FoxESS Community - Owners & Installers Forum

Just introducing myself here, I've come from the FB group.

My Tech:

6kW of solar

6kW H1-6.0-E inverter

12 kWh cube

Zappi car charger

I also run a forum that looks at all kinds of modern tech.

Welcome!

How are you finding the battery storage? I know the cube is a new product.

Will wrote: ↑Thu Oct 13, 2022 8:40 pm How are you finding the battery storage? I know the cube is a new product.

Hi Will, I've had the cube for nearly 3 months and so far I haven't had to use grid power once

Charge it every day from the PV, even cloudy days it's working great, OK it does have a couple of quirks that I'm working round, the sudden drop of SOC at night and the lower than expected kWh output but it's still a nice piece of kit.

I'm going to upgrade it to 20kWh once the slaves come back in stock, I have them pre-ordered.

good idea, batteries will be a serious money saver as the price of grid power continues to increase.

I'm looking to add another slave to mine, they appear to be in stock at ITS but a bit wary, and not cheap either lol

Reading the install manual it’s a simply case of lifting it into place under the master and updating the masters dip switch by one place. Should be a 30 second job.

Will wrote: ↑Fri Oct 14, 2022 7:27 am Reading the install manual it’s a simply case of lifting it into place under the master and updating the masters dip switch by one place. Should be a 30 second job.

Oh yeah not worried about installing, more dodgy suppliers and inflated prices. Although I can't help but feel a design flaw here, surely having the master as the base would make more sense for a few reasons.

• No disturbing of fixed cabling

• No need to lift heavy equipment twice

• Only need to manufacture the master to be able to 'accept feet'

Adding a slave would then be a simple case of removing a cosmetic cover shooting a new one on top of the stack and popping the cover back on.

I don't believe the cover needs to be removed on the cube, it's simply slots ontop of each other, so powerdown, pull the top master off the top, place the new slave on top of the existing slave and pop the master back on top of the new slave.

No, I know the cover doesn't need removing. I was suggesting a potentially better design whereby slaves are on top of the master.

With the current design the heavy master has to be removed (along with cabling potentially). Then you need to put that somewhere whilst you add a slave before putting it back on top.

It just seems inefficient

oh I see, yes having the master at the bottom would make more sense. I see your point!

I'm going to be adding 2 more slaves to my cube, I thinks it's pretty easy to do but I also belive there is a right and wrong way of doing it or at least a correct way of doing it. Will start a thread about this in the new hardware section.

awesome stuff, thanks.