Anker’s flagship energy station can cost an EV and make houses power impartial

Anker’s flagship energy station, the Solix F3800, is now delivery after elevating nearly $6 million on Kickstarter. It may be used independently to energy a weekend away or scaled for whole-home backup. Costs begin at $3,999 with common gross sales set to start on January ninth. 

The three.84kWh Solix F3800 energy station itself could be expanded to 26.9kWh of power capability after including six of Anker’s 3.84kWh BP3800 LFP growth batteries. It’s able to producing as much as 6,000W of dual-voltage (120V / 240V) AC output throughout oodles of jacks — sufficient to simply energy nearly any dwelling gadget, together with the air conditioner and water pump. You possibly can even join two F3800 collectively for 12,000W of complete AC output and as much as 53.8kWh of capability, however now you’re speaking a few system costing tens of 1000’s of {dollars}.

A totally maxed out system that’s technically nonetheless transportable. Picture: Anker

In line with the US Power Info Administration, the typical US dwelling consumed 889kWh monthly in 2022, or about 29.2kWh per day. So, a maxed-out Anker system (53.8kWh) holds sufficient saved power to energy a whole dwelling for about two days, or for much longer for those who’re solely powering crucial units just like the fridge, freezer, sump pump, and some lights.

The F3800 is designed to be transportable with a telescoping deal with and wheels. You possibly can join as much as 2400W of foldable photo voltaic panels to the F3800 to create a semi-mobile 132.3 pound (60kg) photo voltaic generator to energy your RV, boat, work shed, or tiny home from the unit’s built-in NEMA 14-50 and L14-30 ports. You possibly can even cost your EV at 6,000W / 240V for a dozen or so additional miles of vary in an emergency.

Anker affords just a few kits constructed across the F3800 energy station to maintain the house up and working when the grid goes down, which is going on extra ceaselessly because of the rise in excessive climate. Every package varies in value, complexity, and the management it may present over dwelling circuitry. 

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The F3800 coupled with the Dwelling Energy Panel affords a extra strong dwelling backup answer. Picture: Anker

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The F3800 coupled with the Dwelling Energy Panel affords a extra strong dwelling backup answer. Picture: Anker

On the prime finish is the Solix F3800 Dwelling Energy Equipment, which is simply accessible in the US. It combines the Solix F3800 with quite a lot of further electrical packing containers and cabling, together with Anker’s Dwelling Energy Panel (skilled set up required) to offer battery backup and computerized switchover for as much as 12 of your private home’s circuits. It additionally permits your F3800 batteries to retailer power collected out of your current rooftop photo voltaic panels after putting in a present transformer. The Anker system can then be optimized within the Anker app (connects over Wi-Fi or Bluetooth) to cost the batteries utilizing surplus solar energy when the solar is robust and electrical energy charges are low cost and to energy the house at evening off your power shops when grid costs improve — probably saving you cash over time. The F3800 dwelling power system can’t ship extra electrical energy again to the grid. 

The much less succesful and cheaper Dwelling Backup Equipment features a 10-circuit 120V / 240V switch change, permitting the Solix F3800 and any growth batteries to plug immediately into your private home throughout emergencies, similar to noisy and smelly gasoline turbines. Nevertheless, turbines that run on liquid gold nonetheless have the benefit of powering your circuits for so long as you retain filling the tank. Not like the Dwelling Energy Equipment, the Dwelling Backup Equipment requires handbook intervention to modify as much as 10 dwelling circuits over to your Solix F3800 battery array.

Mom Nature ain’t the boss of you. Picture: Anker

Again in June, Anker introduced an much more highly effective Solix dwelling backup answer anticipated to ship someday in 2024. However that Solix answer is mounted to the wall like a Tesla Powerwall, whereas these Solix F3800 kits provide extra flexibility on account of their transportable and modular design. For instance, you may disconnect the F3800 unit and some growth batteries from the house and use them to assist energy your subsequent summer time highway journey or weekend away.

Anker, like EcoFlow and different latest Tesla Powerwall rivals, is positioning its Solix F3800 kits for dwelling backup that may be “simply put in in just a few hours” (by knowledgeable electrician) whereas doing so “at a considerably lowered value in comparison with extra conventional dwelling energy storage choices.” However that’s a calculation every house owner must confirm to account for his or her distinctive wants, tax incentives, different native variabilities, and the inevitable set up weirdness that normally accompanies any quest for power independence.