , and definitely having a charger that can tolerate "dirty AC".

I'm only a third the way thru but man, I'm really enjoying this so far 😂

This is pretty cool. Hopefully you won’t need to use the generator once you get that extra solar uo

if you were fancy you would set up some automation to auto start the charging gen, 12min gen cooldown and back to standby

I'm curious about your heat mitigation strategy for your chargeverters. They tend to run quite hot, and I own one myself. While I've ensured ample space around mine as instructed, the heat output is still significant. I'd appreciate any insights you have on managing this heat.

When you heard the phrase as a young man, "Go Big or Go Home."... You took it Quite Literally!

That is a beast of a setup! I'm curious how the Chargeverters are holding up now that it's been a few months. We are building a stronger charging solution for our off grid cell tower site. Have the Chargerverters kept their voltage and amp settings through all of the various generator cycles? Our generator is tiny in comparison (9500w). We have 2 Chargeverters along with the Victron Quattro 5000 charging which will be disabled most of the time in order to keep the generator 240v phases even. Plan is to back off the CV amps to keep the generator around it's peak 24x7 output rating. Generator only runs if there's multiple cloudy days. It's a very remote site so if the CVs settings get lost, they will overpower the generator if they go back to 100A.

Nice setup. Now that you've shown that, I've realized that the battery rack is pointless. Just save money and space by stacking them.

@4:32 smoke alarm beep 😂

Given that you've got a finely-tunable load right there you could maybe perform some interesting tests on the generator to find the sweet spot where it's at its most efficient, not just for science but for practicality as you can hopefully save fuel. Fill the tank right to the brim, run for an hour at xx kVA load, measure how much it takes to brim the tank again. Repeat at different kVA loadings, either by adjusting settings or turning off balanced triplets of inverters. Graph and learn :) Worth running a three-phase socket off that panel as well? You've got a three phase diesel-powered supply available for the odd occasions when one would come in handy.

3100aH home/1200aH shop. Our 10kW LP Generac plays nice with 12k’s.

It would be interesting to test fuel usage at different laods to see what what percentage load the generator gets it's best fuel economy

I guess some people do not hear smoke detectors chirping...

That's why my Chargeverter is on backorder lol

Gazooks man what town are you supplying.

WOW.....

😮👍 wow

I am kind of surprised no one mentioned floating neutral on the old generator as being a possible cause. We have seen that issue several times where some generators either intermittently charge, or just don't charge the attached equipment at all. Some equipment is just better at handling the floating neutral that most generators are setup for. Hidden usually in the manual, often in just a paragraph or less there will be something about this but there is many videos out there that can explain the floating neutral issue and how to correct it, because it sure would have been cheaper than doing all this work.

**Removes glasses** "Mother of god"

Hi, high tech lab. I have a question on the Chargeverter that maybe able to clarify. I am totally off grid. Signiture Solar tech recommended that I don’t charge my batteries with them being charged and discharging to run my house.when my solar panels not producing power. Have you ever have any problems charging your batteries and the inverter running with loads? Thanks for your opinion.

What a setup! About how long can your parents operate once the batteries are fully charged? Also, can you tell us more about why they went off grid or is this a vacation home setup?

Change the battery in your smoke alarm.

I think it might have been worthwhile to install the twistlocks off the breaker panel, and you should keep the DC wiring original/full length. The reason? Think about maintainance/warranty… It’s much easier to remove a plug, and send back a defective charger under warranty, to EG4 if it hasn’t been modified, also faster for you, as you won’t have to open the panel and loosen the screws on the 2 pole breaker.

Nice video! How loud are the chargeverters at 85 amps output? Is the fan temperature controlled?

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It would be helpful to have a reactive load gauge [kvars] on that generator. PWM or SCR systems tend to have lousy power factors. That inverter disconnect seems odd on account of voltage is stable - you'd think it ought to be happy. But... does 240 from generator match inverter design? Spec sheet suggests 175-425v input, so that sounds fine. I have had charging systems in the past where they were sligtly under-specd for battery bank Ah capacity - they stood up fine, until battery age started demanding more current, and the charger failed from the mismatch -upgraded to a higher output charging unit and problem solved. So this was a video to watch: maybe battery overtemp and/or overcurrent was my first instinct regarding shutdowns. As for the newer bigger generator... what AIC is required? I was thinking main has to be 120,000? This is a fairly big project as details go. Throw some dessicant packs in that generator control panel to keep electronics happy over time - any cabinet outdoors has a way of breathing with heat/cool cycles day & night that can cause something approaching a mini rain forest inside. You might [might] need to pull back on charging volts to 54v?

prob could have stayed with the solarks with the new generator

What up cheddar bob?

any issues with hitting the generator with all those chargeverters all at once? It would seem a good idea to have them switch on in groups of three thru a three phase contractor.... that way you can ramp up the load. Chargeverters don't softitart do they?

Is it OK to stack 5 SOK server rack batteries on top of each other? The manual says 3 max. I ask because I also want to stack at least 5 without using the rack. Do the bottom ones get too stressed?

Here's a thought.... better solar panels, mounting, bi-facials etc..whew who wants to hear all that racket going... (face palming myself)

need more panels

when i first read it i thought that 48v 1200A that really isn't a huge home battery, then i realised it said A and not AH. 57kw of charging power goddamn. The best i can do is 12kw with my 3phase deye. i have 1400ah of lead acid agms for my house consumption together with 18kw solar, My main fuses to my provider can only do 25A x 3 fuses. So i am hard limited to selling/buying about 17kw. Need to get thicker wires inside to get access to more power. I suppose this home battery has around 120 kwh then? perhaps for lifetime concerns about 90-100 usable kwh.

Gonna mess around and catch that room on fire. Rumor has it those chargeverters double as a griddle.

Sounds like you need to go to 360v systems.

I’m surprised tsp many devices will operate in parallel. It feels very much out of code, at least in my area, YMMV.

way not use solar panels?

Little confused; I thought you said it was a 480V generator. That would be phase to phase. How are you running 120/240V chargers off that? 277V to neutral would still be too much voltage. What did I miss? Also, are those chargers all completely Isolated so they don't care how their outputs are paired? Thanks. Lastly; You're not over "C"ing those batteries charging them back up almost all the way in only two hours? What's the allowed charging C rate?

So we need a a 20k dollar solar setup and a massive generator to be energy independent?

How big is your parents s solar system..PV array ?

Is this guy from current connected?

Battery in smoke detector asap!

Destroy the smoke alarm already!! #BEEP!

Add a windmill in front of the engine.

That 14 kw would work great with my set up...lol...can I have it? 😂

Damn who's is the gt3rs 🤩

That Tesla looks familiar

OMG change that smoke detector battery, please!

How much does all this cost

More money than brains.

Damn, someone gets an employee discount on batteries.... whew

I can't help but think you've had to do a heck of a lot of working around around the fact that you bought solark inverters. Personally I think they're overrated. Give me a good old fashioned tried and tested Victron or SMA Sunny island any day of the week. I would think a pair of Victron Quattro 15k would have served your parents much better as they're literally designed for generator use and probably would have worked fine with your existing genny once you configured the weak power input/dynamic power limiter/power assist settings right. There's a reason 90% of boats etc in the world have Victron kit in them I aint seen one with solark yet. Either way very interesting vid, a heck of a battery bank and one heck of a workaround!