hwy17
Anti-Solar Enthusiast
I bought my XW+ used from a higher end turnkey solar installer and they pointed to a stack of Tesla powerwalls in their warehouse and said that's all we use now, they're just too easy. I would guess that this accurately reflects where Schneider sees their competition in the domestic market; on the high end, not the low end.
Installers want a backfed system for retrofitting, not a pass through system like DIYers prefer. The BCS is the only new product in years from them right? And it exists precisely to enable backfed configs.
Along those lines, a battery/inverter combo unit would make perfect sense, to even more precisely compete with the powerwall.
In my little experience thus far with my system I am already feeling the divergence of trying to work with Schneider as a DIYer and although I'm happy to have this monster piece of legendary off grid history I can already tell that when it comes to any large system upgrades I'm going to look more seriously at Midnite for a more satisfying culture and spirit of design. I'm kind of sad they're going in the HF direction, but I don't want to be left out in the cold with every problem hoping the manufacturer will even take pity to respond to me.
Installers want a backfed system for retrofitting, not a pass through system like DIYers prefer. The BCS is the only new product in years from them right? And it exists precisely to enable backfed configs.
Along those lines, a battery/inverter combo unit would make perfect sense, to even more precisely compete with the powerwall.
In my little experience thus far with my system I am already feeling the divergence of trying to work with Schneider as a DIYer and although I'm happy to have this monster piece of legendary off grid history I can already tell that when it comes to any large system upgrades I'm going to look more seriously at Midnite for a more satisfying culture and spirit of design. I'm kind of sad they're going in the HF direction, but I don't want to be left out in the cold with every problem hoping the manufacturer will even take pity to respond to me.