Recent content by tearitupsports

What model of Sol-Ark inverter do you have? That is a great piece of equipment and should already be battery ready for you. You might have it easy with this. Are you sure you aren't already set up to go off-grid as well? side note that I used to live in Charlottesville for 4 years. Awesome...

For just charging the truck, and because you already have a solar system, getting a home battery system with their automatic transfer switch would be your best bet. Make sure it is something that supports AC coupled solar, and a very nice to have would be a generator input as well. Ecoflow...

This post was not intended to compare options, as there are plenty of posts about that, but the 2 systems as you describe are not anywhere close to each other. With just considering off-grid the Sigenergy is WAY more than an extra 2.4kW. You are referencing the HIS @ 9.6kW (or possibly my...

I shift all my usage to off-peak just like you are wanting to do. I run my system in self-consumption mode from 6am - 8pm every day. Then at 8pm I convert to charging mode, which charges the truck and batteries up to their set limit. Self consumption mode is basically the same as being off...

Those 4 components are the minimum needed for full V2X. I personally have 2 inverters, 3 batteries (25 kWh total), load hub, and V2X module. Yes the app has all sorts of time of use setting that can be used to maximize self consumption or rate plans. Here is TX we have an extremely awesome...

What a difference location makes. My 5kW system in Houston is producing the same or more than your 10kW system.

There is nothing you really need to set up on the truck. I have never used departure schedule. While I think it would still work, I don't know because I don't have experience with how it works. There are a few quirks with it DC charging. If you use the saved locations and a time schedule...

I don't really like posting what I paid, because it really doesn't apply to anyone else. The main factor is that I have a good friend who is a master electrician, and my labor is free. It was the same for the Ford/Sunrun system I installed. My original Sigenergy install was last year when it...

Do you have solar still connected to your PW3? If so does it have a mode where it can charge only from solar and then only export the saved power. With that you could essentially turn it into a solar inverter from the Sigenergy point of view.

It's not a UPS so double conversion does not apply really, but in performance mode, the inverters are always active ready to take the load. There is an energy saving mode where the inverters go to sleep when not providing a load. I think it says they take about 50ms to wake up, which could...

I can't tell you exactly. The base (bare minimum) system would be around $8k-$9k for the components I believe. This is about the same price as the Ford system if you also included a Charge Station pro and LG battery. There are a lot of homes that would be a 1 day install for this system...

Solar is totally optional. The Sigenergy inverter is also a solar inverter so you could just add panels down the road.

To my knowledge with the way it works it shouldn’t matter if you have a Pro or Platinum. If serious I am sure Sigenergy could find a location for you to test first.

It is of course possible, and I am not aware of Sigenergy doing any work directly with Ford. That being said, I don't think Ford is going to spend much money on the Lightning any more especially for a niche case like this. With the OTA history, I am really not worried about it either. We all...

Good question. There is nothing that needs to be enabled or set in the lightning. The truck just thinks it is connected to a DC charger. This system will work with all model years and trim level of the Lightning, and doesn't require any sort of option package.