EG4 6000XP Off-Grid Inverter Long term review | Mega Watts | 1 yr +

What's going on back to the channel? This episode, we're going to be talking all about the EG4 6000XP and its long-term ownership, right? So, when I say long-term, I mean pretty much just about a year and a few months, right? So, we've ordered this inverter as soon as it came out in 2023, I think, ish, around October, according to our order status, and we've had it installed ever since, and it's been on, you know, pretty much somewhere in this basement doing its thing on the almost the entire time, except for occasional maintenance around the system, right?

But, it's been on continuously for a little over a year, and it's been working pretty much non-stop, right? So, uh we're going to I don't want to say retire, but we're going to see how how it really works out cuz we bought the 12000XP, and then we're going to install the 12000XP, and it's going to pretty much take over all the load of what's going on up in here. But, I will go ahead and say this is not a full review of this particular inverter. We If If you want that, there's plenty of videos, and we have videos on our channel about that, but this is really talking about the long-term review, and if we ran into any issues or any problems or, you know, what we really think about it after a year.

So, if you want to know more about that, stick with us. First things first, let's talk about what the system is connected to. This EG4 6000XP is connected to two indoor EG4 wall-mount batteries, a tower of server rack LifePower 4 and LL batteries, and another tower of Aolithium batteries, and they're all connected in parallel with BMS communications working only on the indoor wall-mount batteries and the one LifePower V2 battery. Some of the other batteries that are connected in the system don't have BMS communications set up, but I'm okay with that, right?

So, the other thing it's connected to is it's connected to a ground-mount array, and we're only using one MPPT for that, and we also have it connected to this load center. This is not a subpanel. This inverter has not been connected to grid. I think maybe once we were testing, but like ever since that, never again uh has been connected to the grid.

So, this inverter has not really been used for charging. So, if you want to know long-term about charging through uh grid, yeah, we can't help you too much with that. But, uh so, that's what's connected to. Like I said, it's not a sub panel.

It is a load center, and it's been working pretty much uh really well. I do want to go ahead and point out a small disclaimer. We're going to go look at the portal in a little bit, but we'll go ahead and point out that uh the portal will say we've generated and used somewhere around 1.5 MW of energy through this. I'm going to go ahead and say that is not entirely accurate.

There was a few weeks where we were using it without the internet connectivity. There was a few weeks we were using it after it's been connected, then we had some issues, decided to move it around and recreate it, and that somehow reset the data or something like that. So, it's it's it's not entirely accurate, but ever since it has been logging, it it uh says about 1.5 MW, right? So, before you go ahead and say that's not a lot over the course of uh year and like 3 months, well, uh I do want to point out we've done a lot of work in order to minimize the energy usage that we need or the energy footprint that we need.

So, uh if you're going to design a system, make sure, you know, you don't just try to replace the energy needs that you have, but maybe try to be a little bit more efficient. That's just a tip that I want to point out. Uh the other thing I want to point out is that uh this uh EG46000XP right now is only powering a few components, right? So, it powers this entire which has all the lights.

Uh it all has two dehumidifiers, and then uh one window AC unit here. It also powers uh from the load center the uh upstairs uh 24 BTU Pioneer mini split and the uh Mr. Cool 12,000 BTU mini split, and it's been powering that just fine. And because we've been through all four seasons um over a year with this, I can go ahead and confidently say we have not had a single issue with any part of this system, except one.

I will talk about that in a little bit, right? But in terms of reliability and it working out and everything working as perfectly designed as it should be, we have not had an issue. And only recently we've installed the Tesla wall charger and we've been able to charge the Tesla at pretty much close to 6,000 W continuous. I want to say about three times to to really drain a lot of the batteries down and that's probably where I would say we've had one very small issue really really early on.

So, the one small issue that we had really early on is that um we just weren't consuming enough energy. Like I said, we did a lot of stuff to minimize our energy footprint, but with all the batteries connected, we just weren't draining it and cycling the batteries enough to uh to to minimize the state of charge drift, right? So, we were generating a lot of power, but all the LED lights in the basement don't use a lot of power, right? And because the it's it's a basement and it's, you know, underground on almost almost four sides, but three sides technically, uh the the window AC unit doesn't really need to run that much.

It pretty much stays cool all the time down here, right? So, even though it is connected to that kind of stuff, we don't draw a lot of power from it in that way. And because of that, the state of charge kind of drifted on the batteries and then that, you know, eventually caused a huge shutdown later because it had no idea what the state of charge was. But I will go ahead and point out that is really more of a system designer installation fault, mainly because we just didn't put the right capacity of batteries, but it's not really a fault of the inverter.

I do want to point that out. So, if you're going to design a system, make sure you build it out properly or make sure you just, you know, consume the energy that you generate and stuff like that. Anyway, point is, let's stop jibber-jabbering about that. Also, uh the other thing I wanted to point out is that this filter has really not been cleaned inside of this basement or on this uh inverter and it's been working out pretty well for us.

Our basement here is not finished. We did do a lot of work to minimize the dust inside the basement like put up air barriers and paint some of the walls and tape off, you know, different parts of the basement, but the ground is still unfinished and everything is still exposed, right? So, it works really well and I'm almost sad to say we're going to retire this because you know, it works so well. I haven't had a hiccup in almost, you know, ever since we've installed it.

So, it's a really good system and if you're thinking about should I get the 6000 XP? How is it over, you know, after a megawatt? How is it after a year? It's fine, right?

I think anybody you talk to can probably say that they have didn't have too many issues. I will go ahead and say before this we had two EG4 6500 EXs and for me, I haven't had any issues with that. I know some people have had issues, but we haven't had any issues. We don't have like lights flickering or anything like that and anytime the AC unit has come on, they're like mini splits, the lights still don't dim.

So, you know, I I could highly, highly confidently say we recommend this unit. I believe this unit is probably the best single unit like all-in-one system that you can get for the money. What do I mean by that? If you go back three or four years ago and you wanted to build the same capable system, it would have been more components, it would have cost more, it would have been less reliable in terms of the open issues with, you know, something like that and you as the end user would have had to connect more devices kind of along with the components to it, right?

So, that also means you're taking up more wall space and and, you know, dealing with all different kinds of distributors and and companies for warranties and all that kind of stuff, right? But now, we've gotten to a point in the industry where we have solid all-in-one units which are more reliable, which cost less, which have more capability, which take up a lesser footprint, and also have, you know, all the things that you need connected. I believe we are really moving forward in the industry, and we are really glad to be, you know, at a living in a time where we can see that happening. Right?

So, the the partnership that EG4 and LuxPower have to really produce these units and then just send them to distributors and, you know, get it in public's hands, it's actually, I think, is game changing because three or four years ago that would have been unheard of. It would have been, you know, really challenging. So, I believe that this unit was really, really game changer. Also, with like the, you know, 18K, I think, sometime came out close around that time or whatnot.

So, would I go out and buy this unit again? If I need the exact capability of this unit or any single unit 240 split phase capable system, I would definitely go and buy this again in a heartbeat. We're going to keep running this unit, especially around Christmas time, since we have, you know, inflatables and balloons and lights and all this stuff. So, if we run into any issues, we'll let you know, but I don't see us running into any units, especially or any issues, mainly because it's been working well so far, and we kind of understand the the limits of the system.

So, if you're like doing things, make sure if you set it up right, you're just not going to have any issues. Just plug, play, program it, change a few items, get it to work. Right? So, that's our long-term review of this unit.

It's been working pretty well. If you have any questions, let us know. If it runs into any issues, we'll let you know, but otherwise, have a great day. Thanks for watching, and we'll see you guys next time.