We have a battery backup system that I want to show you guys
this person actually got the fire equity resilience rebate 54000 rebate in this case
for this size batteries and and stuff so it's a really big whole house home battery backup system
that you know not many people are are able to to do or or just don't do because of the cost but
with this huge rebate it makes sense and it works great especially with the solar so you can see the
solar on the roof there and then we'll go check out the solar converters and batteries as well
and then uh operation so what what we uh got going here is just finishing this installation
still have a little bit of wiring to do and stuff but got the solar converters with fortress battery
now typically you probably just have one solar converter and maybe one fortress battery this
is 18.5 kilowatt hours and this is a 12 kilowatt inverter so this thing will will do about 50 amps
of backup power so two of them you got 100 amps of power that's like you know five Tesla Powerwalls
for example now these these are getting somewhat common for preppers and you know a lot of a lot of
times when other battery systems can't handle the power of homes then they put the SolArks in here
and Fortress battery is a really good lithium-ion iron phosphate battery as well so it's got more
charges and discharges and also uh doesn't uh can't catch fire or explode or anything like that
so it's a it's a fair pretty safe battery kind of the standard at-home uh home backup batteries
and so the reason we have such a kind of a big system this is about 55 kilowatt hours total and
24 kilowatt of inverters it's about a 10 kilowatt pv system that we have on the roof and
we wanted to do a decent amount of batteries here because this qualified this is a fire zone
that we're in here in Southern California and they have a well pump and it qualified for the
s chip equity resilience rebate so he's getting about a 54000 rebate it's crazy so you know and
that's based on your battery capacity also kind of your inverters too but mainly battery capacity
and also that the inverters can turn that well pump on so he can have that when there's a fire
and they need to shut the power off that's kind of the reason for that rebate and the
qualifications there's other qualifications as well but it is pretty strict you know there's not
that many people that will qualify for this huge rebate versus the normal 20 cent a watt rebate
so this system is gonna be able to run this guy's whole house as well pump his air conditioner heat
pump everything so it's it's pretty crazy so we'll show you a little bit more details on it
okay so got this SolArk opened up still uh uh gotta wire it and everything but you have your
different internal breakers in here connecting to the to the AC you know your main panel and then uh
dc to solar so our solar is going to be in there and you can see their grid generator and load so
the this this uh can auto start a generator too which is really cool so if you don't have enough
solar power or enough battery power or you're out for a long time you know you could actually have
a generator kick on and help boost to power that as well so it's it's like an all-in-one unit that
does pretty much everything got a super cool app and AI system we'll show you that and just a lot
of options with it and then our battery here 18.5 kilowatt hours so what that kind of means
in simple terms is like the normal track house you know is using about 20 to 40 kilowatt hours
a day and uh so 18.5 you know in backup mode you're gonna be able to be pretty comfortable
especially when you have solar going at the same time providing you know maybe five to ten
or well uh providing around uh 15 to 30 kilowatt hours that day as well this battery uh will last
pretty much normal use almost all day but with the solar fairly easily all day for a typical house
even in off-grid backup mode and then when you got three of these you're definitely gonna be fine and
it'll it'll do you know for larger usage and larger homes and well pumps and stuff like that
and possibly even you know three to five days with rain and no solar you're still going to be okay
with your batteries with with a huge a big battery system like this so with the big rebate you know
that's that's why with one if you only do one of these your rebates only going to be about uh 17000
so with three of them it's 54000 uh with this particular rebate which isn't going
to last much longer so by the time a lot of people see a video like this you know
the the money will already be gone so they it's too late but uh there might still be a chance
actually if um you look into this soon so yeah the battery you know is going to be connected here
everything's connected together and it's all tied in to one pan to the main panel and uh powering
the whole house air conditioners well pump and everything so uh air conditioning isn't a very
common thing with home battery backup actually you know you need a pretty big system to do
that because they're not made to have to be on battery backup um and even if they are they're
going to drain the batteries pretty quickly still you know when you're running your your
air conditioner's full blast for for a while if you're off grid so we got a 9 kilowatt pv system
up on this roof um that's going to be charging the batteries powering the this customer's house and
you know making everything work together and and save them a lot of money on their electric
bill so combined with the the rebate that they got you know this system ended up being
really affordable saves them a lot of money on their electric bill in califor Southern California
and they can go off grid too and to be honest this system is kind of so robust that they
could probably just disconnect from edison if they wanted to but I don't really recommend
that unless you also have a generator also a pretty good size you know automatic generator
because what might happen is you know you have problems with your pv system or your battery
system or your inverters or anything it's not just like oh my you know system went down i need to
call or my bill's higher this month you know it's I have no power at my house I can't do anything
and it might be like two or three A.M. trying to contact you know a contractor electrician or
something to figure out what's going on so if you do go completely off grid which almost nobody does
I mean it's not a very common thing yet I think it will get more common in the future once we get
to more battery generator parity where the cost kind of makes sense and with a rebate like this it
it it's kind of there but then you would want to do a generator too in case something does happen
just for an additional second backup right now the grid is your additional backup so you could just
actually stay connected and just pay that minimum fee and not really use the grid but you actually
save more money using the grid because now your batteries are discharging during the higher rates
and they're you're using power from the batteries during that time and then they're charging during
the lower rates so it's kind of like energy arbitrage like playing the stock market buying low
and selling high so you know that that saves you additional money and more than makes up for that
10 a month service fee that you might have on your electric bill so it works really good you know
taking advantage of the utility company actually and the rebate all together so I just wanted to
mention too normally these solar converters here would actually be against this back wall and
that would be fine there's space for that and everything but the reason we we put this unit
straight here and put them on that is because there's a national electric code like 110.26
that you can't have an obstruction uh uh more than six inches you know kind of interfering with
an electrical component so kind of annoying little code probably would have gotten away with it but
we didn't want to have to rewire everything just in case and and move it all so we went ahead and
just put it on its mount so you only got six inches where the for the Fortress batteries
are in front of the solar converters so they're real easy to access it'd be no problem to access
them right there too but that's just you know the way code is and stuff you got to do sometimes to
manage it hey thanks for watching this video I hope you guys learned something about kind of a
really big robust home battery backup system that can do your whole house you know it's not super
common but the nice thing is with this fire equity resilience rebate in southern california right now
we're doing a lot of them and I'm helping a lot of people out do these systems and
it pretty much covers the cost of the huge batteries
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