Cool, a Microinverter.

Hi Kelly, would it make sense to connect the inverter battery leads to both batteries instead to just 1 battery? (so that all batteries are the same distance to the inverter). Example: Connect inverter negative lead to battery 1, and positive lead to battery 2, then parallel the batteries with the paralleling cable as per usual?

what a comprehensive review! thanks for all your work and input

Why not make the signal wire a plug and play like your competitors?

Does the yellow model have the dirty power filter?

This video is old, been waiting for equipment from signature solar almost as long as this video is old.

I purchased two 6500EX's when they first came out (18-24 months ago?) with the intentions of building a complete system. At that time, I also purchased four EG4 48v/100ah server rack batteries and 8kw of solar panels, all from Signature Solar. As life happens, all of these components are still in the unopened boxes and have simply been occupying a corner of my garage. So, as life continues to happen, I'm just now able to tackle the project. It appears that Signature Solar no longer carries these and I'm guessing that these models had problems or are simply antiquated now? Any advice, updates, or guidance would be greatly appreciated before I start building my system? Thanks in advance for any help

Nice video. Will this unit communicate with the Schneider Xanbus for SOC? My EG4 batteries are connected to the Xanbus.

Bravo.....great idea.........now .......make it self washing.......they should pay me ......cheers

I’m confused about the minimum battery requirement for a specific load. Can I run a 2000W load with two LifePower batteries (48V 100Ah) and an EG4 3000W inverter?

8 awg and larger use non-crimp connectors. Best way to attach wire? Do I need to solder?

great video - would these work with tesla Powerwall 3?

Why are you not crimping those cables?

what will this partnership bring to the table?

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Quick question: why does the indoor head unit appear to be rather large? The size appears to be similar to a regular 18k btu unit

Wait don’t you have an identical one for outdoors as well? So I would say for both indoor and outdoor use!

is the charger needed because eg devices does not actually support generators.... even though it says a gas or diesel generator can be used?

I would love to see a manufactured, 120V AC plug-in cord for that charger ready to buy off the shelf. Without the need to make a dog bone or take off the end plug and rewire it.

I have 2 of these New ChargeVerters I purchased from Signature Solar after I had already purchased 2 6000XP's, a Rack of Batteries and a pallet of Solar Panels. The following info is Serious for Off Grid Customers. #1 You cannot use the communication to batteries when batteries are already connected to inverter communication making this upgrade useless. #2 Since you cannot start the generator based on SOC because you cannot use the communication feature, you are stuck with inaccurate voltage making this upgrade useless. #3 Turning On the ChargeVerter will cause your 6000XP's Inverter to Shut Down and Restart shutting down all your loads. #4 Why didn't they include a true battery charging feature inside all 18K, 12K and 6K so you can hook up a normal sized generator to each 6000XP, 18K, 12K etc and Not harm the Inverter or shut down the system when starting up generator charging? You could then run one generator on one unit or start another generator on the second unit etc as needed! #5 So they have upgraded the ChargeVerter with useless features, charged more for the unit and still have not fixed the problem of flipping on the Chargeverter Breaker Shutting down the system? They have had many All-In-One systems get damaged due to the lack of proper info to customers on this subject resulting in Damage. Customers hooking up a generator up to just one unit or multiple generators to multiple All-In-Ones not knowing that they must hook up Only One Generator to all All-In Ones in the system or you will have serious issues like phase unmatching which can cause all kinds of Damage. Or customers hooking up too small of a generator to their All-In-Ones causing shut downs, failures and damage. Or customers generator operating outside of the less than 3% distortion tolerance damaging their units. So this video is their solution which left out critical info? Only customer solution is to purchase additional ChargeVerters that we should not have to do and were not informed that we needed. Few people have large enough generators to satisfy their design issues. Only customer solution is to leave the ChargeVerters ON at all times so you can start up your generator when needed without the whole system shutting down and restarting. I am not the only one upset about this issue and EG4 has not replied to me at all. They should At The Least provide a fix for this shutting down issue and send that additional device or upgrade to all customers who purchased. Lets see if they respond to this comment?

Is it true that the eg4 charger has a better than .99 Power factor? I got that info from some data Communications power supply modules that are supposedly the modules used in this charger.

What I can say about the yellow one the earlier initial first model is that mine withstood a lightning strike which blew out a different brand of inverter charger that was also hooked up in parallel and running on the generator at the time of the lightning strike the eg4 product just kept right on going like nothing had happened but lightning had actually hit my solar panel array. The electromagnetic pulse from that was considerable and went into both the charge rotor and the other product. The other product went up and smoke was the charger is still good to this day.

I have both the yellow charger and the new Black unit you have featured here. For the first two weeks it was a mystery why the new unit wouldn't charge past 89 or 90 amps but I just recently figured out that the new charger thinks the battery voltage is 2/10 of a volt higher than the old charger. There's a difference in calibration of the metering within the Chargers. So I had to add 2 volts to the charging threshold on the new unit to get it up to the maximum 93.5 amps that I've been able to get out of these. I've never had one of these actually produce 100 amps of output.

Added to my wish list for X-mas.

Another great video. I was just wondering how this is best used.

Those of us that are using this as just an AC charger and not for automated generators would appreciate the cheaper original. Had my eye on the original to charge my DIY electric ZTR mower. Was waiting for the next sale when it got discontinued and replaced. The price, especially of the new one, has me limited to a 60V 5A variable power supply. It's almost 1/10 the cost and works.

I just bought 2 of these, I would really love a guide for dry contacts. I have westinghouse generators with push start and I have no clue how to hook them up to the chargeverters.

Thanks for the video, can one take wind turbine power, quite dirty ac with low power (1000watts) and clean it up into a dc form and use it to trickle charge ones batteries?

Super helpful! I just received my Chargeverter a few days ago and this will be an excellent reference for the setup

Nice work on this one. Good video

In what scenario would you want communication between the Chargeverter and Battery verses Battery and Inverter?

Seems like a good solution to use a 3 phase generator to backup a home, assuming you've got solar & batteries on the system.

Any suggested guide for the dry contact setup on a generator?

Very well done!! Easy to follow..

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What are the criteria for determining if you need to install one of these between your inverter and a generator? I believe if it's an inverter generator, you're good to go / don't need to have one, if I recall. Same thing, what if people have a say 20KW standby generator? Does it just depend on the standby generator?

The cleaning of generators output is the key to electrical energy production 😊

How is this camping? Lol

I need to make a conversion cable to connect MC4 to DC8020

Would these work with Ecoflow Delta Pro Ultra Home backup system? It can accept up to 450 volts at 15 amps

A little envelope with cash for the inspector.😂

I just bought one of these and it says 200A discharge and 50A continously. Is mine different?

Nice work Kelly!

Thanks, you resolved the confusion I had after watching another youtuber in less than 1 minute.

I know the transfer sw because of the batteries. Can a system like this be grid tied with a way of using a “transfer” sw only when you need the batteries?