Alternative to the Givenergy setup

[Andy Clarke]

When I picked both my inverter/battery setups, I purposely picked a battery inverter combination that wasn’t tied to each other and I also try and stay away from anything with a fancy app/ai service to get the most out of the setup.

[Olivia Johnson]

it’s the challenge with any specific manufacturers technology to either adopt or avoid the proprietary nature of that technology.

Having been responsible for IT strategy and architecture for a number of years, I always leaned towards technologies that were known as Common Off The Shelf Technology (COTS) and away from technologies that had proprietary links.

That said, the vast majority of battery systems are not proprietary as such other than they are packaged as an inverter and battery unit together.

[Martin Shaw]

I have to admit paying a premium price for a system like Tesla or Sigenergy where the owner is effectively prevented from accessing most settings and they are only available via paying someone to do it remotely via a privileged login is very frustrating even though it’s unlikely these companies will go the same way

If it wasn’t for the fact we get frequent power cuts and I want a gateway I am almost tempted to cancel my Sig install and go for something fully accessible like Sunsynk.

[Michael Wright]

or Solax. Mine does full house backup . Used to get long power cuts every couple of months, Sods Law since install only used it once for 10 mins in the last 2 years

[Dean Wade]

for reference Sunsynk doesn’t make the hardware or battery. It’s OEM from Deye for inverter. Battery is OEM elsewhere. Sometimes Sunsynk has different types or versions and they are not interchangeable.

[Joseph White]

you can have full back up on sunsynk

[Neil Elvidge]

could change for an inverter of equal size and export

[Nick Dixon]

yes I probably could thanks, and will investigate, right now though I can’t because my install is via G99 fast track SGI2 and that does not allow islanding.

[Sam Odell]

Its the chance you take with new market entrants, the Givenergys or Sigenergys could only be short lived and then little control for the average user when they are gone. This is where the older brands like Solis and Sunsynk excel. They have been around a while, lots of installation options and best of all….if it really goes bad you can fully configure most of them on the front panel.

[Paul Doyle]

Sigenergy is now the fifth largest global residential BESS brand in the world. Just been approved for IPO listing this week and this will raise $640million for the company and values them at over $3billion.

[Peter McMahon]

Pretty irrelevant (look at the history of business failures). I would not be doing business where e.g. I could not add a battery via myself of a 3rd party (not the installer)

[Peter Robinson]

Surely some one can do a dalathe great for givenergy inverters to use standard pylontech batteries

[Rich Murray]

I was already on the don’t buy proprietary solutions fence. There are plenty of options with properly documented full local control. Why would you take the risk?

[Richard Ward]

could you suggest a shortlist? It might help when an installer quotes or recommends? Thanks.