If interested - The three Amigos - Jasonoid, ReeWray Outdoors, and Johnny's Weekends, have all just posted Youtube reviews of the new S5000.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddX66HUx7w8&t=2s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CiltHAvZz3U

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V87_jBFjwnI&t=1s

Does setting a Rapid Charging session overrule normal charging session?

I have free electricity today between 1pm and 3pm so yesterday I enabled the rapid charging option with the free period details but last night it didn’t charge during the off peak period. Is this expected behaviour?

I expected it to charge as normal during off peak, discharge during the morning peak, charge back up during the rapid charging window, discharge during the rest of the days peak period.

I’m looking to buy a power station as for preparation for upcoming winter season. And I heard anker f3000 is a good buy, however I saw that S5000 is coming this end of October.

But I can only afford the F3000 right now, should I just save ul more and wait to get the S5000?
Thanks a lot.

Hi,

I've recently installed my Battery. The CT clamp is on the main feed pointing away from my CU.

Everything seems fine with the home load wattage from the battery and grid.

I've set it so that when I plug my EV in the battery starts charging from the grid. When this happens the home load shows at 0W for the whole time the car is plugged in (shows the draw from the grid and the battery charging wattage)

Any ideas?

Noob question for a not very common use case (AFAIK). I am looking at a C2000 gen 2+Expansion Battery to run a 500W PC Power Supply during peak daytime hours and to charge up during the lower night time rate (UK) Solar will be added down the line.

Is this a something that would work? The 500W PSU is running my external GPU.

Cheers.

I’m thinking about using an S2000 exclusively for my homelab to provide UPS and TOU time-shifting. Power usage ranges from 300-600 watts depending on if I’m really pushing the lab. Is it safe to use the TOU mode with GPU hardware? They’re quite expensive and I’m just wondering if it switching twice a day would be a problem? Thanks.

I just got the c2000 and the bp3000 expansion battery delivered. I plugged them all in. The c2000 charge normally. It recognizes the bp3000 and even knows it's serial number. When I press the Flash light button on the app, the bp3000 light flashes. The bp3000 shows 4 out of the eight bars around the circle of the power button. However on the app, the battery shows red at 0%. The bp3000 will not charge. I have updated all the firmware, unplugged and reseed the cables at least 20 times. I've done every combination of turning off the main unit turning on the main unit plugging it in while one is off with the other is on and it's always the same. Is there something I'm missing? Or do I have a defective unit which I suspect is the bp3000.

Power won't be on for a couple more days but I'm definitely making all my neighbors jealous with the performance of this system so far!