What about a Toyota hybrid where 12v is in the trunk?

I bought one because I'm off grid. so far its been great

Given the capacity increase in the 280ah size cells these are either old cells or just old technology. I love that the industry is finding the smallest packages for a given energy. I just saw some 24v 100ah batteries that aren't much bigger than the group 31 size. Or is it group 27, idk. I'm in a car and i don't want plastic encased air and foam. I want energy density.

Yeah, nah. I'll get a pair of 280 ah batteries, have higher peak capacity, a measure of redundancy, and much easier handling.

Glad you all are having good luck with your hp water heaters. My 2nd ao smith hp water heater is going out, takes forever to reheat water and my electricity use for it has increased almost 3x. My first one went out after 15 months so I was charged $500 to install the new one. It did work as expected until it went out. The new one is only 5 months old. If the company wants another $500 to install another, I'm going back to gas.

I have to run a dehumidifier in my basement. I've heard these do a good job of drying the air, so I'm hoping when we finally get around to switching, we can ditch our dehumidifier. Right now we have a solar hot water system that warms up a tank that is used as the intake for our gas hot water heater. If we were doing it now, I'm convinced that PV solar panels instead of hot water solar panels would do a better job.

I dont understand why? The balancingcurrent is very small, it would make no difference? One point could be compensating losses in cabling/connections between the lithiumbatteries? Though maintaining a specified max allowed constant voltage ""absorbtion"" for an hour or two before changing to Float or simply stop charging - will balance the batteries AND allow for each battery top balancing if needed. Very easily arranged with solar, Victron has proper programmable MPPTs. Worth noting is that all those "cheap" lead acid drop in replacement batteries all have passive /resistive balancers working with very low balancing currents. This internal balancing is a grey area here on youtube, "Clarks adventure" is the only one briefly approaching the matter. Passive balancing takes time, an internally unbalanced battery will need days of max charge voltage supplied. When the two separate battery units (in your system 2x12V will balance by themselves within an hour or so - also with a max allowed constant voltage on the battery supplied. (max allowed charge voltage is lower than BMS shut off voltage - two completely different values, if these are not stated by the batterymanufacturer - dont buy them.

Good job covering the questions. Thanks for the update.

Great review. Thanks

Typical delivery drivers can't say what i really think though

Shouldn't be soldered too needs to be Ring terminal and bolts on the BMS negative cables

Really Dusty looking inside that metal box very strange

8:10 If you're converting from gas they make models specifically to run off of 110 so that you can put it anywhere, the problem is you lose the redundancy of having the standard elements in it. As well as a little less first hour output with a longer regen time. Also good for off-grid applications

Why do many youtubers ignore the correct pronunciations of the product they're video is about.

Why does the app show this as a 4-cell battery when it is actually an 8 cell???

I've considered getting one, but have seen too many bad reviews on plumbing supply stores. Apparently the newer models were changed from 2021 and earlier, and both fail early and are extremely loud

As seen in every video the turns of the secondary are about 2 turns which is very low.Just rewind with more turns up 7-8 or more to raise the output voltage and then comes the instantaneous force needed for battery spot welding.Spot welding common metal parts is a different thing which needs high amperage and a lot of time to raise the temperature,so less turns are needed.

Great build, well done Litime

I’m leaving, give price first before vidio

there is no good deal at battery hookup anymore in my opinion

what about using it as a backup battery in the trunk, that way it just keeps the lead acid charged and gets charged sometimes

I do energy assessment and the logic of morons especially “engineers” is dump founding. I always tell morons. If you keep your mouth shut people will just assume that you are a moron but when you speak you confirm to the world that you ARE a moron.

Just over 5 years with mine, love it. I run it in heat pump only for most of the day and change to balanced between 5-9pm when showers may occur. Then to High Demand if all 4 of us are showering the same night. Only annoying this is, I get a condensate line error every month or so that I need to clear, sometimes it knocks off the heat pump. If I clear it, it good for a while. My condensate line has a open T at the top and its definitely never clogged tho. Getting the SANCO2 as my next one tho. 80g version and pretty much never runs out of hot water, especially if I turn on high demand before all the showers/baths start. Family of 4, this year at 1607 kWh, 1652 kWh in 2023, 1702 kWh in 2022, etc... in the PNW

I got one of these installed in 2022. I'm certainly happy with it, but I'm not sure how to replace an anode rod on it. I will admit that when I first got it, the compressor was quite annoying, even in my basement. Also there is a bug where they get stuck in vacation mode if you pair it with the app. Have to go through unpairing and pairing again.

I would never install one of these low cost high frequency inverters in my home. The high-frequency EMF that is emitted by these low cost high frequency inverters is considered more potentially dangerous than the low-frequency EMF from low frequency inverters because higher frequencies carry more energy and can potentially damage cells and DNA more readily, especially when exposure levels are high; this is why radiation like X-rays and gamma rays, which are high-frequency forms of EMF, are considered ionizing and can be harmful to living tissue.

voltronic works and the both fans work and after some minutes display 02

Are you really going to need even close to 2400cycles (wo compression) would be one cycle each day for 6,5years 😂😂 dont think anyone cycles like that, unless some maildelivery cart or something. Havent seen compressed cells acc to specs anywhere 😂😅 However ceeping cells together as you suggest with airgaps for cooling is good and adviceable With this simple uncompressed maths, my yacht eve280 cells will live longer than me 🙄 and Im sure after 10years we have better means of energystorage 😅

I want 2 of these for my off grid home stead lol

I would like to get the case like that I have the batteries already. Do they sell the case independently?

I recently installed the 40 gallon Rheem heat pump water heater. Also I am in an off-grid, 100% solar application. Some of my observations: As you said, it is an air conditioner. It makes noise, especially compared to a traditional electric or gas HWH. The noise isn't terrible, but it is there. Be sure to plan for it during the installation and apply sound proofing if necessary. I definately see a huge difference in the power requirements for running it in traditional electric mode vs. heat pump mode. The actual energy observed for the heat pump is many times more efficient than running on 100% electric. Installation was easy. But, I find the operator interface/automation to be crap. My original control module would not connect to my wifi, so they had to send a new one. Even with the new unit it took a lot of time to connect to the wifi and users have to turn off mobile data, then turn it back on. In today's technology, the Rheem automation is years behind the tech. Another frustrating thing for me is the only way I can set the schedule is through the WIFI and the rheem cloud server. I cannot set it manually on the installed control panel. Ridiculous in my opinion. I also find the schedule options to be very limited. Especially for an off-grid application. For my application, it would be useful to be able to have more schedulint options to run it less and possibly lower temperatures when there is less sun and more with hotter temperatures in the warmer months. Unlike you, I like to run mine at a hotter temperature. Especially if the sun is shining. My scheule is set temperature to 120 at about 730 AM. 140 at about 10 AM. 140 again at 330 PM. And 110 at 7 PM. This in an effort to only run it during the day when the sun is shining and shut it off at night. The only option is to turn it down to 110. It does not provide an option to completely shut it off or prevent from running in the schedule. When I put mine on vacation mode from the control panel, I have to turn the schedule off first through the app or the schedule will override the vaction mode when the next time triggers on the schedule. I also notice the automation will run the unit in electric mode from time-to-time, even when in heat pump mode. Mine is installed in a garage area. It may be because the temperature in the garage is below some set point on the unit for effiient heat pump operation? Or, because when it is set up on the cloud to my specific location the cloud uses my location and weather? Not clear why it would ever run in electric when I have it set on heat pump only. I live in Texas. It does not get that cold here and the heat pump should be able to run all the time. So in summary, love the heat pump tech. Hate the interface. I doubt I would buy another Rheem because of the interface if I can find another brand that has a local interface that does not require me to create a cloud account.

Great video. I have two 300Ah Epoch batteries and so far they have been really good. I have them in my van. Do you know if keeping them at 100% SOC practically all the time is an issue? My rig is parked outside in the sun so the panels keep them charged up.

We've had one since 2018 which replaced a standard electric water heater. The savings in electrical use was immediately apparent. Never run out of hot water even when my grand children, son and his wife visited for a week. It is in our unfinished part of the basement under the master bedroom. The sound is minimal and I even forget it's there. Haven't had any problems and I'd recommend it to anyone. It used 936 kwh in 2023 which cost $243 USD at our electric rate. We also installed a solar system in 2022 that provides all the electricity to run our all electric home!

I've had my GE HPWH installed in my built in garage for about 10 years. Some additional benefit's not mentioned are: - we have hard water and conventional WH's build up a ton of mineral scale on the bottom of the tank, I'm guessing that the HPWH heats so evenly and gradually that mine gets ZERO build up now. This is huge for longevity, especially if you have gas or tankless. -When I park the car in the garage, the considerable amount of heat from the car gets captured and recycled by the HPWH ( at least it did, until I bought an EV) -The HPWH dehumidifies the garage, especially when the car is wet or covered in ice and snow. -I'm able to set vacation days. We are gone in the winter for months and I set the amount of days, I have the HPWH come back on 2 days before we get back home and set if for the highest temp setting to kill off any bacteria. - The water temperature is more consistent that any other water heater I've owned, no need to adjust the temperature mid shower.

the joys of thermal paste, it will be everywhere if you don't clean it straight away. pretty sure when it's out in the wild thermal paste can reproduce by mitosis just so it can get more places covered in it's self.

Dude fedex guy ruined your battery. He should be fired!

3:20 - that's heatsink compound, it's meant to be goey - it's silicone based.

If auto blade fuses are not advisable for lithium batteries, why so many reputable retailers use them?? 🤔

I live in Ontario, Canada, and I looked at installing one of these. I was pretty close to pulling the trigger to replace our 17-year-old gas water heater when the power company introduced "Ultra-Low Overnight" rate billing ... at 2.8¢/kWh (CAD, which is 2¢ USD). It turned out to be cheaper for us to install a larger electric hot water tank (Rheem Marathon, which also comes with 3" of insulation) and a timer to only run it overnight. We also put ours on a mixing valve so that it stays hot throughout the day. If that hadn't been introduced here, I'd have 100% installed one of these; way better than gas, and unless power is super cheap, almost certainly better than electricity.

Looked at that battery on Amazon. $144.

What is the coldest temp in your room ? My basement today is 59, but its been in the 20s at night (in sc)

30Kw is 30 KW us it now or over the course of 24 hours.

Re: BMS settings. You told us what it is set to, not what it actually controls at. It is great to have over and under temp protection set correctly. That is of no value IF sensors are cheap garbage and gives a bad signal that either never triggers the BMS, or over triggers before you get to the limit ???

Why do they put large globs of adhesive on top of joints? To hide the poor quality of the connectors / joints …

Just installed Rheem 50G Proterra. Controller board failed after 1 week. Tech support sent me new board in 4 days. System is up and running on Energy Saver mode. This morning 12/22 App showed no hot water available! Switched to High Demand mode which restored hot water. I’m wondering if control board is operating correctly. There is a test mode, but a technician needs to guide you through tests. To be continued.

This thing will not be acceptable in most homes. MOST homes do not have an unconditioned space to place this unit that would meet code.

Here's info about this inverter on google that you won't find on youtube: "My new EG 6000 was running happily for a couple of weeks until this night the battery ran low and the inverter switched off power supply and threw a 26 Error code on the front panel. Checked the manual, it stated code number 26 to be a "internal fault" and to restart the inverter. So i turned the inverter off and as soon as i turned the battery main fuse back on, with no solar input or juice from the grid, i was greeted by a loud bang with smoke and sparks coming out of the unit. Save to say, that's it, shes dead".

Fedx don't know about hand dollys? I think even pony express riders were familiar with them. What gives?!!!

Can i get one..buy one..let me know ... or two... Thank you.

Just checked. 2024 used 330kWh in south FL. Set to “Energy Saving”. Installed aftermarket intake filter made from two shop vac filters stacked on all thread.

nice job i would have taken it a step or 2 extra and build it around 1 or 2 dry boxes with exhaust ports. i can even see just useing hdx totes with the lid fixed behind everything and the tote that snaps over everything like a turtle shell to protect it from overnight condensation or dust