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the 6000 XP is eg for's Flagship inverter is that true it's kind of what it feels like it's a super popular feature filled unit and honestly it comes in at a reasonable [Music] [Applause] price so welcome back to the lab guys you know here our opinions cannot be bought we will have some links if you guys want to purchase this thing in the description down below as along with some coupon codes that we actually have to help you guys save some money on the 6000 XP you can grab it from signature solar shop solar honestly wherever has the better deal the 6000 XP is a super good all-in-one off-grade inverter however there are a couple things that I just wish were a little bit different but we will get into those in a minute first we're going to hit you guys with a super quick 2-minute tear down in case you're not already familiar with the 6000 XP first up this thing weighs 53 lb so it does pass the tiny baby lift test he thinks he can throw it all the way back to Texas but in reality it's actually super awkward to lift this is a split phase off- grid inverter so it doesn't back feed the Grid at all and it can do 120 or 240 in terms of output that output is rated for 6,000 watts of continuous use it says it has a surge of up to 12,000 Watts for like 3.5 seconds or something like that and you're able to stack up to 16 of these guys for a total output of 96 KW if you decide to expand on your system it's rated to be 93% efficient and it's got an 8,000 WT solar input some places says a 10,000 WT solar input I honestly don't know which one's true we don't have enough solar to find out the screen on this guy is simple clear kind of a cluster but we'll get into that later and then looking around at the rest of the build on the side right here we have the fans which have a nice little dust cover over them you have your PV isolator on the side as well as a power button on the other side we got our three fans you can see your output Button as well as the little Wi-Fi dongle and on the front we have a nice set of Breakers so you actually have a battery breaker and then a load grid and Generator breaker all built right into the front and then behind the panel you can see the inputs for all of the battery connections solar connections grid and load connections and if you go ahead and take off this little plastic Shield it actually helps me at least make a lot more sense of what's going on back here you can see the other side of all these connections you can see the wires running into the PV isolator you can see what's coming out of the other side of the breakers overall it's a pretty clean build you also have your dry connections and your communication ports and everything shoved over here on the side when it comes to the app for this guy it's a pain in the ass it works it's a pain in the ass and the price of this guy is $15.49 it seems to be on a pretty perent sale at $13.99 and we have a $50 off discount code which makes it $349 which is not a bad deal that's like the price of two of these 3,000 yellow Pikachu inverters except you get way more bang for your buck when you just buy one of these when it comes to buying an inverter there's some very important things that you need to check though and first off is Idle consumption this says it's rated for about 50 Watts which is actually really good we went ahead and tested it and the battery was jumping between 0.9 and 1.2 amps so that's in and around the 50 W range which honestly at the end of the day is really good that's less than the 3,000 yellow inverter runs and this is double the size so when it's just sitting there on doing nothing just flying power to your plugs it's not actually consuming a load of battery you also want to make sure it can actually run the loads that you buying it to run so in this case this says it's rated for 6,000 WT of continuous output but it's actually 21 legs of 3,000 WTS so all that means is that if you're not running 240 you're running 120 each one of these lines can only do 3,000 WTS we went ahead and tested it once you go over 3,000 on either line it does go ahead and trip the unit so if you're doing a 120 setup just be aware of that otherwise you can run this unit at about 6.25 KW continuously with no problems which is really really good I always love running them just a little bit above what they're rated for to see if it can handle it as soon as it passes 6.25 it throws a code and times out we did a couple surge tests at like 7.3 7.5 KW it only lasts about 3 to 5 seconds it's not very long but it does have a pretty decent surge rating in that range as well and this guy is also the first unit that we have had here at the lab that can actually go ahead and start this compressor we have it's a pretty beefy compressor you guys have seen us test some other power stations and stuff with a smaller one at my house but nothing not the Delta Pro Ultra not the ankor f3800 nothing that's rated to start this comess compressor has actually started this compressor yet and this guy went ahead and did so good job for you it's like a 12,000 Surge and it only runs like 3,000 once it's running in terms of getting power into this unit if you want to have it connected to the Grid or generator or something like that it only accepts 240 I had it wired up for 120 when I first wired everything up it doesn't accept it and it makes good sense because you have the ability to run 240 out of the load Center so if you're only putting in 120 you're just destined for problems you have to wire this thing up to a 240 volt Source if you're trying to run AC power or grid power or generator power into this unit and when it comes to pass through it works for both AC and solar which is really good news so you can go ahead and completely turn the battery off which basically means if your system is plugged into the Grid or plugged into solar and for whatever reason your batteries are completely dead you can still pass power through this unit to whatever devices you're trying to run well at the same time using the rest of the power to go ahead and actually charge your batteries up so we went ahead and bypass about 2,000 wats of solar and about 2,000 watts of AC and both worked perfectly and the last thing is just sound this unit is a little bit loud I wouldn't mount it uh right beside where I'm trying to sleep but the good news with it is it's only actually loud for like a really small amount of time as soon as you're done beating on it it kind of just the fans turn right off but they don't stay on for very long at all which is actually really nice a lot of these other units try to cool down for like half an hour when you're done which could be good for longevity but I think this thing is just running pretty [Music] efficiently the 6000 XP also saves you a ton of money when you buy it in a really sneaky way so this thing has like the PV isolator right here on the side it has all your Breakers built right into the front and normally when you go and wire up a system like this you need to have a separate breaker and a separate PV isolator and all these things outside of the inverter mounted on the the wall or whatever before the power actually runs into the inverter so the fact that when you buy this one you're getting all these Breakers and disconnects actually saves you some money and it saves you some space on your wall and just makes everything more convenient when you're actually setting up your system which I really like the low idle consumption on this unit is also really really nice it's like a pretty beefy unit to only be running about 50ish watts of idle consumption if you were to build other systems like we always talk about getting the 3,000 and then you can upgrade and have two but doing that you're running over 100 watts of idle consumption easy or something like this you have the same output and you're only running 50 Watts which is just impressive it's just a good it's a good number to be at it's less than a lot of the small inverters I also just like the 8,000 WT solar input recommends a maximum of 10,000 I think that's because by the time you actually get it into the inverter you're probably only getting about 8,000 into here but regardless there's two legs of 4,000 WTS of input which is quite a good amount that means if you actually have a 8,000 WTS hooked up to this you can never use more than you're putting in so even if you have this thing running 6,000 WTS all day and you're inputting 8,000 you're still going to actually build your battery Bank throughout the day which is good and a lot of other units don't do that you're kind of and I also just like the filter on the side again it's a little thing but a lot of people don't do it a lot of times you could see straight into the side of your inverter with this at least if you're in the garage a little bit of a dustier space or whatever you know that the inside of the inverter is is slightly more protected by having an actual filter on the air intake and the last two things and the most important two things probably about this inverter is it's super easy to set up everything is labeled very nicely when you take the panel off it makes sense where all the wires go there's nothing hidden there's no weird going on you just plug it all in and you move on the second thing is that when you call Signature solar you get this good how are you I'm good man I've got a eg4 uh 6000 XP in here no it's it's a split phe it'll need 240 so it needs 240 to charge yes sir okay cool we've actually mystery shopped them before and turns out they're a pretty legit brand that stands behind what they do when you order some products from some of these other companies you get something a little more like this if you ever need warranty help with a company like that you're pretty much it's always nice to know that you got a friendly Texon on the other end end of the line when you need help with this [Music] guy right away the pros on this thing outweigh the cons but there is still a few things that I just don't like about this unit starting with the screen it just doesn't feel natural I don't even know entirely what I don't like about it it just feels confusing I wish that two things really I wish that one I could have all of the settings showing me what I want at the same time so when you hit like the up or down button to change your little graphic here from showing you the voltage that is coming in from the grid to the kilowatts that is coming in from the grid it also changes the screen at the bottom that tells you what your battery percentage is so if you're looking to find out what the kilowatts are that you're inputting and you already had the battery on kilowatts it's going to change the battery percentage just to show you the grid input and I wish you could kind of fine-tune all the little numbers and get them all where you want them instead of having to cycle through a Min million menu options to find them all individually and then take a mental note of them that drives me nuts and the other thing is just it's not intuitive especially I can imagine for people that don't mess with multiple units all the time it's just like the settings and going through that stuff if you don't have a manual on hand none of it is intuitive at all what's the difference between ups and APL in setting 4 the voltage range of your AC input why is it not just in it like just you have a big ass screen give us some nice legible English that just says hey what's your voltage input and then in 120 or 240 that's it yeah just like it's just simple anyways I didn't mean to rant about that but I know that eg4 actually does listen to feedback so hopefully we can get an update going here yeah the next thing that I don't like about this unit is the mounting holes it's damn near impossible to mount this thing by yourself most units have a little top bracket like this where the hole is bigger at the bottom and narrower at the top so you can put screws in the wall and you just hang it on there it slides down it's locked in place this for some reason does not have that this one you have to put the screw directly through it doesn't fit through and then slide so it's 53 lbs you got to can get it on the wall and fire screws in it just doesn't make sense it's not easy you should only ever have to mount this thing one time really but it's still a pain in the ass I also just wish these opened more I mean I get it whatever it's a little thing but like they don't it's kind of like putting the breaker all the way up you jam your hand on the door it's kind of weird like I want it to just ye all the way up but it doesn't it's the small things and the last thing is the app I guess that kind of goes hand in hand with the screen the app like all these power station companies nowadays have Wicked apps they're really cool they feel really dialed and designed and thought out and the eg4 app still feels kind of like Minecraft it's like opening Windows 995 like a laptop from when you were in kindergarten yeah you're using line wire you're getting yeah perfect at the end of the day if you're considering an off-grid inverter even with the things I don't love in the mix this is still one of your better options to be honest hands down it works it's affordable it's it's got good support and it saves you a little bit of money with your little dials and buttons and I do like it we've been using it for a little while here at the lab and it's a pretty good unit so good job bg4 going to give this bad boy an 8.7 fix the screen great customer support there's some coupon codes and links for you guys in the description if you choose to buy this thing otherwise that is all we got for you guys I will catch you in the next one thank you so much for watching peace out and stay charged [Music] ...
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