Something to be aware of when switching an installation to backup - if you have a central heating boiler, you may need to link the neutral and earth on your backup supply, otherwise the flame failure detection won't work and it shuts the gas off. Probably wise to do anyway otherwise your RCDs won't be effective

Take a look at the victron multiplus 2. That can forward feed and reverse feed and is an automatic switchover. Easy brilliant system.

Hey nick, you can buy a three phase to single phase linking kit which will allow you to still use any of the ways on the board rather than just L1

Great, bit of kit Nick, But I really like the Milwaukee drill and bits you have , it would be cool to do a in-depth on the Milwaukee tools 🧰 you have ⚡️👊

I love your work keep up the videos

Hey you got it done!

I’ve got a couple of Anker usb (A&C) to iPhone lightning cables and also a USB c charger and all of them are by far the best I’ve ever had, the cables I’ve had for over three years and show no signs of breaking, although when plugging lightning plug into iPhone is did struggle to work plugged in one way, so have it a clean with electrical contact cleaner and fine now. I wonder if you could use the smaller add on battery to ‘trickle’ charge the larger main battery especially if your using solar for this reason and you have typical British weather. I’d like to think this will be one of these products where you can forever be trying to think up new ways to make the best use out of it/them. And/or the product(s), become Smarter giving you more options or it automatically works out best usage for you. If energy prices continue rising, I can see this becoming more popular.

Fuse box do actually make a change over main switch for a single phase board. Could make a neat install if you wanted to do in your house.

Well with only 32 commenting so far I'm surprised nobody else has mentioned the solar input conundrum. 2:40 it sounds like you're going to come down from the solar panels through an inverter from DC to AC then convert back to DC in the anchor. This will have a major/Definitely efficiency loss. You'd be far better going down to an isolator and then going straight to the anchor as that incorporates a solar input with some sort of charge controller and monitoring. Otherwise you're converting twice with an efficiency loss each time.

nice 😊 id like one of those but id prob never afford it! i think its awesome seeing this done, esp with an anker unit! watch folks asking nick to do this to their homes! 😂😂😂

I would of put the l1.2 and 3 in a Henley block above the meter and kept all way’s usable

Just put L1 in bottom of iso and use a 3 way buss bar

I was going to post link out the phases but you beat me to it. You could in theory run your unit when you are there off-grid couldn't you? And if you are allowed to have solar on the roof charge the power bank up from that as well as power your unit when you are not there. I think that's right. Also, you are paying for 3 phase when you only need single.

You need to disconnect the pme earth whilst on self generation. As any fault current can back feed the grid causing issues to any lines staff working on the system

@corymac what do you think to this?

You need to check if the Anker links N+E when there is no earth from the grid. If it doesn't then a TT system is of heehaw use, there will be no L->E potential.

Hello Nick . A typical pv inverter or genset would never try find a return path through the supply network. Electricity tries to return to its source which is always the inverter or genset which will have a neutral earth link inside . The earth rod is to return current for anyone receiving a shock to the actual ground .

Be careful, some energy suppliers charge commercial 3 x kwh of the highest phase current which means if you run everything on L1 you’ll be triple charged for usage. Best way is to leave stuff over 3 phases then bridge L1.2.3 on the off grid side.

You guys started talking about Jackery as small power units, then looked at Bluetti which you talked highly of... Strange that you're on Anker for this (Anker have always been good) and not used the Bluetti that you used to have??

Just bridge L1 L2 L3

But how far will it go if you put some wheels on it 🤔

How long does it take to charge once flat!!

I don’t see the point in a separate earth. Surely that battery storage works a bit like a shaver point. Completely isolated for making any complete path to earth as in the spiked ground.

An Anker promoted by a W⚓️! Nice! 😂