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Just had an advertising email from ITS with an update on their stocks. I have no connection with them other than as a customer, I bought our batteries and a few other bits and bobs from them.

Seems they have some offers on Pylontech batteries that may be of interest to some here (if this is seen as advertising, can the mods please delete it):

Pylontech stock updates:

- Huge stock of Pylontech US5000 available this week at reduced prices

- Limited stock of US3000C currently available but huge stock due towards the end of Novemeber at reduced priced (pre-order available for lower prices)

Limited stock of US2000C due in this week (currently only around 28 pieces available)

Pylontech volume discounts:

Discount for 4+: £15/battery

Discount for 8+: £25/battery

Discount for 12+: £35/battery

Hybrid inverters available for complete Pylontech systems: Turbo 5kw, 5&6kw Solis hybrid

Looking on ebay, there is one advertised but shown in a stack of 3... (https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/394326341331 ... _Auction=1)
but the orange wires seem to be connected to differnt terminals than pictures on here... Am I right?

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p.s definitely looks wrong compared with the manual

The batteries in that photo looks to be correctly wired to me. The guidance is to take one of the cables that leads to the inverter from the top of the stack and the other from the bottom, to even out the way current flows to and from each battery.

It doesn't matter. Both red terminals are connected to each other internally. Just like it doesn't matter if you use the red terminals at the top or bottom to go to the inverter as long as you have the black to the inverter at the opposite end.

Tinbum wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 3:03 pm It doesn't matter. Both red terminals are connected to each other internally. Just like it doesn't matter if you use the red terminals at the top or bottom to go to the inverter as long as you have the black to the inverter at the opposite end.

That hadn't occurred to me. Thanks
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Some nice pics of the internals here;

https://powerforum.co.za/topic/8524-pyl ... -teardown/

Tinbum wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 3:10 pm Some nice pics of the internals here;

https://powerforum.co.za/topic/8524-pyl ... -teardown/

and an interesting write-up. Thanks.
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A US2000 used to be £345. No way am I going to pay £1,700 for a 5000.

Swwils wrote: ↑Sun Nov 13, 2022 5:39 pm A US2000 used to be £345. No way am I going to pay £1,700 for a 5000.

Two years ago I paid £800 each for US3000Cs, now they are £1,362. We've had a combination of rampant inflation, skyrocketing demand and massively reduced availability. Prices started to shoot up about a year ago, as demand skyrocketed and availability decreased, then inflation reared it's head on top of that lot. For the past few months many suppliers haven't even been able to get stock, and lead times of 6 to 12 weeks have been pretty normal.

Same goes for inverters. I had a quote for a Lux inverter at about £900 a year ago. I went back to the same supplier a few months ago and the price had gone up to £1,500. The market has gone crazy, with a lot of people choosing to fit panels, inverters and batteries because of rising electricity costs. One thing I've noted is that ITS are consistently at the lower end of the price range, plus they seem to be able to get stock of most things, although there is another paragraph in their mailshot that shows that even they are struggling with some manufacturers products, like Givenergy bumping prices by 30% twice so far this year:

Givenergy has been quite a challange to say the least with cables and other accessories not being supplied, Gen 2's promoted as being available then withdrawn after everyone wanted them and delayed until next year sometime as well as their EV charger also delayed until next year.

They have now increased their prices by another 30% for the 2nd time this year. We have a few batteries currently at the old price but struggle to see how it can be viable after these are sold.

I know that I should know better but who is or are ITS please? I am one of those people who is just getting round to installing a battery system, late in the day, but we have a large electricity demand daily with an all electric house and so designing a system is a long process, for me anyway.