Franklin VS Enphase IQ Battery for Whole Home Backup

Thank you. Great review and presentation!

Excellent overview, as per usual!

That Franklin system looks sweet!

I just installed an Enphase complete system. But most of my old installs are SMA as well as my house. Thank You for showing me another option for my clients and myself.

Love your videos! With CA NEM 3.0 & battery needs, can you do a video on system size and adding the proper battery storage amount. System in kWh produced according to +100% offset vs kWh battery storage needed etc.?

Great review! You are the best. I have an Enphase system with 46 320w panels and 7+ micros. 10 mwh in 12 months. I also have an apartment with off peak cost availability. Both charge my Tesla Model Y. (Supercharger midpoint to get there and back) I put off putting batteries on the solar. My electric coop has very little down time, but Northern Michigan covers my panels in snow for months. For both locations I used 826kwh in Nov. The solar home was 373kwh offset by my solar credit and the apartment 336kwh off peak leaving me with 109kwh of regular cost. The distribution and customer charges are insane. $6-8 worth of electricity cost me $110 total. To be off grid I need a battery, controller and generator. I would save $6,000 ($40/mo x12yrs) over 12 years so how do I justify $20K? A small battery (3kwh) would get me through the night and outages but not the snow months so a generator could assist but needs propane. I guess I wait for tech to go up and cost to go down.

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I recently started watching your video and find them extremely informative. I saw a video that was posted about a year ago of 3 reason why you pick the Enphase Battery over the Tesla Powerwall. You talked about how during a off-grid the Enphase has the ability to turn off certain solar panels to control the amount of power coming in, so the system doesn't do what the Tesla does and shuts down the system completely multiple times during the off-grid and goes through battery cycles multiple times a day. Thus deteriorating the battery and the warranty. My question is, does the FranklinWH system have the same abilities as the Enphase system during a off-grid? Before your videos I was leaning towards Tesla, but now I am much more towards the FranklinWH system. I have SunPower panels, but still leaning towards the Franklin instead of the SunVault systems because of cost and abilities. Any information on this with the FranklinWH would be helpful. Thank you...

Enphase all day for me

Hey Joe, we love your style! Why leave out more efficient DC coupled battery solutions that also AC couple to existing micro inverters such as just one of Sol-Ark's 15K that has a 200A transfer switch built-in? Previous videos reviewed Sol-Ark. Paired with Homegrid, Fortress, Pylontech, Deka or Endur batteries? You can both DC and AC couple. Thanks for all you do!

Love your videos. I had 33 KW of Enphase batteries installed a year ago. They have been rock solid. With that said. The 40KW limit on Enphase is a big problem for people that need more than that.

Thank you for all the helpful education videos Joe. It seems that V2G/V2H is going to be more available with the newer EV’s. I would like to see a video on the expected enphase bi-directional evse. How would a new install today be ready for that transition, it seems a smaller battery would be a good idea in that config.

I sure enjoy your head to head comparison videos. I like your approach in this video, comparing the whole home ability of one system against the whole home capability of another system. That is the correct way of doing it. Others want to compare number of batteries…well done! I appreciate that you are sincere, honest, and factual about your presentations. I feel confidant sharing what you present to those I care about because your not trying to sell me or them. Thank you for this Joe!

Can you use a gasoline generator? Non-inverter. Ie how tolerant is it of frequency, and is manual generator starting supported?

Would love to get your thoughts on the HomeGrid batteries.

Thanks for the video. I wonder how much RFI either system produces. Solar edge created a big problem for radio communication in the past. I don’t recall if they used AC coupled or DC coupled panels. Thanks again for your videos.

Hi....I have the Enphase Enlighten System with (3) Battery backup with 65 panels at 360 w....looking to hopefully connect my ionic 5 2022 with V2L for additional backup power ......any suggestions

Gotta give enphase a point for ease of maintenance, since their ac/dc inverter is just iq 8's which means u dont have to replace a whole inverter of it goes bad, just swap the iq 8 thats dead out

Hi Joe, Have you done a video on whole home battery backup without solar? If not, can you do one? Thanks!