switch from grid power so right now it's at 20 milliseconds and there we are 414 Watts going into the house and I believe if I tap this we're currently at 85% it's discharging at 407 watts and we have about 8 and 1/2 hours at the current load hey welcome back to the channel everybody in this video we're going to take a departure and we're going to talk about the jackary 5000 plus and the jack smart transfer switch so that is a departure from all the tool related content and all the framing foundations the siding content that is pretty much everything else on this channel if you are new to this channel we are homebuilders in the Pacific Northwest we've been in business since May of 1978 my dad started the company my brother and I have just grown up in this since 2003 I have been writing for the Journal of light construction both how-to articles as well as tool reviews so this is kind of in the vein of a tool review at least that's how I'm looking at it so that's been now 22 years in addition to all of that for about the last 5 years I've been on YouTube Instagram Tik Tok I get to go and film on location uh talk about building science construction techniques visit trade shows like World of Concrete International Builder show and I just actually last night got back from the jlc live in Providence Rhode Island which is all clinics on how to build so what does that have to do with the jackary 5000 Plus in the smart transfer switch this is a sponsored video from jackary they provided me with this unit the smart transfer switch as well as the solar Saga so it's kind of a kit if you go to the website you can just click the kit and buy it so why did I reach out well okay let me let me back way up this house from the day we built it was wired for a gas power generator and I'll go through this in just a minute but high level we have our main panel and then we had this panel that we could turn power off to the street and then this cord down here plugs into a generator and so every window we lose power uh we're we're out here not quite in the woods but there's a lot of trees that are over power lines and we lose power pretty frequently through the winter well really once the fall winds start through winter and then spring it'll get pretty windy here and we lose power so here is why I reached out to jackary exactly one year ago we lost power a couple of times it killed power to my PC where I do all of my video editing and I generate a lot of content I spend a lot of time EDI video and it it was just a bizarre situation long story short my Dell PC I know you Mac users are saying this would have never happened know and and that might be true nothing has really gotten better it was functional enough that I did finish the PowerPoint so that's good that's in Dropbox and drive fool me once shame on me fool me Can't Get Fooled Again it started to go so slow that I lost basically two months last spring into June where I couldn't edit video Dell couldn't figure it out they replac the motherboard the hard drive then this happened again in June so that is the long story short it put me months behind editing content which means I get really stressful and then my family doesn't like to be around me so I reached out to jackary once I saw that they had the 5,000 plus because there is something extremely unique about this particular product and it is that the jackary plugged into once you wire in the smart transfer switch this allows is 0 millisecond switching time meaning I could just be sitting there working at the computer editing not even realize the power's gone out because I am now being provided instantly power from this additionally I have very mild sleep apnea so I sleep with a cpat machine every night that is an investment in my future that's going to help me avoid apib get a good night's sleep that helps cognitively all that good stuff my wife is a nurse worked for sleep and palm for 13 years it's a medical device that we need to power when the power goes out jackary 5000 plus the smart transfer switch just a side note the electrician that wired this house wired in my Tesla charger and also my sauna go check that video out and the whole house surge protector he's in his late 70s now we just lost power for a week about a month ago and him running his propane whole house generator basically mostly at night for his CPAP he spent $1,500 in propane so take that for what it's worth okay so I am not Mr techie you want to talk about tools let's talk tools let's talk framing let's talk rebar hold Downs earthquakes how to make our structures resilient I can speak somewhat intelligently on those things so here is the basic purpose of the 5000 plus and the smart transfer switch it is for essential home backup so this whole house has a number of different circuits those were primarily wired here in the generator panel that's what we called it we could turn power off to the street turn the switch over to the generator and then we have all of the all of okay you move those then all the circuits in the house are in this panel that was rewired last week into this we'll go through that in just a minute total cost by the way for the electrician to come out install this get it set up and inspection $1,700 so what this isn't this isn't made to power the entire house and everything plugged into an outlet in the house instead it's a essential home backup and what the transfer switch allows us to do is have different circuits that then we can prioritize through the app and I'll show you how that works this is pretty cool that you can do everything just from your phone so instead of trying to power everything we can prioritize maybe it's the refrigerator or the freezer definitely it's all of my computer equipment so I can keep working when the power goes out I want to keep working that just a personality trait of mine is I do not like to procrastinate I like to stay ahead and if you know anything about posting to YouTube you always want videos that are uploaded you know no content strikes copyright strikes against them you want to have a backlog so you can then go on vacation and content posts it's a it's quite a lifestyle so with targeted backup we can have a circuit that we can control through the app the kitchen refrigerator it could be home office in here obviously we have all of the garage plugs we have the freezer here so I would probably leave that on I want to provide power to the hot water tank and the gas furnace both are gas so that doesn't require very much and then of course we want to provide Power to whatever Outlet maybe our medical devices are plugged into now let's say that we did want to scale this up you can add additional jackary 5000 plus kilowatt hour battery packs that would plug right into this we could daisy chain those and then we could provide even more power so let's take a look at what's going on right here we'll go right to left so that is our car charger for our Tesla Model y we bought that back uh two years ago actually to the month and I absolutely love that car it's just fun to drive that is the reason I bought it so car charger then we have the main panel the generator panel and then our cord that's hardwired now we have the smart transfer switch and the jackary 5000 plus so let me just show you what the order of operations was if if and when the power went out which has gone out a lot you know we've been living here since 2006 okay so Main panel essentially the option for the to runoff generator so when the power went out I would turn the main switch off on that breaker and then you can see here if I turn this off so no nothing can go back we can't back feed I think is the correct term then I would flip the switch for the generator and then you can see we have a bunch of different circuits and we wouldn't actually turn on every circuit in the house because typically we're in the living room we need the kitchen and the garage and then when we go to bed we just use flashlights or little lanterns in the bedroom when the power went out that's all hardwired into this cord which is nicely coiled right now and you can see that was how we connect it to a generator then as I mentioned we would run this as far out as we could and then crank the generator and then close the garage doors so now we are looking at the Smart transfer switch so the electrician transferred all of these over to this guy and he used tandem Breakers and so some of them basically have been Consolidated so we have kitchen plugs garage garage plugs so both door and plugs are different living room lights kitchen lights the furnace and then just general lights and plugs so that's all of that and that's what that looks like now this is all connected AC there so that this guy stays reasonably powered you know I I I don't know the setting right off the top of my head but it will instantly switch over when the power goes out from the street and we still have power to whatever circuits we decide so we could literally just turn off some of these circuits and so when the power switches over it's only powering the essential stuff we can also do that all through the app all right let's just run through the front of this it's quite simple we'll go top to bottom here is the power button we have our LCD input output currently there is no output we're at 89% now on this side we have the cigarette lighter which we can turn on there and turn off over on this side we have two USBC two usba a and we can power those on there and you can see when I turn that on it says we have 99.9 hours that because nothing's plugged into them each of these ACS we turn on with that switch now we could plug things into it each of these is essentially its own circuit so if we need to hit the reset so for example if we were plugging in power tools or like big heavy duty Chargers that work then I would plug one on each side so that I could run extra you know so that I wouldn't trip the power if I just plug two into here if they really were drawn I would put one each going out you can see that it's on Wheels and casters so let's turn this thing so we can see it all right so on this side we are connected to the smart transfer switch through the AC expansion Port below that we have a Nema l1430r AC AC outlet that's 120 240 then down below that we have a Nema 1450 AC power for 120 or 240 and then we have our reset switches here we have high PV and low PV so this is where we would plug in our little jackary solar panels and then the switch here for the high PV so if you had a solar array what this basically means is we're ready for emergencies so let me show you a couple things in the app and then we actually I have not yet set this up cuz I just got back from a work trip so I'm going to set this smart transfer switch up through the app as you can see I have the Explorer 2000 I also have the 5,000 plus here if I tap on that you can see instantly we see how much power we have we even see the temperature there's currently no input you know etc etc but I can turn on circuits so see how I just turned that on how quick that was I turn on the USBC and I can do that with the others I'm going to turn the screen off I could put it do 2our steady on and then up here at the Top If I click the little gear now you can see some of the other things I have charging settings fast charging mode battery settings UPS settings so you can see I can go backup mode 20 milliseconds during power outages or I can make it 0 milliseconds during power outages so I can do all of that through the app I can upgrade firmware all of that good stuff so now I'm going to go back because I want to add something so I'm going to hit the plus button and here is the Smart transfer switch the icon flashed and we're going to connect this up and there we go that was it that was real time by the way that was pretty fast okay something I think is pretty clever where we live we don't have Peak pricing on our electricity we pay 11 cents a kilowatt hour and then once we bought the EV that'll put us up to 12 cents a kilowatt hour but we don't have the peak pricing thing but what I've seen some others talk about is that where you do have pricing you charge this when your energy rates are less expensive and then you power the house when they're high expensive you just switch over and you can set all that up through the app it's pretty slick another thing I wanted to show on the app is if I tap on circuits then I can actually go through this is something is on my to-do list and I can assign circuit one which is living room lights is I'll go through here and relabel all of these to match what's here because then I can remotely turn those off and on okay so on backup priority once these circuits are labeled then I can decide what are the musthave circuits now the kitchen circuits and the Nook for me My Little desk is set up in the nook which is attached to our kitchen which means that while I'm working my wife's around instead of being like in a separate office we can still spend time together kind of a mess where I'm at because I've just been adding external hard drives as this YouTube channel has grown and I need all that storage for 4K video as of December I finally upgraded to a network attached storage at least I think that's what a assas stands for so I have that set up where I can put hard drives in and out and have extra backup there and I can actually work off of that while I'm editing so anyway that could be a musthave circuit okay so I went ahead and labeled all of the circuits so this matches circuit one is living lights and all the way through circuit 8 is the microwave so you can see that here now here's what I want to show you is I'm going to go ahead and switch from grid power to this bad boy so you can see what is coming in right now the house is using I have the lights on here in the garage you know 411 Watts now listen to this thing click over switch from grid power so right now it's at 20 monds and there we are 414 Watts going into the house and I believe if I tap this we're currently at 85% it's discharging at 407 watts and we have about 8 and 1/2 hours at the current load now obviously I could go in and turn a bunch of things off and that would last a little bit longer now let me just show you that when I click the button from inside the house everything stays on in the jackary app I'm going to go ahead to the smart transfer switch we're going to turn power off from the grid 20 millisecond switch over so let's watch the computer it's running this is actually the video that you're watching being edited and we have our lights on switch from grid power to Power Station hit okay I don't you probably couldn't even see that just a little flick nothing interrupted here so now we are connected to the battery roughly 410 400 whatever Watts now if I go through let's go through to the circuits and start turning off some of the circuits now I want to keep the kitchen lights on in fact we can see what it is that's drawing so right now the majority of power is being drawn through the kitchen plugs well that's where we're at let's turn off 50 wats here let's just turn that off yep so did you hear that that was the smoke detector we're going to turn that back on so that's good to know the power to the smoke detector now switched over to battery over there okay so that's just for demonstration purposes there you have it so the 5000 plus has a 7200 watt Max 14,400 surge there's some fantastic videos on YouTube I would I would highly recommend like don't just watch this one watch quite a few of them that's what I always do because everybody explains things a little differently you get a more well-rounded picture so I will do a follow-up video on this in the future to show how long could we run things all of that good stuff this is literally just installed 3 days ago I just got back but I am set up um and and also I was at the international Builder show in what is that end of February and this area lost power for a week we had big kind of freakish windstorms then we were home and then we were just gone all of last week which was the last week of March and also had thunderstorms we we don't really get that kind of stuff here and they were forecasting 2in hail so we were we were I was very happy that this got installed the day before that because then I knew I would be good to go so anyway if you have any questions about this unit jackary in general I will do my best to answer those in the comments below and I'll make a list of those if you have questions because then when I do the follow-up video in a couple of months and we'll be able to show runtime things like that I will be able to answer them there so please post your comments and questions below and we'll circle around to those in a future video there's just a little bit more unboxing you can see it's not a super lightweight unit it is a very compact unit on the right is the Smart trans answer switch that's the box and then of course the solar Saga and I will show you hey by the way I did put it together wrong thankfully my wife got it I knew I was going to do it there's an order to the hinges I did read the manual but it turns out I read it upside down if you have read the manual then you know exactly what I'm talking about anyway that was kind of a little annoying but part for the course anyway thank you for watching the video post your comments below hit that like And subscribe button we will see you in the next video by the way goal for 2025 is to introduce more than just straight framing content so let me know if that's okay with you see you in the next video