12VoltInstalls
life passes by too quickly to not live in freedom
AN40 Epever I bought and installed in March this year. Could’ve been April.
AN40 is back in the box with a 1-1/2-year-old never before installed AN50 Epever in its place (that I only needed for the 150V headroom to accommodate going from 3S2P to 4S2P).
Both have been great for me. (Anecdotally I liked the AN40 better.) I’m also 12V storage and lead acid. Maybe the 24V had issues? Maybe they’ve changed some hardware or software? I don’t know. Other than the high-end equipment people the local folks I know with the epever controllers have no complaints. (The people with the $2K or $6K controller systems always eloquently describe their equipment as superior. While they’re right, they usually lack the recognition that some more economical equipment can be a good value. It has been for me; it enabled me to have a comfortable situation and not look and smell like a fringe hippie while it let me save thousands of dollars not renting a place to live. And by save I mean actual money in the bank.)
I can confirm there is no way to get parts. May not even be parts even if you are ok paying for them.
If you could get oem parts these things would be the VW Beetle of charge controllers: inexpensive and serviceable. A more tinkery electronics guy with a soldering iron can probably fix them with generic pre-value-added supply chain parts but guys like me that could handle the work fine don’t always know what to order- or where.
Performance-wise I can only assume they corrected a ‘bug’ and incorporated that in the running assembly line? I have read that 2(?) years back Epever did make some changes across the line. Dunno.
Imagine how good Epever could be if they stepped it up a bit.
