Following the recent earthquake and power outs I'm seriously considering upgrading our options to something like this Does it look like a good deal - free shipping to RP at the moment too ?
I take it the grey block on the left is the inverter and the orange blocks on the right are lead acid batteries and the silver faced thing in the middle is the brains. Thirteen hundred quid would seem like a good deal. In the south of the Philippines you're fairly close to the equator so basically you'll get peak production midday with a little bit of a south facing tilt maybe have you got clear unobstructed views eat and west and no big buildings to the south or trees to the south? It's probably a good enough system to keep your fridge and freezer going all the time but TV and computers yeah probably fine on demand, what's your leccy bill like just now?
Lithium ... actually ! The next one up is 1560W @ $2499 - might be better longer term - even if we're not here I could keep all the cctv and pc stuff running for security etc.
Lithium Iron Phosphate, they'll do you about 2 hours at 1000W drain maybe a little bit less with losses in the Inverter not sure though. Probably keep your lights on and the fridge/freezer working for a day, the tv and computers will drain that a lot faster though but of course the batteries are just a buffer and you should have some level of continuous daytime power from the solar. You might be right the larger one might be better if you have a fairly large load, what you're really looking at though is return on investment and that's how much will it cut your power bills.
Seriously... our bills here must be amongst the highest in the Philippines ... P6,795k last month - that's one aircon for the night plus a couple of refrigerators and a few pc's and tv's basically! I've got the bloody bill out now lol - 475 kwh - means we're paying an effective rate of P14.30!!! per Kwh - scumbags. I don't know how to work it out properly... But if it only saves us P3000/month - then we'd have our money back in 48 months. I'm talking about the $2500 - PHP 145,000 model that gives 1560w there.
With a similar load I've been paying 9000 to 10000 a month in Manila. It might indeed save you that much or more. edit: I think your rate is higher than Manila but your usage is a lot less.
One thing that not clear on us whether it includes invertors to generate the AC. As priced in I assume US dollars then if does include the invertors worth checking the voltage as US tends to be about 120V and philippines is I think 230v. May also need to run separate/stanalone electricity outputs to supply what you want to power of it as otherwise I believe can have problems with connecting it to your power supply. In theory should have agreement to sell any surplus to grid. When I looked at this generally my understanding for somewhere like UK needed to have your system disconnect in the event of power cut for safety reasons. Not sure what requirements in philippines are.
Thanks. Yes the inverter on the cheaper option is definitely 120v... The more expensive one is also 120v but notes: [Parallel Supportable] Parallel support up to 6 units-21kw Max. It can be single phase or separate phase parallel.The output voltage of one inverter is 120v, and more than two inverters can output 120v/208v/240v in parallel. (Two units MINIMUM have to be in parallel to achieve 220V power.)
Looking for some example installations on YouTube discovered this one My tagalog isn't up to much - sure they know what they mean
Hmmm... having had a look around... I've gone off the wind power because of the noise they generate. ECOFLOW PH do a very broad range of good quality gear at reasonable prices - cheaper than I can see on Amazon - which is unusual!
