Power a 2500sqft Home with a Condor Elite 48v 11.8kwh LiFePO4 Battery! BigBattery.com Review (2023)

Do you keep losing Power every time a Storm Rolls through?? Unsure of when it will come back on?? Look no further!!!

I Powered my House with one of BigBatteries 48v 11.8kwh Lifepo4 Condor Elite 3 Batteries for over 15 hours!!! Could go off-grid with just 1!!! Save some cash with my 10% off Discount code "joe10"

This was not a Paid Review However BigBattery did send the battery to me to checkout and share my experience! Big Shoutout to @BigBattery #bigbattery

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0:00​ - Intro
2:35 - Unbox & Close Up
5:49 - Look Inside
8:40 - Active Balancing
9:50 - Importance of a Battery Backup
11:25 - Quick System Rundown
13:38 - Battery Connecting
15:51 - Grid Down
18:58 - Space Heater, Air Compressor and Saw
21:09 - Conserving Energy
22:58 - Important Wife Items
24:30 - Garage Door, TV, Micrwave and Coffee
27:54 - Midnight
29:37 - Next Day Charging
31:03 - Thermal Camera
33:15 - BMS to Inverter Communications
34:19 - Final Thoughts
41:55 - Outtakes
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[AndirHon]

If you can't lift your garage door without struggling, your door motor will also struggle. It means your door springs need to be adjusted. You should be able to lift your door with one hand if it's disconnected via the rope.

[tangling]

Haha. no strap on the handtruck, yet you built a handtruck portable build and strapped that smaller battery to it. CLASSIC. Great info, great, vidz, great channel. Has inspired me to build my own. Thanks.

[jasonbroom]

I really like the chapters on your videos. The production quality of your content is demonstrably better than just about anything else out there. It's not just that your vids are more fun, they are also more informative because of how they are organized.

[awbean]

GREAT JOB JOE!
WE ENJOY WATCHING YOUR PROJECTS

[Panhandlehomestead]

Dude just found you channel straight up love it

[davelamont]

Dude, you're living my dream. Whole house running off grid. So awesome 👍

[teseract]

26:00 All the tech in the basement and he has a microwave from 1987. ;)

[SkyNoris]

Hey Joe 👋 I used to be running the same inverter your currently running. I found when communicating with batteries it seriously throttles the charge controller output. Even worse is there is really no way to adjust out of it that I know of. It will however depending on the state of charge ramp the amps up and down accordingly. But this feature is for sure not needed. It makes zero sense with our modern batteries. Luckily in my case I didn't really need the Solar charge controler inside my Growatt inverter. I previously purchased a Victron SCC I use that instead so I can communicate with my batteries while still making full use of my available solar power. I do hope this is addressed in a firmware update from Growatt at some point. Without it people are defiantly missing out on a lot of potential power harvested. I've been able to get my entire house off grid now. Kind of like you I just needed to get some wiring done to make it possible. My whole system info is shared on the victron remote monitoring website. under the name "Solairus" located in the northern Utah area.

[offgridwanabe]

Nice battery sure we need to see the whole show with the wife at home as she is good for a couple of KW.

[AndirHon]

Price seems a little high compared to the "more expensive" model of the EG4 (EG4LL) both have 10 year warranty

Condor: $4, 450 (231Ah) as of this posting (and that's supposedly on sale from the MSRP of $6400!)
EG4LL: $1, 749 (100Ah)

Condor: $19.26 per Ah ($377.12 / kWh)
EG4LL: $17.49 per Ah ($341.60 / kWh)

[cgutowski]

Great video. Subscribed back when you heaved that 12k on the wall. What’s your overall impression of that inverter and what is the avg idle draw?

[seymourpro]

Like the whole process! Do you have time based electricity charges? My power is seriously cheaper at night and I'd like to use a battery to time warp the costs -charge battery over night and discharge it during the day.

[DiyintheGhetto]

I snuck in the back door to say boom baby. 😂

[diyrenewableenergyelectron]

We just made simulated coffee.

Oh….. not again.

Hah what a good sport.

[tiborchren]

Awesome video review, as always.
What BMS is used in this battery? Are the BMS settings locked, or is it possible to change the BMS settings?
The manual switching of the active balancer is great, at least the user doesn't have to install it himself, as it is usually the case with similar batteries. The most ideal would be to have the active balancer integrated into the BMS and the BMS application with the possibility to switch it on and off there and to have the possibility to program it for automatic operation as in the neey 4th generation, but as part of the BMS.
I was interesting in connecting the battery cells using pcb boards, I like this clean solution without a lot of wiring. Check out the products from Taranis Energy DIY project components: pcb boards 4s-8s-16s for 105Ah to 320Ah battery cells.
Best regards from the Czech Republic.

[xjchris]

Thanks for the indepth video on these big battery batteries. Because of you I've now placed an order for a condor elite 3 and am phasing out my 4s4p 48v redodo bank. Your code was a huge bonus too

[loucinci]

Fascinating. Lengthly but informative. Really nice setup you have. Thanks for sharing

[YarLeo]

How du you switch the cat to a solar powered mode? I would like my cat to be a little bit less active in the night, when there is no sun =))))

[phizicks]

2:09 "drop test is done." lol. damn, I really need good suppliers in Australia, everything is so expensive. but after I redo my inverter and solar, it was a butcher job I found out later. :'(
3:38 it's sexy, and super eletrostastic too :P

[mattosborne]

I watch a lot of stuff like this and have built two smaller power stations myself. I intend for my next project to be a 5K server rack battery and a 3K all-in-one.
I'm just curious as to why a person would use one of these batteries when you can get two server rack batteries for under $3, 000. Certainly less than half the price of the battery in this video. Granted yours is a couple K more, but for $6, 000 I could have 20Kw storage.
Thank you.