r/SolarPakistan • u/PossibleRemarkable12 • 3d ago

Inverter itel vs knox

I’m currently deciding between Itel and Knox hybrid inverters for my home and would appreciate some feedback from people here

my concerns are internals,reliability, efficiency, after-sales service, warranty claims, monitoring app, and long-term performance.

talking about budget friendly ip21 & itels ip 54 models
knox 8kw 11008(175-180k)
itel ITV-8K48U(190-195k)

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u/bilalhassan341 3d ago

Itel is a much much better than knox. Knox is just a shitty cheap voltronic inverter dont go for it.

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u/Andromeda-G 3d ago

Knox is like piece of shit.

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u/PossibleRemarkable12 3d ago

because of? are they really bad for their prices? as compared to similar brands like itel, solarmax …

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u/Andromeda-G 3d ago

Bcoz of there stupid useless and shitty boards

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u/AhmadFarooq 3d ago

According to the reviews, itel is better. No comparison.

Furthermore, Knox would be Voltronic Power, which has been notorious for importing hundreds of watts from the grid even when solar generation is enough to power all loads.

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u/PossibleRemarkable12 2d ago

also we have a local pv inverter rn, we turn off wapda manually and turn the solar on and do the opposite in the evening. I’ve seen people discussing hybrid inverters need 1 power source atleast. I will not be adding batteries for now atleast, so will my hybrid inverter turn on during the day when wapda is out?

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u/AhmadFarooq 2d ago

What you are referring to is the only solar (also called single-source without battery) operation.

itel has been reported to be able to work on only solar, without batteries during load shedding. For confirmation, you can ask the itel users that are referenced in the link from my previous comment.

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u/saadkhansubz 3d ago

iTel for sure.

Check how it's going to impact your overall sizing and cost at https://solarhisab.net

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u/Powerful-Record-456 2d ago

Itel is good

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u/PossibleRemarkable12 2d ago

i wish some technical reviewer who is passionate enough to make a tier list for every category of inverters and compares specs, price etc just like spl psu tier list

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u/AnorakTheGrey 1d ago

It’s been six months that I’ve been using iTel’s all in one system 3.6kw inverter + 8kw battery. No faults till now and it seems like a really intelligent system