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I bought a yeti 1000X a couple months ago as I wanted something to power my dometic fridge when wandering around that I could also use to make sure my office at home doesn't wig out whenever PGE is having issues. I kinda wanted the 1500x but went with the 1000x because it was lighter and my...

Woops, I stand corrected. Was typing too fast and got it confused with something else. I'll try to fix the original post so as not to mislead anyone.

I haven't bothered trying to compare efficiency since I never willingly run it in resistive heating mode. With a 65 gallon tank and only 2 people at home we have never run into any issues with recovery time and it appears that the water heater runs ~2x a day for about an hour or so at a time...

So I finally got around to calling up Rheem and seeing what other elements might fit my heater. I suspect the answer is more or less"any universal 1 1/2 inch threaded style) but they did give the the specific part number (SP10869HL) for a 2500 watt resistored element. I bought two of them and...

PGE did not make it easy for me. After the system was installed it took 7 months of jumping through hoops to get them to give me permission to turn it on. Hence why the whole thing is completely not DIY- I couldn't give them any excuse to make it harder for me. Ideally I'd like a whole other...

The batteries are LG CHEM RESU10Hs and the rest is all the various components that solaredge sells: the inverter, auto transformer (the white box above one of the batteries), the monitoring controller (white box in bottom left corner of picture). The rest is just misc stuff (dc combiner box so...

Also decided to calculate output from the array itself : Median Solar Power: 1994.32 watts 95th Solar Power: 4643.13 watts. So essentially under ideal conditions my 6.12kw array tops out at ~4.6kw as measured by the inverter. The inverter itself has a max output of 7.6kw continuous and the...

6.12KW peak system (17 panels - 360W LG NEON) on west facing roof. I defined one cycle of my batteries as 80% DOD. Computed based off the 15 minute interval data provided by solaredge. We have EVs so our TOU means that off peak is around 13-15 cents/kwh, partial peak is 24-28 cents/kwh and...

Inverter plus 2 lg batteries, and the dedicated loads sub panel next to the "main" sub panel

First annual True up bill came last week and we owe PGE 118 dollars (since there are certain fees that generation credits can't offset). If anyone is curious I can expand more on usage, generation, or what having a solar edge storedge system is like.

My original system was 17 panels (6.12kw) with 1 battery (lg chem 9.8kw) and my quotes were between 29-34k. Northern California. Knee-jerk reaction yours sounds a bit high but could be labor/shipping is more out there? Perhaps a couple more quotes might help.

Well, given that demand is usually far lower at night I wouldn't expect the grid to pull from my vehicle but I don't trust PGE at all and would not want to give them any control over how my car gets charged. I like the idea of V2mG where I define the microgrid as my house and it is entirely...

Thanks so much you guys, this is hilarious. I watched this video and his 1 year review and what he does to trick the water heater is put 2 regular light bulbs in series and run the power wires that would go to the element up to the bulbs instead. So whenever the water heater tries to use the...

Some people do this with their chevy volts or nissan leafs (one company even makes wiring kits to make it easy to tap into https://www.evextend.com/Emergency-Power-Kit.php). I have a volt as well as a chevy spark ev and according to what people on the internet say I should be fine pulling...

I have a rheem hybrid (heat pump) electric water heater (65 gallon tank). I would love to run it off my dedicated loads panel (my storedge system provides me with 5kw continuous backup power) but the heating elements in it seem to be 4500 or 4800 watts so that is a definite no-go. There is...

Been following Will's videos for quite a while now. Great content and looking forward to interacting with the rest of the community! -Rolee