Inside the new Energy Storage Cabinet from Pylontech

Pylontech's IP55-rated Energy Storage Cabinet adds flexibility and style to your home power system. At $900 per unit, this cabinet is designed to fit up to 4 Pylontech US5000 batteries for 19.2kW. Have a question? Contact Mike directly at [e-mail].
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Video chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:21 Construction Quality
00:38 Cabinet Door
01:07 Disconnect Switch
01:33 Interior Fan
02:02 Battery Cables and Total Capacity
02:34 Communications Cables
03:00 Victron Energy Setup
03:06 Paralleled Connectors
03:34 Battery Mounting Points
03:54 Additional Protections
04:29 Intake Vent and Grounding Lug
05:25 Exhaust Vent
06:08 Mounting Hardware
06:35 Battery Configuration
07:52 Vertical vs. Horizontal Configuration
08:30 Cable Routing
09:03 Interior or Exterior Installation
09:47 Additional Resources

[@isaachauser521]

Good idea but a fairly critical design failure is the location of the isolator, why would you want to reach over the batteries that are faulting and in the worst case scenario going to catch fire to turn off the isolator 🔥

[@intelligentcontrols]

Good observation but this is ultimately a non-issue. The batteries are thoroughly tested and have UL1973 and 9540A certification. Beyond that these are LiFePo4 batteries that have a greatly reduced base risk of a thermal event just due to their chemistry makeup. When the batteries enter a fault state they individually isolate themselves with internal MOSFETs. The main purpose of the isolation switch is not to protect the user from the batteries but rather to disconnect the cabinet of batteries from the larger system so that in a multi-cabinet system you can do maintenance without having to turn everything else off.

[@isaachauser521]

@@intelligentcontrolsthanks for the reply, regardless of certification achieved the fire risk is not zero, not to mention there are other reasons you might want quick and unobstructed access to the isolator, it’s a design failure for me but if I had to use the cabinet I’d just install a more safely accessible isolator if it were my installation.

[@jasonbourne7171]

No one helped me please replay me I have an inverter and it synchronizes only with the Pylon tech battery of lithium the inverter BMS does not communicate with and I set it manually from the lead acid setting So my question is if I set the battery stop full change value and discharge stop value manually without BMS communication my battery work if it is connected to an inverter to protect my battery

[@intelligentcontrols]

Hi Jason, happy to help. The first thing to be aware of is that your inverter needs to have a lithium charge setting. Using a lead acid charge curve can and will damage the batteries. Look for that setting in your manual. If it doesn’t have it, your inverter may not be compatible with lithium batteries. Once the lithium charge setting is enabled, you can manually enter your setting points to operate the batteries without communication. Here are the settings: Absorption voltage, 52 Volts. Float voltage, 51 Volts. Low Voltage Shutdown, 44 Volts. Absorption time, 1 hr.