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today we're going over the specs and features of the Anor solx X1 as compared to the Tesla power wall 3 as we go through the video let me know what you guys think the top pro and con for the X1 and the power wall 3 are in your opinion and I'm going to give you my top three things that I like about each system at the end of the video now the capacity on the X1 starts at only 5 kwatt hours if we were just to take this initial battery pack underneath the inverter up here but the standard one that you really are going to be looking is a stack of three which is going to be 15 Kow hours and that's definitely the most comparable to the the Tesla power wall 3 now you can expand it Beyond this you can have a total of six batteries per X1 unit and you can have a total of six X1 units paralleled together the power well 3 holds 13.5 kwatt hours per unit and you can stack a maximum of four of those for a total capacity of 54 KW hours you can see it's a pretty clean installation if you do decide to get multiple power wall 3es where you can just stack them up against the wall like this we have a continuous output here with one X1 of 6 Kow and that can be expanded to that 36 Kow with six of the X1 units when it comes to the surge capability this thing can go up to 12 KW of output so normally it's only six all the way up to 12 for a maximum of 10 seconds once you exceed that 10 seconds it is going to disconnect to protect it itself that 12 Kow of surge is only available assuming you do have three battery packs attached to the X1 one power wall 3 is able to Output 11.5 Kow of energy and that is actually really substantial for a single unit like this and of course you can get up to four of them increasing that total output now the thing that I think is actually really impressive is the starting current the ability to start large inductive loads that have really high inrush current is all the way up to 185 amps which is just kind of mindboggling to be honest uh that is a huge amount of inrush current and there's virtually nothing in a home that you're going to ever try to start that's going to exceed that 185 amps the X1 has Pack level battery monitoring and that allows the system to basically run a little bit more efficiently and makes it so that if you do have a failure in one of these batteries it's actually not going to cause the entire system to stop it's just going to isolate that one pack the battery on the power wall 3 operates as a single unit so there's not individual BMS monitoring for each uh individual pack uh so if you do have a failure it's going to affect the entire charging and discharging of the power wall 3 now it'll still work for power throughput it just won't be charging and discharging now I don't think that's actually that big of an issue to be honest because the reputation of Tesla and their quality standards are not such that we really would be a major concern now the anchor solix X1 uses micro inverters with the micro inverter it really allows you to decide how to scale your system you can start with only a few panels and then build it up from there and it doesn't really matter where the panels are what brand they are where what direction they're facing because this is going to be able to just take into account each individual panel less than 60 volts so it doesn't require the same uh rapid shutdown the Tesla power wall 3 uses string inverters they can accept a total of Six Strings so you can have six sets of solar panels feeding into this with a total capacity of 20 Kow for one power wall 3 each of the strings need to be installed in a similar way so that they are angled to the Sun and get similar exposure if they're not if they don't have similar exposure it's going to be severely affected in its performance and the same thing goes for shading if you have shading on one of these panels it's going to degrade the performance of the entire string not just that one panel with it being a string of panels in series instead of each individual panel being monitored directly it's a little bit more difficult to find the panel that is performing poorly so if you have one panel that fails it's going to take a little bit more time to figure out which one is actually the problem here's that rapid shutdown switch which is required on the power wall 3 since it has higher voltages coming in on those solar strings anchor has developed a frequency shifting technology that helps a lot in low light performance and that's something that can be really important especially if you have a lot of cloudy days where it sometimes is a little bit too dark to start perfor start producing electricity uh but this is able to actually overcome that in low light conditions when the sun first comes up or on a cloudy day uh this actually has to reach a minimum of about 60 volts DC before it's going to start charging from any one of the strings of panels that are attached to it one thing about anchor that is definitely a factor to consider is that they are newer to this Market 2022 was when anchor solix really came into being so the software side of things definitely has some features that need to be developed and I was talking to these guys about it there's just some things that could be implemented to really improve it Tesla has a longer track record for producing high quality products in the home energy storage space so that fact really does contribute a little bit since uh ankor has only been in the industry for about 2 years one of the things that Tesla is really focused on is making the installation of this unit as simple as possible for installers with as few separate components as possible the power wall 3 is extremely heavy and difficult to move around so you do need some specialized equipment to get it properly mounted the X1 on the other hand since it is modular allows two technicians to be able to easily stack the different batteries together along with the inverter so that's something you can keep in mind on the installation side of things this thing is Nema 4 rated it can be exposed to direct salt spray so if you live by the ocean installing this outside is not going to be a concern now this is able to put out full power from 4 below zero all the way up to 131° F and anchor is telling me that in comparison to some of their other battery other the other battery products in the market is that they are able to do full throughput at all the way down to -4° F which is actually really impressive some of the other products May begin to reduce the amount of throughput in the battery as the temperature gets lower and this has what they're calling thermal boosting to keep the batteries from getting excessively cold it's really just basically some heaters that go around all of the battery packs and allow it to continue to operate efficiently without damaging the battery cells operating temperature is anywhere from -4 to 122° f for this thing to be able to operate correctly so it can actually be installed in Minnesota where it gets super cold and it can still be installed Outdoors round trip on the X1 efficiency is going to be 90.2% so when the the solar energy is generated comes down through the micro inverter into the battery and then back out of the battery to be used again that process uses about that 99.8% uh loss in that process the round trip efficiency when you're taking from the solar all the way into the battery pack and then back out again and getting used by one of uh your appliances or in your home is 89% so very good efficiency on that a little bit less than what the uh what the anchor is able to do the efficiency of the solar through the microinverter if you're going to use it directly in your home is 97.3% efficient so there's very little loss from the panels to the final load if that is uh if that is how that energy gets used as compared to the round trip efficiency now the efficiency from solar directly if you're going to use that energy before it goes into the battery is actually a little bit higher at 97.5% that's a little bit higher than the anchor now anchor does advertise this as a UPS and with that they have a stated number of 20 milliseconds from when you lose grid power to when this will switch over and power the loads in your home so that's what they've got this at hopefully it's even a little bit faster than that but 20 milliseconds is what they're advertising the power wall 3 is not advertised as a UPS on the website it says that it will switch over in a fraction of a second but they don't have a specific millisecond number uh that they are advertising now one of the things that I love about the anchor solx X1 is the fact that it has a dedicated generator input and the fact that it has that is going to give us the ability to have your an existing gas generator hooked up here so that if we we have a cloudy day we don't have any solar generation or maybe you just bought the X1 as a backup system you could have the power go out this starts draining down a bunch you can take out your generator or hook it up however you normally do and have your X1 charged back up again and then shut that generator off and just continue to operate off of battery power so the fact that it's got that I think is a huge Plus for the X1 this is the box that's going to allow everything to connect to the different sources our PV so photov voltaic that's our Solar coming in generator this is energy which is going to be going to our uh power module one and power module 2 so uh down here backup panel non-b backup panel and the grid and then all of our neutrals are going to tie together right there so there's no way to connect a gas generator to the power wall 3 now for many of you it probably doesn't matter at all but definitely comment down below if you're in my Camp uh where I would much prefer to have the ability to connect a gas generator this is the Gateway that's required for connecting your power wall 3 to the rest of your house electrical system unless you use the adapter that goes directly into the meter uh this basically allows uh full disconnection from the Grid in the case of a power outage the same way that this device right here would do that so it come from the meter into this and then out of this into the rest of your system so what do you guys think do you like the X1 more than the power wall 3 based on the features or do you prefer the power wall 3 hopefully I gave you guys some good information that is just going to help you understand the differences between these two products comment down below let me know what you think about both of them and I'd really love to hang out with you guys down there as promised here's a few things I like about the X1 and the power wall as well as a few summary thoughts on the X1 side I really like the fact that we have a dedicated generator input and I should mention that with the power wall 3 you still can use a whole home generator it would just be Downstream of the power wall 3 and when the battery fully dies your whole home generator will pick up the load from your house but it won't be able to recharge the power wall 3 like the X1 can with the dedicated generator input the second thing that I like is that it can actually the X1 can actually be used fully off grid however they said that you need the Grid in order to commission it initially but they're working on a software update to fix that and that's the one thing with the uh anchor stuff that they really could do a better job with is having better software development and even like a us uh software development team I feel like would be a total GameChanger in speeding up the process of feedback to feature in the software and then the third thing that I really like is that it's a little bit more flexible in the way that you can deploy it incrementally with your 5 KW hour battery packs and the microinverters that allow you to kind of position P panels however you want now on the power wall side of things uh by far the best thing thing about it compared to the X1 is that it has a larger inverter that 10.5 kilowatt inverter that's built in uh is obviously way larger than the 6 kilowatt inverter that is in the X1 so you actually have to purchase two X1 units in order to get that 12 Kow to surpass the 10.5 that just one single power wall has I also like that you have the track record of Tesla behind the power wall 3 and they've just done a really good job of packing a lot of value into that single unit the third thing I like about the power wall 3 is that it's just a little bit simpler you don't have separate microinverters uh you you can get by with just that one meter socket adapter if your utility allows it and so it's just less components and less components just makes it easier to install and it is maybe a few less things to go wrong we'll talk to you guys in the next one ...
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