Running a Furnace with a Power Station! Anker SOLIX F2000 Test!

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Did you check to see if the the hot and neutral are reversed on the power station? I've seen many reviews that say they are reversed, could that also be the cause of voltage on the input??

Here in Des Moines Iowa, MidAmerican Energy winter rates are about .10 cents per kilowatt hour.

Isolate the ground at the furnace, problem solved brother.

Crap. Was hoping you were connecting the EZ box directly to the side of the furnace.

I’m not clear what their “safety capacitor” is for but their statement about non-dangerous current must mean less than 5 ma. That’s the trip current for a GFCI.

This is the exact use case I want to implement. Anker currently having extended Black Friday sale. Getting a f2000+expansion battery and 2 x 200 w of their solar panels

Hey Ben,
Id love to see a video about the mini split you put in your garage. Hows it holding up? Any problems?
Better units available.
Thanks for what you do!

9.5 Canadian cents here in Manitoba. About $9.50 monthly basic charge on top of that. Average power bill for us is about $100 CAD. 😁

What an organized electrical panel!

Anker has had a problem with these devices having reverse polarity, if the small one has 70 plus volts bleed off what does the larger one have, 120 could be lethal in the right circumstances. Most of these Chinese devices don't meet NEMA standards.

I pay
7,880 ¢/kWh in Winter (Dec to March)
6,509 to 10,041 (Nov and April)
6,509 ¢/kWh (May to Oct)

+ 43,505 ¢ per day

When you touched the plug and felt voltage but not immediately pulling your hand away (low current) I was immediately thinking it was some kind of capacitive coupling, very interesting!

40 cents/ kwh over here in Central CA during peak. 2 kwh per day is $24 a month, and $288 a year. Usually a furnace has an accessible 120 cord, so I don't think these types of transfer switches are very useful since they can only handle one circuit. If you plug the solar generator directly to the heater, you can plug the solar generator directly into the wall and not have to worry about tripping anything and just use it as a UPS. I hooked up a 4 circuit transfer switch and now I regret not doing 6 or 10 circuits.

Find some better equipment

Not going to use or waste my money on something that seems wrong. Not good enough explanation whatsoever. Test and find that will not use.
Return and remove from property.

If using that type of battery would we need an inverter generator or could we use any generator to charge that battery while hooked up to a transfer switch to power sensitive electronics such as tvs and computers?

PG&E in El Dorado Hills near Sacramento Ca. $.051 Summer about $.037 Winter per KWH.

Why not just a switch with an outlet onto the furnace and wire in a short cord to plug into either the outlet on the furnace or the Anker?

WHY WHY WHY
do this? If the power is out extended time, TEACH RESILIENCE and compartmentalizing your home, run small single low wattage unit if anything at all.
This is a waste of time!! Waste of resource.
RIDICULOUS.
The inmates are running your asylum

The shared neutral is an issue for anyone using a transfer switch and powering inverter from
Main panel, kinda like a UPS. Only way around it is to use a non GFCI breaker on the circuit powering the Anker. Not sure if it’s right but it works.

Probably designer improperly calculated power dissipation for shunt resistor and it burnt immediately after first using, so capacitor in your power bank is no more shunted by resistor.

That transfer switch for a single circuit looks neat, looking forward to the install video with more details on what the floating neutral means in terms of how to hook up to the panel.

Good video and an interesting use case.

The safety capacitor should have a resistor to bleed off the voltage stored within seconds. There may be a small normal amount of leakage current through the capacitor.

$0.11 after I factor in conversion for 2kWh

I have the same transfer switch and have it wired to a circuit that has an outlet in several different parts of the house and several led light fixtures. Power cost here is about $0.12 including all extras on my average power bill from the city owned muni power company.

Good of anker. However the fact that you are saying you thought they would ask you to remove part of your video says a lot for sure.

I was thinking it was just you were excited and wanted to show how to do.

Warning……. Not a how to video. Just another product advertisment disguised as such

So i get running natural gas furnace like u did. We have a natural gas furnace boiler. One haa to also power circulators correct? How much power is consumed with those circulators running? My house has two zone baseboard so would need to include that i think? I also have nest thermostat which is on transformer although it has some internal battery.

Hello $0.137/kWh here is upstate NY, great job on the video.

I've seen something like this before when I was using an off grid inverter to run lights while I hooked up the grid input to the same inverter at my main panel. I'd get some low voltage off the inverter neutral from running the lights due to the floating neutral. Not enough to really zap you but enough to make my fluke non-contact voltage tester intermittently chirp. I suspect this phenomena is related to that floating neutral and Anker just fed you some random jargon.
P.S. please wear safety glasses when shorting out electrics in front of your face, I appreciate your safety squints but... ;)

Hi Ben.. I also am from MN and pay $.088+$.037 per kWh (total is $.125/kWh) , plus all the other crap.. Basic Service Charge, Affordability Charge, Resource Adjustment, Interim Rate Adjustment, City Fees, Transit Improvement Tax, Other Special District Tax, County Tax, State Tax.

We pay between $0.35-0.45 per Kwh within the first 2 tiers.. last billed averaged $0.39/Kwh. California. Do not recommend.

UPS witchcraft. The input is essentially connected to the battery bus and the output and its all hot. The mystery isn't that there is voltage on the input the mystery is why does it not knock you on yer ass . Very interesting video Ben. Thank you.

Ontario canada - time of use rates, 8.7 cents off peak, 12 cents mid-peak, 18 cents peak. add 2-3 cents per kwh transmission to local utilities. fixed local utility fees mean being charged $40 b4 using any electricity. the system here is really messed up - the tou periods don't coincide with demand.
lots of political interference!

I got a bluetti ac180 today for $682 shipped including taxes for a backup (among other usage) for this same purpose. A few years ago we had a 3 day power outage in winter were the temps were under 40F and it was no fun without any furnace. Although we did light the gas fireplace and had a few items on kitchen the gas stove it still was a chilly time.

6 cents a KWH under 1000kwh a month, 6.8 if over 1000kwh. Northwest hydropower FTW.

you must have a psc motor with those wattages.
2kw storage capacity sucks