Enphase IQ7+ solar installation

[SteGadd]

I am installing an Enphase IQ7+ based solar system.

I hope to achieve greater value by using reused Pylontech technology in an equally less formal approach, by again cheating and avoiding large cost purchasing of high priced compatible inverters.

I have 16x 375w AIXTEC panels.

I'm very happy with the equipment and it has impressed me very much.

Especially now that I have discovered that I can add my own bespoke battery storage, using just about any combination of any type or voltages up to the micro-inverter DC input range -  The micro-inverters support from 0-60v DC input each.

I am now using various home built or used batteries, like UPS flooded lead batteries, Lithium-ion scooter and e-bike batteries and hopefully soon Pylontech US2000 and/or H48050 Power-cube ones as well,

I liken it to the old RAID technology (Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks or in this case RAIB 'Batteries').

So far they range from 24v to 52v, (some stacked in parallel) whilst all happily connected and working side by side at the same time., as long as I use a separate IQ7+ micro-inverter for each different battery combination.

The flexibility is fantastic; allowing a truly hybrid and flexible system, at the fraction of the cost of implementing such a solution another 'supported' or endorsed way, and although I doubt it is officially documented or supported to do it this way I believe that the new IQ8 series does officially do it, albeit by using another very expensive AC coupled system (along side the big names like Tesla and Growatt etc).