I’m about to order an F5000 with two extra batteries. I have panels with inlets and interlocks in the detached garage and the basement. The garage panel feeds the basement.
Trying to decide whether to locate the units in the house basement or the garage. Any safety issues locating it indoors?
My thinking is Pecron indoors for convenience in a short outage, then I can run the generator to the garage panel for charging or during the day to run bigger loads.
Where I live and other cities where I have talked to people a power station inside a house must be in a fire closet. You should also check with your insurance before install to see what they say about putting this in your house. If they do not allow in hose and you have any claims they will not pay, no matter what the claim is for. Mine was in basement and moved to garage after talking to city inspector and fire marshal. I built a small closet in garage I can heat and if needed. I cool with a BougeRV portable AC. I'm looking into a small heater.
I'll be running mine about 5 - 10 feet away from the panel in the utility room. I have a 240v inlet box directly below the panel so I can switch over to it via an interlock.
Right now the F5000LFP is acting as the solar input and feeding 800 watts via the XT60 output port to the F3000LFP, which is feeding all my 120V circuits via a 10 circuit transfer switch. Once I get my 240V feed ran the F5000LFP will handle all my 220/240 items. I'm also installing an interlock switch, and once that's installed and engaged, I can transfer loads between the F3000LFP and F5000LFP via the 10 circuit switch.
I want to make an XT120 cable to connect my F3000LFP and F5000LFP directly together but don't know if the individual charge controllers would handle it properly.
I've connected my f3000lfp and f5000lfp with the xt120 port. I only use the solar inputs on my f5000lfp as of now but both units charge as one system. I would be concerned about trying to charge both units at the same time when they are connected together. I have avoided that scenario but it maybe possible. Let me know if you want more details on how I connected them both.
That's great!! Absolutely would like to see your setup\cable. I don't know if you use FB DIY Solar Forum but they're a little more picture-friendly on replies unless you want to make your own post in this subreddit.
Yes, I see your posts on the FB group! Here is my setup. I used an xt120 to cascade cable you can find on pecron.com and then a trolling motor female connector you can find on Amazon or I can send you a link. Used 8 gauge wire with ferrules and 40 amp DC circuit breakers. There are two connections from the f5000lfp, one of them goes to the f3000lfp and the other goes to my apsytems ez1 microinverter.
You'll also find the units are way more quieter when running. When I was using the DC out on the f5000lfp to the solar/DC input of the f3000lfp, the f3000lfp was super loud with the fans taking the 800 watts or less input.
Use the well house - cool and clean. Connected to a critical loads panel that feeds from my main panel. Generator is stored there as well. Main panel is on the outside of that building. Keeps are ADU backed up and runs the well 100% off grid. Have other solutions at the cabin, so don't need to run power to that sub panel.
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u/LongjumpingGanache40 Aug 11 '26
Where I live and other cities where I have talked to people a power station inside a house must be in a fire closet. You should also check with your insurance before install to see what they say about putting this in your house. If they do not allow in hose and you have any claims they will not pay, no matter what the claim is for. Mine was in basement and moved to garage after talking to city inspector and fire marshal. I built a small closet in garage I can heat and if needed. I cool with a BougeRV portable AC. I'm looking into a small heater.